25 November 2009

All that glisters is not gould. There's three hours of pleasant, if workmanly, 19th century Russian music on this week's show.

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

1. Mikhail Glinka: Variations on an Original Theme in F major (ca. 1822-24)
9:15

2. Mikhail Glinka: Variations on the Romance Benedetta sia la madre (1825)
13:52

Tracks 1-2
Victor Ryabchikov - piano
Glinka: Complete Piano Music Vol.2
BIS, BIS-CD-980

3. Mikhail Glinka: Potpourri from A Life for the Tsar (1834-36)
Arranged by Vladimir Morkov (ca. 1856-58)
11:02

4. Mikhail Glinka: Trot de cavalerie (1838-39)
Arranged by Oleg Timofeyev
2:42

Tracks 3-4
The Czar's Guitars: John Schneiderman & Oleg Timofeyev - Russian seven-string guitars
Music of Mikhail Glinka in 19th Century Transcriptions for Two Guitars
Profil Edition Günter Hänssler, PH07008

5. Mikhail Glinka: Four Musical Essays (A Greeting to My Native Land) (1847)
Victor Ryabchikov - piano
Glinka: Complete Piano Music Vol.1
BIS, BIS-CD-979
27:27

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

6. Mikhail Glinka: Waltz Fantasy (1839, orch. 1856)
Rouslan Raychev - conductor, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
LaserLight, 15 635
8:20

7. Alexander Glazunov: Rêverie (1890)
3:58

8. Alexander Glazunov: Serenade (1884)
3:52

9. Alexander Glazunov: Idyll (1884)
7:30

Tracks 7-9
Werner Andreas Albert - conductor, Marie Luise Neunecker - horn, Bamberger Symphoniker
Russische Hornkonzerte
Koch Schwann, 3-1357-2 H1

10. Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto (1904)
Chosei Komatsu - conductor, Martin Beaver - violin, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Russian Serenade
CBC Records, SMCD 5209
19:30

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

11. Mikhail Glinka: Kamarinskaya (1848)
Kazuhiro Koizumi - conductor, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
CBC Records, SMCD 5089
6:33
(Don't confuse your Kamarinskaya with your Kalinka.)

12. Reinhold Glière: Four Pieces for Horn & Piano (1908)
Marie Luise Neunecker - horn, Paul Rivinius - piano
13'

13. Reinhold Glière: Concerto for Horn & Orchestra (1950)
Werner Andreas Albert - conductor, Marie Luise Neunecker - horn, Bamberger Symphoniker
25'

Tracks 12-13
Russische Hornkonzerte
Koch Schwann, 3-1357-2 H1

18 November 2009

Silver apples on the moon but no Subotnick?! Three hours of late 1960s oscillations, for you, with me, this Wednesday.

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

1. George Harrison: Under the Mersey Wall (1969)
18:40

2. George Harrison: No Time or Space (1968)
25:05

Tracks 1-2
George Harrison - Moog synthesizer (with a little help from his friends)
George Harrison: Electronic Sound
EMI, 7243 8 55239 2 2

3. R. D. Burman & Anand Bakshi: "Dum Maro Dum" from Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971)
Asha Bhosle & Chorus
R. D. Burman: A Bollywood Legend
Times Square Records, TSQCD9064
2:35

4. Starship Beer: You Fly in My Brain Like an Airplane (1979)
Starship Beer: Wes Mingin - electric guitar, Pat O'Brien - voice, Kevin Whitehead - electric bass
Starship Beer: Nut Music as Free as the Squirrels
Unheard Music Series, ALP220CD
3:06

5. Lucia Pamela & K. & S. Irwin: Walking on the Moon (1969)
Lucia Pamela - vocals
Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela
ARF! ARF!, AA-037
3:07

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

6. Silver Apples (1968)
31:43
(Yes, the whole album. You get to do that on college radio.)

7. Contact (1969)
39:46
(Whole album again.)

Tracks 6-7
Silver Apples: Danny Taylor - percussion & vocals, Simeon - the simeon ["nine audio oscillators and eighty-six manual controls"], banjo & vocals
TRC Records, 039

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

8. Timothy Leary: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1967)
Timothy Leary - narrator, Maryvonne Giercarz - veena, Lars Eric - guitar, Richard Bond - tabla
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Performance Records, PERF 389CD
36:09

9. Barry Truax: Solar Ellipse (1984-85)
Barry Truax: Digital Soundscapes
Cambridge Street Records, CSR-CD 8701
11:14

11 November 2009

100% award-winning Manitoba music on this week's show.

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

1. S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté: Piano Sonata No.1 (1923)
13'

2. S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté: Piano Sonata No.2 "Die Biscaya Sonate" (1923)
23'

Tracks 1-2
Marc-André Hamelin - piano
Altarus Records, AIR CD 9052

3. S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté: Solo Violin Concerto (1925, rec. Berlin June-Oct. 1934)
S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté - violin
Odeon, O-6973-76
31'

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

4. Robert Turner: Manitoba Memoir (1989)
Simon Streatfeild - conductor, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
13:69

5. Robert Turner: Third Symphony (1990)
Bramwell Tovey - conductor, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
26:40

Tracks 4-5
Canadian Composers Portraits: Robert Turner
Centrediscs, CMCCD 9704

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

6. Sid Robinovitch: Suite for Klezmer Band & Orchestra (1990)
Finjan: Victor Schultz - violin, Daniel Koulack - guitar, Myron Schultz - clarinet, Shayla Fink - accordion, Kinzey Posen - bass, Sasha Boychouk - alto sax; Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey - conductor
Klezmer Suite: Music of Sid Robinovitch
CBC Records, SMCD 5212
26:56

7. Sid Robinovitch: Rodas Recordada (2005)
Text by Guillermo Díaz-Plaja
Stacey Nattrass - soprano, Kirsten Schellenberg - alto, Kris Kornelson - baritone, Ryszard Tyborowski - guitar, Connie Gitlin - clarinet, Mark Rudoff - cello
Sefarad: Music of Sid Robinovitch
Marquis, 774718138927
13:10
(Read the background to this remarkable composition here.)

8. Ludwig van Beethoven: Third movement: Lento assai e cantate tranquillo from String Quartet op.135 (1826)
Transcribed for string orchestra by Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein - conductor, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon, 435 779-2
10:01

04 November 2009

You can be part of radio history. Tune in today for the world premiere broadcast of two spacey (in the sense of having a lot of space/silence between the phrases) songs by Morton Feldman and Barbara Monk Feldman. That's real minimalism for you! The songs will be played at the top of each hour, with the rest of the music unfolding from there.

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

1. Barbara Monk Feldman: The Gentlest Chord (1991)
Text by Rainer Maria Rilke, from Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)
Gwen Faasen - voice
3:01

2. Morton Feldman: Followe Thy Faire Sunne (1962)
Text by Thomas Campion (1601)
Brian Craig - voice, Glenn Freeman - chime
1:54

Tracks 1 & 2
Morton Feldman & Barbara Monk Feldman: Strings, Keyboard, Percussion, Voices, Horn
OgreOgress productions, 884502 407204

3. Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water (1986)
Daniel Druckman - marimba
Naxos, 8.559260
15:17

4. Chick Corea: Crystal Silence (rec. 1994)
Chick Corea - piano, Gary Burton - vibraphone
Music Forever & Beyond: The Selected Works of Chick Corea 1964-1996
GRP Records, GRD-5-9819
8:47

5. William Penn: Diversions for Alto Saxophone & Marimba (1992)
Michael N. Jacobson - alto saxophone, Todd Meehan - marimba
America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax Vol.X
Arizona University Recordings, AUR CD 3124
18'

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

6. Barbara Monk Feldman: The Gentlest Chord (1991)
3:01

7. Morton Feldman: Followe Thy Faire Sunne (1962)
1:54

8. Thomas Campion: The Cypress Curtain of the Night (1601)
Folger Consort: Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor, Christopher Kendall - lute
This England: Music from the Time of Shakespeare
Bard Records, n.n.
4:27

9. Anton Webern: Six Bagatelles for String Quartet op.9 (1913)
Lasalle Quartet: Walter Levin - 1st violin, Henry Meyer - 2nd violin, Peter Kamnitzer - viola, Jack Kirstein - cello
Neue Wiener Schule
Deutsche Grammophon, 419 994-2
4'

10. Anton Webern: Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Hildegard Jone op.25 (1934)
Text by Hildegard Jone
Christiane Oelze - soprano, Eric Schneider - piano
Anton Webern: Lieder
Deutsche Grammophon, 447 103-2
4:44

11. Charles Ives: From "Night of Frost in May" (1899)
1:11

12. Charles Ives: Weil' auf mir ("Eyes So Dark") (1902)
2:02

13. Charles Ives: Kären (1894)
1:08

14. Charles Ives: Feldeinsamkeit ("In Summer Fields") (1900)
2:28

15. Charles Ives: Rosamunde (1898)
1:51

16. Charles Ives: Omens & Oracles (c. 1900)
2:32

17. Charles Ives: Berceuse (1900)
1:25

Tracks 11-17
Arranged by Mathew Fuerst
Jasper Wood - violin, David Riley - piano
Ives: Works for Violin & Piano
Endeavour Classics, END 1012

18. Meredith Monk: Three Heavens & Hells (1992)
Text by Tennessee Reed
Allison Easter, Dina Emerson, Katie Geissinger & Meredith Monk - voices
Meredith Monk: Volcano Songs
ECM New Series, ECM 1589
21:15

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

19. Morton Feldman: Followe Thy Faire Sunne (1962)
1:54

20. Barbara Monk Feldman: The Gentlest Chord (1991)
3:01

21. Johannes Tinctoris: Missa trium vocum (c. 1500)
Roger Blanchard Vocal & Instrumental Ensemble, Roger Blanchard - director
Nonesuch Records, H-71048
45'