Coming up on the next programme...
Dec 6. This Friday, we hear Amira sing a traditional Macedonian song; Leadbelly's "Black Girl"; a famous piano concerto by Rachmaninov; the Gil Evans Orchestra perform "Where Flamingos Fly"; Mancunian trio Marconi Union; 2 John Martyn songs; part of a pastoral symphony by Vaughan Williams; young Dutch jazz musician - currently based in New York - Ben Van Gelder (pictured); a fan of Gelder's, pianist Aaron Parks, from his recently-released ECM debut; plus more Schubert lieder (see BLUE TUNES, below). 10pm start expected...
All this week, we'll be featuring songs by an early 18th century composer from Austria. The prolific melodist Franz Schubert is reputed to have written 140 songs in the year 1815 alone. On one single day - October 15th - he composed 8 lieder. Some of his piano pieces are, essentially, songs without texts. And, on occasion, Schubert re-cycled material from his own songs for instrumental works. Expect to hear some of these also during the course of the week (for example, his String Quartet in D Minor, which includes variations derived from De Tod und das Madchen). That’s a selection of lieder by Schubert, nightly, from 10pm.
