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
