With communications and travel offering cultural exchange like never before, today’s composer draws from an enormous palette, giving voice to the amazing era in which we live. You’ll find tonality and melody are most decidedly in style, while originality and diversity reign. From Schwantner and Adams to Neikrug and Beach, we’ll listen to and celebrate their music
Episode One
Torke, Michael: Javelin
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Levi
The Music of Michael Torke
Ecstatic 92293
8:29
Schwantner, Joseph: Sparrows
20th Century Consort/ Kendall; Shelton, soprano
Spring Songs
Innova 606
17:51
Carter, Elliot: Pastoral for Clarinet and Piano
Yeh, clarinet Blackwood, piano
Early Chamber Music of Elliott Carter
Cedille 48
9:21
Kernis, Aaron Jay: Musica Celestis (for String Orchestra)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Wolff
Aaron Jay Kernis: Second Symphony / Musica Celestis
Phoenix 160
12:41
Torke, Michael: Javelin (excerpt)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Levi
The Music of Michael Torke
Ecstatic 92293
3:00
Episode 2
Sessions, Roger: Violin Concerto, I.
Monadnock Festival Orchestra/ Bolle; Ole Bohn, violin
SESSIONS: Violin Concerto / BOLLE: Ritual
Albany 938
10:53
Neikrug, Marc: Violin Concerto No. 1, II.
Hessicher Rundfunk Orchestra/ Marc Neikrug; Zukerman, violin
Violin Concerto
Koch 7671
10:32
Adams, John: Violin Concerto, II. Chaconne
LSO/Nagano; Gidon Kremer, violin
Violin Concerto / Shaker Loops
Nonesuch 79360
11:31
Paulus, Stephen: Violin Concerto, II.
Atlanta Symphony/Shaw; William Preucil, violin
Stephen Paulus: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra and other works
New World 80363
11:14
Bolcom, William: Graceful Ghost
William Bolcom, piano
4:13
Adams, John: Violin Concerto, IV. (excerpts)
London Symphony Orchestra/Nagano; Gidon Kremer, violin
Violin Concerto / Shaker Loops
Nonesuch 79360
1:29
Episode 3
Albert, Stephen: Into Eclipse (excerpts) “The Riddle Song”
20th Century Consort/Kendall; David Gordon, tenor
Flower of The Mountain / Into Eclipse
Nonesuch 79153
7:24
Rouse, Christopher: Symphony No. 2, II. Adagio
Houston Symphony/Eschenbach
Rouse: Symphony No. 2; Flute Concerto; Phaethon
Telarc 80452
12:44
Erb, Donald: Ritual Observances, I. (Lachrymosa)
St. Louis Symphony/ Slatkin
Works by Donald Erb
New World 80415
12:00
Phillips, Mark: T. Rex, I. II.
Marcellus, trb. + electronics
Music for Trombone and Electronics
2:52
Foote, Arthur William: “Morgen-Gesang”
Sarah Johnson, violin; Peter Kairoff, piano
BEACH: Violin Sonata / FOOTE: 3 Pieces / Ballade / Melody (American Romantics)
Albany 150
4:56
Beach, Amy: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 34, II.
Sarah Johnson, violin; Peter Kairoff, piano
BEACH: Violin Sonata / FOOTE: 3 Pieces / Ballade / Melody (American Romantics)
Albany 150
4:26
Beach, Amy: 3 Songs by Browning, Op. 24
“I Send My Heart up to Thee”
“The Year at Spring’s End”
Deborah Voigt, soprano; Brian Zeger, piano
All My Heart: Deborah Voigt Sings American Songs
EMI 57964
3:36
Episode 4
Moravec, Paul: Sonata for Violin and Piano, I.
Maria Bachman, violin; John Klibonoff, piano
Fratres
Catalyst 61824
9:13
Bernstein, Leonard: “Piccola Serenata”, “Greeting”
Deborah Voigt, soprano; Brian Zeger, piano
All My Heart: Deborah Voigt Sings American Songs
EMI 57964
3:30
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe: Symphony No. 3, II.
New York Phil/Ling
Zwilich: Symphony No. 3 (Recorded 1993)
NYP 9904
4:06
Picker, Tobias: Old and Lost Rivers
Houston Symphony/Eschenbach
The Encantadas / Old and Lost Rivers / Romances and Interludes
Virgin 61519
6:34
Tower. Joan: Petroushskates
eighth blackbird
Thirteen Ways
Cedille 67
5:49
Lieberson, Peter: Neruda Songs
“If your eyes were not the color of the moon”,
‘Love, love, the clouds went up the tower of the sky”
“My love, if I die and you don’t”
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Spano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Neruda Songs
Nonesuch 79954
18:01
Lieberson, Peter: Neruda Songs
“My love, if I die and you don’t” (excerpt)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Spano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Neruda Songs
Nonesuch 79954
01:12
Episode 5
Jennings, Carolyn: “The Loons”
Maria Jette, soprano; Bradley Greenwald, baritone
Heartbeats
Innova 500
3:07
Setzer: “Elegy”
Philip Setzer, violin; Nancy Allen, harp
6:37
Williams, John: The Five Sacred Trees (excerpts)
London Symphony Orchestra/ Williams; Judith LeClair, bassoon
The Five Sacred Trees
Sony 62729
14:42
Elfman, Danny: Serenada Schizophrana, V.
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra/Mauceri
Serenada Schizophrana
Sony 89780
6:23
Reich, Steve: Clapping Music (excerpt)
Aimard, clapping
African Rhythms
Teldec 86584
1:04
Glass, Philip: Interlude from Orphée (Act II Scene 5)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra/Davies
Symphony No. 2
Nonesuch 79496
2:31
Franklin, Cary John: Cauldrons
Kansas City Symphony/McGlaughln
American Voices
6:47
McGlaughlin, Bill: Exploring Music Theme
Ensemble/McGlaughlin
Private recording
2:04
Williams, John: The Five Sacred Trees (excerpt)
London Symphony Orchestra/ Williams; Judith LeClair, bassoon
The Five Sacred Trees
Sony 62729
2:08