KPFA 94FM Berkeley EVENING CONCERTS of NEW/UNUSUAL MUSIC 1993 SUMMARY The following is a summary playlist of monthly evening concerts heard on the fourth and fifth Monday evenings, presented by Richard Friedman, during 1993. 22 Feb: Recent Music by Philip Glass and Mauricio Kagel Glass: Company Kronos Qtet; Nonesuch 9-79111 (1986) Low Symphony (1992) Brooklyn Phil., Davies POINT Music CD 438 150 (1993) Kagel: Finale for chamber ensemble (1981) Ensemble Modern, Kagel cond. Disques Montaigne (Paris) CD 782009 (1992) "...den 24.xii.1931" Verstuemmelte Nachrichten (Garbled News) for baritone and ensemble (1991) Ensemble Modern, Kagel cond. Disques Montaigne (Paris) CD 782009 22 March: New and Unusual Releases New KRONOS Release: Short Stories Elliot Sharp: Digital John Zorn: Cat O'Nine Tails Steven Mackey: Physical Property Sofia Gubaidulina: String Quartet #2 Willie Dixon/Steven Mackey: Spoonful Kronos Quartet, Short Stories, Nonesuch 9-79310 (1993) New Disques Montaigne Release: Mauricio Kagel: Variete (1977) Disques Montaigne (Paris) 78013 (1992) New ECM Release: Giya Kantscheli Liturgie - Vom Winde Beweint (1990) ECM New Series 1471 Kim Kashkashian, viola, Orch. Beethovenhalle, Bonn Davies, cond. March 29: More New Releases Arvo Paert Festina Lente Philharmonia Orch, CHANDOS 9134 (1993) Gacinto Scelsi: Suite #8 for Piano "Bot-Ba" Marianne Schroeder, pno Hat Art CD (Switzerland) #6092 (1992) (Also, interview with Philip Glass recorded in Berkeley) April 26: Music of Stefan Wolpe (1902-72) Piano Music: Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Piano cpo (classic production osnabrueck) #999 055 (1988) (Germany) Stehende Musik (1925) Tango (1927) Rag-Caprice (1927) March #1 op.10 (1928) Dance in the Form of a Chaconne (1938) Displace Spaces, Shocks, Negations, ... (1946) Form IV: Broken Sequences for Piano (1969) Chamber Music: Parnassus Ensemble, Korf cond. KOCH International 3-7141-2 H1 (1992) Musik fur Hamlet (1929) To the Dance Master (1938) Three Brecht Songs (1943) Quartet #1 (1950) Piece for Two Instrumental Units (1962) Solo Piece for Trumpet (1966) Piece for Trumpet and 7 Instruments (1971) 24 May: An Evening with Disques Montaigne, Paris Featured an interview with Claudine Pellerin, director of Disques Montaigne and sampled some new releases: From u.s.a DM 782010 (1993): ...Arditti Quartet Elliott Carter: Elegy (1946) Morton Feldman: Structures (1951) Alvin Lucier: Fragments (1961) La Monte Young: On Remembering a Naiad (1956) From DM 782004 (1992): Music of Luigi Nono Volume 2 Luigi Nono: la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (1989) Irvine Arditti, violin Disques Montaigne, 15 Avenue Montaigne, Paris, 75008 FRANCE 31 May: Music by Louis Andriessen Andriessen: De Staat Nonesuch 9 79251 (1991) De Tijd Nonesuch 9 79291 (1993) Reinbert de Leeuw, cond. Schoenberg Ensemble, & Netherlands Chamber Choir 26 July: New Releases Edgard Varese: Ameriques (1921), Offrandes (1924) Kent Nagano, Orchestre National de France l ÔOeuvre de Edgard Varese, Vol. 1 1920-27 Erato Musifrance 4509-92137 (1993) Philip Glass: Itaipu (1989), The Canyon (1988) Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus SONY SK 46352 (1993) 23 August: Bruno Maderna Maderna: Hyperion (1960-69) Disques Montaigne CD 782014 (1993) Peter Eotvos, cond. Festival d'Automne 1991 Paris Maderna: Biogramma (1972) Sinopoli, North German Radio Orch Deutsche Grammophon CD 423246 30 August: Recent Releases John Cage: Indeterminacy (1959) (..excerpt..) Smithsonian/Folkways re-release SF40804/5 Henryk Gorecki: String Quartet #2 (Quasi una fantasia) Kronos Quartet, Nonesuch 979319 Stefan Wolpe: Sonata for Violin and Piano (1949) Fleezanis (vn), Ohlsson (pno) KOCH International 3-7112-2H1 Stefan Wolpe: Early Piece (1925) Form IV (1969) Katharina Wolpe, piano Remembering the Dancemaster Largo CD 5120 (Cologne Germany 1992) Heinz Holliger: Scardanelli-Zyklus (1975-91) (..excerpt..) Ensemble Modern, London Voices, et al. ECM 1472/1473 (1993) 27 September: New Releases Graham Fitkin: Hook, Stub, Cud Argo CD 440 216 (1993) (England Decca/EMI) Iannis Xenakis: Jalons Ensemble Intercontemporain, Boulez cond. Erato 2292-45770 (1992) Peter Garland: Cantares de la Frontera Obstacles of Sleep Apple Blossoms What Next? Recordings WN0008 c/o Nonsequitur, PO Box 2638, Santa Fe NM 87504 Peter Garland: Sones de Flor Abel-Steinberg-Winant trio New Albion NA052 (1993) 22 November: Franco Donatoni, et al. This program present works by Franco Donatoni in honor of his appearance at U.C.Berkeley's Hertz Hall. Franco Donatoni: Lumen, Almari, Feria, Still from: ADDA 581133 & 581143 (1989/91) Ensemble 2E2M, Paul Mefano, dir. Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (Excerpt) Kronos Qtet & Aki Takahahsi Nonesuch 79320 (1993) John Luther Adams: Dream in White on White Apollo Qtet & Strings, JoAnne Falletta, Cond. "The Far Country"; New Albion NA016 (1993) Alex Mossolov: 2 Nocturenes (1926) Yuri Lisichenko, pno; Etcetera (Holland) KTC-1161 (1993) Arvo Paert: Berlin Mass (1992) ECM 1505 (1993) Luigi Nono: Omaggio a Vedova (1960) Wergo WER 6229 (1972/1993) Thank you for listening to these and other new music programs on KPFA. Your continued support of this radio station will insure that programs like these stay on the air. Apologies for taking so long to produce this list, but here it is at last. 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