Poster Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider sits in a river
Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider internalizes music in unique ways. Her new opera, Hildegard, received its world premiere in 2025 at the LA Opera.
Anja Schutz
Extra Eclectic

New music for a new year

Extra Eclectic - Jan. 7, 2026

With a new year, we bring you two hours of new works on the latest episode of Extra Eclectic — and it’s hard to think of a better way to go than by focusing on the composers who are truly emerging as the voices taking classical music into the future: the women! Steve Seel brings us music by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Shelley Washington, Sophie Hutchings, Anna Clyne and more. Listen now!

Playlist

Stimm
Hildur Gudnadottir
Hildur Gudnadottir, cello
DG 4863110

Eternal Present: Always
Shelley Washington
~nois
Bright Shiny Things 197

Fragments of Light
Sophie Hutchings
Sophie Hutchings, piano
Mercury KX 90583

Forward Into Light
Sarah Kirkland Snider
Andrew Cyr, conductor
Metropolis Ensemble
New Amsterdam

Abstractions
Anna Clyne
Marin Alsop, conductor
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 574620

There Will Be Hope
Hania Rani/Dobrawa Czocher
Hania Rani, piano and vocals
DG 4860603

Cancion de el alma (Song of the Soul)
Edie Hill
Donald Nally, conductor
The Crossing
Navona 6073

Pasajes
Tania Leon
Edward Gardner, conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Alala das Paisaxes Verticais
Carme Rodriguez
Isabel Dobarro, piano
Grand Piano 944

how do I find you
Caroline Shaw
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
PentaTone 6961

Still Life with Avalanche
Missy Mazzoli
eighth blackbird
Cedille 133

Whispered Lullaby
Dobrinka Tabakova
Maxim Rysanov, viola
ECM 2670

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