Sound Lounge for Friday 17 March 2017
Ross Harris Photo: Gareth Watkins, Lilburn Trust, Wallace Arts Trust
We continue our series of NZ commissioned concertos with Ross Harris’s Labyrinth for tuba. And talking of labyrinths, it’s the birthday on Friday of one of the avant garde’s most labyrinthine composers, Michael Finnissy. Tune in for a spider’s guide through.
In the second hour two major works with an Indian connection: new Carnatic-influenced music for piano by Indian American composer Asha Srinivasan and Scelsi's Aion - a day in the life of the Hindu creator god Brahma.
And in NMD Ryan looks at a new album inspired by the age-old border between Norway and Russia: Departed Glories by Biosphere.
9:00
HARRIS: Labyrinth for tuba and orchestra
Performers: Andrew Jarvis (tuba), New Zealand SO/James Judd
RNZ
Michael Finnissy Photo: www.michaelfinnissy.info
FINNISSY: English Country-Tunes, Part 2, Midsummer Morn
Michael Finnissy (pno)
Etcetera KTC 1091
FINNISSY: Shameful Vice
Marshall McGuire (harp)
ABC Classics 456 696
FINNISSY: ének
Charles Mutter (vln),
NMC D 043
FINNISSY: Forget-me-not
Alan Thomas (gtr), Jub Davis (dbass), Joby Burgess (cymbal), Michael Finnissy (pno), Exaudi,/James Weeks
NMC D 110
FINNISSY: Gershwin Arrangements (selection)
Ian Pace (pno)
Metier Sound & Vision MSV CD 92030
FINNISSY: Palm-Sunday
Alan Thomas (gtr), Jub Davis (dbass), Joby Burgess (vibe), Michael Finnissy (pno), Exaudi/James Weeks
NMC D 110
10:00
Asha Srinivasan Photo: Lawrence University, Wisconsin
MARK DANCIGERS: Cloudbank
NOW Ensemble
New Amsterdam NWAM 005
ASHA SRINIVASAN: Mercurial Reveries
Michael Mizrahi (pno)
New Amsterdam
SCELSI: Aion
Cracow Radio & TV Choir & Orch/Jurg Wyttenbach
Accord 476 1072
11:00 New Music Dreams
Biosphere - Departed Glories Photo: album cover art
BIOSPHERE: Departed Glories
Geir Jenssen (electronics)
Smalltown Supersound STS 281