21st century classical music

[San Antone]

https://www.youtube.com/v/OpQp45OfpQ8

[Rinaldo]

https://www.youtube.com/v/kVxy-_aS0N4

[Corey]

Yoshihisa Taira - "Luisances" (1973) for two Ondes Martenot, electric guitar and percussion.

https://www.youtube.com/v/B14Sa69HJqE

Okay, too old to be 21st century, but worth hearing.

[San Antone]

A release from 2009 that combines two of my favorite things: music by living composers and medieval vocal polyphony:

Unseen Rain
Music By Robert Kyr

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A purely vocal work

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

One with instrumental parts

https://www.youtube.com/v/JrpIM4spkBQ

[Rinaldo]

A release from 2009 that combines two of my favorite things: music by living composers and medieval vocal polyphony:

Unseen Rain
Music By Robert Kyr

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Mmmm, looks sounds enticing. I've been on a Bingen binge lately, Kyr's on my radar now. Thanks!

[Henk]

https://www.youtube.com/v/OpQp45OfpQ8

Sounds good.

[Henk]

I read it on The New Yorker online. I listened to some samples of The Ambassador of Gabriel Kahane, but I felt they are rather ordinary pop/rock/jazz songs. Nice, but I am not sure if it is representing any trend, movement, or "the heyday of the singer-composer". How do you think of his music?

I think Joan La Barbara's compositions are as remarkable as her singing, although not so many are available. I don't know most of the younger composer-vocalists mentioned: Lisa Bielawa, Kate Soper, Corey Dargel, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Erin Gee, Jennifer Walshe, and Agata Zubel. I heard only a short sample of Caroline Shaw, which has been in my wishlist. I'd like to check out these composers. Thank you for posting an interesting article.

Some interesting stuff there. Soper, Gee, Zubel and Shaw appeal to me.

[Henk]

Pretty awesome ~ Pierluigi Billone: 1 + 1 = 1 for two bass clarinets

https://www.youtube.com/v/TtruYROTXY4

Indeed. Need to listen.

[Henk]

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

Sounds really good.

[Henk]

I was really impressed by this. I bought this last night and listened on the train today. I'm new to this composer. There's a lot happening here and I need to listen again. I wish I had a chance to see something like this live.   

Very interesting indeed. This is an other Haas recording, will check this one out:

[Corey]

Mark Andre, a former student of Lachenmann:

https://www.youtube.com/v/TiprS7_BtFw

[Sean]

No recommendations guys? You're saying you know that even the best of it is more pink fluff, and Sean will notice?

Hi, I posted something like this a couple of weeks back elsewhere- if you experts can recommend two or three works by a highly significant 21st century composer, whose work I don't know, then I'll give it my serious attention. Best, Sean

I'm a bit sceptical about most music from the last few decades but if someone who knows the thread can point me in your best direction, ideally something artistic as well as innovative where I can see the late 20th century dreamscape mush or fake serial styles being taken forward a bit, then I'll give my usual five or more listens, and promise I won't be too disparaging. Thanks if you can...

[Corey]

I would recommend the Cendo and Andre pieces I posted

[Karl Henning]

No recommendations guys? You're saying you know that even the best of it is more pink fluff, and Sean will notice?

No, just saying you can lead Sean to fine music, but you cannot give him the sense to appreciate it.

[Karl Henning]

It's also acknowledgment that the dunderhead who pontificates that "there is nothing more to be said" in an artistic medium, suffers at the outset from a closed mind.

[chadfeldheimer]

It's also acknowledgment that the dunderhead who pontificates that "there is nothing more to be said" in an artistic medium, suffers at the outset from a closed mind.

Outch - feel addressed myself a bit by this. Seems to touch a sore point of you.

Yes - maybe most things, that can be expressed musically seem to be said.

Others have said that before.  So, yes, it's still wrong.

[North Star]

All this reminds me of those physicists in the late 19th century thinking that physics was pretty much done, and only a few small things need to be studied in more detail . . .

[Karl Henning]

Outch - feel addressed myself a bit by this. Seems to touch a sore point of you.

I shouldn't call it a sore point.  I write music every week;  who is so omniscient as to presume to claim that I have nothing to say, or that everything that I have said, has been said before?  Whether it is Sean or yourself making the claim, it remains fatuous.

[San Antone]

All this reminds me of those physicists in the late 19th century thinking that physics was pretty much done, and only a few small things need to be studied in more detail . . .

+1

[San Antone]

I shouldn't call it a sore point.  I write music every week;  who is so omniscient as to presume to claim that I have nothing to say, or that everything that I have said, has been said before?  Whether it is Sean or yourself making the claim, it remains fatuous.

More accurately, it would appear that they have nothing left to hear.