Elena Kats-Chernin:  Gypsy Ramble  (1996)

Alwynne Pritchard: Invisible Cities (1999)

Hyo-Shin Na:  Walking, Walking (2004)

Karlheinz Stockhausen's STIMMUNG from 1968 in an excellent new Harmonia Mundi recording and new interpretation (Copenhagen 2007) by Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices -  Harmonia Mundi 807408 (2007)

Greg Sandow's WSJ review of this recording from September 2007 is here.

(While Stimmung is over 78 minutes long, we will be hearing the final 50 minutes) 

Stockhausen's handwritten score is dated "San Francisco 1967" is published by Universal Edition.

More information about Stimmung is here and here. 

My own photograph from a 1971 Paris performance with the original Collegium Vocale:

Elena Kats-Chernin: Concertino  (1994)
                     Georges Lentz, solo violin; Sydney Alpha Ensemble, David Stanhope, cond
                     ABC 456 4682 (1997)

Keeril Makan:  Still (2006) for violin & viola and chamber orchestra
                     Graeme Jennings, violin; Masumi Rostad, viola; Univ of Illinois Sinfonia da Camera, Vlad
                     Conta, conductor.     Live performance Sept 2006, Urbana IL  (unreleased)

Frances-Marie Uitti: There Still Is Time for speaking voice and cello (1997)
                     Text based on Shakespeare's Hamlet (Ophelia) by Paul Griffiths, and read by him
                     ECM New 1882 (2005)

Frances-Marie Uitti, Keeril Makan, and Elena Kats-Chernin will be featured composer/performers at OM 13 in next weekend, March 6-8 in San Francisco      Details here.

           from MISSA, Sanctus (excerpt)  (1987)    Wergo 6218 (1993)

 

 Excerpts from Hans Otte's Das Buch der Klänge, The Book of Sounds.
          Hans Otte, piano (1983)  Celestial Harmonies (reissue) 12069 (2006)

Hans Otte passed away Christmas day, 2007, at age 81. 

 

Kyle Gann: Saintly, from Private Dances,  Time Does Not Exist,   On Reading Emerson
               Sarah Cahill, piano; on Private Dances, New Albion NA 137 (2007)  

And a brief tribute to Berkeley composer Jorge Liderman who tragically passed away last week.

Jorge Liderman: Swirling Streams (2003) -  David Tanenbaum, guitar; Earplay, Mary Chun cond. - Bridge 9150 (2004)
                             and selections from Aires de Sefarad - 46 Spanish Songs for Violin and Guitar
                                #1: Por la tu puerta yo pasi (I came through the door)
                              #24: Adios querida (Good bye my dear)
                              Duo 46: Matt Gould, guitar; Beth Ilana Schneider, violin - Albany TROY 829

Note that MFOM programs are no longer being repeated on Monday nights on KALW due to schedule changes

John Luther Adams: Red Arc/Blue Veil
   Stephen Drury and Yukiko Takagi, pianos; Scott Deal and Stuart Gerber, percussion
   Cold Blue CB0026 (2007) 

Red Arc/Blue Veil (2001) is the first piece in a projected cycle exploring the geometry of time and color—what Kandinsky called "those inner sounds that are the life of the colors". J L Adams

Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro Illustrazioni sulle metamorfosi di Vishnu (1953)
   Fabrizio Ottaviucci, pno. Stradivarius STR 33801 (2007)

"The first illustration is fluid and hypnotic and is intended to represent the thousand-headed cosmic snake entwined around the head of Vishu; the second is very energetic and dynamic and represents Vishnu incarnated as a boar seeking the origins of life in the depts of the earth; the third is elegant and seductive and illustrates King Rama who ruled over a kingdom of great splendour in ancient times; the fourth is transcendental and represents Krishna the boy king." G. Scelsi

Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari (1986); Piano Piece for  Philip Guston (1963)
   Marianne Schroeder, pno. Hat Now CD6035 (1990) Hat Hut Records (Switzerland)

 "I am reminded of an observation Feldman made a few months prior to the composing of Palais de Mari, when he had been visiting the Metropolitan Museum in New York and had by chance come upon a late work by Degas. He was admiring the work expressly for the thinness in the application of the paint to the canvas, and remarked that he wished to work in a similar way in his own music."  Barbara Monk Feldman

Also, many interesting concerts in the Bay Area over the next two weeks. Look here.

Elena Kats-Chernin: Clocks (1993)
    Sydney Alpha Ensemble, David Stanhope, conductor.   ABC Classics 4564682

Michael Gordon: Van Gogh, excerpts  (2006)
    Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, cond.    Cantaloupe Music 21044 (2007)

Giacinto Scelsi:   Riti: I Funerali di Achille (1962) ::   String Quartet #2 (1962)
                         Stradivarius  STR 33801 (2007)

John Luther Adams:  Dark Waves
                   Stephen Drury and Yukiko Takagi, pianos, Scott Deal and Stuart Gerber, perc
                   Cold Blue  26 (2007)

Elena Kats-Chernin:  Variations in a Serious Black Dress
                     Stephanie McCallum, pno -  ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp) 4564682  (2004)

Gérard Grisey:  Vortex Temporum (1996) for piano and five instruments
         Ensemble Risognanze. Stradivarius STR 33734 (2007)

Walter Zimmermann:  The Echoing Green (1989) for violin and piano
         Peter Rundel, vn, Hermann Kretzschmar, pno;  Mode 150 (2005)

Carl writes:
"AL-NOOR was created using the Max/MSP programming language in the studios of Radio Free Nakano, in Japan. The starting source material is a vietnamese lullaby, resynthesized using a number of contrasting vocal articulations and harmonic sets, derived from different musics from other parts of the world."