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