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.
Kyle Landstra – Within / Without (Muzan Editions; 2018)
Clara de Asís – Do Nothing (Another Timbre; 2018)
Bruno Duplant – Chamber and Field Works 2015-2017 (Another Timbre; 2018)
> all that I learned and then forgot; where our dreams get lost; a place of possibilities – Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble; lEttEr to tAku – Taku Sugimoto
Ensemble Grizzana – Early to Late (Another Timbre; 2018)
> Magnus Granberg – How Vain Are All Our Frail Delights?; Jürg Frey – Late Silence
Taku Sugimoto – ‘h’ – Cristian Alvear, Taku Sugimoto (Another Timbre; 2018)
John Corigliano – Of Rage and Remembrance; Symphony No. 1 – National Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin (RCA Victor Red Seal; 1990)
John Corigliano – Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan; Three Hallucinations (from Altered States) – Hila Plitman, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos; 2008)
John Corigliano – Conjurer; Vocalise – Evelyn Glennie, Hila Plitman, Albany Symphony/David Allan Miller (Naxos; 2013)
Taku Sugimoto – Quintets: Berlin, San Diego – Rebecca Lane, Michael Matsuno, Michiko Ogawa, Samuel Dunscombe, Johnny Chang, Erik Carlson, Lucy Railton, Judith Hamann (meenna; 2017)
Scott Wollschleger – Soft Aberration (New Focus; 2017)
> Brontal Symmetry – Longleash; Soft Aberration – Anne Lanzilotti, Karl Larson; Bring Something Incomprehensible Into This World – Andy Kozar, Corinne Byrne; America – John Popham; String Quartet No. 2, “White Wall” – Mivos String Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 – Artur Schnabel (Naxos; 1933-34/2002)
Jean Sibelius – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5; Finnish Jäger March – London Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra/Robert Kajanus (Naxos; 1928, 1932/2013)
Michael Pisaro – étant donnés (Gravity Wave; due Feb. 7, 2018)
Michael Pisaro / Reinier van Houdt – Shades of Eternal Night (Gravity Wave; due Feb. 7 2018)
David Grubbs – The Coxcomb (Rectangle; 2012)
Digital Natives – So Be Yet (Housecraft; 2017)
Nadje Noordhuis & James Shipp – Indigo (Little Mystery; 2017)
Dave Douglas Quintet – Brazen Heart Live at Jazz Standard Thursday (Greenleaf Music; 2015)
Steve Roach – Live in Tucson: Pinnacle Moments (Timeroom; 2016)
Ruven Nunez – Altar of Sunlight (Sounds of the Dawn; 2017)
Gabriel Saloman – Movement Building (Shelter Press; 2017)