Words and Music

[Radio64]

Great looking edition yesterday, on Memory, with the magnificent Eleanor Bron and the excellent Tom Hiddleston

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052zwd4

Looking forward to a catch-up

Yes, a very good one indeed, enjoyed during an otherwise grim Sunday afternoon with a nice cup of tea and a book.

[ardcarp]

Words and Music - The Silver Sea

About halfway through today's programme there was a wonderful piece for cello and piano - fabulously played - which does not seem to appear on the playlist. (Or am I going nuts?) It was obviously by a 20thC. English composer and I was bowled over by it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05mqhb1#auto

Can anyone help please?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, if you're going nuts then so am I - and I don't recognize it, either Unlisted, it starts at around 38 mins after the "Seals and Whales" folk song.

[teamsaint]

I think you will find that its a Viola sonata by Francis Pott. A recent composition
I just happen to know that.

Super stuff.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cfG073JojT0

[ardcarp]

Thanks Teamsaint! Yes, that's it...and there's me thinking it was a cello. (I'm going to get some stick at orch. next Weds!) What a great piece of music; and what I find especially admirable is that FP's using a proper compositional technique, and writing idiomatically for the instrument.

How disgraceful that the Beeb omitted it from the playlist!

[teamsaint]

TBF to the BBC, they did list the piece in the blurb , below the playlist......


The Piece is only available as a download or to hear on youtube by the look of it, which is perhaps the reason for the playlist ommission.

Great spot on the music Ards, will give that a proper listen tonight.

[ardcarp]

Words and Music 5/7/15

Today's edition, Conversations, was a cracker. Music included Ligeti, Varese, Messiaen and Nancarrow (the latter an especial favourite of mine).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060zkjj

Such a shame this programme no longer inhabits its late night slot. Such an awkward time to catch it 'live' in early evening on a Sunday.

[gradus]

Its a jewel of a series unlike anything else, pray that nobody tries to change or 'improve' it.

[Bryn]

Thanks for the alert. I would have missed listening to it had it not been mentioned here.

[Nick Armstrong]

The presence of several editions of W&M in the schedule is one of the best aspects of the Shakespeare weekend, I think. The one just now was great. Not many things could compensate for an abbreviated Record Review, but this did.

These are the Words and Music programmes this weekend:



SATURDAY 23 APR 2016

11:00
Shakespeare and Power
Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith with readings and music on the power of royalty.

17:00
Shakespeare and Jealousy
Music and Shakespearean texts on jealousy. Readers: Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith.



SUNDAY 24 APR 2016

13:00
Shakespeare and Youth
Student actors from the Shakespeare Institute with prose and poetry on the theme of youth.

17:30
The Play's the Thing
Poems, songs, readings and music celebrating Shakespeare's legacy in theatre and acting.

[ardcarp]

W&M is one of the best R3 programmes, IMO, Shakespeare or not. Just wish they'd put its regular scheduled slot back to where it used to be.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes ardy (though I can't remember when it was scheduled; in these days of catch-up / downloading, scheduled time matters very little to me).

I've re-listened to some sections of this morning's programme - Tim Pigott-Smith is just magnificent, I think. His reading of Canterbury's speech about the honeybees ("Therefore doth heaven divide the state of man in diverse functions...") from Henry V Act I/ii is especially brilliant! It's great that he's back in the second W&M today.

[Radio64]

Thanks for the heads up Cals .. .I wasn't aware of these 'specials' ... Excellent.

[Nick Armstrong]

Today's "Pilgrimage" programme absolutely outstanding, heard the first part - definitely needing a catch-up for the rest !

[DracoM]

Well, yes, up to a point, Lord Copper.
Listened to most: but IIRC no mention of Santiago de Compostela, arguably the biggest pilgrimage destination for medieval pilgrims apart from Jerusalem.

Graceland - yes, Monserrat - yes, Canterbury - yes...........but... see above.