Ambient Environments

Composers like Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Bartók and have sought to   musically depict their environs for centuries. How are landscapes, both   urban and pastoral, being represented musically today?

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Produced by Jesse McQuarters

David Sampson: Grant Park from Chicago Moves

Gaudete Brass

Toshio Hosokawa: Landscape V (excerpt)

Munich Chamber Orchestra/Alexander Liebreich; Mayumi Miyata, sho

Peter Sculthorpe: From Oceania

New Zealand SO/James Judd

Michael Daugherty: George Washington fr. Mount Rushmore

Pacific Symphony/Carl St. Clair

Joan Tower: Big Sky

Chee-Yun, v.; André Emelianoff, vc.; Joan Tower, p.;

John Luther Adams: The Far Country of Sleep (excerpt)

Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta

Christopher Tin: Haf Gengr Hriðum (The Storm-Driven Sea)

Royal Philharmonic & Schola Cantorum/Christopher Tin

Pierre Jalbert: Glass is a Place fr. Icefield Sonnets

Ying Quartet