A Game Of Your Own - Favorite 20 Works (Selection Thread)

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

Somehow I think this list won't attract many participants :(

Adámek: Polednice
Barrett, N.: Little Animals
Barrett, R.: Dark Matter
Boulez: Répons
Ferneyhough: Terrain

Furrer: Piano Concerto
Gadenstätter: Comic Sense
Hölszky: Dämonen
Lachenmann: Salut für Caudwell
Lim: The Heart's Ear

Mitterer: Coloured Noise
Mundry: Ich und Du
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Neuwirth: Lost Highway
Pintscher: Sonic Eclipse

Perotin: Viderunt Omnes
Sciarrino: Luci mie traditrici
Spahlinger: Farben der Frühe
Wishart: Red Bird
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

André

It might attract Ich und du... :laugh:

I'm sure there's lots of very interesting stuff here, but I have a feeling Figaro and Tristan will sweep the board.

Moonfish

Quote from: André on May 12, 2018, 04:13:18 PM
It might attract Ich und du... :laugh:

I'm sure there's lots of very interesting stuff here, but I have a feeling Figaro and Tristan will sweep the board.

Definitely!  >:D
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ComposerOfAvantGarde

Quote from: André on May 12, 2018, 04:13:18 PM
It might attract Ich und du... :laugh:

I'm sure there's lots of very interesting stuff here, but I have a feeling Figaro and Tristan will sweep the board.

It's probably just apathy towards most of the works that would turn people away. I don't know about others, but I've discovered and enjoyed quite a few string quartets I've never heard before thanks to the string quartet game, particularly Zemlinsky and Reger.

Sammy

Game 8 - Jessop.

I enjoy the Mozart/Wagner operas, but I don't feel devotion to them.  So, I'll definitely be diving into the other 18 works to find some gold.  Might as well start with 'Lost Highway' - I like the title.

André

I like Lachenmann. If I can find it on YT I'll give it a listen.

Sammy

I found a work on Jessop's list I enjoyed greatly.  It's the Sciarrino piece that starts off as if it's pre-Bach then ventures to alternate sound environments.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

Quote from: Sammy on May 12, 2018, 05:22:10 PM
Game 8 - Jessop.

I enjoy the Mozart/Wagner operas, but I don't feel devotion to them.  So, I'll definitely be diving into the other 18 works to find some gold.  Might as well start with 'Lost Highway' - I like the title.

It's an opera based on a film by David Lynch, but with its own idiosyncrasies that certainly allow it to exist very well on its own terms. The librettist won the Nobel Prize for literature the year after it was completed—after Neuwirth was informed that the premiere would not go ahead because there are too many (three) women involved in the creation of the work. It has wonderful use of live electronics and some really quirky vocal writing!

https://www.youtube.com/v/seJCQB9MLlw

I kind of disagree with how this review from the US premiere places emphasis on irrelevant comparisons to the original film, when it goes on to say that the opera is admirable on its own terms, but here it is anyway: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/arts/music/26lost.html

GioCar

Quote from: jessop on May 12, 2018, 04:08:25 PM
Somehow I think this list won't attract many participants :(

Adámek: Polednice
Barrett, N.: Little Animals
Barrett, R.: Dark Matter
Boulez: Répons
Ferneyhough: Terrain

Furrer: Piano Concerto
Gadenstätter: Comic Sense
Hölszky: Dämonen
Lachenmann: Salut für Caudwell
Lim: The Heart's Ear

Mitterer: Coloured Noise
Mundry: Ich und Du
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Neuwirth: Lost Highway
Pintscher: Sonic Eclipse

Perotin: Viderunt Omnes
Sciarrino: Luci mie traditrici
Spahlinger: Farben der Frühe
Wishart: Red Bird
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

I have a strong aversion to YT so I definitely hope to find the unknown pieces (more than half in that list) in other streaming services...

ComposerOfAvantGarde

Quote from: GioCar on May 12, 2018, 11:08:38 PM
I have a strong aversion to YT so I definitely hope to find the unknown pieces (more than half in that list) in other streaming services...

An aversion to YouTube won't really help you or anyone much, will it? There are some great performances of Adámek pieces uploaded by Ensemble InterContemporain and France Musique (Radio France) that I particularly like........If I don't live in the same countries as these organisations, ad revenue, views etc on YouTube is one thing that I can contribute to in support of them if they have their videos monetised (and anyone can do that by clicking on this link if you are unfamiliar with Polednice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOPdjCxHJ8A )

Crudblud

I'm hoping to listen to all of these works before the games begin, but I don't have as much time as I'd like.

GioCar

Quote from: jessop on May 13, 2018, 01:11:07 AM
An aversion to YouTube won't really help you or anyone much, will it? There are some great performances of Adámek pieces uploaded by Ensemble InterContemporain and France Musique (Radio France) that I particularly like........If I don't live in the same countries as these organisations, ad revenue, views etc on YouTube is one thing that I can contribute to in support of them if they have their videos monetised (and anyone can do that by clicking on this link if you are unfamiliar with Polednice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOPdjCxHJ8A )

Well, my aversion to YouTube is not only a matter of principle (I admit that sometime, somehow, I can support the authors by YT) but also a matter of audio quality, and also because very seldom I listen through a PC.
My audio system, a Linn system, supports Spotify, Qobuz, Tidal but not YT. BTW I'm not aware of a pure audio system supporting YT.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

Quote from: GioCar on May 13, 2018, 01:49:11 AM
Well, my aversion to YouTube is not only a matter of principle (I admit that sometime, somehow, I can support the authors by YT) but also a matter of audio quality, and also because very seldom I listen through a PC.
My audio system, a Linn system, supports Spotify, Qobuz, Tidal but not YT. BTW I'm not aware of a pure audio system supporting YT.

I am no Hi-Fi guy, so I don't really know what any of this means, to tell you the truth! ;D

kyjo

To make things more interesting, I'm gonna make my list of 20 of my favorite lesser-known works (one work per composer):

Andreae - Piano Trio no. 1 in F minor, op. 1
Arnold - Symphony no. 5
Atterberg - Symphony no. 3 in D major, op. 10 "West Coast Pictures"
Bax - Harp Quintet
Bloch - Piano Quintet no. 1
Braga Santos - Symphony no. 4 in E minor
Hanson - Symphony no. 2 in D flat major, op. 30  "Romantic"
Honegger - Symphony no. 3 "Liturgique"
Korngold - Symphony in F-sharp, op. 40
Martinů - Symphony no. 1, H. 289
Medtner - Piano Concerto no. 3 in E minor "Ballade", op. 60
Melartin - Symphony no. 3 in F major, op. 40
Moeran - Symphony in G minor
Ornstein - Cello Sonata no. 1, op. 52
Piston - Symphony no. 2
Sauer - Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor
Schmidt - Symphony no. 4 in C major
Tubin - Symphony no. 2 in B minor "Legendary"
Vasks - Cello Concerto
Zemlinsky - Der Seejungfrau (The Mermaid)

I tried to refrain from making my list entirely of symphonies ;D
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

ComposerOfAvantGarde

I will definitely be going through Kyjo's list! I only know about half of them. :)

Sammy


André

Great list, Kyjo ! Only 3 works I'm not familiar with. It will be a tough call indeed !

Christo

Arnold - Symphony No. 5
Bach - Matthäus Passion
Barber - Essay for Orchestra No. 2
Bate - Symphony No. 3
Berkeley - Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
Bliss - A Colour Symphony
Braga Santos - Symphony No. 4
Falla - El sombrero de tres picos
Ginastera - Variaciones concertantes
Holmboe - Symphony No. 8 'Boreale'
Holst - The Hymn of Jesus
Honegger - Symphony No. 3 'Liturgique'
Howells - Hymnus Paradisi
Nielsen - Symphony No. 5
Pärt - Te Deum
Respighi - Trittico botticelliano
Shostakovitch - Symphony No. 15
Tournemire - Symphony No. 6
Tubin - Symphony No. 6
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

André


Sammy