Oh, didn't know it was out yet! Yeah, really looking forward to hearing that. Also, as I'm bragging about concerts I've been to, hearing the last night of the Beethoven cycle the Danish String Quartet did last fall was pretty incredible. Even if 16 is a bit of an anticlimax coming after 14.
Would anyone be up for a poll of the Guardian list, btw? I only really know three of the pieces, but I'd try and check some more of it.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
Not crazy about most of their picks tbh but why not? I look forward to Noodle Vague's spinoff.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that would definitely be the best part.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Anyways, I'll try and set it up later.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
Sounds good. Thanks!
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
i don't know how i'd go about generating the entries for a spin-off because there's no equivalency to sales, except obviously i'd add Gaz's Quatuor pour la fin du Trumps
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
Make it all André Rieu, Max Richter and John Williams. Oh, and Sting.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
Trans Siberian imo And “Two Steps to Hell” or whatever those trailer guys call themselves
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Number one is clearly Hans Zimmer's soundtrack to Dunkirk.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
Yesssss! Two Steps from Hell iirc.
xp
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
Come to think of it, Jeremy Soule would also be a good fit.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
True but not lol enough
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
You're right, not to mention needlessly edgy in light of recent events.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
Top opera = The Black Parade
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Here's the crutch we needed:
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-biggest-selling-classical-albums-of-the-last-25-years-in-the-uk-revealed__20262/
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
Maybe too raucous, actually. Not calm and relaxing like classical music is supposed to be. xp
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
Ah, that chart: that's real music right there.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
At a first pass, I'm tempted to go with The Priests.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
bingo
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Never forget:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVAp7e5zFaM
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Oh look, Norman Lebrecht has an opinion again. He disagrees with The Guardian's top 25, which only overlaps with his own top 20 by about 8 composers.
https://slippedisc.com/2019/09/best-works-of-the-21st-century/
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
Poll: New Cat Power
― Frederik B, Saturday, 14 September 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
wtf...
Credit where due, lebrecht’s 20th century music guide was a helpful starting point for me when I started digging in in 1996, but he really is a crank. Titanic is legit the best thing on that linked top 20 (tbh despite some hella cornball opuses Horner was the real deal and certainly makes most film composers working now look like ants)
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 14 September 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
I really enjoyed this performance of Debussy's Six Epigraphes antiques:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08WYwr4eUsg
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Giving concerts this week with some of the best choral music I have ever sung. Or at least, it's some of the most fun to sing ever, I don't know how it feels to listen to. Per Nørgårds Wie Ein Kind. Listen to this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Lvkc0I4AkSo much fun. I want to learn it by heart and sing it at bars.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Just listened to the new recording of Aaron Jay Kernis's Flute Concerto, which is pretty fun and energetic. Three of the four movements are based on old dance rhythms (barcarole, pavan, tarantelle) and the other is a pastorale. I'd want to listen more to break down more of what's going on harmonically but it was an enjoyable casual first listen. Kernis credits Jethro Tull as an influence on the fourth movement! Idk how well I heard it.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
I just ordered the Philip Thomas 5CD box of Morton Feldman solo piano music from the Another Timbre label and they sent me a download link for a FLAC file of Triadic Memories, which is 90 minutes long and thus split between discs 3 and 4. So they're good folks and I recommend purchasing this set from them if you want one. (It's actually a little cheaper on their website than on Bandcamp.)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
It’s excellent, but I think I’m burnt out on Feldman at this point.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 08:30 (four years ago) link
https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com/album/brick-and-mortar
this is a rather beautiful two violins, two violas quartet.
― calzino, Friday, 11 October 2019 09:50 (four years ago) link
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Btw, Hannes Kerschbaumer's first Kairos monograph is thoroughly worth investigating as well:
https://www.kairos-music.com/cds/0015060kai
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 09:54 (four years ago) link
'Schraffur' is an interesting term and a very apt description of his sound world. I'm not well versed in artistic techniques at all but it apparently means 'hatching' in English:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 09:58 (four years ago) link
I have no idea why Andris Nelsons is touted as the greatest living conductor, but his Beethoven cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic is a solid return to the MOR approach of the 1960s and 1970s, somewhere between Böhm, Szell and Karajan, I guess, which isn't a bad thing, since it comes with the added benefit of modern engineering.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
i saw the pavone quartet live last week; i may be a rube but it was so minimal and muted (and weirdly lit! they played in the dark with only stand lights) that i made at least two "are they done tuning yet?" gag whispers to my plus one. the moments where melody crested up to swirl about a bit and then get sucked back down were quite nice but after forty minutes it didn't offer a lot more than what i heard in the first five.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
I'll give that Nelsons set a try; the only Beethoven cycle I own is the Chailly box on Decca, and that gets pretty symphonic power metal at times. I might like something a little more settled.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I don't get Chailly's aesthetic at all. Abbado's second (live) BPO set has similar aims and blows it out of the water.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
Fun excerpt on how 'out' Bach was in his own time, from Gioia's new book:
“They never learned about Bach pulling a knife on a fellow musician during a street fight. They never heard about his drinking exploits.” https://t.co/4t8HuyaorK— Jeff Beck (@jeffnbeck) October 16, 2019
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 October 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
Heh, I had no idea.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 October 2019 10:05 (four years ago) link
Cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir is giving a solo performance at Scandinavia House in NYC on Thursday night. I'm thinking about going; I interviewed her back in June, and her album Vernacular is great.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 20 October 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
Album was alright, a little too conservative for my money.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 20 October 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
Anybody interested in a series of decade-by-decade polls, starting in the 1800s? Just the works, curated by yours truly – we can discuss our preferred recordings as we go along. I was initially planning on doing albums, but it's too much of a hassle in the context of classical music.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
Yes me interested
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
Well, as long as there's two of us… :)
I'll get started on it very soon.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
I'll vote as well, if I know the things :)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
It'll be chockfull of 19th and early 20th century warhorses. It's gonna get trickier post-1945, but that's just part of the fun.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Starting point? 1820s?
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
Here for it, mostly to learn
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
I say we start in the 1800s, lest we miss out on Beethoven’s middle period.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
Ballot polls or poll threads?
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
We did this once, for anyone who missed it: POLLERO!: ILM's Top 100 Notated Pieces of Music Since 1890
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link