Radio NationalSunday October 4, 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 16 `Prelude in C Minor BWV 999'
J S Bach
C Armchair Productions
Artworks AW013 (contact:artworksmusic.com)
Marshall McGuire `The Birth of Venus'
(solo harp)
Australian performance********************
1'54"
1009 CD cut 15 `Long Cold Nights'
John Playford
C Harmonia Mundi
HM78
David Douglass/Paul O'Dette/Andrew Lawrence-King `Apollo's Banquet:17th Century Music from the Publications of John Playford'
(stately but trad-sounding 17th cent. airs from England-violin,
harp etc)
7'43"
segue
CD cut 13 `Hear My Prayer'
Henry Purcell
C Erato Disques/Warner
Erato 3984-21659-2
The Choir of New College Oxford `Agnus Dei II'
(choir -beautiful passionate 17th cent. English hymn)
2'10"
segue
CD cut 18 `Ground'
William Croft
C Armchair Productions 1998
Artworks AW013
Marshall McGuire `The Birth of Venus"
(solo harp - thoughtful and pretty 17/18th cent. English tune)
Australian performance**********************
2'47"
1023 CD cut 6 `Caravans of Gold'
trad arr Tunde Jegede
C Triciom Records
TriCD 1001
Tunde Jegede `Lamentations'
(West african harp-lutes[koras] and cello -stately,flowing piece from old Malian repertoire)
6'56"
segue
CD cut 3 `African Path'
Tunde Jegede
other details as per previous item
6'58'
segue
CD cut 3 Tsintscharo'
trad
C Philips Classics
Philips 456 653-2
Gli Scapoli `Everything Must Change'
(ethereal-male choir with traditional Georgian song)
3'10"
1041 CD cut 9 `Rag-Gidon-time'
Giya Kancheli
P Sikorski Hamburg
C Teldec Classics
Teldec 0630-17222-2
Gidon Kremer `Le Cinema'
(stop-start tease at a ragtime notion -for violin and piano)
4'03"
segue
CD cut 8 `Jealousy'
Words:Bronwyn Calcutt Music:J Gade
C Bronwyn Calcutt
Independent release. Contact: Australia 07 332 12475
Bronwyn Calcutt `Piaf Sings Freud - Songs from the One Woman Shows'
(tangoesque song about slimy ex-lover - female voice w accordeon and violin)
Australian composition and performance*****************
2'53"
1049 CD cut 1 `Le Grand Tango'
Astor Piazzolla
C EMI Records
EMI 5 72016 2
Mstislav Rostropovich `The Russian Years'
(passionate tango for cello and piano)
9'30"
1059 CD disc 1 Cut 4 `Canon in memory of Igor Stravinsky'
Alfred Schnittke
C Nonesuch/WEA International
Nonesuch 79500
Kronos Quartet `Alfred Schnittke:The Complete String Quartets'
(still and portentous piece for string quartet)
5'20"
segue
CD cut 4 `Fourth Movement - Choir Concerto'
Alfred Schnittke
C Prophone Records Sweden
Swedish Society SCD1079
Pro Musica Chamber Choir `Schnittke: Choir Concerto and Requiem'
(beautiful, occasionally stark20th century choral prayer`)
3'54"
1110 CD cut 13 `Ballad Opus 65 No 5'
Edvard Grieg
C Polydor International Hamburg
Deutsche Grammophon 449 721-2
Emil Gilels `Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces'
(lyrical and spacious solo piano)
4'04"
segue
CD cut 7 `In Heaven There is This Castle'
trad
C Philips Classics
Philips 456 652-2
Gli Scapoli `Everything Must Change'
(male choir and drum- traditional Norwegian song)
4'56"
segue
CD cut 19 `Gone'
Edvard Grieg
C Polydor Internatioanl
Deutsche Grammophon 449 721-2
Emil Gilels `Grieg:Lyric Pieces'
(solo piano)
2'33"
1123 CD cut 6 `Instead of a Tango'
Giya Kancheli
P Musikverlang Hans Sikorski
C Nonesuch/WEA International
Nonesuch 7559 79462-2
Gidon Kremer `Astor Piazzolla:El Tango'
(dramatic quasi-tango fpr bandoneon[accordeon],violin,double bass,piano)
4'10"
segue
CD cut 10 `Regret'
Words:Bronwyn Calcutt Music:trad French
C Bronwyn Calcutt
ASK001CD
Independent release. Contact Australia: 07 332 12475
Bronwyn Calcutt `Piaf Sings Freud - Songs from the One Woman Shows'
(darkly humorous cabaret song about regret - female voice w accordeon etc)
Australian composition and performance*********************
4'07"
1132 CD cuts 3-7 `Laikan'
Ross Edwards
C Tall Poppies
TP126
Ross Edwards `Raft Song at Sunrise:Chamber Music Volume Two'
(20th cent. Australian piece for flute,clarinet,piano,percussion,violin,cello - various moods - one section taken from Madagascan tune)
1'53"/3'15"/2'27"/3'20"/2'23"
Australian composition and performance*********
1147 CD cut 13 `Ny Asa No Harena'
Remy Randafison
C Shanachie
Shanachie 64075
`Resting Place of the Mists - Valiha and Marovany Music from Madagascar'
(stately and pretty old tune from Madagascar- valiha(kind of zither - sounds like a harp) and guitar)
3'20"
segue
CD cut 5 `Hill of Solitude/Valley of Festivity'
Tunde Jegede
C Triciom Records
TriCD 1001
Tunde Jegede `Lamentation'
(gently unfolding, cascasding piece for kora(harp-lute),cello and tuned percussion(balafon)
8'09"
Melisma with Robyn Johnston 1005-1200 Radio National (repeated the following Sunday 0105-0300 on RN and RA)
