#4915, Three Violinists
Hear music from three violinists: Alexi Kenney in a work that deals with climate change in Alaska; Rachel Lee Priday from her project with an oceanographer; and Olivia De Prato in pieces that probe questions of dislocation and return from her album Panorama.
Listen to violinist Alexi Kenney and his recording of Matthew Burtner’s “Elegy (from Muir Glacier, 1889-2009)”. The piece “sonifies Muir Glacier’s transformation from a tidewater to a terrestrial glacier", using recorded sounds from glaciers in various states of retreat (composer’s notes.) The work is from Kenney’s recent album, Shifting Ground both a reference to the heart of all Baroque music—the ground bass—upon which variations are built, and perhaps the loss of the glacier, which has now completely disappeared.
Also, hear music from violinist Rachel Lee Priday, who has just released Fluid Dynamics, a collection of pieces written for Priday’s project with the oceanographer Georgy Manucharyan. "The idea is that the motion of water in the ocean, so essential to so much of the planet’s biomass, could be reflected in the currents and waves of sound in the six pieces on the album. While it is mostly a solo violin record, composer Cristina Spinei’s contribution calls for a looping device to echo the convection patterns of the ocean (her piece is called “Convection Loops”), and composer Christopher Cerrone’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, with pianist David Kaplan, treats the two instruments as a kind of composite soloist", (John Schaefer.)
There’s also music from violinist Olivia De Prato from her record Panorama. De Prato is a member of new music ensembles Signal and Victoire and is the co-founder and first violinist of the Mivos Quartet. Listen to “Panorama” by composer Angélica Negrón, where layers of violin and electronics are deployed in cinematic fashion swooping long lines and glissandi give way to dramatic pulses of violin riffs and spacey synths before returning to the hovering long lines of violin melodies. Plus, music by composer Samantha Fernando – “Balconies” for multi-tracked violin. That, and more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4915, Three Violinists (First aired 8/27/2024)
ARTIST: Alexi Kenney
WORK: Matthew Burtner: Elegy (from Muir Glacier, 1889-2009) [1:12]
RECORDING: Shifting Ground
SOURCE: Bright Shiny Things
INFO: https://www.brightshiny.ninja/shifting-ground
ARTIST: Olivia De Prato
WORK: Angélica Negrón: Panorama [9:08]
RECORDING: Panorama
SOURCE: New Focus Recordings
INFO: https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/olivia-de-prato-panorama
ARTIST: Rachel Lee Priday
WORK: Cristina Spinei: Convection Loops [5:18]
RECORDING: Fluid Dynamics
SOURCE: Orchid Classics
INFO: https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100323-fluid-dynamics
ARTIST: Alexi Kenney
WORK: Eve Beglarian: Well-Spent [4:43]
RECORDING: Shifting Ground
SOURCE: Bright Shiny Things
INFO: https://www.brightshiny.ninja/shifting-ground
ARTIST: Olivia De Prato
WORK: Samanantha Fernando: Balconies [6:54]
RECORDING: Panorama
SOURCE: New Focus Recordings
INFO: https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/olivia-de-prato-panorama
ARTIST: Alexi Kenney
WORK: Matthew Burtner: Elegy (from Muir Glacier, 1889-2009) [4:38]
RECORDING: Shifting Ground
SOURCE: Bright Shiny Things
INFO: https://www.brightshiny.ninja/shifting-ground
ARTIST: Rachel Lee Priday, David Kaplan
WORK: Christopher Cerrone: Sonata for Violin and Piano III Drama [5:58]
RECORDING: Fluid Dynamics
SOURCE: Orchid Classics
INFO: https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100323-fluid-dynamics
ARTIST: Rachel Lee Priday
WORK: Leilehua Lanzilotti: ko'u inoa [6:00]
RECORDING: Fluid Dynamics
SOURCE: Orchid Classics
INFO: https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100323-fluid-dynamics