Various Monthly Shows

62:43 minutes (28.71 MB)This Chance Music programme features an exclusive interview with American composer and new technology guru Jeff Harrington. Jeff studied at the prestigous Juilliard School in New York and as well as composing electronic and acoustic music he is active in web site creation, computer programming and graphics, and created the first online Sesame Street games. The programme was recorded in Avignon in the south of France where Jeff now lives.

60:03 minutes (27.49 MB)This Chance Music homage to Catalonia is built around the music of the legendary Catalan cellist Pablo Casals. The centrepiece is a performance of Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto with Casals conducting recorded in Perpignan in 1950 and the programme opens and closes with Casals' own compositions. Catholic monk and mystic Thomas Merton, who was born in Catalonia, is represented by an arrangement of one of his poems by American folklorist John Jacob Niles.

59:42 minutes (34.16 MB)This programme of Chance Music features five solo percussion works paired with Bach’s keyboard music. Percussionist Simone Mancuso, who was born in Italy but currently lives in America, has collaborated with many leading contemporary composers including Karlheinz Stockhausen. The programme begins and ends with Simone Mancuso playing works by two Italian composers, while the centrepiece is a rare performance of John Cage’s three compositions for amplified plants, which push the envelope of this adventurous programme even further than usual.

87:25 minutes (54.76 MB)

Composer Jonathan Harvey talks to Bob Shingleton in an exclusive interview. In it Jonathan Harvey talks about musicians he has known including 

58:56 minutes (23.61 MB)Chance Music presents an eclectic and topical playlist from French gypsy musician Titi Robin, rock diva Lady Gaga, the monks of a Benedictine monastery and contemporary composer Jonathan Harvey.

64:09 minutes (25.7 MB)Today's programme takes a fresh look at Gustav Holst's orchestral warhorse 'The Planets' by pairing it with music on the same theme from contemporary composer Kyle Gann, in the UK broadcast premier of the American composer's work. Bob Shingleton presents.

59:44 minutes (35.52 MB)Today's Chance Music is a celebration of Sufi music. Sufism is the mystical aspect of Islam and its origins and beliefs are surrounded by mystery. The name Sufi is thought to come from the Arabic word for wool which is suf, because the first Sufis wore white woolen robes. Sufism also crosses religious boundaries in its search for a higher level of existence. The term Sufi is used to describe a wide range of people who question prevailing social norms and who place greater emphasis on love than formal religion and material possessions.

60:03 minutes (37.81 MB)

Music is performed everywhere in Morocco - in concerts and cafes, at private homes, at circumcision ceremonies, marriages, funerals and religious processions, and also as an accompaniment to dancing and storytelling.

60:00 minutes (36.15 MB)

59:14 minutes (34.08 MB)

Chance Music with Bob Shingleton - listen back as Bob takes us on a random 'chance' journey through some of the varied music on his I-pod courtesy of the shuffle function.

59:56 minutes (34.58 MB)

Chance Music with Bob Shingleton - listen back as Bob takes us on a random 'chance' journey through some of the varied music on his I-pod courtesy of the shuffle function.

117:52 minutes (53.96 MB)

This 2 hour special makes up the 4th epsiode of Chance Music with Bob Shingleton - listen back as Bob takes us on a random 'chance' journey through some of the varied music on his I-pod courtesy of the shuffle function.

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59:17 minutes (33.93 MB)

The 3rd epsiode of Chance Music with Bob Shingleton - listen back as Bob takes us on a random 'chance' journey through some of the varied music on his I-pod courtesy of the shuffle function.

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59:56 minutes (24.01 MB)

The 2nd epsiode of Chance Music with Bob Shingleton - listen back as Bob takes us on a random 'chance' journey through some of the varied music on his I-pod courtesy of the shuffle function.

59:13 minutes (27.11 MB)

Following an earlier pilot episode, we are pleased to announce the first edition of Chance Music with Bob Shingleton - an eclectic journey of music created via the random chance of I-pod shuffle function!