ウィークエンドサンシャイン
ブロードキャスター、ピーター・バラカンのナビゲートで送るウィークエンド・ミュージックマガジン。独特の嗅覚とこだわりの哲学でセレクトしたグッド・サウンドと、ワールドワイドな音楽情報を伝える。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/fm/sunshine/
放送日： 2011年11月19日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
01. Right To Be Wrong / Joss Stone
ALBUM: Mind Body & Soul
02. Roochoo Gumbo / 細野晴臣
ALBUM: 泰安洋行 (Bon Voyage Co)
03. Saraba〜iya ko ko / 安東ウメ子
ALBUM: Ihunke
04. Dirty City / Steve Winwood
ALBUM: Nine Lives
05. Cigano (For The Gypsies) / Steve Winwood
ALBUM: About Time
06. All Things Must Pass / George Harrison
ALBUM: All Things Must Pass
07. Give Me Love / Ron Sexsmith
ALBUM: Harrison Covered: Mojo Presents An Exclusive Tribute To George
08. Blue Sky / The Allman Brothers Band
ALBUM: Eat A Peach
09. Heaven's Escape / Joe Henry
ALBUM: Reverie
10. Dark Tears / Joe Henry
ALBUM: Reverie
11. Money Jungle / Duke Ellington
ALBUM: Money Jungle
12. Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear / Meshell Ndegeocello
ALBUM: Weather
13. Dirty World / Meshell Ndegeocello
ALBUM: Weather
14. Crazy and Wild / Meshell Ndegeocello
ALBUM: Weather
15. 'Cello Song / Nick Drake
ALBUM: Five Leaves Left
世界の快適音楽セレクション
"快適音楽"を求めるギターデュオのゴンチチによる、ノンジャンル・ミュージック番組。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/fm/kaiteki/
放送日： 2011年11月19日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前10:55（115分）
ゴンチチ
湯浅学
− 失恋の音楽 −
「ラヴァーズ」 (ゴンチチ)(5分16秒)
＜ポニーキャニオン PCCA-02102＞
「ラブ・ハーツ」 (ロイ・オービソン)(2分30秒)
＜SONY MUSIC CSCS5431＞
「ドント・テイク・ユア・ラヴ・ミー」 (ハダ・ブルックス)(3分14秒)
＜ACE REC. CDCHD453＞
「ハッピー・トレイル」 (大橋トリオ)(4分51秒)
＜PATCH WORKS LABEL PWSR-1018＞
「アイム・リーヴィング・イット・オール・アップ・トゥー・ユー」(フレディ・フェンダー)(2分38秒)
＜MCA REC. SC-9104＞
「歌曲集“詩人の恋”から わたしは嘆くまい」 シューマン作曲(1分33秒)
(バリトン)ディートリッヒ・フィッシャー・ディースカウ
(ピアノ)クリストフ・エッシェンバッハ
＜POLYDOR PCCG-1132＞
「ボーイ・ラ・ボーイ・ポコ・モ」(ボーイ・ラミネ・アンド・ヒズ・オーケストラ)(2分23秒)
＜ROUNDER 11661-1721-2＞
「どうだっていいわ」 (大門弓子)(3分16秒)
＜徳間ジャパン PCD-1514＞
「彼女にそう言って」 (ビルヒニア・ロペス)(3分04秒)
＜ボンバレコード BOM302＞
「悲しい午後」 (マイーザ)(3分11秒)
＜ボンバレコード BOM531＞
「うらぎり」 (ヘティ・クース・エンダン)(3分50秒)
＜ボンバレコード BOM2013＞
「ミヌエット・フォー・ア・チープ・ピアノ・ナンバー・トゥー」(ア・ウィングド・ヴィクトリー・フォー・ザ・サレン)(3分09秒)
＜KRANKY 157＞
「ユーヴ・ロスト・ザット・ラヴィン・フィーリン」(ナンシー・アンド・リー)(3分28秒)
＜REPRISE 6273＞
「トゥー・ハート・トゥー・クライ」(キャンディー・ステイトン)(3分00秒)
＜CAPITOL CDKEN2353＞
「暁」 森峰秀介・作詞、森峰秀介・作曲(3分58秒)(アンコール・アワーズ)
＜FIRESTARTER FIRE-1009＞
「ひとりのふたり」 天地茂・作詞、渡辺岳夫・作曲(3分19秒)(天地茂)
＜UNIVERSAL UPCY-6657＞
「涙は眼から出る」 (越路吹雪)(3分16秒)
＜日本コロムビア COCA-14203＞
「オール・アイ・シンク・アバウト・イズ・ユー」 (ニルソン)(4分04秒)
＜BMG BVCM-35128＞
「予感」 (ゴンチチ)(1分41秒)
＜IN THE GARDEN XNHL-15001＞
「サクラ」 (ハリー・ベラフォンテ)(3分55秒)
＜VICTOR SHP5202＞
「ラプソディア」 (山本精一)(3分06秒)
＜P-VINE PCD-25137＞
Sounds of the 20th Century
Jeremy Vine introduces Radio 2's audio journey through the years from 1951 to 2000, helping listeners to relive the music, news, radio, TV and movies of the times
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0103r3t
１９８３
Thu 17 Nov 2011
22:00
BBC Radio 2
33/50. It's 1983, the year of breakfast television and Michael Jackson's Thriller.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01724nx
Jeremy Vine introduces 1983, the year of breakfast television and Michael Jackson's Thriller. Mrs Thatcher is a big winner but Cecil Parkinson isn't around for long to celebrate. And, on the radio, there's a Karma Chameleon, an Uptown Girl and a Charming Man.
Music played
1. Eurythmics — Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
2. Bonnie Tyler — Total Eclipse Of The Heart
3. Billy Joel — Uptown Girl
4. Heaven 17 — Temptation
5. U2 — Sunday Bloody Sunday
Live
6. The Police — Every Breath You Take
7. The Smiths — This Charming Man
8. New Order — Blue Monday
9. Duran Duran — Is There Something I Should Know?
10. Spandau Ballet — True
11. The Flying Pickets — Only You
12. The Rolling Stones — Undercover Of The Night
13. Tom Robinson — War Baby
14. Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
15. UB40 — Red Red Wine
16. David Bowie — Let'S Dance
17. Paul Young — Wherever I Lay My Hat
18. ZZ Top — Sharp Dressed Man
19. David Bowie — China Girl
20. Tracey Ullman — They Don'T Know
21. Culture Club — Karma Chameleon
22. Rod Stewart — Baby Jane
23. Men at Work — Down Under
24. Michael Jackson — Thriller
Jazz Record Requests
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 19 Nov 2011
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cg0f
Music played
1. Wynton Marsalis — Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (JRR Signature Tune)
Composer: Wynton Marsalis Performers: Wynton Marsalis (tp), Marcus Roberts (p), Todd Williams (ts), Dr Michael White (cl), Danny Barker (bj), Teddy Riley (tp), Freddie Lonzo (tb), Reginald Veal (b), Herlin Riley (d) Recorded: 28 October 1988
The Majesty of the Blues, 1989 CD CBS 465129 2
2. Bill Frisell — I Can’t be Satisfied
Composer: Mckinley Morganfield Performers: Bill Frisell (g), Don Byron (cl), Guy Klucevsek (accordion), Kermit Driscoll (b), Joey Baron (d) Recorded: 1993
Have a Little Faith, Elektra Nonesuch 7559 793012, 10 2’56”
3. Ottillie Patterson — Squeeze Me
Composer: Waller-Williams Performers: Ottillie Patterson (v & p) Recorded: 3 February 1959
Chris Barber’s Band Box, Encore ENC 167, S2/3 3’18”
4. Chris Barber — Bourbon Street Parade
Composer: Paul Barbarin Performers: Chris Barber (tb & v), Pat Halcox (tp), Ian Wheeler (cl), John Crocker (as), John Slaughter (g), Paul Sealey (banjo), Vic Pitt (b), Alan Wickett (d) Recorded: 1996
Live at the BP Studienhaus, Timeless CD TTD615, CD1 tr 1 5’56”
5. Art Tatum — Tea for Two
Composer: Caesar, Youmans Performers: Art Tatum (piano) Recorded: 21 March 1933
Piano Grand Master – Tea for Two, Proper P1137, 2 3’11”
6. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra — My Old Flame
Composer: Coslow-Johnston Performers: Ivie Anderson (v), Bubber Miley, Louis Metcalf, Arthur Whetsol (tp), Joe ‘Tricky Sam’ Nanton, Juan Tizol (tb), Bigard, Carney(reeds), Marshall Royal (cl), Duke Ellington (p), Fred Guy (banjo), Wellman Braud (b), Sonny Greer (d) Recorded: 9 May 1934
Jubilee Stomp, Bluebird 74321101532, 21 3’21”
7. Quincy Jones — Straight, No Chaser
Composer: Monk Performers: Curtis Fuller (tbn) Joe Newman (tp), Julius Watkins (french horn), Phil Woods (as), Milt Hinton (b) Recorded: 1961
Straight No Chaser The Many Faces of Quincy Jones, Universal 5415422, CD1 Tr 1 2’23”
8. Dickie Wells — You Took my Heart
Composer: Skip Hall Performers: Dicky Wells, Vic Dickenson, Benny Morton, George Matthews (tb), Skip Hall(org), Major Holley (b), Jo Jones(d) Recorded: 3 February 1958
The Complete Felsted Mainstream Collection, Solar Records 4569908, CD1 Tr 9 6’00”
9. Billie Holiday — I Can’t Face the Music
Composer: Bloom-Koehler Performers: Billie Holiday (v), Joe Newman (tp), Paul Quinichette (ts), Oscar Peterson (p), Barney Kessel (g), Ray Brown (b). J.C. Heard (d) Recorded: 1952
The Unforgettable Lady Day, Verve MGV 8338 2, 3’14”
10. Joey DeFrancesco and Jimmy Smith — Blues for Bobby C
Composer: Jimmy Smith Performers: Joey DeFrancesco, Jimmy Smith (organ), Ramon Banda (d) Recorded: 2004
Legacy, Concord Jazz CCD 22292, 10 6’22”
11. Ruby Braff — I Cover the Waterfront
Composer: J. Green and E. Heyman Performers: Vic Dickenson (tb), Ruby Braff (tp), Edmund Hall (cl), Steve Jordan (g), Walter Page (b), Sir Charles Thompson (p), Les Erskine (d) Recorded: 1953
Linger Awhile, Vanguard VCD 796082, 4 8’26”
12. Dave Brubeck — St Louis Blues
Composer: Handy Performers: Dave Brubeck (p), Gerry Mulligan (bs), Jack Six (b), Alan Dawson (d) Recorded: November 1970
Live at the Berlin Philharmonie, Columbia 4814152, CD2 Tr 5 6’34”
Jazz Line-Up
Programme exploring jazz music, focussing both on established, mainstream players and on the new generation of younger artists..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnmw
London Jazz Festival 2011
Sun 20 Nov 2011
23:00
BBC Radio 3
Kevin LeGendre with a special concert music set from the 2011 London Jazz Festival.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017chls
Kevin Le Gendre presents concert music from the 2011 London Jazz Festival recorded at the Clore Ballroom at London's South Bank Centre. Featuring interview and music from Empirical, Trish Clowes' Tangent and Aquarium.
Music played
1. Trish Clowes Tangent — On/Off
Performers: Trish Clowes (Sax), Chris Montague (Guitar), Heidi Parsons (Cello), Ryan Trebilcock (Bass), Tim Giles (Drums) Composer: Trish Clowes
2. Trish Clowes Tangent — Seven
Performers: Trish Clowes (Sax), Chris Montague (Guitar), Heidi Parsons (Cello), Ryan Trebilcock (Bass), Tim Giles (Drums) Composer: Trish Clowes
3. Trish Clowes Tangent — The Master and Margarita
Performers: Trish Clowes (Sax), Chris Montague (Guitar), Heidi Parsons (Cello), Ryan Trebilcock (Bass), Tim Giles (Drums) Composer: Trish Clowes
4. Aquarium — Strangers
Performers: Sam Leak (Piano), Sam Crockatt (Sax), Sam Lasserson (Bass), Joshua Blackmore (Drums) Composer: Sam Leak
5. Aquarium — Marrakech
Performers: Sam Leak (Piano), Sam Crockatt (Sax), Sam Lasserson (Bass), Joshua Blackmore (Drums) Composer: Sam Leak
6. Aquarium — Milan
Performers: Sam Leak (Piano), Sam Crockatt (Sax), Sam Lasserson (Bass), Joshua Blackmore (Drums) Composer: Sam Leak
7. Empirical — Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say
Performers: Nathaniel Facey (Alto Sax), Tom Farmer (Double Bass), Lewis Wright (Vibes). Shane Forbes (Drums) Composer: Tom Farmer
8. Empirical — Simple Things
Performers: Nathaniel Facey (Alto Sax), Tom Farmer (Double Bass), Lewis Wright (Vibes). Shane Forbes (Drums) Composer: Tom Farmer
9. Empirical — In the Grill
Performers: Nathaniel Facey (Alto Sax), Tom Farmer (Double Bass), Lewis Wright (Vibes). Shane Forbes (Drums) Composer: Nathaniel Facey
Jazz on 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tt0y
London Jazz Festival: Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn
Mon 21 Nov 201
23:00
BBC Radio 3
Jez Nelson presents Archie Shepp and Joachim Kühn at the London Jazz Festival.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cj4r
Jez Nelson presents saxophonist Archie Shepp in performance with pianist Joachim Kühn at the London Jazz Festival. Shepp cut his teeth as part of 'The New Thing' in the 1960s, playing extensively with the likes of John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor before going on to explore more traditional African-American traditions and developing one of the most distinctive saxophone sounds of recent decades. Kühn has been part of the European avant-garde for just as long, integrating contemporary classical sounds in work with violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and reeds player Michel Portal, more recently earning plaudits for duo work with Ornette Coleman. He and Shepp perform music from their recent critically acclaimed album Wo!man, a collaboration that sees them play together for the first time in many years.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Guest: Kevin Le Gendre
Producers: Russell Finch & Phil Smith.
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.
00:00
Archie Shepp — Prelude To A Kiss
Fire Music, Impulse!
Michel Portal recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 14 November 2011
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Line-up:
Michel Portal (bass clarinet), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Bojan Zulfikarpašić (piano), Scott Colley (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums)
00:02
Michel Portal — Dolphy
Composer: Michel Portal
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The rest of this concert will be broadcast on 23 January 2012
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 17 November 2011
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Line-up:
Archie Shepp (saxophones), Joachim Kühn (piano)
00:14
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn — Transmitting
Composer: Joachim Kühn
00:30
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn — Lonely Woman
Composer: Ornette Coleman
Kevin Le Gendre interviews Archie Shepp and Joachim Kühn
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Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 17 November 2011
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Line-up:
Archie Shepp (saxophones), Joachim Kühn (piano)
00:46
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn — Nina
Composer: Archie Shepp
00:55
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn — Body And Soul
Composer: Johnny Green
01:07
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn — Well You Needn't
Composer: Thelonious Monk
01:15
Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn — Sophisticated Lady
Composer: Duke Ellington
Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley in 1942, and the format is simple: a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs
Robert Hardy
Sun 20 Nov 2011
11:15
BBC Radio 4
Actor Robert Hardy is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017c8gp
Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Robert Hardy.
He became a household name as the vet Siegfried Farnon in the hit TV series All Creatures Great and Small and, to a younger generation, he is the Minister of Magic in the Harry Potter films. But the role he is best known for is Winston Churchill - he won a Bafta for his performance in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. He believes actors are born rather than made and his own ambitions crystallised when, as a very young boy, he was a page boy at a wedding: "I walked down the aisle with my head held high and as I went, every eye was turned towards me and something inside me said, "That's it, get every eye on you".
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
Music played
1. Pearl Bailey — What is a Friend For?
Composer: Harold Arlen
House of Flowers - 1955, CBS Special products
2. Ludwig van Beethoven — Beethoven’s 7th symphony in A Major - 2nd movement
Artist: BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
Toscanini: Works by Beethoven, Cherubini & Mozart, BBC
3. Enya — The Longships
Composer: Enya/ Lyrics by Roma Ryan
Watermark, WEA
4. Hector Berlioz — The Waltz from the Symphonie Fantastique
Artist: The Paris Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov
Berlioz: Carnaval Romain/Symphonie Fantastique, Philips
5. Francis Poulenc — Poulenc -Suite Francaise -Pavanne
Artist: The National Orchestra of France conducted by Charles Dutroit
Poulenc: Concert Champetre.Sinfonietta, Decca
6. Jean Sibelius — Sibelius 6th Symphony in D Minor - The 4th movement Release: Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6
Artist: City of Birmingham Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
EMI
7. Ludwig van Beethoven — Beethoven - String Quartet in B flat- 2nd movement
Artist: The Medici String Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartet Op.130, Nimbus
8. John Hardy — De Profundis
Artist: The Westminster Abbey Choir, the BBC Singers & London Brass conducted by Martin Baker
Archive recording 8 July 1998 of Century of Martyrs celebrations., Commissioned by Westminster Abbey
Desert Island Discs Revisited
Kirsty chooses favourites from the Desert Island Discs archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zwlh8
Ann Leslie
Sun 20 Nov 2011
10:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Kirsty Young explores the choices of the foreign correspondent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017728n
Kirsty Young explores the choices of the foreign correspondent in the second of a series featuring journalists.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/4c2e7c0b#p00936b8
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00936b8
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the distinguished foreign correspondent Ann Leslie. She has witnessed and reported on some of the most significant events of the past 30 years including the fall of the Berlin wall; the failed coup against Michael Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela's final walk to freedom. She has reported on uprisings, massacres and wars, collecting numerous awards as she has done so.
She grew up in India and Pakistan and loved India and its culture. When she was around 10 years old she was sent to a boarding school in England. From school she went to Oxford and from there she joined the Daily Express. She was brought to London and was given her own column at the age of twenty-two. But she resigned, saying she wanted to do proper reporting, and it was David English's support for her that saw her start writing foreign news stories and set the course for her distinguished career.
Favourite track: Improvisation - The Theme Music Pather Panchali by Ravi Shankar
Book: Completed Works by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: An enormous amount of garlic with a garlic press
Music played
1. Gregorio Allegri — Miserere
Choir: Choir of Kings College, Cambridge
Allegri: Miserere, EMI
2. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party — Allah Mohammed, Char, Yaar
Shahen Sha, Real World
3. Ravi Shankar — Improvisation - The Theme Music Pather Panchali
Improvisations, BGO
4. Sir Edward Elgar — Cello Concerto in E minor
Soloist: Jacqueline du Pre Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
A Lasting Inspiration: Jacqueline du Pre, EMI
5. Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
Lady Sings the Blues Vol. 4, Verve
6. Johannes Brahms — Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Soloist: Pollini Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Piano Concerto No. 1, Deutsche Grammophon
7. Paul Simon — Graceland
Graceland, Warner Bros
8. Ofra Haza — Eshal
Shadya, Teldec
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Joey DeFrancesco
Sun 20 Nov 2011
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's guest is jazz organist, trumpeter and singer Joey DeFrancesco.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cgdc
Michael Berkeley's guest today is the American virtuoso jazz organist, trumpeter and singer Joey DeFrancesco, who is in London for the annual Jazz Festival. Born into a family of jazz musicians, Joey began playing the piano aged four before switching to the Hammond organ. By the age of 10 he was playing his own gigs, and at 17 was invited by Miles Davis to join his band, with which he toured Europe. In the 1990s he worked with John McLaughlin's trio, and has partnered many other famous jazz musicians. He has been described as 'one of the most unfussily virtuosic torch-bearers of contemporary organ jazz'.
Today he talks to Michael Berkeley about a range of music, from jazz classics by Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis, to piano music by Bach, Debussy and Chopin, and a Beethoven symphony.
Music played
1. Joey DeFrancesco — Donny’s Tune
Performers: Joey DeFrancesco (organ), Ramon Banda (drums), Rick Zunigar (guitar)
HIGHNOTE HCD7226
2. Johann Sebastian Bach — ‘Prelude’ from ‘Prelude and Fugue in D’ BWV 532
Performers: Virgil Fox (organ)
MUSIC FOR PLEASURE MFP2096
3. Jimmy Smith — Blues for J
Performers: Jimmy Smith (organ), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Grady Tate (drums)
VERVE 8256752
4. Ludwig van Beethoven — 4th Mvt from ‘Symphony no 5 in C minor’ op 67
Performers: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim
WARNER 2564627912
5. Miles Davis — My Funny Valentine
Performers: Miles Davis (trumpet), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), Tony Williams (drums)
SONY BMG 1211
6. Claude Debussy — Clair de Lune’ from ‘Suite bergamasque
Performers: Martin Jones (piano
NIMBUS N15160
7. Frédéric Chopin — Nocturne no 2 in E flat major
Performers: Daniel Barenboim (piano)
DG 4314862
8. Ray Charles — Let the Good Times Roll
Performers: Ray Charles/Count Basie Orchestra feat Joey DeFrancesco (organ)
CONCORD 7230026
Words and Music
A sequence of classical music mixed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x35f
Nocturne
Sun 20 Nov 2011
18:30
BBC Radio 3
Texts and music inspired by the night, with readings by Sian Thomas and William Hope.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y6ggn
Sian Thomas and William Hope read poetry and prose inspired by the night including work by Neruda, Jackie Kay, Emily Dickinson, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, A.E. Housman and Rachel Carson with music by Mozart, Borodin, Takemitsu, June Tabor and Faure.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Producer's Note
This week’s Words and Music takes a journey through the night from Emily Dickinson’s ecstatic ‘Wild Nights’ to the hushed imaginary village of Dylan Thomas’ Llareggub. The urban night is heard in Steve Reich’s ‘Electric Counterpoint’, Frank Sinatra’s ‘In the wee small hours of the morning’ and Robert Frost’s ‘Acquainted with the Night’ in which the poet walks silently through the empty streets of the city. Outside the city the Scottish poet John Burnside’s poem ‘The Light Trap’ conjures up the moths attracted by the light of a torch whilst Charles Tomlinson describes the ‘tiny stars on darkness’ of fireflies in roses at night. The sensuous and emotional power of the night is heard in Symanowski’s beautiful ‘Symphony no 3 – Song of the Night’, inspired by a poem by Rumi, the great Persian mystic poet and exponent of Sufism. The loneliness of the lover in the darkness is a theme many poets have explored – heard here in Pablo Neruda’s brooding poem on lost love, ‘Tonight I can write’, alongside the sultry heat of Falla’s ‘Nights in the Gardens of Spain’. And the idea that night is the time when thoughts come together and clarity emerges is heard in a passage from Antoine Saint-Exupery’s extraordinary ‘Flight to Arras’, his 1942 memoir recounting his role as a pilot of a reconnaissance plane in France during World War II. The book focuses on one mission where, in the face of death, he thinks of night as the time when his thoughts ‘would be of civilisation, of the destiny of man, of the savour of friendship in my native land’. The programme ends in ‘Under Milk Wood’ with Tomasi’s Trumpet Concerto played by Alison Balsom with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
Producer: Fiona McLean
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.
00:00
James Rhodes — Nocturnes - Fetes
Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Decca 467 428-2, 3
00:00
Walt Whitman
A Clear Midnight
00:02
Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights
00:02
Aaron Copland — Rodeo – Corral Nocturne
Performer: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
Naxos 8.559240, 3
00:06
Charles Tomlinson
Fireflies
00:07
Mark-Anthony Turnage — Night Dances - Prelude
Performer: London Sinfonietta Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Argo 452 598-2, 2
00:08
John Burnside
The Light Trap
00:10
Toru Takemitsu — Toward the Sea III – I The Night
Performer: Aureole Trio
Koch 374492, 7
00:13
Gabriel Fauré — Apres un Reve
Performer: Veronique Gens, soprano Performer: Roger Vignoles, piano
Virgin Classics VC5453602, 1
00:16
Billy Collins
The Night House
00:17
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Notturno for 4 Orchestras in D Major
Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Conductor: Neville Marriner
Decca 430 496-2, 12
00:20
Steve Reich — Electric Counterpoint - Slow
Performer: Pat Metheny, guitar
Nonesuch, 10
00:21
Robert Frost
Acquainted with the Night
00:22
Mann and Hilliard — In the wee small hours of the morning
Performer: Frank Sinatra
Capitol CDP765712, 1
00:25
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
from Flight to Arras
00:27
Alexander Borodin — String Quartet no 2 in D Major - Notturno
Performer: Lafayette String Quartet
Dorian DOR90203, 3
00:35
John Sheppard — In Manus Tuas
Performer: Clare College Chapel Choir Conductor: Timothy Brown
Guild GMCD7108, 18
00:39
A.E. Housman
The Weeping Pleiads Wester
00:39
Sir Harrison Birtwistle — Entr’Actes and Sappho Fragments – The Moon and the seven Pleiades
Performer: Heidi Grant Murphy Conductor: Paul Hotstetter
Koch 3-7486-2111, 24
00:42
Rachel Carson
from Silent Spring
00:43
Karol Szymanowski — Symphony no 3 – Allegretto tranquillo
Performer: Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra Conductor: Antoni Wit
Naxos 8570721, 11
00:50
Pablo Neruda
Tonight I can Write
00:52
Manuel de Falla — Noches en los jardines de Espana – Danza lejana
Performer: Orquesta Cuidad de Granada Conductor: Josep Pons
Harmonia Mundi HMC901606, 13
00:57
Jackie Kay
This Long Night
00:59
Thelonius Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen — Round Midnight
Performer: June Tabor
Hannibal HNCD1347, 12
01:02
Arnold Schoenberg — Verklarte Nacht
Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Deutsche Grammophon 4274242, 5
01:07
Dylan Thomas
from Under Milk Wood
01:08
Henri Tomasi — Trumpet Concerto - Nocturne
Performer: Alison Balsom and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Edward Gardner
EMI 3532552, 17
