Playlist.
A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Spotify jukebox does not correspond precisely with the selections listed, but maintains the playlist’s continuity and personality.
Frank Zappa – The Yellow Shark – Ensemble Modern/Peter Rundel (1993/2012; Barking Pumpkin/Zappa Family Trust)
Roman Grygoriv & Illia Razumeiko – IYOV – Maryana Golovko, Anna Marych, Oleksandra Mailliet, Andrey Koshman, Ruslan Kirsh, Anton Lytvynov, Elizaveta Kurbanmagometova, Janna Marchynskaya, Andrey Nadolskiy, Roman Grygoriv, Illia Razumeiko (YouTube; 2015)
Mike Shiflet – Tetracosa, Volume One (self-released; 2018)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata and Partitas for unaccompanied violin – Johnny Gandelsman (In a Circle; 2018)
Celer – Above Polynesia (self-released; 2017. Bandcamp subscriber exclusive)
Pinkcourtesyphone – Ossification Palisades (self-released; 2017)
Marcus Fischer – Loss (12k; 2017)
llama/lama – euler ≈ ayler (Belts & Whistles; 2017)
SUNN O))) – Solstitium Fulminate (Southern Lord; 2013)
Michael Pisaro – hinwandeln (zwischen himmel und erd) – Rhodri Davies, Michael Duch, John Tilbury (Never Come Ashore; 2017)
Gareth Hardwick – Experiment.3 (Low Point; 2017)
Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3 – Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta/David Zinman (Nonesuch; 1992)
Arash Akbari – The Rest Is Silence (Unknown Tone; 2017)
Simon Cummings – Simulated Music (Interrobang; 2011)
Kevin Drumm – Another Set of Days Now Over (self-released; 2017)
Celer – Merita (self-released; 2017. Bandcamp private release)
Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa (ECM New Series; 1984)
> Fratres – Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett; Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten – Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Dennis Russell Davies; Fratres – The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic; Tabula Rasa – Gidon Kremer, Tatiana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Saulius Sendeckis
John Tavener – The Protecting Veil – Steven Isserlis (Virgin; 1992)
> John Tavener – The Protecting Veil – London Symphony Orchestra/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky; Benjamin Britten – Third Suite for Cello; John Tavener – Thrinos