Sound Lounge for Friday 15 September 2017
Richard Nunns, 2009. Photo: Gareth Watkins Ref PADL-000550 Alexander Turnbull Library.
Celebrating Maori Language Week with Richard Nunn’s last album, Utterance:
Featuring the next and last finalist up for the film award in the Silver Scrolls [the APRA Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award], Marc Chesterman and his soundtrack to Florian Habicht’s film Spookers.
Also celebrating the birthday recently of post-war giant Alexander Goehr with his gorgeous, sensual re-composing of JS Bach, and a gorgeous new release of all-NZ string quartets from the Jade String quartet, currently in this week’s Classical Chart.
Plus in the second hour more Missy Mazzoli and her Vespers for a New Dark Age, “An exploded, blown apart, blasphemous church service”: and the Contemporary winner in the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2017.
LONG/NUNNS/MANN: Selection from the album ‘Utterance’ (released June 2017)
David Long (banjo, theremin, bowed guitar, & assorted paraphernalia), Richard Nunns (taonga pūoro), Natalia Mann (harp, prepared harp, zither, gongs, voice)
RATTLE RAT D068
DAVID HAMILTON: Parlour Games
Jade String Quartet
Rattle RAT D073
MARC CHESTERMAN: selection from the soundtrack Spookers
Marc Chesterman (electronics)
Private
GOEHR: ... a musical offering (JSB 1985) ...
London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen
NMC D 095
9:00
LONG/NUNNS/MANN: Selection from the album ‘Utterance’ (released June 2017)
David Long (banjo, theremin, bowed guitar, & assorted paraphernalia), Richard Nunns (taonga pūoro), Natalia Mann (harp, prepared harp, zither, gongs, voice)
RATTLE RAT D068
DAVID HAMILTON: Parlour Games
Jade String Quartet
Rattle RAT D073
MARC CHESTERMAN: Selection from the soundtrack to the film Spookers
Marc Chesterman (electronics)
Private
GOEHR: ... a musical offering (JSB 1985) ...
London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen
NMC D 095
10:00
Missy Mazzoli - Vespers for a New Dark Age
Missy Mazzoli Photo: Victor Naine
MISSY MAZZOLI: Vespers for a New Dark Age
Martha Cluver, Virginia Warnken Kelsey (voices), Glenn Kotche (percussion), Eileen Mack (cl), Missy Mazzoli (keyboards, electronics), Eleonore Oppenheim (dbass), Victoire Ensemble
New Amsterdam
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2017 - Contemporary winner
In this award-winning recording of Ligeti's Lontano conductor George Benjamin "leads a superlative performance, one surprisingly visceral for a piece about distance... flecks of melody flicker in the ear, enticing and disappearing in a moment; the balancing that makes that possible is admirable." (Gramophone Magazine review)
LIGETI: Lontano
Bavarian Radio Symphony/George Benjamin
Neos musica viva NEOS 11422
MISSY MAZZOLI: A Thousand Tongues (Lorna Dune remix)
Deidre Muro (voice), “Lorna Dune” Krier (keyboards, electronics)
New Amsterdam
11:00 New Music Dreams
Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra Photo: album cover art
STARS OF THE LID: The Ballasted Orchestra
Adam Wiltzie, Brian McBride (electronics)
Kranky KRANK 015