Recommend me some dissonant music

[Cato]

I cannot argue with page 1 recommendations!

I have always thought of Charles Wuorinen's Grand Bamboula for orchestra as a "fun" dissonant work.

And what do you mean by "dissonant" ?  Would you allow some microtonal music          into your speakers?              

If so, try Ivan Wyschnegradsky's 24 Preludes (still available on Amazon) or Julian Carrillo's Christopher Columbus Prelude, or anything by Harry Partch   0:)   !

[not edward]

Hartmann's 6th symphony. It's the musical equivalent of having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

[bhodges]

Hartmann's 6th symphony. It's the musical equivalent of having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

My vote for "most quotable post of the day." 

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

It's making me think "Douglas Adams," though I don't necessarily know why 

[Ten thumbs]

As I usually play it, it's usually my fingers that bleed. Ginastera's a good bet but my preference is for Scriabin, Sonatas 6 onwards. His Prelude Op74.4 is a good one; every chord cuts to the heart.

[jochanaan]

Górecki: Old Polish Music.  A fascinating mix of modern-style tonality and twelve-tone serialism.

Shostakovich: Symphony #14.

And just about anything by Elliott Carter.

I assume you've tried some of the standard works such as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?

(One of these days I'm going to post my own recording of Richard Rodney Bennett's Oboe Sonata.  What a great 12-tone piece! )

[Heather Harrison]

Hartmann's 6th symphony. It's the musical equivalent of having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

Great quote!  I think I might have to obtain a recording of this piece so that I can find out what this feels like.  It sounds very, very interesting.  (I usually love music that is hard on the brain.)

Heather

[Ten thumbs]

I'm wondering where you found straight-forward music. I don't listen to much of that.

[greg]

I'm wondering where you found straight-forward music. I don't listen to much of that.

well, i usually check the dumpster or the black market dealers.....



(errrrr, i would if i were a criminal, ahem)

[Ten thumbs]

well, i usually check the dumpster or the black market dealers.....



(errrrr, i would if i were a criminal, ahem)

They operate outside schools here. I'm too old for that.

[snyprrr]

ives
ruggles
cowell
crawford seeger

real dissonence of notes...

especially RUGGLES!!!!

[imperfection]

ives
ruggles
cowell
crawford seeger

real dissonence of notes...

especially RUGGLES!!!!

Congratulations, you've just necromanced a one-year-and-three-months-old thread made by a long gone member.

[Dax]

Try some of George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0H8ztju78

[Kullervo]

Congratulations, you've just necromanced a one-year-and-three-months-old thread made by a long gone member.

Long gone? You're still here.

[greg]

I don't think Bonehelm is imperfection.

[Daverz]

Roberto Gerhard's 4th symphony, "New York".

That's a really tough one.  The Bamert recording is, incidently, included in The Absolute Sound's list of recommended recordings (which I think is a whacky thing to include in such a list.  Impressive as the sound is, how many audiophools are just baffled by the music.)  I'd work my way up from Gerhard's 1st symphony.

Another one in that TAS list is the Carter Variations For Orchestra (Levine), which is a good place to start with Carter's orchestral music IMO.  This is on an Archiv CD now, if you can't find a used copy.

Some good recommendations already.  A few more

Sessions, Symphony No. 3
Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire
                   String Quartet No. 2
                   String Trio
Berg, Lyric Suite
Stravinsky, Threni
Boulez, Pli Selon Pli (on Sony)
Crumb, Black Angels

[Joe Barron]

And just about anything by Elliott Carter.

Well, let's be specific. I'd recommend Carter's the Piano Concerto and the Concerto for Orchestra. Also the String Quartet No. 3 and the Brass Quintet, though I don't think either one has a recording currently available.

Also Charles Ives's Symphony No. 4 and The Fourth of July.

Oh, and Schoenberg's String Trio.

I know what you mean by ears bleeding. You want something heavily stimulating. I'm sort of in the opposite place right ow. Been listening to so much Carter in the past couple of months that now I'm steeping myself in Haydn's String Quartets.

Good luck!

[MDL]

Anything by Xenakis or Varese will fit the bill. Below is my contribution to the list.


Ligeti: Requiem
Penderecki: Dies Irae, Threnody, The Devils of Loudun, St Luke Passion
Schoenberg: Erwartung, Five Pieces for Orchestra, A Survivor from Warsaw
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Wozzeck
Stockhausen: Carré, Momente, Trans, Gruppen

[schweitzeralan]

I've been listening to so much straight-forward stuff it isn't even funny. My mind is bored and so is my soul. I wonder what music could make my ears bleed.

Someone has alreay mentioned Elliot Carter. He is ineed one heavy ciomoser. Initially his works were not twelve tone; but, perhaps his later works may become more serial oriented.  I don't listen to avant-gardeworks as I once did years ago, and  modernistism has dominated much of middle to late 20rh century works, most of which revel in the effort to appear original and striking as the interminable 'isms moved on, alienating many potential music lovers.  It's a broad topic.  I still believe that Carter's "Variations For Orchestra" premiered by the Louisville Orchestra in the mid fifties, remains a modernist  masterpiece in its own right with its careful, calculating develoment throughout the entire work in tight, polylinear, abstract dramatics.  Haven't heard it for years, but I recall that I appreciated the skill and details of the work's dynamic propensities.

[karlhenning]

Those Variations, I need to get to know better.  I've enjoyed the odd casual listen.