Crossing Barriers

Relevant Tones

English - September 13, 2014 21:00 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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A big trend in the 2000’s saw contemporary music ensembles commissioning composers not to write new pieces for them but to arrange music by pop artists.

We’ll listen to music from two such collaborations: Alarm Will Sound performing arrangements of electronic musician Aphex Twin and Osso Quartet’s arrangements of indie pop superstar Sufjan Stevens.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Produced by Jesse McQuarters

PLAYLIST

Sufjan Stevens: Year of the Snake (excerpt)

Sufjan Stevens (arr. Olivier Manchon): Year of the Snake

Osso String Quartet

King Crimson (arr. Ziporyn): Epitaph

Maya Beiser, vc.

Philip Glass, Symphony No. 1, Low Symphony, I (excerpt)

Brooklyn Philharmonic/Davies

Beck (arr. Kahane): Mutilation Rag 2:08

Ymusic

Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator (excerpt)

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator

Balanescu String Quartet

Sigur Rós (arr. Prutsman): Flugufrelsarinn

Kronos Quartet

Queen/Tolga Kashif: The Queen Symphony, III (Who Wants to Live Forever, Save Me)

Royal Philharmonic/Tolga Kashif

Aphex Twin: Logon Rock Witch (excerpt)

Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin (arr. Jonathan Newman): Logon Rock Witch

Alarm Will Sound