Episode #3125
Unconventional Piano Works
Sunday, February 03, 2013
On this New Sounds, hear some unconventional piano works, including some amplified piano in a work by Charles Ives, “Serenity” as played by Jenny Q Chai from a collection of works, “New York Love Songs.” Also from that same record, a work by Taiwanese composer Ashley Wang, involving digital piano. Plus, from a new recording, listen to Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan. The piano has been retuned to “play nicely” with the gamelan tunings in this world premiere recording featuring Gamelan Pacifica and pianist Adrienne Varner. That and more.
PROGRAM #3125, Unconventional Piano Music (First aired on 10/8/2010)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Lou Harrison |
Scenes from Cavafy |
Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan : Untitled, excerpt [1:30] |
New World 80710 |
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Jenny Q Chai |
New York Love Songs |
Ives: Serenity [2:59] |
ArpaViva 003 |
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Gamelan Pacifica, cond. By Jarrad Powell |
Scenes from Cavafy |
Lou Harrison : Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan : Untitled [8:53] |
New World 80710 |
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Stephen Scott |
Minerva’s Web / The Tears of Niobe |
The Tears of Niobe, edit [23:00] |
New Albion Records NA026 |


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