21st century classical music

[San Antone]

Bernat Vivancos : a search for a spirituality



Requiem was released by Neu Records in September 2015.

[San Antone]

Jeff Myers : Requiem Aeternam



Jeff Myers's "Requiem Aeternam," performed by the JACK Quartet and mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway, revealed a gorgeously multi-colored composition set to Filipino, Italian, German and English texts from poets and the Christian mass for the dead. Myers's use of pianissimo, breath and silence within the rich kaleidoscope of vocalism and subtle string writing produced a stunning work that deserves multiple hearings.

[San Antone]

Robert Normandeau's cinema for the ear

[San Antone]

Laura Karpman's "Ask Your Mama" : a grand multitude of American voices



Karpman was going through a bookstore when she stumbled onto a little-known epic poem by Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.  "What attracted me to the piece was not only that it was written by Langston Hughes, who I think is one of the most brilliant poets who ever lived," Karpman says, "but in the right-hand margins of the poem, Langston says exactly how the music should sound."

[San Antone]

Latest from Francis Dhomont : ... et autres utopies

[torut]

Above, Below, and In Between is a composition of Trimpin, commissioned by Seattle Symphony. The work is "a sculpture and musical composition exploring the space and time continuum for small orchestra, soprano voice, prepared piano, kinetic instruments and gesture-controlled conducting." The music is minimalistic but has a fantastic climax. The soprano part is really wild.



Above, Below & In-between: Part VI
https://www.youtube.com/v/iUKz1UgezEs

[kishnevi]

Bumping this thread because several of our new members might find it of interest.

[chadfeldheimer]

I like Max Richter's "Sleep" very much. I'm not a fan of his earlier more elctronica influenced pieces, which I found a bit too chumming up with the dance electronica scene. But Sleep is more subtle.

[Rinaldo]

Emily Howard: Torus for large symphony orchestra (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/v/KmtlrPLl41A

Like a slow tour through the LHC, ramping up energies towards random new discoveries. Subtle, effective string writing!

[torut]

Differences - visions of contemporary composition (Unexplained Sounds Group, 2017)


https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/differences-visions-of-contemporary-composition

Guy Gelem, Sisto Palombella, Healer Oran, Caleb R. K. Williams, Susan Campos Fonseca, Stefan schmidt, Braghsdn & Globoscuro, The New Oslo Losers Trio, Matthias Boss, Rafael Toral, Ernesto Schmied, Santiago Fradejas, Saturno Devorando and Susan Campos Fonseca, Layma Azur, Diego Alladio, Disaster Area + Jutta Pryor, Shawn Bell, Strange Raven Sky, Paulo Chagas, Wilhelm Matthies, Eugene Fall, axöne, Eric Arn, Mario Lino Stancati (feat. MariaTodaro), Jane Nummela, Kraums Notho, Karakasa Kozō, Philip Mantione, Matthias Boss + Mauro Sambo, The Voices (Featuring Pierluigi Ammirata), Claus Paulsen

Three and a half hours of contemporary music by composers from Israel, Italy, South Africa, Spain, Lithuania, ... From lovely & accessible pieces to fairly experimental works, this is a nice compilation of new music.

[torut]

I like Max Richter's "Sleep" very much. I'm not a fan of his earlier more elctronica influenced pieces, which I found a bit too chumming up with the dance electronica scene. But Sleep is more subtle.

I like the last section the most. The female voice sounding like an owl is fascinating.

[Rinaldo]

Differences - visions of contemporary composition (Unexplained Sounds Group, 2017)


https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/differences-visions-of-contemporary-composition

Three and a half hours of contemporary music by composers from Israel, Italy, South Africa, Spain, Lithuania, ... From lovely & accessible pieces to fairly experimental works, this is a nice compilation of new music.

VERY nice! Sampling it right now, thanks.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

What are people's opinions on the NMC Debut Discs series? I have three of them (Helen Grime, Charlotte Bray and Mark Simpson) and I have been extremely impressed by the new music coming from a fairly young generation of composers in the UK.

[Rinaldo]

Dorian Wallace: Fuck. The. System. (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/v/4S-UBYi_eRA

Brilliant.

[Mirror Image]

What are people's opinions on the NMC Debut Discs series? I have three of them (Helen Grime, Charlotte Bray and Mark Simpson) and I have been extremely impressed by the new music coming from a fairly young generation of composers in the UK.

I think the label needs to expand it's horizons and start recording newer music from composers not just in the UK, but from around the globe.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I think the label needs to expand it's horizons and start recording newer music from composers not just in the UK, but from around the globe.

Really good idea. I think NMC is pretty much ONLY British composers though...........maybe a different label could start doing this?

[chadfeldheimer]

I like the last section the most. The female voice sounding like an owl is fascinating.

I agree that section is particularly successful. I like the whole cyle however. I heard some dismiss it as utility music and of course it functions really well in terms of it's calming, maybe sleep-inducing effect. But besides I think it has much beauty and sublety to offer, that exceed the simple "utility".

[San Antone]

Adrian Kleinlosen — ...tönend bewegt...
Performed by Ermis Theodorakis
"...tönend bewegt..." by Adrian Kleinlosen for solo piano
http://www.adriankleinlosen.com/

https://www.youtube.com/v/ExpepmyDVsM&feature=em-subs_digest

[nathanb]

I think the label needs to expand it's horizons and start recording newer music from composers not just in the UK, but from around the globe.

There are, of course, lots of series for portrait discs of young composers. The Ernst Von Siemens Music Prize winners get recorded on Col Legno now; three or four portrait discs a  year. Edition Zeitgenossische Musik releases similar stuff via Wergo. Then you have festival releases, etc. If people truly want to hear new music from new composers, that stuff is out there far and wide.

[mourningdoves]

Adrian Kleinlosen — ...tönend bewegt...
Performed by Ermis Theodorakis
"...tönend bewegt..." by Adrian Kleinlosen for solo piano
http://www.adriankleinlosen.com/

I liked this. The way he got such a lot of forward motion out of sequences that had no rhythmic center was quite cool.