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.

HUDDERSFIELD

Here is what we played on our programme on music from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 2007 (for greater detail get in touch):

Mazulis: Sans Pause
Kyriakides: The Buffer Zone
MIMEO: Live from Serpentine Gallery 2003
Ashley
Wolff
Bach
Schaeffer
Mazulis
Cardew
Cardew
Barry
Kolkowski
Prokofiev
Stockhausen

We had fun up there, thanks to all for the hospitality. Time has crept up on us and now we've no time to detail last week's Christmas show - get in touch.

However, we must mention that this Christmas day, December 25th, Resonance is playing nothing but us, for 24 hours. So, make this Christmas a DEAD AND ALIVE Christmas, and tune in for some highlights from our 2 years of broadcasting.

From Josh and Tim, MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MUTE RECORDS

Here is the playlist for our program broadcast 16 November 2008, featuring special guest Daniel Miller of Mute Records:

1. Offenbach: La Gaite Parisienne, overture

2. Cage: Williams Mix

3. Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 49, No. 2

4. Bergeijk: D.E.S.

5. V/VM: Shostakovich - The Final Symphony, final movement

6. Can: Mushroom

7. Room 40: Airport Symphony

8. Cave and MacGowan: What a Wonderful World

9. Micronauts: Bleep to Bleep

10. Lutoslawski: Livre PourOrchestre, opening fragment

11. Oram: Washing Machine ad

12. Haswell and Hecker: Blackest Ever Black, part 3

Thanks Daniel for joining us, and humouring our 'invisible jukebox' questions. Tim and I are off to Huddersfield to hear Rytis Mazulis, and we won't be back in the studio until December 7, where we'll be presenting a program on music from Huddersfield festival. Next week our dear friend and Les Sept Mondes producer Max Benezeth will be stepping into the presenter's chair to deliver our program, many thanks.

TRIOS

Here is the playlist for our program on trios:

1. Geminiani: Trio Sonata in F, 'The Last Time I Came O'er the Moor'

2. Beethoven: 'Archduke' Trio, fourth movement

3. Ives: Piano Trio, second movement

4. Strauss: Trio from Der Rosenkavalier

5. Ligeti: Horn Trio, second movement

6. Ustvolskaya: Trio, first movement

7. Kagel (pictured): Piano Trio No. 1, third movement

8. The Carter Family: Single Girl, Married Girl

9. The Broadsides: Single Girl, Married Girl

10. Dolly Parton / Loretta Lynn / Tammy Wynette: Honkytonk Heaven

11. Dickinson: Hymns, Rags and Blues, last two movements

12. Schnittke: String Trio, second movement

13. Feldman: For Philip Guston, excerpt

Thanks for listening.

NUMBERED SETS

Here is the play list for our programme broadcast 2 November on the numbered sets of the second Viennese School and associates (Alban Berg pictured):

1. Krenek: 3 Lusty Pieces for Brass Orchestra
2. Schoenberg: 5 Pieces for Orchestra
3. Wolpe: 3 Little Canons
4. Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for Solo Clarinet
5. Berg: 3 Pieces for Orchestra
6. Berio: 2 Pieces for Violin and Piano
7. Webern: 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano
8. Webern: 6 Pieces for Orchestra

Thanks for listening, or rather persisting. We suffered from various technical problems, mostly Tim misfiling CDs, for which we apologise. Musically we were very excited by the program and are sorry it didn’t proceed as smoothly as hoped.

Next Friday, 9 November, we’ll be playing trios, in all their glory. Stay tuned…

GUESTS

Last Friday, October 26 we were joined by Shoel Stadlen of SPNM and composer and Music Orbit founder Colin Riley to discuss recent projects. Many thanks for coming in.

This Friday, November 2, we will be examining music in numbered parts, looking particularly at the orchesterstücke of the second Viennese school. We hope you'll be joining us.

I've also just noticed a number of comments on our blog concerning old programmes and other trivia. I tried to respond without success, so do please get in touch with either of us, at our emails above.

SEX

Here is the playlist for our programme on Sex, broadcast October 19:

1. Schulhoff: Sonata Erotica

2. Weill: Song of Sexual Slavery

3. Luzzasco:

4. Barry: Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

5. Janacek: Diary of One Who Disappeared

6. Bonnie Prince Billy: After I've Made Love to You

7. Wagner: Tristan and Isolde

8. Bessie Smith: I'm Wild at That Thing

9. Ades: Powder Her Face

10. Smith: You've Got to Gimme Some

11. Bruce Springsteen: Tougher Than the Rest

12. Phonique / Robert Babicz: River

13. Mozart: Dearest, wear a Condom

14. Wagner: Tristan...

15. The Necks: Sex

Thanks for listening. Anyone wanting further information please get in touch - contact details all at the top of this page.

Microtonality

Last Friday, October 12, we played microtonal music, and featured works by Alois Haba (pictured, on his quartet-tone piano), Bach, Bartok, Rytis Mazulis, Ligeti, Scelsi, Foulds, Ives, Partch, some gamelan, and finished with Haba's monstrous quarter tone opera, The Mother.

The week before we played film music. Do get in touch if you'd like any additional information.

Tonight, October 19, we're playing music on the theme of sex - ooh err! Expect some Wagner, Barry, Gainsbourgh and The Necks.

NEW SHOWS

Our first show for the new season has now been and gone, and featured various pieces of music we'd been enjoying over the past few months. Opening with our theme tune, the overture from Gerlad Barry's Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, we then played work by Gordon Mumma, Mendelssohn's Octet, Bryman, Cardew, Porter Wagoner, Lola Flores, Nono, Hindemith, Haass, Enescu, Mazulis (pictured), Arthur Lyman and Donnacha Dennehey. Many thanks to Lina, our Lithuanian engineer, for pronunciation assistance. Our second show, on film music, was last Friday - full playlist details will be posted wehn (if?) I can locate them. Do please get in touch if you'd like any additional information - contact details at the top of the page.

This Friday, October 12th, we'll be looking at microtonality. Expect to hear music by Alois Haba, among others.

DEAD AND ALIVE RETURNS!

Dear Listeners,

Many apolgies for our delay in returning to the airwaves, but news has it that we'll be back, live, Friday September 28th at our old time of 9pm - 10.30pm. We'll be broadcasting from the new and improved Resonance FM studio at London Bridge, with new equipment, but we hope to keep our personal teething trouble to a minimum.

Our first program shall be a broad survey of music we've enjoyed over the past few months, from Wolfgang Rihm to Porter Wagoner. This season we'll be scheduling programs two weeks in advance, hoping to be even better prepared than last year. The following week's program on October 5th will look at music for films.

We look forward to another season of fine music, and hope to hear from you.

Josh and Tim.

MOVING

We'll be off the air until Resonance moves into its new premises in London Bridge. Stay tuned...

WAR

Tim fears he lost the playlist for last Friday's program on war music, but he did play a baroque battle piece, 'Arcana' by Varese (pictured), Schnittke's 'Nagasaki', Penderecki's 'Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima', Tchaikovsky's '1812', and Prokofiev's 6th piano sonata. Get in touch if you'd like to know more.

This Friday July 6 is our final show from Denmark Street. Lord knows we'll miss the place - the shabby cosiness, the decaying roof, the painfully narrow stairway, but most of all the charming squalor of next door's TPA bar. To celebrate we're playing music with bells on, literally. 90 minutes of bells. Tune in, and we'll be back live in August.

SPANISH MUSIC

Here is the playlist for our show on Spanish music aired June 22 (Roberto Gerhard pictured):

1. Giminez: Zapateado, De Los Angeles / London Sinfonia / de Burgos, EMI

2. de Penalosa: Misa Ave Maria Peregrina, 'Kyrie', Volumen Quinto, Taller Ziryab

3. Granados: Danza Espanola, Segovia, Doremi

4. Josele: Waltz for Debby, Sony

5. Granados: Quejos o la Maja y el Ruisenor, Granados, Pieran

6. Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, 'Exaltacion', Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid / Alonso, Hispavox

7. de Narvaez: Primer Tono Por Ge Sol Re Ut, Marquez, ECM

8. Gerhard: Libra, Spanjaard / Nieuw Ensemble, Largo

9. Iglesias: Soy Marco, London Session Orchestra / Iglesias, Sony

10. Nat King Cole: Ansiedad, Capitol

11. Jelinek / Pekler / Leichtmann: Buddha Machine Commercial, Staubgold

12. sunnO))): BP//Simple, Staubgold

13. Alex Under: Vacarneroveja El Establo Queado, Trapez

Thanks for listening. This Friday we're playing a repeat as the studio is occuppied - we're back next week with bells on.

SONAR

I've just returned from Barcelona's Sonar Festival of Experimental Music and Media, and shall celebrate this Friday, June 22, with a show all about Spain. I'll also sneak in a few highlights from the festival. Expect some minimal techno...

RUSSIAN PIANO QUINTETS

Here is the playlist for our program on Russian Piano Quintets (Shostakovich pictured) broadcast 18th May:

1. Alyabiyev: Quintet for Piano and Strings, Gilels / Beethoven String Quartet, Doremi

2. Shostakovich: Piano Quintet Op. 57, Orbelian / Moscow String Quartet, Russian Disc

3. Karetnikov: Quintet for Piano and Strings, Slessarev / Loukaniev / Komissarov / Petrov / Gothelf, Le CHant du Monde

4. Schnittke: Piano Quintet, Orbelian / Moscow String Quartet, Russian Disc

5. Medtner: Quintet for Piano and Strings, Svetlanov / Borodin Quartet

Thanks for listening. This Friday May 25 we'll continue our look at Studies, particularly those of Conlon Nancarrow.

NEWS

Apologies for our lack of updates - should rectify that soon. Both Tim and myself have been kept busy with other duties. This Friday, May 18, we will be playing Russian piano quintets (Alfred Schnittke pictured above). A uniform show perhaps, but it hopes to be a pleasant one. Stay tuned...

STRINGS

Here is the playlist for our programme on music for strings (George Melachrino pictured above):

1. Melachrino / Chopin: Nocturne in E flat, Mandell / Melachrino Strings, Vocalion

2. Barry:

3. Elgar: Sospiri, Lloyd-Jones / English Northern Philharmonia, Naxos

4. Vivaldi: Sinfonia in C major RV111A, Marcon / Venice Baroque Orchestra, Archiv

5. Carmichael arr. Mandell: Stardust, Mandell / Melachrino Strings, Vocalion

6. Xenakis: Shaar, Tamayo / Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Timpani

7. Rogers and Hart: Bewitched, Mantovani and his Orchestra, Delta

8. Ikeda: Opus 1 for 9 Strings, Touch

9. Sallinen: Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik’s Funeral March,Csaba and Géza Szilvay / The Helsinki Strings, Apex

10. Mascagni: Cavaliera Rusticana

Thanks for listening. Apologies for the night off last week, and many thanks to Victoria and David for covering for us.

Next week: electro-acoustic music.

UNTITLED EPISODE

Here is the playlist for our episode on... random pieces of music, aired 23rd March 2007:

1. Lully: 'Symphonie', Te Deum, Paillard / Orchestre de Chambre Paillard, Apex
2. Xenakis: Phlegra, Tabachnik / Ensemble Intercontemporain, Apex
3. Hirai: Scenes from a Native Land, Hirai, Arts Fantasia
4. Dalapiccolla: Goethe Lieder, Hamilton / Lockhart / Blamey / Rawles, Delphian
5. Tony Allen: Ole (Moritz von Oswald mix), Honest Jons
6. Chopin: Polonaise Fantasie in A flat Major Op. 61, Horowitz, Andromeda
7. Messiaen: 'Amen de la Consommation, Ogdon / Lucas, Explore
8. Elvis Presley: Always on my Mind, LP
9. Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, Baker / Barbirolli / Halle Orchestra, EMI

Thanks for listening. Next week: Jazz and classical music, with guest Andy Wiersma. Tim will be absent which is fortunate as he hates jazz.

GUITARS

Here is the playlist for our show on guitar music, featuring live performances from special guest Amanda Cook:

1. Beethoven: Sonatina, Galfetti / Fasolis, Arts

2. Zorn: 'Etudes 18 - 20', The Book of Heads, Ribot, Tzadik

3. Gomez: Romance de Amor, Gomez, Doremi

4. Memphis Minnie: Me and my Chauffer Blues, Rough Guide

5. Rodrigo: Junto al Generalife, Amanda Cook (live)

6. Ellis Island

7. Verdery, Russell, Muskatweek Records

8. Satie: Sarabande III, Miolin, BIS

9. Webern: Three Songs for voice, clarinet and guitar, Lukomska / Williams / Bradley, Sony

10. Kurtag: Grabstein fur Stephan, de Rijke / Schoenberg Ensemble, Et'cetera

11. Fahey: Sligo River Blues, Fahey, Takoma

12. Berio: Sequenza XI for Guitar, Fisk, DG

13. Sakamoto: Opus, Sakamoto, Sony

Thanks for listening, and many thanks to Amanda Cook for joining us. Contact her at http://www.hago.org.uk/contact/amanda-cook.html

Next week: A random smattering of new and exciting music. Stay tuned...