Sound Lounge for Tuesday 21 December 2010

Tuesday 21 December

7:00

CAPT BEEFHEART / ZAPPA: Sam with the Showing Scalp; Man with the Woman Head; Muffin Man
Ryko 310522

7:30 - Resound

New Zealand music from the RNZ archives (10 of 10)
Introduced by Kenneth Young

Nigel KEAY: String Quartet No 2 (1995)
Nevine String Quartet
(rec.22/09/2002)

7:52 - Something for Christmas

MINCHIN: White Wine in the Sun
Tim Minchin (vox/pno)

8:00 - 2010 ISCM Music Days from Sydney (7 of 11)

MATCH Percussion & Michael Duke present Well Matched

KENNEDY: First Deconstruction (in Plastic)
PANG: In Different Spaces
YOUNG: Snapdragon
PAN: Fantasie for solo saxophone
KOZLOVA: Dimension of Quiescene
RAISANEN: L'Homme Armé

(rec in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, by ABC Classic FM)

9:15

TISHCHENKO: String Quartet No 4
Glazunov Quartet
Olympia OCD 547

10:00 The Frank Zappa Memorial Barbecue

Today marks what would have been Frank Zappa's 70th Birthday. Since the composer's death in 1993, The Zappa Family Trust have released almost 20 posthumous albums, many drawn from Zappa's vast tape archive "The Vault". In this programme, Jim Gardner talks to Tim Dodd about these releases, and Zappa's evolving musical legacy.

11:00 - New Music Dreams

KARAINDROU: Ulysses' Gaze
Kim Kashkashian (vla)
ECM 1570 (449 153)