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Tonight, Richard Friedman presents two characteristic pieces by Morton Feldman (1926-1987)

Morton Feldman by Phillip Guston Morton Feldman: The Viola In My Life I-IV ( 1970-71)

I: for viola, flute, violin, cello, piano, percussion

II: for viola, flute, clarinet, celesta, percussion, violin, cello

III: for viola and piano

IV: for viola and orchestra

— Marek Konstantynowicz, viola; Cikada Ensemble (I-III); Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Christian Eggen, cond (IV)

ECM 1798 (2008) (40′) I Met Heine on Rue Fürstenberg (1971)

Ensemble Recherche; Disque Montaigne MO 782018 (1994) (11:32) Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.





Tonight, Richard Friedman presents four rarely heard pieces by the Xenakis. Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) – engineer, mathematician, architect, composer Tracées (1987) for large orchestra

Arturo Tamayo, cond. Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg

Timpani/OPL 2002/2009 5C1177 (5:22) Linaia-Agon (1972) for trombone, horn, tuba

Group 7090

Orgelpark Records 011-2012 (15:02) Ata (1987) for large orchestra

Arturo Tamayo, Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg

Timpani/OPL 2002/2009 5C1177 (14:40) Gmeeoorh (1974) for pipe organ

Jan Hage, Verschueren Organ, Orgelpark, Amsterdam

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Richard Friedman presents John Luther Adams’ new string quartet, his fourth, “Everything That Rises” just released on Cold Blue Music. John Luther Adams: String Quartet #4 “Everything That Rises”

JACK Quartet – Cold Blue Music CB0051 Everything That Rises, commissioned by SFJAZZ and the JACK Quartet, is an ever-in-motion virtuosic just-intonation work built of a series of 16 ascending musical “clouds.” Its pitches are derived from the harmonics of the piece’s subsonic fundamental tone (C0). The composer writes: “Everything That Rises, my fourth string quartet, grew out of Sila: The Breath of the World—a concert-length choral/orchestral work I composed on a rising series of 16 harmonic clouds. This music traverses that same territory, but in a much more melodic way. Each musician is a soloist, playing throughout. Time floats and the lines spin out, always rising, in acoustically perfect intervals that grow progressively smaller as they spiral upward…until the music dissolves into the soft noise of the bows, sighing.” Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.





Richard Friedman continues sampling the legacy of the postwar avant garde. Tonight, music by Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) Boulez: Notations 1-4 (1945)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano alternating with orchestral version with Daniel Barenboim and the Orchestre de Paris – Erato 2292-45493 (1990) Boulez: Sur Incises (1998)

Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain – DG 289 463 475 (2000) Boulez: Notations 8-12

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano. DG 445 833 (1995) Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.





Richard Friedman presents early and rarely heard piano pieces by John Cage, performed by Steffen Schleiermacher. Experience (1944) A Book of Music for 2 pianos (1944) – Part 1 Solo for Piano (1958) Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) — MDG 613 1731-2 (18 CDs)

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This is our 500th program on KALW! When we started this series in 2005, we never expected we’d still be at it 13 years later. And for this we first want to thank the staff of KALW and in particular its departing station manager, Matt Martin, for giving us this opportunity to present new concert music by (mostly) living composers — something you can only hear on just a handful of radio stations in this country these days. Tonight, Richard Friedman returns with three works from the previous century that still ring new, as an offering to the electromagnetic continuum. Edgard Varese: ARCANA (1927) for large orchestra. Pierre Boulez conducts the New York Philharmonic on a Sony release from 1990. Iannis Xenakis: Dox-Orkh (1991) for violin and orchestra. Irvine Arditti, violin, with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Jonathan Nott, from a 1996 BIS release. Luciano Berio: Corale (1982) for violin and orchestra. Irvine Arditti, violin, with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Jonathan Nott, from a 1996 BIS release. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.





Richard Friedman starts off our 14th year of Music from Other Minds on KALW with a program of recent releases. Dalia Raudonikyte With: Grues et nix (1999) – Vilnius St Christopher Chamber Orchestra – New Focus Recordings FCR186 Martin Bresnick: Prayers Remain Forever (2011) – Ashley Bathgate (cello), Lisa Moore (piano) – Starkland ST-221 György Kurtág: Brefs Messages (2011), Double Concerto Op. 27 No. 2 (1990) – Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw conductor – ECM New 2506-7 Dalia Raudonikyte With: FCH for piano solo (2007) – Šviesė Čepliauskaitė, piano – New Focus Recordings FCR186 Listen: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.





A rebroadcast of an episode from 2015. Danny Clay presents two works by composer Catherine Lamb.

( Please pardon the number of repeats we have been airing as we prepare for our 500th episode ! ) Catherine Lamb

Periphery (for two)

Laura Steenberge and Julia Holter, voices and electronics.

Engraved Glass “Periphery” 2015 Catherine Lamb

Three Bodies (moving)

Erika Duke Kirkpatrick, cello; Erik KM Clark, Violin; Phil O’Connor, Bass Clarinet.

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