Night Music

[blablawsky]

Hi all, this is my first post on this forum. Hopefully it will be appropriate.

Discuss and/or recommend me 'night music'. I am not specifically looking for nocturnes, but am looking for anything that feels like the night. Some examples I have in mind are Carter's string quartets (especially 1, 3 and 5), Night Fantasies, Webern's Op. 7 (and a lot more), Berio's Epifanie, as well as some non-classical music like this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/S39sB1ps29Q

https://www.youtube.com/v/u8oal_1_YUk

Bartok may be an obvious example, but his music feels too rich for me.

I am mostly looking for modern and contemporary music, but I am interested to hear any 'night music,' including early music.

[Mandryka]

Try dipping into these

https://www.youtube.com/v/vohdiXPN5nY

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/v/vue4Xi9zKrs

https://www.youtube.com/v/fmP41Am2oPk











(You can't see it on the image but the Formenti CD is called Notturni. Formenti has a CD called Night Studies but I haven't heard it. )

The first things that came to mind was in fact Act II of Tristan, and the opening of Act 4 of Figaro, there may be someone quite evocative music in Wozzeck to, the last interlude maybe. I'm sure someone else will suggest parts of Mahler 7 - it's just so long since I last heard it!


Added - I'm forgetting one of the most unforgettable,  Schubert Nacht und Traume - try to see the film Samuel Beckett made for it.

https://www.youtube.com/v/Ewa1SugylEE

[kyjo]

Of course, Bartok described many of his slow movements as "night music". Some of Ginastera's slow movements and scherzi also have a mysterious, nocturnal quality.

[Rinaldo]

Busoni's Nocturne symphonique:

https://www.youtube.com/v/q9IxrPipr1c

[blablawsky]

Try dipping into these
...

These are on point. That Schubert piece is great, especially.

[Mandryka]

If night means sleep and sleep means dreams, then a whole world of surreal music opens up. Try, for example, John  Cage's fabulous Music Walk here

https://soundcloud.com/faustseele/music-walk-1958

[some guy]

That Formenti album is vastly entertaining. So now I want to have the other one you mentioned.

Otherwise, I think your last post to this thread was so perfect on so many levels. I've been enjoying that almost as much as if it were poetry. (Well, it was poetry, I guess, as I needed it. So thanks for that.)

[vandermolen]

Esenvalds: 'Visions of Arctic Night' - a beautifully atmospheric work; part of a great CD:
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[North Star]

Mompou - Musica callada
Silvestrov - Silent Songs
Rakhmaninov - All-night Vigil
Sibelius - Tapiola
Ives - Unanswered Question, Central Park in the Dark
Decaux - Clairs de lune
Ysaÿe - Sonata for solo violin no. 2

[Mandryka]

That Formenti album is vastly entertaining. So now I want to have the other one you mentioned.

Otherwise, I think your last post to this thread was so perfect on so many levels. I've been enjoying that almost as much as if it were poetry. (Well, it was poetry, I guess, as I needed it. So thanks for that.)

I still haven't heard Night Studies, but I did play a Formenti CD called Nothing is Real, which is where that Cage on soundcloud comes from - I liked it very much.

[Maestro267]

I always find Shostakovich's 15th Symphony great to listen to in the dark. Especially the slow movement. It's quite an eerie experience.

[kyjo]

I always find Shostakovich's 15th Symphony great to listen to in the dark. Especially the slow movement. It's quite an eerie experience.

I listened to the 15th in the dark the other night - an eerie experience indeed.

[Roasted Swan]

Hi - one of the most extraordinary pieces of the 21st century for me is "hymns of the night" by the Swedish composer Tommie Haglund.  Basically a 38+ minutes single movement violin concerto but its an extended meditation of pain, loss and a final acceptance.  A quite remarkable piece.  There is just one recording currently - a very fine one - but the word is that BIS are looking to record it sometime soon....

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[motoboy]

Since you included non-classical, I would suggest Miles Davis' (I mean Bill Evans') "Blue In Green."

[Alek Hidell]

Since you included non-classical, I would suggest Miles Davis' (I mean Bill Evans') "Blue In Green."

The entire Kind of Blue album could be included, for that matter.

[kyjo]

Two colorful third symphonies: Szymanowski's Symphony no. 3 Song of the Night and Rangström's Symphony no. 3 Song under the Stars.

[Mirror Image]

Then there's Sibelius' Night Ride & Sunrise.

[Wanderer]

Medtner's Sonata in E minor, op.25/2, "Night Wind", one of his most grand and potent creations. It is a vast one-movement work in two major parts: an Introduction and Allegro sonata-form, followed by a Fantasy capped by a shadowy but active Coda, the latter entirely based on material presented in the Introduction. In Geoffrey Tozer's words, this sonata "has the reputation of being a fearsomely difficult work of extraordinary length, exhausting to play and to hear, but of magnificent quality and marvelous invention."

[Mahlerian]

https://www.youtube.com/v/Ux2l7bZYdyg

Gorgeous stuff.

[some guy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6WjS7Wp1b0