Licenced from the Judee Sill estate and the BBC, these are the only known unreleased audio recordings in existence. Interest in Judee Sill in the last few years has been enormous with Rhino handmade selling out of their issues of the original two albums in one day. The same two albums were then issued within […]
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This 4 Disc box set comprises of the very best performances by Richard and Linda Thompson and Richard Thompson solo recorded for the BBC between January 1974 and 2009. Disc One contains 20 tracks recorded by Richard and Linda Thompson for BBC Radio between 1974 and 1982 including 18 songs which appear on CD for […]
It should come as no surprise that the legendary Dr Feelgood have been frequent visitors to the BBC. Britain’s finest rocking rhythm and blues band recording for the world’s greatest broadcaster.This 2CD set comprises no fewer than 51 tracks spanning 30years, covering the Gypie Mayo-era through to the current line-up.This latest collection on the band’s […]
From the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, celebrated pianist Joanna MacGregor OBE begins this week of lunchtime concerts, highlighting unjustly neglected works alongside their more celebrated contemporaries. Sofia Gubaidulina: Chaconne Errolyn Wallen: I wouldn’t normally say Gabriela Ortiz: Suy-muy-key Stevie Wishart (arr MacGregor): Proem, Prelude and Fugue Freya Waley-Cohen: Southern Leaves Trad arr MacGregor: Sometimes I […]
Annie Nightingale led the way as Radio 1’s first female DJ and introduced a generation to exciting new sounds as the face of the Old Grey Whistle Test from 1978. Back then, punk was hard to find on mainstream television and Annie sought to build a platform for young people to have their say. In […]
The Most Comprehensive collection of The Pretty things Live Recordings to date Includes over 60 tracks, over 4 and a half hours of music from the BBC Archives The most comprehensive collection of the Pretty Things’ BBC ‘live’ recordings on the market, with several previously unreleased tracks, now all together for the first time […]
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The Kinks’ classic London anthem Waterloo Sunset will remind every listener that there are still some areas where Britain is unbeatable, writes Neil McCormick. MORE
Two-LP set featuring the first complete collection of the Zombies on the BBC. Researched and compiled by Zombies expert Andrew Sandoval. Includes previously unissued interviews and songs.
From the archives: David Bowie spent the final months of his life working on two projects – his album Blackstar, and the Broadway show Lazarus. Blackstar was released to widespread critical acclaim in January, just days before he died of cancer. Widely regarded as his swansong, it muses on death, the afterlife and his legacy. […]
A collection of VDGG’s BBC sessions recorded between 1968 and 1977, After The Flood includes a host of VDGG classics, plus five previously unavailable recordings. Peter Hammill: “I think our music has stood the test of time because we always made the music we were driven to make without paying any attention to what anyone […]
We are told: 4 CD set 42 Remastered tracks. Over 4½ hours of music BBC tracks sourced from the archives Bonus material with previously unreleased and very rare recordings Authoritative liner notes by Pete Brown Assembled by the same successful team that worked on the critically acclaimed ‘Wade in the Water’ box set. The […]
Bessie Smith, Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer) (1933) This raucous song of drinking and misbehaving was considered to have content not suitable to air. Billie Holiday, a long-time Smith fan, covered this song in 1949. 29 more HERE
Rafael Payare conducts the BBC Philharmonic in two of the ground-breaking works which heralded the twentieth century: Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0l2c
Tony Andrews (Jazz and contemporary music editor) writes …. I am not sure if I have mentioned it before but apart from attending as many Jazz Concerts as possible I am regularly found at BBC Radio Recordings. One BBC Recording I never miss is Open Ear – the Flagship for Contemporary Music on Radio 3. […]
This debut release of Neil Ardley and his New Jazz Orchestra BBC broadcasts from 1971 measure a year of change for the band’s musical director. The first session captures the full majesty of the NJO at the height of its powers in a ‘Jazz Club’ session from February with a 20-performer line-up pre-recorded at London’s […]
CDs and LPs; sometimes DVDs too. As editor I get advanced notification of music releases and so I’m sharing it. Primarily Blues, Jazz, Classic and Rock. I make no value judgements here i.e I am merely …. the conduit. Updated pretty much 24/7 HERE Thanks HP
The charismatic New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through forty years of classic performances from the BBC archives, from her first TV performance on The Harry Secombe Show in 1971 to her appearances on Top of the Pops to sing the rugby anthem World in Union in […]
Jo Whiley presents the last BBC Radio 2 In Concert of 2017 with one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world, Deep Purple. After forming in Hertford in 1968, they went on to sell over 100 million albums worldwide, and have inspired a generation of musicians for over 40 decades. Their back catalogue […]
Andy Peebles presents a profile of Leiber and Stoller, the American writers and producers who made hits for Elvis Presley, Ben E King, the Drifters and many more. First broadcast in 1982. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rzm8t?ns_mchannel=email&ns_source=inxmail_newsletter&ns_campaign=bbc4_week37&ns_linkname=2content_object_right_2&ns_fee=0
Were you there and would like to relive the moment? Well, you can, right HERE