On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: A tender farewell, a storm of emotion, and a swirl of nostalgia — Isidora Žebeljan’s final work, Three Curious Loves, is a violin concerto that moves from gentle lyricism to wild, virtuosic energy. It’s a deeply intimate piece that feels like memory set to music.
Then: Hayden Carruth’s Emergency Haying is a poem about labor — about the hard, physical work of tending land. But composer Libby Larsen saw something deeper: a quiet meditation on injustice, on lives shaped by weather, by price, by need. Her setting of the poem is raw and grounded, like the earth it comes from.
Featuring music by Sufjan Stevens, Chen Yi, Isidora Žebeljan, Paul Moravec, Richard Festinger, Bianca Gismonti, Salomao Soares, Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Olivia Marckx), Ryuichi Sakamoto, Libby Larsen, Fumihiro Ono, and Jens Ibsen. Including performances by pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick, Coalescent Quartet, violinist Daniel Rowland with Zebeljan Orchestra, cellist Matt Haimovitz, Calefax Reed Quintet, violinist Francesca Anderegg with pianist Erika Ribeiro, violinist Simone Porter, pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto, bass-baritone Alan Dunbar with Winona Symphony Orchestra, Duo AYA, and violinist Teagan Faran.
Hear it all Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming the next day on-demand at ModernNotebook.org.
Hour 1 Revanche by Sufjan Stevens Chen Yi’s Distance Can't Keep Us Two Apart Three Curious Loves by Isidora Žebeljan Paul Moravec’s Your Own Shadow Invocation by Richard Festinger Bianca Gismonti and Salomao Soares’s Navegador de Silencios | 
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Hour 2 Improvisation on "O Virtus Sapientiae" by Hildegard von Bingen/Olivia Marckx Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 20211201 Emergency Haying by Libby Larsen Fumihiro Ono’s Water Planet Temptress by Jens Ibsen | 
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