Sound Lounge for Tuesday 26 August 2014

7:00

ROSS HARRIS (text by Vincent O'Sullivan): Symphony No 2
Madeleine Pierard (sop), Auckland Philharmonia, Marko Letonja
Naxos 8.572574

Ross Harris, photo courtesy of Gareth Watkins

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: One That Stays All Winter; Pointed Mountains All Around; The Circle of Suns and Moons
John Luther Adams and Musicians
New World 80459

http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/composeroftheweek

8:00 BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(23) BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84; DEAN: Electric Preludes - Francesco D'Orazio (electric vln)

STRAVINSKY: Oedipus Rex

Narrator............................ Rory Kinnear

Oedipus............................ Allan Clayton

Jocasta.............................. Hilary Summers

Creon................................ Juha Uusitalo

Tiresias............................. Brindley Sherratt

Messenger........................ Duncan Rock

Shepherd.......................... Samuel Boden

Men of the BBC Singers & BBC Sym Chorus, BBC SO/Sakari Oramo (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Oedipus and the Sphinx, image courtesy of Project Gutenburg

9:40

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: In the Winter Silence
The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble/Tim Weiss
New World 80600

John Luther Adams, photo courtesy of johnlutheradams.com

FULVIO CALDINI: Clockwork Game Op 74/B
Loeki Stardust Quartet
Channel Classics CCS SA 25707

BEETHOVEN arr Wendy Carlos: Symphony No 9 (4), from the soundtrack to the film A Clockwork Orange
Wendy Carlos (synthesisers, electronics), Rachel Elkind (voice)
Warner 927256

11:00 New Music Dreams

MURRALIN LANE: Our House Is On The Wall (album)
David Wenngren (electronics), Ylva Wiklund (vocals)
12k 1061

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: The Immeasurable Space of Tones
Marty Walker (bass cl); Amy Knoles (vibraphone, marimba), Bryan Pezzone (pno), Nathaniel Reichman (electric keyboard, sound design), Robin Lorentz (vln), Barry Newton (dbass)
Cold Blue CB 0010