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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 6月 4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. James Bond / Roland Alphonso // Intensified
02. Whose Muddy Shoes / Elmore James // Whose Muddy Shoes
03. Be Careful / John Brim // Whose Muddy Shoes
04. Call It Stormy Monday / Elmore James // Whose Muddy Shoes
05. This Strange Effect / Dave Berry // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
06. I Go To Sleep / Peggy Lee // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
07. Who’ll Be The Next In Line / The Knack // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
08. All Night Stand / The Thoughts // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
09. A House In The Country / The Pretty Things // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
10. Rosy, Won’t You Please Come Home / Marianne Faithfull // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
11. Big Black Smoke / Mick & Malcolm // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
12. Mister Pleasant / Nicky Hopkins & The Whistling Piano // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
13. I’m Not Like Everybody Else / The Chocolate Watchband // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
14. Act Nice And Gentle / Duster Bennett // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
15. Nobody’s Fool / Cold Turkey // Kinked! Kinks Songs & Sessions 1964-1971
16. Compared To What / Les McCann & Eddie Harris // Swiss Movement
17. A Change Is Gonna Come / Sam Cooke // Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
18. Shine / Joni Mitchell // Shine
19. Sam Stone / Swamp Dogg // A Soldier’s Sad Story: Vietnam Through The Eyes Of Black America 1966-73
20. War / The Temptations // Does Anybody Know I’m Here?
21. Open Letter To The President / Roy C / Does Anybody Know I’m Here?

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 6月 4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

− Cの音楽 −

楽曲

「ココナッツ・バスケット」 （ゴンチチ）
（3分31秒）
＜SONY MUSIC LABELS
ESCL30013,30014＞

「CC」 （ウォーペイント）
（3分47秒）
＜ROUGH TRADE RTRADCD680＞

「C・モーダル・ナンバー・ワン」
（ピーター・スタンフェル・アンド・ザ・ブルックリン・アンド・ローワー・マンハッタン・バンジョー・スクアドロン）
（2分40秒）
＜DON GIOVANNI REC. DG-82＞

「ロックン・ロール・ララバイ」 （テン・シーシー）
（3分54秒）
＜日本フォノグラム PHCA-6128＞

「リトル・ジョニー・C」 （ジョニー・コールズ）
（5分10秒）
＜東芝EMI TOCJ-6618＞

「バグンサ」 （サンパウロ・パジーリャ）
（3分22秒）
＜DABLIU NO NUMBER＞

「シー・シー・シー」 （ザ・タイガース）
（2分57秒）
＜UNIVERSAL EJS6081＞

「ミスター・C」 （ノーマン・コナーズ）
（4分23秒）
＜SONY MUSIC JAPAN SICP3520＞

「C・ムーン」 （ポール・マッカートニー）
（4分33秒）
＜東芝EMI TOCP-65746,65747＞

「おもちゃのピアノのための組曲」
（作曲）ジョン・ケージ
（トイ・ピアノ）ジーン・カースティン
（2分57秒）
＜SONY REC. SICC76,77＞

「さよならのビギン」 （松島詩子）
（3分18秒）
＜キングレコード KICJ626＞

「C・C・ライダー」 （チャック・ウィリス）
（2分30秒）
＜WEA WPCR-27527＞

Night Train

「C・ジャム・ブルース」 （オスカー・ピーターソン）
（3分23秒）
＜REAL GONE RGJCD393＞

「アベニュー・C」 （ランバート、ヘンドリックス＆ロス）
（2分52秒）
＜REAL GONE RGJCD415＞

「“イン・C”DJスプーキー・リミックス」
（グランド・バレー・ステート・ユニバーシティ・ニュー・ミュージック・アンサンブル）
（ディレクター）ビル・ライアン
（2分31秒）
＜INNOVA INNOVA758＞

「テンペスターヂ」 （シコ・ピニェイロ）
（5分50秒）
＜GOAT HILL REC. GHR001＞

「チョップ・チョップ・チャーリー・チャン」
（キャブ・キャロウェイ）
（3分00秒）
＜EPIC／SONY 25.8P-5117＞

「クール・コメディ」 （ゴンチチ）
（2分53秒）
＜EPIC／SONY ESCB1157＞

「ムーブ・オン・アップ」 （カーティス・メイフィールド）
（1分23秒）
＜J！MCO JICK-89484＞

「ムーブ・オン・アップ」 （エゴ・ラッピン）
（3分58秒）
＜トイズファクトリー TFCC-86547＞

「愛は面影の中に」 （トティ・ソレール、ジェンマ・ウメット）
（4分20秒）
＜ビーンズレコード BNSCD8924＞

「人生はパーティ」 （クララ・ペーヤ）
（3分11秒）
＜ビーンズレコード BNSCD8923＞

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

Guy Clark Tribute
Tue 31 May 2016
21:00
BBC Radio Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cypjb
Ricky pays tribute to Guy Clark, an important member of the Nashville roots scene and friend to many of the musicians and songwriters in the town.

Guy's songs were recorded by Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Bobby Bare, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. Guy was also friend and mentor to Rodney Crowell who describes their friendship.

Plus Ricky showcases some brand new Americana & Country music.

Music Played

01. Devil In Me
Anderson East
Delilah
Elektra

02. The Truth
Jason Aldean
Sony Music Uk

03. Golden Gloves
Anthony D'Amato
Cold Snap
New West Records

04. Hearts In Heartland
Galia Arad
Hearts In The Hartland
Dog Pound Music

05. Black
Dierks Bentley
Black
Capitol

06. Boats To Build
Guy Clark
Boats to Build
Asylum/Elektra

This One's for Him: a Tribute to Guy Clark

07. That Old Time Feeling
Rodney Crowell
This One's for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark
Ice House Music
http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/this-ones-for-him-a-tribute-to-guy-clark/
08. The Cape
Patty Griffin
This One's For Him Vol.2
Music Road Records

09. No Woman
Whitney
Light Upon The Lake
Secretly Canadian

10. A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey
Leyla McCalla
A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey
Jazz Village

11. The Worst In You
Andy Shauf
The Party
ANTI‐

12. Let Him Roll
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town
Mercury Records

13. Desperados Waiting For A Train
The Highwaymen
Highwayman
Columbia Nashville

14. My Favorite Picture Of You
Guy Clark
My Favorite Picture of You
Dualtone Music Group

15. Pool Party
Julia Jacklin
Pool Party
Julia Jacklin

16. Little Black Train
Anna & Elizabeth
Anna & Elizabeth
Free Dirt

17. Let Me Off At The Bottom
Daniel Meade & The Flying Mules
Let Me Off At The Bottom
At The Helm Records

18. Target
Graham Nash
This Path Tonight
Blue Castle

19. Wantin Ain't Gettin
Esmé Patterson
We Were Wild
Grand Jury Music

20. Only
RY X
Dawn
PIAS

21. Come Running (Recorded live at The Troubadour)
Van Morrison
It's Too Late To Stop Now
Polydor

22. Holy Low
Nadia Reid
Promo single
Spunk Records

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 28 May 2016

16:00

BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dk7kt
Alyn Shipton selects music from listeners' requests in all styles of jazz, including music from the acclaimed singer Gregory Porter.

Music Played

01. Fan The Flames
Gregory Porter
Performers: Gregory Porter, v; Keyon Harrold, t; Tivon Pennicott, ts; Yosuke Sato, as; Chip Crawford, p; Aarin James, b; Emmanuel Harrold, d.
2016
Take Me To The Alley
Blue Note Tr.11

02. Gling Glo
Björk
Composers: Klausen/ Engilbertsdottir
Performers: Björk, v; Guðmundur Ingólfsson, p; Guðmundur Steingrímsson, d; Þórður Högnason, b.
1990
Gling Glo
Smekklaysa TPLP61 Tr.1

03. Indian Lady
Don Ellis
Composer: Ellis
Performers: Don Ellis, lan Weight, Ed Warren, Glenn Stuart, Bob Harmon, t; Ron Myers, Dave Sanchez, Terry Woodson, tb; Ruben Leon, Joe Roccisano, Ira Shulman, Ron Starr, John Magruder, reeds; Mike Lang, p; Frank Dela Rosa, Dave Parlato, b; Ray Neapolitan, bass/sitar; Alan Estes, vib; Steve Bohannon, d; Chino Valdes, Mark Stevens, perc.
1967
Electric Bath
Columbia CS 9585 Tr.1

04. Blues For The Fisherman
Milcho Leviev
Composer: Pepper
Performers: Art Pepper, as; Milcho Leviev, p; Tony Dumas, b; Carl Burnett, d.
June 1980
Blues For The Fisherman
Mole Jazz 1 Plus Tr.6

05. The Chase
Dexter Gordon
Composers: Gordon/ Gray
Performers: Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, ts; Jimmy Bunn, p; Red Callendar, b; Chuck Thompson, d.
12 June 1947
Settin' the Pace
Proper Properbox 16 CD2 Tr.8

06. Wrapping It Up
Svend Asmussen
Composer: Henderson
Performers: Svend Asmussen, vn; Jacob Fischer, g; Jesper Lundgaard, b; Aage Tangaard, d.
30 March 1996
The Incomparable Fiddler, 100 Years
Storyville 108 8618 CD5 Tr.5

07. Bound For The Beauty of The South
Esbjörn Svensson
Composer: Svensson
Performers: Esbjorn Svensson, p; Dan Berglund, b; Magnus Ostrom, d.
2002
Strange Place For Snow
ACT 9011-2 Tr.5

08. Saxey
Barbara Thompson
Composers: Thompson/ Lemer
Performers: Barbara Thompson, ts; Peter Lemer, kb; Billy Thompson, vn; Dave Ball, b; Jon Hiseman, d.
2015
The Last Fandango
Temple Music 1501 Tr.5

09. St Louis Blues
Chris Barber
Composer: Handy
Performers: Pat Halcox, t; Chris Barber, tb; Monty Sunshine, cl; Lonnie Donegan, bj; Jim Bray, b; Ron Bowden, d.
1955
The Complete Decca Sessions 1954/55
Lake 141/2 CD2 Tr.13

10. Up A Lazy River
Sidney Bechet
Composers: Carmichael/ Arodin
Performers: Muggsy Spanier, c; Sidney Bechet, cl, ss; Carmen Mastren, g; Wellman Braud, b.
March 1940
Shake Em Up
Avid 694 CD1 Tr.16

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

Oscar Pettiford
Sun 5 Jun 2016
00:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dk7sg
A legendary master of the string bass, Oscar Pettiford (1922-60) starred with Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk before leading his own orchestra, on both bass and cello. Geoffrey Smith salutes a virtuoso renowned for his fluency, musicality and swing.

Music Played

Bass Hits

01. Esquire Blues
Oscar Pettiford
Composer: Leonard Feather
Performers: Cootie Williams, t; Ed Hall, cl; Coleman Hawkins, ts; Art Tatum, p; Al Casey, g; Oscar Pettiford, b; Sid Catlett, d.
Bass Hits
TOPAZ TPZ1017 Tr.1

02. The Man I Love
Oscar Pettiford
Composers: George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
Performers: Coleman Hawkins, ts; Eddie Heywood, p; Oscar Pettiford, b; Shelly Manne, d.
Bass Hits
TOPAZ TPZ1017 Tr.2

03. Pluckin' That Thing
Oscar Pettiford
Composer: Oscar Pettiford
Performers: Bill Coleman, t; Joe Eldridge, as; Ike Quebec, ts; Sammy Price, p; Oscar Pettiford, b; Doc West, d.
Bass Hits
TOPAZ TPZ1017 Tr.5

04. Be Bop
Oscar Pettiford
Composer: Charlie Parker
Performers: Dizzy Gillespie, t; Trummy Young, tb; Don Byas, ts; Clyde Hart, p; Oscar Pettiford, b; Shelly Manne, d.
Bass Hits
TOPAZ TPZ1017 Tr.16

05. Swamp Fire
Duke Ellington
Composer: Hal Mooney
Performers: Taft Jordan, Shelton Hemphill, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance, Francis Williams, Harold Baker, t; Joe ‘Tricky Sam’ Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones, Wilbur de Paris, tb; Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, as; Jimmy Hamilton, cl; Al Sears, ts; Harry Carney, bs; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Oscar Pettiford, b; Sonny Greer, d.
Bass Hits
TOPAZ TPZ1017 Tr.22

Plays Duke Ellington

06. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Thelonious Monk
Composer: Duke Ellington
Performers: Thelonious Monk, p; Oscar Pettiford, b; Kenny Clarke, d.
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
Riverside OJC-30128 Tr.1

07. Bohemia After Dark
Oscar Pettiford
Composer: Oscar Pettiford
Performers: Donald Byrd, Ernie Royal, t; Bob Brookmeyer, tb; Jerome Richardson, fl; Gigie Gryce, as; Don Abney, p; Oscar Pettiford, b; Osie Johnson, d.
Nonet & Octet
Fresh Sound Records FSRCD453 Tr.10

08. Tricrotism
Lucky Thompson & Oscar Pettiford
Composer: Oscar Pettiford
Performers: Lucky Thompson, ts; Skeeter Best, g; Oscar Pettiford, b.
Lucky Thompson Meets Oscar Pettiford
Fresh Sound Records FSR CD-424 Tr.8

09. Golden Touch
Oscar Pettiford
Composer: Quincy Jones
Performers: Julius Watkins, french horn; Charlie Rouse, ts; Duke Jordan, p; Oscar Pettiford, cello & bass; Ron Jefferson, d.
Quartet Quintet & Sextet in a Cello Mood
Fresh Sound Records FSRCD452 Tr.15

10. Somewhere
Oscar Pettiford
Composer: Copeland
Performers: Ray Copeland, Art Farmer, t; Al Grey, tb; Julius Watkins, Dave Amram, french horn; Gigi Gryce, as; Benny Golson, ts; Jerome Richardson, fl; Sahib Shihab, bs; Dick Katz, p; Oscar Pettiford, b; Gus Johnson, d.
Complete Big Band Studio Recordings
Phono 870242 Tr.14

11. Little Niles
Oscar Pettiford
Composer: Randy Weston
Performers: Kenny Dorham, t; Al Grey, tb; Julius Watkins, Dave Amram, french horn; Gigi Gryce, as; Benny Golson, ts; Jerome Richardson, fl; Sahib Shihab, bs; Dick Katz, p; Betty Glamann, harp; Oscar Pettiford, b; Gus Johnson, d.
Complete Big Band Studio Recordings
Phono 870242 Tr.16

Freedom Suite [12 inch Analog]

12. Freedom Suite
Sonny Rollins
Composer: Sonny Rollins
Performers: Sonny Rollins, ts; Oscar Pettiford, b; Max Roach, d.
Freedom Suite
Riverside OJCCD-067-2 Tr.1

Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3

Tanita Tikaram
Sun 5 Jun 2016
12:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dkbz8
Tanita Tikaram became an overnight success when she was only a teenager; her debut album "Ancient Heart" sold four million copies in the late 80s and gave her hit singles like 'Twist in My Sobriety'. Since then she's gone on to release eight more albums, with some rather interesting silences in between - when she almost gave up on music altogether. She's currently touring Europe with her ninth album, 'Closer to the People'.

In Private Passions, Tanita Tikaram talks to Michael Berkeley about the effect of that massive early success, and about going to live in Italy to escape the rock music world. It was a wilderness moment, when she wasn't even sure she should be a musician. At this point, in her 30s, she began to discover classical music, through the work of legendary performers like pianists Rosalyn Tureck and Clara Haskil. She talks about how Bach opened up a new musical world to her, and how listening to classical music - and taking classical singing lessons - helps her find her "groove" when she is composing her own songs.

With Bach, Vivaldi, Ravel, Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23, Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, and Duke Ellington.

Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3

Music Played

00:01
Tanita Tikaram
Twist in my sobriety

00:07
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita no.2 in C minor
Performer: Rosalyn Tureck

00:14
Joseph Canteloube
Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne)
Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Jeffrey Tate

00:22
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G (2nd mvt: Adagio assai)
Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Ettore Gracis

00:34
Duke Ellington, Joe Nanton, Wellman Braud, Fred Guy, Sonny Greer, Otto Hardwick, Bubber Miley, Louis Metcalfe, Rudy Jackson, Harry Carney & Adelaide Hall
Creole Love Call

00:40
Antonio Vivaldi
Ch'infelice sempre (Cessate, omai cessate)
Singer: Sara Mingardo
Orchestra: Concerto Italiano
Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini

00:49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.23 in A (2nd mvt: Andante)
Performer: Clara Haskil
Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker
Conductor: Paul Sacher

00:56
Lalo Schifrin
The Blues for Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Circles, Curves and Contours
Sun 5 May 2016
17:30
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dkbzj
Circles, Curves and Contours are explored as Words and Music strays from the straight and narrow. With literary selections from Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emily Dickinson and Tony Harrison and music from Miles Davis and The Beatles to Bach and Bax. The readers are Deborah Findlay and Hugh Fraser.

Producer's Notes
Circles, curves and contours have informed the work of musicians and writers as much as that of visual artists, all eager to explore a natural world of relatively few straight lines and angles. They have taken inspiration from the arcs and circles of geometry, the curves of natural forms including the human body and the contours and undulations of the landscape.

By way of a foreword to the arc of this sequence Shakespeare’s Prologue in Henry V speculates on how much of the external world can be encompassed within a circle, in this case the ‘wooden O’ of the Elizabethan theatre: the encircling walls are not boundaries if one’s imagination is given free rein.

Bach used circular forms of music for much of his work, exemplified in this case by the Goldberg Variation No 3. Using the device of a round, or more accurately a canon, the themes are started, picked up and repeated and return to the beginning in a spiral of melody. There are two versions of the same variation here, both by the same pianist, Glenn Gould. He recorded the first in 1955 - a performance that made him famous and then, unusually for him, returned to the same pieces re-recording them 25 years later in a radical re-interpretation, a variation on the variation, completing the cycle.

An 1895 poem ‘Orbits’ by the British poet Richard Le Gallienne uses the metaphor of the heavenly movements to describe the passing nature of human encounters. And a hundred years previously James Hook, the organist at Vauxhall Gardens which famously featured a spectacular Rotunda, composed his March, Andantino and Rondo the last part of which is heard here – a rondo being a musical form in which a refrain is stated, left and returned to in a series of overlapping musical circles. This Rondo is played on a trio of the most winding of wind instruments: the serpent.

The curves of the instrument are of course designed to compress greater length into a shorter space but it is this aspect of a winding road that makes it longer and more difficult to travel. Christina Rossetti, in ‘Up-hill’, and Paul McCartney in ‘The Long and Winding Road’ both hope the twisting path will eventually lead to fulfillment. The Beatles came to the end of their long and winding road with the recording of this song, their last single as quartet. Paul McCartney objected to the adding of strings to the recording prompting him to leave the band. This is the version without the orchestra.

John Clare on the other hand sees the meandering of the stream in his ‘Flow on Winding River’ as not so much demanding as restful. The river bends in ‘Moon River’, taken from the soundtrack of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the anonymous ‘The River’, are seen as hiding something promising, the great curve of a rainbow in Audrey Hepburn’s case. ‘The River’ is sometimes attributed to, of all people, Enoch Powell, but it seems he just quoted it once at friend’s funeral.

Rivers are sinuous because of the contours of the landscapes they course through and down from the heights, expressed in ‘Elevazione’ by the baroque composer and Jesuit missionary Domenico Zipoli, to the deep, dark valley which Edward Thomas writes about in ‘The Combe’ including an early expression of horror at the still controversial killing of badgers. Arnold Bax’s tone poem evokes the rocky contours of Tintagel on the Cornish coast. He wrote that he aimed to create ‘a tonal impression of the castle–crowned cliff of (now sadly degenerate) Tintagel’. He wanted to include the ‘thoughts of many passionate and tragic incidents in the tales of King Arthur’. Alfred Tennyson had the same notion in his retelling in verse of Sir Thomas Mallory’s ‘Morte d’Arthur’, this extract referring to the dissolution of the Round Table.

The contrasting contours of hills and valleys also features in Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘The Floods’, presumably Indian, while Hamish MacCunn’s 1886 work ‘Land of the Mountain and the Flood’, written when he was only eighteen, evokes the Scottish equivalent.

Terry Riley’s ‘A Rainbow in Curved Air’ from 1969 used electronics to describe the arch of the spectrum whilst William Wordsworth’s poem ‘My Heart Leaps Up’, sometimes called ‘The Rainbow’, is similarly minimalist in approach if not in style.

Stanton Drew in Somerset is the home of a stone circle, the setting for U. A. Fanthorpe’s verse of the same name, provoking reflections on the timelessness of the landscape surrounding the prehistoric menhirs.

Erik Satie coined the term “gnossiennes” for his short experimental piano pieces that often lacked time signatures and conventional chord structures. They and the Gymnopédies have inspired many dancers. Russell Maliphant based his interpretation of the first three gnossiennes, of which we hear No 1, on choreographic drawings made by Nijinsky depicting curves and circles. Sir Frederick Ashton wrote of the pieces as “a series of interrupted and overlapping recapitulations which causes the piece to fold in on itself as it were... and even succeeds in abolishing our time sense”.

It provides a background for Emily Dickinson’s enigmatic two poems which both use imagery of arcs and curves; ‘I Make his Crescent Fill or Lack’ is about what? The moon, the earth, the sun? And ‘She Staked Her Feathers’ on the surface at least concerns the arc of a bird’s flight.

‘Timer’ by Tony Harrison alludes to the curves of an egg-timer (as Shakespeare refers to an hour-glass in the Prologue earlier) and also the eternal nature of a circle in the form of a wedding ring. Like Harrison’s poem, Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’ is intensely personal, comparing onion rings to a wedding band. Their domestic settings contrast with the intervening grandiose aspirations of Richard Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle in which a ring can grant world domination. This orchestral passage from Götterdämmerung is Siegfried’s Journey on the Rhine, another winding river following the contours from Switzerland, through Germany to the Netherlands.

Another rondo as Mozart goes to town on the form in his celebrated ‘Rondo alla Turca’, interpreted here by the trumpet virtuosa Alison Balsom.

The curves of the female human body have inspired artists for millennia and Ovid, translated in the seventeenth century by the poet John Dryden, tells the legend of Pygmalion creating a sculpture of a female form so perfect he falls in love with it whereupon it is brought to life by a goddess. And it is the curvaceous statue of a goddess’s body that is the muse for Gerry Mulligan’s composition ‘Venus de Milo’ played by trumpeter of a very different ilk, Miles Davis. The curve of a young lady’s nose prompts L. P. Hartley’s musings on beauty in an extract from ‘The Go-between’ as he also notices the distracting orbit of other women. And in a different kind of social circle Jake Thackray observes women more buxom in his mischievous ‘The Castleford Ladies’ Magic Circle’ - although even they couldn’t compete with Humpy Dumpty’s self-satisfaction with the ovoid form in this extract from ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’.

Benjamin Britten utilises the musical device of a round for his chorus ‘Old Joe Has Gone Fishing’ from ‘Peter Grimes’ to defuse a potentially unpleasant situation in the pub with a bit of social cohesion.

Ostensibly light and humorous ‘Soliloquy in Circles’ by Ogden Nash actually deals with the rather grander theme of the cycle of life - a father’s thoughts on the birth and raising of offspring whilst Pops Staples, with his children, reflects on the other side of the coin, the death of a mother in The Staple Singers’ ‘Will the Circle be Unbroken?’.

David Saul wrote his verse about π, the constant that expresses the relationship of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, as kind of mnemonic. Each word in it contains the number of letters that corresponds to the digits of 3 plus the first thirty-four decimal places in order (‘It’s a fact a ratio immutable…’ = 3.14159 etc. - except for the word ‘nothing’ which represents zero). In printed form the words are arranged to form a circle.

‘The Circle Game’, Joni Mitchell explained in 1968, is ‘about people and growing old and growing young and carousels and painted ponies and the weather and the Buffalo Springfield.’ More specifically she wrote it for Neil Young. Some hear in it a mother’s words to her son. The poet Judith Fitzgerald, like Joni Mitchell, a Canadian, died at the end of last year. She wrote ‘Que Besa Sus Pies, Que Besa Sus Manos’ a few years previously but it was published in the month of her death. The title is a Spanish greeting, often abbreviated to qbsp, qbsm, meaning something like ‘kissing his feet, kissing his hands’. Her circular imagery includes clocks, circuses, the sun and the moon and, again, the continuity between parent and child; father, son and Holy Ghost.

At the end of this roundabout sequence we come full circle: Glenn Gould again plays two takes of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, No 24 this time, the later one first and then, with the earlier version, back to the beginning.

Producer: Harry Parker

Music Played

William Shakespeare
Prologue to Henry V read by Deborah Findlay

00:02
Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - Variation 3 (1955)
Performer: Glenn Gould
CBS MYK 44868 Tr.4

00:02
Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 – Variation 3 (1980)
Performer: Glenn Gould
CBS CD37779 Tr.1

Richard Le Gallienne
Orbits read by Hugh Fraser

00:05
James Hook
Rondo, op. 83, c.1796
Performer: The London Serpent Trio
Titanic Records TI 100 CD1 Tr.6

Christina Rossetti
Up-hill read by Deborah Findlay

00:07
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
The Long and Winding Road
Performer: The Beatles
Parlophone 5957132 CD1 Tr.4

John Clare
Flow on Winding River read by Hugh Fraser

00:12
Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer
Moon River
Performer: Audrey Hepburn
Warner WB245032 Tr.11

00:14
Domenico Zipoli
Elevazione for Cello and Oboe
Performer: Consort of London, Robert Haydon Clark (Conductor)
Classic FM CFMCD34 CD1 Tr.10

Edward Thomas
The Combe read by Deborah Findlay

Alfred Lord Tennyson
from Morte d’Arthur read by Hugh Fraser

00:18
Arnold Bax
Tintagel (Tone Poem)
Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (Conductor)
Naxos 8557145 Tr.1

Rudyard Kipling
The Floods read by Hugh Fraser

00:24
Hamish MacCunn
Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (Conductor)
Hyperion CDA66815 Tr.1

00:30
Terry Riley
A Rainbow in Curved Air
Performer: Terry Riley
Columbia 4778492 Tr.1

William Wordsworth
My Heart Leaps Up read by Hugh Fraser

U. A. Fanthorpe
Stanton Drew read by Deborah Findlay

00:35
Erik Satie
les 6 Gnossiennes - No 1
Performer: Chantal de Buchy (Piano)
PG PCD7657 Tr.10

Emily Dickinson
I Make His Crescent Fill or Lack read by Deborah Findlay

Emily Dickinson
She Staked Her Feathers read by Deborah Findlay

Tony Harrison
Timer read by Hugh Fraser

00:39
Richard Wagner
Siegfried’s Journey on the Rhine
Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden, Marek Janowski (conductor)
EURODISC GD 69007 (1) CD1 Tr.7

Carol Ann Duffy
Valentine read by Deborah Findlay

00:44
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo alla Turca
Performer: Alison Balsom (trumpet), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner (Conductor)
EMI Classics EMI3532552 Tr.1

Ovid, John Dryden (Translator)
The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue read by Deborah Findlay

00:49
Gerry Mulligan
Venus de Milo
Performer: Miles Davis (trumpet)
Capitol CDP7928622CAP Tr.4

L. P. Hartley
From The Go-between read by Hugh Fraser

00:53
Jake Thackray
The Castleford Ladies’ Magic Circle
Performer: Jake Thackray
EMI CDP7962712 Tr.12

Lewis Carroll
From Alice Through the Looking Glass read by Deborah Findlay

00:58
Benjamin Britten
Old Joe Has Gone Fishing
Performer: Geraint Evans (Singer), Orchestra and Chorus Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Douglas Robinson (Chorus Master)
Decca 4145772 CD1 Tr.18

Ogden Nash
Soliloquy in Circles read by Hugh Fraser

01:01
Roebuck Staples (traditional arrangement)
Will The Circle be Unbroken?
Performer: The Staple Singers
New Cross CDCHARLY98 Tr.14

David Saul
Pi read by Deborah Findlay

01:04
Joni Mitchell
The Circle Game
Performer: Joni Mitchell
Reprise 7599-27450-2 Tr.12

Judith Fitzgerald
Que Besa Sus Pies, Que Besa Sus Manos read by Hugh Fraser

01:11
Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV. 988 – Variation 24 (1980)
Performer: Glenn Gould
CBS CD37779 Tr.1

01:12
Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV. 988 – Variation 24 (1955)
Performer: Glenn Gould
CBS MYK 44868 Tr.4