COUNTRY & WESTERN

Howdy!

Thanks to all those who tuned into our Country & Western special on 1st August - we do hope you enjoyed it. Tim and I both adore Country & Western music, so we had to devote a whole show to it. Just be thankful you didn't get 90 minutes of my minimal techno and Tim's camp pop cheese!

Here is the playlist, including subheadings:

Introduction
1. Copland: Hoedown, Rodeo
2. Luther Strong: Glory in the Meeting House
Cowboys
3. Eddie Arnold: Cattle Call
4. Sons of the Pioneers: Tumbling Tumbleweeds
5. Sons of the Pioneers: Cowboy Camp Meeting
Drinking
6. Rocky Bill Ford: Beer Drinking Blues
7. George Jones: Just One More
8. Tex Williams: Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine
9. Merle Haggard: Wine, Take me Away
10. Porter Wagoner: Wino
11. Gillian Welch: Barroom Girls
12. Loretta Lynn: Don't Come Home Drinkin' with Lovin' on your Mind
13. Kitty Welch: Death at the Bar
14. George Jones: George Stopped Drinking Today
Intermission
15. Ives: Violin Sonata 2, 2nd Movement 'In the Barn'
Heartbreak
16. The Handsome Family: Weightless Again
17. Don Williams: Some Broken Hearts Never Mend
18. Blue Sky Boys: Banks of the Ohio
19. Dolly Parton: Chas
20. Hank Williams: Cold, Cold Heart
21. Porter Wagoner: Cold, Hard Facts of Life
Tammy and Strange Songs
22. Tammy Wynette: I Don't Wanna Play House
23. Johnny Wright: Hello Vietnam
24. Tammy Wynette: Don't Liberate Me, Love Me
25. Porter Wagoner: George Leroy Chikashea
26. Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn: Hillbilly Heaven
27. Tammy Wynette: Alive and Well

This was one of our favourite shows, thanks for listening. Final playlists will be posted in the next few days. It's been lovely.

LAZY

Apologies for the lack of updates, we've several playlists to, erm, list, and news to provide... but not right now. Just to note that the final programme of Dead and Alive will be broadcast on August 15th, 9pm, so put that in your diaries. Also - this Friday will slightly depart from our usual show, with a country & western special (Tammy Wynette pictured). Stay tuned...

APOCALYPTIC SOUFFLE

Many thanks for those who stuck out our final mash-up featuring Max Benezeth. We had fun, and hope you enjoyed it. Here's what was played:

1. Rytis Mazulis: Talima Cumi
2. HIV+: hertz hell, abstract and harsh ironworks
3. Frost Jockey: Come the mighty Burgundy tracks vol 1
4. Takemitsu: Le Son Calligraphié
5. Pierre Bastien (pictured): Tender red net
6. Schubert: Impromptu 4
7. Xenakis: Kyania
8. Frost Jockey: Theme From Frost Jockey
9. Schoenberg / Ehlers / Rabelais: Verklate Nacht, Dead and Alive edit
10. Squarepusher: Do you know Squarepusher?
11. Juantrip: Movies
12. Psychic Space: Invasion

Thanks Max for coming in, and for the listing. Lord knows I'll miss you.

Thanks too for all those who made it to the Macbeth on the 2nd, and to the Raven Quartet, Gabriel Prokofiev and Andrew McDonnell , for a good night.

More soon...

LIVE AT NONCLASSICAL

Hey listeners,

Wednesday 2 July Dead and Alive play their farewell concert at Gabriel Prokofiev’s nonclassical club night, from 8pm at the Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street N1 6LP (pictured above). Tim and I will be spinning the sort of noisy contemporary music we do for Resonance FM for most of the evening, supporting live performances by the Raven Quartet who’ll be reworking film scores. Time Out calls it one of the nights of the week http://www.timeout.com/london/clubs/events/765642/nonclassical.html and says the following:

“Time Out’s official favourite classically inclined club night returns to the Macbeth with yet another line-up that is radically different from the last. Tonight’s show is a mix of extremes which is sure to stimulate debate, and possibly violence, among its ever-multiplying and increasingly notable clientele. First up is a brand new outfit on the scene, The Raven Quartet, whose set is based around reworkings of modern film scores. Their source material includes work from the likes of Jon Brion, Brian Eno and Clint ‘I was in Pop Will Eat Itself’ Mansell. While the Raven players have been regulars at the club as punters, this is the first time they’ve performed there, so don’t blame us if it’s not hardcore classical enough for you. At the other end of the earth, it is with heavy heart and relieved ears that we report Resonance FM DJs Dead And Alive will be making their farewell Nonclassical appearance tonight. As usual, they’ll be playing a selection of contemporary compositional sounds alongside some live improv/remixing – a combination that’s as punishing yet rewarding as training with the Foreign Legion.”

It promises to be a night to remember, or for Tim and myself, probably to forget…

See you there!

ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL

On 20 June we broadcast a programme featuring music performed at the Aldeburgh festival (artistic director Pierre Laurent Aimard pictured). Playlist soon. This Friday 27 June I'll be joined by Max Benezeth for a classical apocalyptic souffle. Stay tuned...

Here is the playlist for our programme on the Clarinet, broadcast 6 June 2008 (Benny Goodman pictured):

1. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
2. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
3. Haba: Suite for quarter-tone clarinet & quarter-tone piano
4. Ockeghem: Missa Sine Nomine, ‘Kyrie’ (arranged Trio Lignum)
5. Webern: Five Canons on Latin Texts for soprano, clarinet and bass clarinet
6. Kalliwoda: Overture
7. Xenakis: Charisma
8. Acker Bilk: Stranger on the Shore
9. Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto, Benny Goodman, clarinet
10. Billie Holiday/Benny Goodman: Your Mother’s Son-in-Law, Benny Goodman, clarinet
11. Debussy: Rhapsody, Benny Goodman, clarinet
12. Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, Benny Goodman, clarinet
13. Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Thanks for listening. We were off on the 13th, and on 20 June we played music from the Aldeburgh Festival. Playlist soon…

NYMAN AND JUICE

Here is the playlist for our programme of Friday 30 March, featuring special guests Michael Nyman and Juice Ensemble:

1. Mozart: Queen of Night
2. Orff: Dulcissime
3. Dezurik Sisters: I Left her Standing There
4. Glass: ‘Knee Play’, Einstein on the Beach
5. Kerry Andrew: ojo (performed live by juice)
6. Nyman: 'E Saria Pur Una Coglioneria', from Eight Lust Songs
7. Nyman: 'Dammi La Lingua', from Eight Lust Songs
8. Monk: Panda Chat II, (from Do You Be
9. Alacie Tullaugaq/Lucy Amarualik: Piararmit Inaquitik
10. Diamanda Galas: Vena Cava
11. Mazulis: Cum Essem Parvulus
12. Feldman: excerpt from Three Voices (performed live by juice)
13. Tormis: Aboriginal Song
14. Central African Pygmies: Honey-Gathering Song
15. Tellu: Tuulet (The Winds)
16. James Lindsay: sanbiki no kashikoi saru (performed live by juice)
17. Nyman: MGV, last movement

Thanks to Michael Nyman for his racy new work and Anna Snow, Sarah Dacey and Kerry Andrew for their superb performances. Next week: The Clarinet. Stay tuned…

ITALY

On 23 May we broadcast a programme on the music of Italy following my trip to the Dissonanze festival in Rome. There I interviewed Charlemagne Palestine (pictured). We aired some of that, overlaid with an excerpt from his piece Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies For Maybeck, Pt.1. We also played music by Vivaldi on Glass Harmonica, Berio, Scelsi and others.

Next Friday, 30 May, we'll be joined by both Michael Nyman and the Juice Ensemble. Stay tuned...

VERSIONS, TRANSCRIPTIONS & REMIXES

Here is the playlist for our programme of 16 May (Ekkehard Ehlers pictured above):

1. Jerry Herman: Hello Dolly, Buckingham Banjos version
2. Bartok: Rhythme Bulgare
3. Bartok: Rhythme Bulgare, Akira Rabelais remix
4. Satie: Le Fils des Étoiles, Takemitsu transcription
5. Schleiermacher: Five Pieces for Player Piano
6. Schoenberg / Ehlers / Rabelais: Verklate Nacht, Dead and Alive version
7. Gershwin: Songs from Porgy & Bess, arr. Heinz Czadek
8. Ryan / Mathias: Cortical Songs, G. Prokofiev remix
9. G. Prokofiev: String Quartet 2, second movement
10. G. Prokofiev: String Quartet 2, second movement, remix
11. Stockhausen: Klavierstucke VIII
12. Stockhausen: Klavierstucke VIII, Christopher Fox version
13. Strauss: Treasure Waltz, Webern transcription
14. Barber: Adagio for Strings, William Orbit version

Thanks for listening. This Friday, 23 May, we’re celebrating Rome’s Dissonanze Festival by playing music by Italian composers. We’ll also be airing an exclusive interview with Charlemagne Palestine from the festival. Stay tuned…

DAVID McALMONT

Here is the playlist for the programme featuring special guest and future co-host David McAlmont:

1. Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in C Major, 1st movement
2. Susato: Danserye
3. Beethoven: Symphony 7, 4th movement
4. Henze (pictured above): Raft of the Medusa
5. Nyman: ‘Farewell to Rochester’, The Libertine
6. McAlmont: Unworthy
7. Puccini: Tosca, End of Act 1
8. Gesualdo: Fifth Book of Madrigals
9. Strauss: ‘Im Abendrot’, 4 Last Songs
10. Charpentier: Acteon, Overture
11. Weinberg: Piano Quintet
12. Nick Cave: Death is Not the End

Thanks for listening. Next week: Versions, Transcriptions and Remixes. Stay Tuned…

TRUMPETS

Here is the playlist for our programme on music for the trumpet broadcast 25 April 2008 (Harry James pictured):

Stravinsky: Fanfare for a New Theatre
Handel: Trumpet Shall Sound
Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Davis: Red China Blues
Castello: Sonata XII
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
James: You Made Me Love You
Billie Holiday / Harry Edison: Comes Love
Ustvolskaya: Symphony 4
Handel: Eternal Source
Armstrong: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Zimmermann: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Kaemfert: Afrikaan Beat
Vierk: Cirrus

Thanks for listening.

COMPOSERS IN EXILE

Some time ago now, but I'll post the details anyway. Our programme on Composers In Exile broadcast 18 April featured music by Hindemith, Chopin, Wolpe (pictured), Gerhard, Schoenberg, Tintner, Krenek and Philips. For more information please contact us on the details above.

DADA

Here is the plalist for our programme on Dada music broadcast 11 April 2008, celebrating the exhibition of Picabia (pictured above), Duchamp and Man Ray at the Tate Modern:

1. Picabia: La nourrice américaine (fast)
Picabia: Dada Manifesto (recitation)
2. Arp: Dada Spruche
3. Satie: ‘Sur un Vaisseau’, Automatic Descriptions
4. Poulenc: Automation
5. Duchamp: Musical Erratum (La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même)
6. Schwitters: Ursonate
7. Ligeti: Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures
8. Germaine Albert-Birot: Dada 3
9. Duchamp: Bride Stripped Bare
10. Satie: Entr'acte
11. Milhaud: La rivière endormie
12. Satie: Vexations

Many thanks to Max Benezeth for the recitations, and Stuart Walton for his discussion on dada versus surrealism. We hope you enjoyed the show. Next week we'll be looking at composers in exile. Stay tuned...

ANIMALS

Here is the playlist for our programme of 4 April on Animals:

1. Mario Lanza: Donkey Serenade
2. Ligeti: The Big Turtle Fanfare From The South China Sea
3. Henze: Essay on Pigs
4. Satie: Chanson du Chat
5. Cage: Little Four Paws
6. Ravel: ‘Cat Duet’, from l’Enfant et les sortilèges
7. Scarlatti: The Cat Fugue
8. Bascom Lamar Lunsford: Mole in the Ground
9. Three Tobacco Tags: Yodelling Mule
10. Pete Seeger: Incy Wincy Spider
11. Mache: Kowar
12. Rautavarra: ‘Swans Migrating’, from Cantus Arcticus
13. Sciarrino: ‘Song of the Swan’, from Lohengrin
14. Wagner: ‘Song of the Swan’, from Lohengrin
15. Gibbons: O Silver Swan
16. Messiaen: Tawny Owl
17. Thought Gang and Badelementi: The Black Dog Runs at Night
18. Mussorgsky: Song of he Flea
19. Takemitsu: A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden

Thanks for listening. Next Friday 11 April we will be playing music associated with dada and surrealism, in celebration of the exhibition at the Tate Modern on Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia. Stay tuned...

SCHNITTKE

The programme on Friday 28 March featured the work of Alfred Schnittke.

1. Symphony 1, opening
2. Quasi Una Sonata (excerpt)
3. Faust Cantata
4. String Quartet 3
5. Music for an Imaginary Play
6. Choir Concerto
7. Mozart a la Haydn
8. Symphony 1, last movement

All pieces by Schnittke. Next Friday, April 4, we'll be playing music for and about (and by?) animals. Stay tuned...

NEW RELEASES

Sorry for the tardiness. On Friday 14 March we played new releases and recent acquisitions, which included work by Mariani, Erik M, Ives, Donnacha Dennehy, Bach, Badalamenti (pictured), Dillon, and a mix by John Murray featuring John Carpenter and FM3. Get in touch for further details.

GABRIEL PROKOFIEV

Here is the playlist for our programme featuring guest composer Gabriel Prokofiev:

1. G. Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 1, fourth movement
2. G. Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 1, second movement (remix)
3. S. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3, first movement
4. G. Prokofiev: Zhiva
5. Schnittke: Stream
6. Mathias / Ryan: Cortical Songs
7. Genia / Richards: Suite for Piano and Electronics8.
S. Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
9. G. Prokofiev: Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra
10. Stravinsky: Concerto for Wind Instruments

Many thanks to Gabriel for joining us - do check out his nonclassical club nights at the Macbeth in Hoxton, first Wednesday of every month. Next week we're playing a selection of new and recent releases, including work by Donnacha Dennehy and James Dillon. Stay tuned...

DANCE MUSIC

Here is the playlist for our programme on Dance Music broadcast 29 February 2008:

1. Schnittke: ‘The Ball’, from EsquissesCowell: Anger Dance
2. Skempton: Rumba
3. Chopin: Mazurka in C, op. 24 no. 2
4. Tolstoy: Waltz
5. Andrew & Jim Baxter: Georgia Stomp
6. Coward: Dance Little Lady
7. Julie London: Sway
8. Susato: La Mourisque
9. Praetorius: La Bourree
10. Zanetti: Suite de Danses
11. Martland: ‘Dance 4’, Danceworks
12. 0: Twin Bleeps
13. Summer / Moroder: I Feel Love
14. Voigt & Voigt: Vision 04
15. Trouser Enthusiasts: Sweet Relief
16. Satie: Valse Ballet
17. Ligeti: Hungarian Wedding Dance II
18. Strauss: ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’, Salome
19. Ginastera: ‘Danza Final (Molambo)’, Estancia
20. Tim & Josh: Loom Piece

Thanks for listening. Apologies to classical purists for all the techno.

Next Friday, 7 March, composer, promoter and label owner Gabriel Prokofiev will be our guest, discussing the classical-clubland divide and the like. Stay tuned…

DON QUIXOTE

Here is the playlist for our programme of 22 February 2008, on music of and about ‘Don Quixote’:

1. Leigh / Darion: ‘I, I am Don Quixote’ from Man of La Mancha, sung by Christopher Lee
2. Halffter: Don Quixote, 3rd scene (opening)
3. R. Strauss: Don Quixote, introduction
4. Gerhard: ‘The Cave of Montesinos’ and ‘Epilogue’ from Dances from Don Quixote
5. Rodrigo: Dulcinea’s Absence
6. Quixote: Squat
7. Purcell: From Rosy Bowers
8. Halffter: Don Quixote, scene 4
9. Leigh / Darion: ‘To Dream the Impossible Dream’, sung by Elvis Presley
10. Ullmann: Don Quixote Dances the Fandango
11. Minkus: ‘Gypsy Dance 1’ from Don Quixote
12. Sandstrom: ‘…and when you Succumb try to Reach the Star in the Sky’ from Don Quixote: Trombone Concerto No. 2

Thanks for listening. This Friday 29 February we’ll be playing dance music, in all its guises.

STEPHEN MONTAGUE

Here is the playlist for our programme of 15 February 2008 featuring guest composer Stephen Montague (pictured, conducting his 'Bennett's Bike Concerto' for motorbikes and orchestra):

1. Montague: March Militaire
2. Montague: Headless Horseman
3. Montague: Silence: John, Yvar and Tim
4. Ives: Yale-Princeton Football Game
5. Feldman: Intersection 3
6. Krauze: Stone Music for Piano
7. Montague: Almost a Lullaby
8. Williamson Brothers and Curry: John Henry (Gonna Die with my Hammer in my Hand)
9. Montague: Snakebite (excerpt)
10. Montague: String Quartet No. 1: in memoriam Barry Anderson and Tomasz Sikorski

Many thanks to Stephen for joining us, we hope you enjoyed the programme.

This Friday 22 February Tim will be playing music of or about Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Stay tuned…

STRING QUARTETS

Here is the playlist for our programme on music for string quartet, broadcast 8 February 2008:

1. Briseno (arr. Goljov): El Sinaloense
2. Haydn: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 55 (fourth movement)
3. Beethoven: Grosse Fugue
4. Xenakis: Tetras
5. Bartok: String Quartet No. 4, fourth movement
6. Kurtag: Aus der Ferne III
7. Reich: Triple Quartet, 3rd movement
8. Lachenmann (pictured): Dance Suite with German Anthem, III and IV
9. Korngold: String Quartet No. 3, finale
10. Bryars: String Quartet No. 2

Thanks for listening. This Friday 15 February we’re joined by American-born UK-based composer Stephen Montague, a programme not to be missed.

MESSIAEN

Here is the playlist for our programme on Messiaen, broadcast 1 February 2008, celebrating the French ornithologist’s 100th anniversary:
1. Prelude no. 1
2. Transports de Joie
3. Fete des Belles Eaux
4. Turangalila (excerpt)
5. Timbres Durees
6. Chronochromie
7. Etude du Rhythme: Mode de Valours et d’intensities
8. Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum
9. St Francis of Assisi

All compositions by Olivier Messiaen. Anyone after further details please contact us on the details above.

NUNS

Unfortunately I can't provide the full playlist for the progamme on Nuns, broadcast Friday 25 January 2008, but we did play Hildegard von Bingen, Julie Andrews and The Singing Nun. Do get in touch if you'd like further information.

DEAD & ALIVE - LIVE!

Dead & Alive perform live Wednesday 6 February at Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street E2. As part of Gabriel Prokofiev's nonclassical club nights Tim and Josh will be manning the wheels of steel. See http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=99726796 for details. Hope to see you there!

STOCKHAUSEN

To our great sorrow Karlheinz Stockhausen died on 5 December 2007. On 18 January we paid tribute with an all Stockhausen programme. Here is the playlist:

1. Gesang der Junglinge
2. Trans
3. Klavierstück I-IV
4. Stimmung
5. Helicopter Quartet
6. Cosmic Pulses

Next week Tim is joined by Majella Byrne for a programme on Nuns.

WELCOME 2008

On January 11 2008 Dead and Alive returned to the air, broadcasting a selection of music Tim and I enjoyed over the Christmas break. You heard a largely classical selection, including one of Mozart's violin sonatas and Schubert's final piano sonata in B flat, player piano studies from Conlon Nacarrow before ending with the third movement from Beethoven's string quartet op 132. We hope you enjoyed it.