*cymbal clash* *cluster chords* ...I arrive! *tromba marina solo*

[Fagotterdämmerung]

  Hello!

  I'm a classical music dilettante putting my toe back into the classical music scene after a decade-or-so of comfortable exile. I could very well climb into a pillow fort and listen to Éclairs sur l'au-delà for all eternity, but the lure of new tunes and new names draws me back into the midst of my fellow fugue-fanciers and scherzo-skulkers.

  I'm more or less obsessed with 20th century music ( less so the 21st, but that's something I want to change: we are in the second decade of it, after all, so I'm sure there are hours of musical ecstasies I'm just too bumpkinified to have heard of ), and the late 19th century's (ch)Romantic meltdown with horns. I also enjoy the more eccentric works of the 15th, 16th, and 17th century ( Gesualdo's pin-the-tail-on-the-tonic for five voices being a prime example ).

   Looking forward to interacting with you all!

[EigenUser]

  Hello!

  I'm a classical music dilettante putting my toe back into the classical music scene after a decade-or-so of comfortable exile. I could very well climb into a pillow fort and listen to Éclairs sur l'au-delà for all eternity, but the lure of new tunes and new names draws me back into the midst of my fellow fugue-fanciers and scherzo-skulkers.

  I'm more or less obsessed with 20th century music ( less so the 21st, but that's something I want to change: we are in the second decade of it, after all, so I'm sure there are hours of musical ecstasies I'm just too bumpkinified to have heard of ), and the late 19th century's (ch)Romantic meltdown with horns. I also enjoy the more eccentric works of the 15th, 16th, and 17th century ( Gesualdo's pin-the-tail-on-the-tonic for five voices being a prime example ).

   Looking forward to interacting with you all!

Welcome. I love Messiaen! (But I like Canyons... better than Eclairs...) 0:)

[Fagotterdämmerung]

Welcome. I love Messiaen! (But I like Canyons... better than Eclairs...) 0:)

I like Cayons, too! When I was visiting Bryce canyon the xylorimba was peculiarly absent, though. It must have been in hiding. 

[EigenUser]

I like Cayons, too! When I was visiting Bryce canyon the xylorimba was peculiarly absent, though. It must have been in hiding. 

That Wood-thrush (Grive de bois) must have stolen it!

[bhodges]

Another Messiaen fan here - pretty much all of his music, but especially the Quatuor, Et exspecto, Éclairs, Turangalîla, and Livre du Saint Sacrament - and Canyons, too.

Enjoy your time here!

--Bruce

[North Star]

Hello, nice to meet a fellow Messiaen & Gesualdo fan.

[Wanderer]

Welcome!

[pjme]

Gongs, tamtams , bells and turkish crash cymbals, maracas and whips. Braying brass. Messiaen. Xylorimba and crotales.  Ondes Martenot. Angelic voices.

Here's another Messiaen fan. And Gesualdo. Couperin , Tallis, Vaughan Williams, Milhaud and Messiaen's friend Jolivet. Boulez.

Recently discovered Jaroslav Jezek. Roaring twenties:Osvobozené divadlo (Prague Liberated Theatre). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Je%C5%BEek_%28composer%29

Peter

[Lisztianwagner]

Welcome to the forum and have a nice time here!
May I suppose from your name that you like Wagner?

[The new erato]

I would be careful assuming anything from the first part of his nick, though.

[EigenUser]

Gongs, tamtams , bells and turkish crash cymbals, maracas and whips. Braying brass. Messiaen. Xylorimba and crotales.  Ondes Martenot. Angelic voices.

So, based off of the orchestration, that must be the St. Francis d'Assisi?

[pjme]

Not necessarily!

But I do admit that the scene with the angel from Saint François pulls all my "ondes".  "Eclairs"  and "In expecto" are great favourites aswell. I listen regularly to Trois petites liturgies and Poèmes pour Mi.
One of my best musical memories is a concert in Louvain ( late 1970??) of Yvonne Loriod and Messiaen playing Vingt regards.

Peter

[Fagotterdämmerung]

Welcome to the forum and have a nice time here!
May I suppose from your name that you like Wagner?

I do indeed! And the artistic direction of the 19th century Wagner had a large part in "setting in motion", as it were. ( And bassoons.  0:) )

[Fagotterdämmerung]

Here's another Messiaen fan. And Gesualdo. Couperin , Tallis, Vaughan Williams, Milhaud and Messiaen's friend Jolivet. Boulez.

Recently discovered Jaroslav Jezek. Roaring twenties:Osvobozené divadlo (Prague Liberated Theatre). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Je%C5%BEek_%28composer%29

A fellow Jolivet fan! An even rarer find.

I will have to scope out Jezek.

[EigenUser]

Not necessarily!

But I do admit that the scene with the angel from Saint François pulls all my "ondes".  "Eclairs"  and "In expecto" are great favourites aswell. I listen regularly to Trois petites liturgies and Poèmes pour Mi.
One of my best musical memories is a concert in Louvain ( late 1970??) of Yvonne Loriod and Messiaen playing Vingt regards.

Peter

I haven't heard the entire opera yet. Poemes pour Mi is great. The Trois Petites Liturgies is easily one of my favorite Messiaen works (other than the second movement, which I admit gets on my nerves for some reason). The third movement is some of my favorite music ever! I've even started to translate the words in my copy of the score.