Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 02:07 AM

Thank you.

Birds of one feather flock together!

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 05:52 PM

I started a thread the other day as I did not find this one.

Interview with Sam Lee about his book

Sam Lee interview in The Guardian

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 04:14 PM

The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 2 9pm Wednesday 21 March 2021

This week, singer Sam Lee talks about his love for the nightingale, which has inspired his new book and a series of night-time performances.

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 03:12 AM

The Nightingale Notes on a songbird by Sam Lee

Published: 25/03/2021 ISBN: 9781529124835 RRP: £14.99 Passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. This book reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood.

Singing With Nightingales 2021

In spring 2021, join folk singer Sam Lee and special guest musicians on an unforgettable adventure. Enjoy songs and stories by the fireside followed by a late night trek into the woods to find the nightingales, then experience a concert like no other as Sam and the musicians join the birds in an improvised duet with their brilliant nightsong.

Singing With Nightingales - Wednesday 14th April 2021 11pm to 12am This live broadcast will be available for free on Youtube.
Celebrate the return of the nightingales to UK shores with this special late-night live broadcast.

Singing With Nightingales – Sussex April 16th onwards 7pm - 12:30am with various guests
Singing With Nightingales - April 22nd Earth Day 2021 Live on Youtube 11pm - 1am
Singing With Nightingales – Gloucestershire May 6th onwards 7pm - 12:30am with various guests
Singing With Nightingales - Grand Junction, London May 11th 8:30pm - 11:30pm
Singing With Nightingales – Sussex May 14th onwards 7pm - 12:30am with various guests
https://thenestcollective.co.uk/the-nest-collective-events/

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 12 May 18 - 01:36 PM

Thanks. Though I've not listened to much yet.



They do it in Berlin too apparently.

Berlin Bülbül | David Rothenberg & Korhan Erel
by Gruenrekorder
#np on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/gruenrekorder/berlin-bulbul-david-rothenberg-korhan-erel

"... What is it like to play along with a nightingale? It becomes a direct window into the unknown, a touch of communication with a being with whom we cannot speak. The play of pure tones jarring against click and buzz, it all becomes not a code but a groove, an amphitheater of rhythms in which we strive to find a place. ..."
more:
http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=13746 

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,Stu
Date: 10 May 18 - 12:40 PM

One of the most affecting recordings I have ever heard is of a Nightingale, recorded by a BBC sound recordist in Surrey on 19th May 1942. As the bird sings in the background he catches the sound of 142 Lancaster and Wellington bombers passing overhead en route to bomb Mannheim.

Nightingale sings as RAF bombers Fly

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: Rain Dog
Date: 10 May 18 - 11:29 AM

Not had the chance to listen to the following programme yet.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 during the early hours of Monday 7th May

Slow Radio : Nightingales

A magical late night listening experience - six musicians go into the Sussex woods to play nocturnal music with the nightingales, who gather there to sing at night each Spring. The soloists taking turns to respond musically to the nightingales are Clive Bell (Japanese bamboo flute); Laura Moody (cello and vocal); Sam Amidon, (violin and vocal), John Baily (rubab) with Veronica Doubleday (frame drum and vocal) ,and Sam Lee (vocal & harmonium). The entire programme takes place in the woods, recorded on one night in April. Verity Sharp presents, leading the listener into the wild nocturnal environment and describing the atmosphere, and folk singer and outdoorsman Sam Lee will explain the migratory behaviour of the birds, the character of their songs, and the habitats that they favour for singing.

This is a Slow Radio experience, immersing the listener in the remarkable and magical experience of the nocturnal songs of nightingales. They are rarely to be heard in England today, but this programme will lead your ears into one of the woods where they still migrate every Spring, to sing through the night.

And who knows what other sounds may be captured on the night - a fox bark, an owl hoot, frogs calling, the wind in the branches...


Slow Radio : Nightingales

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: Rain Dog
Date: 25 Mar 16 - 01:39 PM

An article about this recording was published on BBC website today

The cello and the nightingale

Subject: RE: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Nov 14 - 11:52 AM

Thanks very much, Rain Dog. I enjoyed the broadcast.

i had a similar experience one summer day. Friends were talking on the front porch, having a lemonade or beer while I played my guitar. An American robin (a kind of thrush) sang on the telephone wire the entire time I played. His song is so complex that whatever chord I played, major, minor or seventh, seemed to harmonize.

Subject: Singing with the nightingales BBC Radio4
From: Rain Dog
Date: 10 Nov 14 - 04:12 AM

This programme was originally broadcast in May this year. I thought it had been mentioned here but I could not find after a quick search

BBC Radi0 4 11.45 Sunday 9th November 2014

Late in the evening on 19th May, 1924, the BBC made its first live wildlife outside broadcast, from the cellist Beatrice Harrison's garden. A nightingale joined in, singing as she played. Listeners were so entranced by this duet that the cello and nightingale concerts were broadcast annually, eagerly awaited by listeners around the globe.

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of this remarkable musical event, the folk musician Sam Lee finds, somewhere in southern England, "some melodious plot/ Of beechen green, and shadows numberless", as Keats puts it in his 'Ode to a Nightingale', and himself sings "of summer with full throated ease". Sam, with the cellist Francesca Ter-Berg, violinist Flora Curzon and viola player Laurel Pardue, sings songs that feature nightingales, such as 'The Tan Yard Side', to the nightingales as they sing in the thickets.

Sam considers our relationship with this amazing songster, which itself appears in so many songs and poems, and we hear, too, Beatrice's reminiscence of that first nightingale broadcast, 90 years ago.

Producer: Julian May.

Singing with the Nightingales