The Joy of Classical Music

A series within a series, New Adventures in Music is devoted to the thrill of music discovery and the joy of listening. Each episode features a varied selection of music that culminates with a featured work. This weeks episode features three tracks from coloratura soprano Julie Roset’s wonderful new album M'a dit Amour (Love Said To Me) and from Symbiosis: A Tribute to Bill Evans, a new album by Danish jazz pianist Thomas Clausen, his Trio, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, I’m featuring the glorious Bill Evans Suite.


Julie Roset performs Claude Debussy - La romance d'Ariel, L. 54

Julie Roset performs Charles Koechlin - Sept chansons pour Gladys, Op. 151: No. 1, M'a dit Amour

Anne Akiko Meyers and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
perform Eric Whitacre - The Pacific Has No Memory

Conrad Tao performs Adam Roberts -
Book of Flowers: No. 6 - Shavasana
Book of Flowers No. 8 - Rolling Waves

Julie Roset performs Claude Debussy - La fille aux cheveux de lin, L. 15

Thomas Clausen Trio and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra perform Bill Evans and Palle Mikkelborg - The Bill Evans Suite

1 “Interlude" into Waltz for Debby
2 Time Remembered
3 My Bells
4 Interlude (Treasures)
5 Waltz for Debby (Reprise)
6. Walkin' Up

A series within a series, New Adventures in Music is devoted to the thrill of music discovery and the joy of listening. Each episode features a varied selection of music that culminates with a featured work. This weeks featured work is On the Transmigration of Souls by composer John Adams.

Exaudi Chamber Choir From Cuba - Son de la loma

Trio Matamoros - Son de la Loma

Bournemouth Sinfonietta perform Edward Elgar - Sospiri

Kathryn Stott and Tine Thing Helseth perform Alexander Glazunov - Albumblatt

The Tenebrae Choir with soloist Martha McLorinan perform Judith Bingham - The Drowned Lovers

Keiko Abe and Motoe Miyazima perform Keiko Abe - Divertimento for Marimba and Alto Saxophone.

Gérard Souzay performs Gabriel Fauré - Après un rêve

The Tallis Scholars perform Thomas Tallis - Miserere Nostri

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Gwinnett Young Singers
Perform John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls

The other day I was reading an article about Duke Ellington who described his style of music as American. What is American Music? That’s a question to big to answer here but this weeks selections offer a taste of the Americanness in contemporary American art music.

Stacey Tappan performs Ricky Ian Gordon - Just an Ordinary Guy

Stacey Tappan performs Ian Ricky Gordon - What the Living Do

Missy Mazzoli, The Victoire Ensemble and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche perform Missy Mazzoli - Wayward Free Radical Dreams

Jos Milton and Melinda Coffey Armstead perform John Musto’s song cycle - Shadow of the Blues
1. Silhouette
2. Litany
3. Island
4. Could Be

Marc-André Hamelin performs William Bolcom - Lost Lady Rag

Nmon Ford and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra perform Jennifer Higdon - Dooryard Bloom

Over the next hour I’ll be taking a closer look at some of my favourite new discoveries from recent episodes and for this episode that means George Gershwin and Igor Stravinsky.

Michael Tilson Thomas performs George Gershwin - 3 Preludes for Piano

Daniil Trifonov and The Philadelphia Orchestra perform George Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F

Sinfonietta de Montréal perform Igor Stravinsky - Concerto in E-Flat: Dumbarton Oaks

For the next two episodes I’m going to be taking a closer look at some new favourites and this week it’s music from pianists Julia Hamos and Jeremy Denk, songwriter and composer Marc Blitzstein, soprano Isabel Schicketanz and Sweden’s Gavle Symphony Orchestra.

Julia Hamos performs Charles Mingus - Myself When I Am Real

William Sharp and Steven Blier perform Marc Blitzstein - The New Suit

Isabel Schicketanz performs Adam Krieger - Der Liebe Macht herrscht Tag und Nacht

Jeremy Denk performs Claude Debussy - Images, Book 1, L. 110: No. 1, Reflets dans l’eau

Avi Avital, Between Worlds Ensemble and Marina Heredia perform García Lorca, Solinís: Canciones españolas antiguas: No. 10, Zorongo

Julia Hamos performs György Ligeti - Etudes, Book 1: No. 4, Fanfares

Gavle Symphony Orchestra performs Max Reger - Romantic Suite, Op. 125