#3449: Virtuosic Works for Winds and Piano

For this New Sounds, sample virtuoso works for piano and/or saxophone, including music from a set of duets by saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist Jason Moran. Composed by Lloyd and dedicated to his great-great-grandmother, who was taken from her home in south Mississippi at age 10 and sold to a slave-owner in Tennessee, the suite of pieces is something of a meditation about her life - the loss of her family, loneliness, dreams, sorrow, and songs to her newborn children.  It's eloquent, thorny, and heartfelt.

Also, listen to an astonishing work from Colin Stetson and his latest record, New History Warfare, Vol. 3 – To See More Light.  Stetson can create the sound of several instruments without any looping or delays – sounds like voice, organ, percussion – with just one guy, live in a room with a saxophone.  There’s also an equally virtuosic piece for flute by Robert Dick and music from the late Dutch composer Simeon Ten Holt.  And more.

PROGRAM #3449, Virtuosic Works for Winds and Piano  (First aired on 4/2/2013)