Jürg Frey / Circular Music 2011-2017

The first of three episodes dedicated to the composer’s Circular Music cycle.

CM#2 (three versions)CM#5 (two versions)Episode dedicated to Jürg Frey

Jurg Frey’s Circular Music cycle is comprised of ten pieces composed between 2011-2017. To date eight of the pieces have been released on six CDs across several labels. Numbers four and ten have not seen a proper release. Of the eight pieces available, there are a total of 14 recordings, with multiple iterations of Circular Music #2, 5, 6 and 7. The composer himself performs on three of the pieces.

The compositions have been realized in a variety of contexts and instrumentation; piano solo, viola solo, saxophone quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, large ensemble and orchestra. Four of the works are heard in groupings of both orchestral and electronic instrumentation.

Some of the pieces are entitled ‘Extended Circular Music’, connoting Frey has revisited and reworked them in some fashion.

The next three episodes of the crow with no mouth radio podcast, the entire month of June, will be dedicated to this seemingly limitless cycle of compositions, and will include a few unreleased versions from the composer’s personal library.

The KOWS radio show air dates will be: June 2 / 16 / 30, 11:00 p.m. Pacific. As always, the programs will be available prior to their KOWS broadcast here on my Podomatic page.

The music you are hearing in this preview is Extended Circular Music #5, played by the stellar Konus Quartet.

The music of

Cristian Alvear Taku Sugimoto Santiago Astaburuaga Bruno Duplant

Episode dedicated to Jon Dale

The music of

Grisha Shakhnes Vanessa Rossetto Chris Strickland Byron Westbrook Keith Fullerton Whitman

Episode dedicated to Vanessa Rossetto

The music ofAnne-Francoise Jacques Apologist (aka Rose Rae) Elynor Freyss

Episode dedicated to Elynor Fryss

The music of

Rafael Anton Irisarri Mike Shiflet Seth Chrisman & Nathan McLaughlin

Episode dedicated to Derek Walmsley

The music of

Rafael Anton Irisarri Mike Shiflet Seth Chrisman & Nathan McLaughlin

Episode dedicated to Nathan McLaughlin

The music of

Daniel Bennett Kostis Kilymis Chris Strickland

Episode dedicated to Joseph Panzner

The Occam / Ocean compositions of Éliane Radigue (b.1932) The third in a short series of episodes dedicated to the Occam pieces, 2011-2017. Occam River I Carol Robinson (birbyne)/ Julia Eckhardt (viola) Occam VIII Deborah Walker (cello)

Occam VIII is a private recording of the musician, broadcast with the kind permission of Ms. Walker and Ms. Radigue

Episode dedicated to Ryoko Akama

The Occam / Ocean compositions of Éliane Radigue (b.1932)

The second of several episodes dedicated to the Occam pieces, 2011-2017.

Occam 3 Carol Robinson (birbyne) Occam 19 Louis-Michel Marion (5-string double bass)

Episode dedicated to Lance Austin Olsen