21st century classical music

[Sean]

No, these concepts haven't changed over time. I know it's an old discussion but the Congolese, the Eskimos, the ancient Egyptians and the alien greys perceive and must perceive the octave with its coinciding wave peaks as euphonious and the minor second as not. These sounds can be shaped in context as concord and discord but cannot be fundamentally altered as there is nothing to alter them to without the rest of aural perception shifting with it- we don't need every dissonance to be immediately resolved because the musical argument is ongoing, but it must be resolved. Sound organized around any other reference point is not music but just noise.

[San Antone]

Dai Fujikura

https://www.youtube.com/v/LlU3y0bWNHQ

echo within

[San Antone]

Qigang Chen

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

"Yi (易)" for clarinet and string quartet.  [Written in 1986, but posted here nonetheless.]

[Sean]

Some 21st century music. Bce that is...

 

[San Antone]

Sanzhar Baiterekov

https://www.youtube.com/v/hYtUD4_y_uM&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL5E943EFFEE1BBD38

In(pulse) (2011) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello.

[Artem]

Didn't think I'd see a composer from Kazakhstan mentioned here.

[San Antone]

David Hudry

https://www.youtube.com/v/9JpGykaCfoA

"Nachtspiegel" (2008) for chamber orchestra, OLC de Paris. Art by František Kupka.

[San Antone]

True31 (part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/v/83naKUPcewc

[Rinaldo]

Carola Bauckholt — Zugvögel ("Migrant birds")

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

[San Antone]

Spektral Quartet ~ Albumblatt (2010) by Hans Thomalla

https://www.youtube.com/v/zXG_OUx1ObA

This work is one of the six included on this new CD by the Spektral Quartet.

[San Antone]

Carola Bauckholt — Zugvögel ("Migrant birds")

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

Thanks for posting this interesting work by Carola Bauckholt.   Interesting composer, who I've listened to before, but not a huge number of works.  It is always good to hear one that is new to me. 

[some guy]

One of my favorites, for sure.

And a super nice person. (Reminds me of Karl Henning in that regard. )

Treibstoff was the first piece of hers I heard. It was in a concert somewhere. Carola was there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0prV3wgI04s

[jochanaan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kqzERyqL-4 Some local (for me) fare.

[kishnevi]

Jonathan Dove, The End (2012)
as found here
[asin]B00COU07FC[/asin]
co-commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, with support of the Tenner for a Tenor campaign (as the HM blurb takes pains to make clear); text by Mark Strand.  Instrumentation designed to match that of the Warlock song cycle: string quartet, English horn, flute.  Complements/combines with but also contrasts with the other works on the CD to just the right degree.  Total length of this peformance is 8 minutes 53 seconds

Haven't gone looking for a Youtube clip, although I wouldn't be surprised if there is one posted.  (First listen to the entire CD suggests it's worth getting for both this work and the rest of the program.)

[San Antone]

A Life in Music: Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series

The extraordinary world of contemporary and avant-garde music that Earle Brown published on 18 LPs in the 1960s and 1970s – carefully digitized by the Earle Brown Music Foundation and reissued by WERGO.

VOL. 1
CD 1 Concert Percussion for Orchestra
CD 2 Stockhausen – Kagel
CD 3 Live Electronic Music Improvised

VOL. 2
CD 1 Works for Chamber Orchestra
CD 2 New Music from London
CD 3 Feldman – Brown

VOL. 3
CD 1 The Voice of Cathy Berberian
CD 2 Toshiro Mayuzumi
CD 3 New Music for Piano(s)

VOL. 4
CD 1 New Music for String Quartet
CD 2 New Music for Chamber Orchestra
CD 3 The Hamburger Kammersolisten

VOL. 5
CD 1 Sonic Arts Union: Electric Sound
CD 2 "Concord" Sonata
CD 3 Music for Flute and Piano

VOL. 6
CD 1 Cage – Wolff
CD 2 New Music for Violin and Piano
CD 3 New Music from South America for Chamber Orchestra

[7/4]

Six Earl Brown boxes!





Sounds expensive, yet interesting.

[some guy]

13 euros a disc.

Just two nights ago, I had a spinach tortellini with pesto sauce, pizza garlic bread, a copa of red wine, an ice cream thing, and a coffee.

26 euros.

Already, the memory of the flavors of that meal has subsided. The actual meal has long ago passed on.

As it were.

But I can take any of those 13 euro Earle Brown discs out at any time and play them any number of times, all for the initial price of 13 euros. I can play them hundreds, thousands of times without paying any more than the initial cost.

Last night, I went back to the same restaurant, by the way. I got a pizza vegatal this time, but I'm guessing that they would not have fancied the idea of giving me a meal of tortellini, bread, wine, ice cream, and coffee for free.

You have probably paid as much or more for dozens of meals without even blinking.

Music is cheap.

At twice the price, those Earle Brown sets would be cheap.

At four times the price.

Music and literature. For what you get from the initial outlay, these are two of the cheapest things you can buy. At any price. (And two of the nicest things to have, too, I might add. Throw in a nice reproduction or two, and maybe a nice original by one of your struggling artist friends, and you are pretty much set. Now all you need is some bookcases, a nice stereo, some furniture and some clothing, and a house to put all that stuff in. Oh, and go out to a nice restaurant once and awhile! It's fun!!)

[7/4]

13 euros a disc.

Just two nights ago, I had a spinach tortellini with pesto sauce, pizza garlic bread, a copa of red wine, an ice cream thing, and a coffee.

26 euros.

Already, the memory of the flavors of that meal has subsided. The actual meal has long ago passed on.

As it were.

But I can take any of those 13 euro Earle Brown discs out at any time and play them any number of times, all for the initial price of 13 euros. I can play them hundreds, thousands of times without paying any more than the initial cost.

Last night, I went back to the same restaurant, by the way. I got a pizza vegatal this time, but I'm guessing that they would not have fancied the idea of giving me a meal of tortellini, bread, wine, ice cream, and coffee for free.

You have probably paid as much or more for dozens of meals without even blinking.

Music is cheap.

At twice the price, those Earle Brown sets would be cheap.

At four times the price.

Music and literature. For what you get from the initial outlay, these are two of the cheapest things you can buy. At any price. (And two of the nicest things to have, too, I might add. Throw in a nice reproduction or two, and maybe a nice original by one of your struggling artist friends, and you are pretty much set. Now all you need is some bookcases, a nice stereo, some furniture and some clothing, and a house to put all that stuff in. Oh, and go out to a nice restaurant once and awhile! It's fun!!)

Oh, I WANT it. Now, it's just a matter of funds. Looking forward to finding out what it'll cost in the states.

[Henk]

Cesar Camarero - Vanishing Point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JuTzB9uQZ4

[Henk]

I was going through some of the distinguished bright talents on today's scene the other nite listed on the Kairos site ..
lots of talent out there that I'd like to get more familiar with and keep an eye on ..

FRIEDRICH CERHA (b.1926, Vienna) www.friedrich-cerha.com

GöSTA NEUWIRTH (b.1937, Austria)
HANS ZENDER (b.1936, Wiesbaden)

HUGHES DUFOURT (b.1943, French)
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH (b.1943, England)
PETER EöTVöS (b.1944, Transylvania) www.eotvospeter.com
MATHIAS SPAHLINGER (b.1944, German)
GEORGES APERGHIS (b.1945, Athens) www.aperghis.com
SALVATORE SCIARRINO (b.1947, Palermo)

GERD KüHR (b.1952, Austria) www.gerd-kuehr.at
PHILIPPE MANOURY (b.1952, French) www.philippemanoury.com
GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS (b.1953, Austria)
TOSHIO HOSOKAWA (b.1955, Japan)
MICHAEL JARRELL (b.1955, Geneva) www.michaeljarrell.com
MANUEL HIDALGO (b.1956, Spanish)
LUCA FRANCESCONI (b.1956, Italy)
JóSE MANUEL LóPEZ LóPEZ (b.1956, Madrid) www.josemanuel-lopezlopez.com
BERNHARD LANG (b.1957, Austria) members.chello.at/~bernhard.lang
BEAT FURRER (b.1957, Switzerland)
WOLFGANG MITTERER (b.1958, Austrian) www.wolfgangmitterer.at
PETER ABLINGER (b.1959, Austria) www.ablinger.mur.at
JOHANNES KALITZKE (b.1959, Cologne)

HANS-PETER KYBURZ (b.1960, Swiss)
UNSUK CHIN (b.1961, Seoul)
JESúS RUEDA (b.1961, Madrid)
MAURICIO SOTELO (b.1961, Spain) http://mauriciosotelo.com/Mauricio_Sotelo.html
PIERLUIGI BILLONE (b.1960, Italy) www.pierluigibillone.com
CéSAR CAMARERO (b.1962, Madrid) www.cesarcamarero.com
ISABEL MUNDRY (b.1963, Germany)
MARK ANDRE (b.1964, Paris)
FRANCISCO LOPEZ (b.1964, Spain) www.franciscolopez.net
CLEMENS GADENSTäTTER (b.1966, German) www.gadenstaetter.info
ALBERTO POSADAS (b.1967, Spain)
REBECCA SAUNDERS (b.1967, London)
WOLFRAM SCHURIG (b.1967, German)
RAMON LAZKANO (b.1968, Spanish ) www.lazkano.info
JOSé M. SáNCHEZ-VERDú (b.1968, Spain) www.sanchez-verdu.com
OLGA NEUWIRTH (b.1968, Graz) www.olganeuwirth.com
BERNHARD GANDER (b.1969, Lienz)
MISATO MOCHIZUKI (b.1969, Toyko) www.misato-mochizuki.com
ENNO POPPE (b.1969, Germany)

PIERRE JODLOWSKI (b.1971, France) www.pierrejodlowski.fr
MATTHIAS PINTSCHER (b.1971, Marl) www.matthiaspintscher.com
KLAUS LANG (b.1971, Austria) klang.mur.at
ELENA MENDOZA (b.1973, Sevilla) www.elenamendoza.net
JOANNA WOZNY (b.1973, Poland)
JOHANNES MARIA STAUD (b.1974, Innsbruck)
JESúS TORRES (b.1974, Saragossa) www.jesustorres.org
BRUNO MANTOVANI (b.1974, French)
HèCTOR PARRA (b.1976, Barcelona)

Very nice sum up of contemporary composers.