Radio Eclectus #78: Concertos for a new year (Jan. 14, 2021)

A huge batch of new releases for the new year features 3 premiere recordings of 3 remarkable concertos: Francisco Coll’s Les Plaisirs illuminés (with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta), Ned Rorem’s Mallet Concerto (with Evelyn Glennie), and Thurídur Jónsdóttir’s Flutter (with flutist Mario Caroli). We also preview new albums of creative improvised music by Mark Feldman, Susie Ibarra, and the trio of Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas R. Ewart & Mike Reed. John Zorn channels Alfred Jarry, Bun-Ching Lam channels Etel Adnan and Isabelle Fraisse channels Beethoven’s Opus 111. Sound-In demonstrates how to do lockdown collab, and Oxana Omelchuk demonstrates how to compose intriguing polystylistic chamber works. Finally, we explore new electroacoustic partnerings between Daniel Lentz & Ian William Craig, between Mark Fell & Will Guthrie, and between Fred Frith, Sudhu Tewari & Cenk Ergün. Radical new music from the Northwest and beyond!

See Comments for photo credits and an annotated playlist.