yeah they're wonderful, just an absurdly rich decade
― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
Indeed they are, and Arvo Pärt's now ubiquitous compositional style seems unthinkable without the Fantasia in particular. It's tempting to think of Stravinsky (and Prokofiev) as the torchbearers of 'primitivism' in the 1910s, but Vaughan Williams's musical language in these pieces also taps into an imagined 'archaic' consciousness, one grounded in endless melody instead of polyrhythm and not all that dissimilar Erik Satie's own self-consciously naïve experiments in simplicity.
By the way, Andrew Davis's studio recording of the Fantasia with the BBC Symphony Orchestra is stellar, but I think I like this live performance even better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpwqZSp_CyM
― coco vide (pomenitul), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
*dissimilar from
― coco vide (pomenitul), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
all these last posts otm
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
pom could you suggest a relatively recent piece which exemplifies “Arvo Pärt's now ubiquitous compositional style” and wherein i might hear this RVW influence ?
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
I hear echoes of both in Dobrinka Tabakova's music.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Btw Pärt's Silouans Song strikes me as a good example of what he (consciously?) owes to RVW.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
The Lark Ascending and Fantasia are just magical pieces of music.
Indeed they are. Thanks for linking to that Davis' recording Pom!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:41 (four years ago) link