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Extra Eclectic

Getting in the spirit

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The music is exultant on this week’s show, as host Steve Seel brings us John Adams’ Hallelujah Junction and we visit the 2024 BBC Proms Festival for a live recording of Wynton Marsalis’ Herald, Holler and Hallelujah. In the second hour, American composer Christopher Cerrone’s Violin Sonata is the result of the composer’s challenge to himself to do something completely original with that musical form. Listen now!

Playlist

Piano Trio No. 4 “Angel Band”: Morning
Daron Hagen
Finisterra Trio
Naxos 559657

Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah
Wynton Marsalis
John Wilson, conductor
Sinfonia of London
2024 BBC Proms Prom 21

Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra
Carlos Simon
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
National Symphony Orchestra
NSO 18

Hallelujah Junction
John Adams
Nicolas Hodges, piano
Nonesuch 79699

Behold
Inbal Segev
Inbal Segev, cello
Avie 2561

Heartbreaker
Missy Mazzoli
Michael Mizrahi, piano
New Amsterdam 75

Flow and Fusion
Thuridur Jonsdottir
Daniel Bjarnason, conductor
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Dorian 92213

Violin Sonata
Christopher Cerrone
Rachel Lee Priday, violin
Orchid 100323

increase
David Lang
Alan Pierson, conductor
Alarm Will Sound
Cantaloupe 21139

To Music
Caroline Shaw/So Percussion
So Percussion
Caroline Shaw, vocals
Nonesuch 726502

Closing
Philip Glass
Angele Dubeau, conductor
La Pieta
Analekta 8727

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