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
Oh, cool, I had no idea. Thanks.
I was thinking poll threads (one per decade), which I assume we haven't done before.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Nice idea. I'm happy to be schooled.
― jmm, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Poll threads sound great. I was a little nervous about doing that many ballot polls. :)
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
Understandably so! I'm going to do it pfunkboy/Michael B-style, which means there are bound to be some grave omissions, for which I'll profusely apologize in each thread.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
I have to say, I mostly know about choral works...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Starting with 1800-1810 is fine by me! Op. 32 is one of my favorite things Beethoven ever did. I was just thinking that once you get to the 1820s you get some Beethoven vs Schubert suspense whereas for the 00s and 10s you've got Beethoven and... everyone else (well Rossini tbf)
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
You're right, of course. Beethoven will undoubtedly dwarf everyone else in the 00s but papa Haydn was still around (The Seasons, the final two Masses) and some minor masterpieces were penned around that time, such as Boieldieu's Harp Concerto. I'll try my best to make it a little less obvious…
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
I greatly anticipate this educational experience; I look forward to campaigning heavily for Quartet for the end of time 15 polls in
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
I suspect there's be a good excuse to listen to the late quartets again. And then I'll definitely vote for Symphonie Fantastique :)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Best 'first symphony' in classical music history tbh
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
In case you missed it:
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 1800s (the decade, that is. Also, this is Totally-Not-a-Middle-Period-Beethoven-Poll)
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
OK wow I just paid attention to Poulenc for the first time today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87wGyfUQiQ
― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
the 1810s thread has me digging into augustin hadelich. he's far too "shreddy" for my tastes. the recording of ligeti's violin concerto from this year is not bad- ligeti being a fairly astringent composer anyway - but this new cadenza by thomas ades, what the fuck, it is so bad and not in keeping with the rest of the piece. well i guess one can just stop listening after the fourth movement...
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Monday, 11 November 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
special mention of note has to go out to the really hideous cover art as well
― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Monday, 11 November 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
Shreddy, really? I don't get that sense from Hadelich's Paganini at all. If anything, he gives the Caprices their due as proper music, which may or may not be a good thing.
Agree about the Adès cadenza, however. I could do without Adès's music altogether tbh, it's thoroughly mediocre.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 November 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
love this Henriëtte Bosmans string quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCAUrauoDLc
― 💠 (crüt), Thursday, 21 November 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Oh, thanks. I hadn't heard of her before but that is a nice discovery.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Friday, 22 November 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
getting unreasonably obsessed with kurt atterberg's piano concerto
― ciderpress, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
I listened to a set of his symphonies a few years ago and found them unmemorably conservative compared to, say, Stenhammar's 2nd, but I'd be curious to hear his Piano Concerto.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
it doesn't really do anything novel, just a nice bit of post-romanticism
― ciderpress, Saturday, 23 November 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
CBC's favourite Canadian classical albums of 2019: https://www.cbc.ca/music/our-20-favourite-canadian-classical-albums-of-2019-1.5335275?fbclid=IwAR01WQkjnQNtjLetJWsIk4KdMdpEMzChySg1jo8FFg9MWoOiJa0zovIJqjU
I wasn't going to post about Cicchillitti-Cowan since they are friends/colleagues but, yes, the album is really good. The Stafylakis piece actually integrates some metal influences into classical guitar music. Emily Shaw's Vespers and Cowan's Arctic Sonata also v good classical guitar albums from Ottawa/Montreal from this year.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
Thanks, I'll check 'em out.
That Lisiecki and Abdrazakov are Canadian is news to me.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
Lisiecki is from Calgary. Abdrakazakov seems to be Russian - they're probably counting that one bc of Orchestre Métropolitain?
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
Oh right, I misread (see ILX discussion about reading comprehension in Quebec).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Haha
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
RIP Mariss Jansons. I don’t have a ton of his work in my collection but his LSO Live Mahler 6th is among the very best of that symphony.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
His Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff box sets contain some of his very finest recordings – they've helped me gain a newfound appreciation for these two composers, whose music I otherwise find problematic (not in the modern, woke sense, mind you). He was also an excellent accompanist (see the Grieg/Schumann Piano Concertos with Leif Ove Andsnes) and some of his less well-known projects, such as Johan Svendsen's Symphonies 1 & 2 with the Oslo Philharmonic, are as persuasive as it gets. I was never wholly won over by his much-touted way with Shostakovich, however.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 08:40 (four years ago) link
Alex Ross's preliminary EOY list:
https://www.therestisnoise.com/2019/11/preliminary-end-of-year-list.html
We don't really see eye to eye (hear ear to ear?) but the Danish Quartet's Prism II and the Riot Ensemble's Speak, Be Silent both deserve to place. At the risk of repeating myself, I'm burnt out on Feldman, found Zosha di Castro's monograph to be full of hotshot smugness and have yet to hear George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence (I'm generally a big fan, even though I'm less interested in his operas).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
I’ll definitely plan to hear that Honeck/Pittsburgh Bruckner 9th - I cant think of a better US conductor-orchestra combo on record this decade
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
NAC in Ottawa commissioning a Philip Glass work in honour of Peter Jennings: https://abcnews.go.com/US/philip-glass-write-orchestral-work-honor-news-anchor/story?id=67679791
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
shuddering with pleasure at the idea of Philip Glass composing 30 second stingers for news broadcasts
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
went to the guggenheim last night for Tigue and Roomful of Teeth and Caroline Shaw presented a new piece that was as lovely as anything I've heard all year.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
This is how workers at Opéra de Paris go on strike (sound on, please). pic.twitter.com/SN682BM6ze— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) December 18, 2019
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 05:07 (four years ago) link
PROMO: The latest cd from my choir is out now: https://open.spotify.com/album/4k1FnvR7AIzP2IQCfrFEoz?si=gqG6dtAaTi-2UpcRWuY6Bw Danish choir music, amateur choir, but the Vagn Holmboe is pretty great, at least.
― Frederik B, Friday, 27 December 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
'Grats! I always have time for more Holmboe.
― pomenitul, Friday, 27 December 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
New thread for a new year: Rolling Classical 2020
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link