We’re having a ball trying to keep up with our ever-expanding musical collection as composers and performers around the world joyously overwhelm us with their creations.
We’re consistently amazed by their level of talent and artistry, and are thrilled this week to share it with our listeners.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Greg Bowers: String Quartet No. 2, By-products of Mass Media
III. I’11/Artifly Away Songfact
The Boston String Quartet
Navona Records 5960
5:45
Kolbeinn Einarsson: The Indigenous Spirit
Tobias Guttman, Marimba, Percussion; Ingólfur Vilhjalmsson, bass clarinet
ITM 907
7:40
Jonathan Kirk: The Metal Cicadas for Amplified Violin and Amplified Cello
Anna Cromwell, violin; Mira Frisch, vc.
Albany Troy 1511
1:00, 5:34
Dan Cooper: Design Duo
Lynn Bechtold, violin; Jennifer DeVore, cello
Composers Concordance 0018
5:18
Stephen Paulus: From Within fr. Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra,
Three Places of Enlightenment
Nashville Symphony/Giancarlo Guerrero; Jun Iwasaki, vln I; Carolynn Wann
Bailey, vln II; Daniel Reinker, vla; Anthony LaMarchina, vc.
Naxos 8.559740
6:36
Debra Kaye: And So It Begins, II. Andante
Javier Oviedo, ten sax; Amy Kimball & Lynn Bechtold, violins; Entela Barci, vla.;
Garo Yellin, vc.; Frank Wagner, double bass/Charles Coleman
Ravello Records 7899
4:42
Eric Chasalow: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, III. Distant
Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose; Bruno Schneider, horn
Suspicious Motives 888295142915
3:58
Nathan Lincoln DeCusatis: Oblivion, III. The Reckoning
Inscape/Richard Scerbo
Sono Luminus 92719
5:21