Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I think so too. There's too much to explore on one's own, and it's great to have other peoples' input. I've come across some great stuff in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Just heard this organ work on the radio by Belgian composer Flor Peeters... not a fan. Muddy cacophony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 It's an acquired taste definitely. Gnome in Plaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 3rd and final movement of Atterberg's Symphony No. 6. Listen to that awesomeness starting at 3:06! Williams fans may enjoy the ending starting at 8:08. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 The audio quality isn't the best, but I just love the sheer density of this work. Hosokawa is becoming one of my favorite contemporary composers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Pretty interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Hey Sharky, your pal is coming to visit. http://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/listings/details/?id=451725 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Heh, should be interesting...I did listening to that other recording of the Flor Peeters, and it's still not doing anything for me. Well it comes to tonal, fugal writing on the organ, Bach is my ideal. The clarity and sleight-of-hand appeals to me much more than this kind of reverb-heavy, unsubtle, boorish Sturm und Drang. Too much playing with all the stops out - not enough contrast in density, volume or tone colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Monolithic I suppose, but like I said an acquired taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Thanks Mike, really love that Duruflé piece. Looking forward to the superpost (especially the Nørgård, Hindemith and Messiaen) ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Yeah thanks for that Durufle which had somehow eluded me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 It was Dvorak's birthday yesterday and I forgot!String Quartet No. 5 in F minor, Op. 9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Hb-sesyY0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Sibelius - Pohjola's Daughter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ULm1dHi9s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 Here is a wonderful collection of exciting orchestral music by Behzad Ranjbaran: JW fans should find much to love in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Brausam 214 Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 This new work for brass choir could pass for one of John Williams' celebratory works in places, the whole album is great!http://open.spotify.com/track/2dfcuOPtzzzdGQsNPT1BsU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Was listening to Nyman's Piano concerto on Spotify the other day.I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's an interesting, if a bit strange work. Basically it's based on his material from The Piano with some playing around with of Scottish tunes. Has a great start, but once all the "My Heart Asks Pleasure First" stuff comes in, it becomes overbearing. Maybe it was just the performance I heard (by the RPO), which wasn't a very good one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfEUm0vtPhE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 I never really got into the concerto. It seems like a too sophisticated take on the deliberately simpler material from the film score. MGV on the other hand, which was its companion piece on the original CD release, is one of my Nyman favourites. As are the pieces on his Concertos album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nightscape94 965 Posted September 20, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2014 Janáček - Glagolitic Mass Gnome in Plaid, Sharkissimo and Dixon Hill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I always keep mixing up the Sinfonietta and the Glagolitic Mass to a degree, even though one is choral and the other is not. But at least the Sinfonietta frequently reminds me of Goldsmith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Pettersson - Symphony No. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Janáček - Glagolitic Mass That piece is one of my Desert Island Discs. Not sure which recording I prefer though...Mike, could you post a couple of those obscure proto-Williams composers/orchestral works you referred to in that Howard Shore thread? You've got me hooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Have to admit I never really got Janacek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Incredible. It's a long-term goal of mine to conduct a performance of this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN9Y3rSaqLgThis too of course. I lead a performance while I was a student (an interesting reworking by some acquaintances who switched the genders of the leading roles and did some rewrites to accommodate that), but I would love to do a big time, professional production. Considering its obvious relation to film music, I'm surprisingly casually interested in opera. But there are a few that really get me going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 There are a lot already in this thread. I'll go back and quote some of them later, but this one comes to mind immediately, particularly the choral writing.There are parts of Enescu's Suite for Orchestra, No. 3, “Villageoise”, that sounds like the groundwork for Williams, particularly the third movement "The Old Childhood House In the Sunset - Shepherd - Migrating Birds and Crows - the Vesper Bell". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Stephen Paulus died today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Glóin the Dark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8CsTC8rLN80?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBard 71 Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Enjoying Brahms' Rhapsody op.79 (both of them)I prefer the second one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Bloody Nora! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Lately this is what I feel like when I come on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 I enjoyed hearing Richard Strauss's rarely heard Festival Prelude at the proms earlier this year. I hear bits of Franz Waxman and Arthur Bliss in there for some reason.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CTu7df9Avg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 I enjoyed hearing Richard Strauss's rarely heard Festival Prelude at the proms earlier this year. I hear bits of Franz Waxman and Arthur Bliss in there for some reason.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CTu7df9AvgYes, a very impressive piece that should be performed more frequently!! I love the Royal Albert Hall organ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 https://soundcloud.com/ericwhitacre/winterApparently it's the 15th anniversary of this piece. Listening to it for the first time.It's beautiful. The second half captures the sound of Desh rather well, while retaining Whitacre's sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 That's a nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Ok, that's the first Whitacre piece I've enjoyed. Wonderful. KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 It really is, isn't it?As someone whose studied South Indian music quite a bit, I'm always curious when contemporary composers try to blend elements of the East into their work. This one does it very well, the impressionistic elements that lead to those lovely portamentos near the end.And yeah, I can hear the slightly Adam-esque vibe you're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Have you heard The Dharma at Big Sur? I don't think Adams tried to overtly incorporate Hindu elements, but it's certainly inspired by the aesthetic. Muad'Dib 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I havent heard that one. But it sounds right up my alley. I'll check it out tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I prefer the recording with Leila Josefowicz as soloist but you may only be able to find the Silverman one. Both fine anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted November 14, 2014 Author Share Posted November 14, 2014 I *adore* Dharma at Big Sur. One of my favorite pieces, too. It's gorgeous. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 REAL 11.1 surround! My favourite Xenakis piece. Spatial music at his best. Dixon Hill and Glóin the Dark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Sonically interesting but tough otherwise for me. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Absolutely stunning. Especially the second movement.I love how he wrote the solo after manodharma tradition while combining it with jazzy overtones (those blusy portamentos...yum!). And the way the orchestra tunes by just intonation, creates that intoxicating amorphous, meditative atmosphere, true to Indian tradition. The way he blends all these various styles and approaches...just wow.Thanks Mike for the recommendation! I really need to get the score for this! Muad'Dib and Dixon Hill 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Check your PM's. - Alex Michael George Pilgrim, always generous with underground score exchanges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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