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Bradleypedia is open for requests - studio@blackdiamondfm.com during show hours

new CD's added to Bradleypedia Music List

1103 "Gregorian", it's rock music done in a Gregorian Chant style. Interesting

1104 soundtracks, mostly by Max

1105 medieval music from 1150 - 1750

regards, B r a d l e y (and N o r m)

Tonight Bradley n Norm will be playing the pieces of music that have appeared most often over the last four years.

Played 12 Times
1 Vivaldi, Antonio - Sposa Son Disprezzata

Played 11 Times
2 Donizetti, Gaetano - Amore E Morte

Played 10 Times
3 Albinoni, Tomaso - Adagio in G Minor
4 Oldfield, Mike - Tubular Bells (Piano)

Played 9 Times
5 Jenkins, Karl – Benedictus

Played 8 Times
6 Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Piano Sonata No.14 in C-Sharp Minor, Moonlight
7 Debussy, Claude - Clair De Lune (Catrin Finch harp)

Each week since 16 October we've been playing our way through Bradley's Top Ten (of everything) resulting in the 100 Greatest Classical Music Pieces (?) EVER

The #1 from each of the TOP 10'S

Most Played will appear on Dec 18
Sacred - Byrd, William - Ave Verum Corpus
Soundtracks - Zimmer, Hans - Lasiurus {{Batman Begins}}
X-Over - Patrick Hawes - Quanta Qualia
Chamber Music Beethoven, Ludwig van - String Quartet F op18 #1 - Adagio

World Exclusive - Black Diamond FM is the FIRST radio station in the UK to play Ludovico Einaudi's new album other stations may lay claim to be the first but they are WRONG - Black Diamond FM was the first

BDFM have an exclusive FIRST play of Einaudi's new album released as a CD and DVD set and recorded at the Royal Albert Hall London in March 2010 - thx to Rupert at Air Media for the pre-release copy

Requests to studio@blackdiamondfm.com

As well as usual classical fayre tonight here's something different (and hauntingly beautiful)

Radmilla Cody - Blessing In Disguise
Radmilla Cody - Spirit Of A Woman

"I think the soul comes in from the black side," Radmilla says, laughing, "and with the Navajo side, just the beauty and the language in itself." - I couldn't agree more. Radmilla is 1/2 Navajo 1/2 African-American

both are from the album Spirit Of A Woman

Albinoni - The Beatitudes, adagio (Choir New College, Oxford)
Albinoni - Concerto #3 In F, Op. 9/3, Adagio

Well, after I was ambushed last night at the studio by some burly BDFM Presenters, locked in a dark room and had horrible 80's music blasted at me; I relented and agreed to sit in the chair for tonight

The Rocking List ... too much to play but those with an * WILL be heard

*AC/DC - Shoot To Thrill, Back In Black
Barclay James Harvest - Cheap The Bullet, The Best Of
Bob Seger - The Fire Inside, Bob Seger Greatest Hits
Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere, Magic

Chad Kroeger - Hero, Hero
*Def Leppard - Rock On, Yeah!
Deftones - The Chauffeur (Duran Duran), Covers

Playlist so far ...

Ludovico Einaudi - The Snow Prelude N.15
Dvorak - Rusalka: Song To The Moon (Act I)
JS Bach - Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor 3 (Allegro)
Mauro Giuliani - Concerto #2 in A, op36 Maestoso

Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto #2 in Dm Adagio
Brahms - Sonate for viola and piano #1 in F Op120 Andante
Mozart - Sie du mein Trost KV391-340b
Brahms - Funf Lieder Op104 Letztes Glück (Kalbeck)

Mozart - Violin Concerto #1 In B Flat, KV207 Allegro Moderato
Beethoven - Quartet "Mir ist so wonderbar" from Fidelio, Act I

Happy Birthday Rosie

Albinoni - Concerto #6 In G, Op. 9 Adagio
Beethoven - Symphony #5 In C Minor, Op. 67 Allegro Con Brio
Debussy - Clair de Lune (Patricia Spero harp)
Dvorak - Largo (excerpt New World Symphony)

Feargal Sharkey - She Moved Through The Fair
Grieg - Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op.16 Adagio
Hans Zimmer - Black Hawk Down, Somali Song (Baaba Maal) OST
Johann Strauss - Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Lisa Gerrard - Man On Fire, The End OST
Ludovico Einaudi - Onde corte
Mauro Giuliani - Variations, Folies d'Espagne Op 45
Mozart - Litaniae KV125, Agnus Dei

It's one year for The Pink Lounge and buried amongst the tracks below are the Top 10 most played but can you spot them ?

Blank & Jones - I love you (late night mix)
Blank & Jones - Beyond Time (Ambient Mix)
Apollo Four Forty - The Man With The Harmonica
Bryan Ferry - I put a spell on you

Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Acoustic)
Dub Pistols - Rapture (Prins Thomas Remix)
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Nostalgia
Energy 52 - Café Del Mar (Michael Woods remix)

Enigma - Age Of Loneliness [Enigmatic Club Mix]
Enigma - In The Shadow
Groove Armada - Hands Of Time

My thanks to Susie for stepping into the chair this evening - look fwd to next week

Ahem, not actually THE Deep Purple, but one member of them who has written a classical concerto wihch is "really, rather goooood"

Tonights fayre ...

Late Entries - Iarla O'Linnaird and Jon Lord will feature

Arvo Part - Salve Regina
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.18 in E-Flat, III Menuetto: Moderato e grazioso
Cherubini - Requiem à la memoire de Louis XVI in C minor: I. Introitus & Kyrie
Faure - Requiem Op. 48: VII. In Paradisum

Gluck - Melodie