This week’s episode of Extra Eclectic is a musical garden, with contemporary classical works about flowers, rain, and sun. Steve Seel plays us Yoko Kanno’s Flowers Will Bloom, Takashi Yoshimatsu’s piano concerto Memo Flora, Terry Riley’s Sun Rings, Caroline Shaw’s Let the Soil Play its Simple Part and much more. Listen now!
Playlist
The Walled Garden
John Zorn
Bill Frisell, guitar
Tzadik 8309
Hana Wa Saku (Flowers Will Bloom)
Yoko Kanno
Isabel Dobarro, piano
Piano Concerto “Memo Flora”
Takashi Yoshimatsu
Sachio Fujioka, conductor
Manchester Camerata
Kyoko Tabe, piano
Chandos 9652
In a Landscape
John Cage
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
Azica 71281
Solais
Clarice Assad
Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp
Navona 6644
Sun Rings: One Earth, One People, One Love
Terry Riley
Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch 549523
Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part
Caroline Shaw/So Percussion/Jonathan Low
So Percussion
Caroline Shaw, vocals
Nonesuch 979159
Varsha (Rain)
Reena Esmail
Claire Bryant, cello
Bright Shiny Things 178
Was there a butterfly?
Onute Narbutaite
Juha Kangas, conductor
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
Alba 414
Limina Luminis
Olivia Belli
Anna Lapwood, organ
Sony 80927
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