Music Matters on WAYO 104.3 FM
archived shows
[reverse-chronological, additional episodes here, more forthcoming]
from my tenure as co-producer and co-host
December 2015 - April 2017
(with thanks to Nick Morandi for cataloguing them!)
Please allow time for embedded streams to load; click each episode title to open a new tab with comprehensive track listing and artist credits on Mixcloud.
American Iconoclast Conlon Nancarrow, week 1 (of 2, second archived here)
Co-host: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Music: Study No. 6 for player piano on Bösendorfer grand with Ampico mechanism, restored by Jörg Borchardt
Siete piezas canónicas (a.k.a. Studies no. 13 - 19 for player piano)
Piece No. 1 for Small Orchestra
Study no. 48c for Two Player Pianos (reproduced on Nancarrow's uprights, synchronized digitally)
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Alex Stephenson
Music: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, for soprano and fifteen instruments
Prélude; I - La mort de l'ange
Interlude; II - La mort de la civilization
III - La mort de la voix
Faux Interlude; IV - La mort de l'humanité
Berceuse
Performers: Catherine Dubosc, soprano; Klangforum Wien, cond. Sylvain Cambreling
Co-hosts: Aristéa Mellos, Alex Stephenson
Music: Piano Études, Book 1, Nos. 1-3 - Désordre, Cordes à vide, & Touches bloquées
Piano Études, Book 1, Nos. 4-6 - Fanfares, Arc-en-ciel, & Automne à Varsovie
Piano Études, Book 2, Nos. 7-10 - Galumb Borong, Fém, Vertige, & Der Zauberlehrling
Piano Études, Book 2, Nos. 11-14 - En suspens, Entrelacs, L’Escalier du diable, & Columna infinita (incomplete)
Performer: Thomas Hell, piano
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Alex Stephenson, Nick Morandi
Music: String Quartet No. 3: Lift, Tilt, Filter, Split by Alex Mincek
String Quartet No. 2 by György Ligeti
Performers: Mivos Quartet; JACK Quartet
Guest composer: Oliver Schneller
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Alex Stephenson, Nick Morandi
Music: Kagura for flute and chamber orchestra
Underground River for piano and electronics
Wu Xing/Water for large orchestra
Performers: Camilla Hoitenga, flute; Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, cond. Baldur Brönnimann; Heather O'Donnell, piano;
Orchestre National de France, cond. Ilan Volkov
Guest composer: Oliver Schneller
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Alex Stephenson, Nick Morandi
Music: Kagura for flute and chamber orchestra
Underground River for piano and electronics
Wu Xing/Water for large orchestra
Performers: Camilla Hoitenga, flute; Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, cond. Baldur Brönnimann; Heather O'Donnell, piano;
Orchestre National de France, cond. Ilan Volkov
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Nick Morandi
Music/Performers: withheld for the sake of "surprise;" listen directly or take link above for spoilers.
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Nick Morandi
Music: "O King"
Sinfonia, mvts 1 - 3
Sinfonia, mvts 4 - 5 (mvt 5 incomplete)
Performers: Eastman Music Nova, cond. Edo Frenkel; New Swingle Singers, Orchestre National de France, cond. Pierre Boulez
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Diana Rosenblum, Nick Morandi
Music/Performers: Five Songs by Witold Lutosławski
Paulina Swierczek, soprano; Wei-Han Wu, piano
Six Turkish Folk Poems by Theo Loevendie (b. 1930)
Rosemary Hardy, soprano; Nieuw Ensemble, cond. Ed Spanjaard
Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel [With Pipes, Drums, and Fiddles] by György Ligeti
Katalin Károlyi, mezzo-soprano; Amadinda Percussion Group
Co-hosts: Alex Stephenson, Nick Morandi
Music/Performers: Boston Fancies
Ensemble X, cond. Steven Stucky
Second Concerto for Orchestra
I: Overture with Friends
II: Variations
III: Finale
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, cond. Lan Suit
Funeral Music for Queen Mary, after Henry Purcell
New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, cond. Frank L. Battisti
Co-hosts: Aristéa Mellos, Nick Morandi
Music/Performers: Ebony Concerto by Igor Stravinsky
Michel Arrignon, clarinet; Ensemble InterContemporain, cond. Pierre Boulez
On Winged Flight: A Divertimento for Band by Gunther Schuller
I: Prelude
II: Pastorale
III: Nocturne
IV: Scherzo
V: Parody
Baylor University Wind Ensemble, cond. Michael L. Haithcock
Jazz Clarinet Concerto by Henry Brant
Jacques Mertins, clarinet; Netherlands Wind Ensemble, cond. Werner Herbers
Pit Band by William Albright
Taimur Sullivan, alto saxophone; Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet; Marilyn Nonken, piano
The Spatial Music of Henry Brant
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Nick Morandi
Music: Ghosts & Gargoyles: Spatial Soliloquies
Robert Aitken and the New York Flute Club
Antiphony I
New York Philharmonic, with spoken introduction by Leonard Bernstein
Guest composer: Aristéa Mellos (organizer of the Ritsos Project)
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Nick Morandi
Music: Bear Dance by Daniel Pesca
I am sinking in a sea of copper ships by Zach Sheets
Down the Moon's Marbel Well by David Clay Mettens
Suddenly by Aristéa Mellos
Starlit Cigarette by Christopher Chandler
Performers: The Ritsos Project Ensemble on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5
Sophia Burgos, soprano; Emlyn Johnson, flute; Daniel Pesca, piano on track 4
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Nick Morandi; pre-recorded segment by Alex Stephenson
Music: Cineshape 2
Richter Textures (in seven movements)
Falling
Performers: Amy Williams, piano; JACK Quartet
Guest composer: Aaron Jay Kernis
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Nick Morandi
Music: Colored Field - II: Pandora Dance
Truls Mørk, cello; Minnesota Orchestra, cond. Eji Oue
Musica celestis (for string orchestra)
Minnesota Orchestra, cond. Eji Oue
Newly Drawn Sky
Grant Park Orchestra, cond. Carlos Kalmar
Music and the Modern Metropolis
Co-host: Nick Morandi
Music: Concerto for Orchestra by Elliot Carter
in four movements played continuously -
I: Allegro; II: Presto volando; III: Maestoso; IV: Allegro Agitato
London Sinfonietta, cond. Oliver Knussen
Amériques (original version, 1921) by Edgard Varèse
Ionisation (ibid.)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Co-hosts: Alex Stephenson, Nick Morandi
Music/Performers: O Clarissima by Alex Stephenson
Waibun Chan, viola; Dylan Perez, piano
Prism, mvt 2 by Jacob Druckman
New York Philharmonic, cond. Zubin Mehta
Giovine vagha i'non senti by David Liptak
Ann Harrow, flute; Ramon Ricker, clarinet; Jeff Thayer, violin; Christopher Hutton, cello;
Mathias Trapp, piano; Yasuko Miyamoto, marimba
Chaconne by Daniel Pesca
Tigran Vardanyan, violin; Melissa Matson, viola; Ahrim Kim, cello; Daniel Pesca, harpsichord
Sudden Time (excerpt) by George Benjamin
London Philharmonic, cond. George Benjamin
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Alex Stephenson, Nick Morandi
Music: Piano Quartet in g minor (mvt. 4) by Johannes Brahms, orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg
Rendering (mvt 1) by Luciano Berio
Le Voce Sottovetro by Salvatore Sciarrino
Music for Renaissance Instruments (excerpt) by Mauricio Kagel
Guest composers: Jo Kondo, John Liberatore
Co-hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Alex Stephenson, Nick Morandi
Music: An Elder's Hocket, Three Songs of the Elderberry Tree, Isthmus by Jo Kondo;
"this living air" (mvt. 1) by John Liberatore