Radio Eclectus #65: The Toru in my life (Oct. 8, 2020)

Radio Eclectus honors the 90th birthday of Tōru Takemitsu (1930–1996) with a focus on new recordings and old rarities: things you probably haven’t heard before which aren’t yet available online. We also observe the 50th anniversary of The Viola in My Life—classic middle-period Feldman, traversing its four parts (each with different instrumentation) through four different recordings with four different soloists.

There’s plenty of new music too: portrait albums of three young European composers (Ed Bennett, Linda Buckley and Thomas Wally), Zen improv from the Okuden Quartet (Mat Walerian, Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Hamid Drake), furious postminimalism by Robert Moran, transcontinental collaboration from the Sound-In crew, microtonal pipe organs by Hans Eugen Frischknecht, Thomas Adès by Kirill Gerstein, and the personal geography of Raven Chacon. Radical new music from the Northwest and beyond!

“Fantastic music & interesting info!” -Amy Denio

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