Available: through 2023-24
18th-century works from Europe and New England celebrating, luxuriating in, and mourning the loss of the natural world. Works from living composers Celeste Oram and Doug Balliett.
Available: through 2023-24
A collaboration with flutist Emi Ferguson, Fly the Coop is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works. The program features new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes, orchestrated for baroque flute and the forces of Ruckus that include theorbos, baroque guitars, baroque bassoon, cello, viola da gamba, harpsichord, organ, bass, and the occasional banjo.
Available: 2024
Emi Ferguson and Ruckus reimagine the music of Georg Philipp Telemann and György Ligeti. Microcosms features Ligeti's Musica Ricerata, a 25-minute monument of varied, miniature structures, and Telemann's Fantasias for Flute without Bass , a Baroque landmark with crystalline precision paralleling the Ligeti.