Sound Lounge for Friday 31 March 2017

9:00

Edo De Waart - New Music

Our Music Director is one of new music's greatest champions. He also happens to be the conductor that made John Adams. From his beginnings with the Netherlands Blazers Ensemble and assistant to Bernstein at the New York Phil, then Haitink at the Concertgebouw, he gained his first Music Directorship with the San Francisco Symphony and created for the young John Adams the first composer-in-residence in the world. Edo De Waart in terms of new music, is more than anyone else - commissions, premieres, dedications - the John Adams conductor. Since then he’s been chief for long periods of many of the world’s top orchestras - including the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Royal Flemish Philharmonic and now the NZSO - and this year contains lots of new music and NZ music including a new cello concerto from Gareth Farr, Thomas Adès, and James McMillan conducting two new NZ premieres.

And, of course, lots of John Adams in his 70th birthday year. Charlotte Wilson talks to Edo De Waart about his lifetime with new music, his programming for the NZSO, and Shaker Loops touring around the country this weekend.

Music Details (Feature extracts)

ADAMS: Short Ride on a Fast Machine
San Francisco Symphony/Edo De Waart
Nonesuch 979 144

ADAMS: Harmonielehre
San Francisco Symphony/Edo De Waart
Nonesuch 524 842

ADAMS: Shaker Loops
Ensemble Modern/Sian Edwards
RCA 09026-68674

ADAMS: Nixon in China (extract: Red Army Girls’ Dances)
Premiere recording
Orchestra of St Luke’s/Edo De Waart
Nonesuch 79177

 

THOMAS ADÈS: Polaris - Voyage for Orchestra
Melbourne SO/Markus Stenz
ABC Classics 481 0862

10:00

11:00 New Music Dreams

NILS FRAHM: Solo
Nils Frahm (pno)
Erased Tapes ERATP 065

NILS FRAHM: Solo Remains
Nils Frahm (pno)
Erased Tapes