Fabulin 3,514 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 A great favorite of mine. Omen II and karelm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Been treating myself to this special beast: The concerto is one of my favourite Adams works. I like to think Williams was fond of the piece too. I always hear proto-Memoirs finale material, especially around the 4min mark of the above movement. Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 1 hour ago, KK said: The concerto is one of my favourite Adams works. I've never really warmed to this although I do like some of Adams' music. Glass' violin concerto, on the other hand, is a masterpiece and his greatest orchestral work, IMO. Fabulin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,515 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Gorgeous sound quality in this recent recording of Strauss' Alpine Symphony, performed by Daniel Harding and the Saito Kinen Orchestra: And a particularly impassioned performance of On the Summit/Vision, different from Karajan's slightly more laid-back approach which I'm more familiar with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 12 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: I've never really warmed to this although I do like some of Adams' music. Glass' violin concerto, on the other hand, is a masterpiece and his greatest orchestral work, IMO. The Glass concerto is indeed excellent. One of the few examples where he manages to use the traditional repertoire template to maximize the potential of his style. Adams, as a whole, is a much more interesting composer than Glass though. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 1 hour ago, KK said: Adams, as a whole, is a much more interesting composer than Glass though. I agree that Glass' music is hit and miss, but I find Adams' music the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Fair enough. I think Adams is probably the last truly great and significant voice to add to concert hall lexicon. _deleted_ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,478 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 What is the music in this clip when Colman's name is announced? I think it is some classical music but I can't quite make it out. I checked for a soundtrack of Favorite and there doesn't seem to be one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 If you're in the mood for some man-tears: Will and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Shostakovich 2nd Piano Concerto 2nd Movement We are not worthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,915 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 A very fine composer who hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet is the Irishman, John Kinsella (b. 1932). Currently he has composed 10 symphonies. His style is tonal and very listenable. Here is his Symphony No. 6 from 1992-3. SteveMc and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,515 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Very pretty: (note: the title of this is wrong, the piece in the video is actually "No.2, Mantra of Activity") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Holko 9,532 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Warner Classics "best 100" 6CD collections in white clamshells, various excerpts of performances: there's a Liszt, Tschaikowsky, Wagner, and a Karajan-conducted one. Anyone know these collections, are the performances good, any worth getting? EDIT: not being an aficionado, I decided to choose the horizonwidening excerpts rather than comitting to a more comprehensive collection from one composer based on a piece or two I know. Karajan it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,211 Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 A significant portion of this sounds like the love child of Jerry Goldsmith and Christopher Young. There's even a choir effect of repeated phrases that sounds very much like the echoplex in Alien. Parts also could have been an inspiration for Zimmer's Beneath Alrischa. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,515 Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Sounds like something out of a Golden Age score. You can almost see the marching Roman legions! Dukas was clearly inspired by Hagen's Watch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Stuck on this beauty today: SteveMc and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,514 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 This little (6 min) treasure by J. Haydn: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,515 Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 An astounding performance of "Ich ging zu ihm" from Korngold's "Das Wunder der Heliane": Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,915 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 I find this very beautiful. Vasks Oboe Concerto (2017-8) SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Lovely stuff indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabulin 3,514 Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 . publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 @The Illustrious Jerry Saw you've been getting into Prokofiev. I'm normally not a fan of solo instrument sonatas, but I love his Flute Sonata. Here's the second movement: I love how full he makes it sound, you can hear the orchestra, practically. He throws in some fun harmonies, and has a great buildup into a classic, carelessly giddy Prokofiev trademark melody. So satisfying. The Illustrious Jerry and SteveMc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post karelm 2,915 Posted April 11, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 11, 2019 Shostakovitch wrote this when he was only 16 years old. I hear it as an orchestral symphony and hope to one day orchestrate it. It has many features of the mature symphonic composer he would become but these characteristics were already in full display in his youth proving him to be a natural symphonist. Two years later would be his wonderful Symphony No. 1 that put him on the map. Plus this work has a very noticeable debt to his Russian heritage. SteveMc, The Illustrious Jerry and Fabulin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Who needs Rozsa when you've got this... Fabulin and publicist 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 DUKAS: La Peri: Fanfare BORODIN: String Quartet No. 2: I. Allegro moderato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 For the more adventurous listeners around here. This is a young up-and-coming composer named Charles Peck that I discovered over the winter. His music is vibrant and imaginative I think. We shall watch his career with great interest. His piano quartet, "Sunburst" I really really like. It's divided into two sections. The first half is nervous and clangorous. The second has more of an eastern-influenced drone sound. The piano in the first half I find fascinating. The rhythms have an almost jazzy syncopation but the harmonies/style are quite discordant. Very cool. SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Lately i really get my kicks from this Chailly recording of Bartok. 'Miraculous Mandarin' is the more famous work (Goldsmith drew from it rather obviously in 'Total Recall'), but it's 'Concerto for Orchestra', with its many spooky, mysterious passages that i return to (the first minutes of Elegia must have been the inspiration for the 'misterioso' writing in the Hoth parts of 'ESB' and numerous Goldsmith's from the late 70's). The Presto finale in which a whirling perpetual-motion-main theme competes with fugal fireworks based on folk melodies also must have been studied extensively by silver age composers. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 It's a great concerto. Also check out Bernstein's Sony recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Why not, it has the brilliant Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste which i like more than Mandarin. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Discovered the former LA Philharmonic principal conductor's violin concerto and it's pretty good. Will have to check out more of Salonen's repertoire: karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 You ever listen to his saxophone concerto? I remember liking it when I listened to it in high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Nope. I was entirely unfamiliar with his work until now really. I just knew him as a conductor. Will check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,515 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 2:38 onwards is so darn good! karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,915 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 I'm quite enjoying this composer who is new to me. Vyacheslav Artyomov (b. 1940) who is sort of a mixture of Hovhaness, Messiaen, and Scriabin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 All about the eighth tones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A24 4,346 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Nice! Never heard about her before. karelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Oh Elgar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 Hey look it's a crappy video I took on my bike ride today. But I wanted to give a sense of how amazing it was to have Copland's Appalachian Spring piping in my ears on this glorious green day. Got to "Simple Gifts" right as I hit this bridge SteveMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,915 Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 I'm really becoming a big fan of Peter Eotvos whose work "Multiverse" I especially enjoy. Though composed in 2017, it reminds me of Bernard Herrmann in it's use of harmon organ and lots of muted brass like how Herrmann used in some of the Twilight Zone episodes. This definitely has an "other worldly" feel I love! Since Yuri Gagarin’s journey into space in 1961, technological advancements have caused us to marvel at the miracle of the cosmos. Research like Witten’s theory of the eleven dimensions and string theory has astounded us with its speculation on the nature of outer space, and has spurred me on in my compositional fantasy. My work consists of three movements: Expansion, Multiversum and Time and Space. It surrounds the audience with sound from all sides. The concert organ is played at the front of the hall and, although also played onstage, the rotating tone of the Hammond organ will sound from the back. The orchestral seating will reinforce the spatial impression of a tonal universe with the strings on the left, the woodwinds on the right and brass and percussion dispersed across the entire width of the stage. Peter Eötvös Nick Parker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 1 hour ago, karelm said: I'm really becoming a big fan of Peter Eotvos whose work "Multiverse" I especially enjoy. Though composed in 2017, it reminds me of Bernard Herrmann in it's use of harmon organ and lots of muted brass like how Herrmann used in some of the Twilight Zone episodes. This definitely has an "other worldly" feel I love! Ooh daaaammmn! Love that the saxes get some love, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Second movement is gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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