Program 772: A Madrigal Sandwich
KALW Broadcast Date: February 11, 2024 | Host: Joseph Bohigian
This madrigal sandwich begins and ends with two modern takes on the madrigal, Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s 1955 piece Three Madrigals and James Weeks’s 2012-16 piece Primo Libro. Moving inward, we’ll hear two drone pieces, Without persistent environments, the sense of confusion and flux might only worsen by Noah Jenkins and Filter by Mattie Barbier. Further inward, percussion and piano pieces by Tyondai Braxton and Joan Tower, all centered around Matt Sargent’s vibraphone piece Sixth Illumination.
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Title: Three Madrigals
Composer: Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Performers: The Astra Choir; John McCaughey, conductor
Recording Title: Unsettled Choruses
Record Label: New World Records
Catalog Number: 80827-2
Title: Without persistent environments, the sense of confusion and flux might only worsen
Composer: Noah Jenkins
Performer: Riley Leitch, trombone
Recording Title: Noah Jenkins – Without Persistent Environments
Record Label: Sawyer Editions
Catalog Number: SE022
Title: Sunny X
Composer: Tyondai Braxton
Performers: Third Coast Percussion
Recording Title: Between Breaths
Record Label: Cedille Records
Catalog Number: CDR 90000 224
Title: Sixth Illumination
Composer: Matt Sargent
Performer: Taylor Long, vibraphone
Recording Title: Matt Sargent – Illuminations
Record Label: Sawyer Editions
Catalog Number: SE021
Title: Piano Concerto — Homage to Beethoven
Composer: Joan Tower
Performers: Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose, conductor; Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Recording Title: Joan Tower: Piano Concerto — Homage to Beethoven
Record Label: BMOP/sound
Catalog Number: 1093
Title: Filter
Composer: Mattie Barbier
Performer: Mattie Barbier, trombone and euphonium
Recording Title: Threads
Record Label: Sofa Music
Catalog Number: SOFA592
Title: Primo Libro
Composer: James Weeks
Performers: Ekmeles
Recording Title: We Live the Opposite Daring
Record Label: New Focus Recordings
Catalog Number: FCR394
