Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 2 minutes ago, Bartokus Novus said: There's something so enchanting and powerful about the sound of a brass ensemble. It's such a warm sound. I'm a fledgling trumpeter (after being a lapsed one for 15 years) myself so I'm a little biased Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Those of you who are fans of Paul Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice, Saint Saens's Danse Macabre or M. Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain will enjoy Cesar Frank's "The Accursed Hunter" The story is about a hunter who chose to go hunting rather than observe the sabbath as a day of rest. As a result, ghouls and spirits hunt him down. This seems like a lot of fun to play in a concert but sadly doesn't get the notice it deserves due to other, more popular works in similar vein. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 An "oldie", but a goodie! karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Hardly a "recommendation," but enjoy Previn's subtle take on this bit of English poetry. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Oh yeah, forgot to post here that I went to see the Richmond Symphony play a program of classical music this past Friday night. This was the program: Semiramide Overture - Rossini Living Language (Guitar Concerto) - Dan Visconti Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven It was very cool to see a new guitar concerto performed, it was only the 3rd time it had ever been performed and by the guitarist for whom it was written. I really enjoyed the techniques required of the player and the style (which was this mixture of traditional blues and Indian music) but overall it felt a bit aimless. I loved seeing Beethoven's 8th symphony performed. It's his most lighthearted/"fun" symphony and really a joyful way to end the week. Fine performances by the Richmond Symphony all around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jilal 569 Posted February 11, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 11, 2017 I absolutely love the first movement of Richard Danielpour's Concerto For Orchestra (Zoroastrian Riddles). It's a crazy mix of Stravinsky, Copland and Bernstein, and some parts sound unmistakably Williams-esque as well. Some cool bits: 0:00 - The mystic opening. 0:26 - Quartal goodness. 1:01 - The double-tonguing woodwinds. 2:03 - Copland's ghost lingering! 3:03 - More Copland (+ whipcrack). 3:16 - Enter Bernstein! 3:26 - A Lydian (the top layer, at least) - very Williams-esque! 3:44 - The spiccato parallel major chords remind me of Thomas Newman. 4:23 - Very cinematic. karelm, Will and KK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 ^^^ Cool piece; very virtuosic orchestral writing! ------------------------------------------------------------ A heartfelt performance by Louis Lortie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,483 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Louis Lortie, a fellow Québécois. But I doubt that his Beethoven is as good as you say. Listen to Paul Lewis version, he's on Spotify too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 2 hours ago, Bartokus Novus said: 3:26 - A Lydian (the top layer, at least) - very Williams-esque! Perhaps unsurprisingly, that's my favorite part. A lot of it is rather grating IMO (at least on first listen), but it does have some other cool moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Loert 2,511 Posted February 11, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 11, 2017 40 minutes ago, Will said: Perhaps unsurprisingly, that's my favorite part. That bit in particular reminds me of this part from Williams' American Journey! 3:01 - 3:09 45 minutes ago, Bespin said: Listen to Paul Lewis version, he's on Spotify too. I've heard good things about Paul Lewis' Beethoven. I will certainly take a listen! Jilal, Will and Bespin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 I've been listening to Karl Jenkins' Cantata Memoria, written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. For anyone unfamiliar with what happened, in October 1966 a huge heap of colliery spoil loosened by rain engulfed a primary school in the south Wales village of Aberfan, killing 116 children and 28 adults. The Cortege segment is particularly powerful, as the choir sings the names of the victims against a grim, funereal orchestral procession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 13 hours ago, LampPost said: That bit in particular reminds me of this part from Williams' American Journey! 3:01 - 3:09 That's one of my favorite tracks on the American Journey CD, which is full of gold nuggets already. Fantastic recording, too. That bit is D Lydian over an E5 pedal harmony, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 50 minutes ago, Bartokus Novus said: That bit is D Lydian over an E5 pedal harmony, by the way. If by "E5 pedal harmony" you mean this: then I agree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 12 minutes ago, LampPost said: If by "E5 pedal harmony" you mean this: then I agree! Sure about that D2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 100% E2 would make it sound less stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I'm not entirely convinced. Wait a second. ------------------------------------------------------------- Okay, I agree now, @LampPost. http://picosong.com/GsPH/ Slowed down and transposed 10 semitones up (+ a high cut), you can clearly hear the stack of fifths. ------------------------------------------------------------ Using the same method (though reversed, i.e. low cut, transposition down 10 semitones) I've noticed the right hand is slightly different, though, @LampPost. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 And the piano diddles: This is what I get when I mock up our combined transcriptions in the previous post: http://picosong.com/GsVm/ Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Loert and Jilal 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Aaron Copland - Symphony for Organ and Orchestra Love this symphony, especially the 2nd Movement ("Scherzo") which is just thrilling and fascinating and wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 At least 'Ruin and Memory' is quite memorable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I struggle to penetrate the cello concerto, still, but the piano concerto is a remarkably vital and yes, memorable work for something done in such a throwback idiom. It's a wonder to find someone writing like that in a genuine way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 The closing moments of prestissimo are the closest we might of Shore in the way of a virtuosic Williams piece - going by HS's erratic movie work, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Shore's language is certainly far from Williams' in any mode. He has an austere sensibility even when operating in much more modernistic zones than these neo-classical pieces. It's a language that is rather more difficult to embrace unless one is already enamored of the soundworlds of, say, Feldman, Hindemith, and Glass. To be more shakily metaphysical about it - there is something of the bleak but poetic New York autumn and winter in much of his music, which is perhaps more endearing if one has firsthand experience of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Ideal Cronenberg collaborator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I just listened to the first movement of Mythic Gardens and found it fairly riveting, but I can sort of see what you mean. It doesn't stick with you. Gorgeous orchestration though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 This is a brilliant album of Polish music from the period around the Second World War: KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 I believe Shore's at that stage where he's exploring and reiterating older forms in his own language, as supposed to the 90s/early -00s, where we got to witness Shore's more avant-garde days. He wasn't really actively writing concert works then, so outside of the unheard "Orbit", we never really got to hear him channel his wilder, Goldenthal-esque voice in the concert hall. It's not an unlike Stravinsky's later years, or what many composers go through in their sunset days. Oh and Ruin and Memory is lovely. Have you checked out the Palace in the Ruins album yet pub? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Sibelius - Spring Song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 A delightful suite from R. Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos". It has a sweet pastoral tone throughout. The "Le bourgeois gentilhomme Suite" from the same album is worth a listen too. The final movement is my favourite. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 There's an actual suite from the opera, besides the gentilhomme suite? Is it a Thing, or was it just assembled for this recording? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 1 hour ago, Marian Schedenig said: There's an actual suite from the opera, besides the gentilhomme suite? Is it a Thing, or was it just assembled for this recording? From the booklet: Quote The current setting by D. Wilson Ochoa was scored in 2010 for Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony. Except for the Interlude from Version 1, the movements are all derived from Version 2. About the work, Ochoa notes: “My aim in extracting and arranging music from Ariadne was to create an orchestral suite that could act as a kind of symphony in the presentation and development of the main themes from the opera. I maintained Strauss’ original instrumentation throughout, with the exception of having the second oboe double on English horn, an ideal instrument for some of the vocal quotes. The original keys remain, with added orchestration of lines originally cast for voice. Following Strauss’ original setting, I attempted to create seamless, logical transitions between the excerpts. [...] " So it was put together by D. Wilson Ochoa very recently, and is performed on this album. Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Indeed! Listening to it now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Great stuff..."Anxiety" is my favourite! Muad'Dib 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Not sure which thread to put this. Great "strolling music", very relaxing and easy to listen to. I particularly love "Old Beirut" Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 When romance meets Elgar Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Some more Elgar, conducted by Sir Arthur Bliss: (yes, this is from a Reader's Digest album!) Jilal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 The amazingly awesome Symphony No. 2 'Window of the Soul' by Slovenian composer Alojz Ajdič, wonderfully performed by Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. Sounds totally like film music from time to time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Connesson - Cosmic Trilogy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Gosh, you know, I really wanted to like it, but it's just too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 5 hours ago, TheGreyPilgrim said: Gosh, you know, I really wanted to like it, but it's just too much. Do you mean Connesson or Ajdič? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 The former. Perhaps I am just becoming an old fart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Cheekily: Muad'Dib 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Now this I can get behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 I really love Michael Daugherty. This work is very compelling to me because it mixes so many influences in such a unique way. In this work you get vintage sci-fi, John Adams style post minimalism, modernism, old school melody, etc. I don't think I've heard a piece from this composer that I didn't enjoy. Hell's Angels is a concerto for four bassoons and orchestra. I might be mistaken about this but I believe that Daugherty's background is as a rock musician first who went classical and I think that mix is part of what makes him so interesting. He LOVES pop culture (for example his Metropolis Symphony is based on Superman comics but is a massive symphony) but is very skilled in concert music so the combination is so engaging to me and others since his latest recording (also great) just won the Grammy. I met him at the Cabrillo festival a few years ago when they played one of his works and he is very down to earth and charming. But have a listen and let his music speak for itself. Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 This was the first Daugherty piece I ever heard, and live no less (but I'm sure I've mentioned that before). Of his more recent things (more recently released, at least),Mount Rushmore has become a favourite of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 On 2/23/2017 at 11:33 AM, Maglorfin said: The amazingly awesome Symphony No. 2 'Window of the Soul' by Slovenian composer Alojz Ajdič, wonderfully performed by Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. Sounds totally like film music from time to time! Wow! I've never heard of the composer before, but I'm definitely going to look out for more by him. That symphony is excellent. Maglorfin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Respighi - Belkis, regina di Saba karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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