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 7月21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. I Won't Cry / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
02. (Oh Why) I Won't Cry / Johnny Adams
ALBUM:I Won't Cry
03. Money Over Love / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
04. Crazy Baby / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
05. Crazy Baby / Buck Rogers
ALBUM:single
06. You're Mine Tonight / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
07. You're Mine Tonight / Glenn Wells & The Blends
ALBUM:single
08. Hey Little Girl / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
09. Hey Little Girl / John Godfrey Trio
ALBUM:single
10. It Hurts To Love Someone (That Don't Love You) / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
11. It Hurts To Love Someone / Guitar Slim
ALBUM:Atco Sessions
12. Buzz Buzz Buzz / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
13. Buzz-Buzz-Buzz / Hollywood Flames
ALBUM:The Doo Wop Box
14. My Dearest Darling / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
15. My Dearest Darling / Eddie Bo
ALBUM:single
16. My Dearest Darling / Etta James
ALBUM:Etta James: Her Best
17. She Put The Hurt On Me / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
18. She Put The Hurt On Me / Prince La La
ALBUM:Crescent City Bounce Classic R&B From New Orleans
19. She Put The Hurt On Me / Otis Redding
ALBUM:The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul: Complete & Unbelievable
20. What's Your Name / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
21. What's Your Name / Don & Juan
ALBUM:The Doo Wop Box II
22. I Don't Believe / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
23. I Don't Believe / Bobby Bland
ALBUM:I Pity The Fool -The Duke Recordings Vol.1
24. Golly Gee / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
25. Golly Gee / Sunny and the Sunglows
ALBUM:single
26. The Chicken And The Bop / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
27. The Chicken And The Bop / Lloyd Price
ALBUM:Lloyd Rocks
28. Talk To Me, Talk To Me / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
29. Talk To Me, Talk To Me / Little Willie John
ALBUM:Fever
30. Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams) / Doug Sahm
ALBUM:Juke Box Music
31. Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams) / Jesse Belvin
ALBUM:Goodnight My Love
32. Crazy Baby / Freddy Fender
ALBUM:single
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 7月21日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前11:00（120分）
ゴンチチ
藤川パパQ
− ポケットの音楽 −
「いちばん大事なもの」 (ゴンチチ)(4分42秒)
＜EPIC/SONY ESCB1157＞
「ポケットの中に」 (大山のぶ代、ヤング・フレッシュ)(3分00秒)
＜コロムビア SCS534＞
「東京キッド」 (美空ひばり)(3分02秒)
＜コロムビア COCP-35317＞
「ポケットフル・オブ・ミラクルズ」 (ハーパース・ビザール)(2分48秒)
＜WARNER WPCR-974＞
「エンプティ・ポケッツ」 (ハービー・ハンコック)(6分10秒)
＜MUSIC FROM EMI 094635608526＞
「アーリー・イン・ザ・モーニング」(C.W.ストーンキング)(3分26秒)
＜SHOCK REC. KHR-02＞
「マネー・イン・マイ・ポケット」 (デニス・ブラウン)(2分26秒)
＜TROJAN TJJCD001＞
「キープ・ユア・ハンズ・アウト・オブ・マイ・ポケット」(ソニー・ボーイ・ウィリアムソン)(3分25秒)
＜MCA REC. CHD9377＞
「ポケット・トランジスタ」 (アルマ・コーガン)(2分24秒)
＜東芝EMI DRF-6012＞
「ニュー・アライバル」 (ジョージ・コールマン)(7分21秒)
＜TIME LESS TLJ74509＞
「ポケットフル・オブ・レインボーズ」 (YMO)(4分52秒)
＜東芝EMI TOCT-8010＞
「お気に入りのハンカチ」 (マリーザ・モンチ)(3分19秒)
＜MUSIC FROM EMI 50999 08529428＞
「酒がのみたい」 (バートン・クレーン)(1分30秒)
＜コロムビア BRIDGE-066＞
「家へかえりたい」 (バートン・クレーン)(3分12秒)
＜コロムビア BRIDGE-066＞
「ロケット・イン・マイ・ポケット」 (リトル・フィート)(3分11秒)
＜WARNER BROS. WPCP-5689＞
「コーン・ウイスキー」 (ドリンク・スモール)(3分14秒)
＜SOUTH LAND SLP-1＞
「レントよりなおゆっくりと」 ドビュッシー作曲(4分14秒)
(ピアノ)サンソン・フランソワ
＜MUSIC FROM EMI TOCE-14061＞
「クローズド・ブック」 (ゴンチチ)(6分28秒)
＜EPIC ESCB1901＞
「アフロ・ブルー」 (カル・ジェイダー)(1分43秒)
＜REAL GONE RGJCD277＞
「アフロ・ブルー」(ロバート・グラスパー・エクスペリメント)(2分05秒)
＜BLUE NOTE 0883332＞
「アルファ」 (マリエム・ハッサン)(2分10秒)
＜ビーンズレコード BNSCD-596＞
「ヒイラヴェ」 (レネ・パウロ、シリル・パヒヌイ)(4分08秒)
＜リスペクトレコード RES-213＞
Jazz Record Requests
Make a request...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 21 Jul 2012
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l0drl
Alyn Shipton presents a selections of listeners' jazz requests, including music by the New Orleans bands of George Lewis and Barry Martyn, contemporary jazz by Martin Taylor, and an early example of pianist Jimmy Rowles. Plus a historic London concert by Humphrey Lyttelton.
Music Played
01. Earl Bostic — Flamingo
Composer: Grouya / Anderson Performers: Earl Bostic, as; Gene Redd, vib; Count Hastings, ts; Clifton Small, p; Rene Hall, g; Keter Betts, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. Jan 10, 1951.
Plays Jazz Standards, Definitive, 11295 Track 29
02. Fats Waller — Spring Cleaning
Composer: Samulls, Whitcup Performers: Fats Waller, p; voc; Herman Autrey, t; Gene Sedric, ts; Al Casey, g; Charlie Turner, b; Slick Jones, d. March 18, 1937.
Handful of Keys, Proper, Properbox 71 CD 3 Track 18
03. Martin Taylor — Chez Fernand
Composer: Martin Taylor / Mark Rowles Performers: Martin Taylor, John Goldie, g; Dave O’Higgins, ts; Jack Emblow, acc; Alec Dankworth, b; James Taylor, perc. 1994.
Spirit of Django, Linn, AKD 030 Track 5 (?)
04. Humphrey Lyttelton — Basin Street Blues
Composer: Williams Performers: Humphrey Lyttelton, t; John Picard, tb; Johnny Parker, p, Freddie Legon, g; Micky Ashman, b; George Hopkinson, d. November 28, 1954.
Classic “Live” Concerts, Lake, 253 CD 1 Track 16
05. Barry Martyn — Deep in the Heart of Texas
Composer: June Hershey / Don Swander Performers: Cuff Billett, trumpet, Bill Greenow, clarinet, Pete Dyer, trombone, John Coles, banjo, Graham Patterson, piano, Terry Knight, bass and Barry Martyn drums, 1964.
Kid Martyn’s New Orleans Ragtime Band, GHB, 9 Track 6
06. Lennie Tristano — Wow
Composer: Tristano Performers: Lee Konitz, as; Warne Marsh, ts; Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Arnold Fishkind, b; Harold Granowsky, d. March 4, 1949.
Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology, Smithsonian Folkways, 40820 CD 2 Track 24
07. Duke Ellington — Lotus Blossom
Composer: Strayhorn Performers: Duke Ellington, p. August 30, 1967.
And His Mother Called Him Bill, RCA Bluebird, ND 86287
08. Art van Damme — Don’t Be That Way
Composer: Parish / Sampson / B. Goodman Performers: The Art Van Damme Quintet. 1956.
The Art of Van Damme, Philips, BBL 7193; S1 Track 2
09. Mel Lewis — Skylark
Composer: Mercer / Carmichael Performers: Earl Gardner, Ron Tooley, Larry Moses, John Marshall, Clark Terry, t; John Mosca, Lee Robertson, Lollie Beinenfeld, Earl MacIntyre, tb; Bob Brookmeyer, vtb; Stephanie Fauber, fhr; Dick Oatts, Steve Coleman, Bob Mintzer, Rich Perry, Gary Fribeck, reeds; Jim McBeely, p; Rufus Reid, b; Mel Lewis, d, ldr. Feb 1980.
Bob Brookmeyer: Composer / Arranger, DCC Jazz, DJZ 616 Track 4
10. Jimmy Rowles — How Deep is the Ocean
Composer: Berlin Performers: Jimmy Rowles, piano, July 21, 1978.
Nature Boy, Musica, MUS 3026
11. Jesse Stone and His Blues Serenaders — Starvation Blues
Composer: Stone Performers: Albert Hinton, Slick Jackson, t; Druie Bess, tb; Glenn Hughes, Elmer Birch, Jack Washington, reeds; Jesse Stone, p; Silas Cluke, bj; Pete Hassel, tu; Max Wilkinson, d. April 27, 1927.
Kansas City Jazz, ABM, 1104 Track 10
12. Graeme Bell — Shabby Gal Rag
Composer: Ade Monsbourgh Performers: Graeme Bell, p; Roger Bell, c; Ade Monsbrough, vtb, cl; Pixie Roberts, cl; Jack Varney, bj; Lou Silbereisen, b; Russ Murphy, d. Paris, 7 Feb 1948.
Historical Prague and Paris Recordings, Lake, 262 CD 2 Track 3
13. George Lewis — Willie The Weeper
Composer: Melrose Performers: Elmer Talbert, t; George Lewis, cl; Jim Robinson,tb; Alton Purnell, p; Lawrence Marrero, bj; Slow Drag Pavageau, b; Joe Watkins, d. June 5, 1950.
From Burgundy Street to Berlin, Upbeat, 197 Track 10
14. Graham Bond — Last Night
Composer: Bond Performers: Graham Bond, org, as; Dick Heckstall Smith, reeds; Jon Hiseman, d.
Solid Bond, Collectors Choice, 2000 Track 5
00:02
15. John Dowland - Lady if You So Spite Me
00:04
16. John Dowland - In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz does exactly what it says on the tin: a weekly programme in which Geoffrey Smith shares his passion for jazz, through an exploration of its great writers, singers and players, as told from his own individual perspective. Having spent more than twenty years as host to Jazz Record Requests, reading listeners' letters and observing their passion for all types of jazz, Geoffrey Smith goes solo in this new series, exploring and illuminating the story of great jazz across its entire range, through personally-selected sequences of tracks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h5z0s
Benny Goodman
Sun 22 Jul 2012
00:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith surveys the achievements of Benny Goodman.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l02gb
From trio to quartet, sextet and septet, Benny Goodman has been called the father of chamber jazz. Geoffrey Smith surveys his achievements with such celebrated sidemen as Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa and Charlie Christian.
Music Played
01. Benny Goodman — Runnin’ Wild
Composer: Gibbs/Wood/Grey Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Teddy Wilson (p), Lionel Hampton (vib), Gene Krupa (d) Recorded: 1937
After You’ve Gonee, Bluebird ND85631 (1), 2.33
02. Benny Goodman — Marie
Composer: Berlin Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Teddy Wilson (p), Krupa (d) Recorded: 1937
Countdown, Verve 9120, S 1/Tr. 2; 2.25
03. Benny Goodman — Nice Work if You Can Get It
Composer: G Gershwin Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Teddy Wilson (p), Krupa (d) Recorded: 1937
Benny Goodman on the Air 1937-38, Columbia/Legacy CK 472990-10, D1,Tr.4; 2.30
04. Benny Goodman — Time on My Hands
Composer: Vincent Youmans , Harold Adamson and Mack Gordon Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Teddy Wilson (p), Krupa (d) Recorded: 1937
Benny Goodman on the Air 1937-38, Columbia/Legacy CK 472990-10, D2, Tr.16; 3.30
05. Benny Goodman — Vibraphone Blues
Composer: Lionel Hampton Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Teddy Wilson (p), Lionel Hampton (vib), Krupa (d) Recorded: 1937
Benny Goodman on the Air 1937-38, Columbia/Legacy CK 472290-10, D1, Tr.5; 3.25
06. Benny Goodman — Avalon
Composer: Vincent Rose/Benny Goodman/Desylva & Al Jolson Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Teddy Wilson (p), Lionel Hampton (vib), Krupa (d) Recorded: 1938
The Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, Columbia C2K65143, Tr. 1; 4.07
07. Charlie Christian — Flying Home
Composer: de Lange/Goodman/Hampton Performers: Dizzy Gillespie (tr), Benny Carter (as), Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Chu Berry (ts), Clyde Hart (p), Charlie Christian (g), Milt Hampton (b), Cozy Cole (d), Lionel Hampton (vib) Recorded: 1939
Solo Flight, Topaz TPZ 1017, Tr.2; 3.14
08. Charlie Christian — Stardust
Composer: Carmichael/Parish Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Fletcher Henderson (p), Charlie Christian (g), Artie Bernstein (b), Nick Fatool (d), Lionel Hampton (vib) Recorded: 1939
Solo Flight, Topaz TPZ 1017, Tr.4; 3.15
09. Benny Goodman — I Never Knew
Composer: T Fiorito / G.Kahn Performers: Buck Clayton (tr), Benny Goodman (cl), Lester Young (ts), Count basie (p), Charlie Christian (elec g), Freddie Green (g), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (d) Recorded: 1940
The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia C2K 0655642, D2, Tr.6; 3.00
10. Benny Goodman — Benny’s Bugle
Composer: Benny Goodman Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Cootie Williams (tp), Geroge Auld (ts), Count Basie (p), Charlie Christian (g), Artie Bernstein (b), Harry Jaeger (d) Recorded: 1940
Solo Flight, Topaz TPZ 1017, Tr. 16; 3.05
11. Benny Goodman — Gilly
Composer: Benny Goodman Performers: Cootie Williams (tr), Benny Goodman (cl), George Auld (ts), Ken Kersey (p), Charlie Christian (elec g), Artie Bernstein (b), Harry Jaeger (d) Recorded: 1940
The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia C2K 0655642, D2, Tr.13; 2.35
12. Benny Goodman — Breakfast Feud
Composer: Benny Goodman Performers: Cootie Williams (tr), Benny Goodman (cl), George Auld (ts), Count Basie (p), Charlie Christian (elec g), Artie Bernstein (b), Jo Jones (d) Recorded: 1941
The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia C2K 0655642, D3, Tr.3; 3.02
13. Benny Goodman — I Found a New Baby
Composer: J. Plamer / S. Williams Performers: Cootie Williams (tr), Benny Goodman (cl), George Auld (ts), Ken Kersey (p), Charlie Christian (elec g), Artie Bernstein (b), Harry Jaeger (d) Recorded: 1940
The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia C2K 0655642, D3, Tr. 18; 2.55
14. Benny Goodman — After You’ve Gone
Composer: Henry Creamer Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo (vib), Slam Stewart (b), Mike Bryan, Morey Feld Recorded: 1945
Benny Goodman Combos, Philips BBE12189, Track 1; 3.14
15. Benny Goodman — Stealin’ Apples
Composer: Waller/Razaf Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Wardell Gray and Fats Navarro Recorded: 1948
Jazz of the Forties Volume 2: Bepop into the Cool, Capitol T 20578, 3.05
16. Benny Goodman — China Boy
Composer: Dick Winfree/Phil Boutelje Performers: Benny Goodman (cl), Teddy Wilson (p), Gene Krupa (d) Recorded: 1955
The Benny Goodman Story, MCAD 4055, 3.32
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
Akram Khan
Sun 22 Jul 2012
11:15
BBC Radio 4
Choreographer and dancer Akram Khan is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ky5gv
Kirsty Young's castaway is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.
A child of Bengali immigrants, he started learning Indian dance almost as soon as he could walk. Talent-spotted in his teens, he went on to spend two years touring the world with Peter Brook's Mahabharata. A keen collaborator, he's worked with everyone from prima ballerina Sylvie Guillem to disco queen Kylie Minogue.
He says he was a shy boy and dance allowed him to communicate properly for the first time: "It was like being allowed to speak - and people taking notice of that and that's another problem because then you want people's attention all the time, so, every dinner party we went to, I said, Mum, are they going to ask me to dance? It became an addiction."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
Music Played
01. Michael Jackson — Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Composer: Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson Off The Wall, EPIC
02. Caetano Veloso — Cucurrucucu Paloma
Composer: Tomás Méndez
Hable Con Ella, MILAN
03. Zoe & Idris Rahman — Anondo Dhara ("Stream Of Joy")
Composer: Rabindranath Tagore
Where Rivers Meet / Zoe & Idris Rahman, MANUSHI, MANUCD004, 9
04. A Filetta — U lamentu di ghjesu
Le mystère des voix corses (Les plus belles polyphonies), Olivi Music
05. Prince — Sign O’ The Times
Composer: Prince
Prince / Sign O’ The Times, PAISLEY PARK
06. Arvo Pärt — Spiegel Im Spiegel (1978)
Artist: Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe
Spiegel Im Spiegel / Arvo Part, BIS
07. Leftfield — Phat Planet
Composer: Neil Barnes, Paul Daley
Leftfield: Afika Shox, HIGHER GROUND
08. Gavin Bryars — Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Artist: Hampton string quartet
Gavin Bryars / Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, POINT
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Anne Reid
Sun 22 Jul 2012
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Anne Reid.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l0dyl
Michael Berkeley's guest is the Newcastle-born actress Anne Reid, best-known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street and as Jean in Victoria Wood's comedy series Dinnerladies. She played Valerie over a ten-year span in the 1960s, and returned to TV after a break for child-rearing in Victoria Wood's As Seen on TV. From 1998 to 2000 she played Jean in Dinnerladies, while also appearing in many other TV shows including Midsomer Murders, Marple, Life Begins (alongside Caroline Quentin and Frank Finlay), The Booze Cruise, the revived Upstairs, Downstairs, and Doctor Who. In 1995 she was the voice of Wendolene Ramsbottom in the Wallace and Gromit film A Close Shave, and in 2003 she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her role in the film 'The Mother', also starring Daniel Craig as the son with whom she has an incestuous relationship. In 2010 she appeared with Ricky Gervais in the film Cemetery Junction. She is shortly appearing in a new TV drama, 'Last Tango in Halifax'.
Anne Reid's choices include the Overture to Vaughan Williams' The Wasps, which she remembers hearing on the radio as a child; John Ireland's piano piece April, which she learned to play herself; Liszt's Un Sospiro, played by Claudio Arrau, which she heard in the film Letter from an Unknoiwn Woman; Elizabeth of Glamis from Eric Coates's suite The Three Elizabeths; My White Knight from the Music Man, performed by her great friend Barbara Cook, the theme from Ennio Morricone's film score to Once Upon A Time in America, and Bill Evans' Children's Play Song, which she introduced to her late husband, a TV drama producer.
Music Played
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:03
Ralph Vaughan Williams — The Wasps - Overture
The Halle Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
CD/Record number:EMI 566543-2
00:15
John Ireland — April
Eric Parkin (piano)
CD/Record number:CHANDOS CHAN 9250
00:22
Franz Liszt — Un Sospiro (Etudes de concert, no.3)
Claudio Arrau (piano)
CD/Record number:PHILIPS 416 461-2
00:31
Eric Coates — Springtime in Angus: Elizabeth of Glamis (Three Elizabeths Suite)
CBSO/Reginald Kilbey (Richard Weigall, solo oboe)
CD/Record number:CFP CD-CFPD 4456
00:41
Meredith Willson — My White Knight (The Music Man)
Barbara Cook
CD/Record number:SONY CLASSICS 62017
00:46
Ennio Morricone — Deborah's Theme (Once Upon a Time in America)
Chris Botti (trumpet)
CD/Record number:DECCA 478 0029
00:52
Bill Evans — Children's Play Song
Bill Evans
CD/Record number:POLYGRAM 138432
http://www.classicarts.co.uk/passions-thisWeek.asp
Words and Music
A sequence of music interspersed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x35f
Monarchs
Sat 21 Jul 2012
18:00
BBC Radio 3
Texts and music on the theme of monarchs. Readings by Samantha Bond and Simon Chandler.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wh535
Kings and Queens have long possessed the imaginations and financed the careers of poets, playwrights and composers. Readers Samantha Bond and Simon Chandler play a host of historical kings and queens, from Shakespeare's Henry V and IV to Schiller's Queen Elizabeth I and Lewis Carroll's Queen of Hearts.
Royal coronations with their pomp and visual grandeur have inspired some of the greatest music ever written. Handel's Zadok the Priest and Walton's Crown Imperial provided the soundtracks to the coronations of George II and VI respectively; and we hear Samuel Pepys relate the incredible sight of '24 violins' at the coronation of Charles II in 1661.
The predicament of kingship was one of Shakespeare's most enduring fascinations, his Henry IV and V soliloquize in some of his greatest verse on the isolation of the ruler's plight, an isolation that may have been understood only too well by Shakespeare's great patron: Elizabeth I. Music by Donizetti and Schumann, and drama by Schiller capture the tragedy of Elizabeth's relationship with her passionate cousin Mary, Queen of Scots; whose last letter we hear, written on the eve of her execution.
Producer's Note
The glorification of kings and queens and the machinations of their courts have produced some of the greatest music and literature of all time. The glamour, pomp and ritual associated with monarchy still fascinates and excites: Prince William’s wedding is set to generate millions in tourism revenue and television viewing figures. Back in 1661 Samuel Pepys did what many are planning to do on April 29th next year and set off for Westminster Abbey to bear witness to a once-in-a-lifetime royal event: the coronation of King Charles II. After the bloody, unsettled years of civil war – the coronation of the man who would come to be known as ‘The Merry Monarch’ was a moment of national unification. Pepys’ description of the event in his famous diary suggests that the nickname was well earned, as he marvels at the gold-clad dignitaries, the thrones, sceptres and ‘above all….the 24 violins’. It was the musical accompaniment which moved this great diarist more than anything; and sixty six years later in the same building during the coronation of the Hanoverian King George II, another great musical event took place, when Handel’s coronation anthem Zadok the Priest was performed for the first time. The programme opens with these two grandiose coronation moments, then jumps to the 20th century when our current queen took her first tentative steps as a modern-day monarch.
But once the crown and sceptre is in place, the troubles really begin. The unique dilemmas of a monarch: to hold power only as long as your enemies are subdued, to risk the lives of your subjects in war, to bear the weight of national security upon your shoulders – fascinated Queen Elizabeth I’s best loved playwright William Shakespeare. In Henry V, Shakespeare creates a propagandistic masterpiece as his Henry V, once a wastrel youth, comes of age as the ideal monarch: war like and capable of uniting his men in a flurry of nationalistic grandiloquence. We hear the celebrated ‘Once more unto the breach’ soliloquy delivered over the menacing strains of Mars, the Bringer of War from Holst’s The Planets. Shakespeare wrote Henry V at a moment of national nervousness about military exploits in Spain and Ireland, while Holst composed The Planets against the scarring backdrop of the First World War. Shakespeare and Holst tell of the destruction, the terror and the disturbing blood-lust innate to war.
Shakespeare’s patron Elizabeth I occupies her own niche in history: glorified and demonised in equal measure. Friedrich Schiller dramatised one of the most tragic episodes of Elizabeth’s reign: the execution of her cousin, the catholic Mary, Queen of Scots. In Schiller’s play and in Donizetti’s opera Maria Stuarda (based on Schiller’s work) a fictionalised meeting between Mary and Elizabeth is given heightened effect by the suggestion that they were romantic as well as political and religious rivals. Although this meeting of the two powerful women never took place, the tortured hatred which spews forth from Schiller’s Elizabeth I rings with authenticity, and finds its parallel in Donizetti’s dark melodrama.
A royal death has been as inspirational as coronations and marriages over the course of history. In Christina Rosetti’s Our Widowed Queen, the poet movingly implores the nation to empathise with Queen Victoria’s loss of her beloved Albert; and the melancholy of Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words underpins this poetic depiction of bereavement. Mendelssohn knew the royal couple, having spent time at Buckingham Palace performing and listening to Albert’s own compositions. Purcell provided the soundtrack to various royal events, none more solemn than the funeral of Queen Mary. The mournful theme from this processional piece leads us into Andrew Marvell’s short but powerful imagining of the execution of Charles I, the pinnacle of the English Civil War.
Georgia Mann
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
George Frideric Handel — Trumpet Fanfare from The Recognition, from the Coronation of King George II
Performer: The King’s Consort
Hyperion CDA67286, 10
00:00
The King's Consort — God Save The King from The Recognition, from the Coronation of King George II
Hyperion CDA67286, 9
00:00
George Frideric Handel — Zadok the Priest
Performer: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, The Academy of Ancient Music, directed by Stephen Cleobury
Hyperion CDA67286, 16
00:04
n/a — Tolling Bell of Westminster Abbey
Hyperion CDA67286, 1
Simon Chandler
Extract from the diary of Samuel Pepys
00:07
From: A Collection of several old airs composed for Coronations, Weddings and other Solemn events during the reigns of Henry III, Henry IV and Louis VIII: compiled by Philidor the Elder Gavotte en suite from A Concert performed for Louis XIII in 1627 by the 24 violins and the 12 Great Oboes
Performer: Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall (director)
Alia Vox AV92824, 19
00:08
Sir Ernest Bullock Fanfare at the Putting on of the Crown from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Performer: Massed trumpeters from the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall
EMI 5665822, 22
00:08
The Archbishop of Canterbury The Putting on of the Crown from The Coronation Service of Queen Elizabeth II
EMI 5665822, 23
00:09
Queen Elizabeth I — Extract from Elizabeth II’s Coronation Speech
EMI 5665822, 18
00:09
Sir William Walton — Crown Imperial
Performer: Martin Baker (organ), The English Chamber Orchestra, Martin Neary (conductor)
Cantoris CSACD3050, 16
Simon Chandler
Extract from Shakespeare’s Henry V, Act 3, scene 1
00:13
Gustav Holst — Mars, the Bringer of War from The Planets
Performer: LPO, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
LPO LPO-0047, 1
00:20
Benjamin Britten — Coranto from Gloriana, Act II, scene iii
Performer: Josephine Barstow (Elizabeth I), Orchestra and chorus of WNO, Sir Charles Mackerras
Argo 440213-2, CD 2, Tr. 14
Samantha Bond
Extract from Schiller’s Mary Stuart
00:22
Gaetano Donizetti — Morta al mondo, e morta al trono: & Va, preparati, furente: from Maria Stuarda
Performer: Edita Gruberova (Mary Stuart), Carmen Oprisanu (Elizabeth I), Octavio Arevalo (Leicester), Marcin Bronikowski (Cecil), Duccio Dal Monte (Talbot), Chorus of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
Nightingale Classics NC190209-2, CD 1 Tr. 17 & 18
00:27
Henry Purcell — Drum Processional from Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
Performer: Benedict Hoffnung (tenor drum)
EMI Classics 3444382, 24
Samantha Bond
Extract from the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots
00:29
Thomas Tallis — Spem in Alium
Performer: The Tallis Scholars
Argo 425199-2, 1
Samantha Bond
The Execution of King Charles by Andrew Marvell
00:36
Trad/Thomason tracts, arr. John Sothcott A Crown for Cromwell – A Coffin for Charles – A Pit for the People
Performer: Ray Attfield (baritone), Derek Harrison (counter tenor), Rosemary Harrison (soprano), St George’s Canzona, John Sothcott (director)
ASV CDQS6130, 25
00:41
Henry Purcell — Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
Performer: Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury (director)
EMI Classics 3444382, 25 & 26
Samantha Bond
Our Widowed Queen by Christina Rossetti
00:43
Felix Mendelssohn — Lied Ohne Worte in E, Op. 30 No. 3
Performer: Glen Gould (piano)
Sony 88697420722-26, CD 26, Tr.8
Simon Chandler
Extract from The Death of King Arthur by Tennyson
00:48
Gace Brule — A la doucour de la bele seson
Performer: Margaret Philpot (alto), Christopher Page (conductor)
HYPERION CDA66336, 3
Samantha Bond
A Remembered Queen by Siegfried Sasoon
00:50
Marin Marais — Les Voix Humaine
Performer: Spectre de la Rose
NAXOS 8.553081, 11
Simon Chandler
Extract from Henry IV part ii by William Shakespeare
00:53
N/A — (Improvisation) Taksim
Performer: Hakan Gungor (kanun), Jordi Savall (viol), Yurdal Tokcan (oud), Derya Turkan (Istanbul kemence), Murat Salim Tokac (tanbur)
Alia Vox AVSA 9870, 1
Simon Chandler
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Samantha Bond
Queen Djenira by Walter de la Mare
00:56
Alexander Borodin — Polvtsian Dances and Chorus
Performer: Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Philips 442 537-2, CD 2 Tr. 7 &8
Simon Chandler
The Statue of Our Queen by Henry Lawson
01:07
Gilbert & Sullivan — Extract from The Pirates of Penzance, finale
Performer: Simon Masterton Smith (Sergeant of the Police), Chorus and Orchestra of the D’Oyly Carte Opera
TER CDTER21177, CD 2, Tr. 15
01:09
Arne arr. Sargent Rule Britannia
Performer: Anne Collins (contralto), Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, RLPO, Sir Charles Groves (conductor)
Classics for Pleasure CD-CFP4567, 13
Samantha Bond
Extract from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
01:13
Arne arr. Sargent Rule Britannia
Performer: Anne Collins (contralto), Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, RLPO, Sir Charles Groves (conductor)
Classics for Pleasure CD-CFP4567, 13
