Sound Lounge for Tuesday 20 April 2010
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Presented by Robbie Ellis
7:05 - Kari Kriikku
KORTEKANGAS: Iscrizione
Kari Kriikku (cl), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Ondine ODE 1102
The Finnish clarinettist was in New Zealand last year to play new music with the NZSO. Tonight he talks with Kate Mead about life and music in Finland, and the composers he's worked with.
TIENSUU: Puro
Kari Kriikku (cl), Finnish Radio SO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Ondine ODE 778
KAIPAINEN: Carpe Diem
Kari Kriikku (cl), Finnish Radio SO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Ondine ODE 778
M.LINDBERG: Clarinet Concerto
Kari Kriikku (cl), Finnish Radio SO/Sakari Oramo
Ondine ODE 1038
PIAZZOLLA: Café 1930
Kari Kriikku (cl), Tapiola Sinfonietta
Ondine ODE 1140
(RNZ)
9:05
WILLIS: Plight of the Flightless
"A kakapo meets three kiwis"
The Plight of the Dischords: Tui Clark, Debbie Rawson, Hayden Sinclair & Anna McGregor (cls)
(private rec.)
9:06 - Brand New Psathas
PSATHAS: Psyzygysm
Pedro Carneiro (vib/mar), Stroma: Mark Carter (tpt), Bridget Douglas (fl), Patrick Barry (cl), Robert Weeks (bsn), Su Yi (hp), Vesa-Matti Leppänen & Rebecca Struthers (vlns), Andrew Thomson (vla), Rowan Prior (cello), Jeremy Fitzsimons (a hell of a lot of percussion), Lance Philip (drum kit/djembe/congas), Nick Tipping (bass), Donald Nicolson (pno), Hamish McKeich (cond)
PSATHAS: One Summary
Pedro Carneiro (marimba, junk perc), John Psathas (electronics)
PSATHAS/T.PREBBLE: One Summary Remix
Pedro Carneiro (marimba, junk perc), John Psathas (electronics), Tim Prebble (remixing)
From the new album Ukiyo
Rattle RAT D018
9:38 - Some of Kari's pieces, interrupted by some other clarinettists from NZ
MARGETIĆ: Onion Flavoured Counterpoint
"clarinet quartets, like onions (and Ogres), have layers" - Karlo Margetić
REZAIE: 'Abuata' for four frogs
"one of the derivative modes in Persian traditional music - a Persian proverb says 'when water flows upwards, the Frog starts singing Abuata'" - Shahram Rezaie
The Plight of the Dischords: Tui Clark, Debbie Rawson, Hayden Sinclair & Anna McGregor (cls)
(private rec.)
HAKOLA: Diamond Street
Kari Kriikku (cl)
Ondine ODE 1063
R.KING: Stratus
"a soft and undulating vocalisation; the diffusion of a signal cloud, from taut to tranquil" - Rohan King
AUDAIN: January Blues
"January. Everything stops. Oh well, write a piece about it..." - Yvette Audain
MARQUET: Time
"named so for the little time I had left to find a decent title before the submission deadline!" - Sarah Marquet
The Plight of the Dischords: Tui Clark, Debbie Rawson, Hayden Sinclair & Anna McGregor (cls)
(private rec.)
M.LINDBERG: Clarinet Quintet
Kari Kriikku (cl), Arditti String Quartet: Irvine Arditti & David Alberman (vlns), Garth Knox (vla), Rohan de Saram (cello)
Naïve MO 782141
HUNT: Kawau
"of a shyness that is criminally vulgar" - Natalie Hunt
SKIPP: Ventral Streams
"in the Two-Streams hypothesis, the ventral stream is associated with object recognition and form representation in visual processing" - Norm Skipp
The Plight of the Dischords: Tui Clark, Debbie Rawson, Hayden Sinclair & Anna McGregor (cls)
(private rec.)
10:18 - Pulitzer Winner
Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music last week. The work was written specifically for soloist Hilary Hahn. Eva Radich talked to Hahn on Upbeat last week about the work. (RNZ)
HIGDON: Autumn Reflection
Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Hugh Sung (pno)
Avie AV 0004
HIGDON: O magnum mysterium
Handel & Haydn Society Chorus, Christopher Krueger & Wendy Rolfe (fls), John Grimes (glasses & chimes), Grant Llewellyn (cond.)
Avid AV 2078
10:39 - Birthdays
TAVENER: The World is Burning
Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 462 050
English conductor John Eliot Gardiner was born on 20 April 1943 in Fontnell Magna, Dorset, England. He's particularly associated with period performance groups such as the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
C.ADAMS: Arianna's Dance
"baroque-inspired dance tune" - Chris Adams
The Plight of the Dischords: Tui Clark, Debbie Rawson, Hayden Sinclair & Anna McGregor (cls)
(private rec.)
New Zealand composer Chris Adams was born on 20 April 1979. He is the current Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago, and was last year's Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Composer-in-Residence.
PUENTE: Oye Como Va
Tito Puente & His Orchestra
World Music Network RGNET 1162
American percussionist, bandleader and composer Ernesto Antonio Puente Jr, aka Tito Puente was born in New York City on 20 April 1923, and became famous for bringing Latin and Afro-Cuban rhythms to a wider world audience. By his death in 2000 he had recorded over 100 albums.
11:05 - New Music Dreams
FELDMAN: Spring of Chosroes
Christina Fong (vln), Paul Hersey (pno)
OgreOgress Prods 83168 83169
FELDMAN: The Viola in My Life I, II, III & IV
Marek Konstantynowicz (vla), Cikada Ensemble, Norwegian Radio Orch/Christian Eggen
ECM 1798