Sound Lounge for Tuesday 20 September 2011

7:00

LUTOSLAWSKI: Piano Concerto
Leif Ove Andsnes (pno), Bavarian Radio SO/Franz Welser-Most
EMI 2 64182 2

NORDHEIM: Flashing
Ksenija Sidorova (acc)
Champs Hill Records CHRCD 019

NOVAK: Book One (Old Testament) of 24 Preludes & Fugues
William Howard (pno)
Champs Hill CHRCD 016

8:00 The Nerve

(3 of 6) The Pipe, the Drum & the Thunder Run (Music & War)

Jowi Taylor surveys the entwined histories of war and music. Military music is meant to stir the blood. In order to achieve this, some instruments, some compositions, some sounds are more favoured than others. The Israelites used trumpets to bring down the walls of Jericho. Coppola’s Apocalypse Now helicopters played Ride of the Valkyries, which was based on an actual practice used during the Vietnam War – and is used today as part of the “Thunder Run” strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Scots went to war with bagpipes. Every army has a band. And music can also be an instrument of torture, as happens today, when the U.S. Army uses music to “forcibly interrogate” its prisoners. From pipes, to drums, to thunder runs, Taylor takes a serious look at the dark side of music. (CBC)

9:00 APO Works with Words

Stuart Devenie, Te Kohe Tuhaka (actors), Ngā Kōtiro o Parihaka, Auckland Phil/Kenneth Young
C ADAMS: Antonyms of Trust; AUDAIN: Eulogy; ELMSLY: White Feathers; A TAYLOR: Attention: ELLIS: The Lover’s Knot; MATTHEWS: Witnessing Parihaka (recorded at the Aotea Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

10:18

TUDOR: Rainforest
New World 80651

11:00 New Music Dreams

BESSER: Campusari; Secretos
Miranda Adams (vln), Nigel Gavin (gtr), Jim Langabeer (fl), Robert Ashworth (vla), Andrew Pask (sax), John Bell (vibes), Caroline Lynn (voc), Tatiana Lanchtchikova (acc), Jon Segovia (pedal steel), Peter Scott (bass), Chris O’Connor (drums)
Rattle RATD 024