David Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion

#2957: With Composer David Lang

New Sounds | Sep 8, 2011

New York-based composer David Lang visits the WNYC studio for this edition of New Sounds. We'll hear his Pultizer Prize-winning piece "The Little Match Girl Passion," and other recent recordings.

PROGRAM # 2957, With David Lang (First aired on July 9, 2009)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Bang on a Can	Classics	David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing, excerpt [1:00]	Cantaloupe 21010 www.cantaloupemusic.com
David Lang / Paul Hillier & the Theatre of Voices	The Little Match Girl Passion	Come, Daughter [3:41] Have Mercy, My God [4:38] We Sit and Cry [4:35]	Harmonia Mundi 807496 www.harmoniamundi.com
Danny Holt	Fast Jump	cage, excerpt [4:00] wed, excerpt [3:00] beach [8:32] spartan arcs [3:42]	Innova 734 www.innova.mu dannyholt.net
David Lang / Paul Hillier & the Theatre of Voices	The Little Match Girl Passion	Again (after ecclesiastes) [5:36] In the Dawn of Morning, excerpt [1:00]	See above.

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