Sound Lounge for Tuesday 10 December 2013
7:00 Resound 2013 (8 of 10)
Unlocking recordings of significant compositions from Radio New Zealand Concert's archive
HOLMES: For Young Nick- Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (RNZ)
LODGE: Sonata for violin and piano - members of the Turnovsky Trio (RNZ)
CREE BROWN: Black and White - tape with New Zealand SO/Francisco Feliciano (RNZ)
8:00 The Committee
Searching for the New Sound
A YOUNG: Three Fanfares; KING: Entanglement; KEAM: Does Not Play Well With Others; A YOUNG: Theme from The Glass Menagerie; TAYLOR: Two Movements; BELL: The Song of the Elect - Coralie Usmani (vln), Wen Chuan Lin (vla), Katherine Hebley (cello), Andrew Uren (bcl), Finn Scholes (tpt), Jillian Christoff (horn), Mark Close (tbn), John Bell (perc) (recorded in The Clocktower, Auckland University by RNZ)
8:45
AHO: Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra
Piet van Bockstal (oboe), Lahti Symphony Orch/Martyn Brabbins
BIS 1876 SACD
9:15 A collection of American composers
WAITS: Way Down In the Hole; God’s Away on Business; Lost in the Harbour; Diamond in Your Mind
Tom Waits (vocals, org), Greg Cohen (dbass), Kronos Quartet
ANTI 786794
GLASS: The Gambia
Philip Glass (synth), Foday Musa Suso (kora), other unnamed performers
ANTI 786794
ANTHEIL: Mechanisms; Sonata V; Sonatina für Radio
Benedikt Koehlen (pno)
Col Legno 1CD 31880
ADAMS: Doctor Atomic Symphony
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Peter Oundjian
Chandos CHSA 5129
RAYMOND SCOTT: Powerhouse; Manhattan Minuet; In an 18th Century Drawing Room; The Toy Trumpet
Columbia 465 672
FLYING LOTUS: See Through to U (featuring Erykah Badu); Until the Quiet Comes; DMT Song; Only if You Wanna; Electric Candyman (featuring Thom Yorke); Hunger (featuring Niki Randa)
Warp 610230
11:00 New Music Dreams
SCHAFFER: The Crown of Ariadne; MAYUZUMI: Rokudan; LEEF: Reminiscences of Tranquility;
HENNEMAN: Tratti per Arpa
Eleanor Turner (harp, percussion)
Champs Hill CHRCD 041
Where's Kate?
Kate is visiting Beijing this week to collect audio for programmes about a collaboration between the New Zealand String Quartet, the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra and New Zealand and Chinese composers. Read her blog posts: http://blog.festival.co.nz/. The project will feature a performance at the 2014 New Zealand Festival, in March.
Here's the NZSQ (Helene Pohl, Doug Beilman, Gillian Ansell, Rolf Gjelsten):
Rolf and Wei Wei discuss the differences between the cello and the ruan:
Gillian has a lesson on a huqin from Shen Cheng:
As does Helene:
Photos courtesy of Michael Norris