The Charles Hazlewood Show

First broadcast from 20050912 to 20080804.

 
 
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   20080728Classical conductor Charles Hazlewood returns for another series of eclectic musical exploration, joining the dots in between music of all genres.
5/6. Charles is joined by British singer Adem, playing selections from his reinventions of songs from the 90s. Plus music from The Who, Moondog and Shostakovitch.
   20080804Classical conductor Charles Hazlewood returns for another series of eclectic musical exploration, joining the dots in between music of all genres.
6/6. The guest is jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock. Other selections include Bob Marley, Goldfrapp and Zoltan Kodaly.
205C01 200509121/6. Charles once again roams across the musical landscape, leading the listener through the best across all genres.
205C02Keith Tippett200509192/6. Charles Hazlewood presents a series of eclectic musical exploration. This week, his guest is legendary British jazz pianist Keith Tippett.
205C03 20050926Charles Hazlewood presents a series of eclectic musical exploration. This week we hear music from Schubert and Stravinsky, Bernstein and Bizet, Eliza Carthy and US rockers Guided By Voices.
205C04 20051003 
205C05 20051017Charles plays Stockhausen and John Taverner, as well as his Hammond.
205C06 LASTSuper Furry Animals20051024 
206B01 20060503Charles Hazlewood returns for another series of eclectic musical exploration. The classical conductor will play music from baroque to bhangra, punk to the polka.
206B02Martha Tilston And The Woods20060510Charles is joined on his Somerset farm by the acoustic group Martha Tilston and the Woods taking over his living room for a live session.
206B03 20060517 
206B04Robin Michael20060524Charles is joined by cello virtuoso Robin Michael, who whips out his instrument and together they deconstruct a Bach partita in its live form and remixed by the folk electronica artist Tunng.
206B05 20060531Charles Hazlewood presents a series of eclectic musical exploration, incorporating classical, jazz and pop. With music from Poulenc, Aphex Twin, Otis Redding and John Tavener.
206B06 LASTJune Tabor20060607He is joined by folk singer June Tabor.
207B01Green Garside20070516Scritti Politti's Green Garside chats with Charles Hazlewood in the opening programme of the series, and performs some of his work.
Other featured music includes Nigel Kennedy performing After the Rain, Richard Strauss' Freundliche Vision, sung by Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Mozart's Overture from The Abduction of The Seraglio, Björk's The Boho Dance and JS Bach's Prelude in D minor.
207B02North Sea Radio Orchestra20070523This week's guests are the North Sea Radio Orchestra. Music featured includes JS Bach's Fuge in G, Moses Hogan's God's Gonna Set This World on Fire, Massive Attack's Angel, Bach's Fantasia and Fuge in C minor, The Raconteurs' The Bane Rendition and Spooky Tooth's Waiting For the Woman.
207B03Guillemots20070530Brit Award nominees Guillemots are the special guests. The band joins Charles at his home to produce a unique musical collaboration.
Charles also features Seu Jorge's Life on Mars?; Bach's Prelude in F minor; Jem's They; Tom Waits' Goodnight Irene; Tippett's Corelli Fantasia and Jeff Buckely's Corpus Christi Carol.
207B04Dragonsfly20070606Somerset band Dragonsfly join him in the studio for a live performance of their own music, which they describe as folk trance.
Plus tracks from Frank Sinatra, UK hip-hop artist Sway and Franz Schubert 
207B05 20070613Including a live session from the ska-hip hop band Babyhead.
207B06 20070620He's joined in the studio by the counter-tenor Iestyn Davies.
207B07 20070627Including highlights from Charles' recent performance with the National Youth Orchestra at Glastonbury.
207B08 LASTGeorge Fenton20070704He's joined in the studio by film composer George Fenton, three times Oscar-nominated: for his work on Gandhi, Dangerous Liaisons and Cry Freedom. They debate film music, and feature tracks from Craig Armstrong, Michael Nyman and Ennio Morricone.
207D01 20071114Classical conductor Charles Hazlewood returns for another series of eclectic musical exploration, joining the dots in between music of all genres.
1/6. The theme is great voices.
Charles' guest is influential English singer songwriter Vashti Bunyan, whose 1970 debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, has become a cult classic. Other tracks come from James Brown, Maria Callas, Tom Waits and Youssou N'Dour.
207D02 20071121Classical conductor Charles Hazlewood returns for another series of eclectic musical exploration, joining the dots in between music of all genres.
2/6. British jazz pianist Zoe Rahman is Charles Hazlewood's guest. Nominated for the Mercury Music prize last year, Rahman talks about her own approach to playing well-known tunes and performs some of her new compositions. Plus tracks from Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Bernstein and John Martyn.
207D03 20071128Classical conductor Charles Hazlewood returns for another series of eclectic musical exploration, joining the dots in between music of all genres.
3/6. Charles is joined by two very different guitarists - classical player Craig Ogden and rock virtuoso Nick Harper. They talk to Charles about the versatility of their instrument and they concoct a new piece together in the studio. Plus tracks from The Clash, the Mahotella Queens and Bach.
207D04 20071205The theme is humour in music, with a performance from The Mad Cows.
207D05Justin Adams20071212Charles is joined by guitarist Justin Adams. Described as the 'Ry Cooder of the UK', Adams is a renowned producer of bands like the Saharan desert blues group Tinariwen. A close collaborator with Robert Plant, Justin talks about his music and performs tracks from his latest album.
207D06 LASTImagined Village20071219Charles is joined by members of the Imagined Village project, which seeks to reinvent English folk music for the 21st Century. Playing in the barn will be a stellar line up of Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy Sheila Chandra, Sheema Mukherjee and Afro Celt Soundsystem producer Simon Emmerson.
208B01Martina Topley-bird20080630Charles takes 'songs of innocence and experience' as his theme, looking at how singers' approaches have changed over a career. His guest is Martina Topley-Bird, known for her collaboration with Tricky in the 90s.
208B02Westcott And Rodway 20080707British acoustic duo Westcott and Rodway perform an unusual mixture of folk, jazz and flamenco.
208B03Joanna Mcgregor 20080714With British pianist Joanna McGregor, playing pieces by tango composer Astor Piazzolla, Nina Simone and John Cage. Other music includes tracks from Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Ross and Richard Strauss 
208B04Jim Noir20080721With Manchester based singer-songwriter Jim Noir, plus music from the Beach Boys, Queen and Rachmaninov.