Pieces that have blown you away recently

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bhodges

If you're inclined, Muse, the Banff International String Quartet Competition has all of its performances (from about two weeks ago) on YouTube. In the first round, many of the groups did Bartók (and Haydn), and there are some terrific readings, especially of No. 4.

https://www.banffcentre.ca/bisqc-watch-and-listen

--Bruce

Muse Wanderer

Quote from: Brewski on September 18, 2016, 08:24:18 AM
If you're inclined, Muse, the Banff International String Quartet Competition has all of its performances (from about two weeks ago) on YouTube. In the first round, many of the groups did Bartók (and Haydn), and there are some terrific readings, especially of No. 4.

https://www.banffcentre.ca/bisqc-watch-and-listen

--Bruce

Thanks Bruce.

I'll check these performances out once I digest the intricacies of the 4th and whatever Bartok conjures in the 5th and 6th.

Florestan

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini


Florestan

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Jo498

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

Florestan

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

zamyrabyrd

Is anyone familiar with this delightful work? Reminds me of champagne bubbles.

https://www.youtube.com/v/EVUZoqvNqK8

Elias Parish Alvars - Harp Concerto in G-minor, Op.81 (1842)

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Jo498

I know. I tried to explain Ken's pun Herz -> Hertz and frequency -> frequently.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

Florestan

Quote from: Jo498 on September 19, 2016, 07:17:11 AM
I know. I tried to explain Ken's pun Herz -> Hertz and frequency -> frequently.

Oh, my! I had a second thought about it that it might have something to do with that Hertz. And now I got Ken´s pun, too.

You guys are too subtle for me.  :D
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Florestan

Quote from: zamyrabyrd on September 19, 2016, 07:09:51 AM
Is anyone familiar with this delightful work? Reminds me of champagne bubbles.

https://www.youtube.com/v/EVUZoqvNqK8

Elias Parish Alvars - Harp Concerto in G-minor, Op.81 (1842)

Thanks for posting it. Sounds great.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Ghost Sonata

Quote from: Jo498 on September 19, 2016, 06:50:07 AM
Heinrich Hertz, not Henri Herz

Grove states Henri (with Heinrich in parentheses).  Born in Vienna, Heinrich was thoroughly Frenchified in name and style - and wildly popular in his day.  He crossed the U.S. on tour three times (!) and wrote about it : Mes voyages en Amérique [1866], which see:  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086313251;view=1up;seq=9  I might have a look inside myself (an English trans. published in 1966).
I like Conor71's "I  like old Music" signature.

North Star

Quote from: Ghost Sonata on September 19, 2016, 07:32:10 AM
Grove states Henri (with Heinrich in parentheses).  Born in Vienna, Heinrich was thoroughly Frenchified in name and style - and wildly popular in his day.  He crossed the U.S. on tour three times (!) and wrote about it : Mes voyages en Amérique [1866], which see:  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086313251;view=1up;seq=9  I might have a look inside myself (an English trans. published in 1966).
Heinrich Hertz is the scientist.
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Florestan

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Quote from: Ghost Sonata on September 19, 2016, 07:32:10 AM
He crossed the U.S. on tour three times (!) and wrote about it : Mes voyages en Amérique [1866], which see:  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086313251;view=1up;seq=9  I might have a look inside myself (an English trans. published in 1966).

The liner notes to the first Herz volume on Hyperion state that those are extremely well and witty written and gives three examples that indeed made me laugh. Many thanks for the link, Gregg!

I see it opens with one of my favorite Horace adages:

Coelum non animam mutant qui trans mare currunt.

Look very, very promising.  8)
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Ghost Sonata

I like Conor71's "I  like old Music" signature.


SeptimalTritone

These have blown me away recently. The second of these I have heard before, but revisiting it made a much greater impression on me.

Francisco Meirino - Recordings of Voltage Errors, Magnetic Fields, On Site Testimonies & Tape Tension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcEeN9qAVmw

Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide - Good Morning, Good Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHs0LkixGvY&list=PL6kbKbt4ZO4ZiobvZAacH7T-Jtsb4jugX

Michelle Lou - Untitled Three Part Construction https://soundcloud.com/yelloworange

Lionel Marchetti - Ocean https://lionelmarchetti.bandcamp.com/track/oc-an-de-la-fertilit-2016-composition-de-musique-concr-te

Alexander Khubeev - Sounds of the dark time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TlTKWR4LNU

The new erato

Quote from: Jo498 on September 19, 2016, 07:17:11 AM
I know. I tried to explain Ken's pun Herz -> Hertz and frequency -> frequently.
Just like REM's song  "What's the frequency Kenneth?"..................

hpowders

What really blew me away this afternoon quite unexpectedly was the delightful, proud to be American Symphony No. 4 by William Schuman. I always liked it, but today it seriously impressed me!!  8)
"Why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music thus depriving it of its mystery?" Leonard Bernstein. (Wait a minute!! Didn't Bernstein spend most of his life doing exactly that???)

Mirror Image

Quote from: hpowders on September 20, 2016, 01:49:41 PM
What really blew me away this afternoon quite unexpectedly was the delightful, proud to be American Symphony No. 4 by William Schuman. I always liked it, but today it seriously impressed me!!  8)

I really like the slow movement to that symphony. I can't remember much else about it.