#3462: New Releases, April 2013
It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks of new CDs, Soundcloud files, and the highly anticipated digital submissions which have come across his desk and into his inbox over the past month to present some of the finest new releases. He'll skim off the cream. He'll pick the lentils from the ashes. You get it.
For this New Sounds, sample a few of the works for string quartet that arrived this month, including a previously unheard piece dedicated to director Peter Sellars by John Adams, and something from Brooklyn Rider. There’s also a work by Christine Southworth - “Super Collider”- featuring the Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Elektrika playing from an album of all of her works for string quartet. Plus, hear something from the new music supergroup, Big Farm, a piece from Norway’s Jenny Hval, a choral work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang for the women’s chorus, The Crossing, and more.
PROGRAM # 3462, New Releases, April 2013 (First aired on 4/30/2013)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Christine Southworth, Kronos Quartet, Gamelan Electrica |
String Quartets |
Super Collider [16:10] |
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Big Farm |
Big Farm |
John Knows [3:07] |
Due out May 28, 2013 on New Amsterdam Records NWAM 047 |
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Jenny Hval |
Innocence is Kinky |
Mephisto in the Water [4:04] |
Rune Grammofon RCD 2142 |
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The Crossing |
I Want To Live – contemporary works for women’s choir |
David Lang: I live in pain [4:20] |
Innova 856 |
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Attacca Quartet |
Fellow Traveler: the Complete String Quartet Works of John Adams |
Fellow Traveler [5:11] |
Azica Records ACD-71280 |
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Brooklyn Rider |
A Walking Fire |
Colin Jacobsen: the Flowers of Esfahan [7:21] |
Mercury Records Classics |
