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://www4.nhk.or.jp/sunshine/
放送日： 2013年11月 2日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン
“ブルーズこの一曲”特集 part1
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
http://www.nhk.or.jp/program/sunshine/playlist.html
（曲名 / アーティスト名 // アルバム名）
01. Talk To Me Baby / Elmore James // The Sky Is Crying - The Legendary Fire-Enjoy Sessions
02. Moanin' At Midnight / Howlin' Wolf // Moanin' In The Moonlight
03. Honey Bee / Muddy Waters // The Best Of Muddy Waters
04. Walkin' By Myself / Jimmy Rogers // Chicago Bound
05. Somebody Loan Me A Dime / Fenton Robinson // The Mellow Blues Genius
06. Night Life / B.B. King // Blues Is King
07. Don't Start Me To Talkin / Sonny Boy Williamson // Down And Out Blues
08. My Babe / Little Walter // The Best Of Little Walter
09. Every Night About This Time / Magic Sam // Magic Sam Live!
10. Double Trouble / Otis Rush // I Cant Quit You Baby The Cobra Sessions 1956 - 1958
11. T'Aint Nobody's Biziness If I Do / Otis Spann // The Blues Is Where It's At
12. Diddie Wa Diddie / Blind Blake // Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker
13. Candy Man / Mississippi John Hurt // Mississippi John Hurt Today
14. Trouble In Mind / Big Bill Broonzy // Trouble In Mind
15. Devil Got My Woman / Skip James // King Of The Blues 8
16. Old Original Kokomo Blues / Kokomo Arnold // Old Original Kokomo Blues
17. Denomination Blues Part. 1 / Washington Phillips // I Am Born To Preach The Gospel
18. Midnight Hour Blues / Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell // Whiskey Is My Habit, Good Women Is All I Crave: The Best Of Leroy Carr
19. Have To Change Keys (To Play These Blues) / Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang // Steppin' On The Blues
20. Mojo Hand / Lightnin' Hopkins // Mojo Hand
21. Shake Your Hips / Slim Harpo // The Best Of Slim Harpo
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://www4.nhk.or.jp/kaiteki/
放送日： 2013年11月 2日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前11:00（120分）
ゴンチチ
湯浅学
− easyな音楽 −
「なんとなく大丈夫かもしれない（空気）」 （ゴンチチ）
（2分37秒）
＜EPIC ESCL4062＞
「内気な17才」 （ジ・エセックス）
（2分08秒）
＜RHINO R2 70989＞
「ピストル・オン・ア・シェルフ」
（エッグ・オーヴァー・イージー）
（3分36秒）
＜A＆M GXG-1040＞
「イッツ・イージー・トゥー・セイ・グッドバイ」
（ウォルター・ワンダレー）
（2分03秒）
＜VERVE UCCV-9461＞
「“四季”から 春の第1楽章」 ヴィヴァルディ作曲
（3分27秒）
（管弦楽）エンシェント室内管弦楽団
（指揮）クリストファー・ホグウッド
＜ポリドール POCL-9587,9588＞
「イージー・ベイビー」 （マジック・サム）
（4分28秒）
＜P-VINE PCD-23699＞
「スティーヴ・ジャイムズ」 （バッド・リヴァース）
（3分17秒）
＜QUARTERSTICK QS20CD＞
「イージー・ライド」 （ドアーズ）
（2分38秒）
＜ELEKTRA 8 122-79998-1＞
「イージー・ラヴィン」 （ウェード・フレモンズ）
（2分20秒）
＜GREAT VOICES OF THE CENTURY GVC1012＞
「イージー・リヴィング」 （クリフォード・ブラウン）
（3分40秒）
＜BLUE NOTE 724353214128＞
「イージー」 （ティムバック・スリー）
（4分29秒）
＜I.R.S. IRSD42124＞
「前奏曲 作品28から 第11番、第23番」 ショパン作曲
（1分23秒）
（ピアノ）イーヴォ・ポゴレリッチ
＜UNIVERSAL UCCG-4433＞
「イット・ドント・カム・イージー」 （リンゴ・スター）
（3分02秒）
＜CAPITOL CD7956372＞
「メイク・イット・イージー・オン・ユア・セルフ」
（ジェリー・バトラー）
（2分39秒）
＜RHINO R2 75339＞
「ナアム・アプン・カ・ジャーニ」（映画“マッキー”サントラ）
（4分48秒）
＜GALAXY SFCD-1844＞
「イージー・クエスチョン」 （エルヴィス・プレスリー）
（2分17秒）
＜RCA VICTOR LPM2523＞
「イッツ・イージー・トゥー・セイ」 （ジェームス・ハンター）
（3分42秒）
＜ROUNDER 11661-2187-2＞
「イッツ・イージー・トゥー・リメンバー」 （スー・レイニー）
（3分00秒）
＜EMI MUSIC TOCT-9723＞
「フリー・アンド・イージー」 （ヘンリー・マンシーニ楽団）
（2分45秒）
＜RCA VICTOR LSP2101＞
「ビューティフル・デイズ」 （ゴンチチ）
（2分16秒）
＜EPIC ESCL-2552＞
「サドゥンリー（ラブ・ストーリーは突然に）」
（スタイリスティックス）
（4分48秒）
＜VICTOR VICP-65175＞
「貧しい町」 （W.C.カラス）
（3分31秒）
＜P-VINE PCD21026＞
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
Andy Fairweather Low
Fri 1 Nov 2013
20:05
BBC Radio Scotland
Andy Fairweather Low and The Lowriders perform live in session.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03flxh4
Andy Fairweather Low began his career in Amen Corner before enjoying success as a solo artist with Wide Eyed And Legless. He's played with Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters, The Who, George Harrison Gerry Rafferty and Richard & Linda Thompson.
Tonight he's live in session with his group The Lowriders, performing songs from their new album Zone-O-Tone and sharing stories from his successful career.
Music Played
01. Hard As This
Lindi Ortega
02. Angel Band
The Stanley Brothers
03. Never Stop Building That Old Space Rocket
Danny and the Champions of the World
04. Time Gone
Billie Joe & Norah Long
05. Roving Gambler
The Everly Brothers
06. Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends
Willie Nelson with Rosanne Cash
07. Just Friends
Deer Tick
08. Ready Or Not
Jackson Browne
09. Feeling Of Beauty
Tift Merritt
10. Over Yet Blues
Brian Wright
- アーティスト: MAZZY STAR
- 出版社/メーカー: IN-GROOVES/ RHYMES OF AN HOUR
- 発売日: 2018/02/28
- メディア: CD
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Mazzy Star
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seasons-Your-Day-Mazzy-Star/dp/B00DYEBM3I/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1383373167&sr=1-1&keywords=B00DYEBM3I
- アーティスト: Alan Jackson
- 出版社/メーカー: Capitol Nashville
- 発売日: 2013/09/24
- メディア: CD
- この商品を含むブログ (1件) を見る
Alan Jackson
http://www.amazon.com/Bluegrass-Album-Alan-Jackson/dp/B00E9E4EC8/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1383373083&sr=1-1&keywords=B00E9E4EC8
13. Ramblin’ Man
Hank Williams
14. Lookout Mountain
Zervas & Pepper
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifebringer-Zervas-Pepper/dp/B00DZ6WFIQ/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1383374036&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=zervas+%26+pepper+lifebringer
15. Natural Sinner
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
16. When Things Go Wrong
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
17. Slowly
Webb Pierce
18. Alberta
Eric Clapton
19. I’ll Get You
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
20. Will The Circle/Lay My Burden Down
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
21. Tell It Like It Is
Yvonne Lyon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thousand-Questions-Why-Yvonne-Lyon/dp/B002DXQ8E4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1383384632&sr=1-1
World on 3
Lopa Kothari and Mary Ann Kennedy present an eclectic mix of sounds from around the world, with exclusive sessions and concerts by leading musicians in world music.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009vs65
Capercaillie in Session
Fri 1 Nov 2013
23:00
BBC Radio 3
Mary Ann Kennedy presents new music and a session with Scottish folk pioneers Capercaillie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03f8c60
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a studio session with Scottish folk pioneers Capercaille.
Capercaillie celebrate their 30th anniversary this year, releasing their first album for five years. As much as any other band, they revitalised Scottish music, presenting traditional songs and tunes in a way that is thoroughly up to date, yet still respecting the original spirit, and also writing new songs in a contemporary Scottish folk style. In their new album they return to the ancient repertoire of Hebridean songs.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
The High Bar Gang
Over in the Gloryland
Lost and Undone – a Gospel Bluegrass Companion, True North Records
00:05
Daimh
Siud agaibh an deoch a dh'olainn
Tuneship, Goat Island Music
- アーティスト: Georgia Ruth
- 出版社/メーカー: Imports
- 発売日: 2013/05/28
- メディア: CD
- この商品を含むブログを見る
Georgia Ruth Williams
Halit
Week of Pines, www.georgiaruthmusic.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Week-Of-Pines-Georgia-Ruth/dp/B00C838JQ4/ref=pd_bxgy_m_h__text_y
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/18/georgia-ruth-welsh-music-prize-2013
00:15
Les Tambours De Brazza
Ya Longa
Sur la route des Caravanes, Buda Musique
00:20
Cry Sello Matshetka
Mmbwa yanga
Cry Sello Matshetka, Face Off Music
00:27
Joseph Kabasele
Makwela ya bana Mboka
Le Grand Kallé: his life, his music, Sterns
00:30
Ballaké Sissoko
Boubalaka
At Peace, No Format
00:36
Capercaillie
The Strathspey Set
00:46
Capercaillie
The Jura Wedding Reels
00:51
Mazurek Przytalowski
Mazurek from Przystalowice
Wild Music from the Heart of Poland, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
00:56
Quintetto Nigra
Vous voulez me faire chanter
Sonno Fortunato, Felmay
01:00
Matilde Politi e Compagnia Bella
Vinnigna
Vacanti sugnu china (Sicilian folksongs), Felmay
01:07
Kal
Cohano
Romanology – Rock'n'Roma, ARC
01:11
Jochensteiner Sanger
Der Dampf
Obacht! Musik aus Bayern, Galileo
01:15
Capercaillie
Heart of it all
01:27
Capercaillie
Oig Ghaolaich (Waulking Song)
01:33
Siba
Bravura e brilho (Bravery and light)
Avante, Mais um Discos
01:37
Maria Bethânia
Canto de Oxum
Rough Guide to Voodoo, World Music Network
01:43
Parissa with the Dastan Ensemble
Mathnavi
Deeyah presents Iranian Women, Fuuse
01:49
Tigran
The Poet
Shadow Theatre, Verve
01:54
The Gloaming
Freedom/Saoirse
The Gloaming, Real World Records
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gloaming/dp/B00DGIBAT8/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1383381386&sr=1-1
Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum showcases his love for all types of jazz and music rooted in jazz, from its heritage to its future. Featuring live sessions and guests from around the world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rr86v
Stacey Kent
Tue 29 Oct 2013
19:00
BBC Radio 2
Jamie Cullum's guest is the American singer Stacey Kent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ff8lq
Jamie Cullum's guest this week is the American singer Stacey Kent. Jamie also showcases his love for all types of jazz and music rooted in jazz, representing new music from around the world.
Music Played
01. Keep Walkin’
Eddie Jefferson
Letter From Home, Riverside Records
02. Tropicola
Nino Nardini
Mindbender, Stringtronics
03. Dorothy Dandridge Eyes
Janelle Monae Feat. Esperanza Spalding
The Electric Lady, Wondaland Arts Society / Bad Boy Records
04. Higga Boom
Gene Harris
Astralsignal, Blue Note
Stacey Kent Interview
05. The Snow Is Dancing
Claude Debussy
Children’s Corner, RCA Red Seal
06. In Blue (Live At The Cote d’Azur)
Duke Ellington And Ella Fitzgerald Diminuendo
Duke At The Cote d’Azur, Verve Records
07. O Grande Amor
Stan Getz And Joao GIlberto
Getz/Gilberto
08. One Note Samba
Stacey Kent
The Changing Lights, Parlophone
09. This Happy Madness
Stacey Kent
The Changing Lights, Parlophone
10. Drip
Tigran Hamasyan
Shadow Theatre, Verve
11. The Uptowner
Donald Byrd
Fancy Free, Blue Note
12. Indecision
Sampha
Dual, Young Turks
Jazz Record Requests
Make a request...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 2 Nov 2013
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes music by Kid Ory and Bessie Smith
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g22qp
Alyn Shipton's selection from listeners' requests includes music by Kid Ory, Bessie Smith and Harry James.
Music Played
01. November Afternoon
The Jazztet
Composer: McIntosh
Performer: Art Farmer, t; Benny Golson, ts; Tom McIntosh, tb; Cedar Walton, p; Tommy Williams, b; Albert Tootie Heath, d. Sept 1960
Complete Jazztet Sessions, Jazz Dynamics, 005 CD 3, Tk. 2 (6.16)
02. Libertango
Gabrielle Ducomble
Composer: Piazzolla
Performer: Gabrielle Ducomble, v; Nick Meier, g; Chris Garrick, vn; Alex Hutton, p; Nick Kacal, b; Saleem Raman, d. 2011
J’ai Deux Amours, white label copy, n/a Tk. 3 (6.30)
03. Epistrophy
Thelonious Monk
Composer: Monk / Clarke
Performer: Charlie Rouse, t; Thelonious Monk, p; Butch Warren, b; Frank Dunlop, d. 23 May 1963
Monk in Japan, Prestige, PRCDSP202 Tk 5 (5.41)
04. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Edward "Kid" Ory
Composer: Trad
Performer: Kid Ory, tb; Alvin Alcorn, t; George Probert, cl; Don Ewell, p; Barney Kessel, g; Ed Garland, b; Minor Hall, d. 1955
Creole Jazz Band 1955, Good Time Jazz, L 12008 S.1, Tk. 3 (3.55)
05. Weary Blues
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges
Composer
Performer: Sweets Edison, t; Johnny Hodges, as; Duke Ellington, p; Les Spann, g; Al Hall, b; Jo Jones, d. 26 Feb 1959
Back To Back, Verve, 821578 Tk. 4 (6.54)
06. Kinda Like The Blues
Harry James
Composer: Wilkins
Performer: Harry James, Nik Buono, Don Paladino, Bob Rolfe, Art Depew, Ray Sims, Bob Edmondson, Bob Robinson, tb;. Performer: Willie Smith, Herb Lorden, Corky Corcoran, Polly Polfrani, Ernie Small, reeds; Larry Kinnamon, p; Allen Reuss, g; Russ Phillips, b; Buddy Rich, d. 2 May 1957
Wild About Harry, Capitol, 6146 Tk. 6 (4.14)
07. Careless Love Blues
Bessie Smith
Composer: Handy / Williams / Koenig
Performer: Bessie Smith, v; Louis Armstrong, c; Charlie Green, tb; Fred Longshaw, p. 26 May 1925
Complete Recordings Vol 2, Columbia, 88725403102 3 / 4 CD 2 (3.25), 8
08. My Baby Doesn't Squawk
New Orleans Blue Five
Composer: Morris
Performer: Thomas Morris, c; Bob Fuller, cl; Tricky Sam Nanton, tb; Buddy Christian, g; Mike Jackson, p. 2 November 1926
N/A single, Victor, 20364, Side A (3.10)
09. Sax No End
Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland
Composer: Boland
Performer: Benny Bailey, Dusko Goykevich, Idrees Suliman, t; Erik Van Leer, Nat Peck, Ake Persson, tb; Derek Humble, Sahib Shihab, Ronnie Scott, Tony Coe, Johnny Griffin, reeds; Francy Boland, p; Ron Matthewson, b; Kenny Clarke, Kenny Clare, d. 28 Feb 1969
Live at Ronnie Scott’s, BASF, 29850, S1 T 3 (11.30)
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
Billie Holiday
Sun 3 Nov 2013
00:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith picks highlights from Billie Holiday's great and complex career.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g2r4z
Though hailed as the pre-eminent jazz singer, Billie Holiday was also known for the tragic lifestyle that led to her early death in 1959. Geoffrey Smith picks his favourite recordings from a great and complex career.
Music Played
01. Miss Brown to You
Billie Holiday
Composer: Robin, Whiting, Rainger
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Teddy Wilson, p; Benny Goodman, cl; Roy Eldridge, t; Ben Webster, ts; John Trueheart, g; John Kirby, b; Cozy Cole, d. 2 July 1935
The Legacy, Columbia/Legacy, C3K 47724. Tr. 4 (2.58)
02. Billie's Blues
Billie Holiday
Composer: Holiday
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Bunny Berigan, t; Artie Shaw, cl; Joe Bushkin, p; Dick McDonough, g; Pete Peterson, b; Cozy Cole, d. 10 July 1936
The Legacy, Columbia/Legacy, C3K 47724 Tr.13 (2.37)
03. One, Two, Button Your Shoe
Billie Holiday
Composer: Johnston, Burke
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Bunny Berigan, t; Irving Fazola, cl; Clyde Hart, p; Dick McDonough, g; Artie Bernstein, b; Cozy Cole, d, spoken. 29 September 1936
The Legacy, Columbia/Legacy, C3K 47724 TR. 16 (2.41)
04. This Year's Kisses
Billie Holiday
Composer: Berlin
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Lester Young, ts; Teddy Wilson, p, ldr; Buck Clayton, t; Benny Goodman, cl; Freddy Green, g; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones. 25 January 1937
The Legacy, Columbia/Legacy, C3K 47726. Tr.1 (3.07)
05. Easy Living
Billie Holiday
Composer: Robin, Rainger
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Buck Clayton, t; Buster Bailey, cl; Lester Young, ts; Teddy Wilson, p; Freddie Green, g; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones, d. 1 June 1937
The Legacy, Columbia/Legacy, C3K 47726. Tr. 13 (3.02)
06. Me, Myself and I
Billie Holiday
Composer: Gordon, Roberts, Kaufman
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Lester Young, ts; Ed Hall, cl; Jimmy Sherman, p; Buck Clayton, t; Freddy Green, g; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones, d. 15 June 1937
The Legacy, Columbia/Legacy, C3K 47726. Tr. 15 (2.35)
07. When You’re Smiling
Billie Holiday
Composer: Shay, Goodwin, Fisher
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Lester Young, ts; Benny Morton, tb; Buck Clayton, t; Teddy Wilson, p; Freddie Green, g; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones, d. 6 January 1938
Integrale, Fremeaux & Associes, FA 154. Tr. 3 (2.50)
08. Back in Your Own Backyard
Billie Holiday
Composer: Jolson, Rose, Dreyer
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Lester Young, ts; Benny Morton, tb; Buck Clayton, t; Teddy Wilson, p; Freddie Green, g; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones, d. 12 January 1938
Integrale, Fremeaux & Associes, FA 154. Tr. 11 (2.38)
09. The Man I Love
Billie Holiday
Composer: G & I Gershwin
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Buck Clayton, Harry Edison, t; Earl Warren, Jack Washington, as; Lester Young, ts; Joe Sullivan, p; Freddie Green, g; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones, d. 13 December 1939
Lady Day, Columbia, COL 504722 2. D2, Tr. 8 (3.03)
10. All of Me
Billie Holiday
Composer: Simons, Marks
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Lester Young, ts; Shad Collins, t; Leslie Johnakins, Eddie Barefield, as; Eddie Heywood, p; John Collins, g; Ted Sturgis, b; Kenny Clarke, d. 21 March 1941
Lady Day, Columbia, COL 504722 2. D2, TR. 18 (3.48)
11. Lover Man
Billie Holiday
Composer: Davis, Ramierez, Sherman
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Russ Case, t; Jack Cressey, Hymie Schertzer, as; Larry Binyon, Paul Ricci, ts; Dave Bowman, p; Carl Kress, g; Haig Stephens, b; Johnny Blowers, d; six unknown strings. 4 October 1944
Ken Burns Jazz, Verve, 549 081-2. Tr. 13 (3.14)
12. I Can't Face the Music
Billie Holiday
Composer: Bloom, Koehler
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Paul Quinichette, ts; Joe Newman, t; Oscar Peterson, p; Barney Kessel, g; Ray Brown, b; J.C. Heard, d. 1952
The Unforgettable Lady Day, Verve, MG V-8338-2. S3/6 (3.14)
13. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Billie Holiday
Composer: Woods
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Oscar Peterson, p; Charlie Shavers, t; Ray Brown, b; Ed Shaughnessy, d. 1954
The Unforgettable Lady Day, Verve, MG V-8338-2. S3/5 (3.11)
14. Fine and Mellow
Billie Holiday
Composer: Gabler, Holiday
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Ben Webster, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, ts; Doc Cheatham, Roy Eldridge , t; Gerry Mulligan, bs; Vic Dickenson, tb; Mal Waldron, p;. Performer: Danny Barker, g; Milt Hinton, b; Osie Johnson, d. 8 December 1957
Ken Burns Jazz, Verve, 549 081-2. Tr. 18 (8.00)
15. For All We Know
Billie Holiday
Composer: Lewis, Coots
Performer: Billie Holiday, v; Mel Davis, Billie Butterfield, Bernie Glow, t; Urbie Green, tb; Gene Quill, as; Hank Jones, p; Barry Galbraith, g; Milt Hinton, b; Osie Johnson, d;. Performer: unknown string section, harp, choir; Ray Ellis, arr, cond. 19 February 1958
The Legacy, Columbia/Legacy, C3K 47727. Tr. 22 (2.52)
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Roddy Doyle
Sun 3 Nov 2013
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's guests is writer Roddy Doyle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g2r57
It was a band called The Commitments that first brought Roddy Doyle fame 25 years ago - not a real group of musicians, but a comic novel about a group of Dublin teenagers who get together and form a soul band. The book and its sequels became successful films. Roddy Doyle gave up his job as a teacher and has gone on to write nine more novels set in Dublin, where he grew up and still lives.
One of them, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, won the Booker Prize amd is a memorable tour de force told entirely in the voice of a ten-year-old Dublin boy. Roddy Doyle has also written for children, for the theatre and the cinema, and now, after 25 years, he's back where he started - he's turned The Commitments into a musical which has just opened in London's West End.
Roddy's music choices range from the richness of Pergolesi and Mozart to the sparse modernism of Steve Reich and Brian Eno, with a touching love song to end the programme.
He talks to Michael Berkeley about music while you work, the pleasures of Dublin dialogue, and the joy of taking up the trumpet in middle age.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:06
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Quae Moerebat (Stabat Mater)
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Sinfonietta de Montréal. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
00:13
Harry Woods
River Stay Away from my Door
Singer: Paul Robeson.
00:23
Steve Reich
After the War (Different Trains)
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
00:32
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor, K.626 (excerpt)
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir.
00:42
Michael Nyman
After Extra Time (Part 1)
00:48
Brian Eno
An Ending - Ascent (Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks)
00:56
Noel Gay
Leaning on a Lamp Post
Singer: George Formby.
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Village Minstrel
Sun 3 Nov 2013
17:30
BBC Radio 3
Texts and music inspired by John Clare's poetry. Readers: Karl Johnson and David Annen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g2r5g
Village Minstrel. John Clare won fame in his own lifetime as the 'peasant poet', but has long been appreciated in his own right as one of the most important poetic voices of the 19th century. Karl Johnson and David Annen are the readers in a selection of Clare's own poems and writings by John Steinbeck, Gilbert White, Richard Jefferies and others chosen to reflect his life as a farm labourer, his intense ability to observe the natural world, and his eventual mental deterioration. With music by Britten, Haydn, Gurney, Vikki Clayton, Chris Wood, and The Imagined Village among others.
Producer's Note
John Clare is one of a clutch of poets and writers who have found their way into more than one Words and Music selection of mine, but so far he is the only one who has struck me as good for the actual subject of a programme. The insistent quality of his verse was largely responsible of course; coming late to Clare, and with many, many poems of his yet to read, I find that however unassuming a particular one may seem at first, it soon presses its way into my consciousness, its skill and depth growing ever more obvious. The pat description of Clare as a ‘peasant poet’ may have a demographical (if patronising) truth to it, but it does little to suggest the high levels of humanity, honesty and contemplative incisiveness of the man’s art.
This programme, however, is not intended as a portrait of Clare, nor as an anthology of his best poems. The former is too complex a project to attempt in an hour and a quarter, and, with so many poems to choose from, the latter is too ambitious (not to mention contentious). Instead, I’ve picked a small number to represent aspects of his personality that appeal to me most strongly, and then set them among prose-writings and music that reflect them. Three of the songs here – John Jeffreys’s Little Trotty Wagtail, Britten’s The Evening Primrose and Vikki Clayton’s The Badger, are also settings of Clare’s verse.
First among these aspects is Clare’s painterly ability to re-create in words the world about him – not just the way it looks, but the way it moves, sounds and feels. Sometimes, as in ‘Swordy Well’ and ‘Sometimes I pass a little nest’, a poem will start this way and then broaden to take in wider considerations; elsewhere, as in ‘The Rural Muse’ or the extract from ‘The Village Minstrel’, a verse concerned from the start with another subject will burst with precise and vivid descriptions of a bird’s flight, the growth pattern of a flower or the movement of the air. Others still, such as ‘In Hilly-Wood’, amaze with their sheer evocative beauty. Descriptions like these are so penetrating and true that you are frequently left thinking, ‘yes, that’s exactly how it is,’ even though you yourself may never have realised it that way before. Here was a born observer, a man who acquired a minute knowledge and understanding of the natural world just by looking closely at it, and this is what prompted me to include prose extracts by two common spirits - one (Gilbert White) who preceded him, and one (Richard Jefferies) who came after him. White’s account of enticing a cricket safely from its home, reminded me of Clare in particular for its intense concern for, and identification with, fellow creatures.
Then there is the matter of enclosure. Clare lived through one of the most active periods of enclosure of English common land, and the change it wrought on his native landscape and his ability to move freely across it hits hard in the lines from ‘The Village Minstrel’. Though he himself expressed a distaste for political radicalism his anger is clear, and I’ve chosen to echo it in songs of dispossession and protest by Chris Wood and The Imagined Village, as well as WH Hudson’s dismayed account of the punishment of rural protesters in Wiltshire in the 1830s, an extract from Jim Crace’s recent novel Harvest, and a typically rolling, Biblical-style passage from Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. The dignity of labour itself also suggested a passage from Anna Karenina. By chance, a more topical political note is struck in Vikki Clayton’s setting of ‘The Badger’ (though you will look in vain in it for hints of what Clare’s opinion of today’s culling operations might have been).
Elsewhere I’ve sought to evoke nothing more than a rural atmosphere, whether in a 20th-century manifestation such as Tippett’s glorious Concerto for Double String Orchestra, or through 18th-century eyes, as in Thomas Linley’s The Lark Sings High in the Cornfield. That 18th-century English view of nature was much influenced by James Thomson’s great poetic canvas, ‘The Seasons’, the work which Clare acknowledged as having inspired him to take up his pen. I’ve included a section from Haydn’s oratorio setting of it, choosing the aria from ‘Winter’ in which the poet looks back over the changing seasons and compares them to life’s passage. After that, ‘I am’, Clare’s heartbreaking and most famous poem written in the isolation and disorientation of his later years in the Northampton asylum, felt like the only way to end.
Lindsay Kemp (Producer)
Music and featured items
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
Giles Lewin
Playford Set
PARK RECORDS, PRKCD 103
John Clare
To the Rural Muse, read by Karl Johnson
00:02
Thomas Linley
The Lark sings high in the cornfield for voice and keyboard
Performer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: Timothy Roberts.
HYPERION, CDA-66497
John Clare
In the hedge I pass a little nest, read by Karl Johnson
Gilbert White
The Natural History of Selborne (excerpt), read by David Annen
00:09
[traditional]
The Lark in the Morning
Performer: Paddy Tunney.
TOPIC, TSCD-655
John Clare
I love thee, Mary, read by Karl Johnson
00:11
Frederick Delius
The Walk to the Paradise Garden, arr. Beecham [from 'A village Romeo and Juliet']
Conductor: Vernon Handley. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
CFP, CD-CDFP-4304
Richard Jeffries
Wild Life in a Southern County (excerpt), read by David Annen
00:22
John Jeffreys
Litle trotty wagtail for voice and piano
Performer: Ian Partridge. Performer: Jennifer Partridge.
Meridian, CDE-84343
John Clare
In Hilly-Wood, read by Karl Johnson
00:24
Benjamin Britten
5 Flower songs Op.47 for chorus
Conductor: Harry Christophers. Performer: The Sixteen.
COLLINS CLASSICS, 1286-2
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (excerpt), read by David Annen
00:29
Fred Jordan
We're all jolly fellows as follow the plough
TOPIC, TSCD-655
Jim Crace
Harvest (excerpt), read by David Annen
00:33
Gordon Giltrap and Vikki Clayton
The Badger
Music Arranger: Vikki Clayton.
Prestige, CDSGP-008
John Clare
The Village Minstrel (excerpt), read by Karl Johnson
00:41
Chris Wood
MAD JOHN
RUF RECORDS, RUFCD-11
W. H. Hudson
A Shepherd’s Life (excerpt), read by David Annen
00:49
[traditional]
Hard Times Of Old England
Music Arranger: Martin Carthy. Music Arranger: Eliza Carthy. Music Arranger: Simon Emmerson. Music Arranger: Mass. Performer: Billy Bragg. Performer: Eliza Carthy. Performer: Simon Emmerson. Performer: The Young Coppers.
Realworld, CDRWDDJ-147
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt), read by David Annen
00:57
Sir Michael Tippett
Concerto for double string orchestra
Performer: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Performer: Sir Neville Marriner.
EMI, CDC 5-55452 2
John Clare
Swordy Well, read by Karl Johnson
01:07
Joseph Haydn
The Seasons [Die Jahreszeiten]
Conductor: Colin Davis. Performer: Heather Harper. Performer: John Shirley-Quirk. Performer: Ryland Davies. Performer: BBC S O.. Performer: The BBC Symphony Chorus.
PHILIPS, 434-169-2
John Clare
I am, read by Karl Johnson
