Hour 1
- Glisk by Aileen Sweeney.
- Hee Yun Kim’s Aftertone.
- Grey Night by Evan Blaché.
- Caroline Shaw’s The Wheel.
- Voyage by Joshua Burel.
- Missy Mazzoli’s Ecstatic Science.
- Flashing Forward Thinking Back by Christopher Walczak.
Modern Notebook for January 21 - 27, 2024
Photo: Mohammed Fairouz (Photo credit: Samantha West).
On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Caroline Shaw’s work “The Wheel,” is music inspired in part by Baroque music - opening with a Baroque solo cello line which is gradually encircled by other ideas. But it’s also music that the composer describes as giving “the feeling of walking alone through the city at night accompanied by one’s inner voices and reflections”.
Then: “The Named Angels” is a string quartet work by Mohammed Fairouz inspired by the angels that are named and recognized in the Islamic, Christian, and Jewish traditions; angels that embody justice, power, kindness, healing, death, and other universals that the composer says have made them pervasive in many of the world’s cultures.
Listen for those pieces, plus music by Aileen Sweeney, Hee Yun Kim, Evan Blaché, Joshua Burel, Michael Gordon, Helen Grime, Stewart Goodyear, and others; and performances by Unheard-of//Ensemble, I Giardini, Elicio Winds, yMusic, violinist Rakhi Singh, Del Sol String Quartet, and more.
Hour 2
- Tinge by Michael Gordon.
- Mohammed Fairouz’s The Named Angels.
- Clarinet Concerto by Helen Grime.
- Stewart Goodyear’s Congotay.
Recent Shows
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.
Photo: composer Aart Strootman (photo courtesy of the composer's website).
Photo: composer and cellist Andrea Casarrubios (photo credit: Titilayo Ayangade).
Photo: composer Ellie Wilson. (Photo credit: Dimitri Djuric)
Photo: Les Percussions de Strasbourg (photo credit: Christophe Urbain)
Photo: composer Daniel Thomas Davis (photo credit: Melissa Rivard).
