#3921: World/Chamber Music
Hear chamber music that mixes influences from different parts of the world on this New Sounds. Where else can you hear instruments of the Indonesian court meeting a string quartet, western music for gamelan featuring an Irish dancer, and Ethiopian music for string quartet?
Hear a collaborative work featuring gamelan and contemporary string quartet from Bay Area Lightbulb Ensemble and the JACK Quartet. LBE performs on Indonesian-style metallophones, wooden marimbas, and other instruments designed, tuned, and built by American composer Brian Baumbusch, the group’s founder and director. New York-based JACK Quartet is an adventurous foursome of string players dubbed “superheroes of the new music world” by the Boston Globe.
Listen to the percussive, almost gamelan-like piano played by Vicky Chow, from her recent record Aorta. Hear “Bones” from Aorta by Daniel Wohl, along with music by Andy Akiho clearly written for Vicky Chow - "Vick(iy)." Then the Irish Gamelan Orchestra (formerly Cork Gamelan Ensemble) plays a work by Linda Buckley called “Telephones and Gongs,” featuring the sounds of an improvised Irish dancer. There’s also Ethiopian groove music with a warrior bent by sax player Getatchew Mekuria, arranged by Stephen Prutsman and played by the Kronos Quartet.
PROGRAM #3921, World/Chamber Music (First Aired 11-16-2016)
ARTIST: Lightbulb Ensemble with JACK Quartet
WORK: Brian Baumbusch: H(2)O, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Private recording
SOURCE: This recording not commercially available.
INFO: Full release by Lightbulb Ensemble is out on New World Records, #80785
ARTIST: Vicky Chow
WORK: Daniel Wohl: Bones from Aorta [3:07]
RECORDING: Aorta
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records NWAM083
INFO: http://newamrecords.com/chow-aorta
ARTIST: Lightbulb Ensemble with JACK Quartet
WORK: Brian Baumbusch: Hydrogen(2)Oxygen, conclusion [5:31]
RECORDING: Private recording
SOURCE: This recording not commercially available.
INFO: Full release by Lightbulb Ensemble is out on New World Records, #80785
ARTIST: Cork Gamelan Ensemble
WORK: Linda Buckley: Telephones and Gongs [4:05]
RECORDING: The Three Forges
SOURCE: Diatribe Records
INFO: shop.diatribe.ie
ARTIST: Kronos Quartet
WORK: Aha Gèdawo [5:07]
RECORDING: A Thousand Thoughts
SOURCE: Nonesuch 536952
INFO: nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Vicky Chow
WORK: Andy Akiho: Vick(iy) [15:12]
RECORDING: Aorta
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records NWAM083
INFO: http://newamrecords.com/chow-aorta
ARTIST: Vladimir Martynov, with Huun Huur Tu
WORK: Vladimir Martynov: Children of the Otter, excerpt [8:06]
RECORDING: Children of the Otter
SOURCE: DVD release only, Greenwave Music
INFO: greenwavemusic.ru
ARTIST: Anton Batagov
WORK: Letter from Sergei Rachmaninoff to Vladimir Martynov, excerpt [4:13]
RECORDING: Selected Letters of Sergei Rachmaninoff
SOURCE: Fancymusic
INFO: soundcloud.com or download from Emusic.com
