A festival of circumscribed pitch sets.

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

1. Andrey Eshpay: Hungarian Tunes: A Rhapsody for Violin & Piano (1952-53)
9:16

2. Andrey Eshpay: Evening Shadows (1994)
8:25

Tracks 1-2
L. Dmiterko - violin, Andrey Eshpay - piano
Moscow Musical Publishers-Harmony, n.n.

3. Traditional: Russian Northern Wedding (rec. 1989)
Valentina Alimova - director, Leshukonsky Folk Choir
Melodiya, SUCD 11-00325
72'
(Incredible hard-edged singing. You should look up what Huxley says about the build-up of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream as an aid to visionary experience.)

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

4. Igor Stravinsky: Les noces (1923)
Robert Craft - conductor, Alison Wells - soprano, Susan Bickley - mezzo-soprano, Martyn Hill - tenor, Alan Ewing - basso-profundo, Simon Joly Chorale, International Piano Quartet, Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble
Naxos, 8.557499
24:10

5. Bernard Herrmann: Sisters (1973)
Bernard Herrmann - conductor
Sisters: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Southern Cross, SCCD 903
42:37
(Brian De Palma's movie about family togetherness. Bernard Herrmann's athematic score.)

6. Bernard Herrmann: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky (1953-54)
Arranged by Antoine Bustros
Ensemble Ulysse: Antoine Bustros - conductor, Matthieu Bélanger - clarinet, Bernard Daigle - tenor sax, Serge Arsenault - trombone, Véronique Poulin - cello, Bernard Leblanc - double bass
Crime Music: Bernard Herrmann Revisited
XXI-21 Productions, XXI-CD 2 1644
4:07