Latest Operatic Podcast Episodes
We've Got Rhythms (Special Podcast of show #3960)
New Sounds from WNYC - October 19, 2017 17:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to rhythmic music, whether for percussion, string quartet or vocal duet for this New Sounds. Hear works from percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, Kelly Moran, and the Jasper String Quartet, and a vocal duet from Meredith Monk and Robert Een. From the recent record, Unbound, by the Jasper St...
We've Got Rhythms (Special Podcast of show #3960)
New Sounds from WNYC - October 19, 2017 17:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to rhythmic music, whether for percussion, string quartet or vocal duet for this New Sounds. Hear works from percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, Kelly Moran, and the Jasper String Quartet, and a vocal duet from Meredith Monk and Robert Een. From the recent record, Unbound, by the Jasper St...
August & September 2017 New Releases (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - October 04, 2017 18:55 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear prog-marching band music from Chicago's Mucca Pazza, ambient-gothic Norwegian-Icelandic music from the duo Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, jazz-tronic ambient minimalism from London's Portico Quartet, and new work from Danish experimental supergroup Girls in Airports. Also, hear ne...
August & September 2017 New Releases (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - October 04, 2017 18:55 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear prog-marching band music from Chicago's Mucca Pazza, ambient-gothic Norwegian-Icelandic music from the duo Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, jazz-tronic ambient minimalism from London's Portico Quartet, and new work from Danish experimental supergroup Girls in Airports.
Classical Instruments, Contemporary Sounds (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - April 03, 2017 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear music that begins with classical instruments, like the string quartet, piano, or an orchestra, but which is then augmented, enhanced by electronics, percussion, or preparation. Listen to works by English violinist, pianist, and composer Poppy Ackroyd, Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaa...
Classical Instruments, Contemporary Sounds (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - April 03, 2017 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear music that begins with classical instruments, like the string quartet, piano, or an orchestra, but which is then augmented, enhanced by electronics, percussion, or preparation. Listen to works by English violinist, pianist, and composer Poppy Ackroyd, Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaa...
#3928: With Guitarist Shane Parish (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - January 11, 2017 20:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsGuitarist and educator Shane Parish is a sonic adventurer, perhaps best known as the mastermind behind the Asheville, North Carolina-based avant instrumental jazz-mathpunk band Ahleuchatistas, formerly a quartet, now a duo. Besides the jazz and mathrock, their musical stew also includes elements...
#3928: With Guitarist Shane Parish (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - January 11, 2017 20:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsGuitarist Shane Parish, of the instrumental prog-punk band Ahleuchatistas, plays music from his solo record of “weird old Americana” live in the studio on acoustic & prepared guitar.
#3912: With Zakir Hussain & Niladri Kumar (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - November 01, 2016 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratings“Indian music does not stop and start with Ravi Shankar.” So says tabla master Zakir Hussain, who, along with young sitar virtuoso, Niladri Kumar, joins John in the studio for a live performance. Zakir Hussain, son of Ustad Alla Rahka, isn’t just a genius Indian tabla player and composer, as ...
#3912: With Zakir Hussain & Niladri Kumar (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - November 01, 2016 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratings“Indian music does not stop and start with Ravi Shankar.” So says tabla master Zakir Hussain, who, along with young sitar virtuoso, Niladri Kumar, joins John in the studio for a live performance. Niladri Kumar and Zakir Hussain perform a radio-friendly (short) Raga Charukeshi, for Rupak Tal (a s...
#3893: With Guitarist Guy Buttery (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - September 15, 2016 20:35 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsSouth African guitarist Guy Buttery visits the studio to perform music from his latest self-titled record. Hear virtuosic feats of bending, tapping, picking, harmonics, and other techniques and textures yet to be named for guitar. Dig into his latest record on which he has collaborated with Sout...
#3893: With Guitarist Guy Buttery (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - September 15, 2016 20:35 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsSouth African guitarist Guy Buttery visits the studio to perform virtuosic feats of bending, tapping, picking, harmonics, and other techniques and textures yet to be named for guitar. Hear music from his latest record, his sixth, a self-titled wonder of collaborative tunes. Plus, music from the ...
New Music from Ireland Part 3 (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - June 23, 2015 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsThis episode continues the series exploring the new music of Ireland. John Schaefer sits down with Jonathan Nangle at the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin. Nangle tells how Donnacha Dennehy influenced him to explore more experimental music, and then shares how electronics and silence factor i...
New Music from Ireland Part 3 (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - June 23, 2015 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsThis episode continues the series exploring the new music of Ireland. John Schaefer sits down with Jonathan Nangle at the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin. Nangle tells how Donnacha Dennehy influenced him to explore more experimental music, and then shares how electronics and silence factor i...
Various Electroacoustic Music (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - May 26, 2015 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear music by Australian-born, London-based electroacoustic musician & sound artist Leah Kardos along with music by Irish woodwind player and composer Seán Mac Erlaine, as well as other electroacoustic music on this New Sounds. Listen to several works by Kardos from a sampler released in 2014, i...
Various Electroacoustic Music (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - May 26, 2015 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear electroacoustic music by Dublin-based Seán Mac Erlaine and Australian-born, London-based Leah Kardos. Plus, music from NY-based GABI, cellist Julia Kent, and Bing & Ruth.
With Missy Mazzoli (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - May 12, 2015 21:28 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsComposer, keyboardist and bandleader, Missy Mazzoli, joins John Schaefer to introduce selections from her new recording, “Vespers for a New Dark Age.” The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics,...
With Missy Mazzoli (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - May 12, 2015 21:28 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsComposer, keyboardist and bandleader, Missy Mazzoli, joins John Schaefer to introduce selections from her new recording, “Vespers for a New Dark Age.” The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics,...
Gamelan Plus (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - April 28, 2015 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to works that include gamelan, but take a more western approach for this New Sounds - like combining Celtic traditional music and Indonesian gamelan in music from Gamelan Son of Lion and composer/sax player and bagpiper Matthew Welch. In the music of Barbara Benary, the co-founder and gui...
Gamelan Plus (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - April 28, 2015 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to works that include gamelan, but take a more western approach for this New Sounds - like combining Celtic traditional music and Indonesian gamelan in music from Gamelan Son of Lion and composer/sax player and bagpiper Matthew Welch. In the music of Barbara Benary, the co-founder and gui...
New Music for String Quartet (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - April 18, 2015 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear unusual music for string quartet on this program, as Australian composer Andrew Byrne, now based in New York, uses the string quartet as a percussion instrument in his work called “Striking.” Then, listen to Bang on a Can All-Star saxman, clarinetist and composer Ken Thomson’s work for the ...
New Music for String Quartet (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - April 18, 2015 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear unusual music for string quartet on this program, as Australian composer Andrew Byrne, now based in New York, uses the string quartet as a percussion instrument in his work called “Striking.” Then, listen to Bang on a Can All-Star saxman, clarinetist and composer Ken Thomson’s work for the ...
Psychedelic World Music (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - March 31, 2015 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to world music that veers into psychedelic territory on this New Sounds, with Native-American inspired percussive drone music and Afrobeat from Brazil in music by Bixiga 70. Hear a mix of Afro-Ethiopian rock and jazz from the Brazilian band, Bixiga70, whose name is clearly a nod to the Af...
Psychedelic World Music (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - March 31, 2015 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to world music that veers into psychedelic territory on this New Sounds, with Native-American inspired percussive drone music and Afrobeat from Brazil in music by Bixiga 70. Hear a mix of Afro-Ethiopian rock and jazz from the Brazilian band, Bixiga70, whose name is clearly a nod to the Af...
New Music for Hardanger Fiddle (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - March 17, 2015 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to new music for the instrument from Southwestern Norway known as the Hardanger fiddle, (or hardingfele), but of course there’s a twist. For this New Sounds, there’s post-rock, world music, electroacoustic music, and even an Irish-American duet on this Norwegian instrument – with music fr...
New Music for Hardanger Fiddle (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - March 17, 2015 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to new music for the instrument from Southwestern Norway known as the Hardanger fiddle, (or hardingfele), but of course there’s a twist. For this New Sounds, there’s post-rock, world music, electroacoustic music, and even an Irish-American duet on this Norwegian instrument – with music fr...
Music for Choir and Percussion (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - March 03, 2015 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear music for the combination of choir and percussion like "Whispers and Cries," by Australian born composer Andrew Byrne, which features fellow Aussie musicians Astra Choir and Speak Percussion. The show won't always stick to traditional choirs and percussion. In Daniel Lentz's "Postludium," ...
Music for Choir and Percussion (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - March 03, 2015 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsHear music for the combination of choir and percussion like "Whispers and Cries," by Australian born composer Andrew Byrne, which features fellow Aussie musicians Astra Choir and Speak Percussion. The show won't always stick to traditional choirs and percussion. In Daniel Lentz's "Postludium," ...
New Music for Duos (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - February 17, 2015 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to music for duos on this New Sounds show, including stunning and inviting works from harpist Mary Lattimore & synth/guitarist/producer Jeff Zeigler from their recent collaboration, "Slant of Light." Also, hear music from Xylouris White, comprised of Cretan singer and lute player George ...
New Music for Duos (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC - February 17, 2015 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsListen to music for two-somes by Xylouris White, Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler, Jeffrey Zeigler (confusingly) & Jason Treuting, Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal, and more.
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