Modern Notebook for January 26 - February 1, 2025
Photo: composer Reza Vali (photo courtesy of the artist).
Coming up on the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Reza Vali’s music is rooted is the traditional timbres and scales of Iranian folk music, and while his “Persian Suite No. 2” is no different, it’s cast in a more approachable manner. Scored for flute, piano, and string quintet, it uses Western scales and less complex rhythms to evoke the style of Persian folk song.
Then: A blending of chant, natural processes, and echoes of Beethoven come together in Helena Tulve’s “Humming in my Bones.” Encompassing a sound world of prepared piano and other unusual techniques, it’s music that moves at a nearly geological slowness.
Listen for that, as well as music by Nils Frahm, Freya Waley-Cohen, Patricia Brennan, Anna Meadors, Pan Kai, Beyza Yazgan, Caterina Schembri, Angélica Negrón, and others; and performances by violinist Mari Samuelsen, Manchester Collective, violinist Julia Glenn, violist Nathan Sherman, pianist Robert Fleitz, Admiral Launch Duo, and more.
Hour 1
- Hammers by Nils Frahm.
- Freya Waley-Cohen’s Naiad.
- Point of No Return by Patricia Brennan.
- Reza Vali’s Persian Suite No. 2.
- Where Did All the Words Go? by Anna Meadors.
- Pan Kai’s Ink Traces of Sigh.
- Pasaj by Beyza Yazgan.
Hour 2
- Soft charcoal over moonstone by Caterina Schembri.
- William Anderson’s Folksongs.
- Humming in my Bones by Helena Tulve.
- Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Flores del viento.
- Still Here by Angélica Negrón.
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