#3519: New Music/Baroque Forms

New Sounds | Jan 28, 2015

Hear new music based on baroque forms like passacaglias, bourrees and courantes on this New Sounds. Hear a passacaglia from Caroline Shaw, the Pulitzer Prize-winning NYC-based composer from her “Partita for 8 Voices,” a suite of many dance forms. This winning work was written for the vocal group Roomful of Teeth, who are themselves a high wire act of balance between world music, rock 'n' roll, and derring-do. There’s also a toccata for Indonesian gamelan, along with contemporary takes on the 400 year old Italian dance form - the passacaglia- from Danish lute player Rolf Lislevand, and more.

PROGRAM #3519– Courtly Dances (First aired on 10/8/2013)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Rolf Lislevand	Nuove musiche	Passacaglia, excerpt [1:00]	ECM #1922 www.ecmrecords.com
Roomful of Teeth	Roomful of Teeth	Caroline Shaw: Passacaglia [5:56]	New Amsterdam NWAM 041 roomfulofteeth.org
Rolf Lislevand	Nuove musiche	3 Passacaglias [8:30]	ECM #1922 www.ecmrecords.com
Roomful of Teeth	Roomful of Teeth	Caroline Shaw: Courante [8:59]	New Amsterdam NWAM 041 roomfulofteeth.org
Bill Alves	Imbal-Imbalan	Tingklik Toccata [4:47]	Spectral Harmonies #001.* billalves.com
Roomful of Teeth	Roomful of Teeth	Sarabande, excerpt	New Amsterdam NWAM 041 roomfulofteeth.org
Jon Lord	Sarabande (1976)	Bourree [10:53]	EMI #1976. British LP. Reissued on CD in 2001 on Spitfire Records Available for purchase at Amazon.com
Yo-Yo Ma	Silk Road Ensemble -A Playlist Without Borders	Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Allegretto from Partita, Op. 31 for Cello Solo [3:34]	Sony Masterworks 88883 71092 www.silkroadproject.org www.yo-yoma.com www.sonymasterworks.com

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