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Verity Sharp - 12/05/2011

Verity Sharp's choices tonight include slick tunes from Seamie O'Dowd, Máirtín O'Connor and Cathal Hayden, the sparse music of Laurence Crane, the benju zither of Balochistan and the guitar playing of Madagascar's Modeste. Plus Oxana Schevchenko plays La Vallée des cloches from Miroirs by Ravel.

2 hours

Last on

Thu 12 May 2011 23:00

Music Played

  • Piston Mahlathini & The Queens

    Trad: Nomacala

    • Next Stop…Soweto.
    • Strut Records.
  • J M Beltran

    Beltran: Hamarrekoeran

    • Basque Music @ Womex 2010.
    • Basque Music sampler.
  • Taraf de Haïdouks/Ko?ani Orkestar/Constantin Lautaru, voice

    Taraf de Haïdouks/Kočani Orkestar/Constantin Lautaru, voice - Perapaskero: Jarretelle

  • Seamie O’Dowd, mandolin/Máirtín O’Connor, accordion/Cathal Hayden, fiddle

    Seamie O'Dowd, mandolin/Máirtín O'Connor, accordion/Cathal Hayden, fiddle - Trad arr

  • Seamie O’Dowd, voice/Máirtín O’Connor, accordion/Cathal Hayden, fiddle

    Trad arr. O'Connor/Hayden/O'Dowd: As I Roved Out

    • Crossroads.
    • MCSCD001.
  • Daniel Carlsson, saxophone/Emma Reid, fiddle

    Möller/Edén: Rävhalling

    • Innerligheten.
    • EMR02.
  • Trobairitz d'Oc

    Benigni/Princivalle: La Cançon e la pluma

    • Lo Mau D’Amor.
    • Felmay fy 8180.
  • Andrew Sparling, clarinet/Alan Thomas, guitar

    Crane: Sparling

    • Andrew Sparling.
    • NMC D092.
  • Reentko Dirks & Daniel Nikolas Wirtz, guitars

    Dirks: La Plage et la Nuit

    • Kinski Spencer Gismonti.
    • Acoustic Music Records 319 1465 2.
  • Abdulrahman Surizehi, benju/Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, voice

    Abdulrahman Surizehi, benju/Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, voice - Trad arr. Rahman: Delbaar

  • Punch Brothers

    Punch Brothers: Don't Need No

    • Antifogmatic.
    • Nonesuch 075597980578.
  • Maria Christina Cleary, arpa doppia

    Merula: Un Cromatico overo Capriccio

    • Le Grazie del Violino.
    • Starivarius STR 33881.
  • Michel Wintsch, piano, synthesizer

    Michel Wintsch, piano, synthesizer - Wintsch: June Space

  • Jenny Hval

    Haval: Blood Fight

    • Viscera.
    • Rune Gramofon RCD 2108.
  • Oxana Shevchenko, piano

    Oxana Shevchenko, piano - Ravel: La Vallée des cloches (Miroirs)

  • Jorge Drexler

    Drexler: La Nieve en La Bola de Nieve

    • Amar La Trama.
    • WEA 25646 8333 2.
  • Forró de Rebeca

    Forró de Rebeca: Fulôzinha

    • Volta do Mundo.
    • Athos ATH FORR 2010 1.
  • Diabou Seck

    Trad: Fall Amadou Abdoulaye

    • Senegal The Teranga Spirit African Pearls.
    • Syllart 6131572.
  • Natalie Merchant

    Merchant: The Peppery Man

    • Leave Your Sleep.
    • Nonesuch 7559 79804 3.
  • Amjad Ali Khan, sarod

    Trad: Khamaj

    • Samaagam.
    • HM World Village 468102.
  • Fretwork

    John Coprario: Fantasia Chi Puo Mirarvi

    • Celestiall Witchcraft.
    • Virgin Veritas 5 45346 2.
  • The Unwanted

    The Unwanted - Trad: Eileen a Ruin

  • Ezekiel Honig

    Honig: High and Low

    • Folding In On Itself.
    • Type TYPE088.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 May 2011 23:00

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