音楽の泉
週末の朝に、さわやかなクラシック音楽を、やわらかい解説を添えてお届けする「音楽の泉」。クラシック音楽入門番組として1948年に放送を開始、今まで数々の名曲をご紹介してきました。曲の合間に、音楽学者の皆川達夫さんが楽曲の解説や作品にまつわるエピソードなどを分かりやすく、やわらかい語り口でお伝えします。
ゆったりと流れる時間のおともに、「音楽の泉」でクラシック音楽をお楽しみください。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/r1/shou/ongaku_izumi.html
放送日： 2011年12月24日（土）
放送時間： 午前6:00〜午前6:50（50分）
解説： 皆川達夫
− レスピーギとプーランクの室内楽 −
- アーティスト: Anton Webern,George Crumb,Ottorino Respighi,Sergey Prokofiev,Lambert Orkis
- 出版社/メーカー: Deutsche Grammophon
- 発売日: 2000/10/10
- メディア: CD
- クリック: 1回
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（バイオリン）アンネ・ゾフィー・ムター
（ピアノ）ランバート・オーキス
- アーティスト: Andre Previn,Poulenc,Saint-Seans
- 出版社/メーカー: RCA
- 発売日: 1995/07/18
- メディア: CD
- クリック: 2回
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（ピアノ）アンドレ・プレヴィン
（フルート）エリザベス・マン
（オーボエ）スティーヴ・テイラー
（クラリネット）デイヴッド・シフリン
（ファゴット）デニス・ゴッドバーン
（ホルン）リチャード・トッド
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12月24日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン
ピーター・バラカン年間ベスト 2011
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
01. Getting Ready For Christmas Day / Paul Simon
ALBUM: So Beautiful Or So What
02. River / Madeleine Peyroux feat. k.d. lang
ALBUM: Half The Perfect World
クリスマス・ギフト・フォー・ユー・フロム・フィル・スペクター(紙ジャケット仕様)
- アーティスト: オムニバス,ザ・クリスタルズ,ダーレン・ラヴ,ボブ・B・ソックス&ザ・ブルー・ジーンズ,フィル・スペクター&アーティスツ,ザ・ロネッツ
- 出版社/メーカー: SMJ
- 発売日: 2011/11/02
- メディア: CD
- クリック: 2回
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ALBUM: A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
04. Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects / Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
ALBUM: Soul Time!
05. Midnight In Harlem / Tedeschi Trucks Band
ALBUM: Revelator
06. My Love Is Your Love / Gregg Allman
ALBUM: Low Country Blues
07. Johnny Ace Is Dead / Dave Alvin
ALBUM: Eleven Eleven
08. What's Up With Your Brother? / Dave Alvin duet with Phil Alvin
ALBUM: Eleven Eleven
09. Messin' Up / Steve Cropper with Sharon Jones
ALBUM: Dedicated
10. Representing Memphis / Booker T. Jones feat. Matt Berninger & Sharon Jones
ALBUM: The Road From Memphis
11. Dear Prudence / Lisa Lauren
ALBUM: Loves The Beatles
12. I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last) / Aaron Neville
ALBUM: I Know I've Been Changed
13. Infamous Love Song / Over The Rhine
ALBUM: The Long Surrender
14. Ponte Duro / Fania All Stars
ALBUM: Live At The Cheetah
15. Mountain Dance (Raga) / Sachal Studios Orchestra
ALBUM: Sachal Jazz
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12月24日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前10:55（115分）
ゴンチチ
渡辺亨
− 夢見る音楽 −
「夢の比重」 (ゴンチチ)(3分24秒)
＜EPIC/SONY ESCB1059＞
「ドリーム」 (パイド・パイパーズ)(2分49秒)
＜CAPITOL REC.CDP7967912＞
「ホエン・アイ・グロー・トゥー・オールド・トゥ・ドリーム」(ナット・キング・コール)(3分32秒)
＜CAPITOL JAZZ 72435 2008728＞
「夢見る人」 (ヴィニシウス・カントゥアリア)(2分45秒)
＜OMAGATOKI OMCX-1190＞
「クレー・キャシェ」 (ジェラルド・ターキン)(3分41秒)
＜FREMEAUX&ASSOCIES FA477＞
「ア・ドリーム・ゴーズ・オン・フォーエヴァー」(マチルダ・サンティン)(2分40秒)
＜IDIOT REC. ARIOLA2032335＞
「ドリーム」 (NY4:ニューヨーク・フォー)(4分18秒)
＜SWING BROS. CMSB-28006＞
「ドリーマー・ドリーマー」 (エセル・エニス)(4分35秒)
＜東芝EMI TOCJ-6075＞
「詩人が天使を夢見る時」 (デヴィッド・シルヴィアン)(4分47秒)
＜VIRGIN REC.VJCP-23058＞
「スクリーミン」(ポール・バターフィールド・ブルース・バンド)(4分37秒)
＜ELKTRA/ASYLUM REC.7294-2＞
「夢見るマリア」 (チャブーカ・グランダ)(2分38秒)
＜IEMPSA IEM-0572-2＞
「緑の天使」 (オニ)(7分04秒)
＜DISK UNION HAYA-1001＞
「ザ・ドリーマー」 (ホセ・ジェイムズ)(7分06秒)
＜TRAFFIC TRCP21＞
「レイ・オブ・ホープ」 (ゴンチチ)(4分04秒)
＜EPIC/SONY ESCB1796＞
「ボニー・アンド・クライド」 (ルル・ゲンスブール)(4分21秒)
＜UNIVERSAL UCCM-1206＞
「ラ・ジャヴァネーズ」 (ルル・ゲンスブール)(5分05秒)
＜UNIVERSAL UCCM-1206＞
「手ぎれ」 (ルル・ゲンスブール)(4分10秒)
＜UNIVERSAL UCCM-1206＞
Jazz Record Requests
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 24 Dec 2011
20:15
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0186f4c
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. Benny Goodman — Jingle Bells
Composer: Pierpoint Performers: Bunny Berigan, Nate Kazebier, Ralph Muzillo (tp), Joe Harris (tb & v), Bill DePew, Hymie Schertzer (as), Arthur Rollini, Dick Clark (ts), Jess Stacey (p), Allen Reuss (g), Harry Goodman (b), Gene Krupa (d) Recorded: 27 September 1935
The Pied Piper 1934-40, Bluebird 07863666152, 5 2’33”
3. Paul Bley — Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Composer: Gillespie-Coots Performers: Paul Bley (p), Charles Mingus (b), Art Blakey (d) Recorded: 1953
Early Trios, Fresh Sounds FSRCD 386, 7 3’22”
4. Vince Guaraldi — Skating
Composer: Guaraldi Performers: Vince Guaraldi (p), Fred Marshall (b), Jerry Granelli (d) Recorded: 1965
A Charlie Brown Christmas, Fantasy 7230145, 7 2’37”
5. Herb Geller — Sleigh Ride
Composer: Anderson Performers: Herb Geller (as), Lorraine Geller (p), Curtis Counce, Leroy Vinnegar (b), Lawrence Marable, Eldridge Freeman (d) Recorded: 1954
Herb Geller Plays, Emarcy EJL 1268, S1/3 2’53”
6. Sauter & Finegan — Sleighride (Midnight Sleigh Ride)
Composer: Sauter/Finegan/Prokofiev Performers: Sauter Finegan and their Orchestra Recorded: 1952
Sleigh Ride, Sunset SLS 50253, 1 2’43”
7. Lu Watters — Alcoholic Blues
Composer: Hayes Performers: Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band – Lu Watters (tp), Clancey Hayes (v, bj), Don Noakes (tb), Bob Helm (cl), Wally Rose (p), Dick Lammi (b), Bill Dart (d) Recorded: 1950
Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band, Vogue EPV 1053, S1/1 3’05”
8. Rahsaan Roland Kirk — We Free Kings
Composer: Kirk Performers: Roland Kirk (fl,ts, strich, manzelo), Richard Wyands (p) Art Davis (b), Charlie Persip (d) Recorded: 17 August 1961
We Free Kings, Emarcy 8264552, 7 4’40”
9. Betty Carter — Let it Snow
Composer: Cahn/Styne Performers: Betty Carter (v), Roy Hargrove (tp), Jesse Davis (as), Ron Blake (ts), Mark Whitfield (g), Stephen Scott (p), Christian McBride (b), Billy Drummond (d) Recorded: April 1996
Jazz for Joy, Verve 5319602, 3 5’16”
10. Charles Lloyd — Amazing Grace
Composer: trad. Performers: Charles Lloyd (ts), John Abercrombie (g), Marc Johnson (b) Recorded: 2002
Lift Every Voice, ECM 1832/33 018783-2, CD1 tr 3 4’40”
11. John Lewis — England’s Carol (Variations on God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
Composer: Trad. Performers: Ronnie Rossie (bs), Gerald Weinkopf (fl), Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra, John Lewis (conductor) Recorded: 21 February 1958
European Windows, American Jazz Classics A99004, 5 6’59”
12. Duke Ellington and Count Basie — Corner Pocket
Composer: Green/Wolf Performers: Willie Cook (tp), Paul Gonsalves (ts), The Count Basie and Duke Ellington Bands Recorded: 6 July 1961
Duke Ellington Meets Count Basie, Columbia Legacy CK 65571, 4 4’53”
13. Dick Wellstood — Jingle Bells
Composer: Pierpoint Performers: Dick Wellstood (p) Recorded: 29 May 1985
Dick Wellstood Live at Café des Copains, Unisson DDA 1003, S1/6 2’57”
14. Louis Armstrong — The Night Before Christmas (a poem)
Composer: Clement Moore (author) Performers: Louis Armstrong (v) Recorded: 1971
The Stash Christmas Album, Stash ST 125, S2/7 5’30”
Jazz Library
Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x41z
The Best New Releases of 2011
Sun 25 Dec 2011
00:00
BBC Radio 3
Alyn Shipton and guests select the best new releases of 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0186fdx
Alyn Shipton is joined by a group of the country's leading jazz critics, broadcasters and writers to select the best new releases of 2011.
Music played
When the Heart Emerges Glistening
- アーティスト: Ambrose Akinmusire
- 出版社/メーカー: Blue Note Records
- 発売日: 2011/04/05
- メディア: CD
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Composer: Ambroke Akinmusire Performers: Ambrose Akinmusire, t; Walter Smith III, ts; Gerald Clayton, p; Justin Brown, d. Brooklyn Studios, NY, 2010.
When the Heart Emerges Glistening, Blue Note, 70619, Tr 4
http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Emerges-Glistening-Ambrose-Akinmusire/dp/B004NCOQMY/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1325167233&sr=1-1
- アーティスト: Johnny Varro
- 出版社/メーカー: Arbors Records
- 発売日: 2011/07/12
- メディア: CD
- クリック: 4回
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Composer: Weill Performers: Johnny Varro, p ; Warren Vache, c ;Harry Allen, ts; Nicki Parrott, b; Chuck Riggs, d. Nola Studios, NY Aug 2010.
Speak Low, Arbors, ARCD 19418, Tr 1
http://www.amazon.com/Speak-Low-Johnny-Varro/dp/B004WBA260/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1325166969&sr=1-1
- アーティスト: Impossible Gentlemen
- 出版社/メーカー: Basho Records
- 発売日: 2011/07/12
- メディア: CD
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Composer: Walker Performers: Gwilym Simcock, p; Mike Walker, g; Steve Swallow, b; Adam Nussbaum,d. Basho Records, 2011.
Impossible Gentlemen, Basho, SRCD 36-2, Tr 1
http://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Gentlemen/dp/B004X5YD5G/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1325167397&sr=1-1
- アーティスト: Gregory Porter
- 出版社/メーカー: Imports
- 発売日: 2011/04/05
- メディア: CD
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Composer: Porter Performers: Gregory Porter, voc; Chip Crawford, p. 58 North Six Media Lab, Brooklyn, NY, 2009.
Water, Motema Music, 41, Tr 2
- アーティスト: Gerald Orchestra Wilson
- 出版社/メーカー: Mack Avenue
- 発売日: 2011/06/21
- メディア: CD
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Composer: Wilson Performers: Sean Jones, Jeremy Pelt, Tony Lujan, Mike Rodriguez, t ; Dennis Wilson, Douglas Purviance, Luis Bonilla, Alan Ferber, tromb; Antonio Hart Dick Oatts, Kamasi Washington, Ron Blake, Jay Brandford, Gary Smulyan, reeds; Renee Rosnes, p ; Anthony Wilson, g ; Peter Washington, b; Lewis Nash , d. Avatar Studios, NY, June 2011
Legacy, Mack Avenue, MAC1056, Tr 11
6. Gerald Wilson — Riffin’ at the Regal
Composer: Wilson Performers: Sean Jones, Jeremy Pelt, Tony Lujan, Mike Rodriguez, t ; Dennis Wilson, Douglas Purviance, Luis Bonilla, Alan Ferber, tromb; Antonio Hart Dick Oatts, Kamasi Washington, Ron Blake, Jay Brandford, Gary Smulyan, reeds; Renee Rosnes, p ; Anthony Wilson, g ; Peter Washington, b; Lewis Nash , d. Avatar Studios, NY, June 2011
Legacy, Mack Avenue, MAC1056, Tr 8
7. Gerald Wilson — 47th Street Blues
Composer: Wilson Performers: Sean Jones, Jeremy Pelt, Tony Lujan, Mike Rodriguez, t ; Dennis Wilson, Douglas Purviance, Luis Bonilla, Alan Ferber, tr; Antonio Hart Dick Oatts, Kamasi Washington, Ron Blake, Jay Brandford, Gary Smulyan, reeds; Renee Rosnes, p ; Anthony Wilson, g ; Peter Washington, b; Lewis Nash , d. Avatar Studios, NY, June 2011
Legacy, Mack Avenue, MAC1056, Tr 10
http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Gerald-Wilson/dp/B004X6J3EQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1325167574&sr=1-1
- アーティスト: Julian Lage
- 出版社/メーカー: Emarcy / Umgd
- 発売日: 2011/04/26
- メディア: CD
- クリック: 1回
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Composer: Listening Walk Performers: Julian Lage, ag, eg; Aristides Rivas, c ; Dan Blake, m, ts; Jorge Roeder, ab ; Tupac Mantilla, d. WBGH Studios, Boston, MA, April 2011
Gladwell, Emarcy, 001550202, Tr 1
http://www.amazon.com/Gladwell-Julian-Lage/dp/B004NQZUHK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1325167668&sr=1-1
- アーティスト: Mike Gibbs With Ndr Bigband Feat Norma Winstone
- 出版社/メーカー: Imports
- 発売日: 2011/11/08
- メディア: CD
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Composer: G and I Geshwin Performers: Norma Winstone, voc ; Thorsten Benkenstein, Ingolf Burkhardt, Michael Leuschner, Claus Stötter, Reiner Winterschladen, t ; Fiete Felsch, Peter Bolte, as ;Christof Lauer*, Lutz Büchner, ts; Frank Delle, bs ; Dan Gottshall, Klaus Heidenreich, Steve Trop, tr ; Ingo Lahme, btr, tu ; Stephan Diez Bass, Dave Whitford, g ; Vladyslav Sendecki, p ; Marcio Doctor, perc ; Mark Mondesir, d ; NDR Studios, Hamburg, Germany. April and December 2009
Here’s a Song For You, Fuzzy Moon, Tr 10
- アーティスト: Keith Jarrett
- 出版社/メーカー: Ecm Records
- 発売日: 2011/11/08
- メディア: CD
- 購入: 2人 クリック: 8回
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Composer: Jarrett Performers: Keith Jarrett, p; Theatro Municipal, Rio De Janeiro, July 2011.
Rio, ECM, 001611902, CD1 Tr5
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
Michael Garrick Tribute
Sun 25 Dec 2011
23:00
BBC Radio 3
Julian Joseph pays tribute to the late pianist and composer Michael Garrick.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0186gwt
It was planned to be a Christmas special broadcast where British jazz legend Michael Garrick MBE would conduct his Jazz Orchestra for a performance of his "Peter Pan" Suite for Christmas Day. The news of his tragic death in November was a blow and a sad loss that one our own powerhouses in composition had died.
In his honour Jazz Line-Up pays tribute to Michael by completing the project and recording his Jazz Suite "Peter Pan", in the same studio where he made his early broadcast some 50 years ago, the iconic BBC Maida Vale studios in west London.
His son Gabriel directs the band and the programme is presented by Julian Joseph.
Michael Garrick Jazz Orchestra members:
Rhythm: Julian Joseph (Piano), Dominic Ashworth (Guitar), Matt Ridley (Bass), Alan Jackson (Drums) - Reeds: Sam Bullard, Dave Shulman, Mick Foster, Sam Walker, Bob McKay - Trombones: Mark D'Silva, Martin Gladish, Dave Eaglestone - Trumpets: Martin Shaw, Steve Waterman, Steve Fishwick, Rory Simmons - Vocalist: Nette Robinson - Musical Director: Gabriel Garrick.
Music played
1. Michael Garrick Orchestra, Conductor Gabriel Garrick, Vocalist Nette Robinson — Peter Pan Jazz Dance Suite
Composer: Michael Garrick
2. Michael Garrick — Extract reading from ‘Hook’ from Peter Pan Jazz Dance Suite
Composer: Michael Garrick
Peter Pan Jazz Dance Suite, Jazz Academy Records Jaza 9
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sun 25 Dec 2011
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's guest is theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0186gvv
Today Michael Berkeley welcomes Andrew Lloyd Webber, the most successful composer working in musical theatre of our time. His stream of multi-award-winning shows includes 'Jesus Christ Superstar', 'Evita', 'Starlight Express', 'Cats', 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'Aspects of Love', 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Love Never Dies', for which he has won many international prizes including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, 7 Tony awards, 3 Grammy awards, and 14 Ivor Novello awards.
'Cats', 'Starlight Express' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' (which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year) are the three longest-running musical in British theatre history.
The son of William Lloyd Webber, Director of the London College of Music, and a piano teacher, Andrew showed an early interest in music, but always wanted to write and play his own pieces. He had already written eight musicals before he met up with Tim Rice at the age of 17, creating one of the most remarkable artistic partnerships in music theatre history.
He is also a producer of musicals and films, and pioneered TV casting for musical theatre with the Emmy-award-winning BBC series 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?', won by Connie Fisher, who then went on to star in Lloyd Webber's smash hit production of The Sound Of Music'. He repeated this successful format with 'Any Dream Will Do' for his own 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat', 'I'd Do Anything' for 'Oliver!' and 'Over the Rainbow' for his new production of 'The Wizard of Oz' which opened at the London Palladium last March. He currently owns seven London theatres.
His best-known composition outside musical theatre is the Requiem.
Music played
1. Andrew Lloyd Webber — ‘Love Never Dies’ from ‘Love Never Dies’ (excerpt)
Performers: Katherine Jenkins
DECCA 5336610
2. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev — ‘Cinderella’s Departure for the Ball’ from ‘Cinderella’ Act I
Performers: Cleveland Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy
DECCA 4101622
3. Benjamin Britten — ‘Dawn’ from Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes op 33)
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra/Steuart Bedford
COLLINS CLASSICS 10192COL
4. Giacomo Puccini — Music from ‘La Boheme’ Act II
Performers: Placido Domingo (Rodolfo), Montserrat Caballé (Mimi), Sherrill Milnes (Marcello), Judith Biegen (Musetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Colline), Vicente Sardinero (Schaunard), Nico Castel (Alcindoro),The John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra/Georg Solti
RCA 80371
5. Dmitri Shostakovich — 1st mvt from Cello Concerto no 1 in E flat major op 107
Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy
SONY CLASSICAL MHK63327
6. Leonard Bernstein — ‘Prologue’ from West Side Story
Performers: The original soundtrack recording (conducted by Johnny Green)
CBS 4676062
7. Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov — ‘How Fair This Spot’ from ‘12 Songs’ Op 21 no 7
Performers: Anna Netrebko (soprano), Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre/Valery Gergiev
DG 4776384
8. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev — 3rd mvt from Piano Sonata no 7 in B flat major op 83
Performers: Martha Argerich (piano)
Live in the Concertgebouw (EMI)
9. Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II — Some Enchanted Evening’ from ‘South Pacific
Performers: Giorgio Tozzi (from the Original Soundtrack Recording)
RCA ND83681
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
The Rhyming and the Chiming
Sun 25 Dec 2011
18:30
BBC Radio 3
Texts and music on the theme of bells. Reading by Sylvestra le Touzel and David Troughton.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0186gw3
Words and Music on the theme of bells. Readers Sylvestra Le Touzel and David Troughton.
This is the season for bells, joyful Christmas bells and clamorous New Year peals - and they will feature in this edition of the programme. But there will also be rhyming and chiming from other seasons of life, taking Edgar Allan Poe's onomatopoeic poem as its centrepiece. There are bells from childhood, from marriage, from the ordinary round of life as nostalgically remembered in both city and countryside by Betjeman. The sinister side of the sound of bells is brought to life by Dickens in his atmospheric story "The Chimes", and in the famous scene from "The Nine Tailors" by Dorothy L. Sayers in which Lord Peter Wimsey finds himself in the belltower as the cacophony carries on about him. There are alarums from the battlefield and the gallows humour of the bells of hell going ting-a-ling-a-ling... But this is Christmas and so Longfellow and Tennyson's "Wild Bells" will see us out on a note of celebration and hope for the future.
Music from Liszt, Henze, Loesser, Philip Feeney, Grieg and Elizabeth Poston among others.
Producer's Note
The opening scene is Paris first thing in the morning, described in the Hunchback of Notre Dame, with the awakening of a myriad church towers, moving on to Betjeman’s elegiac poem on the bells and trains of the City of London, and nostalgia for both days of steam and days of faith. S. S. Wesley’s “Holsworthy Church Bells” plays the peaceful tune of the carillon belonging to this Devon church and then we are off into Poe’s epic poem “The Bells” which starts merrily enough - with sleigh bells and wedding bells.
Leaving Poe aside for a moment, Grieg’s gentle Lyric Piece “Bell-ringing” leads to Vaughan Williams’ setting of A. E. Housman’s “Bredon Hill”, a song of tragic lost love, symbolised by bells. More gentle nostalgia for the distant sound of ringing from Betjeman in “Bristol” leading to the sense of liquid crystal in the air after the bells cease – “Sweet Silence after bells”.
Purcell’s anthem “Rejoice in the Lord Always” is nicknamed the “Bell Anthem” from its instrumental effect of descending peals, after which John Bunyan is encountered comparing himself to a ring of bells, hoping that “naughty boys” will not play havoc with his attempts to keep spiritual harmony. He would surely NOT have approved of the sentiments of “mission doll” Sergeant Sarah Brown after her heady encounter with Sky Masterson (“If I were a bell”).
An ominous little scene change from Webern ushers in Lord Peter Wimsey’s painful close encounter with the bells in the ringing chamber – it was the bells whodunnit in that story, and Henze’s take on Schubert’s Erl King, the frightening fairy sprite, makes a fitting background to Dicken’s personification of the bells as sinister elfin creatures in his story “The Chimes”. The idea is that the bells should do good, not harm, in Anne Sexton’s group therapy scene “Ringing the Bells”, but it is doomed to well-intentioned failure. Again the tension rises with the opening of Schnittke’s first symphony where a percussionist plays merry hell with bells, while the rest of the orchestra joins the melee – a fitting prelude to the chaotic and frightening world of the second half of Poe’s poem, the finality of the tolling bell and Sassoon’s ironic war poem.
But this is Christmas and it would not do to end there – Longfellow and Tennyson look at the mess we’re in but find reasons to hope and to celebrate, set here against the joyful whirling pealing of the “Bells at Coblentz”.
Elizabeth Funning (Producer)
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.
00:00
Philip Feeney — Prelude from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
Performer: Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra Performer: John Pryce Jones (conductor)
Black Box BBP1009 Tr 1
00:00
Victor Hugo, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (excerpt), reader Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:02
Philip Feeney — Carillon – Quasimodo’s Solo from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
Performer: Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra Performer: John Pryce Jones (conductor)
Black Box BBP1009 Tr 19
00:03
John Betjeman
Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station, reader David Troughton
00:05
Elizabeth Poston — The Bellman’s Song (An English Day-Book)
Performer: National Youth Choir of Scotland, Girls Choir Performer: Claire Jones (harp) Performer: Christopher Bell (conductor)
Signum SIGCD228 Tr 13
00:06
Samuel Sebastian Wesley — Holsworthy Church Bells
Performer: James McVinnie (organ)
Naxos 8.570410 Tr 9
00:12
Edgar Allen Poe
The Bells, Part I, reader Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:12
Philip Lane — Sleighbell Serenade from “Three Christmas Pictures”
Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Christopher Bell (conductor)
Signum SIGCD202 Tr 14
00:15
Franz Liszt — La Campanella from “Etudes d’execution transcendante d’apres Paganini”
Performer: Jorge Bolet (piano)
Philips 456 814-2 CD1 Tr 8
00:20
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells, Part II, reader Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:21
The Diamonds — Church Bells May Ring
Mercury 532734 Tr 2
00:23
Edvard Grieg — Bellringing from Lyric Pieces op 54 no 6
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
DG 459 671-2 Tr 12
00:26
George Butterworth — Bredon Hill (A Shropshire Lad)
Performer: James Gilchrist (tenor) Performer: Fitzwilliam String Quartet Performer: Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Linn CKD 296 Tr 5
00:26
John Betjeman
Bristol, reader David Troughton
00:34
Christopher John Brennan
Sweet Silence after Bells, reader Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:35
Henry Purcell — The Bell Anthem
Performer: James Bowman (countertenor) Performer: Charles Daniels (tenor) Performer: Michael George (bass) Performer: Choir of New College, Oxford Performer: Choir of the King’s Consort Performer: Robert King (director)
Hyperion KING 2 Tr 9
00:43
John Bunyan
Upon a Ring of Bells (excerpt), reader David Troughton
00:45
Frank Loesser — If I were a bell from "Guys and Dolls"
Performer: Isabel Bigley Performer: Original Broadway Cast recording Performer: Irving Actman (conductor)
Sanctuary CDAJA5498 Tr 7
00:48
Anton Webern — Five Pieces Op. 10, No. 1 “Sehr ruhig und zart”
Performer: Ulster Orchestra Performer: Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
Naxos 8.554841 Tr 13
00:48
Dorothy L Sayers
The Nine Tailors (excerpt), reader David Troughton
00:50
Hans Werner Henze — Der Erlkönig
Performer: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Performer: Jonathan Nott (conductor)
Tudor 7131 Tr 5
00:51
Charles Dickens
The Chimes (excerpt), reader Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:55
Anne Sexton
Ringing the Bells, reader Sylvestra Le Touzel
00:57
Alfred Garyevich Schnittke — Symphony No. 1- Opening
Performer: Russian State Symphony Orchestra Performer: Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
CHAN 9417 Tr 1
00:57
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells, part III, reader David Troughton
00:59
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells, part IV, reader David Troughton
00:59
St Sepulchre
ringing of the Execution Bell
01:01
Bob Dylan — Ring them Bells
Performer: Barb Jungr
LINN AKD 187 Tr 4
01:04
Siegfried Sassoon
Joy Bells, reader Sylvestra Le Touzel
01:05
[musical theater] — The Bells of Hell from “Oh what a lovely war”
TER 1043 Tr 2 (Excerpt)
01:05
Franz Liszt — Carillon (from Christmas Tree)
Performer: Rhondda Gillespie (piano)
CHAN 6629 Tr 6
01:08
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the Bells on Christmas Day, reader David Troughton
01:09
John Foulds — Bells at Coblentz from ‘Holiday Sketches’, Op. 16
Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra Performer: Ronald Corp (conductor)
DUTTON EPOCH CDLX 7252 Tr 10
01:10
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out, Wild Bells, reader Sylvestra Le Touzel
