Sound Lounge for Friday 30 December 2016
Sound Lounge – 2016 Sampled
For the next few weeks we take another listen to some of the best interviews and music from the past year and throw in some new treats. Hosted by Charlotte Wilson.
9.00
Salina Fisher
Charlotte talks to Salina Fisher about winning the SOUNZ Contemporary Award with her orchestral work Rainphase.
SALINA FISHER: Rainphase
NZSO National Youth Orch
RNZ
SALINA FISHER: Torino
New Zealand String Quartet
RNZ
Remembering Boulez (1925 - 2016)
PIERRE BOULEZ: Notations
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno)
DG 445 833
10:00 Relevant Tones: Synaesthesia in Music and Visual Art
Scriabin so linked color to his music that he created a “light organ” to display colors that corresponded to different notes in his pieces. How does color and visual art affect composers and their music today? (WFMT)
MICHAEL TORKE: Bright Blue Music for Orchestra
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Zinman
Ecstatic 092201
MORTON FELDMAN: Rothko Chapel
California EAR Unit
New Albion 039
JENNIFER HIGDON: Short Stories for Saxophone Quartet, I & V
Ancia Saxophone Quartet
Naxos 8.559616
DAN WELCHER: Light Coming on the Plains & Starlight Night from Prairie Light: 3
Texas Watercolors of Georgia O’Keefe
Honolulu Symphony Orchestra/Johanos
Naxos 8.559287
GUNTHER SCHULLER: The Twittering Machine fr. Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati
Mercury 434329
CINDY MCTEE: Twittering Machine
North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon
Klavier 11070
STEPHEN HARTKE: King of the Sun, I & IV
Dunsmuir Piano Quartet
New World Records 80461
11.00 New Music Dreams
HUERCO S.: For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Brian Leeds (producer)
Probito PRB 018