14/07/2009

Available for over a year

The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day with Harriett Gilbert. New Hemingway As a newly edited version of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast is released - Andrew Purcell guides us through what has become a literary soap opera and examines the impact of the changes. Audio of Patrick Hemingway is provided courtesy of Simon & Schuster, Inc a CBS Company. Copyright 2009. Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang Jazz legend Herbie Hancock and Chinese classical musician Lang Lang are currently performing an extraordinary world tour. Conducted by John Axelrod the two pianists are playing with local orchestras in each country in a musical collaboration which marries the excitement and spontaneity of jazz with the structures and control of classical music. For future tour dates in Italy and North America please visit the website. http://www.herbiehancock.com/tour/ Moon Moon is an award-winning new film from Duncan Jones - once known to the world as Zowie Bowie, son of the legendary musician David Bowie. He has now shown the world his own talent with this thoughtful, low-budget sci-fi film. The Strand talks to him about fame, his father, and why he grew a beard to look like his lead actor Sam Rockwell. Khaled It's been 5 years since The King of Algerian Rai music Khaled released his last album. His new album released earlier this year is called Liberté and is a collection of new songs and re-recorded old songs which replace the synthesised sounds of the originals with a more organic instrumental feel. Familiar themes of heartbreak, a yearning for freedom and love run throughout an album which many critics are calling his finest for some time. Website: http://khaled-lesite.artistes.universalmusic.fr/