In All Languages playlist for 04/20/2015

Program: 
Field Trip
  • Suar Agung
-
Entire Album
from
  • Jegog II: "Suar Agung" the Bamboo Ensemble of Sankar Agung Village
(
  • JVC VICG-5218-2
)
Tracks 1-6 (Pinpeat orchestra); Tracks 7-9 (Taam Ming funeral music of Siem Reap)
from
  • The Music of Cambodia 9
(
  • Celestial Harmonies 13074-2
)
  • Mangkunegara IV (composer); Pura Paku Alaman Jogyakarta (ensemble); K. R. T. Wasitodipuro (conductor)
-
Puspawarna
from
  • Javanese Court Gamelan from the Pura Pake Alaman Jogyakarta (K.R. T. Wasitodipuro, director)
(
  • Nonesuch Explorer Series H-72044
)
  • Nguyen Minh Nhuong
-
Tracks 1-9
from
  • The art of the Vietnamese fiddle
(
  • Arion ARN 60417
)

Gong chime music - played in a chamber or ensemble formation - is widespread in Southeast Asia, both on the Indochinese Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago. Tonight we listen to Indonesian Gamelan and Cambodian Pipeat and Taam Ming ("music for ghosts"), topped off with a little light Vietnamese fiddle.

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