Sound Lounge for Tuesday 3 September 2013

7:00 As the sun sinks and the moon rises

MORIN: Blue Evening
Centrediscs CMCCD 13908
Track 10  9’40

RUZICKA: Die Sonne Sinkt
Andreas Schmidt (bar), Radio SO Frankfurt/Peter Ruzicka
Thorofon CTH 2402
Tracks 2-7  9’54

TAKEMITSU: Twill by Twilight
London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen
DG 453 495
Track 4  12’39

POVOLOTSKY: The Prayer, from Sketches of the Old City
Evan Ziporyn (cl)
Atoll ACD 113
CD 1 Tk 07  3’35

MCCABE: Evening Harmonies
Tamami Honma (pno)
Metier MSV CD 92071
Track 8  9’21

EL-KHOURY: Harmonies crépusculaires
National SO of Ukraine/Vladimir Sirenko
Naxos 8.557043
Track 6  12’38

DOERRFELD: Evening Chant
Bang on a Can
Composer Recordings CD 628
Track 2  7’03

8:00 These Hopeful Machines

A six-part series in which James Gardner traces a personal path through the evolving world of electronic music - and meets some of the people who made it happen.

(6) "Little Fluffy Clouds"
For many in the 90s, electronic music was synonymous with Techno and Intelligent Dance Music. Was this Dancing about Art? And has the laptop really brought about the democratization of music? Including exclusive interviews with Mark Ayres, John Chowning, Suzanne Ciani, David Cockerell, Phill Macdonald, Irmin Schmidt, Morton Subotnick, Barry Vercoe, Peter Vogel and Peter Zinovieff (RNZ)

9:55 Proms 2013

30 programmes from the world’s greatest classical music festival

(9) Guy Garvey, Cerys Matthews, Laura Marling, Anna Stephany (vox), The Stranglers, London Sinfonietta/Andrew Gourlay

VARÈSE: Ionisation; BERIO: O King (chamber version); ADAMS: Third movement, Finale: Roadrunner, from Chamber Symphony; MEREDITH: remix (recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, by the BBC)

11:00 New Music Dreams

The Gift by Susanne Abbuehl
ECM 2322