Gmeeoorh for organ by Xenakis is sensational
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 16 May 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Some really powerful and surprising music there. Thanks! I always found Xenakis' acoustic music more appealing than his electronic music. Do you know who the organist is?
On a softer note, today I was really enjoying "Sunday Song Set" performed by David Starobin (guitar) and Patrick Mason (baritone). It's an arrangement (by Michael Starobin) of selections from Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. (I haven't seen the musical.) Energetic, striking, and attractive with great intricate guitaristic orchestration and dazzling playing.
― Sundar, Sunday, 16 May 2010 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Christoph Maria Moosmann, sir.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 16 May 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks!
― Sundar, Sunday, 16 May 2010 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
That organ piece made me want to put on "Metastasis" - the first Xenakis I ever heard, actually. The guy could get seriously intense.
(Also, I see now that the organist's name is on the linked page. Sorry about that.)
― Sundar, Sunday, 16 May 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It's ok. Are you familiar with Jonchaies?
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 16 May 2010 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
For 109 (!) musicians. The strings are so amazing.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 16 May 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
The best moments in his music are where there's just gigantic blocks of sound and you can't really tell what's going on internally.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 16 May 2010 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
No. I'll look for that one. Agreed re blocks of sound. "Xas" was important to me too.
― Sundar, Sunday, 16 May 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
'along with seventy strings massed against the wind and percussion...'
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Sunday, 16 May 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Turanga, that's amazing! Is that from Mode Records' Xenakis series?
― Felix Frankfurter, Man Of Justice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 17 May 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad you liked! That 'Jonchaies' is from this release, conducted by Arturo Tamayo. Probably my favorite recording I've heard of that piece so far.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Monday, 17 May 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Lately I have been obsessed with Håkon Austbø's recording of Janáček's 'In the mists' - <3
I like the Firkusny recordings all right but this is on another level imo.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Monday, 17 May 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm listening to Andrew Staniland tonight. Nice stuff.
― Sundar, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Austbo is a very talented dude and has recorded even more rep than most ppl know (he has stuff only on Scandinavian labels like a complete Debussy series)
Is In The Mists the set that includes 'The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away!'?
― Felix Frankfurter, Man Of Justice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
No, that would be 'On An Overgrown Path' which is also beautiful.
Austbø's 'Vingt regards' is actually my favorite btw.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517D6SRSg7L.jpg
― nakhchivan, Friday, 21 May 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard this but i like the cover
Slight resemblance to trolololo guy!
(mash-up idea?)
― Is it far? Is it far? Is it far? (Jon Lewis), Friday, 21 May 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
alfie schnittke feat eduard khil, 'a soviet artist's response to just criticsm: the musical'
― nakhchivan, Friday, 21 May 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not sure how it wd work tbh
― nakhchivan, Friday, 21 May 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Use trolololo tune the same way Schnittke uses 19th century pastoral tune in last movement of that piano quintet. 'I am so happy to be going back to limbo'
― Is it far? Is it far? Is it far? (Jon Lewis), Friday, 21 May 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Schnittke and son:
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/262/wm/pd649560.jpg
― y kant immanuel rite (Daruton), Friday, 21 May 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
haha why am I not surprised that the kid's all gothy?
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Saturday, 22 May 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a weakness for janacek's piano music.
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 22 May 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
That's because it's gorgeous. :)
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Saturday, 22 May 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Bought the Brilliant Classics boxed set of Alfred Brendel's early recordings some months ago. Been listening to his Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22: very impressive.
― Webern conducts Berg (Call the Cops), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
WcB, is that a box of his Vanguard recordings or his Vox recordings?
I'm not that well versed in his Vanguard period but his first cycle of Beethoven sonatas on Vox is dynamite. There are a few sonatas in there which he didn't surpass in his later cycles (I'm thinking in particular of the Waldstein, Les Adieux and Hammerklavier).
I'm a huge fan of Brendel and have spent time on the classical newsgroup defending his ass. Ppl who are are highly wedded to the notion that great pianism = a 'singing tone' often abhor Brendel with a passion.
― Loathsome Dov (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, as I understand it, the box contains both his Vanguard and Vox recordings. His entire first Beethoven cycle is in there, anyway - haven't gotten to it yet (besides a couple of runs through the Hammerklavier) but definitely looking forward...
― Webern conducts Berg (Call the Cops), Friday, 18 June 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening lately:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Vr%2BhdiwXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Very good post-70s-thaw Babbitt (both pieces are from the 80s). It'd be wrong to say that Babbitt has ever "mellowed out" but relatively speaking (compared to the pieces from the 50s and 60s) that's how it seems. There's more lingering over chord associations and attention paid to homophonic texture than the spiky counterpoint of the earlier pieces. The PC has a wonderfully dramatic scope and some winks at tonality (at one section the soloist and orchestra play tutti an almost Beethovenian chord) and beautiful orchestral textures (B. really is a great orchestrator), and The Head of the Bed has a great dreamlike clarity of textual image and instrumental interplay.
― The Bitter Tears of Petula Clark (corey), Saturday, 3 July 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Chamber Music Albuquerque took out an ad a year or two back with the caption: "You go with him to the ball game. He should go with you to chamber music." I thought that was pretty awful on at least two levels: (1) the idea of making it into some guilt-trip chore (2) the kind of weird gender assumptions (are younger females--and it's a young female portrayed in the photo--really more interested in chamber music than young men?). And maybe she goes with him to the baseball game because she likes it. Is it fair to expect him to do something he doesn't like in return?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 5 July 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Women only listen to music for illicit reasons in my experience.
― Ciudad Warez (corey), Monday, 5 July 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
jk
Listening to the Tzadik disc with Wuorinen's Time's Encomium, New York Notes, etc — my first listen to this composer. Very impressive.
― Ciudad Warez (corey), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that disc, esp New York notes is great iirc
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
For anyone interested:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XBBYK2HVL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Charles Wuorinen - Lepton
― Sharif don't like it, rock the CRASBO (corey), Saturday, 24 July 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
This is what I am currently digging:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GOTbbxFSL._SS500_.jpg
Have so far listened to the first disc with Syms. 1 and 6. The 1st I know pretty well but this is a nice, rather slowly-paced take — the 6th is new to me, but what a great slab of concrete and steel this symphony is! Apparently it was written at the height of the Soviet crackdown on artists, and he got into deep shit. The crushingly loud and dissonant chord at the end of the final movement is an awesome (in the original sense) moment.
I am about to be digging this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HR4ZMH59L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Sunday, 8 August 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i am currently digging:
the aeolian quartet playing haydn
the emerson quartet playing webern
― j., Sunday, 8 August 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
currently:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BE3JD2VFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
beautiful. essentially the precise sort of classical music i enjoy.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41nhIGhw4UL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
a particularly moving work, i think. even the title is moving in its directness!
― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, 21 August 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Do love the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Remember a particularly intense moment listening to the Ierusalem section while walking through London, thinking about its frequent mystical reconfigurations as the New Jerusalem.
At the moment really enjoying John Ireland's 'London Pieces' for the piano. Two of them anyway - Chelsea Reach, appropriately Londonish (a bit like French impressionism crossed with music hall) and very attractively melancholy, and Month's Mind. The other two, particularly Ragamuffin, I find slightly mawkish, but that's a risk you run with John Ireland.
Spotify link here.
― Hide the prickforks (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 22 August 2010 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
lauridsen - lux aeterna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhfrG_AsbxQ
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 26 August 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been listening to the DG disc of Arvo Pärt's Fratres, Tabula Rasa and the 3rd Sym but I'm finding it a little dull. Does his music warrant exploring more?
― mein voight-kampff (corey), Friday, 27 August 2010 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/279/111/560/11156011/300x300.jpg
Love the Schnittke - my first discovery of him.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 August 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't have that one but I do have the ECM disc of Fratres and Tabula Rasa and I have to say it's my favourite of all Part's works that I've heard.
― margana (anagram), Friday, 27 August 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh okay. I dunno, it's probably the music and not so much the performance. However, I'm listening to this right now and it's hitting the sweet spot:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41s6xTR7WAL._SS500_.jpg
Also listening to this week:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61iAA2BtVEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― glutinous maximus (corey), Monday, 30 August 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The gamelan-like fugal passage after the initial stabs in Jonchaies is some of the most gorgeous music I've heard, srsly.
― glutinous maximus (corey), Monday, 30 August 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
it seems like you would maybe prefer part's choral works. i would suggest checking out de profundis w/the theater of voices and berliner messe/magnificat/summa w/the elora festival orchestra.
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool, will do, thanks.
I'm also investigating his early work that predates the tonal stuff. I have a feeling it might give me a better understanding of how he arrived at (what I assume to be) his mature style. For me it seems a bit inscrutable and I feel like there must be something "there" underneath the glassy surface.
― Lardo Calrissian (corey), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
dear london-based currently digging classical dudes: the Rodolfus Choir are doing a concert of polyphonic music at St Dunstan's-in-the-West on Thursday and it sounds amazing. tbh I would go for Spem in Alium alone but there's Pärt and Tavener and Palestrina as well! pretty pumped tbh.
― czyczyczyczy comparative (c sharp major), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd go but I'd fall asleep (due to tiredness, not through breaching any boredom threshold by attending, that is)
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link