Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City'
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -A showcase of sound recordings and anecdotes connected with my varied work as a musician, guitarist and composer.
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Episodes
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 67
February 05, 2023 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBA collection of music, poetry and prose........from a lifelong musician...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 66
February 16, 2022 11:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBA radio interview first broadcast in the early 1990s with Robin Hill & Peter Wiltschinsky...plus a trip to Mozambique..
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 65
February 09, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBRare audio of Friday Night is Music Night featuring Robin Hill & Peter Wiltschinsky and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.....plus 'Smokin' With Dinosaurs'!
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 64
January 12, 2022 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBFrom an alegrias by Celedonio Romero to a sublime melody by Franz Schubert to a song by a Tyneside composer to a song inspired by Snow White!
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 63
January 05, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBRare and previously unheard recordings of pieces by Gimenez and Anton Diabelli...plus a New Year's resolution...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 62
December 10, 2021 13:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBSongs of Christmas........
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 61
December 01, 2021 15:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBFrom a live double concerto by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, performed with the National Irish Symphony Orchestra to the iconic guitars of George Harrison, Get Back and Beatlemania...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 60
November 24, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBFrom Antonio Soler to Mario Gangi to latin homework....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 59
November 17, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBFrom a world premiere recording of Ida Presti's 'Espagne' to an original Giga to Agustin Barrios to a Jota to another Spanish dance recorded in North Yorkshire!
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 58
November 10, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBPreviously unheard private recordings of 'Concerto Primavera' theme from 4th movement...played on 2 guitars...a Sarabande....the 'Gavotte en Rondeau' by Johann Sebastian Bach.....'Homeward' from 'Standing on Air' to a homage to Vincent Van Gogh, 'Wheatfield Under Troubled Skies'....for piano and orchestra......
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 57
November 03, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBNicolo Paganini and Mauro Giuliani and the competition winner!
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 56
October 27, 2021 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MBA quizzical episode.......win CDs and a free guitar lesson!!
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 55
September 29, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBFrom a bluegrass classic to horror score......to a classical gas.......
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 54
September 22, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBFrom the King of Cordoba to a luthier in the Cotswolds to a tarantella to a stately pavane and then off to Mozambique...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 53
September 15, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBFrom a working progress sketch..to a piece of rock history to a cancion to piano calm to a bit of eclectic counterpoint...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 52
September 10, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBFrom Castelnuovo-Tedesco to Pale Moons to fiery flamenco a mishap on stage to a brand new composition never before heard!
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 51
September 01, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBFrom a never before heard recording to a Radio Singapore interview to another never before heard recording....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 50
August 26, 2021 09:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBFrom Eclectic Counterpoint to Domenico Scarlatti to latin grooves to tranquility...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 49
August 18, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBFrom the Summer of Love to British Blues to a special guitar concerto to an unlikely arrangement to Isaac Albeniz....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 48
August 11, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBFrom the Barber of Seville to Aranjuez to composer, Andrew Keeling to Felix Mendelssohn....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 47
August 04, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBFrom J.S.Bach to Lennon/McCartney to Handel in Mayfair to jazz/rock to soprano and guitar..
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 46
July 28, 2021 07:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBFrom mystery to Moorish cloth to a hedonistic bohemian to a flamenco fiesta to a tribute to Paco de Lucia...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 45
July 21, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBFrom Luperce Miranda to the Abreu Brothers to Hispanic Dance to a song from 'Rubber Soul' to funk.....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 44
July 14, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBFrom a new mystery recording to an old Esercizio to a homage to Agustin Barrios to some melodic jazz/rock to music for guitar and soprano....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 43
July 07, 2021 13:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBFrom Brazilian guitarist and composer, Dilermando Reis to Domenico Scarlatti to a 'Toccata' from a guitar concerto to a piece for piano & orchestra dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh..
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 42
June 30, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBFrom the beauty of the Elizabethan Lute duet to the beautiful game to Gary Lineker to an eternal dance and an Irish jig.....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 41
June 23, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBFrom Django to musical hoaxes to funk to Tico Tico..........
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 40
June 16, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBFrom a rockin' blues to the highly original chamber music of Andrew Keeling to Mendelssohn to Villa-Lobos and finally a visit to Mexico!
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 39
June 09, 2021 08:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBFrom Strawberry Fields....to scrambled eggs to 1933 to Wes Montgomery...a long and winding road...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 38
June 02, 2021 11:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBFrom a brilliant toccata composed for Presti & Lagoya to a blues for Johnny Ace to an 18th century French folksong which inspired Elvis Presley to a blues from the desolate Lancashire moors....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 37
May 26, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.8 MBFrom the Grim Reaper to a 14 foot giant to an exercise in virtuosity to Steppenwolf..
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 36
May 19, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBFrom chill to a Neapolitan mystery to Carulli to the Day of the Dead
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 35
May 12, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBMurky goings on in the music world.......to the sublime music of Fernando Carulli and Georg Frederic Handel...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 34
May 05, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBFrom Jazz etudes to Antonio Soler to 'Down by the Races' to the Fantastic Mr. Felix ......
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 33
April 28, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 24.1 MBA rare BBC Radio 3 broadcast by Robin Hill & Peter Wiltschinsky...works by Fernando Sor, Mario Gangi and Domenico Scarlatti...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 32
April 21, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBFrom Carlos Santana to Brasilia to Radames Gnatalli to a Breeze from Rio...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 31
April 14, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBFrom the blues to Lennon/McCartney to the iconic Free Trade Hall, to music by a close friend of Paganini's to a musical invention......
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 30
April 07, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBFrom 'Worktown' to a French jazz rhapsody to Manuel de Falla's 'Ritual Fire Dance' to 'Here, There & Everywhere'..
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 29
March 31, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBFrom Nowhere Man to Nothingness to a titan of Russian music to an original concerto for guitar and marimba to a Brazilian dance from Argentina.....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 28
March 24, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBFrom fiery flamenco to a dance by Manuel de Falla to a new piece for piano to Antonio Vivaldi to some Blackpool jazz rock...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 27
March 17, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBFrom Lennon/McCartney to BBC Philharmonic players to the Limerick Rake a case of measles and Les Filles de Cadiz...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 26
March 10, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBFrom Erik Satie via Debussy to a famous pavane to Lennon/McCartney to Carlos Santana!
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 25
March 03, 2021 13:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBFrom a Force Ten celebration to a famous film theme by a man from Birmingham to an arrangement for two classical guitars of a famous Beatles rocker to the incredible voice of Vanessa Haynes...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 24
February 24, 2021 14:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBFrom Antonio Soler to heading for home to Manuel de Falla Spanish folk song to Jota California..
Robin Hill's Eclectic City' Episode 23
February 17, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBA musical journey from the Sahara to Ireland to a wonderful land to a song recorded in Wigan and back to Ireland...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 22
February 10, 2021 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBFrom AC/DC to Vivaldi to Elizabethan lute duet to cool jazz blues.....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 21
February 03, 2021 13:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBFrom solo jazz guitar to the Irish Vivaldi to a movement from a Celtic guitar concerto to a beautiful song from Sgt Pepper arranged for 2 guitars...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 20
January 27, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBJazz guitar vibes, Fernando Sor, Claude Bolling, Africaine, George Benson, Breezin'...
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 19
January 20, 2021 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBEarly McCartney, A Harde Day's Knight, toothache, surreal waltz....
Robin Hill's 'Eclectic City' Episode 18
January 13, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBFrom a song by George Harrison...to a close encounter with the composer..to a close encounter with Deep Purple to Jazz/fusion to a miniature masterpiece for 2 guitars...