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Franghiz Ali-ZadehUnconventional Works for Piano
On this edition of New Sounds, there’s music from Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, who fuses characteristics of traditional Azerbaijani music with modern Western techniques in her “Music for Piano.” Not incidentally, she is also known as a pianist who first brought the music of John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg and George Crumb to Azerbaijan. Speaking of Crumb, hear a mix of the ancient and modern with his seminal work “Makrokosmos." Each of these "Twelve fantasy pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano," corresponds to a sign of the Babylonian zodiac, and draws on various non-Western traditions. To round out the show, Geoff Keezer take dubbed layers of piano to create exquisite textures along with other piano works in unconventional tunings and tonal colors.
PROGRAM #2377, Unconventional Music for Piano (First aired on Feb. 17, 2005)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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George Crumb |
Makrokosmos I & II, Margaret Leng-Tan , piano |
Primeval Sounds [4:00] |
Mode #142** www.mode.com |
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Kronos Quartet / Franghiz Ali-Zadeh |
Mugam Sayagi |
Music for Piano [8:00] |
Nonesuch #79804** www.nonesuch.com * |
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Geoff Keezer |
Zero One |
Sleepflying [4:00] |
Dreyfus #36703 www.dreyfusrecords.com * |
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Michael Harrison |
Revelation |
Mystic Lyre [8:00] |
MHM #101 www.michaelharrison.com |
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Galeshka Moravioff |
Verberances |
Verberances 1, Op. 71 [7:30] |
Musique Du temple #VR1001 |
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