Your Top 5 Spectral Pieces

Started by bwv 1080, August 24, 2018, 11:45:48 AM

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bwv 1080

all more or less recent discoveries for me

Murail - Desintegrations
Murail - Winter Fragments
Murail - Gondwana
Grisey - Espaces acoustiques
Grisey - Vortex Temporum (not one of his best known pieces, I really like it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXaNFBzgDWI

amw

Pretty mainstream choices.... probably should listen to more stuff by younger people (there was a recent profile of a few young spectral composers in van magazine)

Rădulescu Clepsydra
Rădulescu Cinerum
Murail Territoires de l'oubli
Grisey Espaces acoustiques
Grisey Quatre chants

Draško

Spectralism is pretty recent discovery for me as well. Don't think I can do top five. Pieces that left an impression recently were Grisey's Le Temps et l'Ecume and Murail's Le Partage des eaux.

North Star

Quote from: amw on August 25, 2018, 08:18:19 AM
Murail Territoires de l'oubli
Grisey Espaces acoustiques
Grisey Quatre chants
Those are my favourites. And I definitely need to hear more of this stuff too, I can't really even come up with fourth and fifth favourites.
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amw

Other spectral composers of note:

Ana-Maria Avram (whose Orbit of Eternal Grace was on my shortlist)
Iancu Dumitrescu
Joshua Fineberg
Hugues Dufourt (I have quite a lot of his music, and quite enjoy listening to it, but apparently nothing has stood out so far)
Ştefan Niculescu (some pretty impressive symphonic work iirc)
Georg Friedrich Haas
arguably Claude Vivier was a forerunner to the movement as well (Orion, Zipangu, Wo bist du Licht, Prologue pour un Marco Polo would all be shortlist candidates for me)

I'm...honestly not sure who else qualifies as being part of the movement. Marc-André Dalbavie maybe? Philippe Manoury? Michael Jarrell? Luc Brewaeys? Don't know them well enough to know whether it's fair to put them in the same category.