Experimental new classical - advice wanted

[bondegezou]

I've been enjoying a number of contemporary classical pieces lately, but I'm not familiar enough with this oeuvre to know where I should go next, but I'm liking stuff like David Lang (YouTube below), Molly Joyce (YouTube below) and Colin Riley. These are not symphonic pieces, but often quite stark, with less standard instrument choices.





Anyway, I like this stuff. Tell me more stuff I'd like.

Henry

[rcarlberg]

[walt]

[bondegezou]

^ Thanks, people.

The Caroline Shaw is just the sort of thing I meant. I enjoyed the Daugherty (in particular), Higdon and Gandolfi, but they are more orchestral/symphonic than I was looking for.

Henry

[waren]

"As the Moon Runs Red" for solo trumpet. A piece written in 2016 for Simon Desbruslais.

[bondegezou]

"As the Moon Runs Red" for solo trumpet. A piece written in 2016 for Simon Desbruslais.

Interesting. Quite disturbing and aggressive, but it pulls you in. Thanks.

Henry

[Baribrotzer]

There's a thread already on Anna Meredith: https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...-Anna-Meredith, from which I repost this excellent video.



It was entirely done in one take, which you can see if you watch closely. Can you imagine how much they had to practice, and how many takes it must have required before they nailed it? I'd really like to see a "making of", with all five of the Anna Meredith Band racing frantically around to new positions, to hit their next marks as soon as they were out of the current frame.

[hippypants]

[Yestor]

Mind Blowing. Sacred. Sends chills up and down my spine.

John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jCdOjOaJsU

[progmatist]

This premiered about 9 years ago, but I just discovered it within the past month:

[thedunno]

For me The ensemble Bang on a Can and the composers they use turned out to be a great way into finding new modern classical stuff.

I Kindly refer to this Thread:
https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...highlight=bang

[Baribrotzer]

This premiered about 9 years ago, but I just discovered it within the past month: David Chesky - Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra

I'm listening to the piece, and I'm not sure how well it works. The guitar and orchestra don't really blend all that well, and the occasional quotes are just plain annoying. The Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars do a much better job of putting the electric guitar into a classical setting - it's more at home in the context of an ensemble approximating its historical milieu (the rock or jazz band), and the results doesn't seem nearly as forced.

[bondegezou]

There's a thread already on Anna Meredith: https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...-Anna-Meredith, from which I repost this excellent video.



It was entirely done in one take, which you can see if you watch closely. Can you imagine how much they had to practice, and how many takes it must have required before they nailed it? I'd really like to see a "making of", with all five of the Anna Meredith Band racing frantically around to new positions, to hit their next marks as soon as they were out of the current frame.

Well, that obviously wins, because Lego. Thanks, all. Lots I need to go away and listen to in this thread.

Henry

[AdventAlan]

Greetings,

I'll throw in a couple of links to get started:



This one doesn't seem to embed properly, so here's the link instead: https://vimeo.com/257132360

Cheers,


Alan

[thedunno]

Some good suggestions in this thread. I like it

[AdventAlan]

Hi again,

One more that's not too new, but an all-time favorite:



Cheers,


Alan

[Dana5140]

Ben Johnson- one of the hardest pieces to play, ever.

[The Gak Omek]

Cantaloupe Music has a wealth of what you are looking for:
https://cantaloupemusic.com/

[The Gak Omek]

[StarThrower]

This piece is available on the Horizon 5 CD by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Also explore new music/modern music labels NEOS, NMC, Timpani, ECM.

[waren]

Elsewhere (feat. Edmund Finnis) by Daniel Pioro (from Dust, released March 2019)

[walt]

Henry Flynt on electric violin,C.C.Hennix on tanpura.Equal parts North Indian raga and hillbilly madness.I love this.YMMV.The cd is"Purified By The Fire".

[BrianG]

Greetings,

I'll throw in a couple of links to get started:
https://vimeo.com/257132360

Cheers,


Alan

Thanks Alan.
This is absolutely great stuff. The rest of this record focuses on Akiho's steel pan orchestra, and not this band.
BG

[BrianG]

For me The ensemble Bang on a Can and the composers they use turned out to be a great way into finding new modern classical stuff.

I Kindly refer to this Thread:
https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...highlight=bang

For the frugal explorers among us, BOAC offers several free mixtapes on their Bandcamp page.

[Baribrotzer]

Greetings,

I'll throw in a couple of links to get started: NO one To kNOW one, by Andy Akiho

Another good piece, and good composer. Akiho is one of the few classical steel pan virtuosos - he started out as a marching band drummer, developed an interest in steel pan, initially played traditional island music on it, then moved into writing his own jazz-funk tunes, and finally began leaning toward classical composition and studying it formally. All of which you can hear in this; it's a classical piece but it's also funky as hell. Akiho himself appears in this video, he's the scraggly-looking Asian guy in the back. I saw him perform a year ago, and talked to him a little; a likable guy and pretty unpretentious.