Ambient Environments

Published: May 22, 2014, 3 a.m.

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Composers like Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Bart\\xf3k and have sought to   musically depict their environs for centuries. How are landscapes, both   urban and pastoral, being represented musically today?

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Hosted by Seth Boustead
\\nProduced by Jesse McQuarters

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David Sampson: Grant Park from Chicago Moves
\\n Gaudete Brass

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Toshio Hosokawa: Landscape V (excerpt)
\\n Munich Chamber Orchestra/Alexander Liebreich; Mayumi Miyata, sho

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Peter Sculthorpe: From Oceania
\\n New Zealand SO/James Judd

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Michael Daugherty: George Washington fr. Mount Rushmore
\\n Pacific Symphony/Carl St. Clair

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Joan Tower: Big Sky
\\nChee-Yun, v.; Andr\\xe9 Emelianoff, vc.; Joan Tower, p.;

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John Luther Adams: The Far Country of Sleep (excerpt)
\\n Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta

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Christopher Tin: Haf Gengr Hri\\xf0um (The Storm-Driven Sea)
\\n Royal Philharmonic & Schola Cantorum/Christopher Tin

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Pierre Jalbert: Glass is a Place fr. Icefield Sonnets
\\n Ying Quartet
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