PGM 1295 'AUTUMN WINDS' : sept.24-oct.1

The transition to autumn is marked by shorter days, cooler nights, and deepening colors. As the sun drops inexorably lower in the sky here in the northern hemisphere, the natural world begins the transformation to a colder, darker season scented with "the perfume of decay."

In music, the complex tones and smoky timbres of the woodwind family—the oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon—bring a sonic analog of the changing atmosphere. Writer MARIA POPOVA calls it "a bewildering harmonic of the transcendent and the transient."

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, autumnal ambient for woodwinds and electronics, on a program called AUTUMN WINDS. Music is by RUSSEL WALDER, DEBORAH MARTIN & JILL HALEY, ALTUS, ANDREW LAHIFF, and MAX RICHTER.

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