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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： 2016年 4月16日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン

THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
http://www4.nhk.or.jp/sunshine/66/
（曲名 / アーティスト名 // アルバム名）
01. It’s Money That I Love / Randy Newman // Born Again
02. Guilty / Bonnie Raitt // Taking My Time
03. You’ve Changed My Mind / Bonnie Raitt // Dig In Deep
04. Fool Yourself / Bonnie Raitt // Hollywood, CA 2/29/76
05. Nothing Seems To Matter / Bonnie Raitt // Hollywood, CA 2/29/76
06. Okie From Muskogee / Merle Haggard // The Very Best Of Merle Haggard
07. Sing Me Back Home / Merle Haggard // The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles
08. Mama Tried / Merle Haggard // The Very Best Of Merle Haggard
09. Pancho And Lefty / Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson // Americana/Country Classics Vol.3
10. Wishing All These Old Things Were New / Merle Haggard // If I Could Only Fly
11. Honky Tonky Mama / Merle Haggard // If I Could Only Fly
12. If I Could Only Fly / Merle Haggard // If I Could Only Fly
13. The Wild Side Of Life / Merle Haggard // Roots, Vol. 1
14. Take These Chains From My Heart / Merle Haggard // Roots, Vol. 1
15. Where’s All The Freedom / Merle Haggard // Chicago Wind
16. Truck Driver’s Blues / Merle Haggard // Working In Tennessee
17. Boat To Nowhere / Anoushka Shankar // Land Of Gold
18. Land Of Gold / Anoushka Shankar // Land Of Gold
19. Let Your Light Shine On Me / Maria Mckee // God Don’t Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson

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： 2016年 4月16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

− エブリの音楽 −

楽曲

「楽しみな週末」
ゴンチチ
（4分18秒）
＜IN THE GARDEN XNHL15002＞

「エブリシング・ハプンズ・トゥ・ミー」
セロニアス・モンク
（5分36秒）
＜OJC REMASTERS OJC-3284402＞

「エブリー・カラー・ユー・アー」
デヴィッド・シルビアン
（4分46秒）
＜VIRGIN REC. CDVD2897＞

「オラトリオ“メサイア”から あらゆる谷は持ち上げられて浅くなり」
（作曲）
（テノール）イアン・ボストリッジ
（管弦楽）ジ・エイジ・オブ・インライトメント管弦楽団
（指揮）ハリー・ビケット
（3分05秒）
＜東芝EMI TOCE-56103＞

「エブリデイ・アイ・ハブ・ザ・ブルース」
B.B.キング
（2分38秒）
＜MCA MVCM-247＞

「ア・チャイルド・イズ・ボーン」
サド・ジョーンズ＆メル・ルイス
（4分07秒）
＜UNIVERSAL TYCJ-81093＞

「エブリボディ・バッピン」
ランバート、ヘンドリックス＆ロス
（4分11秒）
＜COLUMBIA CK-45020＞

「エブリシング・スキャッター」
ミュージカル“フェラ！”オリジナル・ブロードウェイ・キャスト
（4分53秒）
＜KNITTING FACTORY KFR1103＞

「エブリシング・マスト・チェンジ」
ジョージ・ベンソン
（6分44秒）
＜WARNER BROS. 2983-2＞

「トレイニン・ザ・フィンガーズ」
ハリー・リーザー
（3分21秒）
＜DOCUMENT REC. DOCD-1108＞

「トド・ティエネ・ス・オラ」
フアン・ルイス・ゲーラ
（3分17秒）
＜CAPITOL REC. B 002204402＞

「見つめていたい」
ポリス
（4分06秒）
＜POLYDOR K.K. POCM-1990＞

「エブリー・ロンリー・ナイト」
エディ藩
（4分10秒）
＜東芝EMI TOCI-16034＞

「映画“江分利満氏の優雅な生活”タイトル曲ほか」
映画“江分利満氏の優雅な生活”サントラ
（9分36秒）
＜SLC INC. SLCS-7113＞

「マダムQと食卓」
ゴンチチ
（4分28秒）
＜EPIC／SONY ESCB1059＞

「ブラジル」
ダニエル・バレンボイム ほか
（1分54秒）
＜TELDEC 8573-80651＞

Made in Brasil

「ブラジル」
イリアーヌ・イリアス
（3分45秒）
＜CONCORD JAZZ 0888072366930＞

「テファイラ」
マリエム・ハッサン＆バディア・ミント・エル・ハネビ
（3分22秒）
＜ビーンズレコード BNSCD-5507＞

「私の叫びを聞いてくれたら」
ユーカンダンツ
（4分24秒）
＜オルターポップ AFPCD-35354＞

Jazz Now
The home of contemporary jazz on BBC Radio 3. Including new music and live recordings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075bchh

Patrick Cornelius & Bugge Wesseltoft
Mon 11 Apr 2016
23:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075fxnn
Soweto Kinch joins American saxophone virtuoso Patrick Cornelius for a masterclass at Birmingham Conservatoire, where he is working with young players on music from his newly issued suite "While We're Still Young". They discuss what it means to be a jazz composer today, and explore tricks of the trade for alto saxophonists. Meanwhile Al Ryan meets keyboard and electronics wizard Bugge Wesseltoft at his sole 2016 UK concert appearance at the Turner Sims Hall in Southampton. As well as music from Bugge's concert, we hear him talking to Al about his New Conception of Jazz, twenty years on, and he unveils his new all-female line-up. Emma Smith is joined by John Etheridge to review new guitar CDs.

Music Played

01. The Healing
Soweto Kinch
The Legend of Mike Smith
Soweto Kinch Recordings

02. Breed It
Bugge Wesseltoft

While We're Still Youn

03. Vespers
Patrick Cornelius
While We're Still Young
Whirlwind

04. Jonathan Jo
Patrick Cornelius
While We're Still Young
Whirlwind

05. Water Lilies
Patrick Cornelius
While We're Still Young
Whirlwind

06. Jeep's Blues
Patrick Cornelius & Soweto Kinch

07. Lines and Squares
Patrick Cornelius
While We're Still Young
Whirlwind

08. Poem
Bugge Wesseltoft

09. De-Imager
Bugge Wesseltoft

10. Fot
Bugge Wesseltoft

11. Frangles
Bugge Wesseltoft
New Conceptions of Jazz

12. Hit
Bugge Wesseltoft

13. Moon River
Bugge Wesseltoft

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

14. Bonanza
Bill Frisell
When You Wish Upon A Star
Okeh

15. When You Wish Upon A Star
Bill Frisell
When You Wish Upon A Star
Okeh

16. The Godfather
Bill Frisell
When You Wish Upon A Star
Okeh

amorphae

17. Dinasour Skies
Ben Monder
Amorphae
ECM

18. Oh What A Beautiful Morning
Ben Monder
Amorphae
ECM

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 16 Apr 2016
16:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0770fsc
Among listeners' requests this week is one of the classic jazz vocal routines by Louis Armstrong's All Stars. Alyn Shipton presents their vocal version of "Don't Fence Me In" featuring singer Velma Middleton.

Music Played

01. Don't Fence Me In
Louis Armstrong
Composers: Cole Porter & Robert Fletcher
Performers: Louis Armstrong, t; Barney Bigard, cl; Jack Teagarden, tb; Earl Hines, p; Arvell Shaw, b; Sid Catlett, d; Velma Middleton, v.
Ciro’s, Philadelphia, 1948
The Armstrong Box
Storyville 0717101860920 CD2 Tr.6

02. Adagio On A Mozart Theme
Irakere
Composer: Mozart arr Valdes
Performers: Arturo Sandoval, Jorge Varona, t; Carlos Averhof, fl; Paquito D’Rivera, reeds; Chucho Valdes, p; Carlos Morales, g; Carlos De Puerto, b; Enrique Pla, d; Oscar Valdes, perc.
1978-9
Best of Irakere
Columbia 57119 Tr.8

03. Original Jelly Roll Blues
Jelly Roll Morton
Composer: Morton
Performers: George Mitchell, c; Omer Simeon, cl; Kid Ory, tb; Jelly Roll Morton, p; Johnny St Cyr, bj; John Lindsay, b; Andrew Hilaire, d.
1926
Doctor Jazz
Proper Properbox 113 CD2 Tr.19

04. Spain
Bob Crosby
Composer: F Jones
Performers: Irving Fazola, cl; Eddie Miller, ts; Nappy Lamare, g; Bob Haggart, b; Ray Bauduc, d.
A Proper Introduction to Bob Crosby
Proper Tr.23

05. Gate Of Kiev
hr-Bigband
Composer: Mussorgsky arr Fischer
Performers: hr big band arr and dir Clare and Brent Fischer
Pictures at an Exhibition-Echoes of Aranjuez
hr media Tr.15

06. Quanna Moru
Olivia Sellerio
Composer: Leveratto
Performers: Olivia Sellerio, v; Mauro Schiavone, p; Giovanni Apprindi, d. Pietro Leveratto, b.
2004
Accabbanna
Egea SCA 117 Tr.8

07. Boa
Elmo Hope
Composer: Hope
Performers: Elmo Hope, p; Jimmy Bond, b; Frank Butler, d.
1959
Complete Trio Studio Masters
Gambit CD2 Tr.3

08. Straight No Chaser
Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk
Composer: Monk
Performers: Gerry Mulligan, bs; Thelonious Monk, p; Wilbur Ware, b; Shadow Wilson, d.
Aug 1957
Mulligan Meets Monk
Riverside Records RLP 12-247 Tr.5

09. Quintile
Stan Kenton
Composer: Johnny Richards
Performers: Dalton Smith, Bob Behrendt, Gary Slavo, Keith Lamotte, Marv Stamm, t; Bob Fitzpatrick, Bud Parker, Tom Ringo, Joe Amlotte, tb; Dave Wheeler, tu; Ray Starling, Dwight Carver, Joe Burnett, Luke Gasker, mellophone; Gabe Baltazar, Allen Buetler, Don Menza, Ray Florian, Joel Kaye, reeds; Stan Kenton, p; Bucky Calabrese, b; Dee Barton, d.
1962
Adventures in Time: A Concerto for Orchestra
Capitol 1844 Tr.2

10. Let's Dream In The Moonlight
Billie Holiday
Composers: Walsh/ Malneck
Performers: Bobby Hackett, cor; Trummy Young, tb; Toots Mondello, Ted Buckner, as; Bud Freeman, Chu Berry, ts; Teddy Wilson, p; Al Casey, g; Milt Hinton, b; Cozy Cole, d; Billie Holiday, v.
28 Nov 1938
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia
Columbia CD5 Tr.10

11. A Fine Romance
Benny Goodman
Composers: Kern/ Fields
Performers: Benny Goodman Orchestra with Ethel Ennis and Jimmy Rushing v.
Complete Benny in Brussels
Solar CD3 Tr.19

12. Miss Jenny's Ball
Harry Gold & His Pieces of Eight
Composer: Smith
Performers: FreddieTomasso, t; Ernie Tomasso, cl; Laurie Gold, ts; Harry Gold bsx; Bert Weedon g; Johnny Wise, d.
Simply The Best British Jazz from the 50s
Upbeat 209 Tr.5

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

Duke Ellington
Sun 17 Apr 2016
00:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0770ghs
Beginning in the 1940s, Duke Ellington devoted his main creative energies to composing suites, based on his impressions of places and themes. Geoffrey Smith highlights Ellingtonian images ranging from the Deep South to the Far East, Shakespeare and H.M. the Queen.

Music Played

01. Balcony Serenade
Duke Ellington
Composer: Billy Strayhorn
Performers: Shelton Hemphill, James ‘Taft’ Jordan, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance, t; Tricky Sam Nanton, Claude Jones, Lawrence Brown, tb; Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick, as; Al Sears, ts; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Harry Carney, bs; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Alvin ‘Junior’ Raglin, b; Sonny Greer, d.
The Indespensable
RCA NL 89972 Tr.4

02. Dancers In Love
Duke Ellington
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Shelton Hemphill, James ‘Taft’ Jordan, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance, t; Tricky Sam Nanton, Claude Jones, Lawrence Brown, tb; Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick, as; Al Sears, ts; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Harry Carney, bs; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Alvin ‘Junior’ Raglin, b; Sonny Greer, d.
The Indespensable
RCA NL 89972 Tr.12

03. Happy Go Lucky Local
Duke Ellington
Composers: Edward Kennedy & Mercer Ellington
Performers: Taft Jordan, Harold ‘Shorty’ Baker, Ray Nance, Shelton Hemphill, Cat Anderson, t; Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones, Wilbur De Paris, tb; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as; Russell Procope, as, cl; Al Sears, ts; Harry Carney, bs, cl; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Oscar Pettiford, b; Sonny Greer, d.

La Grande Histoire du Jazz
Le Chant du Monde 5741918ADD7645 Tr.6

04. Such Sweet Thunder
Duke Ellington
Composers: Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
Performers: Duke Ellington, p; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, as; Paul Gonsalves, ts; Harry Carney, bs; William ‘Cat’ Anderson, Willie Cook, Ray Nance, Clark Terry, t; Quentin Jackson, John Sanders, Britt Woodman, tb; Jimmy Woode, b; Sam Woodyard, d.
Such Sweet Thunder
Columbia CK-65568 Tr.1

05. Half the Fun
Duke Ellington
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Duke Ellington, p; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, as; Paul Gonsalves, ts; Harry Carney, bs; William ‘Cat’ Anderson, Willie Cook, Ray Nance, Clark Terry, t; Quentin Jackson, John Sanders, Britt Woodman, tb; Jimmy Woode, b; Sam Woodyard, d.

Such Sweet Thunder
Columbia CK-65568 Tr.11

06. The Single Petal of A Rose
Duke Ellington
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Duke Ellington, p; Clark Terry, Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Ray Nance, t; Britt Woodman, Quentin Jackson, John Sanders, tb; Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, reeds; Jimmy Woode, b; Jimmy Johnson, d.
The Queen's Suite
PABLO PACD-2405 401-2 Tr.5

07. Misfit Blues
Duke Ellington
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Duke Ellington, p; Cootie Williams, Cat Anderson, Roy Burrowes, t; Ray Nance, cor; Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper, Chuck Connors, tb; Johnny Hodges, as; Russell Procope, cl, as; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Paul Gonsalves, ts; Harry Carney, bs, cl; Ernie Shepard, b; Sam Woodyard, d.
The Great Paris Concert
Atlantic Jazz 7567813032-2 Tr.9

08. Schwiphti
Duke Ellington
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Duke Ellington, p; Cootie Williams, Cat Anderson, Roy Burrowes, t; Ray Nance, cor; Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper, Chuck Connors, tb; Johnny Hodges, as; Russell Procope, cl, as; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Paul Gonsalves, ts; Harry Carney, bs, cl; Ernie Shepard, b; Sam Woodyard, d.
The Great Paris Concert
Atlantic Jazz 7567813032-2 Tr.10

09. Agra
Duke Ellington
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Duke Ellington, p; Cat Anderson, Herbie Jones, Mercer Ellington, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Chuck Connors, Buster Cooper,tb; Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, cl, s; Jon Lamb, b; Rusus Jones, d.
The Far East Suite
Bluebird 078636-655 Tr.7

10. Ad Lib On Nippon
Duke Ellington
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Duke Ellington, p; Cat Anderson, Herbie Jones, Mercer Ellington, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Chuck Connors, Buster Cooper, tb; Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, cl, s, Jon Lamb, b; Rusus Jones, d.
The Far East Suite
Bluebird 078636-655 Tr.9

11. The Sleeping Lady And The Giant Who Watches Over Here
Duke Ellington
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Mercer Ellington, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper, tb; Chuck Connors, btb; Johnny Hodges, as; Russell Procope, as, cl; Paul Gonsalves, ts; Harold Ashby, ts, cl; Harry Carney, bs; Jeff Castleman, b; Rufus Jones, d.
Latin American Suite
Original Jazz Classics OJC20-469-2 Tr.5

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

Serpentine
Sun 17 Apr 2016
17:30
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0770h0n
Poems, prose and music about snakes - real, mythological and metaphorical. With readings by Tracy-Ann Oberman and Ewan Bailey.

Producer's Note
We begin, appropriately, in the Garden of Eden. Adam et Eve, played by Alain Kremski, is one of many collaborative compositions by Georges Gurdjieff and Thomas De Hartmann. Typically Gurdjieff would whistle a theme, or pick it out with one finger on the piano, and De Hartmann would transcribe, adapt and harmonise these themes. The first snake we meet is the Serpent, leading Eve astray in Milton’s Paradise Lost. For those brought up in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, this early association between snakes and deception gives rise to a host of metaphors, none of which reflect well on these unfortunate reptiles.

‘I’m a crawlin’ king snake’, sings John Lee Hooker, ‘and I rule my den’. Another talking snake and another metaphorical association, this one being unequivocally sexual in nature.

Of course the suspicion with which snakes are sometimes treated is not simply down to the Serpent’s role in the Fall. Only a minority of species may be venomous, but that’s sufficient cause for many people to fear snakes. In Thomas Hardy’s novel The Return of the Native, Mrs Yeobright is bitten by an adder as she returns from an unsuccessful attempt to visit her estranged son Clym, who finds her in a semi-conscious state as he crosses Egdon Heath that evening. Until the doctor comes, he has to put his faith in a folk remedy involving adder fat.

A far happier human/snake encounter is evoked by Danish composer Erik Norby’s 1975 work The Rainbow Snake which was inspired by a Native American legend describing how a snake saved people from a drought by becoming the first rainbow. In the score, Norby states that the following version of the legend should be printed in the programme whenever it is performed:

The Rainbow Snake is an Indian legend of how the rainbow appeared in the sky; about how a snake heard the laments of the Indian people over a long period of drought and infertility and had itself thrown up in coiled form at the sky. There it uncoiled and became longer an longer, until both its head and its tail reached the ground. Its arching back scraped the blue ice down from the sky.

The snake began to shimmer in all its colours, the ice melted and after a long drought rain fell once more on the earth. The land came to life again, the water once more filled the dried-up river beds and the roses bloomed anew.

Since then the snake has arched its supple body across the sky every time it rains on a sunny day.

The specimen we meet in Denise Lervetov’s poem To The Snake, is not rainbow-hued, but green and the narrator’s relationship with it is ambiguous. It seems that this isn’t a snake at all, but a harmful yet alluring compulsion akin to the combination of beautiful, glistening scales and a lethal bite. And we meet another woman in thrall to this dangerous cocktail of attraction and threat in Oscar Brown Jr’s song The Snake.

While the snake in that song and in John Lee Hooker’s Crawlin’ King Snake are clearly meant to be understood as representing men, if we go to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, we find a man literally turning into a snake. Cadmus, when he founded the city of Thebes, made the mistake of killing a sacred snake. Athene warned him at the time that he himself would end his days as a snake and, years later, when Cadmus and his wife Harmonia are living in exile in Illyria, divine retribution finally catches up with them. Both are transformed into serpents.

Jean-Baptiste Lully’s 1673 ‘tragedie en musique’ Cadmus et Hermione deals with an earlier episode in the couple’s life – their love story. The only transformation here is of Harmonia’s name. This is a chaconne from the opera performed by the London Oboe Band.

There’s some more serpentine shape-shifting in this extract from Lamia by John Keats. In Keat’s adaptation of the Greek myth, Hermes goes in search of a beautiful nymph. On his journey he encounters a Lamia who has been trapped in the form of a serpent. She reveals the previously invisible nymph to him and he, in return, restores her to human form. She then goes on a quest of her own, in search of a young man called Lycius. No spoilers, but it doesn’t end well.

The American composer Edward MacDowell acknowledged Keats’s poem as one of the inspirations for his own work also entitled Lamia. In this symphonic poem, MacDowell expresses the physical and emotional transformations that the character undergoes by taking a primary musical subject and presenting it in different guises associated with specific images of Lamia.

In William Matthew’s poem The Snake, he concentrates on the unique and sometimes unsettling way in which snakes move and how it calls to mind a host of other associations.

There is certainly something sinuous and slightly unpredictable about jazz pianist and composer Uri Caine’s work Anaconda, named after the mighty South American constrictor.

Emily Dickinson, in her poem Snake, is similarly preoccupied by the sudden and unnerving way in which snakes can appear and disappear. She also identifies a singular uncanniness about snakes which marks them out from other members of the animal kingdom.

This otherness is evoked by Michael Berkeley’s piece for cor anglais, Snake – written for and played here by Nicholas Daniel. Berkeley was inspired to write the piece by the DH Lawrence poem Snake which captures the ambivalent relationship that we have with these animals. Lawrence is awestruck by the majesty of the creature that he sees drinking at a water trough, but he is also aware of - and ashamed of – a cultural imperative to destroy it.

Kalbeliya is a traditional song from a nomadic snake charmer community in Rajasthan. When this is performed by the men, the women sway to music with snake-like movements. Snake charming was once a common street entertainment in India, but has largely died out after being declared illegal in the late 20th century. Rudyard Kipling would certainly have seen snake charmers at work during his time in the subcontinent, and although pythons were among the many species used by the charmers, none of them would have been a fraction of the size of Kaa, his famous creation from The Jungle Book. In this extract from ‘Kaa’s Hunting’, the monstrous python helps Baloo and Bagheera to rescue Mowgli from the Bandar-Log.

Kipling may not be widely read today, but Kaa will be familiar to many thanks to the 1967 Walt Disney film of The Jungle Book . Sterling Holloway as Kaa sings Trust In Me as he hypnotises the captive Mowgli and wraps him in his coils. The ability of snakes to hypnotise their prey is an enduring myth, probably stemming from the fact that snakes are unable to blink and that prey animals often freeze up, presumably with fear, when in close proximity to a snake.

Kaa, as portrayed by Kipling, is a formidable predator, but he pales into insignificance beside the fearsome serpents we meet in Virgil’s Aeneid. When Aeneas and his men reach Carthage, Dido gives a banquet in honour of the Trojans and Aeneas tells her the sad sequence of events that have led them there. Here he relates the terrible fate of Laocoon and his sons after the priest throws a spear at the wooden horse that they find left outside the walls of Troy.

We end with Samuel Barber’s On the death of Cleopatra, written in 1966 for the Metropolitan Opera House and performed here by the Cambridge University Chamber Choir. The popular tradition has it that, following Antony’s suicide, Cleopatra died from the effects of snake venom after provoking two asps to bite her. Asp is an anglicisation of aspis which, in antiquity, referred to any one of several venomous snake species found in Nile region. The asp was a symbol of royalty in Roman Egypt and its venom was used to kill criminals who were thought to deserve a more dignified death than more common forms of execution.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Music Played

00:00
Georges Gurdjieff, Thomas De Hartmann
Adam et Ève
Performer: Alain Kremski
NAÏVE V4890 Tr.7

John Milton
Paradise Lost, read by Tracy-Ann Oberman

00:06
Tony Hollins
Crawlin' King Snake
Performer: John Lee Hooker
Ace 29667131520 Tr.7

Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native, read by Ewan Bailey

00:12
Erik Norby
Regnbueslangen (The Rainbow Snake)
Performer: Aalborg Symphont Orchestra, Bo Holten
DACAPO 8226096 Tr.1

Denise Levertov
To The Snake, read by Tracy-Ann Oberman

00:24
Oscar Brown Jr.
The Snake
Performer: Oscar Brown Jr.
CBS 62174 Tr.7

Ovid
Metamorphoses, read by Ewan Bailey

00:29
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Cadmus et Hermione (Chaconne)
Performer: London Oboe Band, Paul Goodwin (Director)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907122 Tr.45

John Keats
Lamia, read by Tracy-Ann Oberman

00:35
Edward MacDowell
Lamia, Op. 29
Performer: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Krueger (conductor)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OMP104 Tr.4

William Matthews
The Snake, read by Ewan Bailey

00:49
Uri Caine
Anaconda
Performer: Uri Caine
WINTER & WINTER 9100752 Tr.14

Emily Dickinson
Snake, read by Tracy-Ann Oberman

00:56
Michael Berkeley
Snake (1990) for cor anglais
Performer: Nicholas Daniel
LEMAN CLASSICS LC42801 Tr.20

D.H. Lawrence
Snake, read by Ewan Bailey

01:03
Trad.
Kalbeliya
Performer: Rangpuhar Langa Group
ARC EUCD2013 Tr.5

Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book, read by Tracy-Ann Oberman

01:06
Robert Sherman, Richard Sherman
Trust In Me
Performer: Sterling Holloway
Walt Disney Records ? 60907 - 7 Tr.20

Virgil
The Aeneid, read by Ewan Bailey

01:11
Samuel Barber
On the death of Cleopatra
Performer: Cambridge University Chamber Choir, Timothy Brown (Director)
GAMUT CLASSICS GAMCD535 Tr.9