Sound Lounge for Friday 21 August 2015

7:00

ROSS HARRIS: God pity us poor soldiers, from The Gallipoli Symphony

Listen to Elizabeth Kerr's feature on Ross Harris

WAYAN YUDANE: Entering the Stream
NZTrio
Rattle RAT D019

JACK BODY: Hector's Ghost
Auckland Philharmonia/John Nelson
RNZ

7:30 Composer Portrait - Jeroen Speak

Charlotte Wilson talks with Jeroen Speak, last year’s Creative NZ/Jack C Richards Composer in Residence at Lilburn House. They discuss his music, influences and his return to Wellington after spending almost 20 years overseas travelling to the world’s most important contemporary music festivals and studying with giants of the avant-garde in London.

JEROEN SPEAK: The Architecture of Time for piano and percussion
Forum Music Ensemble
Musical Kaleidoscope: Taiwan’s Contemporary Music 4 CO0004

JEROEN SPEAK: Choruses for Virgins, Widows and Innocents for chamber ensemble; Auxetos for string quartet
(Private recordings)

JEROEN SPEAK: Gu Ta for 3 percussionists and optional amplification
Forum Music Ensemble
Musical Kaleidoscope: Taiwan’s Contemporary Music 4 CO0004

JEROEN SPEAK:  Arabesques for violin and piano
Waiteata Collection Vol VII WTA007 (originally recorded by BBC)

JEROEN SPEAK The Character of Time for solo piano; Epeisodos for solo Eb clarinet; Event Horizon, 1^st mvt, concerto for piano and percussion
(Private recordings)

8:30 WOMAD Taranaki 2015

Che Sudaka

Spanish band Che Sudaka thrash out their brand of mestizo music – a fiery Native American and European fusion of cumbia, ska and punk. Made up of four illegal immigrants to Spain they forged their sound on the streets of Barcelona and now use their music to broadcast their socio-critical messages.

Heard highlights of this concert on Nights with Bryan Crump? Sound Lounge will be playing Che Sudaka's entire WOMAD Taranaki set.

9:25

JENNIFER HIGDON: Percussion Concerto
Ben Stiers (percussion), Illinois State University Wind Symphony/Daniel Belongia
Naxos 8.573334

ROY DAVID MAGNUSSON; Innsmouth, Massachusets – 1927
Illinois State University Wind Symphony/Daniel Belongia
Naxos 8.573334

KATIE GATELY: Stems
Katie Gately (voice, electronics)
Public Information PUBINF011

10:00 Sonic World of Cinema

JOHN PSATHAS: The Chase; The Arrival of Isabella Montgomery; The Horse Stop; Chinese Camp, from the soundtrack to the film Good For Nothing
The Codebreakers (gtrs), New Zealand SO
MI FILMS MI 100

ELENI KARAINDROU: Hearing the Time; By The Sea; Bus – Part I; Depart and Eternity Theme Variation II, from the soundtrack to the film Eternity and a Day
ECM 1692