Sound Lounge for Tuesday 27 November 2012

7:00 Resound

New Zealand music from the RNZ archives (9 of 10)

CRESSWELL: Dancing on a Volcano - NZSO/Janos Furst  (11/4/97)

Introduced by Kenneth Young (RNZC)

A RITCHIE: Bele Doette - Pepe Becker (sop), Robert Orr (ob) (rec 28/5/05)

SKIPP: of Breath - 175 East (rec 13/10/06)

 

METALLICA arr Apocalyptica: One
Apocalyptica
Universal 840335

APHEX TWIN arranged J Newman: Fingerbib
Alarm Will Sound.
Cantaloupe CA 21028

APHEX TWIN: Girl/Boy Song
Warp 962010

APHEX TWIN: Avril 14
Verve B 007822

 

8.00 New Zealand in LA

New Zealand in LA

Two concerts of NZ compositions at REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater in Los Angeles, organised by Glenda Keam and Mark Menzies with performers from NZ and LA.

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CREE BROWN: Inner Bellow – Gretchen La Roche (cl)

HOLLOWAY: Stapes – Trio Terroir

WHITEHEAD: Hineraukatauri – Vinny Golia (fls), Richard Nunns (taonga puoro)

SPEAK: Epeisodos – Gretchen La Roche (cl)

GARDNER: Blessed Unrest – Trio Terroir

GOLIA/NUNNS/O’CONNOR: Improvisation – Vinny Golia (winds), Richard Nunns (taonga puoro), Chris O’Connor (perc)

NORRIS: Heavy Traffic – Jonathan Stehney (cbsn), CalArts Orchestra / Mark Menzies

 

CARRAPATOSO: Cinco Miniaturas
The Galliard Ensemble
Deux-Elles DXL 1084

 

9.30 Illegal Harmonies

Written & presented by Andrew Ford

(10 of 10) A New World Order?

Whether you feel optimistic about the future of music depends to a large degree on whether you like pigeonholes. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was possible to discern perhaps half a dozen broad streams of musical endeavour. But each of those streams has since produced so many tributaries that it becomes increasingly hard to identify trends. As the composer Judith Weir recently observed, it is even difficult these days to talk about more than an individual piece, because composers themselves keep changing their styles. The absence of a mainstream is potentially very liberating for good composers, but dangerous for those who would prefer to hide behind a stylistic 'ism'. The only 'ism' mentioned much today is post-modernism, and you can't hide behind that because it's transparent.

Music by Judith Weir, Sofia Gubaidulina, Elena Kats-Chernin, Roger Smalley, Henryk Górecki, David Lumsdaine, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Brian Ferneyhough, Liza Lim, Tan Dun, Reza Vali, John Adams, György Ligeti, Kaija Saariaho, Olivier Messiaen, Bent Sørensen and Michael Tippett. (ABC Classic FM)

See the ABC website for this programme

 

11.00 New Music Dreams

Northern Lights (album)
STEPHEN GOSS: Northern Lights; The Sea of the Edge; Welsh Folksongs; Reflections on ‘The Garden of Cosmic Speculation’
Susie Hodder-Williams (fl, alto fl, piccolo), Chris Caldwell (bass cl, cl in C, soprano sax), Graham Roberts (gtr)
FMR CD 303 0311