This is interesting -- new pieces composed for the same piano setup as John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes. This is one of Cage's most recorded works but I don't particularly like the music. But I do like prepared piano so the idea of reusing the preparation makes sense.
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July 28, 2012
July 22, 2012
aworks listening log :: "old" versus "new"
Lou Harrison (Wikipedia)
Many "old" favorites in this list:
- Banteay Srey 1991. Carl Stone. New Albion
- The Wound-Dresser (1988). John Adams - Thomas Hampson. New York Philharmonic
- The Chairman Dances (1985). John Adams - Edo de Waart. Nonesuch
- Echoes (1965). Bernard Herrmann - Tippett String Quartet. Signum U.K.
- Psycho: A Suite for Strings (1960). Bernard Herrmann - Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony
- Philemon and Baukis (1985). Lou Harrison - Gamelan Si Betty. Nimbus
- In a Landscape (1948). John Cage - Emanuele Arciuli. stradivarius
- Canticle No. 3 (1941). Lou Harrison - Dennis Russell Davies. Nimbus
- Largo Ostinato (1937). Lou Harrison - Anthony De Mare. Composers Recordings
- "Gyp the Blood" or Hearst - Which is Worst ? (1912). Charles Ives - Ingo Metzmacher. EMI Classics
- Maple Leaf Rag (1899). Scott Joplin - Andrew Russo. Endeavour Classics
aworks listening log :: enhanced by video
Glacier (shakkai)
The Cornelus Dufallo solo violin album is electronically rich enough that it doesn't sound like just a solo violin album...I've never been one for music videos but Leslie Flanagan's Glacier is enhanced by watching her perform this esoteric music.
- Until Next Time (2010). Kenji Bunch - Cornelius Dufallo. Innova
- Glacier (2010). Leslie Flanagan. Vimeo via The Glass
- The Chairman Dances (1985). John Adams - Edo De Waart. Nonesuch
- Wir Weben for String Sextet (1978). Martin Bresnick - Musical Elements. NWCRI
- String Quartet No. 1 (1949). Leon Kirchner - Orion String Quartet. Albany Records
- Origin: Movement 1 - Sun AM (2010). Duane Pitre. Root Strata
- Still Lives (1995). Alvin Lucier. Lovely Music
- China Gates (1977). John Adams - Bruce Brubaker. Arabesque Recordings
- Knee Play 2 (1976). Philip Glass - Tim Fain. Naxos
- String Quartet No. 2 (1958). Leon Kirchner - Orion String Quartet. Albany Records
- Violin Loop I. Cornelius Dufallo - Cornelius Dufallo. Innova
- Prima Volta (2011). John King - Cornelious Dufallo. Innova
- Empty Infinity (2010). Joan Jeanrenaud - Cornelious Dufallo. Innova
- Three High Places (2007). John Luther Adams - Cornelius Dufallo. Innova
- String Quartet No. 3 (1966). Leon Kirchner - Orion String Quartet. Albany Records
- String Quartet No. 1 (1949). Leon Kirchner - Boston Composers Quartet. Albany Records
- Daughterof the Lonesome Isle (1945). John Cage - Margaret Leng Tan. New Albion Records
July 17, 2012
Vertigo (1958). Bernard Herrmann /full of drama/
Bernard Herrmann (Wikipedia)
Greg Sandow figures out Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O'RIley are playing music from Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo:
Clearly 20th century, I thought. A composer with a lot of cello/piano chops, someone who’s an expert at writing for those instruments, separately and together. And who’s also full of drama. And has imagination. Style a little hard to place. Post-1945, I thought. But who? Couldn’t think of anyone who sounded quite like this. I don’t claim to have exhaustive knowledge of the repertoire, but really, I thought, if someone was this good, wouldn’t I at least have some small clue?
As much as a Herrmann fan as I am, this isn't even the best track on the album. Their version of Radiohead's Pyramid Song, with its combination of cello and piano, is as moving if not more so than the original.
July 15, 2012
July 13, 2012
Nixon in China (1987). John Adams /semi-staged/
The Proms has John Adams conducting Nixon in China "semi-staged." I don't really know what that means but I assume it means singing and orchestra but not the good/bad multimedia special effects that we just saw in San Francisco. It was certainly a vivid production, even if sometimes disorienting and buggy.
aworks unordered list :: current rdio album queue /plethora, redux/
Streaming music skeptics complain that Led Zeppelin or their favorite obscure recording by whomever isn't available so they will stick with the music ownership model, thank you very much.
Me, I have a different complaint with rdio. My current inbox of albums I've queued up for listening now counts 48. This is in addition to my current tracks on repeat, let alone my numerous MP3s that I, um, own.
My current rdio queue has music by:
- Charles Ives
- Zeitkratzer
- Still/Griffes
- Captain Beefheart
- Beastie Boys
- Peitro Spada
- Glen Campbell
- David Bruce
- Mission of Burma
- Alvin Lucier
- Schoenberg
- Charli XCX
- the Duke as played by Tokyo Meikyokudo
- Can
- Carter Tutti Void
- Current 93
- Beck
- Neal "Batman" Hefti
- Alexander "Star Trek Courage
- "Howl"
- Alice Coltrane (wait, didn't I just buy the CD at Down Home music?)
- Marvin Gaye
- "Californication"
- Joshua Redman
- Horace Tapscott
- Bob Dylan
- Bach Meets Jazz
- Mozart
- Dominic Hauser
- MTT
- Bruce Yurko
- Jack Stamp
- Ravel/Hovhaness
- Michael Daugherty\
- Indiana State University Faculty Winds
- Music of the Medici Codex
- Jean-Louis Tulou
- Skrillex
- Arturo Sacchetti
- Yo-Yo Ma
- the James Dean Story
- Woody Guthrie (Centennial Edition)
- Metallic Taste of Blood
- Jeremey Long
- a playlist from Luke Miller
- and finally and most proudly, Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits.
Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76). Steve Reich /ambient?/
Erik Satie cropped (Wikipedia)
Interesting post on ilx about the classical chill album:
- classical music that is close to ambient?
- has certain electronica replaced classical?
- does Music for 18 Musicians fit the ambient bill?
- but isn't classical all about live performance versus this laptop junk?
- Erik Satie via YouTube?
- John Luther Adams via YouTube?
- Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten via YouTube?
- ...
In a nod that marketing can in fact work, I own the CD in question. Via Amazon, here's the track list, in all its glory:
- Platoon: Adagio For Strings - William Orbit
- My Dinner With Andre: Gymnopedie No.1 - Angela Brownridge
- Delta Airlines TV Ad: Adiemus - Miriam Stockley
- Farewell - Leszek Mozdzer
- A Room With A View: O Mio Babbino Caro - Angela Gheorghiu
- Gallipoli: Adagio - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner
- The Bridges Of Madison County: Norma: Casta Diva - Maria Callas/Chor Of La Scala, Milan
- Spiegel Im Spiegel - Tasmin Little/Martin Roscoe
- British Airways TV Ad: Lakme: Flower Duet - Mady Mespie/Danielle Millet
- The Piano: The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise - Michael Nyman
- Babe: Cantique De Jean Racine - Orfeon Donostiarra Orchestre Du Capitole Du Toulouse/Michel Plasson
- The Civil War: The Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar/Molly Mason
- This Is Not America - Ahn Trio
- Frankie And Johnny: Clair De Lune - Dame Moura Lympany
- Angela's Ashes: Miserere Mei, Deus - Timothy Beasley-Murray/Gerald Finley/Choir Of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
- Titanic: My Heart Will Go On - David Abel
- Perpetuum Mobile - Penguin Cafe Orchestra/Simon Jeffes
- Con For Violin & Oboe In D Minor - Yehudi Menuhin/Leon Goossens
- Symphony No.3: Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs - Zofia Kilanowicz
- The Lark Ascending - Hugh Bean
- Chocolat: Gnoissienne No.1 - Anne Queffelec
- Nagoya Marimbas - Colin Currie/Sam Walton
- Violin Concerto No.1 In G Minor - Yehudi Menuhin
- Song For Athens - Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill
- The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe - Ennio Morricone And His Orchestra
- Weather Storm - London Session Orchestra/Craig Armstrong
- The Life & Times Of David Lloyd George: Chi Mai - Ennio Morricone And His Orchestra
- The Thin Red Line: In Paradisum - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge/Jose-Luis Garcia/Peter Barley
- Diva: Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana - Maria Callas
- The Four Seasons: Winter - Giullio Franzetti
- Hannah And Her Sisters: Piano Concerto No.5 - Andrei Gavrilov
- Lorenzo's Oil: Ave Verum Corpus - Stockholm Radio Chorus/Stockholm Chamber Choir
July 12, 2012
aworks listening log :: that's enough tangerine dreaming for now
Not much directed listening. Instead, I'm arguably wasting my time listening to two old Tangerine Dream albums on rdio I had never heard (and probably don't care to listen to again).
- A Summerfield Set. Lou Harrison - Dennis Russell Davies. (Musical Heritage Society)
- And the Archytan Transpositions. Warren Burt - Warren Burt. (XI Records)
July 09, 2012
aworks listening log :: back to work
This list is mostly from yesterday since I went back to work today. The surprise is how much I like Music in Fifths.
- Music in Fifths. Philip Glass - Bang on a Can. (Cantaloupe)
- The Unavailable Memory of. John Cage - Boris Berman. (Naxos)
- A Room. John Cage - Philipp Vandre. (Mode)
- Our Town. Aaron Copland - Aaron Copland. (Sony Classical)
- Apparition, Elegiac Songs and Vocalises. George Crumb - Jan DeGaetiani. (Bridge)
- Processional and Fugue. Alan Hovhaness - Kerry Stratton. (Dorian Recordings)
- A Summerfield Set. Lou Harrison - Dennis Russell Davies. (Musical Heritage Society)
- Seven Traceries. William Grant Still - Mark Boozer. (Naxos)
- Three Visions. William Grant Still - Mark Boozer. (Naxos)
- A Clean Sweep. Robert Carl - Elizabeth Brown. (New World Records)
- Brown Velvet. Robert Carl - Ryan Hare, Aleksander Stennfeld-Dunn. (New World Records)
- Occlusion (Rue de Bitche). Keith Fullerton Whitman - Keith Fullerton Whitman. (Editions Mego)
- The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan. Charles Griffes - James Tocco. (Gasparo Records)
- Armenian Rhapsody No. 3. Alan Hovhaness - Kerry Stratton. (Dorian Recordings)
- The Past, The Passion. George Tsontakis - Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. (Koch International)
- Occlusion (Weteringschans). Keith Fullerton Whitman - Keith Fullerton Whitman. (Editions Mego)
- A Deserted Plantation. William Grant Still - Mark Boozer. (Naxos)
- Bullet Cycle. Robert Carl - Katie Kennedy, Bill Solomon, Sayun Chang. (New World Records)
- Collapsible Mandala. Robert Carl - Robert Carl. (New World Records)
- New Dancetudes. Randall Woolf - Kathleen Supove. (Composers Recordings)
- Africa. William Grant Still - Mark Boozer. (Naxos)
- Ear Conception. William Anderson - Cygnus Ensemble. (NWCRI)
- Music for Marcel Duchamp. John Cage - Boris Berman. (Naxos)
- The Blues (from the ballet Lenox Avenue). William Grant Still - Mark Boozer. (Naxos)
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