Night After Night

Playlist.

Bohuslav Martinů - Symphony No. 6 ("Fantaisies symphoniques") - Czech Philharmonic/Jiří Bělohlávek (Supraphon)

King Crimson - Supper Club, New York, NY, Nov. 12, 2000 (DGMLive)

Bent Knee - selections from Say So (Cuneiform; due May 2016)

International Contemporary Ensemble - On the Nature of Thingness (Starkland; due Feb. 26)
> Nathan Davis - Ghostlight; Phyllis Chen - Hush; Chimers; Nathan Davis - On speaking a hundred names; Phyllis Chen - Beneath a Trace of Vapor; Phyllis Chen & Robert Dietz - Mobius; Nathan Davis - On the Nature of Thingness

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Factory)

Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca (Rough Trade)

Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition (Island)

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss (Def American)

Kiss - Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, March 11, 2003 (audience recording)

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks, Vol. 8: Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 30, 1980 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)

Gabriel Fauré - Requiem - Victoria de los Angeles, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Henriette Puig-Roget, Elisabeth Brasseur Chorus, Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris/ André Cluytens (EMI Classics)

Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor ("Scottish"); A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture and Incidental Music - Jennifer Vyvyan, Marion Lowe, women of the Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden; London Symphony Orchestra/Peter Maag (Decca)

Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor ("Scottish"), Symphony No. 4 in A ("Italian") - Freiburger Barockorchester/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi)

Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Weeks (Bandcamp)

Dream Theater - The Astonishing (Roadrunner; due Jan. 29)

Evan Johnson - Positioning in Radiography - Mabel Kwan (Score Follower/YouTube)

Evan Johnson - L'art de toucher le clavecin, 3 - ensemble mosaik (Score Follower/YouTube)

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf - deconstructing accordion - Luka Juhart (Score Follower/YouTube)

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf - Kammerkonzert - Eun Ju Kim, Ensemble SurPlus/James Avery (incipitsify/YouTube)

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf - The Courier’s Tragedy - Franklin Cox (incipitsify/YouTube)

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf - Solitude-Sérénade - Ernest Rombout, Ensemble SurPlus/James Avery (incipitsify/YouTube)

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf - W.A.S.T.E. - Peter Veale, Experimental Studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of SWR/Joachim Haas and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (incipitsify/YouTube)

Playlist.

Black Uhuru - Red (Island)

Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (SST)

Tangerine Dream - Rockface (TDI Music)

Tangerine Dream - Quantum Key (Eastgate)

Tangerine Dream - Zeitgeist Concert (Eastgate)

Magnus Granberg - would fall from the sky, would wither and die - Skuggorna och Ljuset (Another Timbre)

Morton Feldman - String Quartet No. 2 - Flux Quartet (Mode)

Michael Pisaro - Add Red - Julien Héraud (Crisis < Bandcamp)

Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Disques Dreyfus)

Frank Bedrossian - Itself - SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/François-Xavier Roth (Soundcloud)

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Virgin)

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (Virgin)

Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (Virgin)

Red Wine & Whiskey - Composing Life (self-released)

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (Columbia)

King Crimson - Teatro Smeraldo, Milan, Italy, June 20, 2003 (DGMLive)

Ariana Kim - Routes of Evanescence - Ariana Kim, Jennifer Curtis, Ieva Jokubaviciute (self-released/CD Baby)
> Jennifer Curtis - The Moon in the Sand; Ruth Crawford Seeger - Sonata for Violin and Piano; Augusta Read Thomas - Incantation; Tonia Ko - Still Life Crumbles; Augusta Read Thomas - Pulsar; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Sonata in Three Movements; Bill Monroe (arr. Kim/Curtis) - "Wheel Hoss"

Michael Finnissy & Michael Norsworthy - WAM (New Focus Recordings)
> Michael Finnissy - Clarinet Sonata; L'Union Libre; Mike, Brian, Marilyn & the Cats; WAM - William Fedkenheuer; Giant Abstract Samba - NEC Wind Ensemble/Charles Peltz

Aaron Helgeson - Poems of Sheer Nothingness - Susan Narucki, Talea Ensemble/James Baker (Innova; due Jan. 29)
> Aaron Helgeson - Poems of Sheer Nothingness; Notes on a page (of Sappho)

Hans Abrahamsen - let me tell you - Barbara Hannigan, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (Winter & Winter)

Hans Werner Henze - Symphony No. 8 - Gürzenich-Orchester Köln/Markus Stenz (Phoenix Edition < YouTube)

210 New York minutes in Boston on January 20.

Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, John Cage, David Tudor, and Morton Feldman in 1962; photo credit: Earle Brown Music Foundation

On Wednesday, January 20, Bostonians will have what appears to be a unique opportunity to hear three significant pieces by three major composers from the so-called New York School, crammed into 210 eventful minutes at two notable venues.

First, six performers from the Boston Conservatory - Andrew O’Shanick, Lauren Cook, Natalie Logan, Tzytle Steinman, Rachel Barg, and Simon Dyer - present John Cage's Song Books throughout the Chinese art galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts. The presentation is scheduled to take place from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, and is free with museum admission. (More details here.)

If you're willing to cut out just a little bit early - or if chance dictates that the Song Books presentation ends 10 minutes shy of its destination - then you can walk at a fast clip over to the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. There, the tireless and terrific Stephen Drury will play two seldom-encountered piano works by Cage's friends and colleagues: Christian Wolff's Suite (I), for prepared piano, and Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus. (More details here.)

Although I've never tried it, I'm assured that the walk from the MFA to the NEC is a trifling eight minutes. Probably closer to five if you opt to walk like a New Yorker.

Me, I'm unable to attend either event, let alone both. Most likely I'll be at my computer, listening to Earle Brown and David Tudor in melancholy isolation.

Playlist.

Johannes Brahms - Piano Trios Nos. 1-3 - Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff & Lars Vogt (Ondine)

Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 in C minor ("Organ") - Olivier Latry;  Samy Moussa - A Globe Itself Infolding - Jean-Willy Kunz;  Kaija Saariaho - Maan varjot - Olivier Latry; Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal/Kent Nagano (Analekta)

Bartholomäo Riedl - Fanfara; Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - Plaudite tympana; Battalia à 10; Sonata for 8 Trumpets and Timpani ("Sancti Polycarpi"); Missa Salisburgensis - La Capella Reial de Catalunya,  Le Concert des Nations,  Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox)

King Crimson - Kokusai Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 16, 1981 (DGMLive)

David Bowie - ChangesBowie (Parlophone)

Alan Feinberg - Fugue State (Steinway & Sons)

Larry Polansky - Three Pieces for Two Pianos (New World)
> Three Pieces for Two Pianos - Joseph Kubera, Marilyn Nonken; Old Paint - Rory Cowal; k-toods - Tobin Chodos, Ittai Rosenbaum; Dismission (pianotood), Dismission (pianotood 2) - Amy Beal

Claude Debussy - Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor; Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor; Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; Syrinx for flute solo - Boston Symphony Chamber Players (Pentatone)

King Crimson - Teatro Toniola, Mestre Venice, Italy, May 4, 1995 (DGMLive)

Ben Johnston - String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 9 - Kepler Quartet (New World)

Jeremy Flower - The Real Me (keepalive < Bandcamp)

Rapoon - Tin of Drum + Tin reflections in metal stars (Aquarellist)

ESH & ARC - Nightworks (AR Classic < Bandcamp)

Mason Bates - Mothership - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
> Mothership - Jason Moran, Su Chang; Sea-Blue Circuitry; Attack Decay Sustain Release; Rusty Air in Carolina; Desert Transport

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World (Parlophone)

Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor ("Scottish") - Orchestra of Indian Hill/Bruce Hangen (Instant Encore)

Courage Cloak - Praise the Thaw (self-released < Bandcamp)

Chinary Ung - Singing Inside Aura - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
> Water Rings Overture; Anicca; Antiphonal Spirals; Singing Inside Aura - Susan Ung; Grand Spiral: Desert Flowers Bloom

Gil Sansón - Immanence, a Life (Makam)

Magnus Granberg - ist gefallen in den Schnee - Skogen (Another Timbre)

Gil Sansón - Untitled (for Po Chu-i) (very quiet records < Bandcamp)

Magnus Granberg - Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long - Skogen (Another Timbre)

Playlist.

Joseph Clayton Mills - The Letter (Suppedaneum; No. 19 of 100)

Sunn O))) - Kannon (Southern Lord)

Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory (Alucard)

Opeth - Damnation (Music for Nations)

Opeth - Deliverance & Damnation (The End)

Kevin Drumm - January (Bandcamp)

Tortoise - The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey; due Jan. 22)

Gil Sansón - Ese maldito yo/El ocaso del pensamiento (Lengua de Lava)

============ Rituel in memoriam Pierre Boulez, Jan. 6 ============

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon)

Igor Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps - Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F./Pierre Boulez (Disques Adès < YouTube)

Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans maître; Dérive 1 & 2 - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon)

Olga Neuwirth - Clinamen/Nodus - London Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez (Kairos)

Elliott Carter - A Symphony of Three Orchestras - Ensemble Intercontemporain, New York Philharmonic/Pierre Boulez; Edgard Varèse - Déserts; Ecuatorial; Hyperprism - O.R.T.F. Choir, Ensemble Intercontemporain (Sony Classical)

Pierre Boulez - Pli selon pli - Phyllis Bryn-Julson, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Boulez (Erato)

Harrison Birtwistle - Tragoedia; Five Distances; Three Settings of Celan; Secret Theatre - Christine Whittlesey, Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon)

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C minor - Vienna Philharmonic/Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon)

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 in D minor - Los Angeles Philharmonic/Pierre Boulez (YouTube)

Luigi Nono - A Pierre. Dell'azzurro silenzio, inquietum - Roberto Fabbriciani, Ernesto Molinari (Neos)

Pierre Boulez - Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna; Notations I, VII, IV, III, II; Figures-Doubles-Prismes - Orchestre National de Lyon/David Robertson (Naïve)

============ Rituel in memoriam Pierre Boulez, Jan. 6 ============

King Crimson - Kokusai Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 14, 1981 (DGMLive)

Caroline Park - less than human (Pan y Rosas)

Jeph Jerman/Tim Barnes - versatile ambience (Idea Intermedia)

Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do, Vol. 15 (Glistening Examples)

Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do, Vol. 16 (Glistening Examples)

Pérotin - Beata viscera; other works; Scott Ordway - North Woods; David Lang - I lie - Lorelei Ensemble/Beth Willer; David Lang - Ark Luggage - Mellissa Hughes, Newspeak; David Lang - The National Anthems - Choir of Trinity Church, Newspeak/Julian Wachner (Trinity Church webcast)

Guido Gamboa - Saturday's Notes (Pentiments)

Kraftwerk - Computer World (EMI)

Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time (Atomhenge)

David Bowie - Blackstar (ISO/Columbia)

Playlist.

Orlande de Lassus - Prophetiae Sibyllarum - Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street/Scott Allen Jarrett; Daniel Felsenfeld - Astrophysical Mass - Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street, NOVUS NY/Julian Wachner (Trinity Church Wall Street webcast)

Rapoon - Seeds in the Tide, Vol. 4 (Zoharum)

Yael Barolsky - Meanderings (self-released < Bandcamp)
> Luciano Berio - Sequenza VIII for solo violin; Dai Fujikura - Fluid Calligraphy for violin and optional video; Amos Elkana - Reflections for violin and electronics; Michael Barolsky - Prana for violin and tape; Luca Francesconi - Riti neurali - Israel Contemporary Players/Ilan Volkov

Steve Roach - Live in Tucson: Pinnacle Moments (Timeroom < Bandcamp)

Steve Roach - Live in Tucson: Skeleton - Spiral Passage (Extended Version) (Timeroom < Bandcamp)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony - Katherine Broderick, Roderick Williams, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Ad Solem, Hallé Orchestra/Mark Elder (Hallé)

Metallica - ...And Justice for All (Elektra)

Hans Abrahamsen - let me tell you - Barbara Hannigan, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (Winter & Winter; due Jan. 8)

King Crimson - unknown venue, Augsburg, Germany, March 27, 1974 (DGMLive)

Opeth - Deliverance (Music for Nations)

eighth blackbird - Filament (Cedille)
> Bryce Dessner - Murder Ballads; Nico Muhly - Doublespeak; Son Lux - To Love; Philip Glass - Two Pages (w/ Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly); Son Lux - This Is My Line

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 - Hallé Orchestra/Mark Elder (Hallé)

Travis Laplante/Peter Evans - Secret Meeting (NNA Tapes; due Feb. 6)

Richard Garet - Meta (Line < Bandcamp)

Jeremy Flower - "Take" and "The Real Me" (from The Real Me) (self-released < Bandcamp; due Jan. 8)