Sound Lounge for Tuesday 23 October 2012
7:00 Resound
New Zealand music from the RNZ archives (4 of 10)
GRENFELL: Maui Tikitiki a Taranga - Bridget Douglas (fl), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)
POWELL: Nelson Songs, for male singer & tape - Nelson Wattie (bar)
NORRIS, Michael: 14 Islands - Bridget Douglas (fl); Carolyn Mills (harp), Arnold Marinissen (perc)
WHITEHEAD: Hineraukatauri
Luca Manghi (fl)
Atoll ACD 882
8:00 Ned Rorem, A Birthday Tribute
Conductor, José Serebrier has programmed many of Ned Rorem's works in concerts over the years. More recently he has recorded the first two symphonies and a number of the concertos. Tonight, the composer and conductor are in conversation.
ROREM: Symphony No 2
Bournemouth SO, José Serebrier
Naxos 8.559149
NICO MUHLY: Clear Music
Clarice Jensen (cello), Nico Muhly (celeste), Monika Abendroth (harp)
Bedroom Community HVALUR 1
NICO MUHLY: It Goes Without Saying
Carol McGonnell (cls), Hildur Gudnadóttir (cello)
Bedroom Community HVALUR 1
MÚM: Rhubarbidoo
FAT CAT270122
9:30 Illegal Harmonies
Ten programmes written & presented by Andrew Ford
(5) Old Dreams and New Deals
The music of the Second World War and the immediate post-war years was characterised by a paradoxical degree of optimism. Shostakovich was temporarily off the political hook, thanks to a war-time symphony favourably misinterpreted by his government, Strauss composed his final glowingly romantic pieces and Benjamin Britten wrote the first great English opera in 300 years, Peter Grimes. The United States was unequivocally the centre of things: Bartók, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Weill and Rachmaninov all lived there, and the American Way was celebrated from New York, New York to Oklahoma!
Music by Richard Strauss, Francis Poulenc, Olivier Messiaen, Dimitri Shostakovich, Béla Bartók, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten, Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, John Antill, Leonard Bernstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein (ABC Classic FM)
See the ABC website for this programme
ANDREW THOMAS: Fearsome Jewel (album)
Kompakt 400247
ANDREW THOMAS: Clouds Across Face
WOLFGANG VOIGT: Zither und Horn
DJ KOZE: Bodenweich
From Pop Ambient 2010 (compilation album)
Kompakt 904322
