26 August 2009

Healing songs.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Native American Church: Peyote Healing Songs (rec. 2001)
Eric Daniels - singer, Linus Woods - water drum
Sunshine Records, SSCD 4406
43'

2. Paula Robison: Chippewa Grace, Improvisation on Chippewa (Ojibway) Melodies & "Amazing Grace"*
6:22

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am


3. Toru Takemitsu: Air (1995)
9:10

4. Peter Schickele: Morning Song (1961)
3:23

5. Hungarian Folksong - The Forest
Arranged by Paula Robison
1:20

6. Hungarian Folksong - The Leaves
Arranged by Paula Robison
1:18

7. Hungarian Folksong - The Roses
Arranged by Paula Robison
1:59

8. Interlude*
0:51

9. Leon Kirchner: Flutings* (1972)
4:20

10. Antonio Vivaldi: Allegro from Le printemps (1723)
Arranged for solo flute by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4:12

11. Meira Warshauer: Bati l'Gani (I Have Come into My Garden)* (2003)
7:02

12. Traditional: There Is a Balm in Gilead
Arranged by Paula Robison
1:45

13. Traditional: Deep River
Arranged by Paula Robison
3:10

14. William Moore: Brethren We Have Met to Worship (1825)
Text by George Atkins (1819)
Arranged by Paula Robison
1:39

15. Claude Debussy: Syrinx (1913)
3:29

16. Paula Robison: A Transcendentalist's Evening Walk*
2:50

17. God Be in My Head, Hymn from "Sarum Primer" (1558)
Arranged by Paula Robison
2:44

Tracks 2-17
Places of the Spirit: Music & Images Inspired by the Berkshires
Paula Robison - flute, *Cyro Baptista - percussion
Pucker Gallery, PG1234

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

18. Sid Robinovitch: Soundchants (1994)
Vic Pankratz - conductor, Mel Braun - percussion, The Winnipeg Singers
Prairie Voices
The Winnipeg Singers, PBM 304
11'

19. James Horner: Thunderheart (1992)
Thunderheart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Intrada, MAF 7027D
43'
(Horner? Horner. Horner! They'll rescind my license if they find out. An interesting but imperfect fusion of acoustic and electronic music. A tad on the echoey side for my tastes. It's like salting the chow mein with mucho MSG.)

19 August 2009

Mix it up with a depraved bunch.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:30am

1. Dmitri Shostakovich: New Babylon (1928-29)
James Judd - conductor, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Capriccio, 10 341/42
84'

Set #2 - 9:30am - 11:00am

2. Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu (1966)
Michael Gielen - conductor, Rundfunks-Sinfonie-Orchester Köln
Zeitgenössische Music in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 3
Harmonia mundi, DMR 1007-09
Downloaded from here
16:43

3. Nino Rota: La dolce vita (1959)
Carlo Savina - conductor
La Dolce Vita: Original Soundtrack of the Movie
CAM's Soundtrack Encyclopedia, CSE 009
41:45

4. John Barry: Selections from The Chase (1966)
John Barry - conductor
Columbia/Legacy, CK 89265
20'

12 August 2009

Benjamin Britten makes a cosmic phonecall. Some quasi-orient- and -occident- -alism.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 10:00am

1. André Jolivet: Cinq incantations (1936)
Lise Daoust - flute
Libre parcours: Musique pour flûte seule
Les Productions Riche Lieu, RIC 2 9959
19:00

2. Toru Takemitsu: And Then I Knew 'Twas Wind (1992)
Toronto New Music Ensemble: Robert Aitken - flute, Steven Dann - viola, Erica Goodman - harp
Takemitsu: Chamber Music
Naxos, 8.555859
12:52

3. Benjamin Britten: Curlew River: A Parable for Church Performance (1964)
Libretto by William Plomer
Benjamin Britten - conductor, English Opera Group et al.
London, 421 858-2
69:15

Set #2 - 10:00am - 11:00am

4. Laurence Rosenthal: Rashomon (1959)
Unknown musicians
Rashomon: Music from the Broadway Play
Kritzerland, KR 20012-1
30'

5. Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp (1915)
Roger Bourdin - flute, Colette Lequien - viola, Annie Challan - harp
Debussy: 3 Sonatas - Syrinx
Philips, 422 839-2
18'

6. Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree (1981)
Toronto New Music Ensemble: Bob Becker, Russell Hartenberger & Ryan Scott - percussion
Takemitsu: Chamber Music
Naxos, 8.555859
12:32

05 August 2009

Spend your morning with the Dons.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Music from Don Giovanni (1787)
Arranged for 8 wind instruments by Johann Georg Triebensee
Members of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Complete Mozart Edition Vol.45: Rarities & Surprises
Philips, 422 545-2
39'

2. Nino Rota: The Godfather (1972-74)
Riccardo Muti - conductor, Filarmonica della Scala
Nino Rota Film Music
Sony, SK 63359
20'

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am

3. Don Ho & Pilahi Paki: Lover's Prayer (rec. 1967)
Myrtle K. Hilo - vocal
Incredibly Strange Music Vol. II
Asphodel, 0951
2:37

4. Elodie Lauten: The Death of Don Juan: An Opera in Two Acts (1985)
Randi Larowitz - soprano, Elodie Lauten - Fairlight CMI, harpsichord, trine [electroacoustic lyre], alto & contralto, Bill Raynor - electric guitar, Arthur Russell - cello and tenor, Steven Sauber - bass & speaker, Peter Zummo - trombone
Unseen Worlds, UW04
52'

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

5. James Williams: Alter Ego (rec. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 22 & 24 Sep. 1987)
Donald Byrd Sextet: Donald Byrd - flugelhorn, Kenny Garret - alto sax, Mulgrew Miller - piano, Mike Daugherty - synthesizer, Rufus Reid - bass, Marvin "Smitty" Smith - drums
Jazz for a Lazy Day
32 Jazz, 32130
7:36

6. Richard Strauss: Don Quixote (1897)
Fritz Reiner - conductor, Antonio Janigro - cello, John Preves - viola, John Weicher - violin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
RCA, 5734-2-RC
43'