SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Corigliano's Gazebo Dances orchestration is really doin' it for me today SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KK 3,307 Posted June 7, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2019 The Illustrious Jerry, _deleted_, SteveMc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Essential Shostakovich IMO: Also, anyone familiar with Ludovico Einaudi? A modern classical composer with quite a repertoire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Einaudi is more of a pop musician than a "classical composer". I have little patience for most of his stuff, but occasionally he makes some nice ear candy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 16 hours ago, KK said: Einaudi is more of a pop musician than a "classical composer". Yes. Wasn't sure how best to put it. He has a few very good piano tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,066 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Yeah, and a lot of tracks that aren't very interesting. 16 hours ago, KK said: Einaudi is more of a pop musician than a "classical composer". I have little patience for most of his stuff, but occasionally he makes some nice ear candy: That sounds very much like a Pärt rip-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Oh definitely! But it's fun. It's like most modern pop. Nothing's original. At best, you get some pretty ear candy, at worst, meandering sentimental bullshit. Depends on your tolerance for this kind of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,192 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Einaudi is from Turin. When we went there for a choir trip several years ago, the whole city was plastered with Einaudi banners advertising some upcoming anniversary or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Something I ran into from a young pianist/composer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,066 Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 What exactly is he reinventing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Not sure. Himself maybe? I like this short work for Bassoon and Piano he did last year. I'm getting some Williams vibes in parts. Just 17 or 18 years old apparently. I shall watch him with interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Wonderful classic PBS program for Copland's 80th birthday (1980). This was right near the end for Aaron as a public figure. He'd already been off the guest conductor circuit for a couple of years and even at this point was sometimes not lucid enough to conduct or appear in public. Dementia is so tragic. Here's a funny-sad story about Copland in the 80s from the composer David Conte: Quote A both humorous and sad example of how Copland dealt with his memory loss occurred when I accompanied him to conduct Appalachian Spring for a benefit for the Martha Graham Dance Company at the New York State Theatre in July of 1982. I was assigned to escort Copland into the theater and sit with him for the first half of the program and at the intermission to take him backstage to conduct his work for the second half of the program. We arrived at the theater and settled into our seats. Copland opened the program and said in a perfectly straight-forward tone of voice: “I wonder who’s conducting my piece this evening.” I turned to him, startled, and said: “Aaron, you are.” SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 As a tribute to the late Danish composer, Ib Norholm who died yesterday, I give you his first symphony which reminds me of Williams and Copeland Americana in some places with a dash of Sibelius. A lyrical and vigorous work well worth hearing. He went on to compose 13 symphonies, Concertos for violin and cello, operas, and much else. His early music was tonal but later he explored possibilities of serialism and graphic scores inspired by Boulez, Stockhausen, and others. Later he returned to tonality. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 Godzilla's Akira Ikufube in Williams Tree Mode (he worked as ranger during WWII and later wrote this nature tone poem later). A very soothing work (with some busy passages). karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 If you're at all curious about Latin American classical composers, I highly recommend this 1991 piece by the Peruvian composer Celso Garrido-Lecca, Duo Concertante. It's a duo for classical guitar and charango, an indigenous stringed instrument of Peru. His guitar concerto is also excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 Love the melody from 21:55 to 22:53 Other highlights: Grand Waltz - 38:54 Rose Adagio - 45:39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Anyone else think the opening of this sounds like a John Williams theme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,066 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Very much like. Kinda if Hook got crossed with The Cowboys. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 7 hours ago, Disco Stu said: Anyone else think the opening of this sounds like a John Williams theme? ...not enough woodwind runs... karelm and Disco Stu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 4 minutes ago, Loert said: ...not enough woodwind runs... True, the orchestration is not precisely his style, but there's something about the rhythm of that opening top-line melody that sounds so Williamsy to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Dude you've really caught on the Piston train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 33 minutes ago, Nick Parker said: Dude you've really caught on the Piston train. He's my self-assigned homework for this Summer! Reading books by and about him, and becoming more than passingly familiar with at least one of his works every week. As my musical idol, at this point I'm probably as familiar with Copland's entire oeuvre as it's possible for a person without real music education to be. He's still the central pillar of my music listening these days, but I'm trying to be more than just a dabbler in the rest of the 1920s-60s American music canon. Piston, Schuman, Barber, Harris, Sessions, Bernstein, Thomson, Antheil, Persichetti, Dello Joio, Hanson, Rorem, Carter, et al. And I'm throwing in some notable Euro expats with strong ties to America whose styles fit my taste to varying degrees (like Stravinsky, Hindemith, Schoenberg, and Martinu). Nick Parker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 @Disco Stu I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts on Leonard Bernstein as a composer. I have my thoughts but I won't share them this moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 19 minutes ago, Nick Parker said: @Disco Stu I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts on Leonard Bernstein as a composer. I have my thoughts but I won't share them this moment. I'm admittedly not overly familiar with his "pure" concert works. So my assumption right now is that he's strongest in his "Heir to Gershwin" works for the theater (ballet, musical, opera). For me his legacy right now as a composer rests on 4 theatrical masterworks: On the Town Wonderful Town Candide West Side Story Wonderful Town is crazy underrated. The Rattle/LSO recording released last year is essential listening for anyone who loves that jazzy musical comedy style. All that said, I will become more familiar with his concert works in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 37:14 - 37:45 is one of those moments where music, performance and recording come together in perfect harmony. Simply miraculous! Of course I post this here (and not in the Short Moments thread) because the whole album is wonderful. Hard to believe it was recorded almost 60 years ago... 16 hours ago, Disco Stu said: All that said, I will become more familiar with his concert works in time. This is quite entertaining: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Omen II 1,235 Posted June 23, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2019 English composer Gerald Finzi wrote some lovely music, for example his incidental music for a BBC radio production of Love's Labour's Lost in 1946. The ten-movement suite is well worth a listen, the highlights for me being the Introduction, Nocturne [from about 6:20] and Dance [from about 12:10]. I am going to see this later in the week and I am really looking forward to it. publicist, SteveMc and karelm 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 I found this small work by previously unknown to me American composer Alan Shulman lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 If Newman was less bored and challenged himself more again, maybe with concert music, I imagine it'd sound somewhat like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Antique Violences: Trumpet Concerto by John Mackey The recording of John Mackey's trumpet concerto finally released this month. It's about 20 minutes long in 4 movements, performed by Christopher Martin (he of Lincoln/"being the most notable orchestral trumpeter in America today" fame) and the Dallas Winds. It has a pretty cool approach for a trumpet concerto, exploring 4 different styles of playing in semi-historical contexts. It's all very much in Mackey's usual musical language. 1st movement: militaristic trumpet 2nd movement: Baroque, reserved trumpet 3rd movement: Mournful, romantic, expressive trumpet 4th movement: Extroverted, humorous, jazzy trumpet I certainly recommend the concerto, the album, and John Mackey in general. Jurassic Shark and karelm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,511 Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 . Loert and karelm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 Just add some percussion to this (boom-tss) and you have a very Williams-y sounding fanfare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,066 Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 In honour of Canada's independence day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 I'm on a Part binge. Absolutely sublime. Tabula Rasa is a musical composition written in 1977 by the Estonian composer, Arvo Part. In two movements, "Ludus" and "Silentium", it is a chamber concerto for two solo violins, prepared piano (piano with metal objects in its strings) and strings. It's a heart achingly beautiful work full of pathos, fury, questioning, and ultimately silence. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,511 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 . SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 I really enjoyed "Rapture", a new work from the young American composer, Patrick Harlin (b.1984) who I previously never heard of. The music is energetic and reminds me of John Adams and Michael Daugherty in their sense of rhythmic variety, dramatic intensity, accessible lyricism, and vitality. I definitely want to hear more from this young composer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,066 Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Plagiarism! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Disco Stu 15,495 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Generally I'm not the most enthusiastic listener of lieder/art songs, but holy monkey Copland's setting of "The World Feels Dusty" kills me Quote The World feels Dusty When We stop to Die We want the Dew then Honors taste dry Flags vex a Dying face But the least Fan Stirred by a friend’s Hand Cools like the Rain Mine be the Ministry When thy Thirst comes Dews of Thyself to fetch And Holy Balms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 I really enjoy this warm and contemplative symphony from Stephen Albert. He died in a car accident in 1992 and this symphony was edited/completed for premiere by Sebastian Currier. It's really nice, but there's a recurring theme in the first movement that reminds me so much of the Rodgers & Hart song "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewlidered" that it's a bit distracting. The recording I bought is different from the one in the Youtube video. It's by the LSO from last year (obviously I bought the album chiefly for the Piston). Really excellent album with A+ performances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 A child prodigy and famous piano performer, Ruth Gipps also wrote several orchestral works (four symphonies), all in the style of late british romantic, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Elgar, Holst etc. Especially her number four is a striking one, full of robust and painterly moments. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Continuing the theme of excellent British female composers, here is Grace Williams' very fine Symphony No. 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,066 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Johnny's British sister? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 I just found out that Vivian Perlis died on July 4th at age 91. She was an incredibly important musicologist at Yale. Her Oral History of American Music is a career defining project. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/arts/music/vivian-perlis-dead.html She was Aaron Copland's official biographer/historian and her two books/oral histories of Copland's work are basically the foundation of all scholarship on his music. Here's another great photo of her interviewing Copland and Leonard Bernstein: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jurassic Shark 12,066 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 I prefer The Firebird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Celso Garrido-Lecca - String Quartet No. 3 (1991) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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