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
Fri 16 Aug 2013
20:05
BBC Radio Scotland
Ricky Ross returns with new and classic Americana and alternative country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037znk6
Featuring country and Americana from the 1940's through to the present day. You'll hear a track from the forthcoming Bob Dylan bootleg series, music from some of the artists playing at the forthcoming Glasgow festival No Mean City, plus a celebration ahead of Kenny Rogers' 75th birthday.
Music Played
01. Elegy
Cold Satellite
02. When Mexican Joe Met Jole Blon
Hank Snow
03. School Is Out
Ry Cooder
04. From This Valley
The Civil Wars
05. Beggar In The Morning
The Barr Brothers
06. Hope Of A Lifetime
The Milk Carton Kids
07. Move It On Over
The Maddox Brothers & Rose
08. Pretty Saro
Bob Dylan
09. Oh God
Those Darlins
10. Hell Bent On A Heartache
Guy Clark
11. Casino Bad Things
Houndmouth
12. Departure And Farewell
Hem
13. Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
14. Postcard From Paris
Glen Campbell
15. Birmingham
Shovels & Rope
16. Devastate
Amanda Shires
17. Stockholm
Jason Isbell
18. Wolf
First Aid Kit
19. Train Leaves Here This Morning
Eagles
20. Jericho
Leslie Mendelson
21. Skin And Bone
Heartless Bastards
22. Cold City Avalanche
Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire
23. Say Grace
Sam Baker
24. Waitin’
Caitlin Rose
Jazz Record Requests
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 17 Aug 2013
17:15
BBC Radio 3
Alyn Shipton's selection of jazz from listeners' requests focuses on the piano.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038kzd8
Alyn Shipton's selection of jazz from listeners' requests focuses on the piano, with tracks from Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, plus music from Acker Bilk, Bruce Turner and Dizzy Gillespie.
Music Played
01. Love Walked In
Karin Krog / Bengt Hallberg
Composer: G and I Gerswhin Performers: Karin Krog, v; Bengt Hallberg, p, 1982
To Of a Kind, Four Leaf, 5063 S 2 Track 4 (2.02)
02. The Hucklebuck
Acker Bilk
Composer: Gibson Performers: Acker Bilk, cl; Al Fairweather, t; John Mortimer, tb; Bruce Turner, as; Ronnie Ross, bars; Stan Greig, p; Tony Pitt, g; Tucker Finlayson, b; Ron McKay, d.
The Veritable Mr Bilk, Columbia, SCX 6241 S2 T3 (9.45)
03. Spring Is Here
Bill Evans
Composer: Rodgers / Hart Performers: Bill Evans, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Paul Motain, d. 28 December 1959
Portrait in Jazz, Riverside, OJCCD088, Track 7 (5.03)
04. Alone Again (Naturally)
Sarah Vaughan
Composer: O’Sullivan Performers: Sarah Vaughan, v; with the Peter Matz Big Band. 1972
Feelin’ Good, Mainstream, MRL 1012 S1, T 3 (4.24)
05. Here’s That Rainy Day
Joe Pass
Composer: Van Heusen, Burke Performers: Joe Pass, g; Dec 1973.
Virtuoso, Pablo, 2310 708 S1, Track 3 (3.34)
06. Please Keep Me In Your Dreams
Billie Holiday
Composer: Seymour / Lawnhurst Performers: Billie Holiday, v; Jonah Jones, t; Edgar Sampson, as, cl; Ben Webster, ts; Teddy Wilson, p; Allen Reuss, g; John Kirby, b; Cozy Cole, d. 12 Jan 1937
The quintessential, Columbia, CBS460820, Track 8 (2.15)
07. Pianoflage
Fate Marable
Composer: Bargy Performers: Sidney Desvignes, Amos White, t; Harvey Lankford, tb; Norman Mason, Bert Bailey, cl, as; Walter Thomas, ts, bar; Fate Marable, p; Willie Foster, bj, g; Henry Kimball, b; Zutty Singleton, d. 16 March 1924.
New Orleans in the ‘20s, Timeless, CBC1 -014 Track 8 (3.09)
08. Buff’s Blues
Danny Moss / Eddie Thompson
Composer: Thompson, Moss Performers: Danny Moss, ts; Eddie Thompson, p, el p. 1976.
Misty and Moody, One Up, 116 S 1 T 3 (4.32)
09. Get That Money Blues
Dizzy Gillespie
Composer: Jimmy Owens Performers: Dizzy Gillespie, t; James Moody, as, fl; Billy Butler, g; Kenny Barron, p; Frank Schifano, b; Candy Finch, d. Candido, Panama Francis, perc. Oct 1966.
The Melody Lingers On, Limelight, LML4029 S2 T 5 (7.06)
10. Stella By Starlight
Keith Jarrett Trio
Composer: Young / Washington Performers: Keith Jarrett, p; Gary Peacock, b; Jack DeJohnette, d. 30 April 2001.
Yesterdays, ECM, 177 4447 Track 9 (8.04)
11. Everybody Loves Saturday Night
Sandy Brown
Composer: Trad (arr Brown) Performers: Al Fairweather, t; Sandy Brown, cl; John R T Davies, tb; Alan Thomas, p; Mo Umansky, bj; Brian Parker, b; Graham Burbidge, d. 1 April 1955.
Sandy’s Sidemen, Lake, 133 Track 1 (3.09)
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
Mike Gibbs
Sun 11 Aug 2013
00:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith explores the work of composer, trombonist and keyboard player Mike Gibbs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038kzwm
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Sally Davies
Sun 18 Aug 2013
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley meets Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies and hears her choice of music.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038kzww
The Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, is on our TV screens almost every week as the authority we appeal to in every health scare: horsemeat in burgers, antibiotic resistance, three-parent babies. She is clearly a person of tremendous power and influence, in charge of the National Institute of Health Research with a budget of £1 billion - voted by Woman's Hour recently one of the top ten most powerful women in the UK.
Sally Davies talks to Michael Berkeley about her private life. She tells him about the death of her second husband from leukaemia less than a year after they were married, and how this has changed her as a doctor. (She scandalised her medical colleagues on a hospital ward round by putting her arms around a dying patient.) She discusses the breakdown of her first marriage, as well as the happiness she has found with her third husband and daughters.
She also reveals that she believes drugs are a medical issue rather than a criminal one.
Sally Davies is humorous, and fun - she admits she loves wine, for instance. She is deeply musical - she played in the Midlands Youth Orchestra as a girl and turns to music to relieve stress.
Music includes: Mozart, Brahms, Wagner, Vaughan Williams, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Beethoven's Fidelio - and Queen.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:03
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra (Prelude)
00:10
Ludwig van Beethoven
Gott! Welch Dunkel hier! (Fidelio, Act 2)
00:22
Gioachino Rossini
Cujus animam gementem (Stabat Mater)
00:32
Richard Wagner
So sterben wir (Tristan & Isolde, Act 2)
00:37
Freddie Mercury
Bohemian Rhapsody
00:45
Johannes Brahms
Sextet No.1 in B flat (1st mvt: Allegro ma non troppo)
00:55
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A Man in search of Truth and Beauty (The Magic Flute)
Sally Davies, England's chief medical officer, 'ate hash cookies'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23695940
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23749917
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
Twilight
Sun 18 Aug 2013
18:15
BBC Radio 3
Texts and music on the theme of twilight, with readings by Paul McGann and Hermione Norris
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038l2b2
Paul McGann and Hermione Norris are the readers in a sequence of poetry, prose and music on the subject of twilight, including texts by Dickens, Hardy and Shakespeare and music by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Richard Strauss.
Producer's Note
This episode explores the shadowy and uncertain world of twilight in literature, with music that reflects this theme and the mood of the selected texts. These are prose descriptions of the natural phenomenon and poems in which twilight is subject or metaphor.
The first two texts are by James Joyce: a young boy’s experience of winter dusk in the backstreets of early twentieth century Dublin from the story Araby, followed by the lyrical verse of Chamber Music, and The Twilight Turns from Amethyst. Accompanying these texts is ice music by the Norwegian instrument builder Terje Isungset and Thelonious Monk’s Crepuscule with Nellie.
The sensory experience of woodland at dusk provides the backdrop for John Clare’s poem and the passage that follows from George MacDonald’s ‘Faerie Romance’ Phantastes, in which the sounds convey a “condensed atmosphere of dreamy undefined love and longing”; with this we hear fragments of Iro Haarla’s Winter Twilight for harp and alto flute and the spritely scherzo from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Whitman and McCarthy texts are both twilight reflections on the unknown soldier in nineteenth century America – inspired by the sparse landscape of the Mexican borderlands in Blood Meridian, and in Twilight Song by those who lost their lives in the American Civil War. Whitman’s poem is followed by the concluding passage of John Adams’ setting of another Whitman poem, The Wound-Dresser, which drew on the author’s experience as a wartime nurse.
New York’s Long Island in the 1920s: Paul Whiteman’s recording of The Charleston is the soundtrack to a decadant beachside party getting underway in F.Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby. Meanwhile the dying light plays tricks on the eye in Dickens’ Bleak House as the Dedlock ancestral portraits come to life, a hallucinatory scene echoed in mood by the quirky electronium of Raymond Scott.
The second piece of John Clare is prose, recounting a sighting by the author of a will-o’-the-wisp, that mysterious, ghostly light that leads travelers astray on marshland at night. The ignis fatuus has inspired several works in this sequence, including Schubert’s song Irrlicht from Winterreise, Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre and Liszt’s Feux follets from the Transcendental Etudes. Lurking beneath the Clare is an unlikely but somehow fitting companion: Edward Williams’ music for a television programme about jellyfish from the BBC’s natural history series Life on Earth.
The twilight of an era is the subject of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s The Leopard set in Sicily during the Risorgimento. In this scene the parish priest, a pair of landowners and an old herbalist are among the glum gathering at dusk of local figures awaiting the latest news of Garibaldi’s advancing forces. That novel starts with a description of a pungent and putrid garden in which the story’s prince protagonist contemplates his mortality; a link to Strauss’s setting of Herman Hesse, which like Shakespeare’s Sonnet No.73 earlier on in the sequence, compares old age to seasonal decay, as “Summer smiles, astonished and feeble, at his dying dream of a garden.”
Producer: Felix Carey
Music and featured items
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
Richard Strauss
Four Last Songs, No.3: Beim Schlafengehen (Going to Sleep)
Performer: Herbert von Karajan. Performer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
DG 423 888-2, Tr7
James Joyce
The Dubliners. Read by Paul McGann
00:07
Terje Isungset
Contemplation
Performer: Terje Isungset (Ice Concerts).
ICE MUSIC ALL ICE 0804, Tr3
James Joyce
The Twilight Turns from Amethyst. Read by Hermione Norris
00:08
Thelonious Monk
Crepuscule with Nellie
Performer: Thelonious Monk Quartet.
COLUMBIA 472991 2, Tr8
John Clare
Twilight Read by Hermione Norris
00:12
Iro Haarla
Winter Twilight
Performer: Pro Haarla, Pepa Paivinen.
NOVEMEBER NVR 2017-2, Tr7
George MacDonald
Phantastes – A Faerie Romance for Men and Women. Read by Paul McGann
00:14
Felix Mendelssohn
Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo
Orchestra: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy.
DECCA 440 296 2, Tr2
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 73. Read by Paul McGann
00:20
Claude Debussy, arranged Heifetz
Beau Soir
Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Itamar Golan.
DECCA 478 2256, Tr4
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. Read by Hermione Norris
Walt Whitman
Twilight Song. Read by Paul McGann
00:24
John Adams
The Wound Dresser
Performer: Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
ELEKTRA NONESUCH 979218 2, Tr2
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby. Read by Hermione Norris
00:31
Cecil Mack, Jimmy Johnson
Charleston
Performer: Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra.
ASV CDAJA5170, Tr3
Charles Dickens
Bleak House. Read by Paul McGann
00:36
Raymond Scott
Twilight in Turkey
Performer: Raymond Scott (Manhattan Research Inc.).
BASTA 3090782 CD1, Tr22
00:37
Toru Takemitsu
Twill by Twilight
Orchestra: Yomiuti Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.
ASV CDDCA 1021, Tr2
Carl Sandburg
Dreams in the dusk. Read by Hermione Norris
Giuseppe Tomas di Lampedusa, trans. Archibald Colquhoun
The Leopard. Read by Paul McGann
00:41
Giuseppe Verdi
Quattro Pezzi Sacri, No.1: Ave Maria
Performer: Los Angeles Master Chorale. Conductor: Roger Wagner.
DECCA 421 608-2 CD2, Tr8
WB Yeats
Into the Twilight. Read by Hermione Norris
00:47
Christian Wallumrød
A Year from Easter
Performer: Christian Wallumrød Ensemble.
ECM 982 4132, Tr9
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre. Read by Hermione Norris
00:53
Franz Schubert
Irlicht from Winterreise
Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Performer: Alfred Brendel.
PHILIPS411 563 2, Tr9
00:55
Edward Williams
Comb Jellies – Hydromedusae – “Birth” of a Medusa – Gymnopedie for Jellyfish
TRUNK RECORDS JBH034CD, Tr3
John Clare
Prose on Will with a Whisp. Read by Paul McGann
00:57
Franz Liszt
Transcendental Studies, No.5: Feux follets
Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
DG 477 9181, Tr5
DH Lawrence
Twilight. Read by Hermione Norris
01:02
Richard Strauss
Four Last Songs, No.2: September
Performer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
DG 423 888-2, Tr6
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush . Read by Hermione Norris
William Wordsworth
Hail, Twilight. Read by Paul McGann
01:09
Radiohead
Sail to the Moon
PARLOPHONE 584 543 2, Tr3
