21st century classical music

[jochanaan]

My thought is that it does not matter why you enjoyed the music, the important thing is that you did.

That works for me too.  De gustibus non disputandem est.

[San Antone]

Doesn't sound like much of a thought. The experience of music isn't a mindless affair, the experience can be deeper ... inquistive folks, ones who listen deeply will ponder, reflect, think-about what it was that they noticed & liked about the music, and draw conclusions as to what it means & represents to them.

I did not imply what you allege I implied in my statement.  (Oh, and thanks for the gratuitous insult, btw.) 

Of course enjoyment of a piece of music is not a mindless affair - but different people will respond differently to the same piece of music.   I do not consider one response more valid than the next, and don't lump people into groups like you: "inquistive (sic) folks, ones who listen deeply" (people like James ... you know, superior people) and then all those other people (the ones James looks down on). 

[San Antone]

Lefteris Papadimitriou

https://www.youtube.com/v/-JUhklDDHko

Piece n.6 from the album Oriental Resonant Networks (2013).

Electronics, piano and percussion.

[some guy]

...it is more about just being human

Well, that's easy enough. Since we are all already that.

And since we are all already that, without any effort (and without any encouragement (!) from you), you have just very neatly invalidated every single thing you have ever said.

Great job!

(Takes a lot of pressure off of us. Thanks!)

[TheGSMoeller]

Michael Gordon: Light is Calling

Film by Bill Morrison (director, producer, editor)
Music by Michael Gordon (composer, ASCAP)

"A scene from a deteriorating print of James Youngs The Bells (1926) was optically printed and re-edited to Michael Gordons 7 minute composition."


http://www.youtube.com/v/cf9ah8IUVgw

The music is featured on this album, which is fantastic...

[San Antone]

Jimmy Lopez

https://www.youtube.com/v/I64qaCPyaQo&list=UUXQ00jOcg9i2_BwLc2atDVQ

15 Études for String Octet
Arditti String Quartet

[Mirror Image]

Theo Verbey (*1959) -

Fractal Symphony (2004)

http://www.youtube.com/v/BhkF29qTXNs

[San Antone]

Emre Sihan Kaleli
(b. 1987)

https://www.youtube.com/v/MUXBVin3j7Y

"Seventeen Thoughts on a Chamber Concerto", played by the Nieuw Ensemble

Conductor: Ed Spanjaard

Flute: Harrie Starreveld
Clarinet: Jelrik Beerkens
Oboe: Ernest Rombout
Mandolin: Hans Wesseling
Guitar: Helenus de Rijke
Harp: Marieke Schoenmakers
Piano: Sepp Grotenhuis
Percussion: Herman Halewijn
Violin: Lisanne Soeterbroek
Viola: Frank Brakkee
Cello: Jeroen den Herder
Double bass: James Oesi

[San Antone]

Gabriel Erkoreka
(b. 1969)

https://www.youtube.com/v/T76QyDoXkMU

"Dipolo" for cello and piano, played by David Apellániz and Alberto Rosado.

[San Antone]

Turgut Ercetin

https://www.youtube.com/v/RSEfcgEJfmI

The Arditti Quartet performs Ercetin's second string quartet "Contra-Statement" at Espace de Projection, IRCAM.

[San Antone]

Richard Glover

https://www.youtube.com/v/5KQygxhjWME

Cello with Clarinet and Piano played by Seth Woods (cello), Jonathan Sage (clarinet) and Philip Thomas (piano), from the CD 'Logical Harmonies', featuring seven compositions by Richard Glover.

Richard Glover (b. 1981) grew up in Lichfield and studied at the University of Hertfordshire for his undergraduate degree in Electronic Music before moving to Huddersfield, where he gained a distinction for his MA in Music Composition. He completed his PhD with Bryn Harrison at Huddersfield, investigating perception and cognition within music of sustained tone textures. He is currently working as a Research Fellow in the music department and teaching in composition and music technology.

[San Antone]

Andrea Di Paolo

https://www.youtube.com/v/HegItEAacQU&list=UU1P-kTkphAxVG7P65yCcgMQ

Das Universum for string quartet

[jochanaan]

Never any critical thinking? Introspection, questioning things NEVER enters into it? Sounds like a total load of bs.

That's not it, James.  I love to analyze and sort out my various responses--but at its heart, our responses to music are so personal and irreducibly complex that it's a waste of effort to go beyond a certain point in our self-analysis.  This is especially true with the most recent music, much of which is so different from any "traditional" music, including the "Good Music" this forum is supposedly about, that there have been many academic-style polemics and analyses about it already.

In other words, if I like it, I'm likely to analyze why; that's just me.  But the first answer, and the final one, is likely to be, to paraphrase and add to the words of an early Everest explorer: It's there, and I'm here, and it resonates in my central being.  Why--well, we can tear apart and put back together ad nauseam, but it's still a Great Mystery.

[jochanaan]

Richard Glover

https://www.youtube.com/v/5KQygxhjWME

Cello with Clarinet and Piano played by Seth Woods (cello), Jonathan Sage (clarinet) and Philip Thomas (piano), from the CD 'Logical Harmonies', featuring seven compositions by Richard Glover.

Richard Glover (b. 1981) grew up in Lichfield and studied at the University of Hertfordshire for his undergraduate degree in Electronic Music before moving to Huddersfield, where he gained a distinction for his MA in Music Composition. He completed his PhD with Bryn Harrison at Huddersfield, investigating perception and cognition within music of sustained tone textures. He is currently working as a Research Fellow in the music department and teaching in composition and music technology.

Fascinating!  Kind of trance-inducing with its very long tones, changing slowly.  I'm sure it was very challenging to record!

[San Antone]

Michael Jarrell

https://www.youtube.com/v/AVrGyeCOU1A

[San Antone]

Peter Eötvös: Snatches of a conversation (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/v/TyvL5MaN52U

[San Antone]

Osvaldo Coluccino

https://www.youtube.com/v/8tPe-5mkYuQ

[San Antone]

Hans Zender

https://www.youtube.com/v/a3tTNaFbhCc

[San Antone]

Mark Delpriora

https://www.youtube.com/v/1J-3-GoDiyI

[cjvinthechair]

Hans Zender

https://www.youtube.com/v/a3tTNaFbhCc

Can appreciate some/much of this...interesting composer. What do you make of his take on Winterreise ? I like the contrast of centuries; how is it viewed by lovers of purely contemporary music ?