On the final episode of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Hideaki Aomori’s Split stretches the bass clarinet to its limits, exploring the full breadth of its sound world. This hour also features Baljinder Sekhon’s Drifting Seeds for cello and harp, along with music by Anna Mieke, Vivian Fung, and more.

Then: chamber music by Jessica Ackerley called Spark Surge — one of the highlights of the final hour. You’ll also hear Fumiko Miyachi’s piano duo Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange Charm, alongside music by Shirish Korde, Oliver Knussen, and others.

Also in this episode: music by Tania León performed by pianist Isabel Dobarro; Claire Victoria Roberts performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain; Judd Greenstein performed by NOW Ensemble; Justin H. Bush performed by saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames; and flutist Tessa Brinckman performing music by Shirish Korde.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Aart Strootman’s Descend is a gentle tide of sound — slow, glassy, and immersive. Strings drift in silvery layers, surfacing and folding back on themselves in waves that feel tactile and luminous. There’s a quiet, rhythmic shimmer beneath it all, like a faraway rattle rolling in with the current.

Then: How do we hold on, even as everything changes? That question lies beneath The Impermanence of Things by Michael Zev Gordon. Across thirteen brief movements, the piece slips between motion and stillness, with fleeting echoes of Couperin, Debussy, and Mahler surfacing like memories.

Also in this episode: music by Hania Rani performed by violinist Mari Samuelsen, pianist Julien Quentin, and Scoring Berlin; Shelley Washington performed by PUBLIQuartet; Tiange Zhou performed by pianist Chen-Hui Jen; Iman Habibi performed by saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames; Sarah Louise Bassingthwaighte performed by the London Symphony Orchestra; Reena Esmail performed by cellist Pierre Fontenelle; Anthony R. Green performed by cellist Bryan Hayslett; and Katherine Balch performed by Exceptet.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Andrea Casarrubios wrote Herencia — meaning both “heritage” and “inheritance” — not with a genre in mind, but with specific performers. She imagined the musicians of Sphinx Virtuosi stepping onstage, each carrying their own personal and cultural history, converging into a collective intention to illuminate the world through music.

Then: Martin Bresnick’s Mending Time draws inspiration from Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall, and the famous line: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” Scored for four saxophones, the piece reflects on the walls we build — for safety, for expression, for division — and invites us to consider how those barriers might also be mended.

Also in this episode: music by John Christopher Wineglass performed by saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames, Jeffrey Paul performed by cedar flutist Bryan Akipa and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Anna Clyne performed by cellist Inbal Segev and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Shuying Li performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Aaron Helgeson performed by pianist Donald Berman, Liza Lim performed by JACK Quartet, and Thurídur Jónsdóttir performed by flutist Mario Caroli and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: How do we process loss, or even violence — collectively or alone? In his piece Manusa, composer Dorian Wallace turns to the five stages of grief as a guide, crafting a deeply human meditation through sound.

Then: After dark, the world transforms — and in Moth x Human, composer Ellie Wilson gives voice to that unseen world. Using real moth activity data, she crafts an interspecies performance where field recordings, instruments, and sonified biodiversity blend into a vivid nocturnal soundscape.

Also in this episode: music by Beyza Yazgan, Huang Ruo performed by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Kati Agócs performed by The Claremont Trio, Anthony Joseph Lanman performed by pianist Holly Roadfeldt, and Christopher Cerrone performed by Lorelei Ensemble.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Precision meets pulse in Seven Eleven — a hypnotic piece by Swiss composer Nik Bärtsch, known for fusing minimalism, jazz, and groove into something entirely his own. Built on interlocking rhythmic cycles, the music moves with the quiet intensity of a ritual: calculated, entrancing, and alive in the hands of percussion.

Then: For composer Sinan C. Savaşkan, The Sleep of Reason began as a dreamlike hallucination — a looping, microtonal tune he couldn’t shake on a tense overnight bus ride through London. That experience, alongside memories of Goya’s eerie etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, evolved into a solo flute piece full of shadows, symbols, and unresolved questions.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Composer Daniel Thomas Davis calls What if We’re Beautiful an experiment in musical gift-craft — a set of movements stitched together like handmade sonic objects. With its boisterous charm and delicate sincerity, the piece includes a hurdy-gurdy tune that’s as playfully heartfelt as the friendships it honors.

Lila Meretzky’s For Linda Catlin Smith is a quartet written in tribute to one of her key influences. Smith’s music often lives in the realm of ambiguity — subtle, spacious, and shaped by her love of painting and literature — and Meretzky’s piece seems to breathe in that same quiet way.

Also featured are works by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Joan Tower, Quenton Blache, Sayo Kosugi, Nathan Hudson, Catherine Likhuta, Bright Sheng, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, and Michele Deiana. Performers include flutist Lina Andonovska, pianist Alex Raineri, Hub New Music, the Sphinx Virtuosi, harpist Jennifer Craig, saxophonist Timothy McAllister, pianist Liz Ames, violist Jordan Bak, Unheard-of//Ensemble, trombonist William Lang, and the Perpetuo Saxophone Quartet.

Drawing from the Korean folk song Jeongsun Arirang, Hyunjoo Byon’s Arari unfolds in five variations — blending traditional modes and modern textures. With oboe and piano weaving between tonalities, the piece becomes a quiet dialogue between Eastern roots and Western technique.

Then: Combining solo viola and percussion might seem unlikely — but Kalevi Aho leans into that contrast in his Moonlight Concerto. Six interconnected movements unfold with shimmering sonorities, ancient ritual influences, and rare percussion instruments like waterphone, Thai gongs, and moon gong.

Also featured are works by Bradley Harris, Ben Nobuto, Juantio Becenti, Bosba Panh, Jessie Montgomery, and Kay Rhie. Performers include pianist Brianna Matzke, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, oboist Pablo Ramon dos Santos Hernandez, pianist Hyeji Seo, the Sphinx Virtuosi, guitarist Jamie Monck, cellist Claire Bryant, violinist Ari Streisfeld, violist Hiyoli Togawa, percussionist Alexej Gerassimez, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, and Aperture Duo.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Memories of friendship linger beneath each short movement in Hugi Gudmundsson’s Coniunctio — moments on park benches, in bars, on quiet walks. Composed for cello, the piece unfolds in brief, focused chapters that reflect intimacy through gesture, space, and shared experience.

Then: Luciano Berio once described a utopian dream: to build a bridge between folk traditions and modern music-making. In Folk Songs, that vision takes shape through melodies from eight cultures — reimagined not as museum pieces, but as living, breathing connections to everyday life.

Also featured are works by Kevin Day, Dai Fujikura, Lembit Beecher, Shuying Li, Marc Mellits, Ryan Brown, Camille Pépin, and Angélica Negrón. Performers include pianist Artina McCain, guitarist Soichi Muraji, cellist Sigurgeir Agnarsson, saxophonist Timothy McAllister, pianist Liz Ames, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, flutist Lina Andonovska, pianist Alex Raineri, clarinetist Jeff Anderle, vocalist Michelle O’Rourke, the Ficino Ensemble, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, and the ensemble Ember.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Steven Mackey’sStumble to Grace traces a journey with the piano: from clumsy beginnings to a confident, contrapuntal fugue. Inspired by his toddler’s early steps, the piece moves through stages of progress and play — a portrait of growth shaped by both joy and challenge.

Then: Rhythms passed from father to son form the heart of Murmurs in Time — a rare classical percussion piece by tabla master Zakir Hussain. Rooted in Hindustani tradition but shaped through collaboration, it invites performers to internalize, transform, and return each pattern in a new voice.

Also featured are works by Justine F. Chen, Ephraim Champion, Eleanor Alberga, Zachary Good, Garrett Sholdice, and Gabriela Lena Frank. Performers include cellist Matt Haimovitz, pianist Orli Shaham, saxophonist Timothy McAllister, pianist Liz Ames, baritone Morgan Pearse, percussion ensemble Third Coast Percussion, vocalist Michelle O’Rourke, the Ficino Ensemble, and the Claremont Trio.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Rhythmic collisions, layered textures, and long melodic arcs — Autumn Equinox channels the energy of Sebastian Fagerlund’s opera-in-progress into a charged and expressive octet. Though written as a standalone piece, the music carries the imprint of that larger work: a reflection of seasons changing, and ideas taking new shape.

Then: Kevin Puts began his Concerto for Orchestra with a single spark — Amanda Gorman’s poem Hymn for the Hurting, written in response to the tragedy in Uvalde. What follows is a sweeping, multi-movement work of contrasts: chase scenes and music boxes, lyrical interludes and urgent refrains, all voiced by an orchestra pushed to its expressive limits.

Also featured this week are works by Maeve Gilchrist, Nina Barzegar, Valerie Coleman, Andy Akiho, and Clarice Jensen. Performances by the Aizuri Quartet, Lapland Chamber Orchestra, pianist Ava Nazar, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, violinist Kristin Lee, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and cellist Maya Beiser.