Pieces that have blown you away recently

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

Quote from: Florestan on October 08, 2016, 07:36:21 AM
Some string quintets by George Onslow and Luigi Cherubini.
Haven't heard those Onslow quintets before? I heard a couple a few years ago along with a bunch of his other chamber works. Remarkable composer!

ComposerOfAvantGarde

NEW PIECE BY OLGA NEUWIRTH THIS IS A BIG DEAL AND IT'S AMAZING

https://youtu.be/MAy4FzongqM

Artem

Brahms' 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117, especially the first two. Have been listening to them these two days.

alkan

Thanks for the link to Maslanka's 4th symphony.    Very impressive.   It seems that Maslanka is a specialist in apotheoses .... a kind of 21st century Bruckner .... !!

After Maslanka, now for something completely different    (as Monty Python would say ....)

Have a listen to this, from my namesake Charles-Valentin Alkan.     I know it by heart but it may be new to many of you.
The Saltarella (from Op 47) arranged for piano duo ...... a wonderful rhythmic drive, virtuoso playing and plenty of excitement.    How can human beings play the piano like this and still find time to turn the pages of the score .... ????

This Youtube video is from a private performance in Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzmn-oQAtj0

Hope you enjoy
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Maestro267

I've already mentioned it in his Composer Discussion thread, but I heard Alfred Schnittke's cantata Nagasaki the other day, and was blown away by it, especially the middle movement and the finale. What is it about fortissimos in Soviet music that leave you completely overwhelmed? They are absolutely incredible!

Cato

I heard most of this today: excellent tone poem!

Ernest Bloch: Three Hebrew Poems

https://www.youtube.com/v/oGUnQ4pL_VM
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B_cereus

I am getting into once popular but now neglected works... Recently listening to Moog's recordings of:

Moszkowski - E major piano concerto

Anton Rubinstein - D minor piano concerto #4

I think both these pieces deserve resurrection in the concert halls :)

Mirror Image

Mahler's 3rd has completely blown me away and, even though I've always liked this symphony, I absolutely love it now.

Jo498

Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on October 08, 2016, 02:30:28 PM
I have been obsessed by Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata lately, because I am writing a new play about a male Orthodox Jewish college student pianist madly in love with the Catholic girl student violinist he has been assigned to play the piece with.
You know that there is already a book by some Russian dude about the Kreutzer Sonata... ;)
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MishaK

Bought Barenboim's new set of complete Schubert sonatas recently, most of which were unknown to me. Completely blown away by  D845 in A Minor. What a piece! Bought the score and now I'm learning to play it.

North Star

Quote from: MishaK on October 25, 2016, 07:08:01 AM
Bought Barenboim's new set of complete Schubert sonatas recently, most of which were unknown to me. Completely blown away by  D845 in A Minor. What a piece! Bought the score and now I'm learning to play it.
Yes, that's a great sonata. D784 in A minor is an interesting one, too.
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Florestan

Louis Vierne - Piano Quintet in C minor op. 42 (1917)

A mournful, heartwrenching lamento for his son, killed in the trenches of WWI. A most impressive work which seems to have been composed with his own blood and tears by this most unfortunate of composers, born almost blind and whose life has been beset by countless tragedies.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

PerfectWagnerite

Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on October 08, 2016, 02:30:28 PM


, because I am writing a new play about a male Orthodox Jewish college student pianist madly in love with the Catholic girl student violinist he has been assigned to play the piece with.
Is that a joke?

Karl Henning

Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on October 26, 2016, 03:14:03 PM
Is that a joke?

Oh, I shouldn't think so. But it does establish some background for either drama or comedy.
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Gaspard de la nuit

Quote from: knight66 on September 14, 2016, 01:57:21 PM
Let me tell you
Composer Hans Abrahamsen, words Paul Griffiths, Soprano Barbara Hannigan
Bayerischen Rundfunks Orch, Andris Nelsons, on the Winter and Winter label

I've been listening to this regularly since it came out. Definitely one of the best new works I've heard in years. I also highly recommend his other work 'Schnee', also on Winter & Winter. Abrahamsen is shaping up to be a truly incredible composer. Can't wait to hear what he does next.

(poco) Sforzando

Quote from: Jo498 on October 24, 2016, 11:09:15 PM
You know that there is already a book by some Russian dude about the Kreutzer Sonata... ;)

How odd. I even make reference in my play to the student's father having an adulterous affair (though no one gets killed as a result or spends his life riding trains pleading for forgiveness).
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

North Star

Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on November 05, 2016, 03:24:39 PM
How odd. I even make reference in my play to the student's father having an adulterous affair (though no one gets killed as a result or spends his life riding trains pleading for forgiveness).
I hope that whoever discovers and chases them also considers how foolish it would be to pursue them with just socks on your feet.
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EigenUser

I've been learning Scriabin's Sonata No. 9 ("Black Mass") on piano over the past month and THAT is a piece that blows me away! Listening to it is great, but playing it (no matter how poorly, haha) is an otherworldly experience that lures you into a very dark and sinister place with sensuous melodies (kind of like the mythical sirens).

I've also been into William Schuman's Symphony No. 3. I discovered it over a year ago, but I just started listening to it again.

Quote from: alkan on October 08, 2016, 02:18:19 PM
Maslanka, Symphony No 8.

Completely unexpected and totally mindblowing.

Have a listen to this clip from Youtube.    Wind forward to 11 min for the final apotheosis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsQk_Y1vIVE

Alternatively there is this recording, with video, but not so well played

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyYj50uVF5Y


Enjoy !!!

I heard Maslanka's 8th a month or two ago and I really liked it. It was on some public access radio station. I don't recall how it sounds, but I remember it was thrilling.

Quote from: Que on September 16, 2016, 12:51:36 AM
Johannes Ockeghem's Missa prolationum:

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https://youtube.com/v/h5y36gL8E34

More details on the piece apart from the Wiki link above:

Q

This was my first Ockeghem I ever heard and it is still one of my favorites. My other favorite is his Missa Mi-mi -- particularly this recording (I've talked about it on here before):

Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

pjme