More (XStrav-Vares-ssiaen-nakis) Please

[pjme]

here are a few crazy, fingerbreaking, loud and quite exotic piano&orchestra works ...Possibly not Ruggles enough...


http://youtu.be/MnNcfhYTXTk

Jolivet: pianoconcerto / 3rd mov. Allegro frenetico


Marlos Nobre : Divertimento for piano and orchestra
http://youtu.be/YF0UBxsX6bw

http://youtu.be/vndswsbD3OQ

[Toccata concertata from Ginastera's pianoconcerto nr 1
Luis Ascot seems not to sweat...

And not to forget: from Messiaen's In expecto...: Et j'entendis la voix d'une foule immense

http://youtu.be/xDtXFdlaHAI

or, why not, Mathias Hauer: Apokalyptische Fantasie"...from 1913

http://youtu.be/r_xcoyHeqr4

[Coco]

Does Sessions's Rhapsody count?

http://www.youtube.com/v/TRHPHNGMJKQ

[pjme]

Must check You tube, but I'm sure
Teruyuki Noda's pianoconcerto  and Akira Miyoshi's concerto for orchestra apply - both short (resp. ca 11 and 7 minutes!), extremely energetic & driving scores. I'll try to upload later.



Alas, propably OOP


P.

[snyprrr]

Does Sessions's Rhapsody count?

http://www.youtube.com/v/TRHPHNGMJKQ

I'm finding Sessions too clean for my purposes here. He always seems to be holding BACK energy, instead of opening the floodgates. Rhapsody starts off with a few cool bass hits, but the piece exhibits Sessions' trademark clarity,... he seems to be able to make the largest orchestra sound like a chamber orchestra.

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Leifs's Hekla:

http://www.youtube.com/v/-AQ24wuylqI

[ibanezmonster]

Leifs's Hekla:

Madness! 


Xenakis' Ata is the logical development of The Rite many years later...
http://www.youtube.com/v/xB4RKzl2lmc


Here's the music displayed in image form:

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Madness! 

I guess you're not familiar with Leifs's music. His music is quite primitive. He's been billed as the "loudest composer to grace classical music" by some people. I guess in some respects his music is loud, but he does have his moments of introspection, just don't expect them in works like Geysir, Hekla, or Dettifoss.

[snyprrr]

Stravinsky, Sacre du Printemps -- Bartok, Miraculous Mandarin, Boulez, Notations I/IV + VII: the same sophisticated barbarity in all three cases
Varese -- Satie, Parade, Mosolov, Iron Foundry
Messiaen, Turangalila Symphony -- Maurice Delage, Quatre Poemes Hindous
Xenakis, Metastasis -- Penderecki, Fluorescences, Pollymorphia, Emanationen. Penderecki (in his good decade) had an ability to draw new sounds out of old instruments 
      that equalled and even surpassed Xenakis'
Scelsi - Ligeti, Atmospheres, Horacio Radulescu
Stockhausen, Inori - Dalbavie, Piano Concerto
Stockhausen, Ylem -- Berio, Chemins, Formazioni, Eindrucke; Lutoslawski, 2nd Symphony, HK Gruber, Aerial, Birtwistle Melancolia 1

- Scelsi, the Wyttenbach/accord recordings (Hurqualia, Uaxcuctum, Aion)

- Nørgård: Symphonys 5; Piano Cto, Percussion Concerto For A Change (Mortensen recording)
- Isang Yun: Symphonies
- Henry Brant: Litany of Tides
- Lucia Dlugoszewski: Fire Fragile Flight
- Vinko Globokar: Der Engel der Geschichte

Most of the Vermeulen symphonies qualify also, apparently partly due to some rather loud interpretations by the conductors (including Rozhdestvensky), but I would prefer a more lyrical approach.

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I have totally done this Thread proud in the last months. Norgard No.5 certainly fulfilled any expectation I might have had, and now I'm like on crack trying to find ever more mind blowing experiences. I still haven't made it through all the lists, but I did discover a Composer no one mentioned yet: Ivo Malec. The Timpani disc of his later Orchestral Works is EXCELLENT, as if he were successor to Varese. Highly Recommended!