np - Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet- Ashensky/Royal Phil
np - Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet- Ashensky/Royal Phil
Listened to some stuff by Dutch composer Cornelis de Bondt, who stopped composing in 2013, because of the bad situation for the arts in The Netherlands. Read some interviews with him, so I decided to try to find some stuff on YouTube.
Fun fact, my pianoteacher lived with him, because he was her boyfriend.
Anton the Manton
This is just a killer piece.
Nice and short piece on wind instruments.Says it's by Shostakovich. Says it's a waltz.
https://youtu.be/_2Y1hCgDvNE
Early stereo recording.
I'm currently listening to the Naxos CD of Ginastera's piano concertos.Originally Posted by chalkpie
Dutch composer citing Yes as one of his influences.
Nice....how are the others? The 1st is killer.
Keith Emerson agreed!
The 2nd is pretty heavy with a lot of dark and dissonant percussive chords. This wiki page provides a good description of the ideas it was constructed upon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_..._2_(Ginastera)
After youtube showed (pleasant) pieces incl the above one, it came through again today by showing this similar piece, this time by RVW. Looked at online dictionary for "solent", seems to be a type of goose, wiuld make sense because he also composed Lark Ascending.
https://youtu.be/cA2l0cNZSH8
Just got the CD.
Chopin concerto no.1 is probably the only classical piece over 30 minutes that I've heard enough to be able to hum along with in its entirety, and this one sounds to be another interesting performance of it.
https://youtu.be/Q0MymluzJOM?feature=shared
^^ And one of Chopin's few works for orchestra. The vast majority were for solo piano.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
And I'd read it was/is argued that it wasn't a typical (or even proper maybe) piano concerto according to some criteria, about the connection between the piano parts and the orchestra parts and how the orchestra parts were put together by him.
This is just out:
https://awadaginpratt.bandcamp.com/album/stillpoint
Six new compositions by various composers performed by pianist Awagadin Pratt with string ensemble A far Cry and vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth (on 3 tracks).
I think it is nothing short of amazing. Especially the second track "code" is one of the most beautiful things I've heard lately.
Vivaldi Winter, guitar, great performance
https://youtu.be/UJJgvXPbNhE?feature=shared
Karajan / BPO
Interesting piece, by Karl Jenkins.
P.S.: I think youtube pointed this out during my listening to Vivaldi's Summer Presto with Joshua Bell (really good version, some ensembles play it too fast).
https://youtu.be/pOdollDkFSs?feature=shared
With brass only, very nice:
https://youtu.be/X5meFKe1fhs?feature=shared
One of these days I was writing someone I listen half classical, half "progressive" and half for the rest.
So, I should read this, if not write a post or two. Just in the two first pages there is a lot I never heard of. Imagine in the whole 65.
About the designation, yes, sometimes it may get messy to have two uses of "classical".
In my corner of Europe some of us use "Música erudita" (erudite music) instead of "classical in the broader sense. Leaving "classical" for the period.
Anyway, human classification systems are arbitrary by nature and designations too.
Of musical periods there are as many systems as people who thought about the subject (hyperbole).
Oh! And THIS classical music we are talking about is very likely the "western" classical music.
In places such as India, Japan, China, there may be other classical musics.
I'm actually building a sort of musical repository which includes, of course, a classical board. On a forum.
The thing is still in a very early phase and probably will always be so.
Nevertheless I managed to nearly complete a few of the usual classical "heavy weights".
Forum is actually about a strategy game but the game programmer likes some of "my" music so, no collisions.
Can be seen here:
(scroll down until "Concert Hall" shows up, click it and then The T. B. Experience) https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/
Visitors can view without registering.
Most of it are the most famous "heavy weights". Has some "experimental" ancient Greek and Roman.
Plus a baroque fellow I specially fancy goes by the name Biber (not affiliated with Bieber). And Corelli, perhaps a bit less famous than Vivaldi.
There's a Pt composer on the late romantic division: Vianna da Motta.
And three Pt composers on the modern board; last name there is Silvestrov from Ukraine. Usually quiet music.
A curiosity in this last board is Joly Braga Santos's 4th Symphony with its choral 4th movement like in Beethoven's 9th...
PS: just remembered the World (music) board contains some music that may be considered "classical".
Cases of "Movimento Armorial" in Brasil board. And "Krless"'s medieval songs in Czechia board. Or Piazzola in Argentina board.
Some cases in the Soundtracks board also may qualify as classical.
Gottfried Huppertz (Metropolis; the original 20's movie score)
Howard Shore (LOTR)
Michael Nyman (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover)
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