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...

ORGANS

Here is the playlist for our show on organ music broadcast March 9 2007:

1. Ligeti: Volumina, Zacher, DG

2. Saint Saens: Symphony 3, Matthes / Chung / Orchestre de l'Opera Bastille, DG

3. Bach: Fugue in G Minor 'Little', Fox, RCA

4. Schnittke: Peer Gynt, Petre / Klas / Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra, BIS

5. Schaeffer: 'Half Submerged by Each', In the Last Hour, Room 40

6. Charmaine, Wurlitzer...

7. Beethoven: Pastorale Symphony, Toscanini / NBCSO, RCA

8. Nico: 'No One is There', The Marble Index, Elektra

9. Susanna and the Magic Orchestra: 'Fotheringay', Melody Mountain, Rune Gramofone

Thanks for listening. Next week, March 16, we will have guitarist Amanda Cook performing live in the studio, prior to her performance at the Wigmore Hall on Saturday March 17. We'll also be playing guitar music, and other things. Stay tuned!

CHARITY

Thank you all those who donated money to Resonance - we're in your debt! Here is the playlist for our charity special broadcast March 2nd 2007:

1. Keller: Six Fanfare for Six Trumpets - Andante, Eklund's Baroque Ensemble, BIS

2. Lord Kitchener: Love in the Cemetery, Trojan

3. Ravel: Piano Trio, Last Movement, LP

4. Louis Armstrong: High Society, Soundtrack LP

5. Loesser: 'Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat', Guys and Dolls, Stubby Kaye, Original Broadway Cast

6. Di Capua: O Sole Mio, Pavarotti, LP

7. Di Capua: O Sole Mio, Caruso, Hanssler

8. Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up, RCA

9. Amy Wilson: Only One, CDR (www.myspace.com/amywilsonlalala)

10. Patsy Montana: My Baby's Lullaby, ASV Living Era

11. Mozart: Symphony 40, Eide (whistle), BIS

12. Field: Nocturne XIII in D Minor, O'Conor, Telarc

13. Chopin: Nocturne Op. 55 No. 1, Arrau, Philips

14. Xerox Pig: The Tale of Cutlery Corrigan, CDR

15. Jancic: Summer Garden, CDR

16. Stevens: The Mouden Fanfares, Dallas Trumpets, Crystal Records

Again, many thanks for listening and support.

FEMALE COMPOSERS

Here is the playlist for our show on female compoers broadcast 23 February 2007:

1. Jancic: Brass Quintet, CDR

2. Hildegard von Bingen: Columbia aspexit, Kirkby / Gothic Voices, Hyperion

3. Oram: 'Four Aspects', Oramics, Paradigm

4. Oram: Tumblewash, ibid

5. Mahler: Licht in der Nacht, Hogman / Pontinen, BIS

6. Loretta Lynn: 'One's on the Way', The Best Of Loretta Lynn, Spectrum

7. Strozzi: Serenata, Lagrime mie, Ensemble Poiesis, Aeon

8. Seeger: Music for Small Orchestra, Schoenberg Ensemble / De Leeuw, Etcetera

9. Coates: 'Aurora Borealis', Symphony 2, Stuttgart PO / Dieter

10. Beach: Piano Quintet, 2nd Movement, Endymion Quintet, ASV

11. Anderson: New York Social Life, Anderson / Johnson, New World

12. Benary: 'Amtrak', Aural Shoehorning, Downtown Ensemble and Gamelan Son of Lion, New World

13. Susanna and the Magic Orchestra: 'Believer', List of Lights and Buoys, Rune Gramofone

Thank you for listening. This Friday, 2 March, we're honouring pledges to the Resonance cause and playing music requested by listeners who have donated money. So, if you haven't already, go to www.resonancefm.com and give some money, then let us know what you'd like us to play and tune in next week to hear it. Simple!

SCHOENBERG ENSEMBLE

Here is the playlist for the show on the box set of recordings by Reinbert de Leeuw and the Schoenberg Ensemble, broadcast 16 February 2007, soloists mentioned:

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE

2. Schoenberg: Der Wunsch des Liebhabers, Netherlands Chamber Choir

3. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Jard Van Nes

4. Seeger, R.C: Piano Study in Mixed Accents, de Leeuw

5. Kurtag: 'Your Disappearances', Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Trusova, Zagorinskaya

6. Yun: Quartet

7. Dallapiccola: 'Invocazione di Boezia', Canti di Prigionia, RIAS Chamber Choir

8. Obukhov: 'I Will Wait for Thee', Four Balmont Songs, Hannigan

9. Antheil: Ballet Mecanique

10. Webern: Five Canons, Netherlands Chamber Choir / Dorow

11. Skriabin / de Vries: Vers la flamme / Eclips, Ades

Thanks for listening.

BABY MUSIC

Here is the playlist for our 9/2/2007 show on music for and about babies and children:

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE

2. Lithuanian Lullaby

3. Woody Guthrie: 'I Want my Milk and I Want it Now', Songs for Mother and Children, Smithsonian Folkways

4. Stravinsky: Three Little Songs

5. Mahler: Hansel and Gretel

6. Humperdink: Hansel and Gretel

7. Kurtag: 'Perpetuum Mobile (objet trouve)', Jatekok, Kurtag, ECM

8. Hashimoto: Mother's Song, Mera, Bis

9. Elizabeth Cotton: Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways

10. Tippett:

11. Mazulis: Talita Cumi, Lithuanian Music Information Centre

12. Mozart: Klavierstucke K1a, Tirimo, Regis

13. Mozart: Popp

14. Bizet: 'Impromptu: La Tupie', Jeux d'Enfants, Haitink / Concertgebouw, Philips

15. Webern: Kinderstuck,

16. Finnissy

17. Debussy: 'Golliwog's Cakewalk', Children's Corner Suite, Thibaudet, Philips

18. James Kelly Duhon: Heartbreaker (Childmaker), Trikont

19. Wolf-Ferarri:

Thanks for listening. Next week, 16/2, we'll be playing a selection from the mammoth Schoenberg Ensemble Box set.

Lastly - don't forget the Resonance fund raising drive. We'll play whatever piece of music you fancy, and say whatever you'd like us to, for a donation to the station. Our survival depends upon it. Be generous.

2007 BEGINS!

Here is the playlist for our 'Welcome Back' show, aired Friday February 2nd:

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE
2. Barry: Swinging Tripes and Trillibubkins, Kawai, NMC
3. Satie: Ragtime Dada, Gorisek, LTM
4. Adams: Chain to the Rhythm, Salonen / LA Philharmonic, Nonesuch
5. Mathieu / Schaefer: Danse Etoile, Cronica
6. Blind Tom: Battle of Manassas, Davis, Newport Classic
7. Handel: Suite No. 10, Gavrilov, EMI
8. Ussachevsky: Sonic Contours, New World Records
9. Sharam: Party all the Time, single version
10. Grey: Blood Red, Jeanrenaud, New Albion
11. Stockhausen: Trans, Stockhausen Verlag

Thanks for listening. Next week, February 9, we are playing music for and about babies and children, with a real live baby in the studio! Stay tuned...

WE'RE BACK!

Yes indeed, Dead and Alive returns to Resonance 104.4FM Friday February 2nd at the new time of 8.00pm - 9.30pm. We look forward to bringing you another season of music, banter and guests. As always, feel free to contact us at Harold Moores Records, details above.
- Josh and Tim

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FAREWELL 2006

That's it for Dead and Alive for 2006. Here is the playlist for our last show broadcast on September 29th 2006:

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE
2. Satie: Sonnerie Pour Reveiller le Roi des Singes, Apex
3. Schnittke: Clowns und Kinder, Strobel / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Capriccio
4. Wagner: Siegfried's Funeral March (transcribed for 2 organs), Albrecht, Oehms Classics
5. Live performance by Kim Sheehan
6. Barry: Hard D, Houlihan / Irish Chamber Orchestra, Marco Polo
7. Cage: Inner Landscape, Leng Tan, New Albion
8. Ligeti: Desordre, Cordes a Vide, Aimard, Sony
9. Plan B: Charmaine, Warners
10. Rocky Bill Ford, Beer Drinkin' Man, from Country Drinking Songs, budget compilation
11. Haas: 'Wild Night', String Quartet No. 2, Pavel Haas Quartet / Currie, Supraphon
12. Taylor Deupree: Forest / Opaque, Room 40
13. Strauss: 'At the Summit', Alpine Symphony, Mravinsky / Academic Symphony Orchestra of Leningrad, Melodiya

Apologies for the scant information. Many thanks to Kim Sheehan for her performance.

Thank you all of our listeners, we've thoroughly enjoyed presenting the show over the past 12 months. We should be back early next year, and you may hear us on a Clear Spot at some point. You know where to find us, so come and say hello at Harold Moores Records.

- Josh and Tim.

SERIALISM

Here is the tracklist for last week's show on serialism:

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE
2. Webern: Variations for Orchestra, Boulez / LSO, DG
3. Eisler: 'Andante', Five Orchestral Pieces, Zimmer / Deutsches SO Berlin, Capriccio
4. Messiaen: 'Mode de valeurs et d'intensities', Quatre etudes de rhythme, Hill, Regis
5. Schoenberg: 'Gigue', Piano Suite, Gould, CBS
6. Stravinsky: 'Gigue', Sextet, CBS
7. Berg: Violin Concerto, Kogan / Rozhdestvensky.
8. Boulez: Structures I for Two Pianos, Kontarsky Brothers, Mace Records LP
9. Wolpe: Passaglia, Op. 23, Kalitzke / WDR SO Koln, Mode
10. Babbitt: Swan Song No.1 (excerpt), Cygnus Ensemble, Bridge

Thanks to Matt Groom at RSK. Next week is our final show for 2006! We have no agenda, but we'll be hearing Majella Byrne singing Cage, David McAlmont singing something, and special guests. Get in touch if you have anything to say, and don't miss us Friday!

MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS

Here is the tracklist for last week's show on multiple instruments:

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE
2. Adson, arr. Nicholson: 'Courtly Masquerading Ayres', The Concertina Record, Lea Nicholson, Jamring
3. Messiaen: Oraison, Ensemble de Ondes de Montreal, Ellipsis Arts
4. Rolf Harris: Two Little Boys, Vocal Edit 92, BMG LP
5. Eastman: Evil Nigger, Eastman / Ferko / Kattas / Martin, New World
6. Praetorius: Dances, 1612 (CD donated)
7. Praetorius: Bouree, 1612 (CD donated)
8. 'La Mort de Roland', French Hunting Music, Musique de Chasse, MDG
9. Mr. Sandman, Buckingham Banjos, Decca
10. Ten Holt: Horizon (excerpts) de Haas / Abe / Oldenburg / Krill, Composers' Voice
11. Xenakis: Akrata, Tamayo / Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Timpani

Thanks for listening, and thanks Andy for the CD. This Friday September 22nd we'll be looking at serialism, continuing on from our previous show on atonality, so expect some jagged sounds alongside our usual instructive commentary and banter. The following week, September 29th, will be our final show for the year, so if you want shout-outs or requests be sure to tune-in!

SPACE

Here is the playlist for the two-and-a-half-hour space marathon broadcast 08/09/06. Excuse the scanty track details, we'll get there:

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE
2. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Koussevitsky / Boston SO, Biddulph
3. Holst: 'Jupiter', The Planets, Rattle, Berlin PO, EMI
4. Derbyshire / Grainer et. al.: Doctor Who (original theme), BBC
5. Leunig: Fantasy in Space
6. Dvorak: 'O Sivler Moon', Rusalka, Popp / Munich Radio Orchestra, Arts
7. Etta James: By the Light of the Silvery Moon, LP
8. Borisov: Stars in the Sky, Osipov Russian Folk Orchestra, Olympia
9. The Moon is Shining (trad.), Andreyev, IMLCD
10. Cage: Atlas Ellipticalis
11. Diana Burrell:
12. Montagu: Beyond the Milky Way, Mead, NMC
13. Tavener:
14. Rouders: Shooting Stars
15. Fireball, TV soundtrack, 7"
16. Zero Gravity, TV soundtrack b-side 7"
17. Barry, Bitter Tears (reprise)
18. Turnage: Ceres, Rattle / Berlin PO, EMI
19. Holst, 'Uranus', ibid.
20. Weill: 'Lost in the Stars', Ulysses Africanus, Huston / Young, Membran
21. Julee Cruise: 'The World Spins', Floating into the Night, Warner
22. Badalamenti: 'Nostalgia', The Straight Story, Warner
23. Mozart: Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter', Minkowski / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Archiv
24. Subotnik: Silver Apples of the Moon
25. Vierk:
26. Vaughan-Williams: Toward the Unkown Region, Howarth / Ainsley / Allen / Corydon Orchestra, Hyperion 27. Michael Hurley: 'O' My Stars', Sweetkorn, Trikont
28. Rechenzentrum: 'IBM', The Peel Sessions, Mille Plateaux

Thanks for hanging in there listeners. This Friday, 15/09/06, we'll be playing music made on multiple instruments.

SPACE ART SPECIAL

Late notice but I must inform you all that tonight's show (8th September 2006) as part of Resonance FM's Space Art special at the Roundhouse will be broadcast from 8.00 - 10.00pm UK time. We'll be playing lots of music about ...space.

NEW RELEASES 02/09/06

Here is the playlist for last Friday's program:

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE
2. Golijov: 'Interludio de Balazos y Lamento por la Muerte de Frederico, Ainadamar, Upshaw / O'Connor / Spano / Atlanta SO, DG
3. Driftjuit: track 7.
4. Venturini: Concerto for 10 Instruments, Plantier / La Cetra, Zigzag Territories
5. Golijov: 'Quiero arrancarme los ojos', Ainadamar
6. Penderecki: Partita for Harpsichord, Blumental / Penderecki / Polish Radio SO, Brana
7. Martini: Plaisir d'amour, de los Angeles / de Burgos / Sinfonia of London, EMI
8. Weill: La Fiancee du Pirate, Dufresne / Nezet-Seguin, ATMA
9. Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Allegretto giusto, Kitchen / Boriskin, Arabesque Recordings
10. Pan Sonic: Slovakian Rauta, Touch
11. Lucier: A Tribute to James Tenney, Part 4, Tieman, New World Records
12. Golijov: Desde mi Ventana, Ainadamar
13. Driftwood: track 6

Thanks for listening. This Friday, September 8th, we'll be participating in Resonance FM's 'Space Soon: Art and Human Spaceflight' special, with music concerned with... space. How we'll be contributing is yet to be decided, but you'll certianly hear from us, possibly live from the Roundhouse where activitied will be taking place, or possibly from the studio. Normal programming will re-commence September 15th, with a show on works for multiple instuments. Stay tuned...

DUTCH MUSIC

Below is the playlist for last week's program on (or rather, mash-up of) music from The Netherlands. Apologies to regular listeners who were hoping to hear complete works but I hope you found something to enjoy there.

1. (D and A Theme)Barry: 'Overture', The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Markson / RTE National Symphony Orchestra, RTE
2. Frans Van Schaik: 'Ketelbinkie', Cafe Rotterdam, Intermusic
3. Clemens Non Papa: Si Mores Dissolvit, Cancion Francesca, Capilla Flamenca / La Caccia, Etcetera
4. Vermeulen: Cello Sonata No.1, 2nd movement, Bijlsma / de Leeuw, Composers' Voice LP
5. Wagemans: Muziek II, Sudwestfunk Orchestra / Bour, Donemus
6. de Leeuw: Music for Piano I, Krochmalska, Gaudeamus Foundation LP
7. Staalplaat 3"CD sampler, track 2
8. Loevendie: Six Turkish Tone Poems, Dorow / de Leeuw
9. Staalplaat, track 6
10. Schat: The Fall, Netherlands Chamber Choir / van dan Hombergh, Composers' Voice LP
11. Heppner: Nachklange, Netherlands Chamber Choir / Muller, Composers' Voice LP
12. Staalplaat, track 7
13. Kilima Hawaiians: 'Ola Bapa Dja', Cafe Rotterdam, Intermusic
14. Wagemans: Rosebud, Hague Philharmonic Choir / van Steen, Donemus
15. van Noordt: Psaume 119, Bailleux, Stil Discoteque LP
16. Andriessen: Worker's Union, Bang On A Can, Canteloupe
17. van Noordt: Psaume 24.
18. Staalplaat, track 4.
19. Ten-Holt: Lemniskaat, Dijkhuizen / Brink / van Groningen à Stuling / Wieringa, Composers' Voice
20. Beequeen: limited edition 3"
21. Jaap Blonk, Staalplaat 3" CD
23. de Vries: Areas (played backwards), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Zinman, Composers' Voice
24. Kirkegaard: 'Church', Four Rooms, Touch

Apologies also to Driftwood, the folk duo I saw perform all over Vlieland and whose music I had hoped to play - we'll be playing them this Friday, September 1st, on a show focusing on new and recent releases. Hope you can tune in...