Songs Without Words

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Beginning with Mendelssohn, the "Songs Without Words" genre has been explored by several composers, including Charles Valentin Alkan and Edvard Grieg. We hear a lesser-known version from early 20th Century English composer York Bowen. Also minimalist icon Terry Riley plays his own "Magic Knot Waltz" for piano in "just" intonation, and we hear from the late contemporary composer/teacher M. William Karlins with his post-expressionist second Piano Sonata.

Also Featured Tonight:

QQQ / Toykey Joykey
George Crumb / A Psalm for the Night-Wanderer
Johann Sebastian Bach / Cantata No. 6 "Bleib bei uns"
Lukas Foss / "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Zoltan Kodaly / Cello Sonata, Op. 8
Franz Schubert / "Wanderer Fantasy," Op. 15, D. 760
Gavin Bryars / Cadman Requiem

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