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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://www4.nhk.or.jp/sunshine/
放送日： 2015年12月12日（土）
放送時間： 午前7:20〜午前9:00（100分）
ピーター・バラカン

THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST
http://www4.nhk.or.jp/sunshine/66/
（曲名 / アーティスト名 // アルバム名）

01 Whammer Jammer/ J. Geils Band // The Morning After
02. Juke / Little Walter // The Best Of Little Walter
03. Snatch It Back And Hold It / Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band // Hoodoo Man Blues
04. Born In Chicago / Paul Butterfield Blues Band // Paul Butterfield Blues Band
05. Please Send Me Someone To Love / Paul Butterfield // Paul Butterfield’s Better Days
06. Going up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue / Taj Mahal // The Real Thing
07. Fox Chase / Sonny Terry // Afro-American Blues And Game Songs
08. Drop Down Mama / Sleepy John Estes // The Legend Of Sleepy John Estes
09. Sloppy Drunk Blues / Sonny Boy Williamson (I) // Sugar Mama - The Essential Recordings Of Sonny Boy Williamson
10. Bye Bye Bird / Sonny Boy Williamson (II) // More Real Folk Blues
11. Honest I Do / Jimmy Reed // Best Blues Masters Vol.1
12. I Got Love If You Want It / Slim Harpo // The Best Of Slim Harpo
13. A Cutie Named Judy / Jerry McCain // That’s What They Want : The Best Of Jerry McCain
14. Down Home Shakedown / Big Mama Thornton // Blues Harp Women
15. One More Lie / Teresa "T-Bird" Lynne // Blues Harp Women
16. Who’s Been Talkin’ / Howlin’ Wolf // Howlin’ Wolf
17. Walking By Myself / Jimmy Rogers // Chicago Bound
18. Easy / Jimmy & Walter // Sun Blues
19. I’m A Doggie / Marvin Pontiac // The Legendary Marvin Pontiac - Greatest Hits
20. Harpoon / John Sebastian // Tarzana Kid
21. Bad Is Bad / Dave Edmunds // Repeat When Necessary
22. Blue Lights / Little Walter // The Best Of Little Walter

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://www4.nhk.or.jp/kaiteki/
放送日： 2015年12月12日（土）
放送時間： 午前9:00〜午前11:00（120分）
ゴンチチ
渡辺亨

− 目覚めの音楽 −

楽曲

「朝のめざめ」
ゴンチチ
（3分13秒）
＜ポニー・キャニオン PCCA02102＞

「朝一番の鳥たちとともに」
カルロス・アギーレ
（5分51秒）
＜SHAGRADA MEDRA RCIP0171＞

「グッドモーニング・ハートエイク」
ポール・モチアン
（4分51秒）
＜WINTER＆WINTER 910200-2＞

「ロック・アラウンド・ザ・クロック」
エディ・コクラン
（2分27秒）
＜テイチクレコード TECX-20945＞

Luys I Luso

「ザ・バード・ザ・バード・アウェイク」
ティグラン・ハマシアン
（4分30秒）
＜ECM REC. ECM2447＞

「アズ・エストラス・サベム」
アルナルド・アントゥネス
（5分11秒）
＜SONY MUSIC 88875 155792＞

「マイルストーンズ」
マイルス・デイヴィス
（5分44秒）
＜CBS／SONY SOPL-153＞

「セイヴ・ザ・チルドレン」
ギル・スコット・ヘロン
（4分26秒）
＜FLYING DUTCHMAN FD10143＞

「エル・ヴエロ・デル・ディアブロ」
アンサンブル・グルフィオ、アミルトン・ヂ・オランダ
（3分35秒）
＜BRASILIANOS DOP012＞

「プア・バタフライ」
ケニー・バレル
（5分48秒）
＜UNIVERSAL CLASSICS＆JAZZ UCCU-6245＞

「カーニヴァルの朝」
トニ・ガヒード
（1分47秒）
＜NATASHA REC. 292.105＞

Arborescence

「トワード・アウェイキング」
アーロン・パークス
（6分14秒）
＜ECM REC. ECM2338＞

「ウェイク・アップ・エヴリバディ」
ハロルド・メルヴィン＆ザ・ブルー・ノーツ
（7分29秒）
＜PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL ZK34232＞

「サイレント・ナイト」
ゴンチチ
（2分30秒）
＜EPIC ESCL3574＞

「ジュジュ、フットプリンツ」
グレッチェン・パーラト
（4分35秒）
＜CORE PORT RPOZ-10017＞

「アット・ザ・フェアー」
ルシアーナ・ソウザ
（5分41秒）
＜SUNNY SIDE SSC1410＞

「リアル・ブルース」
サン・ジェルマン
（3分03秒）
＜PARLOPHONE 0825646121984＞

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

Bruce Springsteen & Willie Nelson
Tue 8 Dec 2015
21:00
BBC Radio Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rcx98
Brand new and classic Americana & Country music. Including a look at the outtakes and alternative versions of songs from Bruce Springsteen's The River recording session. Plus Ricky celebrates 40 years since Willie Nelson's groundbreaking album, Red Headed Stranger, topped the Billboard Country chart.

Music Played

01. Traveller
Chris Stapleton
Traveller
Mercury Nashville, Tr.1

02. My Life
Iris DeMent
My Life
Warner Bros. Records, Tr.10

03. Reaching Through
Nadia Reid
Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs
Universal, Tr.1

04. Kristie Rae
Austin Lucas
Between The Moon And The Midwest
At The Helm, Tr.3

05. Girl Crush
Little Big Town
Pain Killer
Capitol, Tr.5

06. What A Woman Wants To Hear
Anderson East
Delilah
Elektra Records, Tr.7

07. Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger
CBS, Tr.6

08. Save Christmas Day For Me
Red Sky July
CD Single
promo, Tr.1

09. Tenterhooks
A New International
Come to the Fabulon
POUM, Tr.11

10. Break Up In A Small Town
Sam Hunt
Montevallo
MCA, Tr.4

11. Time Of The Preacher
Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger
CBS, Tr.1

12. Out In The Street
Bruce Springsteen
The Ties That Bind: The River Collection
Columbia, Tr.7

13. Held Up Without A Gun
Bruce Springsteen
The Ties That Bind: The River Collection
Columbia, Tr.21

14. Stolen Car [Version 1]
Bruce Springsteen
The Ties That Bind: The River Collection
Columbia, Tr.4

15. Stolen Car
Patty Griffin
1000 Kisses
Sanctuary, Tr.3

16. Your Love Will Blow Me Away When My Heart Aches
Son Little
Son Little
Anti-Records, Tr.3

17. One Dog Barks
Rab Noakes
I'm Walkin' Here
Neon, Tr.5

18. Make It Holy
The Staves
If I Was
Atlantic Records, Tr.11

19. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger
CBS, Tr.5

20. The Start Of Nothin'
Bob Bradshaw
Whatever You Wanted
Audio & Video Labs, Tr.1

21. Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends
Kris Kristofferson & Mark Knopfler
The Austin Sessions
Atlantic, Tr.12

Jazz Record Requests
Jazz records from across the genre, played in special sequences to highlight the wonders of jazz history. All pieces have been specifically requested by Radio 3 listeners
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9

Northern Lights
Sat 12 Dec 2015
16:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rw517
Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes further examples of Scandinavian jazz, and another suggestion for an essential jazz record.

Music Played

01. Teen Town
Jere Laukkanen's Finnish Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
Composer: Patstorius
Performer: Jere Laukkanen's Finnish Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
Jere Laukkanen's Finnish Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra
NAXOS 86056-2 Tr.1

02. Laurentide Waltz
The Oscar Peterson Trio
Composer: Peterson
Performers: Oscar Peterson, p; Ray Brown, b; Ed Thigpen, d.
1964
Canadiana Suite
Fontana SFL13015 Tr.2

03. Arbutus
Christine Jensen
Composer: Jensen
Performers: Ingird Jensen, Jocelyn Couture, Ball Mahar, Aron Doyle, Dave Mossing, t; Christine Jensen, Donny Kennedy, Erik Hoove, Joel Miller, Chet Doxas, Sean Craig, reeds; David Grott, Jean-Nicolas Trottier, David Martin, Bob Ellis, tb; Steve Amirault, p; Ken Bibace, g; Fraser Hollins, b; Martin Auguste, d.
May 2009
Treelines
Justin Time 8559-2 Tr.2

04. Stella By Starlight
Stan Getz
Composer: Washington/ Young
Performers: Stan Getz, ts; Kenny Barron, p; Rufus Reid, b; Victor Lewis, d.
1987
Anniversary
Emarcy 83877692 Tr.3

05. Announcer's Blues
Jack Teagarden (with Paul Whiteman)
Composer: Trumbauer, Stokes
Performers: Eddie Wade, Charlie Teagarden, Harry Godlfield, t; Bill Rank, Hal Matthews, Jack Teagarden, tb; Benny Bonaccio, John Cordaro, Charles Strickfadden, Frank Trumbauer, reeds; Roy Bargy, p; Norman McPherson, tu; Larry Gomar, d; Paul Whiteman, dir.
7 Sep 1935
Big 'T'
Proper Properbox 80 CD 2 Tr.8

06. Dr. Jazz
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Composer: Morton
Performers: David Suich, Peter Brooke Turner, Hester Goodman, George Hinchliffe, Richie Williams, Kitty Lux, Will Grove-White, (ukuleles); Jonty Bankes (bass ukulele)
Live in London Vol 2
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Tr.1

07. Ulrike Dans
Trygve Seim
Composer: Trygve Seim
Performers: Håvard Lund, bcl, cl; Nils Jansen, bs; Bernt Simen Lund, cello; Per Oddvar Johansen, d; Hild Sofie Tafjord, french horn; Trygve Seim, ts; Øyvind Brække, Arve Henriksen, David Gald, tb.
2000
Different Rivers
ECM 159521-2 Tr.2

08. Aamos
Anders Jormin & Severi Pyysalo
Composer: Pyysalo
Performers: Anders Jormin, b; Severi Pyysalo, vib.
2006
Aviaja
Footprint Tr.9

09. Alfredo And The Mayor
Stekpanna
Composer: Steve Kershaw
Performers: Steve Kershaw, b; Mads Kjølby Olesen, g; Petter Svärd, d.
Standin' Tall
Flat Five Records GBHCD01 Tr.10

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 love of jazz, through an exploration of its great writers, singers and players, as told from his own individual perspective.

Each programme take us through his personally-selected playlist of tracks. It's loosely-themed; maybe a great artist, a jazz style or something more off-the-wall. But that serves as just the start of a fascinating journey to the heart of the music Geoffrey is so passionate about.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h5z0s

Jan Garbarek
Sun 13 Dec 2015
00:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rwftr
The haunting tone of Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek is one of the most distinctive sounds in international jazz. For Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Geoffrey Smith surveys his achievement and star partnerships with the likes of pianist Keith Jarrett.

Music Played

01. Witchi-Tai-To
Jan Garbarek - Bobo Stenson Quartet
Composers: Jim Pepper
Performers: Jan Garbarek, ss; Bobo Stenson, p; Palle Danielsson, b; Jon Christensen, d.
Witchi-Tai-To
ECM 8333302 Tr.4

02. Viddene
Jan Garbarek
Composers: Jan Garbarek
Performers: Jan Garbarek, soprano saxophone; Ralph Towner, 12 string guitar/windharp
2002
Selected Recordings
ECM 014-165-2 Tr.2

03. Lillekort
Jan Garbarek
Composers:
Performers: Jan Garbarek, Nana Vasconcelos, John Abercrombie
Performers: Jan Garbarek, soprano saxophone; John Abercrombie, mandolin guitar; Naná Vasconcelos, talking drum, percussion
Selected Recordings
ECM 014-165-2 Tr.4

04. My Song
Keith Jarrett
Composer: Keith Jarrett
Performers: Jan Garbarek, ss; Keith Jarrett, p; Palle Danielsson, double bass; Jon Christensen, d.

Selected Recordings
ECM Rarum 014168-2 Tr.4

05. Sunshine Song
Keith Jarrett
Composer: Keith Jarrett
Performers: Keith Jarrett, p; Jan Garbarek, ts; Palle Danielsson, double-bass; Jon Christensen, d.
Selected Recordings
ECM Rarum 014168-2 Tr.5

06. Cego Aderaldo
Jan Garbarek
Composer: Egberto Gismonti
Performers: Jan Garbarek, ss; Egberto Gismonti, 8-string guitar; Charlie Haden, double bass; Naná Vasconcelos, d.
Selected Recordings
ECM 014168-2 Tr.6

07. Twelve Moons
Jan Garbarek
Composer: Jan Garbarek
Performers: Jan Garbarek, soprano saxophone, synthesisers; Manu Katche, d; Marilyn Mazur, percussion
Twelve Moons
ECM 15-00 Tr.1

08. Novus Novus
Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble
Composer: (Trad)
Performers: David James, countertenor; Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor; John Potter, tenor; Gordon Jones, baritone; Jan Garbarek, tenor saxophone
Mnemosyne
ECM NEW SERIES 465-122 2 Tr.8

Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3

Akram Khan
Sun 13 Dec 2015
12:00
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rwfv4
Akram Khan is hardly ever still; an international star, he spins around the world with his dance company - just this last month he's been performing in Santa Barbara, Corby, Moscow, Seattle, Spain, Austria... Born in London, the son of a Bangladeshi restaurant owner, Khan was talent-spotted at the age of 13 by director Peter Brook, who cast him in the RSC production of the Mahabharata - which led to his first international tour on stage. Now just into his forties, Akram Khan has won numerous international dance awards, including the Olivier. In 2012 he choreographed and danced in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. He's collaborated with prima ballerina Sylvie Guillem, with sculptor Anthony Gormley, and worked with the National Ballet of China. And he's choreographed for Kylie Minogue. He says - 'The reason I dance - is because of music!'

In Private Passions, Akram Khan tells Michael Berkeley about his childhood, when his aunties would gather and sing till 3am, and require the exhausted young Akram to accompany them on the tabla drums. He reveals why he decided to become a dancer, not a musician. And he talks frankly about trying to be a good father to his two young children now, and how they have transformed his life. Musical choices include Mussorgsky, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, performance poetry by Kate Tempest, and a Flamenco protest song from the Spanish Civil War.

Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3

Music Played

00:03
Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring (Introduction)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor: Pierre Boulez

00:16
Zakir Hussain
Chhands
Performer: Zakir Hussain

00:23
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
The Old Castle (Pictures at an Exhibition)
Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle

00:29
Heiner Goebbels
The Absence of Time (Ashes and Snow)
Performer: Samuel Vigoda
Ensemble: Eastwestern String Ensemble

00:33
Isaac Albéniz
Asturias (Suite Espanola)
Performer: Andrés Segovia

00:41
Kate Tempest
Brand New Ancients
Performer: Kate Tempest

00:46
Trent Reznor
Hand Covers Bruise
Composer: Atticus Ross
Performer: Trent Reznor
Performer: Atticus Ross

00:50
Silvia Pérez Cruz
Gallo Rojo, Gallo Negro
Performer: Silvia Pérez Cruz

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

Life in a Cold Climate
Sun 13 Dec 2015
17:30
BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rwg9c
The many facets of living in the the frozen north. Bill Paterson and Janie Dee read works by Torkilk Morch, John Haines, Jack London, Alootook Ipellie, Gerda Hvisterdahl, Peter Hoeg and Jorma Etto. With music by Edvard Grieg, Terje Bjorklund, John Luther Adams, Jon Oivind Ness, Torgeir Vassvik, Sainkho Namtchylak and Esbjorn Svensson.

Producer's Notes
This is a world of extremes. A place of intense cold where the sea can freeze and both day and night can last for months. In the northernmost latitudes, life has to fit around the significant challenges presented by the natural world. This selection aims to give a flavour of what living in these conditions is like.

Torgeir Vassvik is a Norwegian Sami musician and composer who combines the traditional ‘joik’ singing style with drumming, traditional instruments and nature sounds. His composition ‘The Sea’ serves notice that we are entering a very different world.

In the depths of winter, the idea of weeks of unbroken daylight may seem like a longed for dream, but the Greenlandic poet Torkilk Mørch reminds us, in his poem ‘Light’, that constant sunlight can be as oppressive and disorientating as unending darkness. While the Alaskan poet John Haines hints at the strange, dream-like aspects of life in the north in his poem ‘If The Owl Calls Again’.

The composer John Luther Adams lived in Alaska from 1978 to 2014 and much of his music is inspired by the nature and landscape of the region. He describes his 1992 work ‘Dream In White On White’ as ‘a response...to the treeless, windswept expanses of western Alaska’.

Netsit was an Inuit poet, living in northern Canada and writing in the early 20th century. His ‘Dead Man’s Song (Dreamed by one who is alive)’ details many of the key aspects of Inuit life at the time, but also captures the universal frustration of being too preoccupied with mundane anxieties to fully enjoy life before it passes.

Vocal games form an important part of Inuit culture. Here we have an example of a game called Qattipaartuq, recorded on King William Island in Canada in 1975 and performed by Rose Qiqiak and Kate Kamimalik. Qattipaartuq is a narrative game which has two characteristics – the refrain is always ‘hapapi, hapapi, ha’ and the voice undergoes a prolonged modulation on one syllable of the refrain.

Alootook Ipellie was an Inuit graphic artist, satirical cartoonist and writer who also lived in northern Canada. He spent his childhood and early teenage years adjusting with his family to the transition from their traditional, nomadic Inuit way of life, to life in government-sponsored Inuit settlements. This poem ‘ How noisy they seem’ has a strong sense of nostalgia for a lost world.

Sainkho Namtchylak is a Siberian singer with a seven octave range who is noted for her mix of Tuvan throat-singing and avant-garde improvisation. Although she grew up in Tuva, this song - ‘Inuit Wedding’ – keeps us firmly in the frozen north.

Aua was an Iglulik Inuit shaman and poet, born in 1870 in Nunavut, northern Canada. Although the younger Inuit generation are no longer skilled in hunting like their ancestors and are growing more accustomed to the Qallunaat ("white people") food that they receive from the south, in Aua’s time hunting was a vital part of the Inuit way of life and here is a chest-thumpingly boastful account of a successful, single-handed walrus hunt.

Staying in Canada, we travel a bit further south for Howard Cable’s ‘The Banks of Newfoundland’ performed by the Toronto-based Hannaford Street Silver Band. In 1979, Cable adapted his ’Newfoundland Rhapsody’ – originally written for a wind ensemble - for brass band, adding three movements to the folk tunes he had already collected in Newfoundland in 1947.

Hunting could, and in some regions of the north still does, mean the difference between life and death. In Greenlandic poet Gerda Hvisterdahl’s ‘Where’, the bemused hunter trudges across the white wilderness, searching vainly for his prey. Torkilk Mørch’s ‘Greenland Sharks’ alludes to a harsh and marginal existence where risking death is better than going hungry.

Sarek National Park is a mountainous area in the north of Sweden. Sven Hørnell’s photographs of the dramatic landscape – displayed in his studio close to the mountains - inspired the Norwegian jazz pianist and composer Terje Bjørklund to write ‘Sarek’. The piece is performed by The Trondheim Soloists, for whom it was composed.Peter Høeg is a Danish writer, but the protagonist of his 1992 novel ‘Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow’ is the daughter of an Inuit mother and Danish father and spends her childhood in Greenland before moving to Denmark. As a child, she develops an almost intuitive understanding of all types of snow and their characteristics and here she describes how she first discovered this gift. Wimme Saari is one of the best known Sami joikers from Finland. He combines traditional Sami singing with his own improvisations, usually to a techno-ambient accompaniment by members of Finnish electronic group RinneRadio. ‘Oainnáhus’ tells of a journey from Wimme’s home mountain up to the frosty sky and the Northern Lights, and then beyond to the ‘real’ world beyond the stars.

‘A Finn’ is the best known poem by the Finnish writer Jorma Etto and is a bracingly self-deprecating dissection of the Finnish character.

One of the most famous Finns is surely Jean Sibelius. If you listen to all the coverage celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, you should be able to decide whether or not he matches up to Jorma Etto’s description. Here is ‘Song in the Forest’, one of five ‘Esquisses’ from 1929 – the last pieces Sibelius composed for solo piano. It’s played by Joseph Tong.

There is no shortage of myths and fairy tales associated with the far north and you can find out more about them elsewhere in the Northern Lights season. Although ‘The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman’ by Judith Taylor takes Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’ as its starting point, it zooms in on two minor characters who exemplify the qualities of resilience and hospitality which make life in such an uncompromising part of the world possible.

One of the ways in which people throughout the northern latitudes deal with the inescapable cold and darkness of winter is by drinking. The Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior sings the traditional Swedish drinking song ‘Helan Går’with appropriate gusto. Then Siberian poet Sergey Samoylenko anatomises the downside of riding out the winter this way in ‘Last year I lived at the bottom of a bottle’.

‘Seven Days of Falling’ sounds like a typical week in the life of Samoylenko’s neighbour, but it’s a composition from 2003 by Swedish jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson. Svensson’s untimely death five years later brought an abrupt end to what promised to be a long and distinguished career.

The cold north of Siberia has become the unwelcome home for many exiles over the years. In the 20th century, the notorious GULAG system saw millions of individuals in the USSR sent to live in forced labour camps. The conditions in these camps were described in detail by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ , published in 1973. This extract is from his earlier, fictional work ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’.

The composer Alexander Mosolov was another artist who fell foul of the Soviet authorities. He was arrested in 1937 and sentenced to eight years hard labour. Fortunately a petition led to his sentence being reduced in 1938 to a five year ban on entering Moscow, Leningrad or Kiev. This is from his Cello Concerto which he wrote in 1946, performed by Sergei Sudzilovsky with the Russian Cinematographic Symphony Orchestra.

Over a century earlier, in 1825, a group of young Russian officers took part in the Decembrist uprising in St Petersburg. Five of the ring-leaders were hanged and the others were exiled to Siberia for life. Several of them were friends of Alexander Pushkin and in 1827 he sent them this poetic message of hope – ‘In far Siberia’s deepest soil’.

‘Tundra’ by the Danish composer Poul Ruders was commissioned by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Sibelius’s birth. Ruders has said that the title is ‘a word which represents the quintessence of the far North’. The piece is performed here by the Odense Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Scott Yoo.

Even when they are not sent there as a punishment, those who travel to the extreme north for work can find themselves trapped in a harsh and forbidding world. When the writer Joanna Kavenna visited Greenland, she found the remains of remote, deserted mining camp which hinted at the hardships that had been endured there.

The Norwegian composer Jon Øivind Ness explains the title of his 2011 piece ‘Bogey Thresher’ thus: ‘A Bogey Thresher is a threshing machine for ghosts, a machine designed to harvest spectres’. Who knows what it might have found at that eerie mining camp? It’s performed by Øystein Baadsvik with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra. The Klondike gold rush in the late 19th century saw thousands of prospectors travelling to Alaska, hoping it strike it rich. As Jack London put it ‘When the world rang with the tale of Arctic gold...the lure of the North gripped the heartstrings of men’. In his short story ‘In A Far Country’, two men – Weatherbee and Cuthfert – join the stampede, but find themselves wholly unprepared for the rigours of the North and, overwhelmed, their expedition unravels.

As we leave Cuthfert standing desolate in the dark,cold solitude of an Alaskan winter, Edvard Grieg provides us with a more consoling vision of a Northern landscape on which to end. ‘Evening in the mountains’ is one of the composer’s Lyric Pieces and draws on his walks in the spectacular scenery of the Jotunheimen mountains in western Norway.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

Music Played

00:00
Torgeir Vassvik
The Sea - Áhpi
Performer: Torgeir Vassvik.
IDUT ICD061 Tr.2.

Torkilk Morch
Light, read by Bill Paterson

John Haines
If The Owl Calls Again, read by Janie Dee

00:05
John Luther Adams
Dream In White On White
Performer: The Apollo Quartet and Strings, Barbara Chapman (harp).
New Albion NA061CD Tr.1.

Netsit
Dead Man’s Song (Dreamed by one who is alive), read by Bill Paterson

00:14
[traditional]
Qattipaartuq
Performer: Rose Qiqiak, Kate Kamimalik.
Ocora C559071 Tr.24.

Alootook Ipellie
How noisy they seem, read by Janie Dee

00:16
Sainkho Namtchylak
Inuit Wedding
Performer: Sainkho Namtchylak.
World Music Network RGNET 1174 PR Tr.10.

Aua
A Walrus Hunt, read by Bill Paterson

00:21
Howard Cable
The Banks of Newfoundland
Performer: The Hannaford Street Silver Band, Stephen Chenette (conductor).
CBC SMCD5136 Tr.1.

Gerda Hvisterdahl
Where, read by Bill Paterson

Torkilk Morch
Greenland Sharks, read by Janie Dee

00:26
Terje Bjørklund
Sarek
Performer: TrondheimSolistene.
Victoria VCD19060 Tr.9.

Peter Hoeg
Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow, read by Janie Dee

00:33
Wimme
Oainnáhus
Performer: Wimme.
World Music Network RGNET1051CD Tr.11.

Jorma Etto
A Finn, read by Bill Paterson

00:38
Jean Sibelius
Five Esquisses OP.114: Song in the Forest
Performer: Joseph Tong.
Quartz QTZ2111 Tr.22.

Judith Taylor
The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, read by Janie Dee

00:41
[traditional]
Helan går
Performer: Lauritz Melchior.
Romophone 820192 Tr.27.

Sergei Samolyenko
last year I lived at the bottom of a bottle, read by Bill Paterson

00:45
Esbjörn Svensson
Seven Days of Falling
Performer: E.S.T.
ACT ACT 90122 Tr.2.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, read by Bill Paterson

00:52
Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov
Cello Concerto
Performer: Russian Cinematographic Symphomy Orchestra, Sergei Sudzilovsky (cello).
OLYMPIA OCD592 Tr.5.

Alexander Pushkin
In far Siberia’s deepest soil, read by Janie Dee

00:58
Poul Ruders
Tundra
Performer: Odense Symphony Orchestra, Scott Yoo (conductor).
Bridge BRIDGE 9382 Tr.7.

Joanna Kavenna
The Ice Museum, read by Janie Dee

01:04
Jon Øivind Ness
Bogey Thresher
Performer: Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, Oystein Baadsvik (tuba).
BIS BISSA CD2005. Tr4.

Jack London
In A Far Country, read by Bill Paterson

01:12
Edvard Grieg
Evening in the mountains, Op. 68, No.4
Performer: CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor).
CBC SMCD5157 Tr.9

Travelling Folk
Bruce MacGregor presents Radio Scotland's flagship folk programme and brings you the very best of today's music and song.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tlyrt

Claire Hastings
Sun 13 Dec 2015
19:00
BBC Radio Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s1v81
Bruce MacGregor brings you the very best of folk and roots music from around the world. Singer Claire Hastings, the present BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician, joins us in session and for a chat.

Music Played

01. The Hedrum Hot Bot
The League of Highland Gentlemen

02. Echo Mocks the Corncrake
Songs of Separation
Songs of Separation
Navigator Records via Proper

03. Reel Beatrice
Sharon Shannon
Out the Gap
Sands Music

04. The Ardlair Tuning Fork
Aidan O’Rourke
Imprint (Series 2.0)
Reveal Records

05. Black Horses
Leighton Jones
All the Way Home
Great Northwestern Records

06. Dancing Larry
Annbjørg Lien
Khoom Loy
Grappa Musikkforlag

07. Heroes
Cara
Yet We Sing
Rough Trade

08. Mac Iain ‘ic Sheumais
Maeve MacKinnon
Don’t Sing Love Songs
Footstompin Records

09. Silver Dagger
Maeve MacKinnon
Don’t Sing Love Songs
Footstompin Records

10. 123 Ma Grannie Went to Sea
Ewan McVicar
Scottish Songs for Younger Children
Gallus

11. Died and Gone to Prague
The Finlay MacDonald Band
Pressed for Time
Footstompin Records

12. Poor Angry and Young
Ferocious Dog
From Without
Ferocious Dog

13. The Story
Runrig
The Story
Ridge Records

14. Bothy Lads
Claire Hastings
BBC Recording

15. Son of No One
Claire Hastings
BBC Recording

16. That B&B in Dundee
Claire Hastings
BBC Recording

17. Gretna Girls
Claire Hastings
BBC Recording

18. Let Ramensky Go
Claire Hastings
BBC Recording

19. Too Late to Sleep
Naragonia
Idili
Appel Rekords

20. Ken Hen
The East Pointers
The East Pointers
The East Pointers

21. The Botanist
Mairearad & Anna
Best Day
Shouty Records