Coalescence — Dani Howard Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Conductor: Vasily Petrenko) Aeriality — Anna Þorvaldsdóttir Nocturne — Lili Boulanger Performers: Ewan Millar (Oboe), Tomos Boyles (piano) Sonata for Viola and Piano — Rebecca Clarke Performers: Karin Wolf (Viola) Yuko Ellinger (Piano) Continue reading Dancing with Euterpe 24/03/2024 (part two)
Spring — Hania Rani L’Île-aux-Oies — Flore Laurentienne Violet — loscil and Lawrence English Altruism — Hauschka Ballade for a Buck Moon — Motion Sickness of Time Travel Continue reading Dancing With Euterpe 24/03/2024
Passacaglia on an Old English Tune — Rebecca Clarke Viola: Amber ArchibaldPiano: Jamie Namkung Voice With Gongs — Odeya Nini “L’amante consolato” (Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2) — Barbara Strozzi Countertenor: Jakub Józef Orliński Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet 2 (Canzonetta) — Phyllis Tate Berceuse (from The Dolly Suite, op. 56) — Gabriel Fauré … Continue reading Dancing With Euterpe 29/02/2024
Young Gods Run Free (A Side) — Alex Zhang Hungtai Blessing — Seaming To 20220304 — Ryuichi Sakamoto By The Pond — Chihei Hatakeyama Hope in the Afternoon — Miya Masaoka Continue reading Dancing With Euterpe 27/01/2024
Miasma for Solo Violin — Nokuthula Ngwenyama (World Premier, 2021) Performed by Bella HristovaIntro by the composer of her work up till the 4:49 min mark. Noguthula Ngwenyama Biography: https://thulamusic.com/about/ 3 Dream Portraits — Margaret Bonds Performers: Dashon Burton, bass-baritoneStefano Flavoni, piano Lakes Area Music Festival 2020 Margaret Bonds Biography:https://afrovoices.com/margaret-bonds-biography/ Homunculus, C.F., for 10 percussionists … Continue reading Dancing With Euterpe 21/01/2024
Cosmic Breath for Wind Quintet — Dai Fujikura Junge Deutsche Philharmonie performers:Yeohin Jang, flutePatrícia Pinheiro, oboeJoshua Dahlmanns, clarinetMarie-Luise Haas, bassoonJuhye Kim, horn Pinocchio: IX. Il Gatto e la Volpe — Alexander Litvinovsky This has been living rent-free in my head since I first heard it a couple of weeks or so ago. Love it! Performers: … Continue reading Dancing With Euterpe 05/08/2023
Since I’m no longer using this title for music-learning posts, I’ll use it to archive the classical/new music I share on Masto. “Voices Shouting Out” — Nkeiru Okoye Performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (conductor: Thomas Wilkins) Symphony no. 3 in C. Minor — Florence Price Sentiments in Emptiness by Firas Zreik A Palestinian composer, … Continue reading Dancing With Euterpe 09/07/2023
Something for the 13th Watermaidens Day, and in anticipation of my releasing my debut novel WATERMAIDENS in March 2023, set partially in an alternate-world Venice, and partially in on the island-nation of Yrejveree, surrounded by the Sea of Exiles. I went down a classical music history rabbithole finding out more about women composers from Venice. … Continue reading Dancing With Euterpe 14/02/2023
Been listening to so much amazing new (and classical) music that this needed two separate posts. Bagatelle no. 1 — William Walton (performed by Sean Shibe at the Concertgebouw) The Strange World of Spiders — Laura Snowden I’m such a Laura Snowden fangirl, lol. Delighted with this new composition! The Whale Song — Michelle Ross … Continue reading Saturday Soiree part 2 19/02/2022
String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor — Florence Price (performed by Maria Ioudenitch, Grant Houston, Sarah Darling and Francesca McNeely of the New England Conservatory) One of the very late to the party listeners finally clued into what a great composer Florence Price was. Very inspirational. And this String Quartet is really beautiful, with … Continue reading Saturday Soiree 19/02/2022