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Wednesday - Fiona Talkington

Fiona Talkington's varied selection includes music from Robert Marcel Lepage, Mary Lou Williams and Ailis Ni Riain.

Fiona Talkington's selections tonight include Norwegian group Jaga Jazzist, the dark-hued woodwind writing of Canadian musique actuelle composer Robert Marcel Lepage, a 1944 recording of American jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams, and Ailís Ní Ríain's music for Linger, a sound installation at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, written for, and in response to playing, the Brontë family piano.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 4 Nov 2015 23:00

Music Played

  • Tom Waits

    Shore Leave

    • Swordfish Trombones.
    • Island.
    • 2.
  • IKI & Hilmar Jensson

    Ynanagaga

    • Lava.
    • Nordic Notes.
    • 1.
  • Béla Bartók

    Allegro molto from Three Rondos on Folk Tunes Sz84

    Performer: Jenő Jandó.
    • Piano Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 36.
  • Jaga Jazzist

    Shinkansen

    • Starfire.
    • Ninja Tune.
    • 3.
  • Trad. & Sam Lee

    Blackbird

    • The Fade in Time.
    • The Nest Collective.
    • 3.
  • Stephan Micus

    Sea of grass

    • Nomad Songs.
    • ECM.
    • 9.
  • Cork Gamelan Ensemble

    Kelly and Andy

    • The Three Forges.
    • Diatribe.
    • 1.
  • Water Pageant

    Layers

    • Outlines.
    • waterpageant.co.uk.
    • 2.
  • Kandia Kouyaté

    Kassi Doundo

    • Renascence.
    • Sterns.
    • 3.
  • Food

    First Sorrow

    • This is not a miracle.
    • ECM.
    • 1.
  • Ailis Ni Ríain

    Borne no longer / Truth

    • Linger.
    • www.ailis.info.
    • 3.
  • Eivind Aarset

    Sakte

    • I.E..
    • Jazzland.
    • 2.
  • Robert Marcel Lepage

    Le Pelleteur de nuages

    • Canard branchu.
    • Ambiances Magnétiques.
  • Iarla Ó Lionáird

    Taim curtha o bheith im anonair im lui (I’m weary of lying alone)

    • Masters of Tradition.
    • celticgrooves.
    • 7.
  • Nicolas Horvath

    Praeludia Lucis Noctis XVII

    • This is tomorrow calling.
    • Demerara Records.
  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen

    Performer: HÃ¥kon Kornstad.
    • Tenor Battle.
    • Jazzland.
    • 3.
  • Irving Berlin

    Blue Skies

    Performer: Mary Lou Williams.
    • Mary Lou Williams: The Asch Recordings 1944-47.
    • Folkways Records.
  • Laurie Anderson

    Phosphenes

    • The Heart of a Dog.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Tod Dockstader

    Travelling Music

    • Luna Park; Traveling Music; Apocalypse.
    • Doxy ‎.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Nov 2015 23:00

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