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Martian Gardens Episode 1250
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 27, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Ahn Trio: Concerto for Piano Trio and Percussion (K. Bunch)
Ahn-Plugged (various composers)
EMI/2000
Ahn Trio (piano: Lucia Ahn; violin: Angella Ahn; cello: Maria Ahn); percussion: Matthew Gold; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, July 1999; composer: Kenji Bunch; composition year: 1996; time: 6:38

Ahn Trio: Island of Peace (L Spiegel)
Ahn Trio Ensemble Plays Laurie Spiegel
Ahn Trio/2025
Ahn Trio Ensemble (piano: Lucia Ahn; cello: Maria Ahn); recorded at the Bunker Studio, Brooklyn; composer: Laurie Spiegel; composition year: 2025; time: 6:38

SET TWO
Russell Platt: After Apple-Picking
Mountain Interval
Bridge Records/2025
tenor: Paul Appleby; piano: Myrna Huang; text: Robert Frost; recorded at Legacy Sound and Samurai Hotel, New York City, 2024; composition: 2021; time: 7:40

Elliott Carter: Three Poems of Robert Frost
a. Dust of Snow (1:22)
b. The Rose Family (1:20)
c. The Line Gang (2:00)
The Vocal Works (1975-1981)
Bridge Records/1989
baritone: Patrick Mason; Speculum Musicae, conductor: David Starobin; texts: Robert Frost; RCA Studio A; composition year: 1942, orchestrated 1980; total time: 4:46

Robert Frost: Dust of Snow
MP3
read by Robert Frost, recorded May 5, 1933; first published as “Favour” in the London Mercury, December 1920; time: 0:21

SINGLE PLAY
Lei Liang: Madrigal Mongolia
String Quartets: Live
New Focus Recordings/2025
Brentano Quartet (violin: Mark Steinberg, Serena Canin; violist: Misha Amory; cello: Nina Lee); recorded at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, University of California San Diego; February 28, 2025; composition year: 2024; time: 18:42

SINGLE PLAY
Hurwitz-Stokes-Pesca: Sonatina for Violin and Piano (C. Chávez)
I. Largo (1:39)
II. Scherzo (1:28)
III. Adagio (1:57)
IV. Largo (1:155)
The Night Shall Break
Neuma Records/2024
violin: Hanna Hurwitz; cello: Colin Stokes; piano: Daniel Pesca; composer: Carlos Chávez; composition year: 1924; total time: 6:20

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Jeffrey Schanzer: The Past is Present (selections)
IV. Conversation with a Cousin I (5:56)
V. Conversation with a Cousin II (8:56)
The Past is Present
Neuma Records/2025
Cousin I: soprano: Sylvia Bloom; tenor: Brian McCorkle; baritone: Thomas Megiloranza; violin: Laura Seaton; bass clarinet: Ned Rothenberg; Cousin II: Sylvia Bloom, Ned Rothenberg; text: Jeffrey Schanzer and family; composition year: 1998; total selections time: 14:52

SET THREE
Daniel Leduc: Die Winterreise (The Winter’s Journey) (selections)
a. Gute Nacht (2:03)
b. Die Wetterfahne (1:42)
c. Gefrorne Tränen (0:36)F
d. Erstarrung (1:08)
e. Der Lindenbaum (1:28)
f. Wasserflut (1:03)
g. Auf dem Flusse (2:39)
h. Rückblick (1:59)
Le voyage d’hiver
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, and the Secteur électroacoustique of the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal; text: Wilhelm Müller; composition years: 1995-1997; total selections time: 10:38

Beatriz Ferreyra: Le chemin du vent des glaces
Les Saisons 1972 [GMEB] — 2002 [IMEB] (various artists)
IMEB/2003
(fixed medium); composition year: 2002; time: 10:35

SET FOUR
Tim Patterson: Three Pieces for the Winter Solstice (J. Bergamo)
I. (2:26)
II. (0:33)
III. (2:52)
Like Style, Dig? The Music of John Bergamo
Innova Recordings/2015
(for solo vibraphone); vibraphone: Tim Patterson; recorded at Black House Studios, Madison, Wisconsin; composition year: 1968; composer: John Bergamo; time: 4:41

Laurie Spiegel: Finding Voice
Unseen Worlds
Laurie Spiegel’s Bandcamp/2019 (orig. Scarlet Records/1991)
computer, Music Mouse: Laurie Spiegel; time: 2:45

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Lucas Werenkraut and TRoneitor: Portal
Inframundo
Emotional Analog Resonance (EAR)/2025
TRoneitor home-built electronic instrument: Lucas Werenkraut; recorded live in Buenos Aires, Argentina; time: 9:06

Ernő Király: Phoenix
Phoenix — The Music of Ernő Király
ReR Megacorp/1996
cimbalom, processing: Ernő Király; composition year: 1990; time: 6:33

Mary Lee Roberts: Winter Cranes
Open Space 9: 6 Compositions
Open Space/1997
(computer music); realized at the NYU electronic music studios; composition year: 1997; time: 7:51

SET SIX
Gonzalo Biffarella: Rastros
Mestizaje
La Chant Du Monde/1997
electroacoustic music recorded at the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), Bourges, France, 1996; time: 7:55

Jose Sad Levi: Boca di Piedra (Stone Mouth)
Cognitive Rebirth
Jorge Sad Levi’s Bandcamp/2025
(for electronics, soprano, and bass clarinet); soprano: Sachika Ito; bass clarinet: Diego Montes; text: Clarisse Nicoïdski, La culor dil tiempu; recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina; time: 6:20

Benjamin Broening: Traces (i)
Trembling Air
Benjamin Broening and Eighth Blackbird
Bridge Records/2012
 electroacoustic music sourced from outtakes from “Trembling Air” recordings sessions with the Eighth Blackbird ensemble; composition year: 2010; time: 3:19

SINGLE PLAY
Shelley Hirsch, Jon Rose, and Chris Cutler:  After Hours/The Colour of BLOOD
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4 Number 2 (various artists)
ReR Megacorp/1997
voices: Shelley Hirsch, Jon Rose; violin, keyboard, electronics, percussion: Chris Cutler; recorded at Radio Student, Ljublana, Slovenia, November 15, 1993; time: 5:00 

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