Instrument Cases

Adam talks to Hong-Da Chin, Jeana Melilli, and Carla Rees about different types of flutes.Audio clips:blocks by Adam Scott Neal, performed by Beo String Quartet (Theme).International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library (clips of Debussy’s Syrinx, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Holst’s The Planets (“Neptune”), Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe.Carla Rees: Claes Biehl, Eosphoros; Sungji Hong, Fatni; Jean-Patrick Besingrand, Sur la crête d'un enfer à contempler les fleursCarla Rees and Matthew Bengtson (David Bennett Thomas, You Can Dance if You Want To).Hong-Da Chin: Spring of the Pamirs; Lo Ta-yu, Rolling Red Dust; Amazing Grace.Music from China (Hong-Da Chin, Almost Identical ).International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library (clips of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever; Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C major, RV 443).ACC Heritage of America Band, Holst’s 2nd Suite in F for Military Band.International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library (clips of Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris quartet No. 2 in D Major; Bach’s Flute Sonata in B minor, Handel’s Recorder Sonata in F; Jacques-Martin Hotteterre’s Flute Suite in D Major.

Guests: Matthew Darsey, Ash Mach, Katrin Meidell.Audio clips:blocks by Adam Scott Neal, performed by Beo String Quartet (Theme)University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios (viola notes)International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library (clips of Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, Brahms’s Symphony No. 1, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture )Alban Berg Quartet, Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15Hindemith performs Hindemith, Der SchwanendreherOndřej Štochl, (Tristan Murail - C’est un jardin secret)

In this episode, I talk to Jolene Masone, Peter Van Zandt Lane, and Brittany Harrington-Smith about the bassoon -- a woodwind instrument they called woody, goofy, lyrical. I asked about their relationship with the instrument, what it "does well," and what pieces show it off well.Guests: Jolene Masone, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Brittany Harrington-SmithAudio clips:blocks by Adam Scott Neal, performed by Beo String Quartet (Theme)University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios (bassoon notes)International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library (clips of Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring)Christopher Millard and CBC Vancouver Orchestra (Otmar Nussio: Variations su un' Arietta di Pergolesi (1953) )Olivia Palmer-Baker (Pierluigi Bilone: Blaues Fragment (2010))Peter Van Zandt Lane (Hydromancer, Aeromancer, Pyromancer)Breaking Winds Quartet (“Rapper’s Delight” and Maurice Ravel’s Bolero)