Sound Lounge for Tuesday 25 January 2011

Tuesday 25 January 2011

Presented by Robbie Ellis

7:00 - Tribute to an absent presenter

J MARCOVITCH: Wedding Song
She'koyokh Klezmer Ensemble: Jim Marcovitch (acc/vox), Frazer Watson (poyk/darabuka), Meg Hamilton (vln), Robin Harris (tbn), Matt Bacon (gtr), Susi Evans (cl), Ben Samuels (mand), Oliver Baldwin (db)
ARC EUCD 2122

7:07 - John Psathas at work

Artsville (TV1, Sunday night) profiled Wellington composer John Psathas on the weekend just gone (not available on-demand). Included was footage from Little Bushman live in concert with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, with John's orchestral arrangements.

According to his Twitter feed, John's just been hard at work on another collaboration with Warren Maxwell (Little Bushman frontman). The result will be APO Amped!, a concert with the Auckland Phiharmonia Orchestra in May.

LITTLE BUSHMAN arr PSATHAS: Jimi
Little Bushman, New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich
Little Bushman LB 003

PSATHAS: Abhisheka
New Zealand String Quartet: Helene Pohl & Douglas Beilman (vlns), Gillian Ansell (vla), Rolf Gjelsten (cello)
Atoll ACD 118

(This new recording of Abhisheka is available on the NZSQ's just-released CD Notes from a Journey, available from SOUNZ.)

7:34

T CARTER: Murmur
Tasman String Quartet: Anna van der Zee & James Andrewes (vlns), Christiaan van der Zee (vla), Miranda Wilson (cello)
Waiteata WTA 011

CAGE: The Perilous Night
Tzenka Dianova (prep.pno)
Atoll ACD 309

8:00 - 2010 ISCM World New Music Days (Prog 12)

The Song Company presents Les Murray's Octave

Damien RICKETSON: Shoal
Frank NUYTS: Old Airs
Alex POZNIAK: Late Summer Fires
Juan FELIPE WALLER: Our Ray, Our Arrow
Pelle GUDMUNSON-HOLMGREEN: Bats' Ultrasound, from Two Madrigals
Andrew FORD: The Averted
Gareth FARR: Les Murray Song Cycle

The Song Company, Roland Peelman (dir)

(Recorded by ABC Classic FM in the Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW.)

9:26 - Coming up next week

MARGETIĆ: Onion Flavoured Counterpoint
The Plight of the Dischords - the New Zealand Clarinet Quartet: Tui Clark, Debbie Rawson, Hayden Sinclair & Anna McGregor (cls)
(NZCQ private recording)

(Karlo Margetić won the 2009 New Zealand School of Music Composer Competition for his clarinet and piano duo Svitac. The finalists' concert is on Sound Lounge at 8pm next week.)

9:28 - "Mr Burns, it's your birthday!" "Eeexcellent."

Tonight is Burns Night, marking the birth of Robert Burns in 1759 in Ayrshire, Scotland. In his short life (he died at the age of only 37), he established himself as Scotland's national poet. Here are two Burns-inspired works by Scottish composers.

MUSGRAVE: Songs for a Winter's Evening
Lisa Milne (sop), BBC Scottish SO/Osmo Vänskä
NMC D 153

MACMILLAN: Into the Ferment
BBC Phil/James MacMillan
Chandos CHAN 10092

10:15 - "Mr Lutosławski, it's your birthday!" "Doskonałe!"

Polish composer Witold Lutosławski was born in Warsaw on 25 January 1913.

LUTOSŁAWSKI: Chain 1
New Music Concerts Ensemble/Witold Lutosławski
Naxos 8.572450 (live recording in Toronto, October 1993)

LUTOSŁAWSKI: Concerto for orchestra
Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi
Telarc SACD 60618

11:07 - New Music Dreams

KILLIN: Podróże
(radiophonic)
(SMP Ensemble recording)

CRESSWELL: And Every Sparkle Shivering
New Zealand String Quartet, Michael Houstoun (pno)
Waiteata WTA 011

FARR: He Poroporoake, A Farewell
Richard Nunns (pūtatara/pūtōrino), Gareth Farr (pahu pounamu), New Zealand String Quartet
Atoll ACD 118