recommend me some good modern/experimental classical music

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OH! There's also this avant-garde piece for men's voices we did at a concert last year that I'm completely blanking on; I'll try to see if I can dig up the composer.

There's also a fantastic Requiem by Pizetti (obv not Scandinavian) that we did this fall and a setting of Petrarch's Sonnet 35 by Lars Johan Werle.

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

An excellent source of information about contemporary "classical" music is

Elizabeth Anderson, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

oops...http://www.sequenza21.com See especially their CD Reviews and Composers Forum blog.

Elizabeth Anderson, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Re: "WHAT IS POST-CLASSICAL MUSIC?"

Funny that should come from Dundee uni- there's been a bit of an upsurge in Scotland of the kind of muzikkz wot gets covered in The Wire!!!!

For example, I daw some jolly interesting stuff here in Sunny Glasgow!!!!!!! There was a particularly interesting piece called "Ghost In The Machine" by John Harris...

Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Louis Andriessen "De Tijd"
Kaija Saariaho "Du Cristal"
Kaija Saariaho ". . . A la fumée"
Giacinto Scelsi "Anahit"

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Giacinto Scelsi's "Anahit" seconded. One of the best violin concertos ever.

Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought Max Richter was a surrealist film maker from the 20s/30s (who am I thinking of?) I saw a Max Richter CD yesterday for £2 - I should have bought it. I'll go and find out what exactly it was.

Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

You're thinking of Hans Richter.

NickB (NickB), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah! The CD was "Memoryhouse", I'm sure it's worth a go at £2 a pop.

Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Bought the Johann Johannsson cd after reading this thread - it's FANTASTIC. Thanks to those who recommended it.

Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Bump. I've caught this bug, which is on one hand strange, because I can't stand classical music, but on the other is completely normal but I love lush, poignant strings and seeping. So I don't have to go through and listen to everything already mentioned, can anyone reaffirm suggestions. Particularly stuff that sounds like Max Richter, or the John Cassavettes tributes by Ekkehard Ehlers or Keith Fulerton Whitman type stuff and what have you. To be honest, I find it hard to digest a lot of classical music proper, even Arvo Part, but yeah, anything beautiful is beautiful nonetheless.

mehlt, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link

9 beet stretch

ian, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego -- The Sinking Of The Titanic.

Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 8 March 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link

On the same LP as Sinking of The Titanic you can also find the orig recording of "Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet" which is... dope.

ian, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Jean Paul Dessy - Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi

Jena, Saturday, 8 March 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link

"4'33" by John Cage is the only thing within that genre that I can actually bear listening to at all.

Geir Hongro, Saturday, 8 March 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link

O YOU CARD

ledge, Saturday, 8 March 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

Didn't know which classical thread to revive, picked this one.

Just bought The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield 16 VIII 10 (Kansas City), a piece for piano and electronics composed by Randy Gibson (who, obviously, is a student of La Monte Young) and performed by R. Andrew Lee. It's a three-CD set running about three and a half hours, and the whole thing uses just the seven D notes on the piano keyboard. I listened to some of it before buying it on Bandcamp (here's the link), expecting a LMY-esque shimmering cloud of sound, but in fact it's more like Ryoji Ikeda, or like someone trying to send a Morse code message using small gongs. It's really pretty amazing-sounding, and I can't wait to check out the whole massive thing.

Seth Colter Walls wrote about it for the New York Times; here's that link.

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 17 June 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link

six years pass...

going bonkers trying to remember a composer, for piano, of difficult music -- I think he's English, but I'm more certain that a composition of his which had the word "English" in the title had its own thread on ilm an age ago. I want to say it was a three word title, ____ English _____s. the thread linked to video of him playing this difficult piece. ringing any bells for anybody?

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 1 January 2024 03:39 (three months ago) link

Michael Finnissy- English Country Tunes, Japanese News Response

the youtube embeds aren't showing up for me though

lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 1 January 2024 13:17 (three months ago) link

Nor me. I posted a thread on MF in the archives. There should be a YT of MF playing this in the mid 80s with a ballerina on the stage

xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 January 2024 13:34 (three months ago) link

that was exactly it!! thank you!!

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 1 January 2024 19:58 (three months ago) link

Nor me. I posted a thread on MF in the archives. There should be a YT of MF playing this in the mid 80s with a ballerina on the stage

yes this is great, watching now

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 1 January 2024 20:11 (three months ago) link


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