Nikos Skalkottas

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snyprrr

Quote from: snyprrr on April 14, 2014, 07:48:32 AM
Where can I get that Philips/Holliger disc for less than $1000?

It's just incredible... anyone/

I'm in shock

Karl Henning

Quote from: snyprrr on October 25, 2017, 02:05:34 PM
I finally have the Philips CD of the 'Cycle-Concert', with Holliger&Co. The Sonata Concertante for bassoon and piano is the centrepiece, flanked by two Concertinos, and then two small "jazzy" buts. Well, I've had problems with Skalkottas in the past, but I've always had this album in mind.

It's pretty overwhelming!

Skalkottas is sort of "better than Schoenberg" in a way, you'd have to hear it. I really have a hard time with his bigger ensembles, but this recital is perfect! And exhausting!

I've tried a few items today, and before, and I just come away feeling that there's just too much unrelieved intensity, but here, with the instrumentation, all things become clear, as of a mesh that these items are. Sooo many notes!!

whew!!


I'd say this is a Masterpiece concert.

So! You found it for less than $1,000!

So have I, this morning, so I have pulled the trigger.  You can be a deplorable influence, you know.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

snyprrr

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 27, 2017, 03:38:38 AM
So! You found it for less than $1,000!

So have I, this morning, so I have pulled the trigger.  You can be a deplorable influence, you know.

For some reason I'm thinking with your Wuorinen connections, this music might be right up your alley.  If you're not ready, you may be shocked at the invention of this "modern Mozart". LISTEN TO THE WHOLE DISC IN ONE SITTING as it is meant. Exhausting and vitally alive and wholly marked by the hand of Skalkottas. Maybe listen to Atherton Schoenberg to warm up...

Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

snyprrr

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 04, 2017, 07:47:11 AM
Oh, indeed, I do love it.

I really need to know what you think here because his process seems soooo different  than anyone else... I can actually hear what the commentator meant when he said Skalkottas was a modern day Mozart. Mozart, of all people, but, I get it. Huh!!

Bruno Canino is a monster here, AND did you noticed the beautifully tucked piano recording that renders all those chunky and clanky piano parts as if they were ambrosia? Had the recording suffered from a too-bright and aggressive piano image, this recording might actually be hard to listen to, but, it is simply one of the best Philips piano images I've ever heard (and 'live' at that!), much different than the Philips/Kocsis sound, which is also drool worthy.

ahhhhhhhhhh...

Wanderer

Cross-posting from the WAYLT thread.

Quote from: ritter on April 30, 2021, 01:18:24 PM
Staying on Mediterranean shores, but moving eastwards from Italy to Greece, with Nikos Skalkottas' String Quartets No. 3 & No. 4 (played by the New Hellenic Quartet).



Oh, this is stunning. Here's a composer of dodecaphonic music which brims with humanity and passion, doesn't sound labored or mechanical and gives this often thorny language an acutely expressive, poignant, multi-layered voice, particularly rewarding repeated listening. In his dodecaphonic works, he did not adhere to strict Schoenbergian orthodoxy, but developed over the years his own style which explored the idiom more freely and widely (e.g. he used more than one tone rows per composition). His violin concerto was written on the same year as Schoenberg's (by that time, it had been years since their last contact) and his piano concerti predate Schoenberg's by several years. A unique voice well worth exploring and did I mention that these quartets are stunning? I did? Good. 😎


Wanderer

Crossposting from WAYLTN thread:


They [Skalkottas' 3 piano concertos] were written before Schönberg's, in Skalkottas' personal dodecaphonic idiom. I think they're all exceptional, immensely powerful works and they complement Schönberg's very well. I often like to listen to them all in succession, like a cycle.

Skalkottas 1: https://open.spotify.com/album/5OjaLOhR9GJDhoU1RowvSG?si=w-brV8aeTsyC_nn6AQAjDw

Skalkottas 2: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Hvt6uLeVju7ui0T6utUWB?si=y_UsvlgoQkuFx0Dd0K6Eqg

Skalkottas 3: https://open.spotify.com/album/6eA2fKWFOZdgCBpSq8zVDx?si=DjircGrZRjCWzRyzI1vMOA

Schönberg: https://open.spotify.com/album/2c5o95mPdT3bssm8lZafki?si=G7CBZ9TkTwSEo9W78rR1zw