Tuesday, December 29th
string quartet festival
day one
Thomas Adès (1971-), Arcadiana (1994); Danish String Quartet, live, New York, 2015
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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Category: cello
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Thursday, December 10th
sounds of New York
Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die (JB, trumpet, compositions; Lester St. Louis, cello; Anton Hatwich, bass; Chad Taylor, drums), live, New York, 2018
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Saturday, November 21st
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György Ligeti (1923-2006), excerpts from Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Hamburg Concerto for Solo Horn and Chamber Orchestra, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 2019
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other day, Chicago
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Thursday, November 12th
This, by someone I’d never heard of (much less heard) until yesterday, I could listen to all day.
Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001), In Honour of Alfred Schnittke (AGSCH), string trio for violin, viola, cello (1986), excerpt (1st Mvt.); Patricia Kopatchinskaya (violin), Daniel Raiskin (viola), Alexander Ivashkin (cello), 2005
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other day, Chicago
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Thursday, November 5th
like nobody else
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), String Quartet No. 3 (1963)
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yesterday, Chicago (riding the L)
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Wednesday, November 4th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite No. 1 in G major; Lucia Swarts (cello), live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2014
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a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
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reading table
This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
2020
Tuesday, October 6th
Bach festival
day two
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suites No. 1 in G major and No. 5 in C minor (20:00-) for Unaccompanied Cello; Anner Bylsma (1934-2019, cello), live, Germany (Dornheim), 2000
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other day, outside Chicago (Illinois Prairie Path, Maywood, Ill.)
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Wednesday, September 30th
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Arthur Russell (1951-1992, vocals, cello), “This Is How We Walk on the Moon” (A. Russell), 1980s
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Saturday, September 26th
Enter this sound-world; you won’t want to leave.
Jean-Guihen Queyras (1967-, cello), live (Ahmet Adnan Saygun [1907-1991], Partita for solo cello, op. 31; Benjamin Britten [1913-1976] Cello Suite No. 3, op. 87; Zoltán Kodály [1882-1967] Sonata for solo cello, op. 8),performance begins at 4:50, London, 9/24/20
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Monday, September 21st
Last night, driving in Chicago with the windows down, I had this track, recorded thirty years ago, on repeat.
Arthur Russell (1951-1992, vocals, cello, keyboards) with Jennifer Warnes (1947-, vocals), “That’s Us/Wild Combination” (A. Russell), late 1980s
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