Classical music

[Socrates]

Re the Saariaho Orchestral Works boxset.

Cool! I hope you enjoy it. I just discovered Echange by Xenakis on one of those Mode label CDs. Great piece!

The revival of the thread reminded me I never got back acknowledged what a great recommendation this was. Really great music. It is all good, but I maybe prefer the earlier works on the first two CDs.

I think Saariaho has spent most of her active career in Paris, and the influence of composers like Tristan Murail comes through strongly. Listen for example to this Murial piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBSvCEH37Ew and compare that to the earlier Saariaho pieces.

[Reid]

I guess these composers can be seen as members of the Spectral school. Murail, Grisey, Saariaho, Norgard. And thanks for the link. It's a great piece!

[walt]

Bernard Parmegiani




WOW.

[chalkpie]

Bernard Parmegiani



WOW.

Yeah, that kicks all sorts of ass.

[Zeuhlmate]

Anybody knows Frank Comstock ?
Would not classify it as classical, its more like Morricone, Mantovanni, on the other hand there you are:

[mogrooves]

string quartets.

[rcarlberg]

Anybody knows Frank Comstock ?

That Frank Comstock album is one of two -- the other being "Music for Heavenly Bodies" by the Andre Montero Orchestra -- featuring Paul Tanner and his home-built "Electro-Theremin," the Theremin-like instrument with a fretboard for more precise control of frequencies. Tanner and his Electro-Theremin were famously featured in "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys.

[JKL2000]

Bernard Parmegiani




WOW.

What is it that makes this Classical music?

[Progmatic]

What is it that makes this Classical music?

There are multiple examples like that where the lines between classical and other types of music are blurry.

Btw while on the topic I have been thinking quite lot of what would happen with the progressive music (rock) in the future. Will some of the compositions grow organically into classical music like status where professional musicians ensemble will interpret them (possibly different arrangements) or they mostly vanish like most of popular music of the past? We have seen already some examples of the first but it is more less a rarity.


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[rcarlberg]

Bernard Parmegiani

Lots of sampling going on in there. I hear Pink Floyd's "Let There Be More Light" (0:37-) and Kraftwerk's "Ruckzuck" (1:43) among others.

[rcarlberg]

Btw while on the topic I have been thinking quite lot of what would happen with the progressive music (rock) in the future. Will some of the compositions grow organically into classical music like status where professional musicians ensemble will interpret them

I believe this is essentially what has happened with "chamber rock" acoustic (and acoustic-electric) ensembles like Aranis, Present, Univers Zero, Kotelbel, The Books, Art Zoyd, and so forth.

[walt]

Lots of sampling going on in there. I hear Pink Floyd's "Let There Be More Light" (0:37-) and Kraftwerk's "Ruckzuck" (1:43) among others.

Yeah, i hear Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake in there, too.Plunderphonics before John Oswald coined the word.

[JKL2000]

Yeah, i hear Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake in there, too.Plunderphonics before John Oswald coined the word.

It doesn't make for an enjoyable listen for me. Not very musical, IMO, and listening for sources of sampled sounds isn't really enjoyable either. Just not my thing.

[Zeuhlmate]

[Zeuhlmate]

G-spot Tornado

[Zeuhlmate]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer



Farmers Market (but they credit him):

[Zeuhlmate]

Erwin Schulhoff: Concerto per pianoforte e piccola orchestra op.43 (1923)



This is adventurous !

About E. Schulhoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schulhoff

[Zeuhlmate]

Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672) - Musikalische Exequien - Vox Luminis

[walt]

Xenakis-Percussion works.

[Zeuhlmate]

[Socrates]

Xenakis-Percussion works.

Bought this after seeing your post, since I realised that it had a number of pieces I didn't have or only had in poor recordings. So thanks for reminding me that this existed.

Okho for three djembes (African drums) is amazing.

[chalkpie]

Great call on the Xenakis percussion works.

Last week I realized a huge dream of mine and cranked Wagner and Mahler while driving through the Alps in Germany and Austria!

Generally not a huge fan of Brahms, but the Liebeslieder Waltzes are worth a listen. Might be my favorite Brahms along with the Requiem.

[Rick Robson]

Thanks Chalkpie to remind me of this great Brahms' Masterpiece!

Oh yes.. I'm back! , cheerfully enjoying again my return to this site, after a long and storming times... Now finally celebrating also back the long missed freedom (spirit wise) that I always need to dip the deepest into my beloved classical music.

And the universal accessibility of the 19th century classical is just the most appropriate re-entrance door' for me, well yes my comfort zone ...hehe . And J. Brahms I find particularly one of the most characteristical and attractives, not just for the interesting scope of external influences that I find to different extents reflected in his works, I also find them strongly academic (in the good sense) and emotional at the same time! As for his influences it's needless to say that getting inspiration from admired predecessors was a commonplace among artists and composers of the 19th century.

The Brahms' four Symphonies still are my favourite works from him.

Long live to the Classical Music!

[chalkpie]

Thanks Chalkpie to remind me of this great Brahms' Masterpiece!

Oh yes.. I'm back! , cheerfully enjoying again my return to this site, after a long and storming times... Now finally celebrating also back the long missed freedom (spirit wise) that I always need to dip the deepest into my beloved classical music.

And the universal accessibility of the 19th century classical is just the most appropriate re-entrance door' for me, well yes my comfort zone ...hehe . And J. Brahms I find particularly one of the most characteristical and attractives, not just for the interesting scope of external influences that I find to different extents reflected in his works, I also find them strongly academic (in the good sense) and emotional at the same time! As for his influences it's needless to say that getting inspiration from admired predecessors was a commonplace among artists and composers of the 19th century.

The Brahms' four Symphonies still are my favourite works from him.

Long live to the Classical Music!

Glad to have you back brother Rick. Brahms Requiem is always an inspiring listen for me - one of the great German masterpieces of the 19th Century. http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/111536...brahms-requiem

I've been entranced by this particular disc which contains 3 and 4 Quartets, The Liebeslieder Waltzes, and Neue Liebeslider Waltzes (although it seems some are missing on this particular recording). Anyway, just fantastic music....seems to be my personal discovery of the summer thus far (in classical). I can't post an image but its The Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (on the Ondine Label).

[jake]

Just saw on the Faust List that Ana-Maria Avram fellow spectralist composer and wife or partner of Iancu Dumitrescu, died after a stroke on 1 August - awful she was only 55.