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Sunday September 20, 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 cut 15 `Courante(from Suite no 6 in D BVW1012)'
J S Bach
C Philips Classics Productions
Philips 422 494-2
Maurice Gendron `Bach:Cello Suites 1,4&6'
(vibrant solo cello)
3'50"

1011 CD cut 16 `Fantasia a 4 `for the great double bass' no 1'
Orlando Gibbons
C Hyperion
Hyperion Orpheus 1
Various Artists `The English Orpheus:A Series of English Discoveries 1600-1800'
On this cut: The Parley of Instruments led by Peter Holman
(double-bass led baroque ensemble)
4'44"

segue

CD cut 13 `Bring Us, O Lord God'
William Harris
C The Abbey Recording Company Ltd
Alpha CDCA 914
The Choir of Magdalen College Oxford `The English Anthem Volume Four:The Twentieth Century to 1960'
(twentieth century English choral piece)
3'10"

segue

CD cut 17 `The Knot'
improvisation on 17th cent tune by Playford
C 1998 Dorian Recordings
DOR 90252
The Baltimore Consort `The Ladyes Delight'
(solo renaissance flute)
4'56"

1024 CD cut 7 `Crossing to Ireland'
trad
C Culburnie Records
CUL110D
Abby Newton `Crossing to Scotland'
(traditional air arranged as a slow waltz for cello and piano)
4'46"

segue

CD cut 5 `Courting is a Pleasure'
trad arr Kate Rusby
P MCPS
C Pure Records PRCD01
`Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts'
( folk ballad-female voice with piano and violin)
5'44"

segue

CD cut 5 `The Week Before Easter'
trad arr Simpson
P Hagweed Music ASCAP
C Red House Records
Martin Simpson `Cool and Unusual'
(old English air- guitar,cello and slide guitar)
4'55"

1041 CD cuts 4-6 `Quartet in C Minor Opus 3 no 6 '
William Shield
C Hyperion Recods London
Hyperion CDA 66780
The Salomon Quartet `The String Quartet in Eighteenth Century England'
(18th cent English string quartet-lively first movement/slow movement then rondo)
4'33"/4'54"/2'20"

1052 CD cut 3 `The English Nightingale'
Jacob Van Eyck
C Acoustica Grammofon Sweden
ACCD 1012
Dan Laurin `Laurin,van Eyck,Shinohara,Werner,Marais,Hirose'
(solo recorder-17th century impression of a nightingale)
3'08"

segue

CD cut 2 `Searching for Lambs'
trad arr Tabor
P Topic Music Ltd MCPS
Topic TSCD 449
June Tabor `Aqaba'
(solo female voice-English)
2'45"

segue

CD cut 2 `Sonata for viola and piano'
Margaret Sutherland
Music publisher not shown
Tall Poppies TP 098
Patricia Pollett `Viola Power'
(viola/piano,written in the forties-English influence)
Australian composition and performance***********************
8'50"

1110 CD cut 6 `Song of the Nuns of Chester'
Andrew Ford
P Australian Music Centre Sydney
Independent releease
Contact: Adelaide Chamber Singers,The School of Music, 279 Flinders St Adelaide ph: 08 8223 4138
Adelaide Chamber Singers `Different Angels:Contemporary Australian Choral Music'
Australian composition and performance*************
(choir and bells)
4'54"

segue

CD cut 4 `Allegrasco'
Gavin Bryars
P Mnemonic Ltd MCPS
C 1991 ECM Records
ECM 1424
Gavin Bryars `After the Requiem'
(slowly unfolding piece for electric guitar,clarinet,double bass,violin,piano,percussion)
19'44"

1134 CD cut 11 `Humoresque in G Flat op 101/7,b187'
Antonin Dvorak
C BMG Music
RCA Victor/Red Seal 09026 68414 2
Lorin Maazel `Virtuoso Violin'
(dancing tune for violin and piano-american classical feel)
3'11"

segue

1139 CD cut 11 `Humoresque'
Antonin Dvorak
C Miller and Kreisel Sound Corporation
Real Time RT 5001
`For Duke and Fatha'
(jazz/boogie woogie solo piano version of same tune as previous)
on this cut: Earl Hines
4'20"

1146 CD cut 1 `Night Life'
Mary Lou Williams
C EPM 1997
EPM Jazz Archives no 116
EPM 159002
Mary Lou Williams `Story 1930/1941'
(solo stride piano, 1930 recording)
2'56"

segue

CD cut 10 `Twinklin'
other details as per previous item
(thirties jazz band w piano soloist)
3'03"

1153 CD cut 10 `Blue Monk'
Thelonious Monk
P Thelonious Music BMI
other details as per
(stridish version of Monk tune-piano,bass,drums)
4'32"

1159 CD cut 19 `Baby Dear'
B Moten/T Hayes
other details as per 1146
(thirties jazz)
30" excerpt


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