音楽の泉
週末の朝に、さわやかなクラシック音楽をお届けする「音楽の泉」。クラシック音楽の入門番組として1949年に放送を開始、今日まで数多くの名曲を紹介してきました。柔らかな語り口に定評のある音楽学者・皆川達夫さんが、興味深いエピソードを交えながら、作品についてわかりやすく解説します。
ゆったりと流れる時間のおともに、「音楽の泉」でクラシック音楽をお楽しみください。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/r1/shou/ongaku_izumi.html
放送日： 2012年 7月14日（土）
放送時間： 午前6:00〜午前6:50（50分）
解説： 皆川達夫
− シャブリエ、イベールほか −
「楽しい行進曲」シャブリエ作曲
（管弦楽）モントリオール交響楽団、（指揮）シャルル・デュトワ
「狂詩曲“スペイン”」シャブリエ作曲
（管弦楽）モントリオール交響楽団、（指揮）シャルル・デュトワ
「喜遊曲」イベール作曲
（管弦楽）モントリオール交響楽団、（指揮）シャルル・デュトワ
「交響詩“魔法使いの弟子”」デュカス作曲
（管弦楽）モントリオール交響楽団、（指揮）シャルル・デュトワ
「ジムノペディ 第１番、第２番」サティ作曲、ドビュッシー編曲
（管弦楽）モントリオール交響楽団、（指揮）シャルル・デュトワ
ウィークエンドサンシャイン
ブロードキャスター、ピーター・バラカンのナビゲートで送るウィークエンド・ミュージックマガジン。独特の嗅覚とこだわりの哲学でセレクトしたグッド・サウンドと、ワールドワイドな音楽情報を伝える。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/fm/sunshine/
放送日： 2012年 7月14日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン
ウディ・ガスリー生誕100年
http://www.woody100.com/
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
01. This Land Is Your Land / Woody Guthrie
ALBUM:The Greatest Songs Of Woody Guthrie
02. Song To Woody / Bob Dylan
ALBUM:Bob Dylan
03. Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good To Know You) / Woody Guthrie
ALBUM:Dust Bowl Ballads
04. Tom Joad - Part I / Woody Guthrie
ALBUM:Dust Bowl Ballads
05. Vigilante Man / Woody Guthrie
ALBUM:Dust Bowl Ballads
06. Dust Pneumonia Blues / Woody Guthrie
ALBUM:Dust Bowl Ballads
07. Hobo's Lullaby / Arlo Guthrie
ALBUM:Troubadours Of Folk, Vol.4: Singer-Songwriters Of The '70s
08. 1913 Massacre / Jack Elliott
ALBUM:Woody Guthrie's Blues
09. This Land Is Your Land / Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Sweet Honey In The Rock, The Little Red School House Chorus
ALBUM:Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly
10. Pretty Boy Floyd / Byrds
ALBUM:The Original Singles A's & B's 1965-1971
11. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad / Grateful Dead
ALBUM:Europe '72 Vol. 2
12. I Ain't Got No Home / Bruce Springsteen
ALBUM:Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly
13. Do Re Mi / Ry Cooder
ALBUM:Ry Cooder
14. Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) / Nanci Griffith
ALBUM:Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)
15. The Jolly Banker / Billy Bragg & Wilco
ALBUM:Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
16. You Know The Night / Jackson Browne
ALBUM:Note Of Hope
17. My Revolutionary Mind / Jay Farrar
ALBUM:New Multitudes
18. This Land Is Your Land / Neil Young & Crazy Horse
ALBUM:Americana
世界の快適音楽セレクション
"快適音楽"を求めるギターデュオのゴンチチによる、ノンジャンル・ミュージック番組。
http://www.nhk.or.jp/fm/kaiteki/
放送日： 2012年 7月14日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前11:00（120分）
ゴンチチ
藤川パパQ
− フランスの音楽 −
「僕のシャンソン」 (チチ松村)(5分07秒)
＜EPIC/SONY ESCB1446＞
「ア・フレンチ・タッチ」 (セイ・タカハシ)(3分47秒)
＜自主制作＞
「マドモアゼル・ド・パリ」 (ジャクリーヌ・フランソワ)(3分07秒)
＜MEMBRAN MUSIC 222256-205＞
「優しきフランス」 (ジャン・コルティ、ラシッド・タハ)(3分39秒)
＜オルターポップ ERPCD-17007＞
「ソナタ 作品11から 第1楽章」モーリス・エマニュエル作曲(4分05秒)
(レ・ヴァン・フランセ)
＜東芝EMI TOCE-55720＞
「ウイ・オール・フォール・ダウン」(マーク・フライ・アンド・ジ・ア・ローズ)(5分34秒)
＜Second Language SL013＞
「マダム」 (オルケストル・ナシオナル・ドゥ・バルベス)(4分15秒)
＜SOUDANI ARPCD-6126＞
「ジャンゴ」 (クワイア)(4分34秒)
＜BMGファンハウス BVCM-37305＞
「アミ・ロロ」 (カリ)(4分27秒)
＜オマガトキ OMCX-1080＞
「パリ祭」 (リス・ゴーティ)(3分18秒)
＜東芝EMI CP20-5645＞
「エヴリン」 (マルコム・ホルコム)(3分31秒)
＜ECHO MOUNTAIN ARGA006＞
「ホス・ライガ」 (ソミ・デ・グラナダ)(5分08秒)
＜オルターポップ ERPCD-17008＞
「ハープシコード曲集から ロンド形式のジーグ ホ短調」ラモー作曲(2分28秒)
(ピアノ)ツィモン・バルト
＜ONDINE ODE1067-2＞
「メグレ警視のテーマ」 (ダニエル・コラン)(2分23秒)
＜RESPECT REC. RES-156＞
「フルートとハープのためのソナタから 第1楽章」ダマーズ作曲(6分13秒)
(フルート)ジャン・ピエール・ランパル
(ハープ)リリー・ラスキーヌ
＜ERATO 2292-458＞
「メニルモンタン、マック・ザ・ナイフ」 (ゴンチチ)(3分01秒)
＜ポニーキャニオン PCCA-01792＞
「クロース・トゥ・ユー」 (オルケスタ・デ・ラ・ルス)(3分08秒)
＜BMG JAPAN BVCK-1805＞
「クロース・トゥ・ユー」 (ウェイン・ホルヴィッツ)(2分24秒)
＜TZADIK TZ7114＞
「アルマ」 (カリーマ、マカコ)(2分30秒)
＜ビーンズレコード BNSCD-8889＞
Another Country with Ricky Ross
Ricky Ross enters the landscape of Americana and alternative country. Expect to hear both classic and future classics, with Ricky taking a close look at the stories behind the songs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hh26l
Woody at 100: the Woody Guthrie Centenni
- アーティスト: Woody Guthrie
- 出版社/メーカー: Smithsonian Folkways
- 発売日: 2012/07/10
- メディア: CD
- クリック: 3回
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Woody Guthrie
Fri 13 Jul 2012
20:05
BBC Radio Scotland
A special programme celebrating 100 years since the birth of Woody Guthrie.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kjkkt
Woody Guthrie was born on 14th July 1912. This special programme looks at the legacy of this American song-writer, musician who inspired generations of country & Americana artists including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle. Featuring a close look at one of history's most important songbooks, interviews with the Guthrie family and live music from Woody At 100 recorded in Glasgow earlier this year.
http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/118452-Woody-at-100
http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/woody-100-celtic-connections-glasgow
Music Played
01. Woody Guthrie — This Land Is Your Land
02. The Byrds — Pretty Boy Floyd
03. Laura Veirs — Why Oh Why
04. Billy Bragg & Wilco — Walt Whitman’s Niece
05. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion — Folk Song
06. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion — There’ll Be No Church Tonight
07. Woody Guthrie — Do Re Mi
08. Bob Dylan — Song To Woody
09. Mary Gauthier — I Ain’t Got No Home
10. The Maddox Brothers & Rose — Philadelphia Lawyer
11. Woody Guthrie — Dead Or Alive
12. Emmylou Harris — Hobo’s Lullaby
13. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs — Hard Travelin’
14. Hank Thompson — Oklahoma Hills
15. Woody Guthrie — Pastures Of Plenty
16. Jay Farrar, Will Johnson & Anders Parker — Chorine
17. The Almanac Singers — Union Maid
18. Linda Ronstadt — Ramblin Round
19. Tom Russell — East Texas Red
20. Woody Guthrie — What Did The Deep Sea Say?
21. Dolly Parton — Deportee
22. Jay Farrar, Will Johnson & Anders Parker — New Multitudes
23. The Louvin Brothers — Curley Headed Baby
24. Woody Guthrie — So Long It’s Been Good To Know Yuh
25. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band — This Land Is Your Land
Jazz Record Requests
Make a request...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 14 Jul 2012
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Alyn Shipton plays a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01knsk7
Among the listeners' jazz requests played this week by Alyn Shipton are pieces by Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young and Teddy Wilson, plus early masterpieces from Louis Armstrong and Bobby Hackett.
Music Played
01. Hank Mobley — Smokin’
Composer: Mobley Performers: Hank Mobley, ts; Grant Green, g; Wynton Kelly, p; Paul Chambers, b; Philly Joe Jones, d. March 26, 1961.
Workout, Blue Note, 37771; Track 3
02. Jack Davies — Zapushalka
Composer: Davies Performers: Jack Davies, t; Rob Cope, cl, bcl; Aidan Shepherd, acc; James Opstad, b. 2012.
Flea Circus, V&V, VAVM0001; Track 1
03. Ella Fitzgerald — All The Things You Are
Composer: Kern / Hammerstein Performers: Ella Fitzgerald, v; Orchestra dir. By Nelson Riddle, 1963.
The Songbooks, Verve, 8234452; Track 4
04. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven — Potato Head Blues
Composer: Armstrong Performers: Louis Armstrong, t; John Thomas, tb; Johnny Dodds, cl; Lil Hardin, p; Johnny St Cyr, bj; Pete Briggs, tu; Baby Dodds, d. May 1927.
Essential Louis Armstrong, Union Square / Metro, 576; CD 1 Track 18
05. Jack Teagarden / Bobby Hackett — I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plan
Composer: Schwartz/Dietz Performers: Bobby Hackett (co); Abe Lincoln (tb); Jack Teagarden (tb); Matty Matlock (cl); Nappy Lamare (g); Don Owens (p); Phil Stephens (b, tu); Nick Fatool (d)
Jack Teagarden & Bobby Hackett: Complete Fifties Studio Recordings, Lonehill Jazz, LHJ10113 (1); Track 10
06. Wild Bill Davison and his Commodores — That’s a Plenty
Composer: Pollack Performers: Wild Bill Davison, c; George Brunis tb; Pee Wee Russell, cl; Gene Schroeder, p; Eddie Condon, g; Bob Casey, b; George Wettling, d. Nov 1943.
That’s a Plenty, Commodore, 6.24059; 1 Track
07. Gerry Mulligan — Night Lights
Composer: Mulligan Performers: Gerry Mulligan, piano, Art Farmer, t; Bob Brookmeyer, vtb; Jim Hall, g; Bill Crow, b; Dave Bailey, d. Sept 1963.
Night Lights, Mercury, 8182712; Track 1
08. Albert Ayler — Ghosts Variation 1
Composer: Ayler Performers: Albert Ayler, ts; Gary Peacock, b; Sonny Murray, d. July 1964.
Spiritual Unity, Fontana / ESP DISK, SFJL933; Track 1
09. Big Maceo — Chicago Breakdown
Composer: Merriweather Performers: Big Maceo Merriweather, p; Tampa Red, g; Charles Sanders, d.
Big Maceo Merriweather - The King Of Chicago Blues Piano, Arhoolie, 7009; Track 25
10. Respectable Groove — The Furies are unleashed
Composer: Purcell / Gordon Performers: Evelyn Nallen, recorder, David Gordon, Harpsichord, Oli Hayhurst, b; Ichiro Tatsuharu, d. 2004
Dido and Aeneas, Mister Sam, 003; Track 8
11. Lester Young — I Didn’t Know What Time it Was
Composer: Rodgers / Hart Performers: Lester Young, ts; Roy Eldridge, t; Vic Dickenson, tb; Teddy Wilson, p; Gene Ramey, b, Jo Jones, d. Jan 12, 1956.
6tet / 7tet, Lonehill, 10187 CD 1 Track 8
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz does exactly what it says on the tin: a weekly programme in which Geoffrey Smith shares his passion for jazz, through an exploration of its great writers, singers and players, as told from his own individual perspective. Having spent more than twenty years as host to Jazz Record Requests, reading listeners' letters and observing their passion for all types of jazz, Geoffrey Smith goes solo in this new series, exploring and illuminating the story of great jazz across its entire range, through personally-selected sequences of tracks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h5z0s
Art Farmer
Sun 15 Jul 2012
00:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith considers the career of one of the aristocrats of jazz trumpet, Art Farmer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kntmx
Geoffrey Smith considers the career of one of the aristocrats of jazz trumpet, Art Farmer, from his bebop beginnings to eminence as one of the most respected players on the scene, especially renowned for his ballads.
Music Played
01. Wardell Gray — Farmer’s Market
Composer: Art Farmer Performers: Wardell Gray (ts), Art Farmer (tr), H. Hawes (p), Harper Cosby (b), Lawrence Marable (d), Robert Collier (perc) Recorded: 1952
Central Avenue, Prestige PR 24062
02. Art Farmer — So Beats My Heart For You
Composer: Ballard/Henderson/Waring Performers: Art Farmer (tp), Tommy Flanagan (p), Tommy Williams (b), Albert “Tootie” Heath (d) Recorded: 1960
Art and Perception, Gambit Records 69251
03. George Russell — Round Johnny Rondo
Composer: George Russell Performers: George Russell (arr/cond), Art Farmer (tp), Hal McKusick (fl, as), Bill Evans (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Paul Motian (d) Recorded: 1956
The Complete Bluebird Recordings, Lonehill Jazz LHJ 10177
04. Horace Silver — Home Cookin’
Composer: Horace Silver Performers: Horace Silver (p), Art Farmer (tp), Hank Mobley (ts), Teddy Kotick (b), Louis Hayes (dm) Recorded: 1957
The Quintessence, Fremeaux & Associes 287
05. Quincy Jones — Stockholm Sweetnin’
Composer: Quincy Jones Performers: Art Farmer, Ernie Glow, Ernie Royal, Joe Wilder (tp), Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Frank Rehak (tb), Phil Woods (as), Bunny Bardach, Lucky Thompson (ts), Jerome Richardson (fl), Jack Nimitz (bs), Hank Jones(p), Paul Chambers (b), Charlie Persip (d) Recorded: 1956
This Is How I Feel About Jazz, Lonehill Jazz LHJ 10273
06. Art Farmer — Fair Weather
Composer: Benny Goodman Performers: Art Farmer (tr), and Benny Golson (ts), Bill Evans (p), Addison Farme (b), Dave Bailey (d) Recorded: 1958
Art Farmer: Four Classic Albums, Avid Jazz AMSC 1060
07. Art Farmer & Benny Golson — Mox Nix
Composer: Art Farmer Performers: Art Farmer (tr), Benny Golson (ts), Curtis Fuller (tb), McCoy Tyner (p), Addison (b), Farmer, Lex Humphries (d) Recorded: 1959
Meet the Jazztet, Pye NJL 45
08. Art Farmer — Blame it on My Youth
Composer: Levant/Heyman Performers: Art Farmer (flugle), Clifford Jordan (ts), James Williams (p), Rufus Reid (b), Victor Lewis (d) Recorded: 1988
Blame it on My Youth, Contemporary CCD`140422 (1)
09. Art Farmer — Stompin’ at the Savoy
Composer: Goodman/Webb/Sampson/Razaf Performers: Art Farmer (flugle), Jim Hall (g), Steve Swallow (b), Walter Perkins (d) Recorded: 1963
Art Farmer & Jim Hall Quartet: Complete Live Recordings, Gambit Records 69288
Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley in 1942, and the format is simple: a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs
Simon McBurney
Sun 15 Jul 2012
11:15
BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kr7q1
Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, writer and director Simon McBurney.
It's 30 years since he set up the ground-breaking theatre company Complicite. It brought extraordinary physical deftness to the stage and its productions won every plaudit going - from an armful of Olivier awards to the Perrier prize for comedy.
His mainstream credits range from TV roles in the Vicar of Dibley and Rev, to screen credits for The Last King of Scotland and Harry Potter. On stage, he's directed Katie Holmes and Al Pacino to critical acclaim in New York.
Of his unconventional directing style, he admits: "Some people have said, it's a bit like going into the jungle with some mad explorer - who everybody knows doesn't have any idea where he's going - but somehow he gives people some sort of confidence to keep on going."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
Music Played
01. Frank Zappa — I’m The Slime
Composer: Frank Zappa
Apostrophe’ / Overnite Sensation, ZAPPA RECORDS
02. Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Composer: Gil Scott Heron
The Best of Gil Scott heron, SONY BMG
03. György Ligeti — L'escalier du Diable
Artist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Ligeti – Works for Piano: Etudes, Musica Ricercata, SONY CLASSICAL
04. Aretha Franklin — Young, Gifted and Black
Composer: Nina Simone
Aretha Franklin Young Gifted and Black, ATLANTIC
05. Alfred Garyevich Schnittke — Concerto grosso No. 1 - 5th movement
Artist: Gidon Kremer, Yuri Smirnov, Tatiana Grindenko and Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Kremer Plays Schnittke - Concerto grosso No. 1 / Quasi una sonata / Moz-Art a'la Haydn / A Paganini, Deutsche Grammophon Masters
06. Esma Redzepova & Stevo Teodosievski Ensemble — Hajri Ma Te Dike
Composer: Esma Redzepova
Esma Queen of The Gypsies, World Connection
07. Dmitri Shostakovich — Quartet No. 15 in E flat Minor (Opus 144)
Artist: Emerson Quartet
Shostakovich: String Quartets, DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
08. Veronica Oucholin — J’allume le feu (I light the fire)
Composer: Traditional
Grand Nord Russe (Russian Far North – the Chukchi), PLAYASOUND
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Mark Wallinger
Sun 15 Jul 2012
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's guest is the painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kntn5
Michael Berkeley's guest this week is the Turner prize-winning painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger, who studied at the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmith's College. From the mid-1980s his work has addressed the traditions and values of British society, its class system and organized religion, rooted in left-wing thought. His best-known work to date includes his sculpture 'Ecce Homo' for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, a life-size cast of a young man representing Christ being presented by Pontius Pilate to the Judeans. In 2007, the year he won the Turner Prize, he exhibited 'State Britain', a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside the Houses of Parliament. In October 2010 he and 100 other leading artists signed an open letter to the Culture Minister protesting against cutbacks in the arts, and created a new work, 'Reckless', for the occasion. From the early 1990s he has also used his personal enthusiasm for horses and horse-racing to explore issues of ownership and pedigree. His later work, including the video installations 'Angel' and 'Threshold to the Kingdom', focuses on religion, death and the influence of William Blake. With fellow-artists Conrad Shawcross and Chris Ofili, he is currently involved in the Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 joint project by the National Gallery and the Royal Ballet.
His musical choices start with the Finale to Act I of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, music he has loved since childhood. He used Allegri's famous Miserere in the soundtrack to Threshold to the Kingdom,and his other choices include part of Bach's Goldberg Variations, an excerpt from Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring, a Schubert piano sonata, Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto, and Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale.
Music Played
01.‘Finale’ from ‘Swan Lake’ Act I by Tchaikovsky
Philharmonia Orchestra/John Lanchbery
CD/Record number:EMI CDS7491712
02. Miserere by Allegri
The Choir of King’s College Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks Roy Goodman (treble)
CD/Record number:DECCA 421 147-2
03.‘Aria and Variation No 1’ from ‘Goldberg Variations’ BWV988 by Bach
Glenn Gould (piano)
CD/Record number:CBS CD44868
04. Appalachian Spring (excerpt) by Copland
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Philip Ellis
CD/Record number:REGIS RRC1004
05. 3rd mvt from ‘Piano Sonata no 21 in B flat major’ D960 by Schubert
Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich (piano)
CD/Record number:HYPERION CDA66004
06. 2nd mvt from ‘Piano Concerto no 2 in F major’ Op 102 by Shostakovich
Dmitri Alexeev (piano), English Chamber Orchestra/Jerzy Maksymiuk
CD/Record number:CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CDCFP4547
07.‘Whiter Shade of Pale’ by Procol Harum
Procol Harum
CD/Record number:CASTLE CCSCD120
http://www.classicarts.co.uk/passions-thisWeek.asp
Words and Music
A sequence of music interspersed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x35f
Rain
Sun 15 Jul 2012
18:00
BBC Radio 3
Poems read by Tim McMullan and Emily Taaffe. Music from Berlioz, Finzi and Debussy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01knw32
Rain: poems read by Tim McMullan and Emily Taaffe music from Sibelius, Finzi and Debussy.
Producer's Note
St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St. Swithin's day if thou be fair
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair.
It is said that Saint Swithin, an early bishop of Winchester asked that when he died he be buried outside so the rain might drop on his grave. He is celebrated on July 15th and, according to legend and traditional English rhyme, if rain falls on that day it will continue for the next 40 days.
The rain braids its way through this edition Words and Music. The rainstorm is an invitation to pause and step outside the normal stream of everyday time and to reflect or remember; for some an irritant, for others, like Mrs Bennett an opportunity for consolidation of strategic matchmaking and for others a reminder of the power of nature or God and the impotence of man.
We begin with a gathering of clouds and a celebration of their names. There follows a sketch of a haymaking downpour and a setting by Finzi of Hardy’s strange invocation of the magic and impermanence of creation: Proud Songsters.
A Monsoon raga performed by the Sabri family and the insistence of Ray Bradbury’s description of The Long Rain leads us to the destruction of the Flood a hint of which mythical terror is drummed by even the gentlest of showers.
Then a series of lovers "caught" by rain consider intense moments out of time with Chopin's "raindrop" prelude and a lighter moment from Irving Berlin and Fred Astaire.
Don Patterson and Langston Hughes offer a more positive take on precipitation and Toru Takemitsu's Rain Spell leads us into a celebration of the sounds of rain and their replication. Seamus Heaney delights in the rain stick and the edition finishes with the optimism of the extraordinary choral Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre.
Producer: Natalie Steed
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
Franz Liszt — Nuages Gris
Performer: Barry Douglas
RCA 09026612212, tr 09
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cloud (extract), read by Emily Taaffe
00:02
Claude Debussy — Nocturnes: I- Nuages
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra, Cond. Michael Tilson Thomas
CBS CD37832, tr 04
Untitled
Words for Clouds, read by Tim McMullan
John Clare
The Thunder Mutters, read by Tim McMullan
00:10
Gerald Finzi, orchestrated by Anthony Payne Proud Songsters
Performer: tenor John Mark Ainsley, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
CHANDOS CHAN9888, tr 06
00:13
Jean Sibelius — Chorus of the Winds from The Tempest, Suite no. 2
Performer: Iceland Symphony Orchestra, cond. Petri Sakari
NAXOS 8554387, tr 05
Emily Dickinson
Like rain it sounded, read by Emily Taaffe
00:17
Tansen Raag Mian Ki Malhar (extract)
Performer: Kamal Sabri, Suhail Yusuf Khan, Sarvar Sabri
Arc Music B0019H57SS, tr 02
Ray Bradbury
The Long Rain (extract), read by Tim McMullan
00:20
Ferde Grofé — Cloudburst, Grand Canyon Suite
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, cond Enrique Batiz
EMI CDC7490562, tr 05
Untitled
King James Bible, Genesis, Chapter 7, v 15 - 24 read by Emily Taaffe
00:29
Frédéric Chopin — Prelude No 15
Performer: Nikolai Demidenko
ONYX 4036, tr 15
Thomas Hardy
We sat at the window, read by Tim McMullan
Sara Teasdale
Spring Rain, read by Emily Taaffe
Thomas Hardy
A Thunderstorm in Town, read by Tim McMullan
00:37
Irving Berlin — Isn’t this a Lovely Day?
Performer: Fred Astaire
Past Perfect Vintage Music B00007L9S7, tr 02
Jane Austen
from Pride and Prejudice, read by Emily Taaffe
00:41
Antonio Vivaldi — Largo from Le Quattro Stagioni, Concerto No 4, L’inverno
Performer: Janine Jansen, solo violin
DECCA 4756188, tr 11
Don Patterson
Rain, read by Tim McMullan
00:44
Toru Takemitsu — Rain Spell
Performer: Toronto New Music Ensemble
NAXOS 8555859, tr 10
Langston Hughes
Let the Rain Kiss You, read by Emily Taaffe
Seamus Heaney
The Rain Stick, read by Tim McMullan
00:50
Eric Whitacre — Cloudburst
Performer: Polyphony, cond Stephen Layton, with Stephen Betteridge piano, Robert Millett percussion, and pupils of the Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, Middlesex
HYPERION CDA67543, tr 08
