Top 5 Favourite Pintscher Works so far...

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

A terrific composer and conductor, currently leading Ensemble InterContemporain and on staff at the Juilliard School, NYC, Matthias Pintscher is probably one of the most important figures in contemporary music whose work will be fondly remembered in the years to come. He is still alive and working, so there are still many works to be composed that obviously can't be listed here.......so I ask: what are your favourite Pintscher works so far?

My list today, roughly in order:

Sonic Eclipse
En Sourdine
Bereshit
Reflections on Narcissus
Hérodiade Fragmente

[Mirror Image]

A terrific composer and conductor, currently leading Ensemble InterContemporain and on staff at the Juilliard School, NYC, Matthias Pintscher is probably one of the most important figures in contemporary music whose work will be fondly remembered in the years to come. He is still alive and working, so there are still many works to be composed that obviously can't be listed here.......so I ask: what are your favourite Pintscher works so far?

My list today, roughly in order:

Sonic Eclipse
En Sourdine
Bereshit
Reflections on Narcissus
Hérodiade Fragmente

To the bolded text:

Not to disrupt this thread, but how can you be certain he'll be remembered? Do you have a crystal ball that foresees the future?

[NikF]

I actually don't think I've heard his work before 

I have seen him conducting though, if it counts   

All I've heard is 'Idyll'.
He's conducting here again in a few months, although none of his own compositions. And I don't have tickets yet -

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
Matthias Pintscher conductor
György Ligeti - San Francisco Polyphony
Olga Neuwirth - Masaot/Clocks Without Hands
Hans Werner Henze - Symphony No. 7

[bhodges]

All I've heard is 'Idyll'.
He's conducting here again in a few months, although none of his own compositions. And I don't have tickets yet -

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher conductor
György Ligeti - San Francisco Polyphony
Olga Neuwirth - Masaot/Clocks Without Hands
Hans Werner Henze - Symphony No. 7

What a fabulous program. I heard the Neuwirth piece last year, and it's terrific. (Know the Ligeti, don't know the Henze that well -- which of course, is a great reason to hear it live.)

This is exactly the kind of unusual line-up that I wish more orchestras would do. Even in New York, this type of program doesn't appear that often -- meaning, with a major orchestra and conductor.

My favorite Pintscher works to date (haven't heard that many):
Fünf Orchesterstücke (1997)
Hérodiade-Fragmente (1999)
Janusgesicht (2001) for viola and cello

--Bruce

[GioCar]

A composer I'm beginning to discover right now, also thanks to Jessop's recent recommendations.
Everything started from this album I bought myself for Christmas



It's too early for me to make such a list, but very likely Bereshit will be in it.   

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

To the bolded text:

Not to disrupt this thread, but how can you be certain he'll be remembered? Do you have a crystal ball that foresees the future?

Partly because of his involvement with Ensemble InterContemporain and his work conducting and composing for them and major orchestras around the world. That and his recordings of other composers' music (particularly his Ligeti/Bartók recordings) are giving him an outlet to make his name as one of the current leading figures in 20th and 21st century music. I have a strong hunch that even the things he is doing now are still going to be as highly regarded in years to come as they seem to be currently. I doubt that his work will disappear.......

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I just saw that EIC have uploaded Sonic Eclipse!

https://www.youtube.com/v/vhq7DYL_lnQ&t=212s

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

All I've heard is 'Idyll'.
He's conducting here again in a few months, although none of his own compositions. And I don't have tickets yet -

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher conductor
György Ligeti - San Francisco Polyphony
Olga Neuwirth - Masaot/Clocks Without Hands
Hans Werner Henze - Symphony No. 7

He came down to Melbourne and did Idyll (I think) as well as Beethoven 7 and something else. But this program looks fantastic! Henze 7 under Pintscher would be awesome

[Mirror Image]

Partly because of his involvement with Ensemble InterContemporain and his work conducting and composing for them and major orchestras around the world. That and his recordings of other composers' music (particularly his Ligeti/Bartók recordings) are giving him an outlet to make his name as one of the current leading figures in 20th and 21st century music. I have a strong hunch that even the things he is doing now are still going to be as highly regarded in years to come as they seem to be currently. I doubt that his work will disappear.......

Thanks for this info, jessop. Having never heard a note of Pintscher's music, I was just curious to read why you believed his music will still be remembered. You're one of the few GMG members that's even mentioned this composer, so that was, in part, the reasoning behind my statements from yesterday.

[NikF]

He came down to Melbourne and did Idyll (I think) as well as Beethoven 7 and something else. But this program looks fantastic! Henze 7 under Pintscher would be awesome

It's the Henze that I'm going to that concert for. So far I only know his guitar music and the ballet 'Ondine'.

What a fabulous program. I heard the Neuwirth piece last year, and it's terrific. (Know the Ligeti, don't know the Henze that well -- which of course, is a great reason to hear it live.)

This is exactly the kind of unusual line-up that I wish more orchestras would do. Even in New York, this type of program doesn't appear that often -- meaning, with a major orchestra and conductor.

I'm not really in a position (yet!) to fully appreciate the relative rarity or otherwise of such programming, however along with anything else I might take from hearing a piece it's a pleasure to be sitting in a hall and experiencing the musical equivalent of not knowing what's around the corner.

[James]

Haven't cared for much of what I've heard (quite a bit too) .. I did like Osiris though, but I haven't listened to it in awhile.