Radio NationalSunday 7 June, 1998
Music details of each track are presented in the following order:
BROADCAST TIME OF ITEM
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
ARTIST AND CD TITLE
DURATION OF TRACK
DESCRIPTION OF TRACK
Melisma with Robyn Johnston 1005-1200 Radio National (repeated the following Sunday 0105-0300 on RN and RA)
1006 CD Disc 1 cut 21 `Courante(from Suite no 4 in E Flat
Major)
J S Bach
C Sony Music Entertainment
S2K 63203
Yo-Yo Ma `Inspired by Bach - The Cello Suites'
(solo cello)
3'48"1011 CD cut 1 `I - C Major(From: Bach to the Future)'
Per Norgard
C Chandos Records Ltd
Chan 9645
Safri Duo/DNRSO/Dausgaard `Bach to the Future'
(percussion duo and orchestra-based on Bach prelude)
7'15"segue
CD disc 2 cut 2 `Agnus Dei'
Krzystof Penderecki
P Schotts
C Chandos Records Ltd
Chan 9459/60
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Chorus/Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Orchestra `Penderecki:A Polish Requiem'
(20th century choral music-this piece written in memory of a
Polish priest)
6'55"segue
CD cut 1 `The Broken Thought'
Krszystof Penderecki
P Schotts
C Cala Records Ltd
Cala United 88014
Penderecki String Quartet `Quartets:Penderecki/Lason/Bacewicz'
(strangely sprightly string quartet fragment)
2'13"1029 CD cut 12 `To Meadows'
Peter Sculthorpe
P Faber Music Ltd
C Tall Poppies Records
TP 090
Goldner String Quartet `Peter Sculthorpe:The String Quartets Vol
2'
(sweetly melodic string quartet with dark ending)
2'28"
Australian composition and performance*********************segue
CD cut 14 `Matilda's Song'
Text: Marie Sorensen
Music: Mark Pollard
C Peter Constant/Move Records
Move MCD 105
Peter Constant `A Sympathetic Resonance'
(soprano and guitar)
Australian composition and performance*****************
3'36"segue
CD cut 9 `Intermezzo'
Henryk Gorecki
C Armchair Productions Pty Ltd
Artworks AW 010
Tamara Anna Cislowska `The Persian Hours'
(spare and mysterious solo piano miniature)
Australian performance**************************
2'25"1039 CD cut 3 `Dogjam'
John Adams
P Hendon Music Inc/Boosey and Hawkes
C Nonesuch Records/WEA International
Nonesuch 7559-79465-2
Kronos Quartet/London Sinfonietta `Gnarly Buttons/John's Book of
Alleged Dances'
(lively string quartet-a kind of feral hoedown)
2'28"segue
CD cut 9 `Ingrian Runering'
S Paakkunainen
C Saxperiment
(from album: Saxperiment SAXCD 1 c/-Finnish Jazz Federation
jazzlitto@musicfinland.com)
Included on compilation: Finnish Jazz 98
(saxophone quartet)
4'16"1046 CD cut 8 `Song no 2'
Jarmo Savolainen
P and C Love Kustannus
Beta BECD 4023
Jarmo Savolainen `Songs for Solo Piano'
(rhapsodic solo piano)
4'50"segue
CD cut 12 `Give Me Jesus'
Trad
C Sony Music Entertainment
SK 63294
Jubilant Sykes `Jubilant'
(baritone w trumpet,piano,bass,drums- semi-classical approach to
negro spiritual)
3'40"segue
CD cut 11 `Mystery of Love'
Guy Warren
P Zodiac Music Co BMI
C Polydor/Polygram France
Verve 519 269 2
Randy Weston/Melba Liston `Volcano Blues'
(slow blues/spiritual for piano,sax,double bass)
6'20"1102 CD cut 1 `Langsamer Satz fur Streichquartett'
Anton Webern
C ECM Records GMBH
ECM 1629
Rosamunde Quartet `Webern/Shostakovich/Burian'
(sweet and gentle string quartet with dramatic moments)
9'44"segue
CD cut 4 `Kondalilla'
music: Stephen Leek Text: Anne Fairburn/Stephen Leek
Independent release: Contact the Adelaide Chamber Singers at the
School of Music, 279 Flinders st Adelaide 5000 Australia
ASCD002
Adelaide Chamber Singers `Different Angels'
(strange but beautiful choral piece about the waterhole spirit)
5'36"
Australian composition and performance*********************segue
CD cuts 13-15 `Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano'
Anton Webern
C Deutsche Grammophon GMBH Hamburg
447 112-2
Kremerata Musica `Mahler,Schoenberg,Berg,Webern'
1'09"/22"/1'01"1119 CD cut 2 `Texas Tarantella'
David Balakrishnan
P Spleehab Music BMI
C Windham Hill Records
Windham Hill Jazz 01934 10141 2
Turtle Island String Quartet `Spider Dreams'
(string quartet and double bass soloist-quirky tune with country
moments)
4'50"segue
LP s1 cut 3 `Moderato from Amalgamations for Solo Bass'
Edgar Meyer
C MCA Records
MCA 5964
Edgar Meyer `Dreams of Flight'
(solo double bass groove-pizzicato)
3'19"1128 CD cut 5 `Nocturne in B Flat minor Opus 9 No 1'
Frederic Chopin
C Move Records
MD 3147
`Roland Farren-Price Plays Chopin'
(lyrical solo piano)
Australian performance**************************
5'35"segue
CD cut 16 `Totus Tuus'
Gorecki
C Hyperion Records
CDA66928
Holst Singers `Ikon'
(20th century Polish choral piece-very gentle and beautiful)
11'00"segue
CD cut 7 `Nocturne in F Major Op 15 no 1'
Frederic Chopin
C Sony Classical GMBH
SK 64339
Murray Perahia `Chopin:4 Ballades'
3'58"
(solo piano)1153 CD cut 9 `Bemsha Swing'
Thelonious Monk
P Thelonious Music BMI
C Nonesuch/WEA International
Nonesuch 7559-79456-2
Fred Hersch `Thelonious-Fred Hersch Plays Monk'
(quirky solo piano)
3'14"1157 CD cut 7 `Ruby My Dear'
Thelonious Monk arr D Balakrishnan
P Embassy Music Corp BMI
C Windham Hill Records
Windham Hill Jazz 01934 10146 2
Turtle Island String Quartet `Who do we think we are?'
(perky string qtet arrangement of Monk tune)
2' excerpt
Melisma with Robyn Johnston 1005-1200 Radio National (repeated the following Sunday 0105-0300 on RN and RA)
