Sound Lounge for Tuesday 1 April 2014

7:00 In respect for whales

HOVHANESS: And God Created Great Whales
Philharmonia Orch/David Amos
Crystal CD 810

LIDDLE: Whale Rant
The Hilliard Ensemble
ECM 1615

BLOM: The Whale’s Song
Deborah Coogan (cello), Diana Blom (pno)
Wirripang WIRR 011

CHARLTON: Chasing the White Whale
Toru Guitar Quartet
Manu CD MANU 5003

7:30 Blackbirds in Autumn

Karlheinz Company

WEBSTER: An Infinite Shore
TAYLOR: thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird

(rec at the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZC)

8:10 The NZSO are touring Korngold’s Violin Concerto

KORNGOLD: Symphony in F#
London SO/André Previn
DG 453 436

9:10 Cloud by Luke Munn opens at Christchurch’s sonic arts gallery, The Auricle this week

McLEOD: Peaks of Cloud
Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno)
Waiteata WTA 012

GAO PING: Bright Light & Cloud Shadows
New Zealand String Quartet
Naxos 8.572488

9:45 Elliott Carter’s our Composer of the Week next week

CARTER: String Quartet No 1
Pacifica Quartet
Naxos 8.559362

10:30 More whales

ELLIAS: Whale Spirit Rising
David Mott (sax), I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky
Chandos CHAN 9748

11:00 New Music Dreams

HALLGRIMSSON: Mini Stories
Simon Callow (narr), Caput Ensemble
Signum SIGCD 181