Sound Lounge for Friday 14 April 2017

9:00

Tonight we feature the Holy Minimalists, as they’re known in some circles (!) – the most beautiful of the contemporary choral and devotional music for Easter. Plus, in the second hour, taking a look at the music of the greatest  British minimalist, Gavin Bryars, including his mesmeric work for string quartet and tape that marks the 105^th anniversary to the day of the Sinking of the Titanic, 14 April 1912.

WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI: Lacrimosa
Olga Pasichnyk (sop), Polish Radio Chorus, Cracow, Polish National Radio SO/Antoni Wit
Naxos 8.555994

SOFIA GUBAIDULINA: Meditation on the Bach Chorale, 'Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit’
Marius Stravinsky (vla), Alfia Bekova (cello), Elisabeth Chojnacka (hpschd), Alois Posch (dbass), Hanna Weinmeister, Elvira Bekova (vlns)
BIS CD 810

ALAN HOVHANESS: Easter Cantata, from Triptych Op 100
Benita Valente (sop), Members of Bamberg Symphony, Bavarian Radio Singers/Alfredo Antonini
CRI CD 836

ARVO PÄRT: Selection from the album ‘Arbos’
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (org), Hilliard Ensemble, Brass Ensemble Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Dennis Russell Davies
ECM 1325

JAMES MACMILLAN: Stabat Mater (1), Stabat Mater dolorosa
The Sixteen
COR16150

10:00 Gavin Bryars

GAVIN BRYARS: The Sinking of the Titanic
Smith Quartet
Signum SIGCD 088

GAVIN BRYARS: Jesus' Blood never failed me yet
Unnamed old man (vocalist), Tom Waits (vocalist), Studio Orchestra/Michael Riesman
POINT 438 823

GAVIN BRYARS: Laude novella; Ave regina gloriosa;
Trio Mediaeval
ECM 1869

11:00 New Music Dreams

ULF LOHMANN: Refresh,  from Pop Ambient 2015
Ulf Lohmann (electronics)
KOMPAKT CD 120

ULF LOHMANN: Sicht, PCC,  from Pop Ambient 2014
Ulf Lohmann (electronics)
KOMPAKT CD 113

ULF LOHMANN: Because Before
Ulf Lohmann (electronics)
KOMPAKT CD 13