Radio NationalSunday October 11, 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 13 `Prelude(from Suite No 3 in C BWV1009)
J S Bach
C orfeo International Music GmbH
Orfeo C360 941B
Enrico Mainardi `Bach:Cellosuiten'
(solo cello - live recording from the fifties)
3'36
1010 CD cut 6 `Piece from the year 1981'
Lepo Sumera
P Edition 49 Karlsruhe
C Finlandia
Finlandia 3984-23014-2
Various `Song of Dawn:Highlights from the Estonian and Baltic Music Series'
On this piece:Lauri Vainmaa,piano
(cascading solo piano with dramatic bits)
7'05
segue
CD cut 1 `Gloria Patri:Omnis Una'
Urmas Sisask
P Warner Chappell Music Finland
C Finlandia
Finlandia 3984-23014-2
Various `Song of Dawn:Highlights from the Estonian and Baltic Music Series'
On this piece: Chamber Choir Eesti Projekt
(choir - 20th century devotional music from Estonia)
3'33
segue
CD cut 11 `Evocatio'
Rene Eespere
P Warner Chappell Music Finland
C Finlandia
Finlandia 3984-23014-2
Various `Song of Dawn:Highlights from the Estonian and Baltic Music Series'
On this piece: Heiki Matlik, guitar
(solo guitar)
7'18"
1029 CD cut 1 `Folk Song'
trad
C ECM Records
ECM 1170
Charlie Haden/Jan Garbarek/Egberto Gismonti `Folk Songs'
(exploratory piece for sax,guitar and double bass, based on Nordic(?) folk song)
8'07
segue
CD cut 5 `Sag du nokke te kjerringa mi(Did anyone see my wife)'
trad
C Philips Classics
456 653-2
Gli Scapoli `Everything Must Change'
(solo male voice then male choir with traditional Norwegian song - tenor sax joining)
4'44
segue
CD cut 4 `Det koster ej for megen strid'
Carl Nielsen
C dacapo Copenhagen
dccd9423
New Jungle Orchestra `Music from the Danish Jungle'
(stately old Danish hymn for horns and jazz orchestra)
3'16
1046 CD cuts 11-16 `Sonata no 2 Opus 142(1979)'
Vagn Holmboe
P Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen
C Paula
PACD30
Maria Kammerling `Vagn Holmboe:Sonatas and Intermezzi'
(20th century guitar sonata in six short movements)
1'57/1'36/2'15/1'38/2'42/1'27
1059 CD cut 15 `Chant sans paroles'
Jean Sibelius
arr Mats Bergstrom, published: AB Carl Gehrmans Musikforlag, Sweden.
C Swedish Society
SCD1067
Mats Bergstrom and Friends `Nordic Spring'
(sweet stately piece for violin and guitar)
1'50
segue
CD cut 7 `Fugue in F Minor'
Edvard Grieg
C APR Music Productions Ltd Norway
Victoria VCD 19048
The Norwegian String Quartet `Grieg:The Complete String Quartets'
(fugue for string quartet)
3'13
1107 CD cuts 2-4 `String Quartet, Opus 11'
Samuel Barber
C BMG Music
RCA Victor Red Seal 09026-61387-2
Tokyo String Quartet `Takemitsu/Barber/Britten'
7'54/8'01"/2'21
1129 CD cut 5 `The World Feels Dusty'
Text:Emily Dickinson
Music:Aaron Copland
C Decca
Decca 455 511-2
Barbara Bonney/Andre Previn `American Songs'
(soprano and piano)
1'48
segue
CD cut 4 `Nocturne'
Aaron Copland
C Deutsche Grammophon
453 470-2
Gil Shaham/Andre Previn `American Scenes'
(gentle 20th century American piece for violin and piano)
5'59
1138 CD cut 2 `Tonk'
Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn
P EMI ASCAP
C Composers Recording Inc
CRI CD 637
Double Edge `U.S. Choice'
(jazz/ragtime influenced piece for piano duet - fast)
3'34
segue
CD cut 22 `Strange Fruit'
Allen
P Carlin
C ASV Ltd
CD AJA 5272
Willie `The Lion' Smith `The Lion Roars!His Greatest 1934-1944'
(jazz lament for trio - Sidney Bechet featured)
2'29
1145 CD cut 20 `The Second Portrait of the Lion'
Duke Ellington
C BMG Music
RCA Bluebird ND 82178
Duke Ellington `Solos,Duets and Trios'
(piano solo - fast stridey bits with slower mid section)
4'03
segue
CD Disc 2 cut 1 `Memories of Duke Ellington: Sophisticated Lady/Solitude/Portrait of the Duke'
Ellington,Mills,Parish/Ellington, De Lange,Mills/Smith
C BMG France
RCA/BMG 74321264152
`The Memoirs of Willie `The Lion' Smith'
(man talking about Ellington and demonstrating various piano styles/tunes)
6'30"
1157 CD cut 16 `Fading Star'
Willie `The Lion' Smith
C ASV Records
CD AJA 5272
Willie `the Lion' Smith `The Lion Roars!His Greatest 1934-1944'
(thirties recording of rippling romantic piano solo)
2'37"
Melisma with Robyn Johnston 1005-1200 Radio National (repeated the following Sunday 0105-0300 on RN and RA)