Sound Lounge for Tuesday 1 April 2014
7:00 In respect for whales
HOVHANESS: And God Created Great Whales
Philharmonia Orch/David Amos
Crystal CD 810
LIDDLE: Whale Rant
The Hilliard Ensemble
ECM 1615
BLOM: The Whale’s Song
Deborah Coogan (cello), Diana Blom (pno)
Wirripang WIRR 011
CHARLTON: Chasing the White Whale
Toru Guitar Quartet
Manu CD MANU 5003
7:30 Blackbirds in Autumn
Karlheinz Company
WEBSTER: An Infinite Shore
TAYLOR: thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird
(rec at the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZC)
8:10 The NZSO are touring Korngold’s Violin Concerto
KORNGOLD: Symphony in F#
London SO/André Previn
DG 453 436
9:10 Cloud by Luke Munn opens at Christchurch’s sonic arts gallery, The Auricle this week
McLEOD: Peaks of Cloud
Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno)
Waiteata WTA 012
GAO PING: Bright Light & Cloud Shadows
New Zealand String Quartet
Naxos 8.572488
9:45 Elliott Carter’s our Composer of the Week next week
CARTER: String Quartet No 1
Pacifica Quartet
Naxos 8.559362
10:30 More whales
ELLIAS: Whale Spirit Rising
David Mott (sax), I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky
Chandos CHAN 9748
11:00 New Music Dreams
HALLGRIMSSON: Mini Stories
Simon Callow (narr), Caput Ensemble
Signum SIGCD 181