Music Show, The
Music Show, The
Hear the interview of the week from the Music Show, where composer Andrew Ford entertains and informs a wide audience each week, providing two hours of essential listening from the world of music. Guests on the Music Show have included Emmylou Harris, Philip Glass, k.d. lang, Baaba Maal, Paul ...
Saturday 11:05 Richard Meale remembered
Richard Meale died this week. His orchestral works such as Clouds now and then and Very High Kings and the operas Voss and Mer de glace meant he was one of our most significant composers. Andrew Ford´s conversation with him was recorded 9 years ago when ...
Saturday 10:05 Fine Blue Thread
Vocalist Ria Soemardjo and cellist Helen Mountfort are two of the trio that is Fine Blue Thread [formerly One, Two, Three]. They talk to us about their new album Red Mountain and they play for us live in the studio.
Live performance:
Medley: Trad. ...
Saturday 10:30 CD Reviews with Phillip Sametz
Offerings for this month's review segment come from Mischa Spoliansky, Cy Coleman, Claire Martin and Frank Sinatra.
Saturday 10:05 Barrie Kosky and the essence of music in opera and theatre
Kosky's Poppea is far from Monteverdi's original although the Baroque composer's music sits happily alongside Cole Porter's in this Poppea. Kosky talks about his love of high and low art and why he likes to put them together.
Saturday 11:05 Brett Dean: violist, composer, conductor and Grawemeyer winner
Brett Dean is so busy he's got used to doing two hours practice in 25 . He talks about his new opera Bliss, based on Peter Carey's novel; winning lots of money for his piece The Lost Art of Letter Writing and running a finishing school for talented ...
Saturday 10:05 Books and pianos: Anna Goldsworthy
Anna Goldsworthy is the pianist with the Seraphim Trio and daughter of novelist and poet Peter Goldsworthy. Her book Piano Lessons is as much about growing up as it is about learning the piano.
Saturday 11:05 Books and pianos: Roy Howat
Roy Howat is a Scottish pianist and scholar and he´s recorded numerous CDs and written widely on Debussy, Faure, Ravel & Chabrier. Now his magnum opus has arrived and it´s called The Art of French Piano Music. He´s talking about the composers in the ...
Saturday 10:05 Jane Sheldon and the "Origin Cycle"
Australian soprano Jane Sheldon has been involved in a project setting chunks of Darwin's On the Origin of Species to music- from the initial idea through to performance.
Saturday 10:38 Father and daughter play the blues
Dick and Christa Hughes get together again- singing the blues and celebrating a forthcoming CD and a film about their amazing family.
Live performances by Dick Hughes, piano and Christa Hughes, vocals
1. Young Woman's Blues, Comp. Bessie Smith
2. ...
Saturday 11:08 Matisyahu
American Hasidic Jewish rapper and reggae musician Matisyahu talk about his musical origins and how his career has developed and about his new album, Light.
Saturday 11:34 The Blackeyed Susans 20 years on
Starting in Perth and now Melbourne-based, the Blackeyed Susans are celebrating 20 years of music making with a national tour and a boxed set of CDs called Reveal Yourself.
Live performances on The Music Show by the Blackeyed Susans:
1. Ocean of You, ...
Saturday 11:40 Lake Boga school choir celebration with Jessie Carmichael
Jessie took the choir to Melbourne in 1951 to sing with the Melbourne Symphony in a choral jubilee. They were up against the big city schools and they won.
Filmmaker Malcolm McKinnon is documenting this history in his documentary Seriously ...
Saturday 10:10 Kendra Shank and Tim Stevens- premiere performance on The Music Show
New York based jazz vocalist Kendra Shank is performing in Australia for the first time at the annual Wangaratta Jazz Festival, but not before she teams up with Tim Stevens in The Music Show's studio to talk about music and influences and to perform for ...
Saturday 10:30 Stravinsky, Uchida's Mozart, Snark Hunting and an Ode to Queen Anne
Rob Murray's classical CD refor the month.
Saturday 11:10 Linda Neil's musical memoir to her mother
Learning How to Breathe is about Linda's mother's Parkinson's Disease but its much more than the story of losing and gieving for a mother who is still alive. Linda sings and reads from the book on today's show.
Songs performed live
You Can Depend on ...
Saturday 10:10 Harry Connick Jnr with new standards
Paying homage in particular to the great arrangers of American popular song, Harry Connick arranges and conducts (as well as performs) in his new album "Your Songs".
Saturday 10:40 A Joni Mitchell Tribute
Louise Perryman, Virna Sanzone, Rachel Gaudry & Tania Bowra with their personal responses and musical take on Joni Mitchell songs.
Live music performed -
Title: You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)
Comp: Joni Mitchell
Performed by: Tania Bowra, Louise ...
Saturday 11:05 Brod Smith does Stephen Foster
Brod Smith once of The Dingoes band has a new album "Unknown Country" full of songs about misfits, reprobates and historical figures.
Music performed Live -
Title: Jack Napoleon
Comp & Perform: Brod Smith
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Saturday 11:35 Directing Peter Grimes
Director Neil Armfield has taken on Britten's most celebrated opera Peter Grimes, which is currently being presented in Sydney for Opera Australia. He discusses the complexities and the rewards of this work with Andrew Ford.