Martian Gardens for 01/09/2011

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 9, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Giacinto Scelsi: Hispania (Trypyque pour Piano)
I. Mosso, con spirito
II. Moderato
III. Mosso
The Piano Works 4
Mode Records/2010
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Haskell Small: Lullaby of War
I. War is Kind
II. No
III. Recitative VIII (excerpts)
IV. Naming Souls
V. Look Down, Fair Moon
VI. Guernica Pantoum
Lullaby of War/Renoir's Feast/3 Etudes in Sound
Naxos/2011
piano: Soheil Nasseri; narrator: Martin Rayner; texts: I. Stephen Crane; II. Joy Harjo; III. Yvan Goll; IV. Uri Zvi Greenberg; V. Walt Whitman; VI. Paula Tatarunis

SINGLE PLAY
Toca Loca: Bring Them Home! (F. Rzewski)
Shed
Henceforth Records/2010
piano: Simon Docking; percussion: Ajyun Huang; percussion: Fernando Rocha; piano, conductor: Gregory Oh; recorded at Walter Hall, University of Toronto

SET ONE
Gidon Kremer: Eight Hymns (In Memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky) (S. Kovacs Tickmayer)
a. Calmo
b. Tranquilo
c. Pesante
d. Sereno
e. Molto Tranquilo
f. Dolce
g. Molto Semplice
Hymns and Prayers
ECM Records/2010
violin: Gidon Kremer; piano: Khatia Buniatishvili; vibraphone: Andrei Pushkarev; Kremerata Baltica orchestra, conductor: Roman Kofman; recoreded at Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus, July, 2008

Anthony De Mare: Statue of Liberty (L. Anderson)
Speak! The Speaking-Singing Pianist
Innova Recordings/2010
Recorded at Rolston Recital Hall, Banff, November, 2008

SET TWO
Nicolas Bernier: Writing Machine
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)(DVD Extract) #
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
voice: André Garant; commissioned by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: Certain Gravities
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
voice: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: The Works (excerpt)
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
recorded in Rome, circa 1974

SINGLE PLAY
Sylvia Smith: Mureau (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
Smith Publications/2008
voices: S. Smith; text: Henry David Thoreau's Journal, arranged by I Ching chance operations by John Cage

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