Sunday 21 June, 1998

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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

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Melisma with Robyn Johnston 1005-1200 Radio National (repeated the following Sunday 0105-0300 on RN and RA)

1006 CD cut 13 `Prelude from Suite no 6 in D BWV 1012' J S Bach
C Philips Classics
Philips 422 494 2
Maurice Gendron `Bach: Cello Suites nos 1,4&6'
(solo cello)
5'05"

1012 CD cut 5 `Cantus'
Ester Magi
P Edition 49 Karlsruhe
C Fazer Music Inc
Finlandia 4509-95705-2
Camerata Tallinn `Estonian Chamber Music'
(20th century Baltic piece for violin and guitar)
4'54"

segue

CD cut 14 `Kaks jubilatsiooni'
Rene Eespere
C Tallina Muusikakeskkooli kammerkoor
No catalogue number
The Tallinn Music High School Chamber Choir `Glorificatio'
(mixed voice choir w soprano soloist and organ-20th century
Estonian choral music-very beautiful)
9'42"

1028 CD cuts 1-4 `Four Bagatelles Opus 30'
Alan Hovhaness
C Delos International
Delos Sampl 1-97
Various Artists `Verses of Love'
On this cut: Shanghai Quartet
(lovely series of little string quartet pieces-oriental
influence)
2'04"/1'05"/2'00"/3'32"

segue

CD cut 3 `Bats mez ter(Open for us)'
trad
C Celestial Harmonies
Celestial Harmonies 13115-2
`The Music of Armenia-Volume One, Sacred Choral Music'
(solo soprano-ancient armenian hymn)
2'33"

segue

CD cut 1 `Ghazal no 1'
Alan Hovhaness
P CF Peters
C Fortuna Records
Fortuna 17062-2
Alan Hovhaness `Shalimar'
(solo piano-very lyrical)
2'17"

1042 CD cuts 12/13 `Ecstatic Dances(for two flutes)'
Ross Edwards
C Tall Poppies
TP069
Geoffrey Collins `Spinning - New Australian Flute Music'
(bright/chant like/thoughtful/cyclical - music for two flutes)
Australian composition and performance**************
3'47/4'50"

1052 CD cut 10 `Mystic Flute'
Alan Hovhaness
C Armchair Productions Pty Ltd
Artworks AW010
Tamara Anna Cislowska `The Persian Hours'
(solo piano- middle eastern influence)
1'52"
Australian performance*********************

segue

CD disc 1 cut 6 `Dle Yaman'
traditional
C Celestial Harmonies
Celestial Harmonies 14119-2
`The Music of Armenia Volume Five:Folk Music/Shoghaken Ensemble'
(stately Armenian traditional song-male voice and armenian oboes)
6'00"

segue

CD cut 8 `Visionary Landscapes'
C Hearts of Space
HS11024-2
Sahan Azruni `Visionary Landscapes-Music of Alan Hovhaness'
(solo piano-eastern influence)
11'03"

1112 CD cut 2 `Vals Venezolano no 3 Natalia'
Antonio Lauro
C Berta Rojas/Dorian Discovery
Dorian DIS 80159
Berta Rojas `Concierto Latinoamericano'
(sweet guitar waltz)
2'51"

segue

CD cut 7 `Idioms op 43a'
Raimo Kangro
P Manus
C Fazer Music Inc
Finlandia 4509-95705-2
Camerata Tallinn `Estonian Chamber Music'
(lively 20th century piece for flute,guitar,violin)
10'26"

1126 CD cut 7 `Speak Low'
Weill/Nash
C Sony Music Entertainment
SK 63046
Various artists `September Songs-The Music of Kurt Weill'
(double bass solo intro melds with historic recording of Kurt
Weill singing)
5'28"

segue

CD cut 8 `Bilbao Song'
Weill/Brecht
P Universal Editions Wien
C Polydor KK Japan
JMT 697 124 059 2
Masabumi Kikuchi/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian `Tethered Moon'
(abstraction of Weill tune-piano,bass,drums)
4'30"

segue

CD cut 13 `Mack the Knife'
Weill/Brecht
C Sony Music Entertainment
SK 63046
Various artists `September Songs-The Music of Kurt Weill
(historic recording-Brecht himself singing Mack the
Knife)
2'46"

1140 CD cut 6 `Mack the Knife'
Kurt Weill
P Weill Brecht Harms Co Inc/WB Music Corp ASCAP
C Telarc
CD 83393
RAy Brown with John Clayton and Christian McBride `Super Bass'
(three double basses on a Weill tune - `live')
5'48"

segue

CD cut 12 `Speak Low'
Weill/Nash
C Polygram Records Inc
Verve 513 943 2
Billie Holiday `Billie's Best'
(latinesque version of Weill tune- guitar[Barney Kessell]
featured..as well as Ben Webster tenor...Jimmy Rowles piano..rich
black female voice)
4'23"

1152 CD cut 2 `Mack the Knife'
Weill/Brecht/Blitzstein
P Kurt Weill Foundation for Music/WArner ASCAP
C Atlantic
Atlantic Jazz 7567-82156-2
Kenny Garrett `African Exchange Student'
(modern jazz take on Weill tune-alto sax,piano,bass,drums)
6'00"excerpt

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Melisma with Robyn Johnston 1005-1200 Radio National (repeated the following Sunday 0105-0300 on RN and RA)