Alley StoughtonDec 24, 2022
Chamber music by Douglas Boyce (@boyce_cr), Christopher Cerrone, David Eagle, Eric Ewazen, David Jaeger & Erzsébet Szőnyi - featuring Sonic Apricity, Schuyler Slack / Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė, Aventa Ensemble, Paul Cohen, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Elizabeth Reid (@violistinvt) / Alison Bruce Cerutti & counter(induction - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday 4-5:30pm ET (12/26/22) on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org #WMBR #NewMusic #ChamberMusic #Radio #Boston #BostonRadio
WMBR 88.1 FM at MIT

WMBR is the awesome little radio station broadcasting from deep within the basements of MIT in Cambridge, Mass.

Show threadAlley StoughtonDec 26, 2022

Here we go, broadcasting on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org!

If you are listening live, I'd love to hear your reactions!

#Boston #BostonRadio #NewMusic #ChamberMusic

WMBR 88.1 FM at MIT

WMBR is the awesome little radio station broadcasting from deep within the basements of MIT in Cambridge, Mass.

Show threadAlley StoughtonDec 26, 2022

I'd never played anything by Hungarian composer Erzsébet Szőnyi before, but I love this duo from 1955 - in a new Navona Records recording by Sonic Apricity.

https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6485/

Sonic Apricity – Navona Records

What happens when you combine a love for uncovering new gems in classical music with two highly skilled performers? Violist Jacob Tews and Violinist Erik Rohde answer this very question with SONIC APRICITY: an album consisting of works they have either commissioned or championed, and the namesake of their musical coalescence.

Navona Records
Show threadAlley StoughtonDec 26, 2022

Next we have the first of two recordings from Douglas Boyce's 2021 New Focus Recordings album, "The Hunt by Night".

https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/douglas-boyce-the-hunt-by-night/

Douglas Boyce: The Hunt by Night | Catalogue | New Focus Recordings

Composer Douglas Boyce's second release on New Focus, The Hunt by Night, is a collection of his finely wrought chamber music. Boyce's music balances an affinity for subtle motivic development with vigorous rhythmic energy. Featured performers are counter)induction, Trio Cavatina, violist Beth Guterman Chu, cellist Schuyler Slack, and pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute.

New Focus Recordings
Show threadAlley StoughtonDec 26, 2022

And next we have the title work of David Eagle's new Centrediscs album, "As mountain winds". And electroacoustic piece, performed by Aventa Ensemble.

https://centrediscs.bandcamp.com/album/as-mountain-winds.

As mountain winds, by David Eagle

4 track album

Centrediscs
Show threadAlley StoughtonDec 26, 2022

And next we have Eric Ewazen's "Quintet for Connosax and String Quartet", which was originally scored for heckelphone. Paul Cohen's connosax has such lovely tone!

https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8082/

Center Chamber - Ravello Records

On CENTER CHAMBER, wind, string, and keyboard instrumentalists come together to perform a collection of original and intimate compositions that include the saxophone — particularly Paul Cohen’s conn-o-sax, a rare and long forgotten instrument given new life in contemporary works.

Ravello Records
Show threadAlley StoughtonDec 26, 2022

And next we have Christopher Cerrone's 2019 "Why Was I Born Between Mirrors?", in a multi-tracked recording by Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble from during the height of the pandemic.

https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/christopher-cerrone-the-air-suspended/

Christopher Cerrone: The Air Suspended | Catalogue | New Focus Recordings

Composer Christopher Cerrone releases an EP featuring two recent works, his piano concerto The Air Suspended written for Shai Wosner and recorded with the Argus Quartet and bassist Pat Swoboda, and Why Was I Born Between Mirrors? performed by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. Cerrone's topical, post-minimalist voice speaks powerfully through these two works that both take inspiration from the work of poet Ben Lerner, among other sources.

New Focus Recordings
Show threadAlley StoughtonDec 26, 2022
Next we have violist Elizabeth Reid (@violistinvt) & pianist Alison Bruce Cerutti's recording of David Jaeger's "Sonata No. 1" - which will be released on Redshift Records as "Conjuring: The Viola Music of David Jaeger" in February.
Show threadAlley StoughtonDec 26, 2022
And to conclude this week's show, we have the title work from Douglas Boyce's "The Hunt by Night" for clarinet, cello and piano, recorded by counter)induction.
Show threadDouglas Boyce
@fullyabstract thanks so much. a wonderful show!
Dec 27, 2022 at 1:29amWeb