Sound Lounge for Tuesday 3 January 2012

7:01 - Happy New Year

BOWATER: New Year Fanfare
New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young
Atoll/Move MD 3327

BODY: Auld Lang Syne, from Three Old-Fashioned Songs
Dan Poynton (pno)
(RNZ)

DADSON: MAYA
Auckland Phil/Yip Wing-sie
Atoll ACD 100

7:17 - Andrew Uren, new and old

GARDNER: Charge
Andrew Uren (bcl)
Atoll ACD 212

DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: A Chaos of Delight I
Andrew Uren (bcl)
Atoll A9806

DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: These Boots (are made for dancing)
175 East: Andrew Uren (bcl), Timothy Sutton (btbn), Matthias Erdrich (db)
Atoll ACD 212

RIMMER: At the Base of the Whirlpool
Andrew Uren (bcl), Katherine Hebley (cello)
(RNZ)

RIMMER: AU
Andrew Uren (bcl), 175 East: Ingrid Culliford (fls), Gretchen La Roche (cls), Carl Wells (hn), Timothy Sutton (btbn), Lenny Sakofsky (perc), Katherine Hebley (cello), Matthias Erdrich (db), James Gardner (cond)
Atoll ACD 212

(Album cover of Steep Steps from Atoll Records - link)

8:02 - Live! At the Concertgebouw (2 of 6)

STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
BERIO: Quatre Dédicaces: Entrata, Fanfara, Festum, Encore
SHCHEDRIN: Oboe Concerto (world première)
BARTÓK: Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Susanna Mälkki
(Radio Netherlands)

BERIO: Folk Songs
Jard Van Nes (mezzo), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly
Radio Netherlands MCCM 97003

GÓRECKI: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (excerpt)
Araxia Davtian (sop), Rotterdam Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(Radio Netherlands)

(Photo of Susanna Mälkki from MITO SettembreMusica - link.)

9:59

"I think music must be clever. 50 percent. And 50 percent must be stupid. But altogether it's clever." - Rodion Shchedrin

GÓRECKI: Already it is dusk (String Quartet No 1)
Royal String Quartet
Hyperion CDA 67812

SHCHEDRIN: Concerto for orchestra No 1, Naughty Limericks
Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev
DG 471 136

SCHIFF: Infernal (after Stravinsky)
Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz
Naxos 8.559679

SHCHEDRIN: Concerto for orchestra No 3, Old Russian Circus Music
BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky
Chandos CHAN 9552

PROSSER: No 2: Penguin Jig, from Birds Reply to Bartók: 44 Violin Duos
Chris Prosser (2 vlns, multitracked)
Kauri Music KMCD 011

(Photo of Rodion Shchedrin from kcstudio.com.)

11:05 - New Music Dreams

TÜÜR: Symphony No 6, Strata
Nordic SO/Anu Tali
ECM 2040

TÜÜR: Noësis
Jörg Widmann (cl), Carolin Widmann (vln), Nordic SO/Anu Tali
ECM 2040