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Matthew Sheeran is a UK-based composer, violinist and arranger. His new album, arranging music by the American microtonal composer Easley Blackwood, has just been released and can be found at the link below. This interview was filmed on December 18, 2023.SUPPORT THIS PODCASTPatreonDonorboxSAMUEL ANDREYEV'S NEW ALBUMhttps://divineartrecords.com/recording/samuel-andreyev-in-glow-of-like-seclusion/LINKSYouTube channelOfficial WebsiteTwitterInstagramEdition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev's scoresEPISODE CREDITSPost production: Arkadiusz BuchalaPodcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe StirnweissSupport the show

Today's episode celebrates the culmination of a years-long project with Matthew Sheeran, widely celebrated composer, orchestrator, and arranger. The album we've been working on is called “Acoustic Microtonal,” and it is a recording of Easley Blackwood's Twelve Microtonal Etudes using acoustic instruments, playing monophonic lines in isolation and then being re-tuned using Melodyne. Matthew commissioned the Budapest Scoring Orchestra to achieve this huge compositional feat. Check out our episode here for the largest dive into the notes and chords behind the music, and be sure to check out the full album in all its glory!   The album: https://cedillerecords.lnk.to/3019   Episode music: Intro: Blackwood – 23 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 16 notes (Stephen Weigel version) Blackwood – 16 notes (Hesangasang score) Blackwood – 16 notes (original) Blackwood – 16 notes (Stephen Weigel version) Blackwood – 17 notes (12-TET scordatura) Blackwood – 16 notes (Stephen Weigel version) Vicentino – Madonna il poco dolce (Jonathan Wilde version) Blackwood – 13 notes (original) Blackwood – 13 notes (12-TET version with diminished 3rd) Blackwood – 14 notes (original) Poulenc – Sextet for piano and winds Blackwood – 14 notes (original) Blackwood – 14 notes (12-TET version) Blackwood – 14 notes (original) Blackwood – 14 notes (Stephen Malinowski video clip) Blackwood – 14 notes (12-TET version) Blackwood – 15 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – Suite for 15 tone guitar Stephen Weigel – open guitar chords in 15 video clip Blackwood – 15 notes (Stephen Weigel version) Stephen Weigel – What if we played EB's 15 note etude in 12 video clip Blackwood – 16 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 16 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 17 notes (original) Blackwood – 18 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 18 notes (isolated flute in Matthew Sheeran version) Stravinsky – The Firebird Suite (Dance of King Kaschei) Blackwood – 18 notes (original) Blackwood – 19 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 19 notes (original) Blackwood – 20 notes (original) Henri Duparc – La vie antérieure Blackwood – 20 notes (original) Blackwood – 21 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 21 notes (12-TET version with Hendrix chord) Blackwood – 21 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 22 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 23 notes (original) Blackwood – 23 notes (Matthew Sheeran Kontakt arrangement – different orchestration) Blackwood – 23 notes (isolated harp in Matthew Sheeran version) Blackwood – 14 notes (12-TET version) Blackwood – 14 notes (Matthew Sheeran version – comparing 12 and 14) Blackwood – 23 notes (12-TET version) Blackwood – 23 notes (Matthew Sheeran version – comparing 12 and 23) Blackwood – 19 notes (Matthew Sheeran version cello ending) Blackwood – 24 notes (original) Blackwood – 24 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Stephen Weigel – 11 notes (original) Stephen Weigel  – 11 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Stephen Weigel – 7 notes (Matthew Sheeran Kontakt arrangement) Blackwood – 15 notes (Stephen Weigel version) Stephen Weigel – keyboard fingering for 11-TET Stephen Weigel  – 11 notes (Matthew Sheeran version) Stephen Weigel – 7 notes (original) Stephen Weigel – 7 notes (Matthew Sheeran Kontakt arrangement) Blackwood – 18 notes (original) Stephen Weigel – Zones of Lasting Novelty (9-TET) Ben Johnston – String quartet  No. 7 (guide tracks only) Blackwood – Gulliver's Travels (23-TET) Matthew Sheeran – Lyres of Ur (7-TET) Outro: Blackwood – 17 notes (Matthew Sheeran version)   Matthew's stuff: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7401095/ https://www.youtube.com/@matthewsheeran1989/videos https://soundcloud.com/user698273169 https://smatalent.com/matt-sheeran/   Microtonal Etudes and Macrotonal Etudes: https://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/easley-blackwood-microtonal/ https://stephenweigel.bandcamp.com/album/six-macrotonal-etudes-for-electronic-music-media   Support us on Patreon! (If we get 60 patrons, episodes will be released regularly instead of sporadically) https://www.patreon.com/nowandxen Follow http://nowandxen.libsyn.com https://twitter.com/now_xen https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/   Subscribe RSS: http://nowandxen.libsyn.com/rss iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n… Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mhnGsH… Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nowxen Twitter: https://twitter.com/now_xen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmYNMpemAIq8DnK5HJ9gsA

Synopsis OK – say you were paid to listen to and promote hundreds of new classical recordings every month and travel the world to broker new deals for a major record company. The question is, “What would you do in your spare time?” Well, if you’re a composer, the answer is easy: write your OWN music, of course. Sean Hickey’s “day job” is being the Senior Vice-President for Sales and Business Development at Naxos of America, but who also finds time to create his own chamber and orchestral works. On today’s date in 2007, for example, his Clarinet Concerto received its premiere performance at Symphony Space in New York City, with David Gould as soloist with the Metro Chamber Orchestra. It’s gone on to be his most-performed orchestra work, and, in keeping with Hickey’s globe-trotting, has been recorded in the Russian Federation by another virtuoso clarinetist, Alexander Fiterstein with the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony. The work also incorporates fragments of folk tunes from Scotland as part of the creative mix. Why Scottish themes? “They have a timeless quality of most great folk music, “says Hickey. “In the concerto’s cadenza, a fiddle tune leads headlong into a rapturous close.” Music Played in Today's Program Sean Hickey — Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (Alexander Fiterstein, cl; St. Petersburg Academic Symphony; Vladimir Lande, cond.)Delos 3448 On This Day Births 1899 - American composer and teacher Randall Thompson, in New York; 1933 - American composer and pianist Easley Blackwood, in Indianapolis; Premieres 1845 - Lortzing: opera "Undine," in Magdeburg at the Stadttheater; 1889 - Puccini: opera "Edgar," in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala; 1917 - Debussy: Sonata No. 2 for flute,viola, and harp, at a concert of the Société Musicale Indépendante in Paris, by the trio of Manouvirier (flute), Jarecki (viola), and Jamet (harp); 1918 - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 ("Classical"), in Petrograd, by the former Court Orchestra with the composer conducting; 1922 - Frederick Converse: Symphony No. 2, by the Boston Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; 1924 - Youmans: musical "No, No Nanette," in Detroit; After stops in Chicago and London, the musical opened on Broadway on Sept. 16, 1925; 1937 - Copland: a play-opera for high school "The Second Hurricane," at the Grand Street Playhouse in New York City, with soloists from the Professional Children's School, members of the Henry Street Settlement adult chorus, and the Seward High School student chorus, with Lehman Engle conducting and Orson Welles directing the staged production; One professional adult actor, Joseph Cotton, also participated (He was paid $10); 1939 - Leonard Bernstein's first appearance as a conductor, leading his own incidental score to "The Birds" at Harvard; 1942 - Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata, in Boston, with clarinetist David Glazer and the composer at the piano; 1948 - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6, at Royal Albert Hall in London, by the BBC Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; 1973 - Bliss: "Variations" for orchestra, in London, with Leopold Stokowski conducting; 1985 - Morton Feldman: "For Philip Guston," for chamber ensemble, in New York; 1988 - Bernstein: "Missa brevis," in Atlanta by the Atlanta Symphony Chorus conducted by Robert Shaw; Others 1749 - Against Handel's wishes, in advance of its official premiere scheduled for April 27, a public rehearsal of Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" at Vauxhall Gardens takes place; Reports suggest 12,000 attended, causing traffic jams on London Bridge (Gregorian date: May 2); 1829 - Mendelssohn, age 20, arrives in London for his first visit. 1863 - American premiere of J.S. Bach's Concerto for Two Claviers and Orchestra No.2 in C Major, at Dodworth's Hall in New York during a Mason-Thomas chamber music "Soiree,"with Henry C. Timm and William Mason performing on two pianos. Links and Resources On Theodore Thomas Concert-going then and now

Synopsis OK – say you were paid to listen to and promote hundreds of new classical recordings every month and travel the world to broker new deals for a major record company. The question is, “What would you do in your spare time?” Well, if you’re a composer, the answer is easy: write your OWN music, of course. Sean Hickey’s “day job” is being the Senior Vice-President for Sales and Business Development at Naxos of America, but who also finds time to create his own chamber and orchestral works. On today’s date in 2007, for example, his Clarinet Concerto received its premiere performance at Symphony Space in New York City, with David Gould as soloist with the Metro Chamber Orchestra. It’s gone on to be his most-performed orchestra work, and, in keeping with Hickey’s globe-trotting, has been recorded in the Russian Federation by another virtuoso clarinetist, Alexander Fiterstein with the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony. The work also incorporates fragments of folk tunes from Scotland as part of the creative mix. Why Scottish themes? “They have a timeless quality of most great folk music, “says Hickey. “In the concerto’s cadenza, a fiddle tune leads headlong into a rapturous close.” Music Played in Today's Program Sean Hickey — Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (Alexander Fiterstein, cl; St. Petersburg Academic Symphony; Vladimir Lande, cond.)Delos 3448 On This Day Births 1899 - American composer and teacher Randall Thompson, in New York; 1933 - American composer and pianist Easley Blackwood, in Indianapolis; Premieres 1845 - Lortzing: opera "Undine," in Magdeburg at the Stadttheater; 1889 - Puccini: opera "Edgar," in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala; 1917 - Debussy: Sonata No. 2 for flute,viola, and harp, at a concert of the Société Musicale Indépendante in Paris, by the trio of Manouvirier (flute), Jarecki (viola), and Jamet (harp); 1918 - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 ("Classical"), in Petrograd, by the former Court Orchestra with the composer conducting; 1922 - Frederick Converse: Symphony No. 2, by the Boston Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; 1924 - Youmans: musical "No, No Nanette," in Detroit; After stops in Chicago and London, the musical opened on Broadway on Sept. 16, 1925; 1937 - Copland: a play-opera for high school "The Second Hurricane," at the Grand Street Playhouse in New York City, with soloists from the Professional Children's School, members of the Henry Street Settlement adult chorus, and the Seward High School student chorus, with Lehman Engle conducting and Orson Welles directing the staged production; One professional adult actor, Joseph Cotton, also participated (He was paid $10); 1939 - Leonard Bernstein's first appearance as a conductor, leading his own incidental score to "The Birds" at Harvard; 1942 - Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata, in Boston, with clarinetist David Glazer and the composer at the piano; 1948 - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6, at Royal Albert Hall in London, by the BBC Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; 1973 - Bliss: "Variations" for orchestra, in London, with Leopold Stokowski conducting; 1985 - Morton Feldman: "For Philip Guston," for chamber ensemble, in New York; 1988 - Bernstein: "Missa brevis," in Atlanta by the Atlanta Symphony Chorus conducted by Robert Shaw; Others 1749 - Against Handel's wishes, in advance of its official premiere scheduled for April 27, a public rehearsal of Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" at Vauxhall Gardens takes place; Reports suggest 12,000 attended, causing traffic jams on London Bridge (Gregorian date: May 2); 1829 - Mendelssohn, age 20, arrives in London for his first visit. 1863 - American premiere of J.S. Bach's Concerto for Two Claviers and Orchestra No.2 in C Major, at Dodworth's Hall in New York during a Mason-Thomas chamber music "Soiree,"with Henry C. Timm and William Mason performing on two pianos. Links and Resources More on Sean Hickey at Vox Novus

Which piece of music is favored most by Easley Blackwood’s cat? And which one of his etudes caused people at the O’Hare airport to call him “crazy” when played over the speakers? Find out in this landmark episode! Here, we discuss both the Twelve and Six Etudes, analysis of them, various equal tunings, and chord structures in equal tunings.   Music Intro: Easley Blackwood - Fanfare in 19edo Outro: Easley Blackwood - Suite for Guitar in 15edo (I)Easley Blackwood - Twelve Microtonal Etudes (16, 21, 23, 13, 17, 24, 14, 20, 19 are played)Alexander Scriabin - Sonata in F# minorFitzwilliam Virginal Book (Farmers Pavan CCLXXXVII, meantone)Nicola Vicentino - Madonna il poco dolce (31edo) Stephen Weigel - Six Macrotonal Etudes (10, 7 are played) Microtonal Compositions liner notes: http://www.cedillerecords.org/album-artwork/018-blackwood-microtonal-booklet.pdf Microtonal Compositions: https://open.spotify.com/album/4NtUMHRVqNcnvB5stDwjnn?si=vfWw_Ue2Tsy3bZrRUL-1eA Analysis of Twelve Microtonal/Six Macrotonal Etudes: https://www.stephenweigelcomposerperformer.com/xenharmonic-analysis   Follow http://nowandxen.libsyn.com https://twitter.com/now_xen https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/   Subscribe RSS: http://nowandxen.libsyn.com/rss iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n… Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mhnGsH… Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nowxen Twitter: https://twitter.com/now_xen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmYNMpemAIq8DnK5HJ9gsA

Episode 50: Creating Aural Images-A Conversation with Kurt Gorman Kurt Gorman, D.M.A., Professor of Music, joined music faculty at the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2004. He directs the UTM Big Band and Small Jazz Group and teaches applied trumpet. Prior to his appointment, Gorman served as the Principal Trumpet of Orquesta Sinaloa de las Artes, in Culiacan, Mexico. Dr. Gorman holds the position of Principal Trumpet of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the UTM Faculty Brass Quintet. He is an active member of the International Trumpet Guild and appeared as a soloist at ITG Conferences in 2009 and 2012. Dr. Gorman commissioned and premiered the Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 45 by the renowned composer Easley Blackwood, as well as the Sonata for Trumpet by hornist, composer and long-time friend, Wayne Lu. Dr. Gorman’s primary scholarly interest is chamber music. He was awarded a Reagan Leave for spring 2015 to continue research on his doctoral dissertation entitled, “The Trumpet in Mixed Chamber Music of the Twentieth Century.” Dr. Gorman is Vice President and editor of Veritas Musica Publishing.   Dr. Gorman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Chicago and graduate degrees in performance from the University of North Texas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has studied privately with Keith Johnson, Keith Benjamin, Jeff Curnow, John Holt, and Guy Victor Bordo.

This week's program features works by Chicago composer Easley Blackwood (b. 1933), with the composer at the keyboard for most of them.

Our week-of-Valentine's Day show contains some of the most romantic selections from the Cedille catalog (full playlist below) ALFRED BACHELET (1864–1944) Chere Nuit (4:13) GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845–1924) Chanson d’Amour, Op. 27, No. 1 (2:04) GABRIEL PIERNÉ (1863–1937) Serenade, Op. 7 (2:21) From Songs of the Romantic Age Cedille Records CDR 90000 019 (Tracks 4–6) Patrice Michaels, soprano Deborah Sobol, piano ERIK SATIE (1866–1925) / EASLEY BLACKWOOD (b. 1933) Je te veux (5:00) From La vie est une parade Cedille Records CDR 90000 070 (Track 2) Patrice Michaels, soprano The Chicago Chamber Musicians FRIEDRICH HOLLANDER (1896–1976) Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt [From Head to Toe I Am Prepared for Love] (3:50) From Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano Cedille Records CDR 90000 065 (Disc 1 Track 11) Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano New Budapest Orpheum Society MANUEL M. PONCE (1882–1948) Canciones Mexicanas "Estrellita...." (2:36) From Mexican Piano Music by Manuel M. Ponce Cedille Records CDR 90000 086 (Track 1) Jorge Federico Osorio, piano FELIPE VILLANUEVA (1862–1893) Amor: Vals de Salón (3:12) From Salón Mexicano Cedille Records CDR 90000 132 (Track 12) Jorge Federico Osorio, piano MATTHEW HARRIS (b. 1956) From Shakespeare Songs It Was a Lover and his Lass (3:09) JOHN RUTTER (b. 1945) It Was a Lover and his Lass (2:28) From Shall I Compare Thee? Cedille Records CDR 90000 085 (Tracks 7 & 11) Chicago a cappella SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891–1953) Adagio from Ten Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 97b (3:51) From Russian Music for Cello & Piano Cedille Records CDR 90000 120 (Track 6) Wendy Warner, cello Irina Nuzova, piano AMY BEACH (1867–1944) Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 (1893) (7:31) From American Virtuosa: Tribute to Maud Powell Cedille Records CDR 90000 097 (Track 1) Rachel Barton Pine, violin Matthew Hagle, piano LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918–1990) / RANDALL CRAIG FLEISCHER (b. 1958) West Side Story Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra Maria (2:32) Tonight (3:17) From Delights & Dances Cedille Records CDR 90000 141 (Track 8–9) Harlem Quartet Chicago Sinfonietta Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

This week’s program celebrates Halloween with 8 spooky selections, including 3 from Rachel Barton Pine’s classic Instrument of the Devil album.   Playlist for October 30, 2013 Halloween CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS (1835–1921) Danse Macabre, Op. 40 (7:07) From Instrument of the Devil Cedille Records CDR 90000 041 (Track 1) Rachel Barton Pine, violin Patrick Sinozich, piano CESAR FRANCK (1822–1890) Pièce Héroïque (7:00) From Organ Masterpieces by Franck & Dupré Cedille Records CDR 90000 015 (Track 4) David Schrader, organ EASLEY BLACKWOOD (b. 1933) Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media, Op. 28 15 notes. Lento (3:35) From Easley Blackwood: Microtonal Cedille Records CDR 90000 018 (Track 7) Easley Blackwood, polyfusion synthesizer JAAKKO MANTYJARVI (b. 1963) Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (2:57) from Four Shakespeare Songs From Shall I Compare Thee? — Choral Songs on Shakespeare Texts Cedille Records CDR 90000 085 (Track 5) Chicago a cappella ROBERT APPLEBAUM (b. 1941) Witches’ Blues (4:53) From Shall I Compare Thee? — Choral Songs on Shakespeare Texts Cedille Records CDR 90000 085 (Track 22) Chicago a cappella HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803–1869) / tr. PINE-SINOZICH Dream of a Witches Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (10:51) From Instrument of the Devil Cedille Records CDR 90000 041 (Track 7) Rachel Barton Pine, violin Patrick Sinozich, piano FRANZ LISZT (1811–1886) Mephisto Waltz for Two Pianos (11:18) From Liszt for Two Cedille Records CDR 90000 052 (Track 7) Georgia & Louise Mangos, duo-pianists MANUEL DE FALLA (1876–1946) / tr. KOCHANSKI Dance of Terror from El Amor Brujo (2:11) From Instrument of the Devil Cedille Records CDR 90000 041 (Track 8) Rachel Barton Pine, violin Patrick Sinozich, piano

Cedille Chicago Presents Chicago composers, featuring music by Easley Blackwood, John LaMontaine, and Lita Grier.     Playlist for August 14, 2013 Chicago Composers Present, Part 1 EASLEY BLACKWOOD (b. 1933) Cello Sonata, Op. 31 IV. Finale. Allegro (8:44) From Blackwood & Bridge: Cello Sonatas Cedille Records CDR 90000 008 (Track 6) Kim Scholes, cello Easley Blackwood, piano EASLEY BLACKWOOD Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media, Op. 28 14 notes. Allegramente (2:42) From Easley Blackwood: Microtonal Cedille Records CDR 90000 018 (Track 11) Easley Blackwood, polyfusion synthesizer EASLEY BLACKWOOD Symphony No. 1, Op. 3 III. Allegretto grotesco (5:22) From Easley Blackwood: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 Cedille Records CDR 90000 016 (Track 6) Boston Symphony Orchestra Charles Munch, conductor JOHN LA MONTAINE (1920–2013) Piano Sonata, Op. 3 (1942) I. Vigorous and turbulent (4:30) From Music in the American Grain Cedille Records CDR 90000 010 (Track 1) Ramon Salvatore, piano JOHN LA MONTAINE Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 59 (1989) II. Gently flowing, soaringly lyrical (5:19) From Chicago Concertos: Piano Concertos by Rudolph Ganz and John La Montaine Cedille Records CDR 90000 028 (Track 6) Ramon Salvatore, piano Slovak Radio Symphony Paul Freeman, conductor JOHN LA MONTAINE Sonata for Piccolo and Piano Op. 61 (1993) IV. Playful (4:35) From Chicago Duos for Flute Cedille Records CDR 90000 071 (Track 9) Mary Stolper, flute Melody Lord, piano LITA GRIER (b. 1937) 3x2 for Flute and Clarinet (1953) (5:08) I. Presto II. Adagio espressivo III. Vivace — fast as possible From Chicago Duos for Flute Cedille Records CDR 90000 071 (Track 1) Mary Stolper, flute Eric Mandat, clarinet LITA GRIER Renascence (Concertino for Flute and Orchestra) (1996) II. Andante (3:42) From American Flute Concertos Cedille Records CDR 90000 046 (Track 2) Mary Stolper, flute Czech National Symphony Orchestra Paul Freeman, conductor LITA GRIER Songs from Spoon River (2004–2008) Sarah Brown (2:28) Lucinda Matlock (2:52) From Songs from Spoon River, Reflections of a Peacemaker, and Other Vocal Works by Lita Grier Cedille Records CDR 90000 112 (Tracks 15 and 17) Michelle Areyzaga, soprano Elizabeth Norman, soprano Welz Kauffman, piano

This program features works inspired by verses of Carl Sandburg, François Villon, Wallace Stevens, Nikolaus Lenau, and Billy Collins. Playlist LEO SOWERBY (1895–1968) Prairie – Poem for Orchestra after Carl Sandburg (16:41) From Prairie: Tone Poems by Leo Sowerby Cedille Records CDR 90000 033 (Track 2) Czech National Symphony Orchestra Paul Freeman, conductor COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON (1932–2004) Grass: Poem for Piano, Strings & Percussion (1956) (16:08) From Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: A Celebration Cedille Records CDR 90000 087 (Track 4) Joseph Joubert, piano Chicago Sinfonietta Paul Freeman, conductor JEHAN ALAIN (1911–1940) Dans le rêve laissé par la ballade des pendus de Villon (6:34) From Radical Piano Cedille Records CDR 90000 027 (Track 14) Easley Blackwood, piano THOMAS ALBERT (b. 1948) Thirteen Ways (1997) III. Nimble, capricious (2:28) From thirteen ways Cedille Records CDR 90000 067 (Track 14) eighth blackbird AUGUST KLUGHARDT (1847–1902) Schilflieder (Songs of the Reeds), Op. 28 (1872) Feurig (2:47) From Poetic Inspirations Cedille Records CDR 90000 102 (Track 4) Alex Klein, oboe Richard Young, viola Ricardo Castro, piano VIVIAN FUNG (b. 1975) The Man in the Moon (3:25) From The Billy Collins Suite Cedille Records CDR 90000 115 (Track 7) John Bruce Yeh, clarinet David Cunliffe, cello Marta Aznavoorian, piano Steve Robinson, narrator

Continuing with WFMT’s monthly theme of Russia, this week’s show comprises all 4 Prokofiev works recorded on Cedille plus “encores” by his colleagues Mieczslaw Weinberg and Aram Khachaturian. Performances are by pianist Easley Blackwood, cellist Wendy Warner and pianist Irina Nuzova, soprano Patrice Michaels and pianist Deborah Sobol, the Pacifica Quartet, and pianist Dmitry Paperno. Playlist for June 19, 2013 Prokofiev on Cedille SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891–1953) Sarcasms, Op. 17 (1914) (10:45) I. Tempestoso II. Allegro rubato III. Allegro precipitato IV. Smanioso V. Precipitosissimo From Radical Piano Cedille Records CDR 90000 027 (Tracks 1–5) Easley Blackwood, piano SERGEI PROKOFIEV Adagio from Ten Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 97b (3:51) From Russian Music for Cello & Piano Cedille Records CDR 90000 120 (Track 6) Wendy Warner, cello Irina Nuzova, piano SERGEI PROKOFIEV The bush on the hill, Op. 104, No. 3 From Songs of the Romantic Age Cedille Records CDR 90000 019 (Track 18) Patrice Michaels, soprano Deborah Sobol, piano SERGEI PROKOFIEV String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92 (22:09) I. Allegro sostenuto II. Adagio III. Allegro—Andante molto—Allegro I From The Soviet Experience: Volume II Cedille Records CDR 90000 130 (Disc 2 tracks 6–8) Pacifica Quartet MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG (1919–1996) String Quartet No. 6 in E minor, op. 35 II. Presto agitato (2:30) From The Soviet Experience: Volume III Cedille Records CDR 90000 138 (Disc 2 track 4) Pacifica Quartet ARAM KHACHATURIAN (1903–1978) Toccata (4:20) From Dmitry Paperno: Uncommon Encores Cedille Records CDR 90000 007 (Track 14) Dmitry Paperno, piano