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James The 1st
Feb 23, 2013

firebad57 posted:

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but I think it's really worthwhile to do some research on how Serialist composition works if you want to start to understand the music of Boulez and his contemporaries.

I'm on the way out, so I can't fully explain at the moment, but since they essentially used (simple) mathematical processes to generate most of the pitches in the music, the lack of melodic "direction" makes sense.

Especially for Boulez, who used those processes to generate every aspect of the music (so-called Integral Serialism).
I'm sure Serialism is pretty clever, but it's still drat ugly. Kind of like the brutalist architecture of the time as well.

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CowOnCrack
Sep 26, 2004

by R. Guyovich

CowOnCrack posted:

Alfred Schnittke - 3 Sacred Hymns

https://youtu.be/5QOLhOaf6ok

Alfred Schnittke - Choir Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGc-Tu_1yGw

Wronkos
Jan 1, 2011

Heard Otto Respighi's "Fountains of Rome" on the radio the other day and it just floored me. Got a recording of Roman Festivals/The Fountains of Rome/Pines of Rome now. Beautiful Romantic stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkqyxy6oUw

Artificial Beats
Jan 15, 2016

Just found out about a quirky little concerto composed by Andy Akiho, who is starting to become a recognizable name in the percussion community.

The work is called Ricochet and it is a concerto for "ping pong, violin, and percussion." Full score and parts can be purchased from his website.

No, I am not making this poo poo up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RwAhUiApA

Jazz Marimba
Jan 4, 2012

Artificial Beats posted:

Just found out about a quirky little concerto composed by Andy Akiho, who is starting to become a recognizable name in the percussion community.

The work is called Ricochet and it is a concerto for "ping pong, violin, and percussion." Full score and parts can be purchased from his website.

No, I am not making this poo poo up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RwAhUiApA

Wow I would do anything to play this piece

zenguitarman
Apr 6, 2009

Come on, lemme see ya shake your tail feather


Just got to perform all five of Benjamin Britten's Canticles last Sunday. I still maintain that the second one is the most profound and perfect piece of vocal music ever written. It's actually brilliant. Two voices in close harmony creating the voice of God over a simple two-note piano figure and then a little mini opera followed by a beautiful epilogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6pC8XmK3jk (not me)

But I bet it would be particularly effective with a treble singer. I performed it with a mezzo. Got to sing with a proper counter tenor on Canticle IV too, which is also a very, very cool piece. Made for a perfect, hour-long program.

krampster2
Jun 26, 2014

Just bought my first vinyl records, Beethoven's 6th symphony conducted by Karl Bohm (in mint condition!) and his 23rd and 12th piano sonatas by Richter. Does anyone else ITT listen to classical on vinyl or am I just a stupid hipster?

firebad57
Dec 29, 2008

krampster2 posted:

Just bought my first vinyl records, Beethoven's 6th symphony conducted by Karl Bohm (in mint condition!) and his 23rd and 12th piano sonatas by Richter. Does anyone else ITT listen to classical on vinyl or am I just a stupid hipster?

I do! But I'm a weird classical guitar and contemporary/new music nerd. I've got lots of more "typical" records, too, though - Perlman, Bernstein, Stravinsky (conducting Stravinsky), etc.

I do loves me my Bream and Segovia records. I've spent a lot of my life as part of the young guitarist "ehhh Segovia" backlash, but dude was a great drat musician and guitarist. Sure, we don't interpret Bach and Ponce in the same style anymore, but that doesn't mean he didn't have sweet, sweet moves.

david crosby
Mar 2, 2007

firebad57 posted:


I do loves me my Bream and Segovia records. I've spent a lot of my life as part of the young guitarist "ehhh Segovia" backlash, but dude was a great drat musician and guitarist. Sure, we don't interpret Bach and Ponce in the same style anymore, but that doesn't mean he didn't have sweet, sweet moves.

Segovia and Bream are, IMO, the two guys who really exploited to guitar to it's full effect. If you listen to either, what stands out is the extreme tonal contrasts they get out of their guitars, like, all the time. What Bream does, for example, is during a part where you have the same thing played twice, the first time he plays it really warm, right hand near the 12th fret or something, and then the next time he moves his hand really near the bridge, getting a super bright and tinny sound. Its such a cool effect, and adds a lot of umm not depth but interest to a piece. it really spices up some boring stuff like Giuliani, for instance.

I can't think of any other guitarists who get such extreme contrasts regularly. Like the current school of thought seems to be to go for a consistent tone, and only go for the extremes of warm/bright like once during a movement, to highlight maybe the most dissonant chord or whatever. Which is fine, but it would be nice if, out of the current crop of extremely technically gifted GFA/Tarrega competition winners, some would be a lil bolder with their tone.

Honj Steak
May 31, 2013

Hi there.
I highly admire Segovia, but if I were to choose between him and Bream I would always go for Bream. Segovia was the most influential guitarist of the last century but he had some really bad habits musically (way too often preferring changing notes over changing fingerings) while being massively reactionary to almost everything happening in 20th century music.

I agree that guitarists nowadays are often somewhat afraid of using the whole spectrum of tone colours. But that's not necessarily always an undesirable development, setting standards for general tone quality. A bigger problem I see even amongst the most successful guitarist at competitions all over the world is the prevailing cluelessness (sometimes I'm afraid even carelessness) when it comes to stylistic choices and especially rhythm. It's just too common to hear a piece completely rendered unrecognisable because the soloist plainly ignores basic rhythmical indications and I'm afraid even amongst jurors many appreciate that as a sign of apparent "individuality".

firebad57
Dec 29, 2008

david crosby posted:

Segovia and Bream are, IMO, the two guys who really exploited to guitar to it's full effect. If you listen to either, what stands out is the extreme tonal contrasts they get out of their guitars, like, all the time. What Bream does, for example, is during a part where you have the same thing played twice, the first time he plays it really warm, right hand near the 12th fret or something, and then the next time he moves his hand really near the bridge, getting a super bright and tinny sound. Its such a cool effect, and adds a lot of umm not depth but interest to a piece. it really spices up some boring stuff like Giuliani, for instance.

I think you're definitely right about some of the differences between the players of Segovia/Bream's generations and now, but I think that's also a function of the shifting fashions in interpreting any type of classical music across the board. What was fashionable and great about Segovia, Bream, et al - the extreme color changes you mention, over-the-top rubato, super-shake vibrato, etc. - sounds very old-fashioned to many people nowadays. I'm not saying that's correct or justified, but I think when you come into your own as a musician and interpreter (or just a person), the musical style of your parents and their time sounds really... lame. When I (mid-late Millennial) first heard Manuel Barrueco and David Russell after growing up on Segovia and Bream records, I almost poo poo my pants. The incredible consistency of tone, the elegance and subtlety in their interpretation! Holy balls, it really felt like something new and tasteful.

So now we have a whole generation+ of guitarists from all over the world who find those old-school interpretations to be too over-the-top, so they react in the other direction, as you described. Many naysayers describe the French school (Judicael Perroy, Jeremy Jouve, Gabriel Bianco, etc.) as playing like pianists. In fact, that criticism is often leveled by fans of mid-20th century guitarists at all of today's generation. I think criticisms like theirs and yours are somewhat true, but luckily, I'm also a fan of piano-like guitar playing, so I get to enjoy both worlds.

david crosby posted:

I can't think of any other guitarists who get such extreme contrasts regularly. Like the current school of thought seems to be to go for a consistent tone, and only go for the extremes of warm/bright like once during a movement, to highlight maybe the most dissonant chord or whatever. Which is fine, but it would be nice if, out of the current crop of extremely technically gifted GFA/Tarrega competition winners, some would be a lil bolder with their tone.

There are a ton of other guitarists from the mid-20th century (and later) with similar styles you might enjoy. There's a broad stylistic range here, but:

(old recordings of) Elliot Fisk
Presti-Lagoya Duo (and just Ida Presti)
Narciso Yepes
Oscar Ghilia
Regino Sainz de la Maza

Also, just to show what a young Bream fan might sound like, here is a video of 6 years ago me playing some Scarlatti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBaZndr4Br0 Also curious what Honj Steak will say about my riddims :suspense:. This isn't how I'd interpret this piece today, but I've gotten over my intense self-disgust to think it's a pretty fun interpretation.

firebad57
Dec 29, 2008

Honj Steak posted:

I highly admire Segovia, but if I were to choose between him and Bream I would always go for Bream. Segovia was the most influential guitarist of the last century but he had some really bad habits musically (way too often preferring changing notes over changing fingerings) while being massively reactionary to almost everything happening in 20th century music.

I agree that guitarists nowadays are often somewhat afraid of using the whole spectrum of tone colours. But that's not necessarily always an undesirable development, setting standards for general tone quality. A bigger problem I see even amongst the most successful guitarist at competitions all over the world is the prevailing cluelessness (sometimes I'm afraid even carelessness) when it comes to stylistic choices and especially rhythm. It's just too common to hear a piece completely rendered unrecognisable because the soloist plainly ignores basic rhythmical indications and I'm afraid even amongst jurors many appreciate that as a sign of apparent "individuality".

Apologies for the double post, but this is a slightly different subject. I'm really curious about examples of what you mean. You sound like a person who is in our world, and I'm definitely familiar with the concept of what you're saying, but I'd love some demonstrations. Obviously, the subject of interpretation - and maybe especially rubato and rhythm as they relate to it - is about as subjective as it gets, so I am always curious about other people's definitions of "too far".

So yeah, if you've got any audio/video examples of a player today just totally mangling a piece rhythmically in the name of "INTERPRETATION!!11", I would love to hear it.

Kytrarewn
Jul 15, 2011

Solving mysteries in
Bb, F and D.

Artificial Beats posted:

Just found out about a quirky little concerto composed by Andy Akiho, who is starting to become a recognizable name in the percussion community.

The work is called Ricochet and it is a concerto for "ping pong, violin, and percussion." Full score and parts can be purchased from his website.

No, I am not making this poo poo up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RwAhUiApA

drat, I was going to buy it for my orchestra and anonymously donate it to see what happened, but it's $500, and the parts are just rental copies that have to be returned, so it's too expensive for a joke.

Honj Steak
May 31, 2013

Hi there.

firebad57 posted:

Apologies for the double post, but this is a slightly different subject. I'm really curious about examples of what you mean. You sound like a person who is in our world, and I'm definitely familiar with the concept of what you're saying, but I'd love some demonstrations. Obviously, the subject of interpretation - and maybe especially rubato and rhythm as they relate to it - is about as subjective as it gets, so I am always curious about other people's definitions of "too far".

So yeah, if you've got any audio/video examples of a player today just totally mangling a piece rhythmically in the name of "INTERPRETATION!!11", I would love to hear it.

I think it's not even a question of too much rubato. If the rubato is executed faithfully so that the "stolen" time is given back and the relative proportions of note values are comprehensible I can deal with massive amounts of agogical freedom. The problem is more with plain misreading of rhythm, which unfortunately happens a lot. I was honestly horrified by the beginning of Viloteau's Fantaisie Elegiaque, especially because I usually really appreciate a lot of the things he does. That stuff is basically written like the introduction of an orchestral Beethoven piece and any conductor would keep a traceable beat for his musicians. The way Thomas plays it a lot of the lines and phrasing simply get lost and with it the immense tension building up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhQtXKc88U

Also Henze. Just look for the Tentos, many (at least on Youtube) pay very little attention to the incredibly detailed rhythmical ideas that guy always writes into his music.

firebad57
Dec 29, 2008

Honj Steak posted:

I think it's not even a question of too much rubato. If the rubato is executed faithfully so that the "stolen" time is given back and the relative proportions of note values are comprehensible I can deal with massive amounts of agogical freedom. The problem is more with plain misreading of rhythm, which unfortunately happens a lot. I was honestly horrified by the beginning of Viloteau's Fantaisie Elegiaque, especially because I usually really appreciate a lot of the things he does. That stuff is basically written like the introduction of an orchestral Beethoven piece and any conductor would keep a traceable beat for his musicians. The way Thomas plays it a lot of the lines and phrasing simply get lost and with it the immense tension building up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhQtXKc88U

Also Henze. Just look for the Tentos, many (at least on Youtube) pay very little attention to the incredibly detailed rhythmical ideas that guy always writes into his music.

Great examples - that kind of ooey gooey loss of pulse in that kind of introduction (see also the Preludes to Bach BWV 995 and 996) is also a pet-peeve of mine. I've also heard the kind of stuff you describe in the Henze, and as a new music dude, that annoys me even more. Just a couple of the many other examples of "oh hay it's 'modern' music so i don't have to count" include the Ginastera Sonata, everything Carter wrote for us, and Brouwer's Elogio de la Danza (and even the Sonata).

BUT, I have a feeling our association of this type of rhythmic inaccuracy (seemingly induced by cluelessness) with contemporary guitar players is a wee bit of a false positive, caused by YouTube increasing our exposure to "young" guitarists. Of the guitarists in the old, dark days of the 20th century, we only have access to recordings by a select few, and in many of those cases, they were playing repertoire that they had commissioned. And we all know that Segovia was not above changing a score to match his interpretation, as opposed to the other way around. I have a feeling if we had access to as many early/mid 20th century recordings as we do YouTube videos of today's young guitarists, we would hear all sorts of bizarre rhythmical poo poo.

And, on that note, there are pretty notable examples of rhythmic inaccuracy in Bream and Segovia recordings - e.g. Bream's Nocturnal almost set in stone a basic misunderstanding of a 3:4 polyrhythm. And if we expand the lens a little bit, Segovia's Bach recordings are pretty clear proof that the dude DID NOT GIVE A gently caress about adhering to the text. The Segovia/Ponce BWV 1007 arrangement is absolutely wonderful precisely because it basically states "Baroque counterpoint? Oh yeah sure, I know all about that," and then just makes it into a Ponce piece.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


Wronkos posted:

Heard Otto Respighi's "Fountains of Rome" on the radio the other day and it just floored me. Got a recording of Roman Festivals/The Fountains of Rome/Pines of Rome now. Beautiful Romantic stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkqyxy6oUw

Are there any good Romantic-style tone poems from after World War II, or did it die out entirely in favor of atonal/modernist stuff? My appreciation for classical ends around 1920 and I'd really like to hear music that picks up where Respighi, Rimsy-Korsakov, Sibelius, Novak, etc. left off. I can't do modernism, serialism, or socialist realism.

And since I mentioned Novak...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkex73-zw5s
I grew up in a family that listened to classical music and had never even hard of Vitezslav Novak before, he's quite good and it's puzzling how he ended up so obscure (although Austria, Germany, and Russia playing hacky-sack with his country certainly wouldn't help).

Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jan 28, 2016

James The 1st
Feb 23, 2013

Woolie Wool posted:

Are there any good Romantic-style tone poems from after World War II, or did it die out entirely in favor of atonal/modernist stuff? My appreciation for classical ends around 1920 and I'd really like to hear music that picks up where Respighi, Rimsy-Korsakov, Sibelius, Novak, etc. left off. I can't do modernism, serialism, or socialist realism.

And since I mentioned Novak...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkex73-zw5s
I grew up in a family that listened to classical music and had never even hard of Vitezslav Novak before, he's quite good and it's puzzling how he ended up so obscure (although Austria, Germany, and Russia playing hacky-sack with his country certainly wouldn't help).
Not really tone poems, but some good modern tonal composers that I've listened to a lot: Carl Nielsen (awesome Danish composer, great symphonies), Ralph Vaughn Williams (probably the best British composer), George Enescu (quite modern, but didn't follow the atonal route), William Walton, Howard Hanson (a great American composer who stuck to the good old romantic tradition when it wasn't cool), Kurt Atterberg (who is crazy neglected),Francis Poulenc, Arnold Bax, Malcom Arnold, and William Alwyn.

Southern Heel
Jul 2, 2004

I am going through the 'How to Listen To, And Appreciate Great Music' Learning Company course, and I am flabbergasted at the complete lack of equivalent guidance for pieces available publically.

Typically, the narrator will describe the artist and era and go over the form of the piece (and divergence) as well as the themes musically, interpretively - and finally listen with you, pointing out major sections. For example,

in Beethoven's 5th he compares with Haydn : lyrical classical theme versus fundamental romantic. How the first movement is made of sequenced and inverted motifs, the lack of meaningful cadence . How that transforms with polphony, sequencing and return - with the original them being truncated more and more to a death - overall how the major and minor themes can symbolise life and death's struggle against each other.

in Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture he describes the themes: Hymnal, Conflict, Love and Sighing - how they play out in a symbolic retelling of the Shakespeare play and just WHY that G# stab in the Coda is so bloody important.

THIS is interesting and THIS gives context and understanding to the music we listen to - and yet there is almost none of it to be found as far as I can tell, except in the most dry and soulless musical scholarship articles. WHY do we not have this kind of information as guides on YouTube more obviously? I have had to seek this out myself after struggling through dozens of 'video of orchestra' and flat audio files, and I can only think it would allow more people to

Mederlock
Jun 23, 2012

You won't recognize Canada when I'm through with it
Grimey Drawer
I went through that course just recently and adored it. I'm now on one of his other courses, The String Quartets of Beethoven, works that I regrettably have never listened to before. It is similarly fascinating and engaging, and I am really blown by the quartets. I adore Beethoven's symphonies, but I really didn't know what I was missing by not checking out his work in other compositional genres.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


CowOnCrack posted:

Alfred Schnittke - 3 Sacred Hymns

https://youtu.be/5QOLhOaf6ok

Lost the bookmark at some point, so I saw this just now. It's wonderful, thanks!

Peggotty
May 9, 2014

Southern Heel posted:

I am going through the 'How to Listen To, And Appreciate Great Music' Learning Company course, and I am flabbergasted at the complete lack of equivalent guidance for pieces available publically.
[...]
THIS is interesting and THIS gives context and understanding to the music we listen to - and yet there is almost none of it to be found as far as I can tell, except in the most dry and soulless musical scholarship articles. WHY do we not have this kind of information as guides on YouTube more obviously? I have had to seek this out myself after struggling through dozens of 'video of orchestra' and flat audio files, and I can only think it would allow more people to

Isn't that a $500 50 hour video course? I'm pretty sure there's nothing like it on Youtube because it's a huge amount of work that nobody with the necessary knowledge wants to just give away for the <1000 people that would actually watch it and learn from it.

James The 1st
Feb 23, 2013

Southern Heel posted:

I am going through the 'How to Listen To, And Appreciate Great Music' Learning Company course, and I am flabbergasted at the complete lack of equivalent guidance for pieces available publically.

Typically, the narrator will describe the artist and era and go over the form of the piece (and divergence) as well as the themes musically, interpretively - and finally listen with you, pointing out major sections. For example,

in Beethoven's 5th he compares with Haydn : lyrical classical theme versus fundamental romantic. How the first movement is made of sequenced and inverted motifs, the lack of meaningful cadence . How that transforms with polphony, sequencing and return - with the original them being truncated more and more to a death - overall how the major and minor themes can symbolise life and death's struggle against each other.

in Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture he describes the themes: Hymnal, Conflict, Love and Sighing - how they play out in a symbolic retelling of the Shakespeare play and just WHY that G# stab in the Coda is so bloody important.

THIS is interesting and THIS gives context and understanding to the music we listen to - and yet there is almost none of it to be found as far as I can tell, except in the most dry and soulless musical scholarship articles. WHY do we not have this kind of information as guides on YouTube more obviously? I have had to seek this out myself after struggling through dozens of 'video of orchestra' and flat audio files, and I can only think it would allow more people to
That's the great but also challenging thing about music, you as the listener are the one that creates the context. It kind of ruins the experience of hearing music if someone needs to tell you that you need to feel sad at this point and then triumphant at the next.

Southern Heel
Jul 2, 2004

^ No, it is a $9 audible book, but I see your point to a degree, but the same could be said about any instructional video or free-to-air documentary.

James The 1st posted:

That's the great but also challenging thing about music, you as the listener are the one that creates the context. It kind of ruins the experience of hearing music if someone needs to tell you that you need to feel sad at this point and then triumphant at the next.

Interpreting the Revolutionary Etude - yes. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik? Of course - it is music that is meant to be interpreted. However, huge swathes are written very deliberately in what they are conveying (that the funeral theme from Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz is infact Deus Irae) or contain a specific formal technique - such as the format of a Fugue, which REQUIRES one to know what is going on -otherwise there is no understanding of that part, and a significant aspect of the music is lost.

Sure, if you listen to 'Heard it on the Grapevine' in Swahili you could get the sounds, but a huge part of that song is a story - and a story which in concert music is as far as I can see, cloistered in libraries and music appreciation courses.

James The 1st
Feb 23, 2013

Southern Heel posted:

^ No, it is a $9 audible book, but I see your point to a degree, but the same could be said about any instructional video or free-to-air documentary.


Interpreting the Revolutionary Etude - yes. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik? Of course - it is music that is meant to be interpreted. However, huge swathes are written very deliberately in what they are conveying (that the funeral theme from Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz is infact Deus Irae) or contain a specific formal technique - such as the format of a Fugue, which REQUIRES one to know what is going on -otherwise there is no understanding of that part, and a significant aspect of the music is lost.

Sure, if you listen to 'Heard it on the Grapevine' in Swahili you could get the sounds, but a huge part of that song is a story - and a story which in concert music is as far as I can see, cloistered in libraries and music appreciation courses.
Don't take my comment the wrong way, it is generally a good thing to be able to know the music's background and structure and what the composer might have said they were trying to do. There's also a distinction between doing a musical analysis (for example, how the melody developed or is it a fugue, and so on), and added extra musical interpretations like "Beethoven's 6th has a thunderstorm." You don't need to know about the thunderstorm in-order to get the drama behind the symphony. You also don't have to think you aren't understanding the music if you can't picture a thunderstorm in the 6th, because music doesn't communicate concrete things.

James The 1st fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Feb 11, 2016

A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

Southern Heel posted:

I am going through the 'How to Listen To, And Appreciate Great Music' Learning Company course, and I am flabbergasted at the complete lack of equivalent guidance for pieces available publically.

Typically, the narrator will describe the artist and era and go over the form of the piece (and divergence) as well as the themes musically, interpretively - and finally listen with you, pointing out major sections. For example,

in Beethoven's 5th he compares with Haydn : lyrical classical theme versus fundamental romantic. How the first movement is made of sequenced and inverted motifs, the lack of meaningful cadence . How that transforms with polphony, sequencing and return - with the original them being truncated more and more to a death - overall how the major and minor themes can symbolise life and death's struggle against each other.

in Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture he describes the themes: Hymnal, Conflict, Love and Sighing - how they play out in a symbolic retelling of the Shakespeare play and just WHY that G# stab in the Coda is so bloody important.

THIS is interesting and THIS gives context and understanding to the music we listen to - and yet there is almost none of it to be found as far as I can tell, except in the most dry and soulless musical scholarship articles. WHY do we not have this kind of information as guides on YouTube more obviously? I have had to seek this out myself after struggling through dozens of 'video of orchestra' and flat audio files, and I can only think it would allow more people to

Does this cover any 20th century stuff?

Peggotty
May 9, 2014

Southern Heel posted:

^ No, it is a $9 audible book, but I see your point to a degree, but the same could be said about any instructional video or free-to-air documentary.

Oh, it's gotten significantly cheaper then. And yes, of course that could be said about anything. And from my experience, it is true for everything. I'm not aware of any lectures of similar scope with an intellectually comparable subject that are available for free (Unless you count illegally uploaded history documentations, and even those are usually more histotainment than college lectures.)

A human heart posted:

Does this cover any 20th century stuff?
Yes. Debussy, Stravinsky, Schönberg.

Kytrarewn
Jul 15, 2011

Solving mysteries in
Bb, F and D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEf6oYgAWSE

I'm going to be entirely honest that I don't really *get* this piece, musically, but the technical bits of what the trombonist has to do here are fascinating.

For one thing, in several movements, there's notes where he's forced to activate and inactivate his F-attachment while simultaneously manipulating a plunger and moving the slide, necessitating the use of a bit of string tied to the trigger which he has to yank on, from an imperfect angle, at extremely precise times. Moreover, in addition to vocal multiphonics (singing one note while playing another), he's manipulating his embouchure to create a controlled double buzz during a lot of the crunchier, for lack of a better word, double-stop sections, and the piece is hard enough just from the range, rhythms, dynamics and microtonality.

I'm impressed despite myself.

Aces High
Mar 26, 2010

Nah! A little chocolate will do




if there is one thing that my BMus has taught me it's that sometimes you make these things just to demonstrate that you can :v:

Stuff like that reminds me of Berio and his Sequenzas, covering all possibilities of the instrument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGovCafPQAE
Of course I link the voice one because I trained in voice

Kytrarewn
Jul 15, 2011

Solving mysteries in
Bb, F and D.
The trombone Berio Sequenza is typically played in full clown regalia.

Kytrarewn fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Apr 9, 2016

Mahler
Oct 30, 2008

Hey guys, Mahler 10 is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLt_Y7Laok

god bless

Maha
Dec 29, 2006
sapere aude
I just heard Erik Satie's "Gymnopedie no. 1" played by Joseph Villa at the end credits of My Dinner With Andre, and now I want to hear more Satie. Whose rendition of his stuff should I get?

firebad57
Dec 29, 2008
http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/05/20/exclusive-premiere-chopin-prelude-in-e-minor-performed-as-a-black-metal-song/

Look, Mom, we're on MetalSucks, doing a silly thing that a friend somehow convinced us to do. It's so fun to finally have YouTube commenters making GBS threads on something we put out - normally we don't get enough views for that.

And just FYI - this is not a serious arrangement, it's a bunch of serious musicians having fun with repertoire. I'm thrilled to have made a fun thing that can now piss of classical music fans AND metalheads.

We actually originally tracked the melody part at pitch (whenever possible) though when we retracked it later (for Reasons), we dropped it an octave in a couple sections. Clearly a dumb mistake, but OH WELL.

Doctor Malaver
May 23, 2007

Ce qui s'est passé t'a rendu plus fort
Black Metal Chopin? Not bad but it's no Black Metal Chef.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZlih4DDNg

Doctor Malaver fucked around with this message at 00:18 on May 23, 2016

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat
Burned through this thread over the last week or so because my wife told me a week ago that someone in her department at the university was recruiting people for an orchestra, and today I got notice that they have enough people to put one together :toot: Blasting some of my favorite pieces/part for my weapon of choice (French Horn)-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OqV503vUWA- Concerto No.1 in E-Flat Major, R. Strauss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkiSzUqAgM- Concerto No. 8 in C Minor, F. Strauss (though this version is not super-great in my opinion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV4g0J3aOqk- Morceau de Concert, Saint-Saens (part 2 is in the sidebar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyK1VKp86M- Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Haydn (the first ~16 minutes)

Cool horn parts in orchestra/band pieces maybe later.

E: Is there any way to get the forums to not parse pasted Youtube links as [video type="youtube"]uhihbibihbibibb stuff?

C-Euro fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jun 5, 2016

Kytrarewn
Jul 15, 2011

Solving mysteries in
Bb, F and D.

C-Euro posted:

E: Is there any way to get the forums to not parse pasted Youtube links as [video type="youtube"]uhihbibihbibibb stuff?

If you shove it in the middle of [ url] tags, it should work.

Like this
You can even put in timestamps
Or you could just be boring and leave the URL unobscured: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEvZQE8sQM

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat
Orchestra update: Not only do they want to play all of Beethoven 5, they want me on Horn 1 :stare: Fortunately the horn part isn't super-technical, but drat what a way to get back to playing.

E: Gonna repost this awesome version of this piece conducted by Carlos Kleiber-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvO3sq_xIIg

C-Euro fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jun 19, 2016

Hawkperson
Jun 20, 2003

C-Euro posted:

Orchestra update: Not only do they want to play all of Beethoven 5, they want me on Horn 1 :stare: Fortunately the horn part isn't super-technical, but drat what a way to get back to playing.

E: Gonna repost this awesome version of this piece conducted by Carlos Kleiber-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvO3sq_xIIg

You'll be fine, that's a fun part. Make them play Brahms 1 too. How are your transposing chops? I mean, all the modern copies of works have parts transposed to F horn, but that's no fun.

Okay, I looked through the Beethoven and it does have a high Bb for like two measures, but that's the only range-y part. The rest is all in a good fun loud range, you'll be pretty tired after the first rehearsal I bet but it comes back quickly.

objects in mirror
Apr 9, 2016

by Shine
For the past 2 years, I've been "stuck" on Late Beethoven, by which I mean that I keep returning to this music again and again.

There is a wonderful transcription for string orchestra of the late quartets on Spotify by a guy named Terje Tonnesen. Highly recommended. The standout for me is the Holy Song of Thanksgiving by a Convalescent to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode, belonging to String Quartet No. 15 in A minor.


https://open.spotify.com/album/33Y5IX9Gj7iohnLIejbwXU

Mederlock
Jun 23, 2012

You won't recognize Canada when I'm through with it
Grimey Drawer

objects in mirror posted:

For the past 2 years, I've been "stuck" on Late Beethoven, by which I mean that I keep returning to this music again and again.

There is a wonderful transcription for string orchestra of the late quartets on Spotify by a guy named Terje Tonnesen. Highly recommended. The standout for me is the Holy Song of Thanksgiving by a Convalescent to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode, belonging to String Quartet No. 15 in A minor.


https://open.spotify.com/album/33Y5IX9Gj7iohnLIejbwXU

This movement (well the string quartet version, I haven't yet pulled up this version, planning to) is seriously one of the most profound pieces of music I've ever listened to. It's the kind of music that transfixes you and alternates from heart-aching anguish to soul-mending serenity, and back all over the emotional spectrum again. This is my favourite recording of it, by the Guarneri Quartet. This set contains all of Beethoven's quartets and it is fantastic all the way through, but :drat:, they do a fine rendition of the op. 132. https://open.spotify.com/track/6jkS4JMeWIaiFpm7jyUFBB

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XBenedict
May 23, 2006

YOUR LIPS SAY 0, BUT YOUR EYES SAY 1.

objects in mirror posted:

For the past 2 years, I've been "stuck" on Late Beethoven, by which I mean that I keep returning to this music again and again.

There is a wonderful transcription for string orchestra of the late quartets on Spotify by a guy named Terje Tonnesen. Highly recommended. The standout for me is the Holy Song of Thanksgiving by a Convalescent to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode, belonging to String Quartet No. 15 in A minor.


https://open.spotify.com/album/33Y5IX9Gj7iohnLIejbwXU

This is pretty glorious. The themes, especially in the first movement remind me of the themes in Mendelssohn's Sinfonia No. 9 in C Major.

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