Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City': Recent Episodes
Robin Hill
A showcase of sound recordings and anecdotes connected with my varied work as a musician, guitarist and composer.
A radio interview first broadcast in the early 1990s with Robin Hill & Peter Wiltschinsky...plus a trip to Mozambique..
Rare audio of Friday Night is Music Night featuring Robin Hill & Peter Wiltschinsky and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.....plus 'Smokin' With Dinosaurs'!
From an alegrias by Celedonio Romero to a sublime melody by Franz Schubert to a song by a Tyneside composer to a song inspired by Snow White!
Rare and previously unheard recordings of pieces by Gimenez and Anton Diabelli...plus a New Year's resolution...
From a live double concerto by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, performed with the National Irish Symphony Orchestra to the iconic guitars of George Harrison, Get Back and Beatlemania...
From a world premiere recording of Ida Presti's 'Espagne' to an original Giga to Agustin Barrios to a Jota to another Spanish dance recorded in North Yorkshire!
Previously unheard private recordings of 'Concerto Primavera' theme from 4th movement...played on 2 guitars...a Sarabande....the 'Gavotte en Rondeau' by Johann Sebastian Bach.....'Homeward' from 'Standing on Air' to a homage to Vincent Van Gogh, 'Wheatfield Under Troubled Skies'....for piano and orchestra......
From the King of Cordoba to a luthier in the Cotswolds to a tarantella to a stately pavane and then off to Mozambique...
From a working progress sketch..to a piece of rock history to a cancion to piano calm to a bit of eclectic counterpoint...
From Castelnuovo-Tedesco to Pale Moons to fiery flamenco a mishap on stage to a brand new composition never before heard!
From a never before heard recording to a Radio Singapore interview to another never before heard recording....
From the Summer of Love to British Blues to a special guitar concerto to an unlikely arrangement to Isaac Albeniz....
From the Barber of Seville to Aranjuez to composer, Andrew Keeling to Felix Mendelssohn....
From J.S.Bach to Lennon/McCartney to Handel in Mayfair to jazz/rock to soprano and guitar..
From mystery to Moorish cloth to a hedonistic bohemian to a flamenco fiesta to a tribute to Paco de Lucia...
From Luperce Miranda to the Abreu Brothers to Hispanic Dance to a song from 'Rubber Soul' to funk.....
From a new mystery recording to an old Esercizio to a homage to Agustin Barrios to some melodic jazz/rock to music for guitar and soprano....
From Brazilian guitarist and composer, Dilermando Reis to Domenico Scarlatti to a 'Toccata' from a guitar concerto to a piece for piano & orchestra dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh..
From the beauty of the Elizabethan Lute duet to the beautiful game to Gary Lineker to an eternal dance and an Irish jig.....
From a rockin' blues to the highly original chamber music of Andrew Keeling to Mendelssohn to Villa-Lobos and finally a visit to Mexico!
From Strawberry Fields....to scrambled eggs to 1933 to Wes Montgomery...a long and winding road...
From a brilliant toccata composed for Presti & Lagoya to a blues for Johnny Ace to an 18th century French folksong which inspired Elvis Presley to a blues from the desolate Lancashire moors....
Murky goings on in the music world.......to the sublime music of Fernando Carulli and Georg Frederic Handel...
From Jazz etudes to Antonio Soler to 'Down by the Races' to the Fantastic Mr. Felix ......
A rare BBC Radio 3 broadcast by Robin Hill & Peter Wiltschinsky...works by Fernando Sor, Mario Gangi and Domenico Scarlatti...
From the blues to Lennon/McCartney to the iconic Free Trade Hall, to music by a close friend of Paganini's to a musical invention......
From 'Worktown' to a French jazz rhapsody to Manuel de Falla's 'Ritual Fire Dance' to 'Here, There & Everywhere'..
From Nowhere Man to Nothingness to a titan of Russian music to an original concerto for guitar and marimba to a Brazilian dance from Argentina.....
From fiery flamenco to a dance by Manuel de Falla to a new piece for piano to Antonio Vivaldi to some Blackpool jazz rock...
From Lennon/McCartney to BBC Philharmonic players to the Limerick Rake a case of measles and Les Filles de Cadiz...
From a Force Ten celebration to a famous film theme by a man from Birmingham to an arrangement for two classical guitars of a famous Beatles rocker to the incredible voice of Vanessa Haynes...
From Antonio Soler to heading for home to Manuel de Falla Spanish folk song to Jota California..
A musical journey from the Sahara to Ireland to a wonderful land to a song recorded in Wigan and back to Ireland...
From solo jazz guitar to the Irish Vivaldi to a movement from a Celtic guitar concerto to a beautiful song from Sgt Pepper arranged for 2 guitars...
From a song by George Harrison...to a close encounter with the composer..to a close encounter with Deep Purple to Jazz/fusion to a miniature masterpiece for 2 guitars...
From a classic Lennon/McCartney song to a challenging arrangement of a piece by Ravel to a new perspective on 'Nights in White Satin' to a laid back jazz groove..all human life is here!
From a piece composed and recorded in lockdown to a musical portrait over 7 decades to a mystery Beatles song to an original song with a unique history to paranoia...
From scary film music to the Hieronymous Bosch of the vihuela to Chick Corea to the bossa nova to an iconic guitar riff...
From a lively Hispanic Dance to Paul Desmond's best-known composition to Shakin' All Over to Madeline Bell to Mozambique
From 'The Incredible Lightness of Being' to Rodrigo to Manuel de Falla to a piece for Paco de Lucia to a song for soprano and guitar...
From fiery flamenco to a lyrical piece for guitar and orchestra to a mystery Beatles song to a rock classic.....
From Chuck Berry to Clapton to JS Bach to a song with a story to the finale of an exciting guitar concerto...
From Vincent Van Gogh to a secret commission to the blues, Felix Hill and Khachaturian's 'Sabre Dance'...
From jazz fusion to film music to a brilliant Tarantelle to the beautiful island of Islay to the 'Dance of the Jaguar'!
From an original guitar concerto to Wes Montgomery to baroque composer, Gaspar Sanz to the music of Lennon & McCartney....
From the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba to jazz/fusion to guitar concerto to J.SBach....
This series of podcasts is designed to showcase my very varied work as a musician, guitarist and composer working in many different genres over the last fifty years and also to give previews of what's coming up next.....