Podcast appearances and mentions of charles wuorinen

Episode 144 Chapter 06, Analog and Digital Synthesis Basics, Part 1. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music  Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes. This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text. The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings. There is a complete playlist for this episode on the website for the podcast. Let's get started with the listening guide to Chapter 06, Analog and Digital Synthesis Basics, Part 1 from my book Electronic and Experimental music.   Playlist: Early Experiments and Synthesizers   Time Track Time Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 01:40 00:00 1 Halim El-Dabh, “The Expression of Zaar” (alt. title Wire Recorder Piece) (1944). Middle East Radio, Cairo. Composed using a magnetic wire recorder. 01:53 01:40 2 Hugh Le Caine, “Dripsody” (1955). Canada. Using Le Caine's special purpose tape recorder. 02:00 03:30 3 Josef Anton Riedl, “Folge von 4 Studien” (1959). Siemens Studio für Elektronische Musik. 02:35 05:30 4 Milton Babbitt, “Ensembles for Synthesizer” (1961– 63). Using RCA Mark II Electronic Music Synthesizer 10:41 08:06 5 Mauricio Kagel “Antithese” (1962). Siemens Studio für Elektronische Musik. 09:22 18:46 6 Konrad Boehmer, “Aspekt” (1966).  State University Electronic-Music Studio, Utrecht. 15:15 28:08 7 Pauline Oliveros, “I of IV” (1966). University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio. Using Hugh Le Caine's tape loop system. 25:29 43:34 8 Alice Shields, “Study for Voice and Tape” (1969). Columbia– Princeton Electronic Music Center. 05:14 01:08:52 9 Charles Wuorinen, Time's Encomium (1968– 69). Using RCA Mark II Electronic Music Synthesizer. 30:47  01:14:06 10 Douglas Leedy, “Entropical Paradise I” (1970). Side 1 of three-LP set. Six “sonic environments” using the Buchla Modular Electronic Music System and Moog Modular Synthesizer at UCLA. 20:09 01:44:55     Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.  

Welcome back to the 95th episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of prophet productions! For our 95th episode we celebrated Pride Month by discussing Teatro Real of Madrid's 2014 production of Brokeback Mountain: The Opera, composed by Charles Wuorinen, with a libretto by Annie Proulx (adapted from her short story of the same name), directed by Ivo van Hove, and starring Daniel Okulitch and Tom Randle in the roles of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, respectively. Watch the play on BroadwayHD (subscription needed): https://www.broadwayhd.com/movies/brokeback-mountain-the-opera?display=portrait Follow our panelists: Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Carly Billings – Instagram: @mscarlybillings Patrick Teed – Instagram: @postmodernpat Afterlife Theatre Co. (Carly & Patrick's company) – Instagram/Twitter: @afterlifetheatre Ryan Borochovitz – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won't mind!] Follow Cup of Hemlock Theatre on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @cohtheatre --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

In this episode, Dave and Andrew discuss the first fully electronic work to ever win a Pulitzer Prize, even though it was the only electronic work its composer ever wrote. Did Charles Wuorinen set a new standard for Pulitzer-winning music or was electronic music a flash in the pan?   If you're interested in learning more about Wuorinen, we recommend: Charles Wuorinen's extensive website Elliott Schwartz's article "Electronic Music: A Thirty-Year Retrospective" in Music Educators Journal, Vol. 64, No. 7 (March 1978): 36-41. Perspective of New Music's "Charles Wuorinen: A Celebration at 80," Vol. 56, No. 2 (Summer 2018)

How do you bring humanity to work? How do you connect with your team on different levels?   Today, we are in New York, and we talk with Jim Kalbach. Jim is a noted author, speaker, musician, and instructor in design, customer experience, and strategy. He is currently Chief Evangelist at MURAL, the digital online whiteboard designed for remote collaboration and visual problem-solving. Jim studied music theory and composition with 12-tone composer Charles Wuorinen, and that gives us a kick-start to discuss the differences between fixed instructions, lead sheets and free improvisation in music and our daily work.  We talk about systems thinking in a 12-tone composition where every note is equal and how this connects to design thinking. And we chat about the difference between rhythm, beat and cadence in agile development.  Jim shares with us his CEO playing guitar and singing in a meeting and how this brought in playfulness, opened things up and made it meaningful.   Show notes Connect with Jim:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalbach/   JTBD Tool Kit website: www.jtbdtoolkit.com   Jim on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JimKalbach     More info The Power of Music Thinking is brought to you by CREATIVE COMPANION Learn more about The Music Thinking Framework, the Jam Cards and the blog on musicthinking.com or the Music Thinking LinkedIn page. See the latest episode of The Power of Music Thinking    

Synopsis On today's date in 1991, Herbert Blomstedt led the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in the premiere of a cantata entitled “Genesis,” by the American composer Charles Wuorinen. This was the culmination of Wuorinen's four-year association with the San Francisco Symphony as its composer-in-residence. The most famous setting of the Biblical Genesis story is Haydn's oratorio “The Creation,” but early on Wuorinen decided his cantata would be a non-narrative, non-programmatic treatment, although incorporating a Latin version of the Genesis text. Musically, as the music critic Michael Steinberg noted, Wuorinen's style fuses the physicality and punch of Stravinsky with Schoenberg's struc­tural principles. The resulting music, which some have dubbed “maximalist” is complex and demanding – just as its composer intended. Charles Wuorinen writes, “In any medium, entertainment is that which we can receive and enjoy passively, without effort, without our putting anything into the experience.  Art is that which requires some initial effort from the receiver, after which the experience received may indeed be entertaining, but also transcending as well.  Art is like nuclear fusion: you have to put something into it to get it started, but you get more out of it in the end than what you put in.” Music Played in Today's Program Charles Wuorinen (b. 1938) — Genesis (Minnesota Chorale and Minnesota Orchestra; Edo de Waart, cond.) Koch 7336

16th-21st CenturiesThis week we hear works by Francisco Guerrero, Dario Castello, Johann Paul von Westhoff, William Boyce, Anton Diabelli, Frederic Cliffe, and Charles Wuorinen.147 Minutes – Weeks of August 16 and August 23, 2021

Rolf Schulte is one of the most riveting violinists performing contemporary classical music. He is widely acknowledged as a passionate and exacting soloist, a champion of Elliott Carter's music, and has worked closely with composers Gyorgy Kurtag, Milton Babbitt, and Charles Wuorinen. Rolf reflects on 50-plus years of interpreting the headiest music of the 20th Century, as we discuss his experiences and his approach to this fiercely modern music.

Current Eastman (NY) DMA Doctoral Student and recent colleague Connor Stevens stops by to talk about teaching at Mizzou, working towards finishing his DMA, Charles Wuorinen, and studying for the doctoral exams (03:40), working in marching programs in GA prior to his doctorate (24:30), growing up in NY and GA, his family connections to percussion, and his enjoyment of DCI (51:00), his undergrad years at FSU, Parks and Burritt, and getting into running in FL (01:03:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions (01:22:50).Finishing with a Rave on the documentary film King in the Wilderness (01:51:30).Links:Connor Stevens’s Hochstein pageMegan Arns on the podcastPortraits in Rhythm - Anthony Cirone“Marimba Variations” - Charles Wuorinen“Janissary Music” - Charles WuorinenPercussion Symphony - Charles WuorinenPercussion Quartet - Charles WuorinenMichael BurrittThe Book of Keyboards - Philippe ManouryBrant BlackardGreen Box Media“Spero” - Michael BurrittMusica NovaHistory of Western Music - GroutJohn W. Parks IVSwitch~EnsembleJulia Gaines“Doll’s House Story” - István MártaMelinda LeoceAlexander JiménezSymphony No. 10, movement 2 - Dmitri ShostakovichFirst Suite in E-flat - Gustav HolstRingo StarrJohn BonhamCadets 2005 showPhantom Regiment 2006 showBuster BaileySaul GoodmanJosh JonesKeith AleoIonization - Edgard VareseScott StevensChristopher LambTim ChurchBluecoatsCavaliersSpirit of AtlantaJames Campbell“Peaux” - Iannis XenakisLa La Land trailerUmbrellas of Cherbourg trailerMoonlight trailerThe Shining trailerEl Topo trailerInland Empire trailerTwin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me trailerEraserhead trailerBlue Velvet trailer“I Want to Tell You” - Beatles“The Ocean” - Led ZeppelinDavid HardmanMy Struggle - Karl One KnausgaardWhere The Heart Beats - Kay LarsonRaves:King in the Wilderness trailer

Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) has carved out a considerable reputation for its championing of modern American music, and its latest release is one of its most ambitious, a recording of Charles Wuorinen's 2004 opera, based on Salman Rushdie's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories, to a libretto by Jame Fenton. James Jolly spoke to Gil Rose, BMOP's Artistic Director about the orchestra and its label, but also about this latest project. And Gil also reveals some of the recording projects awaiting us in 2021.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits FridaysStarting off in the Bistro Cafe, court precedent and federal law provide “sweeping powers” for the federal government to issue quarantines and other limits on citizens' rights during a legitimate public health crisis, but we shouldn't need the law to do what is right.Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House is trying to kill legislation to fund coronavirus testing by adding anti-abortion language to it; government officials testified on Capitol Hill on why the CDC coronavirus discussions were held in secret; and, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen dies from injuries suffered in a fall, at age 81.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a retired general seeking to unseat Uganda's long-ruling president is detained on treason charges; and, the US Soccer president resigned amid misogynist statements made by the organization's legal team while attacking gender pay equality in court.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/13/1927029/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

This week, I have the incredible honor of welcoming renowned pianist Ursula Oppens to the show. A legend among American pianists, Ursula is widely admired for both her original and perceptive readings of new music, and for her knowing interpretations of the standard repertoire. As you'll hear in the episode, she's an incredibly passionate and wise musician!  Her and I covered several topics, from the reality of a career in music today, to how she approaches learning repertoire, and how she's stays focused in the practice room! In this episode, Ursula expands on: Her love of new music and how it developed early on in her life How she approaches bringing new music to life Why she doesn't think musicians should have a niche but should, instead, be interested in learning Her view of the musical landscape of today What improvisation can bring to our playing How she loves practicing (and I love that she said that so much!) How mental and muscle memory develop together Why she thinks it's important to memorize music in order to learn it better Her strategies to find energy, motivation, and focus to practice Why flexibility is a crucial skill to develop How a well-rounded education is also very helpful Her very wise piece of advice for young musicians Ursula is a force of nature and very generous with her insight. I know you'll love this discussion!     The Mind Over Finger Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtQSB1IVNJ4a2afT1iUtSfA/videos   Sign up for my newsletter to get your free guide to a super productive practice using the metronome!  This guide is the perfect entry point to help you bring more mindfulness and efficiency into your practice and it's filled with tips and tricks on how to use that wonderful tool to take your practicing and your playing to new heights! TURN THE METRONOME ON AND START PRACTICING BETTER AND LEARNING FASTER RIGHT NOW!  GET YOUR FREE METRONOME GUIDE TODAY! Click HERE or visit www.mindoverfinger.com!   MORE ABOUT URSULA: Website: https://colbertartists.com/artists/ursula-oppens/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqj7e-6dIIBw2OkKmHxYItw   Ursula Oppens, a legend among American pianists, is widely admired particularly for her original and perceptive readings of new music, but also for her knowing interpretations of the standard repertoire. No other artist alive today has commissioned and premiered more new works for the piano. A prolific and critically acclaimed recording artist with five Grammy nominations, Ms. Oppens most recently released a new recording of Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated, nominated for a Grammy in 2016, and Piano Songs, a collaboration with Meredith Monk. Earlier Grammy nominations were for Winging It: Piano Music of John Corigliano; Oppens Plays Carter; a recording of the complete piano works of Elliott Carter for Cedille Records (also was named a “Best of the Year” selection by The New York Times long-time music critic Allan Kozinn); Piano Music of Our Time featuring compositions by John Adams, Elliott Carter, Julius Hemphill, and Conlon Nancarrow for the Music and Arts label, and her cult classic The People United Will Never Be Defeated by Frederic Rzewski on Vanguard. Ms. Oppens recently added to her extensive discography by releasing a two-piano CD for Cedille Records devoted to Visions de l'Amenof Oliver Messiaen and Debussy's En blanc et noir performed with pianist Jerome Lowenthal. Over the years, Ms. Oppens has premiered works by such leading composers as John Adams, Luciano Berio, William Bolcom, Anthony Braxton, Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, Anthony Davis, John Harbison, Julius Hemphill, Laura Kaminsky, Tania Leon, György Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Harold Meltzer, Meredith Monk, Conlon Nancarrow, Tobias Picker, Bernard Rands, Frederic Rzewski, Allen Shawn, Alvin Singleton, Joan Tower, Lois V Vierk, Amy Williams, Christian Wolff, Amnon Wolman, and Charles Wuorinen. As an orchestral guest soloist, Ms. Oppens has performed with virtually all of the world's major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), and the orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Milwaukee. Abroad, she has appeared with such ensembles as the Berlin Symphony, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Deutsche Symphonie, the Scottish BBC, and the London Philharmonic Orchestras.  Ms. Oppens is also an avid chamber musician and has performed with the Arditti, Cassatt, JACK, Juilliard, and Pacifica quartets, among other chamber ensembles. Ursula Oppens joined the faculty of the Mannes College of Music in the fall of 2017, and is a Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. From 1994 through the end of the 2007-08 academic year she served as John Evans Distinguished Professor of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. In addition, Ms. Oppens has served as a juror for many international competitions, such as the Concert Artists Guild, Young Concert Artists, Young Pianists Foundation (Amsterdam), and Cincinnati Piano World Competition.   If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on iTunes!  I truly appreciate your support! Visit www.mindoverfinger.com for information about past and future podcasts, and for more resources on mindful practice. Join the Mind Over Finger Tribe here!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindoverfingertribe/     THANK YOU: Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Also a HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly!   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/    

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain! For this episode, we read and watched: Annie Proulx’s original short story, first published in the New Yorker on October 13, 1997, an expanded version of which was published in Close Range: Wyoming Stories. Read Close Range on iBooks or Amazon. Brokeback Mountain, the 2005 movie directed by Ang Lee, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon. Footnotes: limn, verb, to represent in drawing or painting; to portray in words; describe Matthew Shepard Our own episode on The Birdcage Ang Lee, director of The Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility, Hulk, and Brokeback Mountain “Gene Shalit's Brokeback Mountain review angers gay rights group” from The Advocate “No Man’s Land” from The New Republic “Return to the Range” from The Wall Street Journal Brokeback Mountain, the 2014 opera by composer Charles Wuorinen, with libretto by Annie Proulx You can follow Adapt or Perish on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and you can find us and all of our show notes online at adaptorperishcast.com. If you want to send us a question or comment, you can email us at adaptorperishcast@gmail.com or tweet using #adaptcast.

Trombonist Michael Clayville from Alarm Will Sound and Visiting Professor at Lawrence Conservatory Michael Clayville is a musician who is passionate about drawing audiences deeply into the art of sound. His abilities as a trombone soloist, chamber musician, and improviser have taken him to prestigious venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall, the Barbican (London) and the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ (Amsterdam) and have led to him working with some of the most prominent classical and popular artists today including Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Steve Reich, John Adams, John Luther Adams, Charles Wuorinen, and David Lang, and experimental groups like Medeski Martin and Wood, and the Dirty Projectors. Michael is a founding member of Alarm Will Sound, a group that has been awarded the ASCAP Concert Music Award for “the virtuosity, passion and commitment with which they perform and champion the repertory for the 21st century” and which has been called the “future of classical music” by the New York Times. In addition to being its trombonist, Michael is also the Director of Marketing for Alarm Will Sound. In this episode, we cover: Playing with Medeski, Martin and Wood Picking repertoire in Alarm Will Sound by quasi-democratic methods Marketing efforts/social media for AWS Splitting Adams CD The Mizzou International Composers Festival Georg Friedrich Haas Teaching at Lawrence, working for/with Brian Pertl LINKS: Personal Site Lawrence University bio page Alarm Will Sound bio page Andrew's TEM interview with Michael   Want to help the show? Take a minute to leave us a rating and a review on iTunes. The Brass Area of the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh PA is our new partner (and Lance has been teaching euphonium there since 2000). If you are interested in learning more about the program, visit the site HERE! Check out Parker Mouthpieces fine offerings (including the Andrew Hitz and Lance LaDuke models) by clicking PARKER! You can help offset the costs of producing the show by making a small donation at https://www.patreon.com/thebrassjunkies. Your support is greatly appreciated! Last but not least, we are now on Instagram! Follow us at instagram.com/pray4jens/ TODAY! Expertly produced by Will Houchin with love, care, and enthusiasm.

It was composer pitted against composer: uptown vs. downtown, tonal vs. atonal, left brain vs right brain, and these musicians were NOT pulling any punches. Composers were antagonizing each other, questioning each other's validity, and bad-mouthing one another; it was like the second half of the 20th century was when Western Music went through middle school, and it was brutal! “If you weren't being a constructivist composer, if the music wasn't indeed about its own structure, and its own structure wasn't complicated, then you were a pariah, you were rejected. You didn’t get tenure. You didn’t get a job.” That’s Robert Sirota - Nadia’s Dad - one of many composers who came of age in the midst of this feud and struggled - for years - to find a voice. On this episode of Meet the Composer, we unravel one of the most contentious periods in classical music’s history. How did this fight begin? How did it play out? Who were the contenders?  We hear from composers on both sides of this battle, and discover how, on all ends of the aesthetic spectrum, we can find value in differences.   Heard a piece of music you loved? Discover it here! 0:00—The Yorks: Love Without Reason, written by Barry Flicker2:14—Robert Sirota: Pange Lingua Sonata | Buy 3:30—Robert Sirota: Pange Lingua Sonata | Buy 5:23—Philip Glass: Music in Twelve Parts | Listen 6:31—Ruth Crawford Seeger: Study in Mixed Accents | Listen 7:08—David Lang: orpheus over and under | Listen 8:53—Richard Wagner: Overture from Tristan und Isolde | Listen 9:36—Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of the Republic | Watch 11:27—Arnold Schoenberg: Klavierstüke, Op. 33 | Listen12:04—Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 2 | Listen  13:05—Pierre Boulez: Sur Incises | Listen 13:47—Lewis Nielsen: Oerknal! "...the crisis of conscience..." | Listen 14:50—Charles Wuorinen: Two Part Symphony | Listen 15:57—David Lang: the so-called laws of nature: part III | Listen 17:59—Jr. Walker and the All-Stars: Shotgun | Listen 18:47—Bob Dylan: Maggie's Farm | Buy 19:09—Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 2 | Listen 19:45—Steve Reich: Violin Phase | Listen 21:05—Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 2 | Listen 21:16—Charles Wuorinen: Second Piano Quintet | Listen 22:10—John Adams: Phrygian Gates | Listen 23:31—John Adams: Death of Klinghoffer | Listen 24:08—David Lang: child, II. sweet air | Listen 25:21—David Lang: almost all the time | Listen 28:53—Brian Ferneyhough: La chute d'Icare | Listen 30:58—Brian Ferneyhough: no time (at all) | Listen 32:09—Brian Ferneyhough: Superscriptio | Listen 33:36—J.S. Bach: Invention No. 15 in B minor | Listen 34:26—J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor, "Crucifixus" | Listen 38:49—David Lang: breathless | Listen 

I programmet diskuteras bl.a. Jennifer Higdons opera "Cold Mountain", orkestermusik av Enescu och Rachmaninovs andra pianokonsert med solisten Gabriela Montero. Sofia Nyblom möter Lang Lang. I panelen: Boel Adler, Johanna Paulsson och Måns Tengnér som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor:GRIEG NIELSEN SIBELIUS STENHAMMAR Violinsonater Baiba Skride, violin Lauma Skride, piano Orfeo C 913 161 ARACHMANINOV GABRIELA MONTERO Pianokonsert nr 2 c-moll Ex patria op 1, Improvisation nr 1-3 Gabriela Montero, piano YOA Orchestra of the Americas Carlos Miguel Prieto, dirigent Orchid Classics ORC 100047JENNIFER HIGDON Cold Mountain, opera efter filmen med samma namn. Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard m.fl. Santa Fe-operans orkester, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, dirigent Pentatone PTC 5186 583GEORGE ENESCU Symfoni nr 4, Nuages dAutomne sur les Forêts, Kammarsymfoni Nordtyska radions filharmoni, Hannover Peter Ruzicka, dirigent CPO 777 966-2Sofia möter Lang Lang Sofia Nyblom har träffat den kinesiske världspianisten Lang Lang för ett samtal i samband med att han gästade Stockholms konserthus för en recital i mars tidigare i år. Andra i programmet nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar: Nielsens andra violinsonat med Cecilia Zilliacus och Bengt Forsberg på märket dB Productions. Stenhammars violinsonat med Nils-Erik Sparf och Bengt Forsberg på Musica Sveciae. Enescus kammarsymfoni med Tammerfors stadsorkester ledd av Hannu Lintu på Ondine. Exempel på filmer som blivit opera: Hitchcocks Notorious med musik av Hans Gefors samt Ang Lees Brokeback Mountain tonsatt av Charles Wuorinen. Svepet Johan sveper över 2 CDr: Orkestermusik ur Franz Schrekers operor med Kungliga hovkapellet under ledning av Lawrence Renes utgiven på Bis, ur vilken vi hör förspelet till Gezeichneten samt över ett album med 4 skivor och båda böckerna med Das Wohltemperierte Klavier framförda av Niklas Sivelöv på skivmärke HVB Records. Ur den spelas Preludium nr 1 C-dur ur första boken.   

Composer : Charles Wuorinen Guitar : Alexandre Gérard https://www.charleswuorinen.com

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VIDEO: The Brentano Quartet Plays Schubert and Adolph Franz Schubert's short, hectic life was full of "what ifs" -- unfinished sketches, abandoned works and fragmentary thoughts. Many of these leftovers were quite extraordinary despite their obvious limitations. Among them is the Quartettsatz in C minor, a piece whose first movement Schubert completed in 1820 but whose Andante he abandoned for unknown reasons. Sensing its value, the Brentano String Quartet commissioned the New York composer Bruce Adolph to write a response in his own style, and he responded with Fra(nz)g-mentation, a dense yet witty homage to the original. During a recent visit to New York the Brentano played the two works back to back in the WQXR Cafe. “This Quartettsatz is a piece we’ve played a lot and really love,” explained Mark Steinberg, the Brentano’s first violinist. “We wondered a lot why he didn’t finish the quartet because I think it’s as great as the other late quartets. Then I found out he had started a second movement and I thought it would be so nice to play that in a concert and give this piece the kind of scope that another Schubert quartet might have.” Steinberg and his fellow quartet-mates didn’t want to ask a living composer to simply mimic Schubert, so they asked Adolph to write music in his own style that would "make the piece more complete in a sense." The commission became the backbone of "Fragments," a project celebrating the Brentano’s 20th anniversary season, which runs through 2012. Along with Schubert, the group took abandoned pieces by Bach, Shostakovich, Haydn and Mozart, and commissioned several composers to write individual responses to them. Along with Adolphe, Charles Wuorinen, John Harbison, Stephen Hartke and Vijay Iyer contribute to the project, joining an older work by Sofia Gubaidulina. “We really wanted to create a dialogue between the past and the present and that’s a major theme of the program,” said Steinberg. Several venues contributed to the commissioning project, including Carnegie Hall, where the Brentano will perform the pieces over two concerts, the first taking place on Thursday night. “Fragments” is just the latest in a series of grand conceptual projects that the Brentano have undertaken over the quartet’s 20-year history, including “Bach Perspectives,” a 2003 venture in which they commissioned 10 contemporary composers to write responses to Bach's magisterial Art of Fugue. Steinberg believes that by pairing new and old pieces, the quartet can help provide context for seemingly foreign contemporary sounds. “The variety of styles that’s around right now makes it difficult to get inside the language of one composer if you don’t know them well,” he said. “So having something that’s linked to the past, that provides a way in. The best way to approach music is through other music.” Video: Amy Pearl; Sound: Edward Haber; Text: Brian Wise  

Episode 5: Interview with Charles WUORINEN