Living Classical with Tyler Kline for December 14-20, 2025

As the longest nights of the year approach, the sky becomes both mirror and mystery – a place where sound, space, and silence converge. On this special wintertime edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline, composers turn their attention to the night: to stars, distance, darkness, and the shifting light that moves among them.

Hour 1 features works by Elena Langer, Golfam Khayam, Chris Opperman, Max Vinetz, Helen Grime, Juhi Bansal, Caterina Schembri, and Natalie Moller – music that reflects the atmosphere of starlight and shadow, where brightness and obscurity meet.

In Hour 2, the focus deepens toward the landscape beneath the sky, tracing the intersection of weather, memory, and nocturnal sound. Hear music by Bosba Panh, Alex Dowling, Scott Ordway, Emma O’Halloran, Dai Fujikura, Alice Ping Yee Ho, and Paul Wiancko – each work placed in dialogue through the vast terrain of the night.

Featuring performances by violinist Yolanda Bruno and pianist Isabelle David; Duo Noire; pianist Chris Opperman; ensembles Musiqa and Hallé; soprano Laura Strickling and pianist Daniel Schlosberg; vocalist Michelle O’Rourke with Ficino Ensemble; Admiral Launch Duo; guitarist Jamie Monck; vocalists Emma O’Halloran, Annika Socolofsky, Chris Douthitt, Alex Dowling, and Pascal Le Boeuf on synthesizer; Lorelei Ensemble;; Refugee Orchestra Project with vocalist Madeline Healey; violist Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti; Duo Concertante; and Owls.

Join Tyler Kline for this special edition of Living Classical – a journey through music that listens to the stars, the darkness, and the light that remains.

Hour 1

• Snow by Elena Langer / (Self-Published)

• Golfam Khayam’s Night Triptych / (New Focus Recordings–210)

• Underneath the Starlit Skies by Chris Opperman / (Purple Cow Records–11)

• Max Vinetz’s Stars on the Ground / (Self-Published)

• Night Songs by Helen Grime / (NMC Recordings–199)

• Juhi Bansal’s Not Quite Stars / (Bright Shiny Things–185)

• I wake up in the night when I dream in black and white by Caterina Schembri / (Ergodos–41)

• Natalie Moller’s starshine & moonfall  / (Albany–1752)

Hour 2

• Dizzy Night by Bosba Panh / (Self-Published) 

• Alex Dowling’s In Silence, In Cold / (Carrier Records)

• Representation I-III from Scott Ordway’s North Woods / (New Focus Recordings–447)

• Emma O’Halloran’s Constellations / (National Sawdust Tracks)

• Star Compass by Dai Fujikura / (Minabel Records–111)

• Alice Ping Yee Ho’s Dark Tales: An Old Man’s Winter Night / (Navona Records–6748)

• When the Night by Paul Wiancko / (New Amsterdam–194)