This New Sounds is chock-a-block full of unusually textured new music, featuring some percussion-based works and other recent arrivals which may or may not incorporate wind families of clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, and then add to that hammered dulcimer, zither, marimba and/or accordion.
For those keeping score, we'll sample Hardanger fiddle and possibly even harp in music from the Christian Wallumrod Ensemble. We'll also hear Toru Takemitsu's work "Rain Tree" for percussion. Then there's music from French reed player/composer Louis Sclavis, San Francisco-based composer/clarinetist Beth Custer, and Dutch sax player/composer Jorrit Dijkstra, and more.
PROGRAM # 3069, Winds, Mallets, Bells (First aired on 4/29/2010)
ARTIST(S) | RECORDING | CUT(S) | SOURCE |
Die Knödel | Die Noodle! | die wurst [4:11] | Rec Rec Music Recdec 64, distr. By Koch Records. Info at www.dienz.at |
Louis Sclavis | Dans La Nuit | Le travail [6:02] | ECM 1805 |
Jorrit Dijkstra | Pillow Circles | Pillow Circle 88 For Robert Ashley [7:34] | Clean Feed CF166 |
Clarinet Thing /Beth Custer | The Shirt I Slept In | Beth Custer: The Lips That Kissed The Paper [4:18] | BC 1 |
Christian Wallumrod Ensemble | Fabula Suite Lugano | Valse Dolcissima [5:53] | ECM 2118 |
So Percussion | So Percussion | David Lang : the so-called laws of nature: III [9:45] | Cantaloupe CA21022 |
Toru Takemitsu | Japan the spirit of water | Toru Takemitsu : Rain Tree [11:48] | Celestial Harmonies 13172 www.harmonies.com |