#3530: Music for Strings, Old and New
For this New Sounds show, listen to music for strings, most at the suggestion of composer and guitarist Bryce Dessner, who suggested pairing his string quartet "Little Blue Something" with the piece that inspired it: "Little Blue Nothing" by the experimental Czech viola da gamba team of Irena Havlova and Vojtěch Havel. He also thought that some of Kronos Quartet's Early Music CD would go well. To that, we've added contemporary music for viola da gamba by Roy Wheldon, viola d'amore by Garth Knox, and the group American Baroque playing a 21st-century work by Marc Mellits for 18th-century instruments. And more.
PROGRAM #3530– Music for Strings, New and Old (First aired on 11/4/2013)
ARTIST: Irena Havlova and Vojtěch Havel
WORK:Â Little Blue Nothing, excerpt [2:00]
RECORDING:Â Little Blue Nothing
SOURCE:Â Arta F100212Â
INFO: cdmusic.cz/inshop or try havlovi.music@centrum.cz.com
ARTIST:Â Kronos Quartet & Wu Man
WORK:Â John Dowland: Lachrimae antiquae pavan [4:17]
RECORDING:Â Early Music
SOURCE:Â Nonesuch 79457
INFO:Â nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Irena Havlova and Vojtěch Havel
WORK:Â Little Blue Nothing [4:15]
RECORDING:Â Little Blue Nothing
SOURCE:Â Arta F100212Â
INFO:Â cdmusic.cz/inshop
ARTIST:Â Kronos Quartet
WORK:Â Dessner: Little Blue Something [7:56]
RECORDING: Aheym
SOURCE:Â Anti Records 272962Â
INFO:Â anti.com
ARTIST:Â American Baroque
WORK:Â Marc Mellits: 11 Miniatures [15:00]
RECORDING:Â The Shock of the Old: Common Sense Composers' Collective & American BaroqueÂ
SOURCE:Â Santa Fe Music Group #513
INFO:Â commonsensecomposers.org
ARTIST: Garth Knox, featuring Agnès Vesterman, violoncello
WORK:Â Black Brittany [4:00]
RECORDING:Â Saltarello
SOURCE:Â ECM 2157
INFO:Â ecmrecords.com
ARTIST:Â Roy Wheldon
WORK:Â Cantabile [1:30]
RECORDING: Galax
SOURCE:Â New Albion #059
INFO:Â Try iTunes, Amazon.com or Emusic.com
ARTIST:Â Roy Wheldon
WORK: Twin Rows [4:00]
RECORDING: Galax
SOURCE:Â New Albion #059
INFO:Â Try iTunes, Amazon.com or Emusic.com
