Afternoon New Music 4/2/07

A program featuring the string music of Helmut Lachenmann.

1)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: Streichtrio,
performed by the trio recherche
Album: Hemut Lachenmann 2
Label: Montaigne



2)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: Notturno (Musik für Julia),
performed by Klangforum Wien, cond. Hans Zender
Album: NUN/Notturno (Musik für Julia)
Label: Kairos



3)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: Pression
performed by Michael Bach, cello
Album: Chamber Music
Label: CPO



4)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: Gran Torso
performed by the Berner Quartet
Album: Gran Torso/Salüt for Caudwell
Label: Col Legno



5)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: II. Streichquartett, "Reigen seliger Geister"
performed by the Arditti String Quartet
Album: Helmut Lachenmann 1
Label: Montaigne



6)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: III. Streichquartett, "Grido"
performed by the Arditti String Quartet
Not commercially distributed but available on-line from Jacob Sudol's blog.


For the last half an hour we spoke with Sam Pluta, composer and sound artist, and highlighted a new CD of electroacoustic music:

7)Artist: Various
Album: Resonance: Steel Pan in the 21st Century
Label: Alas Seis Music
Tracks: Various!

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 3/26/07

A whole show dedicated to electroacoustic compositions.

1)Artist: Trevor Wishart
Title: Vox-5
Album: Computer Music Currents 4
Label: Wergo



2)Artist: Iannis Xenakis
Title: La Légende d'Eer
Album: La Légende d'Eer
Label: Disques Montaigne



3)Artist: Michel Chion
Title: Requiem
Album: Requiem
Label: empreintes DIGITALes



4)Artist: Bernard Parmegiani
Title: La création du monde
Album: La création du monde
Label: INA-GRM


Hosts: Brian Kane and Sam Pluta

Afternoon New Music 3/19/2007

Hours one and two featured two collaborations between Samuel Beckett and composer Morton Feldman.

1) Author/Composer: Samuel Beckett/Morton Feldman
performed by the Ensemble Recherche
Album: Morton Feldman 2
Track: Words and Music
Label: Disques Montaigne MO 78208



2) Composer/Librettist: Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett
performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchesta, cond. Kwame Ryan
Album: Neither
Track: Neither
Label: Col Legno

To acknowledge the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the third hour of the show was dedicated to playing Tom Caygill-Jones' Shock and Awe. It is an hour-long collage of material recorded from British television on the day of the invasion.

3) Composer: Tom Caygill-Jones
Title: Shock and Awe
Label: not commercially available

Hosts: Brian Kane and Sam Pluta

Afternoon New Music 2/26/07

The first hour and a half of the program were dedicated to the memory of the great violinist Leroy Jenkins (March 11, 1932 – February 24, 2007)

1) Composer/Performer: Leroy Jenkins
Album: Solo
Label: Lovely Music
Tracks: Um Cha Chi Chum
Hipnosis
Folk Song
Off the Top of My Head
Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl
Keep on Trucking Brother
Wouldn't You (aka Woody'n You)

Two Early Anthony Braxton albums featuring Leroy Jenkins:

2) Artist: Anthony Braxton
Album: Three Compositions of the New Jazz
Label: Delmark
Tracks: Composition 6E
Composition 6D

3) Artist: Anthony Braxton
Album: B-Xo/ N-O-1-47A
Label: Actuel
Tracks: Simple Like

The rest of the show featured the music of electronic pioneer Morton Subotnick.

4) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Album: The Sidewinder
Label: Nonesuch

5) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Title: A Fluttering of Wings
performed by the Juliard String Quartet
Album: Echoes from the Silent Call of Girona; A Fluttering Of Wings
Label: Cambria Records

6) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Album: Silver Apples of the Moon
Label: Nonesuch

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/19/07

A set of Morton Feldman pieces, all from the very early 1960s

1) Performer: Ensemble Avantgarde
Album: Morton Feldman: Chamber Music
Label: Wergo
Tracks: For Franz Kline; O'Hara Song; De Kooning

2) Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Durations I-IV
Album: Duration I-IV
Label: Time Records
Note: this comes from a rare LP in the WKCR collection performed by an ensemble that features David Tudor.

3) Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Out of Last Pieces
Album: Music of Our Time
perfomed by the New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein
Label: CBS

An amusing track off the same album:

4) Title: Four Improvisations
performed by the New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein
Album: Music of Our Time
Label: CBS

A long set of improvised electronic pieces with electronics from the late 60s:

5) Artist: David Tudor
Title: Rainforest Version I (1968)
Album: Rainforest
Label: Mode

6) Artist: Musica Electronica Viva
Title: Spaceship
Album: MEV/AMM
Label: Time Records

7) Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Kommunion
Album: Kommunion and Intensität from aus den Sieben Tagen
Label: Deutsche Grammaphon

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/12/07

The first set featured a belated celebration of Alban Berg's Birthday (born Feb. 9th, 1885):

1)Composer: Alban Berg
Title: Three Pieces for Orchestra
Album: Berg: 7 Early Songs, 3 Orchestral Pieces, etc
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Claudio Abbado
Label: Deutsche Grammophon



2) Composer: Alban Berg
Title: Lyric Suite
Album: Alban Berg
performed by the Arditti String Quartet
Label: Disques Montaigne



The rest of the program focused on works composed for solo instrument with Luciano Berio's Sequenzas as the starting point. First, the trombone:

3) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza V for Trombone
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

4) Composer: Nicolaus A. Huber
Title: Presente
Album: Huber: La Force du Vertige; Eröffnung und Zertrümmerung
performed by Michael Svoboda, trombone
Label: Telos Records

5) Composer: Richard Barrett
Title: Basalt
Album: Transmission
Label: Nmc Records

6) Composer: Vinko Globokar
Title: Échanges
Album: Globokar by Globokar
Label: Harmonia Mundi

7) Composer: George Lewis
Title: Phenomenology
Album: The George Lewis Solo Trombone Album
Label: Sackville Records

Then, the accordion:

8) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza XII for Accordion
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Teodoro Anzelloti
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

9) Composer: Cornelius Schwehr
Title: aus dem Kamalatdanischen Leiden
performed by Teodoro Anzelloti
Album and Label unknown (played from a private recording)

Finally, the guitar:

10) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza XI for Guitar
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

11) Composer: Elliott Carter
Title: Shard
Album: The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 4
performed by David Starobin
Label: Bridge Records

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/05/07

Harry Partch -- Cloud-Chamber Music

Early and Microtonal Music of Ben Johnston

Three Chinese Lyrics (1955)
Gambit (1959)
Five Fragments (1960)
Sonata for Piano (1962)
Duo for Flute and Contrabass (1963)
String Quartet #2 (1964)
String Quartet #3 (1966)
Casta Bertram (1969)
String Quartet #4 (1973)
Suite for Microtonal Piano (1978)
String Quartet #6 (1980)
Trio (1981)

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/29/07

Derek Bailey -- Eight Domestic Pieces
Luigi Nono -- "Hay que caminar" soñando

Classic electro-acoustic music on vinyl from the WKCR library
Pierre Henry -- Le Voyage
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Telemusik
Bernard Parmegiani -- Violostries

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/22/07

Special Guest in the Studio: Michel Galante of the Argento Chamber Ensemble

Wolfgang Rihm: Chiffre IV

Tristan Murail:
Feuilles à travers les cloches
Ethers
Winter Fragments

Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1
Wolfgang Rihm: Chiffre VI

Christian Wolff:
selections from the CD Ten Exercises: Exercises 8, 14b, 3, 16
For 1, 2 or 3 players
For Prepared Piano

Larry Polansky:
selections from the CD Four-voice Canons: #5, #6, #18 (Trio Canon for Christian Wolff)

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/15/07

Luciano Berio's pieces for Martin Luther King
O King
Sinfonia

Jean Barraqué -- Concerto

Composer Profile: Piano Works of Bill Hopkins
Sous-structures
Etudes en séries

Elliott Carter -- Clarinet Concerto

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/08/07

Morton Feldman as a conductor and performer:
The Viola in My Life
False Relationships and the Extended Ending
Why Patterns?

Composer Profile: Mathias Spahlinger
128 erfüllte augenblicke
extension

Earle Brown -- Four Systems

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/01/07

Iannis Xenakis -- Eonta
Anthony Braxton and George Lewis -- Donaueschingen Duo (1976)

Charles Ives -- Marches and Parades:
Calcium Light Night
The Gong on the Hook and Ladder
All the Way Around and Back
Over the Pavements
Fourth of July (from the Holidays Symphony)

Michael Finnissy -- Un-characteristic March
Brian Ferneyhough -- Superscriptio

Charles Ives -- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos
Elliott Carter -- Figment II - Remembering Mr. Ives

Remembering Nam Jun Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006):
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Plus-Minus (realization by Paik for Charlotte Moorman)
Waiting For Commercial
Hommage à John Cage

Remembering James Tenney (August 10, 1934 - August 24, 2006):
Collage #1 ("Blue Suede")
Analog #1 (Noise Study)
Dialogue
Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
Music for Player Piano

Host: Brian Kane