You might also look for a 2-guitar version of Albeniz's Iberia solo piano cycle. I'm pretty sure it's been arranged for guitar duo a couple of times. Sund4r to thread...
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like skalkottas and radio 3 should be commended for not just doing delius or handel or whatever for the millionth time
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
donald mcleod sez nobody he talked to while preparing for the programmes even recognised skalkottas' name
kinda wonder what bawheids are walking around the radio 3 offices
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.otherminds.org/shop/Rugglesdisc.html
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 28 April 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/10/debussy-martyre-saint-sebastien-review/print
ha so we were discussing le martyre, and now there's a recording with....isabelle huppert
― www.tumblr.com/tagged/jerome-boateng (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 May 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/apartment-house-facing-beauty
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/mark-knoop-artificial-environments
Couple of recitals that are worth going to.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 June 2012 12:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
This is killing me right now.
― Turangalila, Sunday, 15 July 2012 08:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
Weird, wrong image - it's this one
― Turangalila, Sunday, 15 July 2012 08:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Turangalila, Monday, 16 July 2012 13:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
intrigued by the guarineri
really into bussotti's bergkristall atm
― clouds, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
from 2011, Novak's 24 Preludes & Fugues is pretty remarkable imo
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whoa, never heard of that composer.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
Ooh that sounds fascinating.
On a similar scale of contempo piano massiveness, does anyone know James Dillon's 'Book of Elements'?
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
I don't but it's on Naxos Online. Would it come across well enough on built-in PC speakers at the reception desk of an office?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sounding good so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
I don't know it yet! Been considering buying it for quite awhile, based on reviews in Fanfare.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
man oh man this Novak, Book Two, Prelude 10, "Elijah" - it makes me wish I could write music like this - it's atypical of the cycle, more melodic, lyrical in an almost traditional way but still very open - so so good
gonna get that Dillon from eMusic
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
cool man, report back!
(do you get hooked up w/free eMu creds for writing columns? If so, jealous!)
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
trying to remember the name of a composer whose name i have forgotten
in my mind he is filed with antheil.....sort of an eccentric american modernist with an emphasis on piano who lived for a long time iirc
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Leo Ornstein?
― timellison, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
yes! thank you
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
i am currently digging the hell out of roussel's 3rd symphony
― clouds, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
Born ca. December 2, 1893Kremenchuk, Poltava, Russian EmpireDied February 24, 2002 (age 108)Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
that's ornstein
roussel doesn't seem too familiar to me.....i don't think i know french interwar modernism well
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
king of french interwar modernism for me is Koechlin, seek anything he wrote for orchestra.
Roussel went through some quite distinct phases iirc. I only own a disc from his early impressionist-exotica phase (the Spider's Feast and the Padmavati suite) as I have a deep weakness for that particular strain of CM...
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
he was of an older generation, so any contemporary influences were filtered through whatever language he had developed to that point, but it has a surprising fierceness and an admirable structural reflexiveness.
xp
― clouds, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
and koechlin is indeed brilliant
― clouds, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
I wrote a paper that discussed Ornstein once. There was this quote from, if I remember correctly, a concert notice from really early, maybe the 1910s:
"I do bewail the murderous means with which Leo Ornstein patrolled the piano. He stormed its keys, scooping chunks and slag and spouting scoria like a vicious volcano. Heavens!"
― timellison, Friday, 17 August 2012 17:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah koechlin i know (via present company)
i hope that writer never got to hear ustvolskaya
― Claude Parfait Ngon A Djam (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 August 2012 17:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
i still love alkan alkan alkan
Enjoyed the Roussel.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 17 August 2012 19:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
<3 this, reissued as "Istikhbars & Improvisations" this year.
Mustapha Skandrani - "Musique Classique Algérienne - Stikhbar" [Pathé Marconi, 1965]Really amazing music from Algerian pianist Mustapha Skandrani – music that effortlessly links up European traditions and North African roots – in a blend that's completely sublime, and unlike anything else we can think of! At many points, Skandrani plays with a complex, virtuostic quality that's right up there with Glenn Gould – but the overall setting is a lot freer, too – with these long, drawn-out tunes that are half improvisations – piano lines stretching forth, based on Algerian vocal modes (even though the set is just piano) – in ways that almost illustrate the same sort of African influence that Randy Weston explored with his 60s piano – yet expressed here by Mustapha in a completely different way! Titles include "Mode Araq", "Mode Raml Maya", "Mode Moual", "Mode Zidane", and "Mode Sika" – plus a number of untitled improvisations.
― Turangalila, Saturday, 18 August 2012 09:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's almost like a noodlier, sped-up Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. I want more.
― Turangalila, Saturday, 18 August 2012 09:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
Cage night at the Proms was v enjoyable
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 18 August 2012 11:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
Looking fwd to this:
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/langham-research-centre-john-cage-tape-electronics.shtm
Don't know about this but is happening in the same week:
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/john-cage-indeterminacy-stewart-lee-tania-chen-steve-beresford.shtm
Talking of centenaries has anyone caught any performances of Pierrot Lunaire?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 August 2012 13:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
Been listening to that Mustapha Skandrani reissue quite a bit
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 18 August 2012 21:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
really curious to hear that Novak now—two of my favorite things are cycles of 24 preludes+fugues, and weirdo avant-garde experimentation with traditional forms (a one-voice fugue??? preposterous!!!)
― fire-rated aeroplane components I have melted (bernard snowy), Sunday, 19 August 2012 01:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
a one-voice fugue??? preposterous!!!
I kind of did a double-take at that too.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 August 2012 02:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
some of bach's solo works (for cello, violin) have one-voiced fugues don't they?
― clouds, Sunday, 19 August 2012 03:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
I've N=never heard of one but perhaps it may be possible; you can find all sorts of things in his fugues. Do you know of an example? I've always understood fugues to be polyphonic by definition: you need at least a subject and answer, surely? There's a two-voice fugue in WTC, Bk 1 (Em, #10) and even that's pretty wild.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
"I've never..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6BjTN25VbE&feature=related
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― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
??? The answer clearly enters in a second voice around 0:07.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
You can see it on the score here: http://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No.3_in_C_major,_BWV_1005_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)#Scores
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
Johann Sebastian’s fugues for unaccompanied violin from the Sonatas, BWV 1001, 1003,
and 1005, play a central role in the violin repertoire. Bach’s conceptualization of the fugues for
solo violin, an instrument that would appear to preclude this sort of contrapuntal writing, is
unique in the Baroque repertoire. This paper identifies precedents to Bach’s creation of fugues
for solo violin. While Bach’s unprecedented and unmatched skill in the fugal genre provided for
the creation of the violin fugues, he drew ideas from existing compositions and techniques.
Specifically, he adopts the formal adaptation of the sonata da chiesa to the solo violin sonata
which occurred in the Italian school of violin playing, notably Arcangelo Corelli. Furthermore,
he builds upon early experimentation with the unaccompanied violin sonata and the development
of virtuoso techniques within the German school of virtuoso violin playing of the late
seventeenth century. Bach’s fugues for solo violin, therefore, represent a synthesis of the Italian
and German traditions of violin playing.
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
right....multiple voices on an instrument that is conventionally univocal
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
nb i don't have any theory knowledge
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
The violin is not a monophonic instrument. Check the score I linked: a second voice enters in m. 4 and a THIRD voice enters in m. 10.
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― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
no.....but i don't think anybody wrote for the violin like this prior to him? biber maybe?
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:29 (9 months ago) Permalink