#5035, From Soundcheck with Brooklyn Rider
The string quartet known as Brooklyn Rider features the usual two violins, viola and cello. And that’s about all that’s usual with this band. Over the past two decades they have played with Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Mexican singer Magos Herrera, Irish fiddler Martin Hayes, and banjo wiz Bela Fleck. They’ve commissioned a bunch of new pieces, and now, to celebrate their 20th anniversary, they’ve released a new record called The Four Elements - a wide range of music from the past and the present which is representative of, or directly inspired by Earth, Air, Fire, Water. And in parallel, the record is also designed to raise the alarm and bring “attention to the powerful forces of climate change which represent the single greatest challenge of our time”, (Bandcamp). Brooklyn Rider plays new works and an older piece, in-studio.
The quartet celebrates 20 years by playing a 3-night, 6-concert free and Choose-What-You-Pay series at Lincoln Center called Brooklyn Rider: 20 Years At Play from Aug. 7-9. John Schaefer hosts Aug. 7th's opening concert, which will include a number of guests.
Program #5035, From Soundcheck with Brooklyn Rider (First aired 8/05/25)
ARTIST: Brooklyn Rider
WORK: Colin Jacobsen - A Short While To Be Here... - I. Whoa, Mule! [3:00]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, June 2025
SOURCE: The work appears on The Four Elements
INFO: https://www.brooklynrider.com
ARTIST: Brooklyn Rider
WORK: Colin Jacobsen - A Short While To Be Here... - IV.- The Old Cow Died-V. Little Birdie [4:53]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, June 2025
SOURCE: The works appear on The Four Elements
INFO: https://www.brooklynrider.com
ARTIST: Brooklyn Rider
WORK: Conrad Tao: Undone [5:11]
RECORDING: The Four Elements
SOURCE: In a Circle Records
INFO: https://brooklynrider.bandcamp.com/album/the-four-elements-icr033
ARTIST: Brooklyn Rider
WORK: Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae [12:35]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, June 2025
SOURCE: The works appear on The Four Elements
INFO: https://www.brooklynrider.com
ARTIST: Brooklyn Rider & Kayhan Kalhor
WORK: Ascending Bird [3:49]
RECORDING: Silent City
SOURCE: World Village Records
INFO: https://www.brooklynrider.com
