13 Jul 08
Sunday 13 July 2008 18:30-20:00 (Radio 3)
Aled Jones reviews the musical discoveries from this season's programmes, including choral groups from Tahiti, Iceland, the US and New Zealand. Plus a trip to an unusual choral gathering - the 2008 Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival.
Duration:
1 hour 30 minutes
Playlist
Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival - www.falmouthshout.com/festival.html
BBC Proms 2008 - www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2008/
Falmouth Sea Shanty Festivalhttp://www.falmouthshout.com/festival.html
BBC Proms 2008http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2008/
TRADITIONAL: I heard the old man say (excerpt)
Exmouth Shanty Men
BBC recording from The Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival - 14 June 2008
TRADITIONAL: Clear Away the Track
Exmouth Shanty Men
BBC recording from The Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival - 14 June 2008
GRIMSDOTTIR Bara: Maria, drottins liljan
Hljomeyki
SMK 2 3, track 3
TRADITIONAL: Storm Along
Exmouth Shanty Men
BBC recording from The Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival - 14 June 2008
KATS-CHERNIN, Elena: Mater
The Song Company
BBC recording
HAMILTON, David: The Moon is Silently Singing
Tower New Zealand Youth Choir, Nicola Averill and Erica Challis (horns), conducted by Karen Grylls
TOWER MMT2016, track 12
FORBES, Jack: Rolling down the River
Hanging Johnny
BBC recording from The Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival - 14 June 2008
TRADITIONAL (Tahitian): Te Poti Varua (The Boat of the Soul)
The Tahitian Choir
SHANACHIE 6405 5 1/5
TRADITIONAL: Essequibo River
Exmouth Shanty Men
BBC recording from The Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival - 14 June 2008
TOCH, Ernst: Fuge aus der Geographie for chorus [from "Gesprochene Musik"]
Turtle Creek Chorale
Private tapes
TRADITIONAL: Shipwrecked
Sheringham Shantymen
BBC recording from The Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival - 14 June 2008
STOCKHAUSEN, Karlheinz: Stimmung (short extract)
Theatre Of Voices directed by Paul Hillier
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 807408 1
Mouton: Ave Maria Virgo Serena
Theatre of Voices
HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907136, track 6
MESSIAEN, Olivier: O sacrum convivium
BBC Singers conducted by Stephen Cleobury
BBC recording
TRADITIONAL arr. Philip Lawson: I Love my Love
King's Singers - Ensemble - vocal
SIGNUM SIGCD 121, track 9
JANACEK, Leos: Glagolitic mass
Slava [Gloria]
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Slovak Philharmonic Chorus conducted by Riccardo Chailly with Eva Urbanova (soprano) and Vladimir Bogachov (tenor)
DECCA 4602132, track 3
TRADITIONAL (spiritual): Didn't It Rain!
Cantamus Girls' Choir conducted by Pamela Cook with Michael Neaum on piano
Private tapes
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph: A Sea symphony for soloists, chorus and orchestra (Symphony no.1)
4th movement; The Explorers (Finale) excerpt
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Leonard Slatkin with Benita Valente (soprano) and Thomas Allen (baritone)
BMG 09026 611972, tracks 12-15
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