#3641: Music for Bowed Strings (Special Podcast)

For this New Sounds, listen to works for violin, cello, and the 10-stringed Hardanger d’Amore fiddle. There’s a work from Irish cellist Kate Ellis, (who is also Artistic Director of the Crash Ensemble,) from her solo record, “Jump,” a collection of new music for solo cello and electronics by 5 Irish composers. Listen also to an atmospheric mix of cello and voice from the Icelandic cellist/composer/singer Hildur Guðnadóttir. One of the tunes features the bass player Skúli Sverrisson, Guðnadóttir’s eerie whisper, and a fretted cello, resonated through two grand pianos, for a hypnotic thrum, that skirts a line between gentle menace and blissful escape.

Then, hear a duo record from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh (of The Gloaming) and Dan Trueman (founder of Princeton Laptop Orchestra), which stretches and recombines the DNA of Norwegian folk and Irish trad fiddling on a 10-stringed instrument, the Hardanger d’Amore. There's also fiddle music from composer, sound engineer and producer Adrian Hart, based in Ireland. Plus, sample music from the collaborative record of music by Kate Moore for cellist Ashley Bathgate, Stories for Ocean Shells, and more. 

PROGRAM #3641, Music for Bowed Strings

ARTIST: Ashley Bathgate
WORK: Kate Moore: Broken Rosary [1:00]
RECORDING: Stories for Ocean Shells
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: bangonacan.org

ARTISTS: Hildur Guðnadóttir, featuring Skúli Sverrisson
WORK: Heima [4:26]
RECORDING: Saman
SOURCE: Touch # TO:96
INFO: touchshop.org

ARTIST: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
WORK: Cloud [5:19]
RECORDING: Music For An Elliptical Orbit
SOURCE: shop.diatribe.ie

ARTISTS: Hildur Guðnadóttir, featuring Skúli Sverrisson
WORK: Líður [2:47]
RECORDING: Saman
SOURCE: Touch # TO:96
INFO: touchshop.org

ARTIST: Kate Ellis
WORK: Niall Vallely: Sondas [10:27]
RECORDING: Jump
SOURCE: shop.diatribe.ie
INFO: kateelliscello.com

ARTIST: Adrian Hart
WORK: Canone [7:30]
RECORDING: Cuisle
SOURCE: shop.diatribe.ie

ARTIST: Ashley Bathgate
WORK: Kate Moore: Broken Rosary [5:41]
RECORDING: Stories for Ocean Shells
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: bangonacan.org

ARTIST: Moon Ate the Dark (Anne Rose Carter and Christopher Bailey)
WORK: Messy Hearts, excerpt [:38]
RECORDING: Moon Ate the Dark
SOURCE: Sonic Pieces/ Morr Music
INFO: bandcamp.com

ARTISTS: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman
WORK: What What What [4:17]
RECORDING: Laghdú
SOURCE: store.irishmusic.net

On this New Sounds, music for violin, cello, and the 10-stringed Hardanger d’Amore, with music from Irish cellist Kate Ellis, and the duo of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman.