A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Nat Evans - Two Functions in Three Dimensions: music for meditative cooking - Scott Worthington (self-released; 2019)
Dante Boon – Düsseldorf recital (Rhizome.s; 2017)
> Coleman Zurkowski – Die von Blumen reich ich dir; Gil Sansón – untitled (for Antoine Beuger); Anastassis Philippakopoulos – piano piece; Eva-Maria Houben – lose verbunden; Assaf Gidron – Dim.; Jack Callahan – Blue Dream Excerpt with Proportional Ending
Blandine Verlet - Froberger ou l'intranquillite (Astrée Naïve; 2000)
> Johann Jakob Froberger - Suite II; Capriccio VI; Suite XIX; Toccata XVI; Fantasia I; Suite XIV; Canzon II; Suite I
Joe Lovano - Trio Tapestry (ECM; due Jan. 25, 2019. Audio sample here.)
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Crystal Spears (Saturn/Modern Harmonic; 1973/2019)
Anthony Braxton - GTM (Syntax) 2017 - Tri-Centric Choir (New Braxton House; due Jan. 25, 2019)
Aizuri Quartet - Blueprinting (New Amsterdam; 2018)
> Gabriella Smith - Carrot Revolution; Caroline Shaw - Blueprint; Yevgeniy Sharlat - RIPEFG; Lembit Beecher - Sophia's Wide Awake Dreams; Paul Wiancko - LIFT
Jeremy Denk - c.1300-c.2000 (Nonesuch; due Feb. 8, 2019)
> Guillaume de Machaut -Doulz amis; Gilles Binchois - Triste Plaisir; Johannes Ockeghem - Kyrie from Missa prolationum; Guillaume Dufay - Franc cuer gentil; Josquin des Prez - Kyrie from Missa Pange lingua; Clément Janequin - Au joly jeu du pousse avant; William Byrd - "A voluntarie, for my ladye nevell" from My Ladye Nevells Booke; Carlo Gesualdo - "O dolce mio tesoro" from Madrigali, Book VI; Claudio Monteverdi - "Zefiro torna, e di soavi accenti," SV 251, from Scherzi Musicali; Henry Purcell - Ground in C minor, from Ye Tuneful Muses; Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in B-flat (K. 551); Johann Sebastian Bach - Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor (BWV 903); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 16 in C (K. 545) - II. Andante; Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata No. 32 in C minor (Op. 111) - I. Maestoso; Allegro con brio ed appassionato; Robert Schumann -- "In der Nacht" from Fantasiestücke (Op. 12, No. 5); Frédéric Chopin - Preludes No. 1 in C & No. 2 in A minor from 24 Preludes (Op. 28); Richard Wagner (trans. Franz Liszt) - "Isoldens Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde; Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo in B minor from Klavierstücke (Op. 119, No. 1); Arnold Schoenberg - "Mässige Viertel" from Drei Klavierstücke (Op. 11, No. 1); Claude Debussy - "Reflets dans l'eau" from Images, Book I; Igor Stravinsky - Piano-Rag-Music; Karlheinz Stockhausen - Klavierstück I; Philip Glass - Étude No. 2; György Ligeti - "Automne à Varsovie" from Études, Book I, No. 6; Gilles Binchois - Triste plaisir
Globe Unity Orchestra - Baden-Baden '75 (FMP/Destination: OUT; 1975/2019)
Joseph Clayton Mills - The Widow (Suppedaneum; 2018)
Fissure - Rituels (self-released; 2019)
A.F. Jones - Bourdon du Kinzie (Unfathomless; 2018)
Dave Douglas - Engage (Greenleaf Music Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2019)
Anna Webber - Clockwise (Pi Recordings; due Feb. 22, 2019)
Kevin Drumm - .,.. (self-released; 2019)
Alvin Lucier - Ricochet Lady - Trevor Saint (Black Truffle; due Jan. 18, 2019. Audio samples here.)
Alvin Lucier - So You … (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) - Jessika Kenney, Anthony Burr, Charles Curtis, Tom Erbe (Black Truffle; 2018. Audio sample here.)
Ashley Walters - Sweet Anxiety (Populist; 2017)
> Nicholas Deyoe - For Stephanie (on our wedding day); Luciano Berio - Sequenza XIV; Wolfgang von Schweinitz - Plainsound-Litany; Nicholas Deyoe - another anxiety; Wadada Leo Smith - Sweet Bay Magnolia with Berry Clusters; Andrew McIntosh - Another Secular Calvinist Creed
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