Program 879: Instrumental Solos
KALW Broadcast Date: July 5, 2026 | Host: Ed Herrmann
This program features solo performances, both composed and improvised, and includes music by Ornette Coleman, Rhodri Davies, Jason Kao Hwang, Jennifer Koh, Bun-Ching Lam, Alvin Lucier, Cass Meurig, Roscoe Mitchell, Katia Pesti, Elliot Sharp, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Theresa Wong. The program opens with the delightful Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin, composed in 1936 by 19-year-old Lou Harrison.
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Track Info & Links
Title: Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin
Composer: Lou Harrison
Performers: Kate Stenberg
Recording Title: Lou Harrison: Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin
Record Label: Other Minds
Catalog Number: OM 1036-2
Title: Snappy Patter
Composer: Michael Tilson Thomas
Performer: Ian Bousfield
Recording Title: Grace
Record Label: Pentatone
Catalog Number: PTC 5187 355
Title: outsider
Composer: Theresa Wong
Performer: Theresa Wong
Recording Title: Practicing Sands
Title: Der Kleine Harlekin
Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Performer: Suzanne Stephens
Recording Title: Harlekin
Record Label: DGG
Title: Where The River Runs Both Ways
Composer: Jason Kao Hwang
Performer: Jason Kao Hwang
Recording Title: Soliloquies
Record Label: True Sound Recordings
Catalogue Number: TS05
Title: Seegersong No. 1
Composer: James Tenney
Performer: John Anderson
Recording Title: Melody, Ergodicity, and Indeterminacy
Record Label: mode
Catalogue Number: mode 185
Title: Telyn Wrachïod – Triban y Gwyddon
Composer: Rhodri Davies
Performer: Rhodri Davies
Recording Title: WYTH
Title: The Great Red Spot
Composer: Roscoe Mitchell
Performer: Roscoe Mitchell
Recording Title: Solo [3]
Record Label: Mutable
Catalogue Number: 17515-2
Title: Ffion Felfed (Crimson Velvet)
Composer: traditional
Performer: Cass Meurig
Recording Title: Crwth
Record Label: Fflach
Catalogue Number: CD272H
Title: Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
Composer: Alvin Lucier
Performer: Maurice de Martin
Recording Title: Zeitkratzer: Alvin Lucier
Record Label: Zeitkratzer
Catalogue Number: zkr 0011
Title: Vespers
Composer: Elliott Sharp
Performer: Elliott Sharp
Recording Title: Mandocello
Record Label: zOaR
Title: Swarm
Composer: Katia Pesti
Performer: Katia Pesti
Recording Title: Krypticos
Record Label: zOaR
Title: Exercise 17
Composer: Christian Wolff
Performer: Jürg Frey
Recording Title: Lucier • Wolff • Schlothauer • Frey
Record Label: Edition Wanderweiser
Catalogue Number: EWR 9608
Title: Bittersweet Music I
Composer: Bun-Ching Lam
Performer: Paul Taub
Recording Title: Mountain Clear Water Remote
Record Label: CRI
Catalogue Number: CD 726
Title: solo on leaf
Composer: n/a
Performer: Hmong
Recording Title: Hill Tribe Music of Northern Thailand
Record Label: personal recording
Title: Bouree
Composer: Nigel Eaton
Performer: Nigel Eaton
Recording Title: The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy
Record Label: Saydisc
Catalogue Number: CD-SDL 374
Title: Trinity (Fantasy for Solo Violin)
Composer: Ornette Coleman
Performer: Jennifer Koh
Recording Title: Violin Fantasies
Record Label: Cedille
Catalogue Number: CDR 90000 073
Title: Velour
Composer: Jocelyn Morlock
Performer: Mark Takeshi McGregor
Recording Title: Artemis Sleeps
Record Label: Redshift Records
Title: Soliloquy
Composer: Christopher Whitley
Performer: Christopher Whitley
Recording Title: Almost as Soft as Silence
Record Label: CD / DL
