Add to Playlist

This week, Radio 4 is revisiting four episodes of the award-winning music series Add to Playlist, first broadcast in October. Today, Welsh harpist and composer Catrin Finch and composer and musician Neil Brand help Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye add the next five songs to the playlist. The adventure takes them from the highest of high notes to the deep bass of a Mozart opera.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:Pájaro Campana by Alfredo Gryciuk, Marcelo Rojas, Ariel Burgos and Martin Portillo Quietly Yours by Birdy Love and Affection by Joan Armatrading Ain’t Got No Home by Clarence Henry O, wie will ich triumphieren by MozartOther music in this episode:Overture from The Sound of Music by Rodgers & Hammerstein Alfie by Cilla Black Tuvan throat singing Wand'rin' Star by Lee Marvin You're the First, the Last, my Everything by Barry White

This week, Radio 4 is revisiting four episodes of the award-winning music series Add to Playlist, first broadcast in October. Today, Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye are joined by trumpet player Laura Jurd and operatic tenor Nicky Spence. Together, with the help of Dr Martin Neary - former Organist and Master of Choristers at Westminster Abbey - they add five more tracks to the playlist, taking them from Jamaica and an early sample in 1985 to a popular religious choral work via experimental indie rock from San Francisco. Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:Under Me Sleng Teng by Wayne Smith À Chloris by Reynaldo Hahn, sung by Susan Graham Whither the Invisible Birds? by Deerhoof Miserere mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri Alfie by Cilla BlackOther music in this episode:Hey, Mrs. Jones by Ramsey Lewis Afro Blue by Melanie De Biasio Air on the G String (Suite No. 3, BWV 1068) by J. S. Bach

This week, Radio 4 is revisiting four episodes of the most recent series of Add to Playlist, which has recently won two major awards: the Prix Italia for Best International Radio Music show, and the Prix Europa for the Best European one. The episodes were first broadcast in October, and today, songwriter, lyricist and musician Richard Stilgoe and Ukrainian-born harpist Alina Bzhezhinska join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye create the playlist of five tracks for the first episode.With each track being chosen for its musical connections to the previous one, this week re-working earlier material emerges as a theme as we head from the Wild West to a Gestapo prison cell.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:The Good, The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morricone Love Me Tender by Elvis Presley Don't Tell Me by Madonna First movement of Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki, sung by Dawn Upshaw with the London Sinfonietta Afro Blue by Melanie De BiasioOther music in this episode:Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf Pastures of Plenty by Woody Guthrie Pastures of Plenty by Peter Tevis Aura Lee by Slim Whitman Stop by Joe Henry Second movement of Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki Afro Blue by Mongo Santamaria Afro Blue by John Coltrane

Composer Isobel Waller-Bridge and producer and composer Michael 'Mikey J' Asante take us from a club in Istanbul to a classic grime track via a cigarette factory in Seville, as they add the final five tracks to the current playlist. Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye also hear from the Lebanese-born trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and Professor Alkis Raftis, a leading authority on Greek dance.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:Will Soon be a Woman (live at the Babylon Istanbul) by Ibrahim Maalouf Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen Carmen, Act I, Sc 4, Havanaise/Habanera by Georges Bizet Eskimo by Wiley Deck the Halls by Nat King ColeOther music in this episode:Trace by Isobel Waller-Bridge Green Onions by Booker T. and the M.G.’s Goldberg Variations BWV 988: Aria by JS Bach, played by Glenn Gould Niandou by Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal Zorba The Greek: Zorba's Dance by Mikis Theodorakis Hasapiko performed by Christina Pluhar Popcorn by Hot Butter

French violinist Esther Abrami and American jazz clarinettist Giacomo Smith add five more tracks to the playlist, embracing the musical spirit of rebellion, as they travel from animated icy mountains to Jamaica with Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye.James Taylor of the British four-piece jazz funk band the James Taylor Quartet is on hand to help out, providing a personal tour of the musical beast that is the Hammond organ. Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:Let it Go by Idina Menzel I Like the Sunrise from Duke Ellington’s Liberian Suite Songs of Sunrise, No.3 The March of the Women by Ethel Smyth Aux armes et caetera by Serge Gainsbourg Green Onions by Booker T. and the M.G.’sOther music in this episode:Tijuana Taxi by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Lilac Wine by Ana Moura Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-Las Modern Love by David Bowie Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Nancy Sinatra Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) by Baz Luhrmann Theme from Starsky & Hutch - Funky People Mix - by the James Taylor Quartet

Gillian Moore, author and Artistic Associate of London's Southbank Centre, and Ivor Novello-winning composer Gavin Higgins join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye as they add five more tracks to the playlist in the penultimate show of this series.The journey takes them from the accordions of Texas to the mellow sounds of Portugal via the ploughed fields of Belgium and the raging seas of Suffolk, and they are joined on the line by the singer and composer Vashti Bunyan.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:Ay te Dejo en San Antonio by Flaco Jiménez Scherza Infida by George Frideric Handel Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan Storm Interlude from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten Lilac Wine by Ana MouraOther music in this episode:Theme from Starsky & Hutch - Funky People Mix - by the James Taylor Quartet Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra by Gavin Higgins Do-Re-Mi by Julie Andrews from The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol Bluebell Polka by Jimmy Shand Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin Lilac Wine by Jeff Buckley Fanfare and Love Songs: Brightly by Gavin Higgins

Singer and composer Zara McFarlane and jazz drummer and composer Ollie Howell take us on a musical adventure with the help of composer and musician Nitin Sawhney, as they join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye to add the next five tracks.Tune in for a scat singing lesson and a 50,000-year history lesson in the origin of musical scales.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing by Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington Hey Ya! By Outkast Lost It To Trying by Son Lux Songs of Fun and Nonsense by Julie Andrews, Moondog and Martyn Green Do-Re-Mi by Julie Andrews, from The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein Other music in this episode:Fisherman by Zara McFarlane Basin Street Blues by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five Purple Haze by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Kathryn Tickell - composer, performer and the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes - is joined by singer pianist and songwriter Joe Stilgoe and percussionist Ruairi Glasheen as they help Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye add the next five tracks to the playlist.It's a serendipitous musical journey which takes them from Quebec to New Orleans via Egypt.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith Ouverture by La Bottine Souriante Overture from Candide by Leonard Bernstein Khusara Khusara by Hossam Ramzy Egyptian Ensemble Basin Street Blues by Louis Armstrong and His Hot FiveOther music in this episode:Green Onions by Booker T. and the M.G.'s Ché Ché Colé by Héctor Lavoe and Willie Colón Hushabye Birdie by Kathryn Tickell La Valse D'Orphelin by Christine Balfa Toxic by Britney Spears Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky

Russian-British composer, DJ and producer Gabriel Prokofiev and oboe-player Uchenna Ngwe join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye in the studio as they add the final five tracks to the current playlist in the final episode of the series.From the starting grid to the cellars of Cadiz via central Africa, with the help of flamenco guitarist Edina Balczo, we reach the end of the current musical journey of discovery.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:The Chain by Fleetwood Mac Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire Twendeni Sote Na Mwanga Wa Amani by Hukwe Zawose America from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim (from Steven Spielberg's 2021 film) Tangos de la Sultana by Camarón de la IslaOther music in this episode:Tamacun by Rodrigo y Gabriela Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst Like the Morning Dew by Laura MvulaMontage:El Compositor Confundido by Ibrahim Ferrer Lay, Lady, Lay by Bob Dylan Fat Man in the Bathtub by Little Feat Shake it Off by Taylor Swift Paranoid Android by Radiohead Se Pierde en Esta Vida by Celeste Mendoza

Saxophonist Camilla George and guitarist Sean Shibe take us on a global journey and beyond as they help choose the next five tracks for the playlist.Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye also explore the finer details with guests John Dillon, Cathy Jordan and David Owen Norris.Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome WeatheraldThe five tracks in this week's playlist:Beauty in the River by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils The Green Gowned Lass by Dervish Taximen by Amadou Balaké Scarborough Fair by Incantation Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst Other music in this episode:Spacer by Sheila Abasi Isang by Camilla George Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair by Martin Carthy