Sound Lounge for Tuesday 26 April 2011

Tuesday 26 April 2011

Presented by Robbie Ellis

7:03 - Jazz Tui winner

BRADLEY: Cassandra's Prophecy
Reuben Bradley (drums), Roger Manins (tsax), Miles Crayford (pno/Rhodes), Mostyn Cole (bass)
Rattle 141003

The debut album of Wellington drummer and composer Reuben Bradley, Resonator, has won the New Zealand Music Award for Best Jazz Album of 2010/11. This was announced at the National Jazz Festival in Tauranga over the weekend. (News item on the NZMA website.)

7:11 - There's a wedding on?

VALEN: Epithalamion Op 19
Stavanger SO/Christian Eggen
BIS CD 1632

EDELSTEIN: Shrieks & Nuptials
Phil Edelstein (electronics), Marsha Harris (dancer, triggering electronics)
Orange Mountain Music 0046

7:30 - How do you solve a problem like Maria's birthday?

GRENFELL: A Feather of Blue
NZTrio
Trust MMT 2066

By playing a piece of hers.

7:41 - In memoriam I

LIEBERSON: Concerto for four groups of instruments
ASKO Ensemble/Oliver Knussen
DG 457 606

LIEBERSON: Fire, from The Five Great Elements
Cleveland Orch/Oliver Knussen
DG 457 606

LIEBERSON: The Ocean that Has No West and No East, Elegy in memory of Toru Takemitsu
Peter Serkin (pno)
Koch International 3-7450

American composer Peter Lieberson died on Saturday 23 April 2011 in Tel Aviv. His late wife was the mezzo soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and some of Peter's most successful works were written for her. (News item on Nonesuch Records' website.)

(Photo from Nonesuch Records.)

8:00 - Ars Acustica (3 of 7)

CURRAN: On Hearing the Brooklyn Bridge Sing in Yiddish
Alvin Curran (composer, pianist)

(Recorded by Southwest German Radio in the Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. Supplied to Radio New Zealand Concert by the European Broadcasting Union.)

8:53 - Coming up next week

PSATHAS: Omnifenix
Joshua Redman (tsax), Lance Philip (drum kit), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei
Rattle RAT-DV 015

Wellingtonian John Psathas is the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Composer-in-Residence for 2010-11. Next Tuesday night there's a concert called APO Amped, featuring the world première of Pounamu (a "folk roots concerto" for Warren Maxwell) and a repeat performance of Omnifenix with solo saxophonist Nathan Haines. (More details on the APO's website.)

9:09 - More bridges

KAMPELA: Bridges
Paul Silverthorne (vla)
Black Box BBM 1058

SKEMPTON: The Bridge of Fire
Exaudi
NMC D135

SCHAT: Arch Music for St Louis
Netherlands Radio Phil/Hans Vonk
Radio Netherlands Music NM 92133

STRAYHORN: Chelsea Bridge
Keith Jarrett (pno), Gary Peacock (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums)
ECM 1724

9:44 - In memoriam II

LIEBERSON: Rilke Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo), Peter Serkin (pno)
Bridge 9178

LIEBERSON: Neruda Songs
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo), Boston SO/James Levine
Nonesuch 79954

10:39 - Reactions to Guernica

BALADA: Guernica
Barcelona SO & Catalonia National Orch/Salvador Mas-Conde
Naxos 8.557342

B MOON: Guernica
Beata Moon (pno)
Naxos 8.570347

74 years ago today, on 26 April 1937, the German Luftwaffe and the Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria bombed the town of Guernica in the Basque region of Northern Spain. This was at the request of General Francisco Franco, commander of the Spanish Nationalist Forces in that country's Civil War. The tragic destruction and loss of life inspired many works of art, including a mural by Pablo Picasso.

11:06 - New Music Dreams

LISIK: The Curse of the Queen's Diamond
Dave Lisik (tpt/elec), Colin Hemmingsen (bcl), Amy Rempel (pno), Richard Nunns (taonga pūoro), Paul Dyne (bass)
Rattle RAT J 1005