Relevant Tones

Relevant Tones goes in the field to this hotbed of contemporary   classical music- Seoul, South Korea- to discover emerging and   established composers. In part I we’ll chat with the composers and   showcase the dynamic music scene there.

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Sue Hye Kim: Rendezvous I for Gayageum and Violoncello (excerpt)

Sung Ho Hwang: Nori for violin and violoncello (excerpt)

Sung Ho Hwang: Triskellion

Do-Won Yu: Action Painting

Gon Hwang: Wimbo Diplos (excerpt)

Man Bang Yi: String Quartet No. 2, V

Geonyong Lee: “Eli, Eli Lama Sabtani” from the Passion of Jesus Christ

Our popular series profiling composers continues with Laura   Elise Schwendinger, an artist whose strongly personal style of music is filled with kinetic energy and slow-burning intensity.

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Laura Elise Schwendinger: High Wire Act, V & IV

Laura Elise Schwendinger: Chiaroscuro Azzurro for Violin and Chamber Orchestra

Laura Elise Schwendinger: Waking Dream

Laura Elise Schwendinger: Esprimere for Cello and Orchestra, II

Large-scale sacred works might not be the first thing that comes to   mind when you think of contemporary music, but a number of important   composers are creating expansive works inspired by their concept of a   higher power.

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John Adams: When Herod Heard fr. El Niño

Arvo Pärt: Adam’s Lament (excerpt)

Kaija Saariaho: La Passion de Simone (excerpts)

Richard Einhorn: The Origin

Phil Kline: Kyrie fr. John the Revelator

John Tavener: The Whale (excerpt)

More music from the vibrant inferno of creative energy that  is the  Mizzou International Composers Festival, featuring Alarm Will  Sound,  exciting works by faculty composers and a bundle of premieres,  concerts  and workshops.

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Stephanie Berg: Ravish and Mayhem

Michael Lee Schachter: Five – Six – Seven – Eight

W. Thomas McKenney: The Rising of the Moon

Nicholas S. Omiccioli: [fuse]

Nico Muhly: I know where everything is

Justin Pounds: A Leaf on the Wind

Fast becoming the go-to summer music festival in the Midwest, the   concerts and workshops at the University of Missouri’s International   Composers Festival are a sure-fire place to hear imaginative new music   from emerging composers.

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José Guillermo Martínez: Danzas Tórridas

Charlie Piper: zoetrope

David Biedenbender: SCHISM

Texu Kim: Bounce!!

Clint Needham: Urban Sprawl

John Cheetham: A Brass Menagerie, I

One of the first composers to graduate from the Beijing Conservatory   upon its reopening after the Cultural Revolution and the winner of the   2011 Pulitzer Prize for his opera Madame White Snake, Zhou Long creates   thoughtful, spiritually-infused music that has resonated with  audiences  across the globe.

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Zhou Long: Wood fr. The Five Elements (excerpt)

Zhou Long: The Rhyme of Taigu

Zhou Long: Soul

Zhou Long: Water fr. The Five Elements (excerpt)

Zhou Long: The Future of Fire

Zhou Long: The Ineffable

Percussionist Payton MacDonald calls Super Marimba the nexus point of   all of his artistic activities. Featuring influences from jazz and   classical to Hindustani and improvisational music, this is the marimba  as you’ve never heard it before.

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Ravi Shankar: Raga Bhimpalasi

Payton MacDonald: Jor

Payton MacDonald: For John & For Blake

Gundecha Brothers: Raag Gaoti (alap) 2 (excerpt)

Payton MacDonald: Lifeboat No. 6

Payton MacDonald: Concerto for Tabla and Percussion Quartet

We had the fantastic opportunity to travel to  Wrocław, Poland to  attend the storied World Music Days festival, where we met a wealth of  Polish composers who are part of the living legacy of this vibrant  cultural mecca.

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Krzysztof Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2, Metamorphosen, V (excerpt)

Witold Lutosławski, arr. Marta Ptaszynska: Paganini Variations

Hanna Kulenty: Breathe for String Orchestra

Mateusz Ryczek: 28 Days of Moon

Marta Ptaszynska: La Novella d’Inverno (Winter’s Tale) for Strings

Zygmunt Krause: Fête galante et Pastorale (excerpt)

Generous sponsorship of these episodes has been provided by LOT Polish Airlines and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

We had the fantastic opportunity to travel to  Wrocław, Poland to  attend the storied World Music Days festival, where we met a wealth of  Polish composers who are part of the living legacy of this vibrant  cultural mecca.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Jacek Sotomski: beautiful to me. ah (excerpt)

Agata Zubel: Not I (excerpt)

Michał Moc: stuntmen’s relay

Paweł Hendrich: Emergon αβ (excerpts)

Zygmunt Krauze: Piano Concerto No. 1 (excerpt)

Generous sponsorship of these episodes has been provided by LOT Polish Airlines and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

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.

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Greg Bowers: String Quartet No. 2, By-products of Mass Media

Kolbeinn Einarsson: The Indigenous Spirit

Jonathan Kirk: The Metal Cicadas for Amplified Violin and Amplified Cello

Dan Cooper: Design Duo

Stephen Paulus: From Within fr. Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra,

Debra Kaye: And So It Begins, II. Andante

Eric Chasalow: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, III. Distant

Nathan Lincoln DeCusatis: Oblivion, III. The Reckoning