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Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:57 am
by sunlore_Archive
I have said it before on these boards, but I would recommend anyone to get him or herself acquainted with the music of Russian composer
Galina Ustvolskaya.
Admittedly a difficult, but ultimately an extremely rewarding listen.
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:41 pm
by Goldstar_Archive
Anyone interested in contemporary classical may find this site interesting:
http://www.newmusicbox.org
Frank
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:03 pm
by lemur68_Archive
Rimbaud III wrote:I need a good internet radio station that beams stuff by modern classical composers right into my brains. Does anybody have any pointers?
Not necessarily "modern", but an excellent classical station that streams online is Columbus' own
WOSU--actually a public station, not a college station as its call letters imply. Keeps me sane and mellow in the car.
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:16 pm
by lemur68_Archive
Incornsyucopia wrote:If anyone is up for a truly odd and unique listening experience I'd recommend checking out
Microtonal Compositions by Easley Blackwood; the product of his research into microtonal equal temperaments. It is made up of pieces written using chromatic scales with 13 through 24 equal intervals to the octave resulting in music that is among the most strange I have ever listened to. They are mostly done with electronic synthesizer, but there is also a 4-part Suite for 15-note equal tempered guitar. Only for the truly brave though.
It's available on a CD from Cedille Records, which is based in Chicago in fact, but also online here:
http://www.mp3.com/albums/174011/summary.htmlLove to hear what you think
Wow.
It's like it sounds kinda normal at first then the whole thing will modulate like a step and a
quarter or something. You're left going, "okay, something just happened that I've never heard..."
The scale in Arab music is divided into 1/4 steps as well.
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:57 am
by space junk_Archive
Let's get this bumped.
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:29 am
by tmidgett_Archive
lemur68 wrote:Rimbaud III wrote:I need a good internet radio station that beams stuff by modern classical composers right into my brains. Does anybody have any pointers?
Not necessarily "modern", but an excellent classical station that streams online is Columbus' own
WOSU--actually a public station, not a college station as its call letters imply. Keeps me sane and mellow in the car.
I listen to WFMT in the car. I think it's online.
A few months ago, I heard some music on WFMT by Eduard Tubin, a 20th-century Estonian composer. I liked it very much, and I bought his complete music for violin, viola, and piano, to which I have listened a great deal.
His stuff is split between lyrical, sort of folk-music-based things (early period) and more dissonant, twelve-tone-inspired things (later period). I guess I prefer his more lyrical compositions, but it's all pretty good.
He wrote symphonies, choral music, etc. Well worth checking out.
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:02 pm
by space junk_Archive
Three questions for geiginni.
1. What's with all the "Variations"? What does this refer to?
2. What does "Op." mean
3. When something is introduced as "[Whatever] in D minor", does that mean there are other keys it could be played in, or is that a fixed thing for the piece?
Thanking you in advance.
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:36 pm
by Skronk_Archive
This thread, she is good.
Geiginni, could you recommend some dissonant works? Something with tone clusters and/or chromaticism? I'm already a big fan of Penderecki, Shoenberg, and Gorecki, I'd like to find out about others. Thanks.
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:43 pm
by iembalm_Archive
Don't have time at work to read the whole thread.
I go to hear Mahler's 1st Symphony whenever it is near. I bring a sleeping-aid blindfold to wear during the first movement, so as to avoid unnecessary sensory input. I am well aware this makes me a douche on a grand scale, but don't care.
Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony is very fine.
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Zappa: The Yellow Shark
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians, Drumming, and Tehillim
Orff: Carmina Burana
Geiginni s Classical Music Discussion
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:32 pm
by Eating Noddemix
Skronk wrote:This thread, she is good.
Yes, yes, and yes.
At this point, for better or worse, I'm only a mere dabbler when it comes to what we call classical music, but I can heartily recommend
THIS CD, which came out last year, a fine fine recording commemorating the 100th anniversay of Shostakovich's birth. It features his String Quartets 3, 7 and 8. Deutsche Grammophone, from what I gather, is (like Wergo) one of THE lables for this sort of music.
Like a dusty red-hot funk 45, an impeccable classical music disc really hits the spot.