Composer Missy Mazzoli imagines a hurdy gurdy — that wheezing, droning instrument dating from the middle ages — “flung out into space” and into orbit, in her piece Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres). Yes, it’s a whimsical idea, and whimsy is on the docket on this week’s Extra Eclectic. Steve Seel also features Caroline Shaw’s The Observatory, Christopher Cerrone's Ode to Joy, and Laurie Spiegel’s inversion of Charles Ives’ famous title in her work The Unquestioned Answer. Listen now!
Playlist
Alleluia in Form of a Toccata
Louise Talma
Orion Weiss, piano
First Hand 129
The Observatory
Caroline Shaw
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Platoon DALIA01
Please Be Still
Jlin
Third Coast Percussion
Cedille 236
Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Missy Mazzoli
Tim Weiss, conductor
Arctic Philharmonic
Bis 2572
A Boy and a Makeshift Toy
Mary Kouyoumdjian
Jessica Oudin, viola
Navona 6644
Ode to Joy
Christopher Cerrone
Sandbox Percussion
Pentatone 7403
Polar: The Waves
Gabriel Olafs
Viktor Orri Arnason, conductor
Reykjavik Orchestra
saman
Olafur Arnalds
Jess Gillam Ensemble
Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
London/Decca 4870832
Lignum
Jekabs Jancevskis
Kremerata Baltica
Alina Vizine, Zane Kalnina, Rakele Chijenaite, svilpaunieki
ECM 2745
Season of Light
Fuse & Xavi Torres
Fuse
Fusemusic 2024
Organum Light
Dobrinka Tabakova
Julian Azkoul, conductor
United Strings of Europe
Bis 2739
The Unquestioned Answer
Laurie Spiegel
James McVinnie, organ
Absence
Magnus Lindberg
Nicholas Collon, conductor
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondine 1436
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