Recommend People stuff they haven't heard:

[Monsieur Croche]

A very slow piece, but for those who like contemporary piano music, I think this is pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/v/oZI5nIpIUcA

There is one criterion of small consequence, where one should I suppose, at least make mention of the stamina it takes to play 'like that' for forty minutes or so.

Whatever effect or point he means to make, for me, the piece lacked anything to hold my interest, and I spot checked through the entire piece to see if there might be more to it than what I thought.  This has me in wonderment that he he has a career doing --- this.  There is not much real difference between this and alternative pop 'neoclassical' Nils Frahm wailing away on the keyboards at something highly repetitive for twenty minutes or more.  I will check other works to see if there is 'anything there' but this is not at all, imo, a promising first intro.


Best regards.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

There is one criterion of small consequence, where one should I suppose, at least make mention of the stamina it takes to play 'like that' for forty minutes or so.

Whatever effect or point he means to make, I found the piece so flat on imagination and so dulling in its choice and use of materials that it is a wonderment to me he has a career doing --- this.  There is not much real difference between this and alternative pop 'neoclassical' Nils Frahm wailing away on the keyboards at something highly repetitive for twenty minutes or more.  I will check other works to see if there is 'anything there' but this is not at all, imo, a promising first intro.


Best regards.

Well perhaps you might find some of his percussion music a little more interesting

https://www.youtube.com/v/mV-qKM7yFec

[Monsieur Croche]

Well perhaps you might find some of his percussion music a little more interesting

https://www.youtube.com/v/mV-qKM7yFec

Thanks.  I did bookmark this composer to check his other works, a fair amount on Youtube.

[arpeggio]

There are few band works that I have recommended in other forums that have received some positive responses.  Some of them have been response to member who think all contemporary music is atonal or aleatoric or whatever.  One of the recommendations that has received the most positive results is a performance David Maslanka's Fourth Symphony by the United States Navy Band with Mallory Thompson conducting.  Ms. Thompson is the director of the principle band at Northwestern University and one of the top concert band directors in the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2xcMoQ6ML4

[Karl Henning]

There are few band works that I have recommended in other forums that have received some positive responses.  Some of them have been response to member who think all contemporary music is atonal or aleatoric or whatever.  One of the recommendations that has received the most positive results is a performance David Maslanka's Fourth Symphony by the United States Navy Band with Mallory Thompson conducting.  Ms. Thompson is the director of the principle band at Northwestern University and one of the top concert band directors in the United States.

http://www.youtube.com/v/A2xcMoQ6ML4

thanks, I'm taking this to the WAYLT thread 

[Karl Henning]

There are few band works that I have recommended in other forums that have received some positive responses.  Some of them have been response to member who think all contemporary music is atonal or aleatoric or whatever.  One of the recommendations that has received the most positive results is a performance David Maslanka's Fourth Symphony by the United States Navy Band with Mallory Thompson conducting.  Ms. Thompson is the director of the principle band at Northwestern University and one of the top concert band directors in the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2xcMoQ6ML4

Witty and fanciful variants on Ein feste Burg.

[Mirror Image]

Gift of the Magi, for sure, thanks John!

You're welcome. I wish more of her music was recorded, though.

[PerfectWagnerite]

There are few band works that I have recommended in other forums that have received some positive responses.  Some of them have been response to member who think all contemporary music is atonal or aleatoric or whatever.  One of the recommendations that has received the most positive results is a performance David Maslanka's Fourth Symphony by the United States Navy Band with Mallory Thompson conducting.  Ms. Thompson is the director of the principle band at Northwestern University and one of the top concert band directors in the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2xcMoQ6ML4

If you play in the Navy Band do you still have to do other stuff or is that a full time gig?

[Artran]

Some wonders from Czech baroque and early classicism:

Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský : Laudetur Jesus Christus
Jan Josef Ignác Brentner : Vesperae cum ordinariis psalmis
Šimon Brixi : Tu es Deus
František Ignác Tůma : Stabat Mater
Franz Benda : Flute Concerto in E Minor

[Mahlerian]

Thanks Mahlerian, I really love this piece 

My pleasure.