On the latest episode of Extra Eclectic, host Steve Seel plays music in honor of our migrating avian friends — from Norman Dello Joio's Exaltation of Larks and Terry Riley's Mythic Birds Waltz to Jennifer Bellor's Skylark Lullaby and Christopher Gunning's Birdflight. The second hour includes a tribute to jazz iconoclast Carla Bley, who died Tuesday at 87, with a selection from her album Fancy Chamber Music.
Episode Playlist
Everything Lasts Forever: Bird Sing Love
Michael Kurth
Michael Kurth: Everything Lasts Forever
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor
4:50
Exaltation of Larks
Norman Dello Joio
Music for Martha Graham
Atlantic Sinfonietta
Edvard Tchivzhel, conductor
7:44
Mythic Birds Waltz
Terry Riley
Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain
Kronos Quartet
16:10
Birdflight
Christopher Gunning
Gunning: Violin & Cello Concertos - Birdflight
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Gunning, conductor
12:13
Skylark Lullaby
Jennifer Bellor
Reflections at Dusk
Eastman Saxophone Project
Chien-Kwan Lin, conductor
10:23
Chorale for Nanine with Birds (Hommage a Messiaen)
Gerald Levinson
Now Your Colors Sing
Marcantonio Barone, piano
4:36
Eclairs sur l'Au-dela … (Illuminations of the Beyond …) : Demeurer dans l'Amour
Olivier Messiaen
Messiaen: Illuminations of the Beyond
Orchestre de la Bastille
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
10:11
Light is Calling
Michael Gordon
to you through
India Gailey, cello
7:07
Dance Card: Celestial Blue
Jennifer Higdon
Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers
Chicago Sinfonietta
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
7:57
End of Vienna
Carla Bley
Carla Bley - Selected Recordings
Carla Bley, piano
8:56
Upon Further Reflection: Sunset Soliloquy
Michael Tilson Thomas
Upon Further Reflection
John Wilson, piano
13:09
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