New Music for String Quartet (Special Podcast)
04/18/15 • 56 min
Hear unusual music for string quartet on this program, as Australian composer Andrew Byrne, now based in New York, uses the string quartet as a percussion instrument in his work called “Striking.” Then, listen to Bang on a Can All-Star saxman, clarinetist and composer Ken Thomson’s work for the JACK Quartet, “THAW.” There’s also folk-informed music from the singer, songwriter and composer Aoife O Donovan as played by Brooklyn Rider. Hear string quartet music by multi-instrumentalist composer Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, who plays a traditional Vietnamese string instrument on “Green River Delta,” in collaboration with Kronos Quartet. Plus, hear a work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams that uses the string quartet as an ambient music ensemble, relying upon harmonics and on tones played on open strings. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3686 Music for String Quartet (First aired on 1/21/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Ken Thomson (JACK quartet)
THAW
Thaw, excerpt [1:41]
Cantaloupe Records 21095 bangonacan.org
Members of Either/Or Ensemble
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Andrew Byrne: Striking Parts 1 & 2 [7:32]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
JACK Quartet
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places - Above Sunset Pass [7:24]
Cold Blue Music CBM 41 coldbluemusic.com
Ken Thomson (JACK quartet)
THAW
THAW: Thaw [10:55]
Cantaloupe Music 21095 bangonacan.org
Brooklyn Rider
Almanac
Aoife O'Donovan: Show Me [4:56]
Mercury Classics / In A Circle Records #002159302 mercuryclassics.com Available at iTunes, Amazon.com, Emusic.com
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ with Kronos Quartet
Three-Mountain Pass
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ: Green River Delta/Luu Thuy Truong [4:40]
Innova 866 innova.mu
Members of Either/Or Ensemble
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Andrew Byrne: Striking Parts 3 & 4 [8:30]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
Hear unusual music for string quartet on this program, as Australian composer Andrew Byrne, now based in New York, uses the string quartet as a percussion instrument in his work called “Striking.” Then, listen to Bang on a Can All-Star saxman, clarinetist and composer Ken Thomson’s work for the JACK Quartet, “THAW.” There’s also folk-informed music from the singer, songwriter and composer Aoife O Donovan as played by Brooklyn Rider. Hear string quartet music by multi-instrumentalist composer Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, who plays a traditional Vietnamese string instrument on “Green River Delta,” in collaboration with Kronos Quartet. Plus, hear a work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams that uses the string quartet as an ambient music ensemble, relying upon harmonics and on tones played on open strings. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3686 Music for String Quartet (First aired on 1/21/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Ken Thomson (JACK quartet)
THAW
Thaw, excerpt [1:41]
Cantaloupe Records 21095 bangonacan.org
Members of Either/Or Ensemble
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Andrew Byrne: Striking Parts 1 & 2 [7:32]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
JACK Quartet
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places - Above Sunset Pass [7:24]
Cold Blue Music CBM 41 coldbluemusic.com
Ken Thomson (JACK quartet)
THAW
THAW: Thaw [10:55]
Cantaloupe Music 21095 bangonacan.org
Brooklyn Rider
Almanac
Aoife O'Donovan: Show Me [4:56]
Mercury Classics / In A Circle Records #002159302 mercuryclassics.com Available at iTunes, Amazon.com, Emusic.com
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ with Kronos Quartet
Three-Mountain Pass
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ: Green River Delta/Luu Thuy Truong [4:40]
Innova 866 innova.mu
Members of Either/Or Ensemble
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Andrew Byrne: Striking Parts 3 & 4 [8:30]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
Previous Episode
Psychedelic World Music (Special Podcast)
Listen to world music that veers into psychedelic territory on this New Sounds, with Native-American inspired percussive drone music and Afrobeat from Brazil in music by Bixiga 70. Hear a mix of Afro-Ethiopian rock and jazz from the Brazilian band, Bixiga70, whose name is clearly a nod to the Afrobeat pioneered by Fela Kuti and drummer Tony Allen (with whom Mauricio Fleury from the band studied with.) This brass-heavy sound bounces through boundaries to harvest textures of Guinean and Malian mandingo from Guinea and Mali, soukous from the Congo and ethio-jazz. Also, there’s music from a Chinese string band, Red Chamber, and their pipa, zheng, zhongruan, among other Chinese lutes and zithers. On this tune,"Ah Ya Zein," they accompany oud player Gordon Grdina, and are augmented by all kinds of percussion from other traditions. Then, hear “tribal folkadelia” from Flamingods, with musicians based in London & Bahrain, and operatic trance music from Toronto-based artist, Alexandra Mackenzie, who records under the moniker Petra Glynt. Also, listen to a song from Nathan Bowles, a pounding tribute in percussive drone to the dwindling population of the Nansemond tribe who were part of the Powhatan confederacy in Virginia. Plus, explosive music from the Belgian brass klezmer punk band Kermesz a l'est, and more.
PROGRAM #3638, Psychedelic World Music (First aired on 9/17/2014)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Flamingods
Hyperborea
Vimana, excerpt [1:00]
SHAPE 027 shaperecords.co.ukshaperecords.bandcamp.com
Red Chamber
Gathering
Ah Ya Zein [7:40]
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem in My Heart)
Mo7it Al-Mo7it
Amanem [8:54]
Constellation Records CST093cstrecords.com Included as part of www.musicworks.ca, Summer 2014 Sampler jerusaleminmyheart.com
Kermesz a l'est
Kermesz a l'est (2014)
Zumkind [6:02]
Flamingods
Hyperborea
Vimana [2:32]
SHAPE 027 shaperecords.co.ukshaperecords.bandcamp.com
Petra Glynt
Musicworks Summer 2014
Of This Land
Nathan Bowles
Nansemond
The Smoke Swallower [2:38]
Paradies of Bachelors 016 paradiseofbachelors.com
FatDog
New Found Land
Halling Etter Sjur Eldegard, excerpt [1:00]
Riverboat Records 1087 worldmusic.net
Kronos Quartet
Floodplain
Tashweesh [3:24]
Nonesuch 518349 nonesuch.com
Bixiga 70
Ocupai
5 Esquinas [4:31]
Angeli Drake
Deghe
Spargiani [6:00]
Available at Amazon.com or Emusic.com
Next Episode
Gamelan Plus (Special Podcast)
Listen to works that include gamelan, but take a more western approach for this New Sounds - like combining Celtic traditional music and Indonesian gamelan in music from Gamelan Son of Lion and composer/sax player and bagpiper Matthew Welch. In the music of Barbara Benary, the co-founder and guiding spirit of Gamelan Son of Lion, there is a juxtaposition of Cape Breton Celtic singing, gamelan and Benary herself on violin. Also, hear the Celtic-Balinese tapestry of Matthew Welch’s chamber rock hybrid Blarvuster with its Scottish bagpipes, Balinese gamelan, and Welch’s vocalizing in Indonesian. Plus, Lou Harrison’s "Threnody for Carlos Chavez," written for viola and gamelan ensemble, and music from NYC-based Patrick Grant, who serves his post-minimalism with a twist of Rock and Balinese gamelan. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3691 Gamelan Plus (First aired on 2/3/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sonogram
John Morton: She (really) Had To Go [9:23]
Innova 718 innova.mu
Patrick Grant
Patrick Grant
Fields Amaze [8:35]
Available at cdbaby.com
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sonogram
Barbara Benary: Jigalullaby [8:23]
Innova 718 innova.mu
Matthew Welch & Blarvuster
Blarvuster
Canntaireachd Masolah I [6:23]
Tzadik 8077 tzadik.com
Lou Harrison
Drums Along The Pacific
Threnody for Carlos Chavez [8:00]
New Albion #122 Out of print, but available as a download via Amazon
Bill Alves (performed by Susan Jensen, violin; The HMC American Gamelan)
Mystic Canyon
Mystic Canyon for Violin and Gamelan [5:20]
MicroFest Records Amazon
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