21st century classical music

[San Antone]

Jason Eckardt
(b. 1971)

A way [tracing] for solo cello, part one from his "Undersong"; played by dedicatee Fred Sherry.

http://www.youtube.com/v/I_D1PwWPOy4

[San Antone]

Kaija Saariaho
(b. 1952)

http://www.youtube.com/v/uoDk4pXMNlM


"Cendres" for flute, cello and piano

[San Antone]

Charlotte Bray

https://www.youtube.com/v/neTU8Gie0yA

[Karl Henning]

Per this, you can hear some of Mark Gresham's Mortal Coils on his website.

(Fair disclosure: Mark is a friend, and my publisher.  The piece kicks butt, all the same.)

[San Antone]

Per this, you can hear some of Mark Gresham's Mortal Coils on his website.

(Fair disclosure: Mark is a friend, and my publisher.  The piece kicks butt, all the same.)

Nice work, thanks for the post - although (and I do not mean to convey any disrespect) his music sounds too polite to be characterized as "kicking butt". 

Well written, all the works I heard, and I left his player going for about 20 minutes.  I much preferred the instrumental things to the choral pieces, which were a bit too churchy for my taste.  He has what struck me as a Brahms feel to his chamber music - impressive stuff.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, I appreciate your remarks!

[San Antone]

Robert Phillips
(b. 1981)

http://www.youtube.com/v/pl4E6TXO7R0


Aur (Hebrew: אור, English: Light) for string quartet and electronics, played by the JACK Quartet

[Note: usually the Hebrew word for light is transliterated as "Or".]

[San Antone]

Hèctor Parra
(b. 1976)

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

"Knotted Fields" for piano trio, played by Ensemble Recherche

[San Antone]

Work by Brian Ferneyhough from 2012

https://www.youtube.com/v/xANR6U5CLG8

flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello

[San Antone]

Darija Andovska
(*1979)

http://www.youtube.com/v/MvXFjOa0NBM


Calipso, per flauto, clarinetto basso, pianoforte e percussioni (2003)
-- Icarus Ensemble diretto da Marco Pedrazzini

[TheGSMoeller]

Darija Andovska
(*1979)

http://www.youtube.com/v/MvXFjOa0NBM


Calipso, per flauto, clarinetto basso, pianoforte e percussioni (2003)
-- Icarus Ensemble diretto da Marco Pedrazzini

That's a unique instrumentation that completely works. Great atmosphere.

[San Antone]

https://www.youtube.com/v/3y0DLOKsQOc

Michael Kaulkin

Composed in the first half of 2009, Michael Kaulkin's City Walks is a 12-minute piece for string quartet in one movement.

0:00 "Tranquillo", a plaintive cello solo
4:40 "Andante Affabile", a lyrical, sauntering theme
5:50 "Misterioso"
7:52 "Semplice Affetuoso", a tender little melody turns melodramatic
9:45 "Presto Capriccioso", an adrenaline-soaked coda

[dyn]

Robert Phillips
(b. 1981)

http://www.youtube.com/v/pl4E6TXO7R0


Aur (Hebrew: אור, English: Light) for string quartet and electronics, played by the JACK Quartet

[Note: usually the Hebrew word for light is transliterated as "Or".]

There's more Phillips on soundcloud. I think Shindō no su is my favourite of the things i've heard. He seems to have a knack for presenting things that ought to be familiar yet somehow aren't, similar to Feldman (although their music is otherwise very different).

[San Antone]

Leaha Maria Villarreal

http://www.youtube.com/v/C-roAvowTbY

The Warmth of Other Suns
Composer: Leaha Maria Villarreal
Violin and Electronics: Andie Springer
World Premiere

Season 1 | Remembrance: Inaugural Concert on March 15, 2012
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music: New York, NY

[San Antone]

Samir Odeh-Tamimi

http://www.youtube.com/v/n5tW_oG-ewg&feature=player_detailpage

Jabsurr (2009) für Violoncello und Klavier (Dirk Wietheger, violoncelle / Ulrich Löffler, piano)

[San Antone]

Alex Mincek

http://www.youtube.com/v/1esJ64FJv7U

Pendulum III (2009) for alto saxophone and piano (Eliot Gattegno, alto saxophone / Eric Wubbels, piano).

[San Antone]

Joanna Wozny

https://www.youtube.com/v/dsaTx3PcdG0

"as in a mirror, darkly" (2010) for ensemble

Klangforum Wien
Enno Poppe, conductor

as in a mirror, darkly
The tangible structure and sound form of my work has changed continually in recent years. Besides tranquil pieces in which the material moves in a circular course, there are works in which the complexity of the sounds and their combinations were taken that much further so that clearly more complicated polyphonic and rhythmical textures evolved.

In my new piece for Klangforum Wien I am concerned amongst other things with the aspect of "pollution" such as sometimes occurs on (old) films through dust particles and scratches or that appears if one is looking through scratched glass. In this context, two things were important for me: first the random emergence of these impurities/contaminations (they are not inherent, but so to speak arise); and second the possibility of focusing on this accidental appearance by projecting it into a more or less empty space.

My composition focuses on this random appearance in the form of selective incidents which, distributed seemingly aimlessly, float without connection in space whilst the music itself is as if frozen. ~ Joanna Wozny

[San Antone]

Hanspeter Kyburz

https://www.youtube.com/v/gjgX2RqL5cI

~ Diptychon 1997

... Orchestration
2 ensembles each: 1.1(ca).2(cl[Eb].bcl); 1(cbn)/1111/2perc/­hp/pf/str(1.1.1.1.1).

(A tad before the turn of the century, but he is worth hearing and there's not much later than Malstrom, 1998, at this time.)

[San Antone]

I really like this piece, which incorporates traditional musical elements from Uzbekistan, where composer Victor Khandamian was born - a trio for nay, percussion, and violoncello.

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

The Omnibus Ensemble: Batir Dosimbetov, nay; Alibek Kabdurakhmanov, percussion; Dilya Tishaeva, violoncello

[San Antone]

Fantastic young Israeli composer, TALIA AMAR - earned her B.M. in 2012 in composition with honors under the guidance of Prof. Mark Kopytman, Dr. Ari Ben-Shabetai and Prof. Yinam Leef at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. At the same time, she was a piano student at the Buchman-Mehta School of Music with Emanuel Krasovsky. She is currently studying for her M.M. at the Mannes College of Music in NYC with Prof. Mario Davidovsky in composition and Victor Rosenbaum in piano.

This is a clip from soundcloud of her work, When a Dream becomes Reality... for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, performed by the Meitar Ensemble conducted by Yoval Zorn.

An accomplished pianist, we well as composer, here she performs one of her works for piano ~

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