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： 2012年 4月 7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. Angie / Bert Jansch
ALBUM: Bert Jansch
02. Demons In Her Dancing Shoes / Richard Thompson
ALBUM: Dream Attic
03. Walking The Long Miles Home / Richard Thompson
ALBUM: Live From Austin
04. By This Time Tomorrow (明日になれば) / The Fuji..i
ALBUM: Mojoyama Mississippi
05. Since I've Laid This Burden Down / コージー大内
ALBUM: X (ばってん）ブルース
06. 大鶴村のサイレン (Solo Ver.) / コージー大内
ALBUM: X (ばってん）ブルース
07. Martha My Dear / 告井延隆
ALBUM: Sgt. Tsugei's Only One Club Band
08. Strawberry Fields Forever / 告井延隆
ALBUM: Sgt. Tsugei's Only One Club Band II
09. Penny Lane / 告井延隆
ALBUM: Sgt. Tsugei's Only One Club Band II
10. We Can Work It Out / 告井延隆
ALBUM: Sgt. Tsugei's Only One Club Band III
11. Xiger Xiger / Hanggai
ALBUM: He Who Travels Far
12. Ayrhindu (酒歌) / Hanggai
ALBUM: He Who Travels Far
13. Molly And Tenbrooks (The Racehorse Song) / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
ALBUM: The Essential Bill Monroe
14. Orange Blossom Special / Flatt & Scruggs
ALBUM: Classic Bluegrass Live
15. Earl's Breakdown / Earl Scruggs
ALBUM: Classic Bluegrass Live
16. Ballad Of Jed Clampett / Flatt & Scruggs
ALBUM: Classic Bluegrass Live
17. Flint Hill Special / Flatt & Scruggs
ALBUM: At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert
18. Country Comfort / Earl Scruggs w. Elton John
ALBUM: Earl Scruggs & Friends
19. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Earl Scruggs w. John Fogerty
ALBUM: Earl Scruggs & Friends
20. Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Earl Scruggs w. Glen Duncan, Randy Scruggs, Steve Martin, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Gary Scruggs, Albert Lee, Paul Shaffer, Jerry Douglas And Leon Russell
ALBUM: Earl Scruggs & Friends
21. Merry Go Round / Gary Moore
ALBUM: Blues For Greeny
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： 2012年 4月 7日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前11:00（120分）
ゴンチチ
湯浅学
− ニューな音楽 −
「ニューヨーク・イン・ジ・アフターヌーン」 (ゴンチチ)(5分45秒)
＜EPIC/SONY ESCB1796＞
「ア・ニュー・ラヴ」 (ジ・インプレッションズ)(2分11秒)
＜P-VINE PCD-4313＞
「劇付随音楽“夏の夜の夢”から 結婚行進曲」メンデルスゾーン作曲(5分01秒)
(管弦楽)フィルハーモニア管弦楽団
(指揮)オットー・クレンペラー
＜東芝EMI TOCE-3064＞
「ヌオヴォ・シネマ・パラディソ(ニュー・シネマ・パラダイス)」(ファブリッツィオ・ボッソ)(6分03秒)
＜MUSIC FROM EMI 0946-389462-2-9＞
「ニュー・ファスト」 (DNA)(1分14秒)
＜NO MORE REC. NO NUMBER＞
「ドント・レット・ユア・ディール・ゴー・ダウン」(ザ・ニュー・ロスト・シティー・ランブラーズ)(2分40秒)
＜RHINO R2 74264＞
「ザ・レッスン」 (ローラ・ジェイ・マーティン)(3分49秒)
＜STATICCA RAVAN ORG VAN237＞
「アイル・トライ・サムシング・ニュー」(スモーキー・ロビンソン・アンド・ザ・ミラクルズ)(2分37秒)
＜MOTOWN RECORD COMPANY 37463-6334-2＞
「ニュー・デイ」 (サン・ラー)(5分51秒)
＜コロムビア MG-12169＞
「バレエ音楽“春の祭典”から いけにえの踊り」ストラヴィンスキー作曲(4分20秒)
(演奏)シモン・ボリバル・ユース・オーケストラ・オブ・ベネズエラ
(指揮)グスターボ・ドゥダメル
＜UNIVERSAL UCCG-1506＞
「ズーパー」 (ノイ!)(3分07秒)
＜P-VINE PCD-23220＞
「ヒアー・オールド・ラトラー・ヒアー、セント・フォー・マイ・フィドル・セント・フォー・マイ・バウ、ジョージ・バック」(エリザベス・コットン)(3分45秒)
＜SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFCD40009＞
「ア・ニュー・リーフ」 (ジミー・リード)(2分40秒)
＜P-VINE PCD4292＞
「ブラン・ニュー・デイ」 (10CC)(4分04秒)
＜MERCURY PHCR-4417＞
「ニュー・チューン」 (ジェームス・テイラー)(1分37秒)
＜WARNER BROS. WPCR-2515＞
「アセンション・プリーズ」 (シャブド)(4分40秒)
＜自主制作 NO NUMBER＞
「ニュー・ボーン・アゲイン」(サザン・サンズ・クァルテット)(2分31秒)
＜P-VINE PCD-2186＞
「ニュー・モーニング」 (ボブ・ディラン)(3分56秒)
＜SONY MUSIC SICP2006＞
「初恋」 (チチ松村)(3分36秒)
＜IN THE GARDEN XNHL-12001＞
「津軽海峡冬景色」 (ホセ・リベルテーラ)(2分26秒)
＜東芝EMI EOS-60029＞
Another Country with Ricky Ross
Ricky Ross enters the landscape of Americana and alternative country. Expect to hear both classic and future classics, with Ricky taking a close look at the stories behind the songs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hh26l
Ricky's Country Jukebox
Fri 6 Apr 2012
20:05
BBC Radio Scotland
Two hours of classic songs, favourite artists and big hits from Ricky's country jukebox.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f52q0
Ricky's personal journey through the songs that made him love country music. Covering Bluegrass, Country Pop and Americana, this hand-picked selection showcases brilliant songwriting and talented artists across six decades.
Music played
1. Neil Young — Hey Babe
2. Bobby Bare — Four Strong Winds
3. Don Gibson — Oh Lonesome Me
4. Johnnie and Jack — Oh Baby Mine I Get So Lonesome
5. Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio — Lonesome Train On A Lonesome Track
6. Bill Monroe — A Voice From On High
7. Elvis Presley — Joshua Fit The Battle
8. Willie Nelson — Where The Soul Never Dies
9. Patsy Cline — Crazy
10. Linda Ronstadt — Do What You Gotta Do
11. Glen Campbell — Galveston
12. Jimmy Webb — By The Time I Get To Phoenix
13. Stephen Stills — Colorado
14. Solomon Burke — That’s How I Got To Memphis
15. Buddy Miller — Don’t Tell Me
16. The Louvin Brothers — In The Pines
17. Emmylou Harris — Making Believe
18. Gram Parsons — Streets Of Baltimore
19. The Flying Burrito Brothers — Hot Burrito #1
20. Elvis Costello — Why Don’t You Love Me Like You Used To Do
21. Hank Williams — A Mansion On The Hill
22. Bruce Springsteen — Mansion On The Hill
23. Patty Griffin — A House Of Gold
24. Iris DeMent — Shores Of Jordan
25. Bob Dylan — Watching The River Flow
26. Old Crow Medicine Show — Deportee
27. Dave Rawlings Machine — To Be Young Is To Be Sad
28. Gillian Welch — Good Til Now
29. Ryan Adams — Two
Jazz Record Requests
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 7 Apr 2012
21:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fhy0v
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. Walking With The King — George Lewis and His New Orleans Stompers
Composer: Traditional Performers: George Lewis (cl), Avery ‘Kid’ Howard (tr), Jim Robinson (trb), Alton Purnell (p), George Guesnon (banjo), Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau (b), Joe Watkins (d) Recorded: 1955
George Lewis And His New Orleans Stompers – Volume 1, Blue Note BLP 1205, S1/5, 3.45
3. Miles Davis — Move
Composer: Denzil Best Performers: Miles Davis (tr), Kai Winding (trb), Junior Collins (fh), John Barber (tuba), Lee Konitz (as), Gerry Mulligan (ts), Al Haig (p), Joe Schulman (b), Max Roach (d) Recorded: 1949
Birth of the Cool, Capitol 72435 301117 2 7, 1, 2.32
4. Blossom Dearie — They Say It’s Spring
Composer: Marty Clark & Bob Haymes Performers: Blossom Dearie (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), Jo Jones (d) Recorded: 1957
Blossom Dearie – Four Classic Albums Plus, Avid AMSC 967, D2, Tr 4, 3.42
5. The Modern Jazz Quartet — Over The Rainbow
Composer: Harold Arlen & E.Y Harburg Performers: John Lewis (p), Milt Jackson (vibraharp), Percy Heath (b), Connie Kay (d) Recorded: 1956
Fontessa, London Records LTZ-K 15022, S2/1, 3.50
6. Benny Goodman — When I Grow Too Old To Dream
Composer: Sigmund Romberg & Oscar Hammerstein Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Chris Griffin, Ruby Braff, Bernie Privin, Carl Poole (tr), Will Bradley, Cutty Cutshall Vernon Brown (tr), Hymie Shertzer, Paul Ricci (as), Boomie Richman Al Klink (ts), Sol Schlinger (bs), Mel Powell (p), Steve Joran (g), Geroge Duvivier (b), Bobby Donaldson (d) Recorded: 1954
In Hi-Fi, Capitol CDP7928642 (1), Tr 7, 3.22
7. Bob Brookmeyer — Louisiana
Composer: J. C. Johnson, Bob Schafer & Andy Razaf Performers: Bob Brookmeyer (trb) (p), Jimmy Guiffre (ts), Jim Hall (g), Joe Benjamin (b) Dave Bailey (d) Recorded: 1957
Traditionalism Revisited, Vogue LAE 12018, S1/1, 5.28
8. Nikki Iles — In Your Own Sweet Way
Composer: Dave Brubeck Performers: Nikki Iles (p), Rufus Reid (b), Jeff Williams (d) Recorded: 2010
Hush, Basho SRCD 38-2, Tr 8, 6.53
9. Count Basie — How High The Moon
Composer: Nancy Hamilton & Morgan Lewis Performers: Count Basie (p), Renauld Jones, Thad Jones, Joe Newman Wendell Culley (tr), Benny Powell, Henry Coker, Matthew Gee (trb), Marshall Royal, Bill Graham, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Charlie Fowlkes (reeds), Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b), Sonny Payne (d) Recorded: 1956
Basie in London, Verve 8338052 (1), Tr 3, 3.30
10. John Coltrane — My One and Only Love
Composer: R. Mellin & G. Wood Performers: John Coltrane (ts), Johnny Hartman (voc), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Elvin Jones (d) Recorded: 1974
The Gentle Side Of, GRP GRP11072 (1), Tr 9, 4.54
11. Sonny Rollins — St Thomas
Composer: Sonny Rollins Performers: Sonny Rollins (ts), Tommy Flanagan (p), Doug Watkins (b), Max Roach (d) Recorded: 1956
Saxophone Colossus, Prestige OJCCD2912 (1), Tr 1, 6.45
12. Wynton Marsalis — Holy Ghost
Composer: Wynton Marsalis Performers: Wynton Marsalis (tr), Wycliffe Gordon (trb), Wessell Anderson (as), Todd Williams (s), Eric Reed (p), Reginald Veal (b), Herlin Riley (d) Recorded: 1992 & 1993
In This House, On This Morning, Columbia 474552 2, D2, Tr 3, 6.56
Jazz Library
Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x41z
Oliver Lake
Sun 8 Apr 2012
00:00
BBC Radio 3
Saxophonist Oliver Lake discusses his work and selects highlights from his back catalogue.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d0wgx
Saxophonist Oliver Lake is well-known as a member of the World Saxophone Quartet, now in its 33rd year. He discusses his favourite recordings from that group's work and helps Alyn Shipton select the highlights from the rest of his large catalogue, including reggae sounds and jazz and poetry, ranging from the experimental Black Artists' Group of the 1970s to his contemporary one-man shows.
Music played
1. World Saxophone Quartet — Netdown
Composer: Lake Performers: Oliver Lake, as; John Purcell, saxello; David Murray, ts; Hamiett Bluiett, bar; May 2000.
25th Anniversary: The New Chapter, Justin Time, 149-2, Tr 2
2. Oliver Lake — Owshet
Composer: Lake Performers: Oliver Lake, as; Olu Dara, t; Donald Smith, p; Stafford James, b; Victor Lewis, d. 31 Jan 1975.
Heavy Spirits, Black Lion, 760209, Tr 2
3. Oliver Lake — Rocket
Composer: Lake Performers: Oliver Lake, as; Joseph Bowie, tb; Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw, d. 31 Jan 1975.
Heavy Spirits, Black Lion, 760209, Tr 8
4. Oliver Lake — 5/1
Composer: Jackson Performers: Oliver Lake, as; Michael Gregory Jackson, g; Pheeroan AkLaff d. 1 Sept 1979.
Trio / Zaki, HatArt, 6113, Tr 4
5. World Saxophone Quartet — Take the a Train
Composer: Strayhorn Performers: Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, as; David Murray ts; Hamiett Bluiett, bar. Rec April 86.
Plays Duke Ellington, Nonesuch, 979137 S2 T 3
6. Oliver Lake — Ska’s To Move
Composer: Lake Performers: Oliver Lake ts, as, fl, voc; Jerome Harris, g, bg, synth, voc; Alphonia Tims, g; Frank Abel kb; Pheeroan Ak Laff, d; Jawara perc; Billy Grant, b. Rec 1982.
Jump Up, Gramavision, GR 8106 S 2 T1
7. Oliver Lake — Matador of 1st and 1st
Composer: Lake Performers: Oliver Lake, as, voc. April 1995 NYC.
Matador of 1st and 1st, Passin Thru, 40709, Tr 5
8. Oliver Lake Quintet — Maasai Moves
Composer: Lake Performers: Oliver Lake, as; Geri Allen, p; Jay Hoggard, vib; Belden Bullock b; Cecil Brooks III, d. March 1997.
Talkin Stick, Passin Thru, 41213,, Tr 4
9. Oliver Lake String Project — Movements Turns and Switches
Composer: Lake Performers: Regina Carter vn; Donal Fox., p. rec: 1997.
Movements Turns and Switches, Passin Thru, 41210, Tr 3
10. Oliver Lake, Donal Fox — Rhythm-a-ning
Composer: Monk Performers: Oliver Lake as; Donal Leonnellis Fox, p. 14 Aug 1989. Regattabar, Boston.
Boston Duets, Music and Arts, CD 732, Tr 9
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
Konrad Wiszniewski Quintet
Sun 8 Apr 2012
23:10
BBC Radio 3
Claire Martin presents saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski playing with his quintet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fhypf
Konrad Wiszniewski is one of the mainstays on Scottish Jazz. Not only a composer of merit he constantly assembles groups both from home and abroad. He is a member of the unique a -cappella brass ensemble Brass Jaw as well as occupying a tenor Saxophone chair in the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. On this week's Jazz Line-Up hear him with his quintet of Lorne Cowieson on trumpet, Andrew Sharkey on bass, Euan Stevenson on piano and Doug Hough on drums. And also on the show, Claire will be chatting to two members of 'Get The Blessing' - Bassist Jim Barr and Saxophonist Jake McMurchie...who talk about their newly released album, 'OC DC'.
Music played
1. Get the Blessing — Oc Dc
Performers: Jim Barr (Bass), Clive Dreamer (Drums), Jake McMurchie (Sax), Pete Judge (Trumpet) Composer: Get The Blessing
Oc Dc, Naim Jazz Promo CD
2. Michael Gibbs and the NDR Big Band — The Time Has Come
Composer: Michael Gibbs
Back In The Days, Cuniform Records RUN 322
3. John Turville Trio — All Or Nothing At All
Performers: John Turville (Piano), Chris Hill (Bass), Ben Reynolds (Drums) Composer: Arthur Altman/Jack Lawrence
Midas, F-IRE F-IRECD 29
4. Get the Blessing — Oc Dc
Performers: Jim Barr (Bass), Clive Dreamer (Drums), Jake McMurchie (Sax), Pete Judge (Trumpet) Composer: Get The Blessing
Oc Dc, Naim Jazz Promo CD
5. Get the Blessing — The Waiting
Performers: Jim Barr (Bass), Clive Dreamer (Drums), Jake McMurchie (Sax), Pete Judge (Trumpet) Composer: Get The Blessing
Oc Dc, Naim Jazz Promo CD
6. Get the Blessing — Torque
Performers: Jim Barr (Bass), Clive Dreamer (Drums), Jake McMurchie (Sax), Pete Judge (Trumpet) Composer: Get The Blessing
Oc Dc, Naim Jazz Promo CD
7. Konrad Wiszniewski Quintet — Dziadzio
Performer: Konrad Wiszniewski (Sax), Euan Stevenson (Piano), Dough Hough (Drums), Andrew Sharkey (Double Bass), Lorne Cowieson (Trumpet) BBC Recording, originally txd ‘Live to Europe’, on the European Broadcasting Union, Friday 30th September, live from BBC Studios in Glasgow
8. Konrad Wiszniewski Quintet — Nicola’s Piece
Performer: Konrad Wiszniewski (Sax), Euan Stevenson (Piano), Dough Hough (Drums), Andrew Sharkey (Double Bass), Lorne Cowieson (Trumpet) Composer: Konrad Wiszniewski BBC Recording, originally txd ‘Live to Europe’, on the European Broadcasting Union, Friday 30th September, live from BBC Studios in Glasgow
9. Konrad Wiszniewski Quintet — Music for a Northern Mining Town
Performer: Konrad Wiszniewski (Sax), Euan Stevenson (Piano), Dough Hough (Drums), Andrew Sharkey (Double Bass), Lorne Cowieson (Trumpet) Composer: Euan Stevenson BBC Recording, originally txd ‘Live to Europe’, on the European Broadcasting Union, Friday 30th September, live from BBC Studios in Glasgow
10. Konrad Wiszniewski Quintet — Leonard’s Lament
Performer: Konrad Wiszniewski (Sax), Euan Stevenson (Piano), Dough Hough (Drums), Andrew Sharkey (Double Bass), Lorne Cowieson (Trumpet) Composer: Euan Stevenson BBC Recording, originally txd ‘Live to Europe’, on the European Broadcasting Union, Friday 30th September, live from BBC Studios in Glasgow
11. Konrad Wiszniewski Quintet — Parson’s Green
Performer: Konrad Wiszniewski (Sax), Euan Stevenson (Piano), Dough Hough (Drums), Andrew Sharkey (Double Bass), Lorne Cowieson (Trumpet) Composer: Euan Stevenson BBC Recording, originally txd ‘Live to Europe’, on the European Broadcasting Union, Friday 30th September, live from BBC Studios in Glasgow
12. Martin Speake, Colin Oxley — Coleman Hawkins
Performers: Martin Speake (Alto Sax), Colin Oxley (Guitar) Composer: Martin Speake, Colin Oxley
Two Not One, Pumpkin Records Pumpkin 004
13. Jonathan Gee Trio — Cream of Manderins
Performers: Jonathan Gee (Piano), Joseph Lepore (Double Bass), Nasheet Waits (Drums) Composer: Jonathan Gee
Dragonfly, ASC Records ASCCD 131
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Caroline Quentin
Sun 8 Apr 2012
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's Easter guest is actress Caroline Quentin.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fhyn8
Michael Berkeley's Easter guest is actor Caroline Quentin, who has starred in many TV series from Men Behaving Badly, for which she won the 1995 Best Comedy Actress Award for her role as the put-upon Dorothy, to Jonathan Creek, Kiss Me Kate, Blue Murder and Life Begins (for which she received the 2004 British Comedy Actress Award). She has recently been seen in the third series of BBC1's Life of Riley. She has also starred in a number of one-off dramas, including Von Trapped, Goodbye Mr Steadman, Hot Money, Blood Strangers and Miss Marple-The Mirror Cracked, as well as the Just William series, in which she played Mrs Bott. She also appears regularly on stage, including, most recently, in Pippin at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Other stage roles have included Masha in The Seagull, Jenny in Arnold Wesker's Roots at the National Theatre, Dabby Bryant in Our Country's Good, and the lead in the West End comedy An Evening with Gary Lineker.
Caroline studied ballet as a child, and remembers dancing to Chopin's Prelude No.7 In A, played by her mother, a talented pianist. Her other private musical passions inclde Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which helped her through an emotional low point in her life; the overture to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, which she thinks is one of the most thrilling pieces of music ever written; one of Canteloube's sensuous Songs of the Auvergne; an extract from Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream, which she saw at Glyndebourne; and a Spanish Dance by Granados, arranged for classical guitar by Segovia., which reminds her of peaceful summer evenings in the country surrounded by her family.
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
Tricksters
Sun 8 Apr 2012
18:30
BBC Radio 3
Texts, music about pranksters and maniupulators. Readers: Katherine Parkinson, Jim Norton.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gcj5p
Tricksters and Hoaxers. Katherine Parkinson and Jim Norton side-step the banana skins and refuse the exploding cigars in a celebration of the devilish works of pathological pranksters and perennial manipulators including Robin Goodfellow, Brer Rabbit, Till Eulenspiegel, Renard the Fox and Scapino. Words come from Skakespeare, WS Gilbert, Ogden Nash and Chaucer, and music from Mozart, Mendelssohn, Kreisler and Strauss among others.
Producer's Note
Now don’t go feeling that you have to take this one terribly seriously. I’ve done the ‘serious’ bit for you already in choosing the items for this programme, and in doing so I found myself chuckling at Chaucer’s ridiculous, self-regarding cockerel Chantecleer, lured to his doom by the wily Russell Fox; sniggering at Dudley Moore’s wicked send-up of the Britten-Pears approach to folksong; and smiling at the daft fanfare which opens the 1956 Hoffnung Music Festival. And Donald O’Connor’s exhausting launch into Make ’em laugh certainly had the effect on me of, well, making me laugh.
Pranksters and hoaxers are principally there to lighten our lives, of course, and I wouldn’t want to over-intellectualise the simple mischief of WS Gilbert’s Practical Joker, or the more sophisticated silliness of Mozart’s Musical Joke and ‘PDQ Bach’s flatulent fooling with Beethoven. But there can be a sharper and more deeply penetrating point to trickery, for instance in the deliberately subversive intent evident in Till Eulenspiegel’s hoodwinking of the venerable but gullible professors of medieval Erfurt, or the restless scheming of the eternal scoundrel of the commedia dell-arte, Scapino. There is an extra level of darkness, too, a glint of malevolence, in Alan Garner’s ungraspable Guizer; in the nihilistic shape-shifting of Robin Goodfellow as he wreaks havoc on a hapless wedding party; in the witches who stop Uncle Matyi on his way home and play a strangely motiveless trick on him in Angela Carter’s retelling of an old Hungarian tale; and in the spritish fairies of Shakespeare’s enchanted midsummer wood, epitomised by their ringleader Puck. The running rivalry between Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox is actually a matter of life and death, as it is for Horace Smith’s foolhardy Jester.
The jester is one of the most familiar of trickster roles. Knaves or fools who live outside the rules include Pau-Puk Keewis, the ‘merry mischief-maker’ in Longfellow’s epic of Native-American life, The Song of Hiawatha; surely a transatlantic cousin of the Norse joker-god Loki, he is scorned by warriors of the tribe as an idler, gambler and faint-heart, yet the women love him for his handsome face and beautiful clothes, and both sexes know who to turn to for entertainment at a wedding feast. The unworldly seer, privy to truths unknown to ‘normal’ folk is another age-old persona for the fool; John Clare in The Lout and Ogden Nash in Fun is fun address it, though both in their very different ways also choose to discredit it.
Finally, I’ve included the work of two highly successful 20th-century hoaxers. Violinist Fritz Kreisler composed a number of encore pieces for himself to play which he passed off as the work of various 18th-century minor masters; and ‘Ern Malley’ was the impulsive creation of pair of Australian literary wise-guys who cobbled together a few ‘avant-garde’ poems and had them published by a leading modernist poetry journal. Both managed to dupe a good many so-called experts musical and literary, who were far from pleased when they learned of their mistake.
So there you are. The wisest course is perhaps to doubt all, to believe nothing. And never, never take things too seriously.
Lindsay Kemp (producer)
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.
00:00
Francis Baines — Fanfare
Performer: Performers uncredited
HMV 573877 2, Tr 1
00:00
William Schwenk Gilbert
The Practical Joker, read by Jim Norton
00:02
Richard Strauss — Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks) (excerpt)
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 410 518 2, Tr 2
00:05
Alan Garner
How Robin Good-fellow went in the shape of a fiddler to a wedding, and of the sport that he had there, read by Katherine Parkinson
00:07
P.D.Q. Bach — The Preachers of Crimetheus (finale) (excerpt)
Performer: The Greater Hoople Area Off-Season Philharmonic, Walter Bruno (conductor)
Telarc CD80210, Tr 14
00:09
‘Ern Malley’ (James McAuley and Harold Stewart)
Culture as Exhibit, read by Jim Norton
00:11
Felix Mendelssohn — Dance of the Clowns (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
EMI 574 980 2, Tr 12
00:12
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract), read by Katherine Parkinson and Jim Norton
00:13
Henry Purcell — Scene of the Drunken Poet (The Fairy Queen)
Performer: Richard Suart (bass), The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, Harry Christophers (conductor)
Collins Classics 70132, CD 1 Tr 7
00:20
James Oppenheim
As to being made a Fool of, read by Katherine Parkinson
00:20
Fritz Kreisler — Tambourin ‘in the style of Leclair’
Performer: Oscar Shumsky (violin), William Wolfram (piano)
ASV CDALH971, Tr 12
00:22
Angela Carter
The Witches’ Piper, read by Jim Norton
00:25
Felix Mendelssohn — Scherzo (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
EMI 574 980 2, Tr 2
00:29
Geoffrey Chaucer (rendered into modern English by Nevill Coghill)
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (Canterbury Tales) (excerpt), read by Katherine Parkinson
00:32
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Ein musicalischer Spass (A Musical Joke) (finale)
Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon 419 783 2, Tr 4
00:37
Horace Smith
The Jester Condemned to Death, read by Jim Norton
00:38
Nacio Herb Brown & Adolph Green — Make ’em laugh
Performer: Donald O’Connor (singer), orchestra uncredited
MGM CDP7933002, Tr 4
00:41
Ogden Nash
If fun is fun, isn’t that enough?, read by Katherine Parkinson
00:42
Dudley Moore — Little Miss Britten
Performer: Dudley Moore (voice and piano)
EMI 793 962 2, Tr 9
00:43
John Clare
The Lout, read by Katherine Parkinson
00:44
John Lennon & Paul McCartney — The Fool on the Hill
Performer: The Beatles
Capitol 3824652, Tr 2
00:47
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha (excerpt), read by Jim Norton
00:49
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast (excerpt)
Performer: Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)
Decca 4734312, CD 1 Tr 5
00:53
Joel Chandler Harris, ‘retold’ by FH Pritchard
How Brer Rabbit was too sharp for Brer Fox (excerpt), read by Jim Norton
00:55
Edvard Grieg — Småtrold (Puck)
Performer: Peter Jablonski (piano)
Decca 455 6312, Tr 15
00:57
Alan Garner
Under the Earth I go, read by Katherine Parkinson
00:57
Sir William Walton — Comedy Overture ‘Scapino’
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
EMI 747 624 2., Tr 12
01:06
Anonymous 16th-century German, translated by Carolyn Place
How Till Eulenspiegel taught a jackass to read an old psalmbook in Erfurt, read by Katherine Parkinson
01:08
Richard Strauss — Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks) (excerpt)
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Deutsche Grammophon 410 518 2, Tr 2
