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!