Sound Lounge for Tuesday 15 December 2009

Tuesday 15 December 2009

7:00 Christmas in the twentieth century

CAPLET: Epiphany
Marc Coppey (cello), Liege Phil/Pascal Rophe
Aeon AECD 0861 (AF18)

7:25 175 East with special guest, pianist Mark Knoop

TOOVEY: Adam

ABLINGER: Marcel Duchamp; Gertrude Stein, from Voices & Piano

HARRISON: Rise

FOX: Chromascope

CRANE: Riis

FINNISSY: Kreuzfidel Polka Op 301 by Johann Strauss

FINNISSY: Piano Concerto No 3

(rec in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Akld, by RNZC)

8:50 Decades of modern music

1910

WEBERN: Two Songs
Jeanne Hericard (sop), Orch de Domaine musical/Pierre Boulez
Accord 476 8862

1920

STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
London Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen
Sony SK 45797

1930

HINDEMITH: Concert Music for Strings & Brass Op 50
BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier
Chandos CHAN 9903

1940

MESSIAEN: Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus
Christopher van Kampen (cello), Joanne McGregor (pno)
Soundcircus SC 008

1950

BRITTEN: Lachrymae
Kim Kashkashian (vla), Robert Levin (pno)
ECM 827 744

1960

NONO: Sara dolce tacere
SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart/Marcus Creed
Hanssler CD 93.179

1970

REICH: Four Organs
Bang on a Can
Nonesuch 79481

1980

BERIO: Sequenza IXc for bass clarinet
Alain Billard (bcl)
Mode 161/3

1990

PART: "And one of the Pharisees"
Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier
Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7126

2000

SHENG: Nanking! Nanking!, a threnody for Orchestra and Pipa
Zhang Qiang (pipa), Hong Kong Phil/Samuel Wong
Naxos 8.555866

11:00 New Music Dreams

ASSEM arr Golijov/Kronos: Ya Habibi Ta'ala

RAMALLAH UNDERGROUND arr Kronos/Garchik: Tashweesh

TRAD arr Prutsman: Wa Hibibi

RUSTAMOV arr Qasimov/Garchik: Getme, Getme

NARAYAN arr Kronos/Ljova: Raga Mishra Bhairavi: Alap

ANON arr Ljova/Kronos: Oh Mother, the Handsome Man Tortures Me

ASADOLLAHI arr Kronos/Ljova: Mugam Beyati Shiraz

TRAD arr Kronos/Garchik: Lullaby

BEY arr Prutsman: Nihavent Sirto

SHIDEBAEV arr Kronos: Kara Kemir

AGA arr Garchik: Tew semagn hagere

VREBALOV: … hold me, neighbour, in this storm …

From the Kronos Quartet's album, Floodplain
Nonesuch 7559 79828-8