Ambient Environments

Composers like Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Bartók and have sought to musically depict their environs for centuries. How are landscapes, both urban and pastoral, being represented musically today? Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters David Sampson: Grant Park from Chicago Moves Gaudete Brass Toshio Hosokawa: Landscape V (excerpt) Munich Chamber Orchestra/Alexander Liebreich; Mayumi Miyata, sho Peter Sculthorpe: From Oceania New Zealand SO/James Judd Michael Daugherty: George Washington fr. Mount Rushmore Pacific Symphony/Carl St. Clair Joan Tower: Big Sky Chee-Yun, v.; André Emelianoff, vc.; Joan Tower, p.; John Luther Adams: The Far Country of Sleep (excerpt) Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta Christopher Tin: Haf Gengr Hriðum (The Storm-Driven Sea) Royal Philharmonic & Schola Cantorum/Christopher Tin Pierre Jalbert: Glass is a Place fr. Icefield Sonnets Ying Quartet