MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1227Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsMay 20, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYSergei Rachmaninoff: The Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)A Window in Time – Rachmaninoff Performs His Solo Piano WorksTelarc/1998piano: Sergei Rachmaninoff (recorded on piano rolls by Rachmaninoff c. 1920s); digital processing program: Wayne Stahnke, […]

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MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1226Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsMay 11, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYSusan Botti: River Spirits — PrologueRiver SpiritsNew Focus Recordings/2025voices: Katherine Lerner Lee, Mary Bonhag, Susan Botti; bass recorder, tenor recorder, zampogna bagpipes, Irish flute, sackbut: Dan Meyers; electric viol de gamba: Robert Eisenstein, […]

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MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1225Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsMay 1, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYPhilip Perkins: Go turn the owl aroundThirteen Feet Nine InchesLive recordings of computer-driven electrosonic works 2023-5Artifact Recordings/2025musique concrete techniques, synthesizers, guitar: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer’s studio, San Francisco; time: 4:40 SET […]

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MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1224Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsApril 20, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYGeorge Crumb: Easter DawningComplete Crumb Edition, Volume FiveBridge Records/2001carillon bells: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, September 2001; composition year: 1992; time: 4:06 SET ONELou Harrison: Easter Cantataa. Sinfonia […]

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MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1223Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsApril 10, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SET ONEWilliam Bland: Piano Sonata No. 6 in C-Minor (selections)Bestiary-Con AmoreI. Bear Dance (4:09)II. Song of the Great Hawk (5:28)Sonata No. 6 & No. 15Bridge Records/2024piano: Kevin Gorman; recorded September 17 & 18, […]

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PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1222Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsApril 3, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYPaul Lansky: Patterns (In wood and metal)Touch and GoBridge Records/2024(for mallet quartet–two marimbas, two vibraphones, metal and wooden toys); percussionists: Gwendolyn Dease, Ji Hye Jung, Jisu Jung, Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Wharton Center […]

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LISTEN HERE — SPOTIFY PODCASTMartian Gardens Episode 1218Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,Amherst, MassachusettsDecember 6, 2024 (files to be uploaded)Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com (or just leave a comment below)Radio4All archive (search “Martian Gardens”) Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYWalter Piston: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano No. 2I. Molto leggiero e cappricioso (5:06)II. Adagio (6:51)III. Vigoroso (4:09)New England Trios (Piston/Bernstein/Perera)Bridge Records/2020violin: […]

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