FREE! Music for grown-ups on air in the next 10 days

Tempting TV/radio broadcasts in the next 10 days:

Thurs 7 August
1200 Bruckner, Composer Of The Week – BBC Radio 3
(4/5, continues Fri)
2300 Bert Jansch, BBC Four Sessions – BBC Four
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Fri 8 August
2100 Ella Fitzgerald, Legends – BBC Four
2335 Herbie Hancock, Live From Abbey Road - More4

Sat 9 August
2410 Herbie Hancock, Live From Abbey Road (rpt) - C4

Sun 10 August
2400 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Series 2) – BBC 6 Music

Mon 11 August
1200 Rossini, Composer Of The Week – BBC Radio 3
(1/5, continues Tues-Fri)
1900 James Hunter, Paul Jones blues show - BBC Radio 2
2040 Puccini, Il Tabarro (with Barbara Frittoli), Proms - BBC Radio 3

Wed 13 August
2400 I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses Story (1/2) - 6 Music

Thurs 14 August
2330 John Cale, BBC Four Sessions – BBC Four
2400 I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses Story (2/2) - 6 Music

Fri 15 August
2300 Van Morrison, BBC Four Sessions – BBC2

Online access: many BBC radio programmes are available online, streamed. Please see the BBC channels’ web sites for details.

Archived radio and TV programmes are accessible online for a short period via

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Gerry Smith

No new content on Friday or Monday – see you again on Tuesday

I’m taking advantage of the fine summer weather to get the garden sorted, and am turning off my computer for a few days.

So there’ll be no new content on Friday or Monday. I’ll be back posting new copy on Tuesday 5 August.

Make sure you drop by!

Gerry Smith

FREE! Music for grown-ups on air in the next 10 days

Tempting TV/radio broadcasts in the next 10 days:

Thurs 31 July
1900 Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione – Proms, BBC Radio 3
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Sun 3 August
2400 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Series 2) – BBC 6 Music

Mon 4 August
1200 Bruckner, Composer Of The Week – BBC Radio 3
(1/5, continues Tues-Fri)

Thursday 7 August
2300 Bert Jansch, BBC Four Sessions – BBC Four

Fri 8 August
2100 Ella Fitzgerald, Legends – BBC Four
2335 Herbie Hancock, Live From Abbey Road - More4

Online access: many BBC radio programmes are available online, streamed. Please see the BBC channels’ web sites for details.

Archived radio and TV programmes are accessible online for a short period via

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Gerry Smith

FREE! Music for grown-ups on air in the next 10 days

Tempting TV/radio broadcasts in the next 10 days:

Thurs 24 July
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (rpt) – BBC Radio 2
2400 The Chess Records Story – BBC 6 Music (4/4)

Sun 27 July
2400 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Series 2) – BBC 6 Music

Mon 28 July
1200 Gluck, Composer Of The Week – BBC Radio 3
(1/5, continues Tues-Fri)
2115, Steve Reich, The Lebrecht Interview – BBC Radio 3

Thurs 31 July
1900 Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione – Proms, BBC Radio 3
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Online access: many BBC radio programmes are available online, streamed. Please see the BBC channels’ web sites for details.

Archived radio and TV is accessible online via

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Gerry Smith

FREE! Music for grown-ups on air in the next 10 days

Tempting TV/radio broadcasts in the next 10 days:

Thursday 17 July
2045 JS Bach, Composer Of The Week – BBC Radio 3
(4/5, continues Fri at 2230)

2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Fri 18 July
2000 Karita Mattila, First Night Of The Proms – BBC2/BBC Radio 3

Saturday 19 July
1900 Moments In Love: The History Of Chill-Out Music – BBC Radio 2

Sun 20 July
2400 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Series 2) – BBC 6 Music

Monday 21 July
2400 The Chess Records Story – BBC 6 Music
(1/4, continues Tues-Thurs)

Tues 22 July
2200 Don’t Look Back (classic doc - Dylan’s 1965 UK tour) – More 4
(repeated 0105 Wed)

Thurs 24 July
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Online access: many BBC radio programmes are available online, streamed. Please see the BBC channels’ web sites for details.

Archived radio and TV is accessible online via

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Gerry Smith

Bach, Mozart, Leonard Cohen: a fine week ahead

After a dull period for this grown-up music lover, and not a few disappointing gigs, this looks like a very promising week:

* Marriage Of Figaro at Royal Opera House on Saturday; Barbara Frittoli stars, as the Countess.

* JS Bach is Composer Of The Week on BBC Radio 3 – 2045 from tonight until Friday.

* But the highlight, if only for its extreme rarity value, is Leonard Cohen’s gig at London’s O2 Arena on Thursday. I don’t fancy the venue one little bit, but you’ve got to catch Lenny whenever and wherever you can.

JS Bach… Mozart… Leonard Cohen: three of the biggest hitters of all - a very fine week ahead. Watch Music for Grown-Ups for in-depth reports from row 1!

Gerry Smith

David Bowie - Live in Santa Monica ’72: best release of 2008?

The new album, David Bowie - Live in Santa Monica ’72, just might well be the best release of 2008 so far. It’s certainly the best Bowie live album, superior to the Ziggy Retirement gig captured in London the following year.

Taken from a widely-bootlegged FM radio broadcast, David Bowie - Live in Santa Monica ’72 is the album you’d use to demonstrate Bowie’s early-career charisma.

A must-have in any half decent rockpop collection.

Track List:

Introduction
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Changes
The Supermen
Life On Mars?
Five Years
Space Oddity
Andy Warhol
My Death
The Width Of A Circle
Queen Bitch
Moonage Daydream
John, I’m Only Dancing
Waiting For The Man
The Jean Genie
Suffragette City
Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide

Gerry Smith

FREE! Music for grown-ups on air in the next 10 days

Tempting TV/radio broadcasts in the next 10 days:

Tues 8 July
2330 The Greatest Dance Records Of All Time (2/3) – BBC Radio 2

Thurs 10 July
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Fri 11 July
2330 The Bad Plus, Jazz On 3 – BBC Radio 3

Sun 13 July
1200 Jeanette Winterson, Private Passions – BBC Radio 3
2400 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Series 2) – BBC 6 Music

Mon 14 July
2045 JS Bach, Composer Of The Week – BBC Radio 3
(1/5, continues Tues-Thurs at 2045, Fri at 2230)

Tues 15 July
2330 The Greatest Dance Records Of All Time (3/3) – BBC Radio 2

Thurs 17 July
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Fri 18 July
2000 Karita Mattila, First Night Of The Proms – BBC2/BBC Radio 3

Online access: many BBC radio programmes are available online, streamed. Please see the BBC channels’ web sites for details.

Archived radio and TV is accessible online via BBC iPlayer:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Gerry Smith

FREE! Music for grown-ups on air in the next 10 days

Tempting TV/radio broadcasts in the next 10 days:

Fri 4 July
2230 Cassandra Wilson, Jazz Library - BBC Radio 3

Sat 5 July
1830 Marriage Of Figaro (Mozart), Opera On 3 – BBC Radio 3
1900 The Definitive History of UK Dance Music (2/3) – BBC Radio 2

Sun 6 July
2400 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Series 2) – BBC 6 Music

Tues 8 July
2330 The Greatest Dance Records Of All Time (2/3) – BBC Radio 2

Thurs 10 July
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Fri 11 July
2330 The Bad Plus, Jazz On 3 – BBC Radio 3

Online access: many BBC radio and TV programmes are available online, streamed and/or archived. You can access radio via BBC Listen Again and TV via BBC iPlayer: please see BBC channel web sites for details.

Gerry Smith

FREE! Music for grown-ups on air in the next 10 days

Tempting TV/radio broadcasts in the next 10 days:

Wed 25 June
2045 Franz Liszt, Composer Of The Week – BBC Radio 3
(3/5, continues Thurs-Fri)

Thurs 26 June
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Friday 27 June
2000 La Fille du Regiment (Dessay, Florez in once-in-a-lifetime London 2007 production) – BBC4

Friday-Sunday: Glastonbury – not my cup of Darjeeling, but there’s blanket BBC coverage on Radio 2 and TV. Among the musical mush for the mainstream middle-aged (in wellies), about 5% of the acts play for grown-ups: I’ll be watching out for Amy Winehouse on Saturday evening, and Leonard Cohen.

Sat 28 June
1030 What’s So Great About… Bob Dylan? – BBC Radio 4
1900 The Definitive History of UK Dance Music (2/3) – BBC Radio 2

Sun 29 June
2400 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Series 2) – BBC 6 Music

Tues 1 July
2330 The Greatest Dance Records Of All Time (1/3) – BBC Radio 2

Fri 4 July
2230 Cassandra Wilson, Jazz Library, BBC Radio 3

Online access: many BBC radio and TV programmes are available online, streamed and/or archived. You can access radio via BBC Listen Again and TV via BBC iPlayer: please see BBC channel web sites for details.

Gerry Smith