Program 813: Music for Strings
KALW Broadcast Date: February 2, 2025 | Host: Ed Herrmann
This program features a variety of music for strings—spoken word with cello pieces from Difficult Grace by Seth Parker Woods, string quartets by John Zorn and Scottish composer Anna Meredith, violinist Jennifer Koh’s duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Qasim Naqvi, as well as selections from Feldman and Hume: Intermissions, which pairs Morton Feldman’s sparse piano music with 17th Century viola da gamba pieces by Tobias Hume, and Thea Farhadian’s new album Tattoos and Other Markings, which deals with memory and her Armenian heritage in pieces using field recordings, samples, and electronics.
Program Audio
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Title: Mokats Mirza
Composer: Thea Farhadian
Performer: Thea Farhadian
Recording Title: Tattoos and Other Markings
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1039-2
Title: Inscriptions
Composer: Thea Farhadian
Performer: Thea Farhadian
Recording Title: Tattoos and Other Markings
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1039-2
Title: The Remedy of Fortune
Composer: John Zorn
Performer: JACK Quartet
Recording Title: The Complete String Quartets
Record Label: Tzadik
Catalog Number: TZ 9318-2
Title: various selections
Composer: Morton Feldman & Tobias Hume
Performer: Guy Vandromme & Luciana Elizondo
Recording Title: Feldman and Hume: Intermissions
Record Label: Sawyer Editions
Catalog Number: SE035
Title: There was and there was not
Composer: Thea Farhadian
Performer: Thea Farhadian
Recording Title: Tattoos and Other Markings
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1039-2
Title: Difficult Grace
Composer: Fredrick Gifford
Performer: Seth Parker Woods
Recording Title: Difficult Grace
Record Label: Cedille
Catalog Number: CDR 90000 219
Title: Calvary Ostinato from Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite
Composer: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Performer: Seth Parker Woods
Recording Title: Difficult Grace
Record Label: Cedille
Catalog Number: CDR 90000 219
Title: The Race: 1915
Composer: Nathalie Joachim
Performer: Seth Parker Woods
Recording Title: Difficult Grace
Record Label: Cedille
Catalog Number: CDR 90000 219
Title: Argoru II
Composer: Alvin Singleton
Performer: Seth Parker Woods
Recording Title: Difficult Grace
Record Label: Cedille
Catalog Number: CDR 90000 219
Title: A Short Tribute to Teenage Fanclub
Composer: Anna Meredith
Performer: Ligeti Quartet
Recording Title: Nuc
Record Label: Mercury KX
Title: Honeyed Words
Composer: Anna Meredith
Performer: Ligeti Quartet
Recording Title: Nuc
Record Label: Mercury KX
Title: In Memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams
Composer: Tyshawn Sorey
Performers: Jennifer Koh & Tyshawn Sorey
Recording Title: Limitless
Record Label: Cedille
Catalog Number: CDR 90000 191
Title: The Banquet
Composer: Qasim Naqvi
Performers: Jennifer Koh & Qasim Naqvi
Recording Title: Limitless
Record Label: Cedille
Catalog Number: CDR 90000 191
