What is currently stuck in your head?

[Brian]

Now that I think of it, I have a Samsung air-conditioner which, when powered on or off, beeps the first six chords of the 1st movement of Beethoven's Eighth. I swear I'm not making it up.

See, I would have that stuck in my head all summer long!

Also, it is a very good "jingle" mini-tune.

[Atriod]

Tristan Murail's La Mandragore

[brewski]

Tristan Murail's La Mandragore

As a Murail fan, that must be a fabulous and unusual earworm. By any chance, is the pianist Marilyn Nonken? (Only because she does a lot of Murail.)

-Bruce

[LKB]

Now that I think of it, I have a Samsung air-conditioner which, when powered on or off, beeps the first six chords of the 1st movement of Beethoven's Eighth. I swear I'm not making it up.

If l had money to waste, I'd buy that model for that reason alone. 

[Atriod]

As a Murail fan, that must be a fabulous and unusual earworm. By any chance, is the pianist Marilyn Nonken? (Only because she does a lot of Murail.)

-Bruce

It is indeed Marilyn Nonken, when her CD came out that was my introduction to Murail. I have been a fan ever since.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Tristan Murail's La Mandragore

Interesting piece of music; I'm playing it now. 

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

@brewski I started listening to Territoires de l'oubli too, but got sidetracked, so will have to revisit it.

I didn't know what spectral music was, so I looked at Wiki; I see that there are disagreements as to how to define it by even those composing it!  When I read that Debussy was a proto-spectral composer, it made me think:  I could see how you could get something like Murail's music if you pulled Claude into the 21st century.

PD

[Atriod]

@brewski I started listening to Territoires de l'oubli too, but got sidetracked, so will have to revisit it.

I didn't know what spectral music was, so I looked at Wiki; I see that there are disagreements as to how to define it by even those composing it!  When I read that Debussy was a proto-spectral composer, it made me think:  I could see how you could get something like Murail's music if you pulled Claude into the 21st century.

PD

That is pretty much how I hear much of Murail's piano music, it was love at first listen whereas others like Boulez and Leibowitz took longer to appreciate.

[brewski]

When I read that Debussy was a proto-spectral composer, it made me think:  I could see how you could get something like Murail's music if you pulled Claude into the 21st century.

PD

Yes! This is exactly what I have thought, ever since discovering spectral music: vault Debussy into the 21st century, give him access to computers, and voila.

@brewski I started listening to Territoires de l'oubli too, but got sidetracked, so will have to revisit it.

You may have run across this already, but YouTube has it with the score, if you're curious.

-Bruce

[LKB]

Right this minute, Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer has taken up temporary residence.

Once I've re-run my memories of Kurt Moll as Senta's father, I'll hopefully be able to evict Daland & Company for something featuring less weight and length. 

[LKB]

So, the ghost ship et.al. have sailed into the ether, and Bruckner's Fifth has taken their place. 

[vers la flamme]

So, the ghost ship et.al. have sailed into the ether, and Bruckner's Fifth has taken their place. 

Two or three of the main motives from that symphony are always getting stuck in my head too.

[Florestan]

Three French earworms have been incessantly playing in my head in the last two weeks

Viens, gentille dame from Boieldieu's La dame blanche

Pourquoi me réveiller from Massenet's Werther

Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour (Barcarolle) from Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann

[Irons]

Be gone with you! Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. To make matters worse David Oistrakh's 1954 recording being the greatest example of perfection in violin playing I have had the pleasure of hearing.

[Florestan]

Be gone with you! Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. To make matters worse David Oistrakh's 1954 recording being the greatest example of perfection in violin playing I have had the pleasure of hearing.

Great on both counts. The piece is gorgeous (it's been stuck in my head ever since I first heard it some 35 years ago) and Oistrakh is, well... Oistrakh. 

[pjme]

[vers la flamme]

Weill's Alabama-Song, Moritat von Mackie Messer, Seeräuber-Jenny & Surabaya-Johnny are taking turns.

[LKB]

Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

[ritter]

Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

All of it? 

[Florestan]

All of it? 

My surprise exactly.