Radio diary

Press, 26 October 1989, Page 13

Radio diary

By

JAMES HOMES

Mezzo Janet Baker, accompanied by pianist Graham Johnson, can be heard singing on the first disc of a marathon recording cycle of the 600plus Schubert songs in The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Concert Programme 7 and 9.35 this evening. English record company Hyperion expects to cover 38 discs and have these completed by 1997 — Schubert's bi-

centennial year. Whale watching now pulls tourists to Kaikoura, but until little more than 25 years ago sperm whales were being killed off New Zealand’s coasts. Deborah Nation offers a documentary on Sperm Whales, National Radio 8.05 this evening, talking about the whales and the work of Nature Watch. Sit in on John Hobson’s U.R. Country, Plains FM 7 tomorrow evening. Two hours of country rock and modern country music. A

treat for country music lovers. Legendary bohemian Welsh poet Dylan Thomas would have been 75 tomorrow. He is remembered in Dylan Thomas — An Appreciation, Concert Programme 8.20 tomorrow evening. Narrator Paul Ferris goes back over Thomas’s writings, from the 1934 Eighteen Poems to “Under Milk Wood,” and talks about the poet and his life. Among the read-

ings is a recording of one by Thomas himself. Listen. Usually an anonymous studio musician, guitarist Carl Kress went down in jazz history for his duets with Dick McDonough, Tony Mottola and George Barnes, on recordings made between 1934 and 1963. Ray Harris introduces Kress recordings in Change of Pace, National Radio 5 Saturday afternoon. Kress, a master of chorded guitar solos, died in 1965 at 57.