Martian Gardens

PlaylistHour 2SET THREEDaniel Lippel: Neñia (Canción Fúnebre) (P. Gilbert)Adjacence (various artists)New Chamber Music for GuitarNew Focus Recordings/2024soprano: Elizabeth Weigle; guitar: Daniel Lippel; text: Carlos Guido y Spano, Neñia; recorded Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, January 26, 2020; composer: Peter Gilbert; composition year: 2005; time: 6:08Natalia Cappa: De los Sos Ojos (D. Tedesco)Una (various composers)New Focus Recordings/2024(for solo voice); soprano: Natalia Cappa; texts: Cantar de mio Cid; Marco Polo, "Kublai Khan," Amancio Prada, "Romance del Prisionero; structural inspiration: Macedonio Fernández, "Museo de la Novela de la Eterna; Manuel Puig, "The Buenos Aires Affair; composer: Diego Tedesco; composition year: 2023; time: 11:35Leopoldo La Rosa: Andes No. 1, 1969 (Fragment)Tensions at the Edge (various artists)New Music from Peru (1948-1979) Pogus Productions/2012(for orchestra); National Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Leopoldo La Rosa; premiered in Lima, 1970; composition year: 1969; time: 4:17SET FOURJeremy Beck: The Highway -- An Opera Noir (Excerpts) (selections)a. Prelude (1:37)b. The Highway on the Left -- Get the hell back! (7:12) Song of the SkyNeuma Records/2025soprano: Emily Albrink (as Melody); tenor: Robert Frankenberry (as Dave); baritone: Chad Sloan (as James); libretto: Jeremy Beck; Sofia Session Orchestra, conductor: Lyubomir Denev, Jr.; electric guitar: Seth Thomas; recorded at TNT Studios, Louisville, Kentucky, 2022; composition year: 1992; selections time: 8:49Martin Bresnick: Fantasia on a theme by Willie Dixon*My Twentieth CenturyNew World Records/2005Povera Players (piano: Lisa Moore; bass clarinet: Meighan Stoops; drum set: John Ferrari; vibraphone: Jason Treuting; keyboards: Marija Ilic; guitar: Mark Stewart; violin: Jeannine Wynton); recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University School of Music, September 24, 2003; composition year: 2001; time: 9:19*based on Dixon's song "Spoonful" Marco Capelli: A Bright Moon Makes a Little Daytime: Hammertones (N. Didkovsky)EGP -- Extreme Guitar Project (various composers)Music from Downtown New York Mode Records/2006guitar: Marco Capelli; composer: Nick Didkovsky; time: 3:03Nick Didkovsky: A Fire in God's PathThe $100 Guitar Project (various artists)Bridge Records/2013electric guitar: Nick Didkovsky; time: 0:40

PlaylistHour 1SINGLE PLAYDavid Starobin: Four Stevens (M. Starobin) (selections)III. Winter (The Snow Man) (3:39)IV. Spring (Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself) (4:24)New Music with Guitar, Vol. 10 (various composers)Bridge Records/2016guitar: David Starobin; baritone: Patrick Mason; composer: Michael Starobin; texts: Wallace Stevens (III. 1921; IV. 1954); recorded at Eglise de Mont St. Guibert, Belgium, November, 1995; composition year: 1992; time: 8:03SET ONEKate Soper: Romance of the Rose (selections)a. A Volunteer (4:07)b. The Garden (3:12)c. Narcissus (3:23)The Romance of the RoseAn OperaNew Focus Recordings/2024The Romance of the Rose — tenor: Lucas Steele; baritone: Phillip Bullock; soprano: Anna Schubert; mezzo-soprano: Devony Smith; soprano: Ariadne Greif; baritone: Ty Bouque; The Wet Ink Ensemble (clarinets: Rane Moore; saxophones: Erin Rogers; piano, keyboard: Laura Barger; percussion: Ian Antonio; violin, viola: Modney; cello: Michael Nicolas; electric guitar: James Moore; harp: Jacqueline Kerrod; electronics: Sam Pluata), conductor: Eric Wubbels; libretto: Kate Soper; inspiration: Le Roman de La Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun; additional texts: Christine de Pizan, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson; recorded at Oktaven Audio, August 11-13, 2023; composition year: 2021; selections time: 10:42Mark Applebaum: Narcissus ReMixThe Janus ReMixes Exercises in auto-plunderingInnova Recordings/1999(electroacoustic music -- sounds sourced from Applebaum's Narcissus: Strata/Panacea for solo marimba); computer: Mark Applebaum; time: 5:34SET TWOJuraj Kojš & Pioneer Winter Collective: BarbaraBirds of ParadiseNeuma Records/2025 electronic music: Juraj Kojš; spoken word: Barbara Meulener (Pioneer Winter Collective); Birds of Paradise songs and dances premiered in Miami, 2021; time: 7:31Laurie Anderson: Mister Hearbreak (selections)a. Langue d'Amour (6:12)b. Excellent Birds (3:12)*Mister HeartbreakWarner Bros./1984a. vocals, Synclavier, vocoder, electronic conches: Laurie Anderson; backing vocals: Peter Gabriel; b. vocals, Synclavier: Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel; electric bass guitar: Bill Laswell; Peter Gabriel: Linn drum; electric guitar: Nile Rodgers; recorded in New York City, 1983; selections time: 9:24*L. Anderson/P. Gabriel Paul Lansky: Barbara Allen (trad.)Folk ImagesBridge Records/1995computer music: Paul Lansky; Princeton University, 1991, time: 3:29