Sound Lounge for Tuesday 18 October 2011

7:03 - Choral Connections

A RITCHIE: The Rose Family
Maria Treadaway (sop), Viva Voce/John Rosser
(RNZ)

Anthony Ritchie arranged all the choral parts for the Rugby World Cup anthems. He also made the orchestral arrangement for God Defend New Zealand. Radio New Zealand was involved in recording the anthems – listen to them here.

VASKS: Zemgale
Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Kļava
BIS CD 1145

Pēteris Vasks is our Composer of the Week. Robyn Jaquiery's introductory talk is available as audio-on-demand on our website.

7:34 - Resound

New Zealand music from the RNZ archives introduced by Kenneth Young (1 of 10)

Ross HARRIS: ...the beginning of a new story... (2007)
New Zealand SO/James Judd
(RNZ, rec. 6 March 2007, Wellington Town Hall)

HARRIS: ...of memory...
New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young
SOUNZfine Volume 4

8:04 - Musica Electronica Nova

Master Stroke (1 of 4)

Jerzy KORNOWICZ: Kształty żywiołów (The Shapes of Elements)
Luc FERRARI: Programme Commun
François-Bernard MÂCHE: Korwar
Graciane FINZI: Espressivo
Nicola SANI: Un souffle le soulève
Stephen MONTAGUE: Phrygian Tucket

Elżbieta Chojnacka (hpschd), Roberto Fabricciani (fl), Barbara Okon-Makowska (sound projection)

(recorded in the Andrzej Mycielski Hall, University of Wrocław by Polish Radio)

9:25 - APO Preview, Part II

ROUSE: Der gerettete Alberich
Evelyn Glennie (perc), Helsinki Phil/Leif Segerstam
Ondine ODE 1016

Dame Evelyn Glennie performs this piece with Eckehard Stier and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra on 9 August 2012.

9:50 - Happy Alaska Day

JL ADAMS: Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing
Apollo CO/JoAnn Falletta
New World 80500

11:05 - New Music Dreams

A BROWN: Between the Spaces, excerpts from album
(Sounding Out, The Dancer & Chess, State of Mind*, Broken Dreams, Between the Spaces**, Sustainable Resources, Hashra'ah, Epilogue***)
Alan Brown (pno/Rhodes/Wurlitzer), Andy Smith (gtr), Marika Hodgson (bass), Jono Sawyer  (drums)
* with Nathan Haines (ssax); ** with Thomas Botting (db); *** with Nathan Haines (fl), Stella Kim & Annika Balzat (vlns), Sally Kim (cello)
Ode CDMANU 5123