We’re taking our usual end-of-year break, and we’ll be back with new programs on January 6 to start our seventh year on KALW (!) with a very special program, so stay tuned. For Friday December 16 we repeated program #237 from September 2010: Friday December 23rd’s program will be pre-empted for a KALW holiday special. […]

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Richard Friedman returns with quartets by the Czech composer Peter Graham (Jaroslav Stastny-Pokorny) and the late Chicago composer Ralph Shapey:    Peter Graham (1952-) – String Quartet #2 – (1988-2000) Konvergence Quartet  (private recording) Ralph Shapey (1921-2002) – String Quartet #6 (1963) Lexington Quartet; New World 80681 (2007) Ralph Shapey – Three for Six (1979) […]

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Other Minds staffer Brent Miller presents a program of edgy piano music: Alfred Schnittke: Sonata #2 Boris Berman, piano; Chandos 9704 Gyorgi Ligeti: Etudes for piano #6 & #7 Pierre-Laurent Aimard;  Sony Classical SK 62308 Wolfgang Rihm: Piano Piece No. 6 Siegfried Mauser; Kairos 12122 Kui Dong: Miniatures V-VII Sally Pinkas & Evan Hirsch (pianos);  […]

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