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 9月 8日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン
Jim James 選曲（15曲）Curtis Mayfield 特集
Jim James' Top 10 Curtis Mayfield Tunes
https://mog.com/playlists/392950
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
01. Evil Urges / My Morning Jacket
ALBUM:Evil Urges
02. Move On Up / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:Curtis
03. People Get Ready / The Impressions
ALBUM:The Very Best Of The Impressions
04. So In Love / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:There's No Place Like America Today
05. The Makings of You / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:Curtis
06. Jesus / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:There's No Place Like America Today
07. We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:Curtis
08. Choice Of Colors / The Impressions
ALBUM:The Very Best Of The Impressions
09. To Be Invisible / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:Sweet Exorcist
10. Billy Jack / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:There's No Place Like America Today
11. Keep On Pushing / The Impressions
ALBUM:The Very Best Of The Impressions
12. P.S. I Love You / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:Give, Get, Take And Have
13. Get Up And Move / The Impressions
ALBUM:People Get Ready
14. We're A Winner (Live) / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:Live!
15. We're A Winner / The Impressions
ALBUM:The Very Best Of The Impressions
16. It's All Right / The Impressions
ALBUM:The Very Best Of The Impressions
17. Freddie's Dead / Curtis Mayfield
ALBUM:Superfly
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 9月 8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
− 秋を思う音楽 −
「オータム・イン・ハノイ」(スモークド・サーモン・レイルウェイ・マシーン)(4分14秒)
＜IN THE GARDEN XNHL-18001＞
「セプテンバー・ソング」 (モダン・フォーク・カルテット)(3分28秒)
＜BACK IN TOWN BIT-1001＞
「アーリー・オータム」 (ジョー・スタッフォード)(2分50秒)
＜CORINTHIAN REC. COR-115CD＞
「オータム・イン・ローマ」 (ジョニー・マティス)(3分57秒)
＜MARCAS REC. CL-887＞
「オータム・イン・ニューヨーク」(モダン・ジャズ・カルテット)(3分58秒)
＜REAL GONE RGJCD258＞
「デス・ボトム・スライド・ミックス」(マイクロブラインド・ハーヴェストメン)(3分14秒)
＜digi 042＞
「オータム・リーブス」 (ハーブ・オオタ、ライル・リッツ)(3分57秒)
＜VICTOR VICG-60452＞
「秋のトナーダ」 (メルセデス・ソーサ)(3分27秒)
＜UNIVERSAL UCCH-1017＞
「オータムズ・グレース」 (金子飛鳥)(4分59秒)
＜ewe EWCD-0187＞
「ティズ・オータム」 (スー・レイニー)(5分10秒)
＜DISCOVERY REC. WQCP-1157＞
「“リーダークライス”から 月夜」 シューマン作曲(3分41秒)
(ソプラノ)バーバラ・ボニー
(ピアノ)ウラディーミル・アシュケナージ
＜POLYGRAM POCL-1727＞
「ピエサ・ナンバー・ツー」 (ギジェルモ・リソット)(2分58秒)
＜RIP CURL REC. RICP-173＞
「旅愁」 (美空ひばり)(2分35秒)
＜コロムビア COCP-33255＞
「タイム・パスト・オータム・パート1」(クラウス・オガーマン・オーケストラ)(4分10秒)
＜WARNER BROS. 3006-2＞
「ドント・ウォーリー・ビー・ハッピー」(ジョーダン・ベイリー)(2分37秒)
＜MANGO CCD9851＞
「秋がやってきたから」 (テテ)(3分22秒)
＜オルターポップ ERPCD-5972＞
「お月さん今晩は」 (藤島桓夫)(3分39秒)
＜東芝EMI BNSCD-0051＞
「オータム・デイ」 (オーラヴル・アルナルズ)(3分27秒)
＜eratp 038CD＞
「秋風に乗って」 (ゴンザレス三上)(4分57秒)
＜IN THE GARDEN XNHL-11001＞
「シン・トゥ・カリーニョ」 (パキート・デリベラ)(1分13秒)
＜HEADS UP HUCD3045＞
「シン・トゥ・カリーニョ」(ルベン・ブラデス&チェオ・フェリシアーノ)(2分30秒)
＜ARIEL RVAS MUSIC ARMX8255＞
「ジョアネス」 (ランディゴ)(2分05秒)
＜オルターポップ AFPCD-35330＞
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
Patsy Cline
Fri 7 Sep 2012
20:05
BBC Radio Scotland
Ricky Ross presents a tribute to Patsy Cline, who was born 80 years ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01md99m
The programme returns celebrating the music of Patsy Cline. Tom Jones, Gretchen Peters, Laura Veirs, The Band Perry, Madison Violet and Lindi Ortega all pay tribute to one of country's most loved performers who would have been 80 years old tomorrow. Ricky Ross introduces you to new and classic Americana and alternative country music.
Music Played
01. Ry Cooder — Guantanamo
02. Hank Williams — Jambalaya
03. Sam Baker — Broken Fingers
04. First Aid Kit — Wolf
05. Bob Dylan — Long And Wasted Years
06. Grizzly Bear — Yet Again
07. Bobbie Gentry — I’ll Never Fall In Love Again
08. John Murry — California
09. The Bootleggers with Ralph Stanley & Emmylou Harris — Fire In The Blood/The Snake Song
10. The Black Keys — Little Black Submarines
11. Dylan LeBlanc — Innocent Sinner
12. Patsy Cline — Crazy
13. Linda Ronstadt — Lovesick Blues
14. Patsy Cline — Come On In And Make Yourself At Home
15. Caitlin Rose — Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
16. Patsy Cline — I Fall To Pieces
17. k.d. lang — My Last Cigarette
18. Patsy Cline — Heartaches
19. Elvis Costello & The Attractions — Sweet Dreams
20. Patsy Cline — I Love You So Much It Hurts
21. Lee Ann Womack — She’s Got You
22. Patsy Cline — Walking After Midnight
23. Loretta Lynn — This Haunted House
24. k.d. lang — I’m Down To My Last Cigarette
25. Patsy Cline — Your Cheatin’ Heart
26. The Kills — Crazy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radioscotland/2012/09/1000-miles-of-music.shtml
Jazz Record Requests
Make a request...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 8 Sep 2012
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Alyn Shipton presents music from Stacey Kent, Anita O'Day, Ry Cooder and Barney Bigard.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mk7zp
Alyn Shipton's selection from listeners' requests includes music by singers Stacey Kent and Anita O'Day, plus the jazz side of Ry Cooder and the classic New Orleans sound of Barney Bigard.
Music Played
01. Miles Davis — Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
Composer: Davis Performers: Miles Davis, t; Wayne Shorter, ss; Benny Maupin, bcl; Chick Corea, Larry Young, el p; John McLaughlin, g; Dave Holland, b; Harvey Brooks, el b; Jack DeJohnette, Lenny White, d; Jumma Santos, Don Alias, perc. August 30, 1969.
Bitches Brew – The Singles, Columbia, CSK 41588, Track 2
02. Anita O'Day — Ten Cents a Dance
Composer: Rodgers / Hart Performers: Anita O’Day v; Billy May’s Orchestra: Billy May, dir; Pete Candoli, Conrad Gozzo, Uan Rasey, t; Ed Kusby; Murray McEachern, Tommy Pedersen, Bill Schaefer, tb; Fred Falensby, Chuck Gentrym Juston Gordon, Ted Nash Sr., Wilber Schwartz, reeds; Joe Castro, p; Al Hendrickson, g; Ralph Pena, b; Irv Cottler, d. Jne 8, 1960.
Jazz Masters 49, Verve, 5276532, Track 6
03. Ry Cooder — We Shall Be Happy
Composer: Trad arr Spence Performers: Ry Cooder, g; Stuart Brotman, cymbalon; David Lindley, mandolin; Barbara Starkey, org; Red Callendar, tu; George Bohanon, tb; Oscar Brashear, t; Mark Stevens, d. 1978.
Jazz, Warner, 2566488, Track 11
04. Humphrey Lyttelton — Blue For Blue Note
Composer: Beament Performers: Humphrey Lyttelton, t; Jimmy Hastings, cl; Ted Beament, p; Mick Hutton, b; Adriaj Macintosh, d. Sept 2002
Hallelujah Hoedown, Calligraph, 040, Track 7
05. Bennie Moten — Moten Swing
Composer: Bennie and Buster Moten Performers: Bennie Moten , p; Hot Lips Page, Joe Keyes, Dee Stewart, t; Dan Minor, tb; Eddie Durham, tb, g; Eddie Barefield, Jack Washington, Ben Webster, reeds; Count Basie, p; Leroy Berry, g; Walter Page, b; Willie McWashington, d. 13 Dec 1932.
Count Basie 1932-38, BBC, RPCD 785, Track 1
06. Fletcher Henderson — My Gal Sal
Composer: Dresser Performers: Fletcher Henderson, p; Bobby Stark, Russell Smith, t; Rex Stewart, c; Jimmy Harrison, Claude Jones, tb; Harvey Boone, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, reeds; Fletcher Henderson, p; Clarence Holiday, g; John Kirby b; Walter Johnson, d. May 2 1931
Study In Frustration, Essential Jazz Classics, 5551 CD 2 Track 18
07. Clark Tracey / Steve Melling — Man In The Can
Composer: Armstrong Performers: Steve Melling p; Clark Tracey, d; Simon Allen, as; Mark Armstrong, t; Mark Bassey, tb; Geoff Gascoyne, b; Josephine Davies ts. 2011
Special One, MellJazz, CD 007 Track 1
08. Henry Lowther Great Wee Band — Nica’s Dream
Composer: Silver Performers: Henry Lowther, t; Jim Mullen, g; Dave Green, b; Stu Butterfield, d. 2010.
Sound of Music, Trio, 584 Track 2
09. Neil Cowley — Skies are Rare
Composer: Cowley Performers: Neil Cowley, p; Rex Horan, b; Evan Jenkins, d, and Molehill strings. 2011.
The Face of Mount Molehill, Naim, 171 Track 5
10. Dave Brubeck — The Trolley Song
Composer: Martin / Blane Performers: Dave Brubeck, p; Paul Desmond, as; Ron Crotty, b; Lloyd Davis, d. 1953.
Brubeck In Wonderland, Five Four, 015 Track 9
11. Stacey Kent — Breakfast on the Morning Tram
Composer: Ishiguro / Tomlinson Performers: Stacey Kent, v; Jim Tomlinson, reeds; John Parricelli, g; Graham Harvey, p; Dave Chamberlain, b; Matt Sketon, d. 2007.
Breakfast on the Morning Tram, Blue Note, 5099950161126 Track 7
12. Barney Bigard — Lull at Dawn
Composer: Ellington Performers: Ray Nance, t; Barney Bigard, cl; Juan Tizol, vtb; Harry Carney, bar; Duke Ellington, p; Jimmy Blanton, b; Sonny Greer, d; 11 Nov 1940.
The Great Ellington Units, Bluebird, ND 86751 Track 11
13. Stan Kenton — The Big Chase
Composer: Marty Paich Performers: Stan Kenton p, dir; Sam Noto, Jules Chaiken, Billy Catalano, Lee Katzman, Phil Gilbert, t; Bob Fitzpatrick, Archie LeCoque, Kent Larsen, Jim Amlotte, tb; Ken Shroyer, btb; Vince DeRosa, Jimmy Decker, frh; Lennie Niehaus, as; Bill Robinson, as, br; Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca, ts; Steve Perlow, bar; Red Kelly, b; Jerry McKenzie, d. 20 Jan 1958.
Back To Balboa, Solar, 4569906 Track 1
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 Carter
Sun 9 Sep 2012
00:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith explores the career of alto saxophonist and composer Benny 'King' Carter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mk8th
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, a personal journey taking in great musicians and great music.
Geoffrey takes a look at the august career of altoist-composer Benny "King" Carter.
Music Played
01. I’d Love It
Benny Carter
Composers: Redman/ Hudson
Performers: Benny Carter, cl, as; Joe Smith, Sidney de Paris, Leonard Davis, t; Claude Jones, tb; Don Redman, cl, as; Coleman Hawkins, Theodore McCord, cl, ts; Todd Rhodes, p, cel; Dave Wilborn, bj; Billy Taylor, b; Kaiser Marshall, d.
6 November 1929
Chant of the Weed
Topaz Jazz TPZ1043 Tr.7
02. Once Upon a Time
The Chocolate Dandies
Composer: Benny Carter
Performers: Max Kaminsky, t; Benny Carter, t, as; Floyd O’Brien, tb; Chu Berry, ts; Teddy Wilson, p; Lawrence Lucie, g; Ernest Hill, b; Sid Catlett, d.
10 December 1933
Benny Carter: The Music Master
Properbox Properbox 68 CD1 Tr.13
03. Symphony in Riffs
Benny Carter
Composer: Carter
Performers: Benny Carter, cl, as, arr; Eddie Mallory, Bill Dillard, Dick Clark, t; J.C. Higginbotham, Keg Johnson, Fred Robinson, tb; Wayman Carner, fl, as; Glyn Paque, as; Johnny Russell, ts; Teddy Wilson, p; Lawrence Lucie, g; Ernest Hill, b, Sid Catlett, d.
16 October 1933
Benny Carter: The Music Master
Properbox Properbox 68 CD1 Tr.17
04. Swingin’ at Maida Vale
Benny Carter
Composer: Carter
Performers: Benny Carter, cl, as, dir; Max Goldberg, Tommy McQuater, Duncan Whyte, t; Ted Heath, tb; Bill Mulraney, tb; Andy McDevitt, cl, as; E. O. Pogson, as; Buddy Featherstonehaugh, ts; Pat Dodd, p; George Elliott, g; Al Burke, b; Ronnie Gubertini, d. 15 April 1936
Benny Carter: The Complete Recordings 1930-1940 Vol.1
Affinity CD AFS 10223 (3); D2 Tr.5
05. Crazy Rhythm
Django Reinhardt
Composer: Caesar/ Meyer/ Wolfe/ Khan
Performers: Coleman Hawkins, ts; Benny Carter, as, t; Andre Ekyan, as; Alix Combelle, ts, cl; Django Reinhardt, g; Stephane Grapelli, p; Eugene d’Hellemmes, bs; Tommy Benford, d.
28 April 1937
Django Reinhardt: Swing in Paris 1936-1940
Charly Records CD AFS 1003-5 CD2 Tr.12
06. I’m Coming Virginia
Django Reinhardt
Composer: Heywood/ Cook/ Mares/ Rappolo/ Schoebel
Performers: Benny Carter, t, as, arr; Fletcher Allen, as; Bertie King, cl, ts; Alix Combelle, s; Yorke de Souza, p; Django Reinhardt, g; Len Harrison, b; Robert Montmartre, d.
7 March 1938
Django Reinhardt: Swing in Paris 1936-1940
Charly Records CD AFS 1003-5 D4 Tr.12
07. Lonesome Nights
Chu Berry
Composer: Mills/ Chaney/ Carter
Performers: Cab Calloway, dir; Mario Bauza, Dizzy Gillespie, Lammar Wright, t; Tyree Glenn, Quentin Jackson, Keg Johnson, tb; Jerry Blake, cl, as; Hilton Jefferson, as; Andrew Brown, as, bsx; Chu Berry, Walter Thomas, ts; Bennie Paine, p; Danny Baker, g; Milt Hinton, b; Cozy Cole, d.
28 August 1940
Blowing Up A Breeze
Topaz TPZ1024 Tr.16
08. When Lights Are Low
Lionel Hampton
Composer: Carter/ Williams
Performers: Dizzy Gillespie, t; Benny Carter, as, arr; Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Ben Webster, ts; Lionel Hamptonm, vib, v; Clyde Hart, p; Charlie Christian, g; Milt Hinton, b; Cozy Cole, d.
11 September 1939
The Lionel Hampton Story
Proper P1145 CD1 Tr.17
09. Moppin’ and Boppin’
Fats Waller
Composer: Waller/ Carter/ Kirkeby
Performers: Benny Carter, t; Alton Moore, tb; Gene Porter, reeds; Fats Waller, p, v; Irving Ashby, g; Slam Stewart, b; Zutty Singleton, d.
1943
Fats Waller and his Rhythm: The Last Years (1940–1943)
Bluebird ND9041 CD3 Tr.19
10. Cadillac Slim
Benny Carter
Composer: Webster
Performers: Benny Carter, cl, as; Ben Webster, ts; Buck Clayton, t; Al Grey, tb; Sonny White, p; John Simmons, b; Big Sid Catlett d.
23 August 1946
Benny Carter: The Music Master
Properbox Properbox 68 CD4 Tr.8
11. Blues in Bb
Art Tatum
Composer: Tatum
Performers: Art Tatum, p; Benny Carter, as; Louis Bellson d.
1954
Art Tatum: The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces
Pablo 6PACD 4401-2 CD1 Tr.4
12. Honeysuckle Rose
Benny Carter
Composer: Razaf/ Waller
Performers: Benny Carter, Phil Woods, as; Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Rouse, ts; John Collins, g; Dick Katz, p; Jimmy Garrison, b; Jo Jones, d.
13 November 1961
Benny Carter: The Complete Further Definitions Sessions
Impulse! IMP122292 Tr.1
13. Blue Star
Benny Carter
Composer: Carter
Performers: Benny Carter, Phil Woods, as; Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Rouse, ts; John Collins, g; Dick Katz, p; Jimmy Garrison, b; Jo Jones, d.
15 November 1961
Benny Carter: The Complete Further Definitions Sessions
Impulse! IMP122292 Tr.4
14. Sleep
Benny Carter
Composer: Burtnett/ Geibel
Performers: Benny Carter, as, t; John Eckert, Virgil Jones, Bob Millikan, Marvin Stamm, t; Eddie Bert, Jack Jeffers, Jimmy Knepper, Britt Woodman, tb; Bill Easley, John Purcell, as, f; Loren Schoenberg, ts; Lew Tabackin, ts, f; Danny Bank, bsx, bcl; John Lewis, p; Remo Palmier, g; Ron Carter, b; Mel Lewis, d.
1987
Central City Sketches
Limelight 8208192 Tr.4
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
Green
Sun 9 Sep 2012
18:30
BBC Radio 3
Texts and music exploring the colour green. Readings by Niamh McGrady and Sean Barrett.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mk8z4
Has any colour attracted a wider range of associations than green? This Words and Music programme explores its resonance - from emeralds to vegetables and frogs to leprechauns, the greenhorn and the green-ey'd monster, Irish republicanism and international environmentalism - in poetry and prose from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Wilfred Owen, Dylan Thomas and P. G. Wodehouse; and music from Schubert to Maxwell Davies.
Readings: Niamh McGrady and Sean Barrett.
Producer's Note
It wasn’t till I was most of the way through making this programme that I realised something about the colour green. I already knew that despite its apparently very positive associations with nature, with spring, youth and growth, it had a mysterious, enigmatic, *super*natural side too. But the more reading and listening I did, the more worms I found in the apple: practically every affirmative connotation also held the seeds of its own destruction. Even green traffic lights are no use without red ones. Or maybe that’s just my perspective – after all, as the Wizard of Oz so profoundly points out, ‘when you wear green spectacles, why of course everything you see looks green to you’.
We’re invited into the green glen by Niamh Grady with one of the loveliest poems by the man who loved and understood the green ways of the English countryside best, John Clare. George Butterworth called his orchestral piece ‘The Banks of Green Willow’ an ‘idyll’ – but the passion of its climax reminds us that the two folksongs we hear in it (‘Green Bushes’ as well as ‘The Banks of Green Willow’ itself) encompass not just love, but loss, betrayal, death in childbirth, even infanticide. Even in the company of Sean Barrett and his merry men, our image of dallying in the greenwood may be as idealised and nostalgic as John Major’s – or the Kinks’ – Village Green.
PG Wodehouse guys golfers, his heroine Barbara Medway cleverly exploiting their sexism to get the rub of the green in her love match. Lovely Joan turned the tables on her would-be seducer – ‘she’s robbed him of his horse and ring, and left him to rage in the meadows green’; her tune features alongside the (very likely unwarranted) aspersions on the virtue of ‘my lady Greensleeves’ in Vaughan Williams’s ‘Fantasia on Greensleeves’. The programme features two pieces of music each by both VW and Schubert: in each case, the first expressing the light of green, the second the dark.
I’ve also included two poems that I find haunting despite not fully understanding them. Wallace Stevens’s ‘The Candle a Saint’ is one; the other is ‘The Little Green Girl’ by Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez – who was apparently fixated on the colour green; I’d love to hear from anyone who knows why!
Schubert and Dylan Thomas sing the miraculous joy of green youth. (I’ve always loved Thomas’s ‘Fern Hill’, but I don’t feel his own reading caught its essence; fortunately Niamh McGrady wanted to do it very differently.) Green youth doomed to inevitable loss, like the ‘verdi prati’, the ‘green fields’, of Alcina’s paradise island.
Mr Verdant Green, a gullible greenhorn of nineteenth-century Oxford undergraduacy, pairs up with a luxuriant orchestral piece whose composer Michael Torke originally called it ‘Verdant Music’, then purely ‘Green’: he says that ‘suggests a quality that is simple or unseasoned’; yet to me the music sounds a more ominous note.
And from here the programme begins to take a more sinister turn. Shakespeare’s Othello succumbs to the green-ey’d monster, jealousy – though when Joe Green (the Italian Giuseppe Verdi) made it into an opera, his lyricist made ‘gelosia’ curiously colourless. The devil himself wears green – in the shape of the cheery chap who greets Chaucer’s summoner with a friendly ‘thou’ (rather than the more formal ‘you’ the unsuspicious summoner employs in his replies). Why green? The theory goes that Chaucer’s devil is a hunter, with bow and arrows – and huntsmen wear green. As Schubert’s miller lad finds to his cost: he’s besotted with the miller’s beautiful daughter, whose love for the colour green follows her feelings for the handsome huntsman who wears it.
Dan Pagis’s eerie emerald poem – chillingly translated from the Hebrew by Stephen Mitchell, chillingly read by Sean Barrett – and Peter Schickele and Joan Baez’s eldritch take one e cummings draw us deep into the supernatural. The gorgeous woman in green who tempts Grieg and Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is a troll princess; and not even a legion of Irishwomen can turn the tables on the tricksy little men in green jackets. The Green Knight of Arthurian legend, in Simon Armitage’s brilliant modern English rendering and Harrison Birtwistle’s terrifying operatic music, is no jolly green giant: Gawain gives him the chop, but he doesn’t lose his head, and announces his intention to back with a vengeance next year. And for all the comforting delights of Yellow Brick Road, courageous Cowardly Lion and empathetic Tin-Man-without-a-heart, the Wizard of Oz conceals a decidedly un-magical political message behind the spectacles of his Emerald City.
Politics comes to the fore as day turns to night with Wallace Stevens, via Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s evocation of ‘Il raggio verde’, the fugitive last ‘green ray’ of sunset. It was already hard enough to fathom the meaning of William Blake’s Christo-mystical poem ‘Jerusalem’ before it accrued ever more complex layers of cultural associations through Parry’s tune – commissioned by strident supporters of the First World War but rapidly adopted (to Parry’s delight) by Suffragettes – then Elgar’s huge orchestration and the flag-waving Last Night of Proms. The green gas of Wilfred Owen’s searing anti-nationalistic indictment would have been all too familiar to Vaughan Williams, whose experiences as a WW1 ambulance driver on the blackened fields of Flanders underpin his version of Pastoral. Green remains a potent political symbol in Ireland; and has recently become one in Iran, when the 2009 presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi adopted it as his campaign colour (probably at least partly because of its importance in Shia Islam): in the wake of his controversial defeat, the revered Persian traditional musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian and his colleague Majid Derakhshani released their impassioned protest song ‘Language of Fire’ free of charge ‘as a gift to the struggles of Iranian people’: ‘Lay down your gun… The gun speaks the language of fire and iron, but I have nothing but the language of the heart.’
Tom Jones adds an ironic twist to Richard Llewellyn’s yearning vision of a Welsh mining childhood, as we turn to the ‘other’ Green movement. The Lord-of-the-Flies-for-grown-ups fable of ‘The Death of Grass’ by Samuel Youd (writing as John Christopher) grew from an environmental insight as prescient as it is remarkable for its early date (1956). Just over two decades later, the threat of open-cast uranium mining in Orkney drew a defiant twofold creative response from composer Peter Maxwell Davies (who’d made his home there): the enormous, intense ‘Black Pentecost’ for orchestra and solo singers with words from Greenvoe, the first novel by his friend George Mackay Brown, was counterpointed by the subversive cabaret ‘The Yellow Cake Review’ (‘yellow cake’ being uranium ore) – which included perhaps the most beautiful piece he ever wrote, a lament for the town of Stromness.
To end, three enigmatic, epigrammatic green views from the Far East, and a final word from the Frog-Prince who really gets under the skin of greenness.
David Gallagher (producer)
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
John Clare
Meet Me in the Green Glen, reader Niamh McGrady
00:00
George Butterworth — The Banks of Green Willow [excerpt]
Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)
Lyrita SRCD 245, Tr3
Anon
A Little Geste of Robin Hood [excerpt], reader Sean Barrett
00:02
Roger Quilter — Under the Greenwood Tree [No. 2 of Five Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23]
Performer: John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Hyperion CDA 66878, Tr16
00:03
Ray Davies — The Village Green Preservation Society
Performer: The Kinks
Essential ESMCD 481, Tr16
P G Wodehouse
The Heart of a Goof (excerpt), reader Niamh McGrady
00:07
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on Greensleeves
Performer: Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)
London 421 392-2, Tr1
Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by David Gallagher
The Little Green Girl, reader Sean Barrett
00:09
Franz Schubert — Das Lied im Grünen [Song in the Green Countryside]
Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon 437 226-2, Vol. 2 CD9 Tr6
Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill, reader Niamh McGrady
00:17
George Frideric Handel — Verdi prati [Green Fields, from opera Alcina]
Performer: Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), City of London Baroque Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)
EMI CDS 749 773-2, CD2 Tr17
Cuthbert Bede
The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green [excerpt], reader Sean Barrett
00:23
Michael Torke — Green
Performer: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor)
Argo 433 071-2, Tr1
Shakespeare
Othello, Act 3 Scene 3 [excerpt], reader Sean Barrett
00:27
Giuseppe Verdi — Otello, Act 2 [excerpt]
Performer: Aldo Protti (bass – Iago), Mario del Monaco (tenor – Otello) Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Decca 411 620-2, CD2 Tr13
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Friar’s Tale, from The Canterbury Tales [excerpt, modernised], reader Niamh McGrady
00:30
Franz Schubert — Die liebe Farbe [The Beloved Colour, No. 16 of Die Schöne Müllerin]
Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon 437 236-2, Vol. 3 CD1 Tr16
Dan Pagis, translated from the Hebrew by Stephen Mitchell
Twelve Faces of the Emerald, reader Sean Barrett
00:36
Peter Schickele — All In Green Went My Love Riding
Performer: Joan Baez
Vanguard VMD 79275-2, Tr18
00:40
Edvard Grieg — Peer Gynt and the Woman in Green [from Peer Gynt; excerpt from complete incidental music]
Performer: Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
Naxos 8.570871, CD1 Tr8
00:40
Irish traditional, arr. Herbert Hughes — The Leprehaun [first verse]
Performer: Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Helios CDH 55210, Tr2
William Allingham
The Fairies – A Child’s Song [excerpt], reader Niamh McGrady
00:40
Irish traditional, arr. Herbert Hughes — The Leprehaun [second and third verses]
Performer: Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Helios CDH 55210, Tr2
00:41
Edvard Grieg — Peer Gynt and the Woman in Green [from Peer Gynt; excerpt from complete incidental music]
Performer: Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
Naxos 8.570871, CD1 Tr8
00:42
Sir Harrison Birtwistle — Gawain [excerpt]
Performer: Omar Ebrahim (baritone – The Fool), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Elgar Howarth (conductor)
Collins Classics 70412, CD2 Tr31
Anon, translated from the Middle English by Simon Armitage
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [excerpt], reader Sean Barrett
00:44
Sir Harrison Birtwistle — Gawain [excerpts]
Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Elgar Howarth (conductor)
Collins Classics 70412, CD1 Tr11, CD2 Tr34
L. Frank Baum
The Wizard of Oz [excerpt), reader Niamh McGrady
00:46
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco — Il raggio verde [The Green Ray; excerpt]
Performer: Mariaclara Monetti (piano)
ASV CD DCA 1034, Tr22
Wallace Stevens
The Candle a Saint, reader Sean Barrett
00:49
Charles Hubert Parry, reorch. Edward Elgar — Jerusalem
Performer: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Performer: with participation of Royal Albert Hall audience on the Last Night of the Proms 2004
Warner Classics 2564 61956-2, CD2 Tr20
Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, reader Sean Barrett
00:53
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Pastoral Symphony [Symphony no. 3], fourth movement [excerpt]
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
RCA RD 89827, Tr4
Anon, c. 1798
The Wearin' o' the Green, reader Niamh McGrady
00:56
Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Majid Derakhshani — Language of Fire
Performer: Mohammad Reza Shajarian
n/a, n/a
Richard Llewellyn
How Green Was My Valley [excerpt], reader Niamh McGrady
01:01
Curly Putman — Green, Green Grass of Home
Performer: Tom Jones
Deram 820 182-2, Tr7
John Christopher
The Death of Grass [excerpt], reader Sean Barrett
01:05
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies — Farewell to Stromness [from The Yellow Cake Revue]
Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies (piano)
Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9070, Tr13
Tawara Machi
‘Only the green…’ [tanka], reader Niamh McGrady
01:10
Toru Takemitsu — Green
Performer: London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen (conductor)
London Sinfonietta SINF CD3-2006, Tr1
Tu Fu [Du Fu]
‘Jade-green river…’ [wu-chüeh], reader Sean Barrett
01:11
Joe Raposo — Bein’ Green
Performer: Kermit the Frog
Walt Disney 358693-2, Tr9
