Radio 3 celebrates Al-Andalus: Sunday 29 September

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  • doversoul1
    Ex Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 7132

    Radio 3 celebrates Al-Andalus: Sunday 29 September

    (Host: if there is more suitable place for this, please move the thread.)

    On Sunday 29 September 2019, Radio 3 celebrates Al-Andalus: an historical area and period of Islamic Spain and Portugal, spanning 800 years of music, culture and history that still resonates throughout the region today. Throughout the day, we'll hear music and poetry from the period itself, alongside classical and contemporary music that traces its roots back to Al-Andalus, including Fado, Flamenco and Fandango.

    From 12-3pm, Hannah French presents a live programme with guests including musicologist Jonathan Shannon, historian Hugh Kennedy and Sabiha Al Khemir, a historian of Islamic art. The Early Music Show is presented by the founder of Joglaresa - Belinda Sykes, and there will be contributions from food writer Claudia Roden and linguist Dr Alice Corr plus performers Amina Alaoui and the Moroccan-based Orchestre Arabo-Andaloui de Fez.

    Later on, The Listening Service seeks out the essence of Spain in music of later centuries and asks how we can recognise a "Spanish" sound in the music of today. And Words and Music comes from the Alhambra in Granada: actors Candela Gomez and Khalid Abdalla perform readings alongside music and recordings from Spain as we journey around the world-famous palace, built in AD 889.

    The day closes with Fado music from the Portuguese city of Coimbra (known during the time of Al-Andalus as Al-Madina), followed by highlights from a concert of early Renaissance music from the Granada Festival in June
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    Martin Handley with Breakfast including music of Al-Andalus and a Slow Radio soundscape.


    Early music seems to be on the centre stage. Aditional information very much welcome.
  • Old Grumpy
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 3594

    #2
    Excellent, thanks Dovers.

    Bit of early, bit of "world", bit of everything, really.

    OG

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    • Richard Tarleton

      #3
      + 1

      This theme also explored (minus the recipes ) in Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI's lavish Granada 1013-1502 CD + booklet set.

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      • John Locke

        #4
        A very long and seemingly authoritative article in Wikipedia which answered some of the questions which occurred to me (meaning of the name, precise dates).

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        • Richard Tarleton

          #5
          Tho it doesn't seem to mention the battle of Covadonga, the start of the Reconquista (which only took another 700 years......)

          An amazing battlefield, in the Picos de Europa, which forumite and fellow birder Vox Humana visited recently......

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          • doversoul1
            Ex Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 7132

            #6
            I very much enjoyed the first taste of the day on Breakfast

            Francisco de Peñalosa
            Unica est columba mea
            Ensemble: New York Polyphony.

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            • doversoul1
              Ex Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 7132

              #7
              13.08

              This is amazing. Don't miss it. Radio 3 at its very best. And a lot of it.

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              • Richard Tarleton

                #8
                Originally posted by doversoul1 View Post
                13.08

                This is amazing. Don't miss it. Radio 3 at its very best. And a lot of it.
                Loved Joglaresa

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                • Ein Heldenleben
                  Full Member
                  • Apr 2014
                  • 6726

                  #9
                  I wish there was more music and less talk in this Flamenco / Fado programme. Also a bit more musical analysis maybe but it’s so rare to get anything on these genres I guess we have to be grateful for what we get. I can just about remember a time when the Pacos used to get exposure on ITV and BBC One but those days are sadly well gone..,

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                  • doversoul1
                    Ex Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 7132

                    #10
                    A lot of interesting music with just a few words.
                    Hannah French explores five centuries of Spanish and Portuguese music for choir and organ.

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