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A Spring Awakening

Extra Eclectic - April 26, 2023

This week on Extra Eclectic, host Steve Seel celebrates the arrival of spring with two hours of modern works to help us celebrate the natural world that's waking up around us.

Episode Playlist

Butterflying
Elena Kats-Chernin (Composer)
Ragtime & Blue (Album)
Nicola Sweeney, Violin (Soloist)
Duration: 4:22

In The Garden
Max Richter (Composer)
Voyager: Essential Max Richter (Album)
American Contemporary Music Ensemble (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 4:59

Pastorale
Moondog (Louis Hardin) (Composer)
New York Presence (Album)
Extension Ensemble (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 3:07

Harmonium
John Adams (Composer)
Edo De Waart (Conductor)
John Adams: Harmonium (Album)
San Francisco Symphony (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 32:16

The Consolation of Rain: 3rd Movement
David Bruce (Composer)
The North Wind Was a Woman: Chamber Works by David Bruce (Album)
Camerata Pacifica (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 6:18

Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part
Caroline Shaw/So Percussion/Jonathan Low (Composer)
Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part (Album)
So, Percussion (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Caroline Shaw, Vocals (Soloist)
Duration: 4:38

Walking (Hommage A Thoreau)
Lars Aksel Bisgaard (Composer)
Contemporary Danish Piano Music (Album)
Carl Petersson, Piano (Soloist)
Duration: 4:52

Grass
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (Composer)|
Paul Freeman (Conductor)
Coleridge-Tayler Perkinson - A Celebration (Album)
Chicago Sinfonietta (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 16:09

Wildflower (Yolanda's Song)
Arturo Sandoval (Composer)
Wildflower (Album)
Yolanda Kondonassis, Harp (Soloist)
Duration: 7:17

A Native Hill: At Peace
Gavin Bryars (Composer)
Donald Nally (Conductor)
Bryars: A Native Hill (Album)
The Crossing (Orchestra/Ensemble)
Duration: 9:27

In A Landscape
John Cage (Composer)
Rothko Chapel (Album)
Sarah Rothenberg, Piano (Soloist)
Duration: 9:41

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