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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： 2015年 6月27日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前 9:00（100分）
ゲスト:ケペル木村さんを迎えて
ピーター・バラカン
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
http://www4.nhk.or.jp/sunshine/66/
（曲名 / アーティスト名 // アルバム名）
01. Asa Branca / Luiz Gonzaga / O melhor de Luiz Gonzaga
02. Sebastiana / Jackson do Pandeiro / 50 Anos de ritmos
03. Sao joao do Carneirinho / Banda de Pifano de Caruaru // A Bandinha Vai Tocar
04. Feira de Mangaio / Dominguinhos, Sivuca, Oswardinho / Cada um belisca um pouco
05. Ladeira de Olinda / Aurinha e Grupo Rala Coco / Eu Avistei
06. Olha Pro Ceu / Sao joao do Carneirinho / Sao joao do Carneirinho
07. Maracatu Misterioso / Nacao Pernambuco / Maracatu
08. O Xote das Meninas / Chico Buarque / Todo Cantam
09. Adeus Maria Fulo / Gal Costa & Sivuca / Humberto Teixeira - O Doutor do Baiao
10. Vem Morena / Gilberto Gil / Todo Cantam
11. Baiao de Dois / Caetano Veloso / Humberto Teixeira - O Doutor do Baiao
12. Quero Um Xamego / Dominguinhos / Domingo, Menino Dominguinhos
13. Maracatu Atomico / Chico Science & Nacao Zumbi / Afrociberdelia
14. Pernambuco e o lugar / Maciel Salu e o Terno do Terreiro / A Pisada e Assim
15. Wakaru / DJ Dolores / 1 Real
16. Asa Branca / Sivuca, Rita Ribeiro, Carmelia Alves, Elba Ramalho, Lenine, Fagner, Gilberto Gil / Humberto Teixeira - O Doutor do Baiao
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： 2015年 6月27日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前11:00（120分）
ゴンチチ
湯浅学
− 椅子とテーブルの音楽 −
楽曲
「バンブー・チェアー」
ゴンチチ
（4分14秒）
＜EPIC ESCB1901＞
「ティー・フォー・トゥー」
アート・テイタム
（3分10秒）
＜NAXOS JAZZ 8.120610＞
「カム・トゥー・マイ・テーブル」
シャノン・ステファンス
（6分09秒）
＜ASTHMATIC KITTY REC. AKR064＞
「テーブルズ・アンド・チェアーズ」
アンドリュー・バード
（4分37秒）
＜WEGAWAM MUSIC RBR043＞
「歌劇“マノン”から さようなら、私たちの小さなテーブルよ」
（ソプラノ）マリア・カラス
（管弦楽）パリ音楽院管弦楽団
（指揮）ジョルジュ・プレートル
（3分17秒）
＜東芝EMI TOCE7876〜7879＞
「テーブル・マナーズ」
キッド・クレオール＆ザ・ココナッツ
（4分26秒）
＜ZE REC. 12WIP6756＞
「ファイト・アット・ザ・テーブル」
クリス・ベル
（3分43秒）
＜RYKODISC RCD10222＞
「ラス・ヴァレンティナス」
グスターヴォ・パゾス・コンデ
（5分04秒）
＜SAPHARANE S62614＞
「パパには王様の椅子が必要」
キャンバーウェル・ナウ
（3分24秒）
＜RER DUP0022＞
「円卓」
ル・グラン・カレ
（2分33秒）
＜STERNS MUSIC STCD3058＞
「長椅子の下で遊んでいた」
ジュリエット・グレコ
（3分37秒）
＜UNIVERSAL UICO-1070＞
「映画“ある夕食のテーブル”から ある夕食のテーブル」
映画『ある夕食のテーブル』サントラ盤
（4分29秒）
＜CINEVOX REC. RBCP-2843＞
「ララバイ」
ロリータ・クエヴァス
（2分33秒）
＜SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYSREC. FW6811＞
「テーブル」
突然段ボール
（4分44秒）
＜P-VINE PCD-93266＞
「オネスト・アイ・ドゥ」
ジミー・リード
（2分47秒）
＜P-VINE PCD-4289＞
「椅子」
長谷川きよし
（3分07秒）
＜日本フォノグラム PHCL-8030＞
「コースト・トゥー・コースト・フィーバー」
ダヴィッド・ウィフェン
（4分01秒）
＜UNITED ARTISTS UA-LA172-F＞
「それぞれのテーブル」
ちあきなおみ
（3分20秒）
＜VICTOR ENT. VICL-70073＞
「リトル・カフェ」
ゴンチチ
（3分07秒）
＜EPIC／SONY ESCB1796＞
「オ・メ・ニ・カカリマス」
ヴィヴィ・スマンティ
（2分31秒）
＜J＆B REC. JBL28819＞
「旅人」
小野一穂
（4分04秒）
＜KOTOBA-REC. KR-005＞
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
Woodenbox
Tue 23 Jun 2015
21:00
BBC Radio Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zl25f
New and classic Americana and alternative country including a session and interview with Glasgow and Edinburgh band Woodenbox, featuring a George Harrison cover version.
Music Played
01. Rio Grande
Eilen Jewell
Sundown Over Ghost Town
Signature Sounds Recording Company, Tr.3
02. Mohair Sam
Charlie Rich
The Kings & Queens of Country
Sony, Tr.5
03. More Girl Than Friend (Live BBC session)
Woodenbox
Foreign Organ
04. Life Decays (Live BBC session)
Woodenbox
Foreign Organ
05. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
Johnny Cash
The Legend
Columbia, Tr.27
06. Pageant Material
Kacey Musgraves
Pageant Material
Mercury Nashville, Tr.4
07. A9 North (Live BBC session)
Woodenbox
Foreign Organ
08. All Things Must Pass (Live BBC session)
Woodenbox
09. Love Is Strong
Shelby Lynne
I Can't Imagine
Decca, Tr.6
10. Teeth White
The Staves
If I Was, Tr.10
11. If You Don't Like Hank Williams
Kris Kristofferson
Dylan, Cash & The Nashville Cats: A New Music City
Legacy, Tr.13
12. Where I Ought To Be
Watkins Family Hour
Watkins Family Hour
Family Hour Records, Tr.2
13. Bonny Boys
Thompson
Family
Fantasy Records, Tr.4
14. Keep On The Sunny Side Theme/ I'm Thinking Tonight
The Carter Family
The Carter Family In Texas Vol 1
Old Homestead, Tr.1
15. Garden
C Duncan
16. This Note’s For You
Neil Young
This Note’s For You
Reprise, Tr.2
17. Pyramid
Simi Stone
Simi Stone, Tr.1
18. Bad Things
Jace Everett
Old New Borrowed Blues
Fullfill, Tr.4
19. All The Leaves Are Gone
Ralegh Long
Hoverance
Gare Du Nord, Tr.5
20. The Sleeping Beauty
American Music Club
The Golden Age
Cooking Vinyl Limited
21. Bud
Honeyblood
Honeyblood
FatCat Records, Tr.4
22. Edina
Blue Rose Code
The Ballads of Peckham Rye
Ronachan Songs
23. Stubborn Love
Larkin Poe
Kin, Tr.3
Jazz Record Requests
Jazz records from across the genre, played in special sequences to highlight the wonders of jazz history. All pieces have been specifically requested by Radio 3 listeners
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 27 Jun 2015
17:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060bfm9
Alyn Shipton's selection contains music by Herbie Mann, normally known for his flute playing but featured today on bass clarinet, and the young Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace.
Music Played
01. Every Evening
Jimmie Noone
Performer: Johnny Wells, Jimmie Noone, Earl Hines, Bud Scott, Joe Poston
A Taste of New Orleans
ASV Living Era, Tr.6
02. Looking At The World Thru Rose Colored Glasses
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie
Performer: Charlie Fowlkes, Flip Ricard, Thad Jones, Freddie Green, Frank Foster, Henry Coker, Sonny Cohn, Al Aarons, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Sonny Payne, Buddy Catlett, Frank Wess, Eric Dixon, Marshall Royal, Al Porcino, Benny Powell, Rufus Wagner
SINATRA/ BASIE
Essential Jazz Classics, Tr.4
03. You Go To My Head
Clifford Brown
Performer: Clifford Brown, Percy Heath, Elmo Hope, Lou Donaldson, Philly Joe Jones
Memorial Album
Blue Note, Tr.6
04. The Amused Gipsy Girl
Tommaso Starace
Performer: Tommy Bradascio, Tommaso Starace, Michele Di Toro, Attilio Zanchi
Italian Short Stories
Emarcy, Tr.10
05. The Way You Look Tonight
Cassandra Wilson
Performer: Martyn P. Casey, Robby Marshall, Thomas Wydler, Jon Cowherd, Kevin Breit, The Van Dyke Parks String Orchestra
Coming Forth By Day
Sony, Tr.6
06. The Theme
Herbie Mann
Performer: Jimmy Rowles, Buddy Clark, Jack Sheldon, Mel Lewis
Great Ideas of Western Mann
Fresh Sound, Tr.1
07. Over The Rainbow
Joey Alexander
My Favourite Things
Motema, Tr.9
08. A La Verticale
David Sanborn
Performer: David Sanborn, Tim Vaughn, Yotam Silberstein, Javier Díaz, Peter Hess, Roy Assaf, Marcus Miller, Nicky Moroch, Justin Mullens, Marcus Baylor
Time and The River
Okeh, Tr.1
09. Lover Man
Sonny RollinsPerformer: Bob Cranshaw, Roy McCurdy, Paul Bley, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins
All the Things You Are
RCA Bluebird, Tr.5
10. All I Wanna Do Is Sing
Acker Bilk
Performer: Colin Smith, Johnny Mortimer, Acker Bilk, Stan Greig, Roy James, Ernie Price, Ron McKay
Beau Jazz
Lake, Tr.18
11. Dans Les Rues D'Antibes
Pete Allen Jazz Band
Performer: Geoff Hull, Richard Leach, Pete Allen, Brian Prince, Dave Moorwood, Arthur Brown
Happy Jazz
Timeless, Tr.6
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 love of jazz, through an exploration of its great writers, singers and players, as told from his own individual perspective.
Each programme take us through his personally-selected playlist of tracks. It's loosely-themed; maybe a great artist, a jazz style or something more off-the-wall. But that serves as just the start of a fascinating journey to the heart of the music Geoffrey is so passionate about.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h5z0s
Time
Sun 28 Jun 2015
00:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060bprf
For the long summer days, Geoffrey Smith presents a sequence of songs about time, as measured by the clock, the calendar and the heart. Reflections range from Tony Bennett and Billie Holiday to Woody Herman and Miles Davis.
Music Played
01. Time's Gettin' Tougher Than Tough
Jimmy Witherspoon
Performer: Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Rowles, Leroy Vinnegar, Ben Webster, Mel Lewis
Witherspoon Mulligan Webster at the Renaissance
Vogue, Tr.1
02. Just In Time
Shirley Horn
Performer: Shirley Horn, Steve Williams, Steve Williams, Charles Ables, Charles Ables
Our Favourite Things: 16 Classic Female Vocal Performances
Spectrum, Tr.15
03. Time After Time
Chet Baker
Performer: Bob Neel, Russ Freeman, Carson Smith, Chet Baker
CHET BAKER SINGS
BLUE NOTE, Tr.8
04. Hallelujah Time
Woody Herman & His Orchestra
Performer: Carmen Leggio, Henry Southall, Steven John, Paul Fontaine, Danny Nolan, Woody Herman, Kenny Wenzel, Chuck Andrus, Jake Hanna, Sal Nistico, Nat Pierce, Bill Chase, Bill Hunt, Phil Wilson, Gerald Lamy, Nick Brignola
WOODY HERMAN: 1964
PHILIPS, Tr.1
05. Younger Than Springtime
Art Farmer
Performer: Tommy Flanagan, Tommy Williams, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Art Farmer
Art and Perception
Gambit Records, Tr.5
06. Some Other Time
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans
Performer: Tony Bennett, Bill Evans
The Complete Tony Bennett/ Bill Evans Recordings
FANTASY, Tr.3
07. Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
Lee Wiley
Performer: Bobby Hackett, Lee Wiley, Joe Bushkin
Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
Retrospective, Tr.20
08. Now's The Time
Charlie Parker
Performer: Percy Heath, Al Haig, Max Roach
Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve
VERVE, Tr.8
09. Once Upon A Time
Stan Getz
Performer: Alan Martin, Steve Kuhn, Roy Haynes, Jacob Glick, John Neves, Stan Getz, Norman Carr, Bruce Rogers, Gerald Tarack
Focus
Verve, Tr.6
10. Strut Time
Benny Golson
Performer: Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Barry Harris, Jymie Merritt, Philly Joe Jones
The Other Side of
Original Jazz Classics, Tr.1
11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Billie Holiday
Performer: Barney Kessel, Jimmy Rowles, Alvin Stoller, Billie Holiday, Ben Webster, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Red Mitchell
The Ben Webster/ Harry Edison Sessions
Phoenix, Tr.13
12. A Quiet Time
Ahmad Jamal
Performer: Manolo Badrena, James Cammack, Kenny Washington
A Quiet Time
Dreyfus Jazz, Tr.8
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Rachel Nicholson
Sun 28 Jun 2015
12:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060bprp
Rachel Nicholson has an extraordinary artistic background: her mother was Barbara Hepworth, her father Ben Nicholson. Yet despite, perhaps because of, the burden of that parentage, she herself did not begin to paint until she was in her forties. Now in her early eighties, she's established a reputation as a painter of rhythmically beautiful landscapes and still lifes; her work influenced perhaps by her father's sense of space and colour, but very much her own.
She paints every day in an attic studio in North London; for Private Passions she invited Michael Berkeley to her studio and gave a rare interview, revealing the central role music has played for her, right from earliest childhood. Rachel Nicholson has synaesthesia, which means that when she listens to music, she sees colours; so music provides inspiration when she's stuck, or searching for a new colour palette. She remembers sitting on the stairs listening to the music drifting from her mother's studio, but it was no ordinary childhood: Rachel was a triplet, and the babies were sent to a nursing college to be looked after as infants. Only later did she return home with a nanny from the college, and then she was sent away again to school. She was so excited when she first heard Bach's B Minor Mass at Dartington Hall School that she spent all her pocket money going to every performance. Other music choices include Haydn, Scarlatti, Handel, Schubert, Mozart, John Adams, and Priaulx Rainier - a composer who was a close friend of Barbara Hepworth's, and whom Rachel Nicholson remembers well.
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
Music Played
00:06
Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (Finale: Allegro)
Performer: Alison Balsom
Orchestra: Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Conductor: Thomas Klug
00:14
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor, BWV232 (Gloria)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
00:24
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in F minor, Kk519
Performer: Trevor Pinnock
00:29
Franz Schubert
Des Mullers Blumen (Die Schone Mullerin)
Singer: Christian Gerhaher
Performer: Gerold Huber
00:35
George Frideric Handel
Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli
00:42
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Che soave zeffiretto (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Singer: Gundula Janowitz
Singer: Edith Mathis
Orchestra: German Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Karl Böhm
00:48
Priaulx Rainier
Cycle for declamation
Singer: Peter Pears
00:55
John Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Marin Alsop
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
Summer Sports
Sun 28 Jun 2015
17:30
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060bprw
Words and Music enjoys the British summer sporting calendar from the optimism of April and the Grand National through the three-jerseyed days of the early cricket season into the warmth of Wimbledon, the heat of the British Open Golf and the elegance of Henley to the first rough encounters of the Rugby season. The readers are Robert Powell and Pippa Bennett-Warner
Music from Warlock, Weber, Carl Davis and William Alwyn blends with the sometimes surprising words of Shakespeare, Milton and the many writers on sport from the heyday of Edwardian endeavour to the 20th-century frivolity of PG Wodehouse and John Betjeman and on to the enthusiasms of Alison Uttley and the beautiful reflections of the very best cricket writers like Neville Cardus and all-rounder Simon Barnes, with poetry from Roger McGough and John Arlott.
Producer's Notes
That Culture and Sport should belong in the same ministerial portfolio has always seemed rather strange to me. The separation between one and the other is a significant factor in early school life. However this edition of Words and Music takes as its hero the current England Test cricket captain. As he glides a short ball through the vacant third slip area and jogs through for yet another century it should always be remembered that Alastair Cook was once a choirboy. I like to believe that in that balanced figure at the crease is a man who knows as much about William Byrd’s choral writing as he does of the late in-swinging yorker.
However, our journey through the British summer of sport starts with the gainsayers, and none more poetic than Milton for whom Sport was evidently a devilish pastime.
After Satan’s decision to head for earth and disrupt God’s earthly plans in book two of Paradise Lost the great demonic consult breaks up. Seeking truce for their restless thoughts Milton has his fallen angels heading out to play. Some go hunting, others appear to organise a cross between Giant Polo and Quidditch, with rocks and hills for balls or bludgers. Arthur Honneger’s musical evocation of Rugby, Mouvement Symphonique, seemed a perfect match for the hellish combat.
Out of that dark overture we arrive at Spring with the words of Simon Barnes from his very last piece as Chief Sports writer for The Times. Here, as in almost everything he ever writes about sport, there’s a sense of its limitations and therefore its infinite possibilities.
And so our summer starts early with The Grand National. Mixing equine heroes we have first Carl Davis’ surging soundtrack to the film Champions which celebrated the triumph in adversity of the horse Aldaniti and the jockey Bob Champion. The horse recovered from a career threatening injury and the jockey from cancer before going on to win the National in 1981. That’s the soundtrack. The words are those of Hugh McIlvanney seeking to make sense of the extraordinary national feeling for another multiple National winner, Red Rum.
May brings us to the last knockings of the Football season in the form of the FA Cup Final. The FA Cup was once the greatest of all our national sporting events. The game has struggled of late with its ‘beautiful’ image and its capacity to inspire. Many traditions lie in tatters which makes it both extraordinary and wonderful that the FA Cup hymn, ‘Abide with Me’ beloved by Gandhi and Alex Ferguson alike, should survive. The poet Alan Ross captures another kind of music which seemed to be happening in the mind and therefore leading the footwork of Sir Stanley Mathews. For younger listeners he was the Lionel Messi of his age and in a memorable Final in 1953 he transformed the fortunes of his Blackpool side, propelling them to what seemed an unlikely victory. The crude observation would be that he danced to a different tune. How much better to have him overhearing ‘a private music... to whose slowly emerging theme / he rehearses steps, soloist in the compulsions of a dream. One nil to the poet.
A stark gravestone warning from Llanfair church in South Wales brings us to the dominant theme of Summer sport - Cricket. In this Psalm setting cricket enthusiasts The London Quartet demonstrate a vital ingredient of the game, a sense of its own ludicrousness.
And yet, and yet.... Alison Uttley, remembers the magic that surrounds the game, and more particularly its paraphenalia.
Peter Warlock is in next and demonstrating a classic ease of phrase and harmony he puts a melody to ‘The Cricketers of Hambledon’ which is sodden with Edwardian nostalgia and none the worse for that.
Neville Cardus would have delighted in the exploits of Alastair Cook, making a golden career for himself as a writer and critic of both music and cricket. Here he is recalling his youth working as a school coach. He captures a bucolic summer scene as gently as Vivaldi.
Cricket is really about people and there are few better cricketing portraits than those drawn by the Caribbean writer and scholar C L R James. Here, from ‘Beyond a Boundary’ where he coined the question ‘ What do they know of Cricket who only cricket know?’ we have Matthew Bondman. Reflecting Matthew’s brilliance at the crease is a bit of Caribbean flamboyance from the Steel Band The Renegades. The Renegades, like CLR James, are Trinidadians and the subject of this piece is another - the world record breaking batsman Brian Lara.
In the post war years the West Indies cricketers and their supporters brought something new and vibrant to the culture of British summer sport. In spite of the fears at the time it didn’t replace but merely added to the variety. The regal Ascot Gavotte from ‘My Fair Lady’ describes one manifestation of that variety, the Blaydon Races quite another. Sheila Armstrong and Thomas Allen are in their element and if there’s ever debate about the music of the Geordie accent it should be silenced on hearing this performance with the Sinfonia Chorus.
As well as the flat race meetings of June there’s also tennis. It should be said at this point that the actor Robert Powell is a fine cricketer and the perfect man for this project but he is also part of a very elite band who knows and has played the real tennis of which Shakespeare wrote in Henry V. Pippa Bennett-Warner also advertised herself for this edition by an enormous enthusiasm for sport that she shares with a remarkable number of her acting colleagues.
The tennis continues after another racing interlude, this time provided by William Alwyn’s Derby Day Overture. It comes from E.M.Forster’s ‘A Room with a View’ and Lucy Honeychurch’s realisation that a game, and the manner in which it is played, can tell you a great deal about a potential partner.
The tennis extract from Erik Satie’s ‘Sports et Divertissements’ is altogether more ironic and cartoon-like, leading us into the first of John Betjeman’s two contributions to this programme. ‘A Subaltern’s Love Song’ needs no introduction or observation other than to mourn the passing of the wooden tennis racquet’s need for a press.
Henry Pether’s ‘A Game of Tennis’ is another gentle Victorian spin on the developing enthusiasm for all things sporting.
The next piece has transcended its sport and indeed its school. The Band of the Life Guards takes us out on the river for the Eton Boating song. The poem comes from an Aussie by the name of Steve Fairbairn whose name survives in a boating competition amongst Cambridge Colleges. You can also bump into a bust of the man if you walk the southern side of the Thames bank from Putney to Mortlake. Back in the 1930s he coached my Uncle Charlie Searle and once harangued him from a bridge. It appeared that Charlie’s eye and mind weren’t on the task in hand. “Stop dreaming, Searle” he bellowed through his old-fashioned loud-hailer as the boat passed under him. Many years later Charlie went to see his old coach who was close to death in a hospital bed. The weary eyes opened for a second, saw Charlie and closed again. There was a pause before, eyes closed, he muttered: “Still dreaming Charlie”.
Satie again, this time describing golf leads us to the second of Betjeman’s contributions - ‘Seaside Golf’. Perhaps one for those who have suffered the vicissitudes of the game, this includes the best use I know of the word ‘unprecedented’.
Rachel Portman’s music for the golfing film Bagger Vance serves both golf and the gem of this collection, Roger McGough’s tale of Class and fatherhood and love - ‘The Railings’.
And so to August and the final events of the summer sporting season, well it used to be before they tried to squeeze more cricket into September.
The inclusion here of Beethoven, and in particular a Beethoven String Quartet is a tribute to another England Captain, Mike Brearley. Look him up on the BBC Desert Island Discs website and you’ll find that he chose a Beethoven quartet for his solitude, but there’s another story that he used to hum the opening ‘cello theme of a particular quartet while facing the menacingly quick bowlers of Australia and the West Indies. Those were the days before helmets and grills. It speaks volumes for batsman and composer alike.
Another England captain, Denis Compton, is captured by poet and commentator John Arlott. This is as good a point as any to remember the late David Rayvern Allen, John’s biographer, without whom I couldn’t have begun to make many of these selections. He certainly put me in the way of Alison Uttley’s cricketing memories. I’m sure he’d have enjoyed Adrian Johnston’s depiction of a cricket match from the film ‘Becoming Jane’. He’s certainly uppermost in my mind at the moment when I hear Roy Harper’s ‘When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease’.
Of course sport girds its loins for autumn and winter with renewed enthusiasm but for the purposes of this edition there’s a need for an ending, supplied by A E Housman. The music, which we heard at the start and which returns with an echo of something glorious and never quite gone, is a long atmospheric piece by Vangelis written for the film ‘Chariots of Fire’. It anticipated the famous theme tune that came at the very last minute.
Producer: Tom Alban
Music Played
00:00
Vangelis
Chariots of Fire
Performer: Vangelis
POLYDOR UK, Tr.7
John Milton
From Paradise Lost Book 2 Line 506
Reader: Pippa Bennett-Warner
00:01
Arthur Honegger
Rugby, Mouvement symphonique
Performer: Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands, Jean Fournet
Regis RRC 1328, Tr.8
Simon Barnes
The Times: 28th July 2014
Reader: Robert Powell
00:09
Carl Davis
“Champions” Theme
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra
Movietrack Classics, Tr.15
Hugh McIlvanney
The Saga of Red Rum from McIlvanney on Horseracing
Reader: Robert Powell
00:12
W.Monk, H.Lyte
Abide With Me
Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
BMG Production Music Classical Series, Tr.5
Alan Ross
From Stanley Matthews
Reader: Robert Powell
anon
From a Gravestone at Llanfair church, South Wales
Reader: Robert Powell & Pippa Bennett-Warner
00:15
Trad Psalm, W.H.Havergal
The Rules of Cricket-A Psalm Chant
Performer: The London Quartet
SignumClassics, Tr.8
Alison Uttley
From “Carts and Candlesticks
Reader: Pippa Bennett-Warner
00:18
Peter Warlock
The Cricketers of Hambledon
Performer: The London Quartet
SignumClassics, Tr.2
Neville Cardus
Cardus Celebrant of Beauty, a Memoir by Robin Daniels
Reader: Robert Powell
00:21
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, Summer-Concerto No.2 in G minor
Performer: London Philharmonic, Itzhak Perlman
EMI Classics, Tr.4
CLR James
From ‘Beyond a Boundary
Reader: Robert Powell
00:28
Jit Samaroo
Four Lara Four
Performer: BP Renegades Steel Orchestra
Faluma, Tr.1
00:30
Frederick Loewe
Ascot Gavotte
Performer: National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
TER ltd, Tr.9
00:33
George Ridley
Blaydon Races
Performer: Northern Sinfonia of England, The Sinfonia Chorus, Thomas Allen, Sheila Armstrong
MWM Records, Tr.25
William Shakespeare
Henry V, Act I sc 2
Reader: Robert Powell
00:38
William Alwyn
Derby Day Overture
Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd
Naxos, Tr.5
E.M.Forster
from A Room With A View-Chapter 15
Reader: Pippa Bennett-Warner
00:45
Erik Satie
from Sports Et Divertissements, Tennis
Performer: Chantal de Buchy
PG, Tr.1
John Betjeman
from A Subaltern’s Love Song
Reader: Robert Powell
00:47
Henry Pether
A Game of Tennis
Performer: Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge
Just Accord, Tr.7
00:49
Algernon Drummond
Eton Boating Song
Performer: The Band of The Life Guards
BandLeader, Tr.3
Steve Fairbairn
The Oarsman’s Song from “The Complete Steve Fairbairn
Reader: Pippa Bennett-Warner
00:52
Erik Satie
from Sports Et Divertissements, Golf
Performer: Chantal de Buchy
PG, Tr.1
John Betjeman
Seaside Golf
Reader: Robert Powell
00:54
Rachel Portman
The Day of the Match Dawns, from The Legend of Bagger Vance Soundtrack
Performer: Soundtrack Album
Chapter III Records, Tr.6
Roger McGough
The Railings
Reader: Robert Powell
00:57
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No7 in F. Op.59
Performer: Lindsay String Quartet
ASV. CD1
John Arlott
On a Great Batsman
Reader: Robert Powell
01:04
Adrian Johnston
A Game of Cricket, from the Orginal Soundtrack of ‘Becoming Jane’
Performer: Original Soundtrack Album
Sony BMG, Tr.5
Alison Uttley
From “Carts and Candlesticks
Reader: Pippa Bennett-Warner
01:06
Roy Harper
When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
Performer: Roy Harper
Science Friction, Tr.7
A E Houseman
To An Athlete Dying Young
Reader: Pippa Bennett-Warner & Robert Powell
01:11
Vangelis
Chariots of Fire
Performer: Vangelis
POLYDOR UK, Tr.7
