Post Midnight Classical

A couple of modern classical music pieces-

James MacMillan - Veni, Veni Emmanuel, Percussion Concerto (1992)

Ulster Orchestra conducted by Takuo Yuasa.

I. Introitus (0:00)
II. Heart Beats / Latidos (2:31)
III. Dance – Transition / Baile – Transición (5:31)
IV. Gaude – Transition (12:35)
V. Dance Chorale / Coral de danza (21:25)
VI. Coda (24:15)

James MacMillan is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary composers, creating eclectic music along avant-garde, minimalist and neo-romantic lines of musical thought. Veni, veni Emmanuel is not a commonplace advent piece; it sets festive music certainly, but in place of a chorus or a soloist to channel his message, MacMillan uses a percussion soloist which is a relative new addition to the concerto genre.

James Dillon ~ Nine Rivers: 4. La femme invisible (1989)

In The Ocean

I found this fascinating documentary on the classical avant garde.


In The Ocean - A Film About The Classical Avant Garde

Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, John Cage, Steve Reich and others

Music For Airports

This is beautiul live instrument version of Brian Eno's tape loop electronica.

Bang On A Can - Brian Eno - Music for Airports

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the sixth studio album by Brian Eno. It was released by Polydor Records in 1978. The album consists of four compositions created by layering tape loops of differing lengths. It was the first of four albums released in Eno's "Ambient" series, a term which he coined to differentiate his experimental and minimalistic approach to composition from "the products of the various purveyors of canned music".

The music was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent of defusing the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal. To achieve this, Eno sought to create music "as ignorable as it is interesting." Though it is not the earliest entry in the genre, it was the first album ever to be explicitly created under the label "ambient music."

In Sussex

Doing a few visits today around Sussex - mostly charity shops end then to finish with , a pub food and drink establishment. I was hoping to do one in Brighton - but i will defer that till some time next week - so today it will be Lewes, Uckfield and Crowborough.

Next Beer and Food

Drat - if i had gone to Brighton the Evening Star has this on -




Mind you i believe that the Paper Mill in Sittingbourne has an 8 per cent beer this weekend.

Just finished the two charity shops - a DVD, two books and a T shirt, and now heading off for some pub grub and drinks.

In Crowborough

My top pub grub comfort food is either Ham and Eggs or today Bangers and Mash -that is three sausages,mashed potato and peas.

It is also Spoons current beer festival - 26 brews with five being international. Just two weeks of this.

Birthday Greetings

Birthday greetings to icprncs.Have a wonderful day!

The Language Of New Music

I found another really fascinating documentary on You Tube combing four factors of my incessant interest,philosophy,history, arts, and music.

The Language Of The New Music - Documentary about Wittgenstein and Schoenberg, 1985

his is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schonberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism.
Both men emerged from the turmoil of the Habsburg Empire in its closing days with the idea of analyzing language and purging it with critical intent, believing that in the analysis and purification of language lies the greatest hope that we have. They never met and might never have fully understood one another, because while the nature of their genius they found themselves alone breaking new ground of the very frontiers of their respective disciplines. But their work springs from the same soil and shares a common ethical purpose, so that their ideas and methods echo and illuminate those of each other to a remarkable degree.

Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Ravel - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand


Piano - Paul Wittgenstein

Piano Concerto for the Left Hand by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). The one-armed Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887-1961) - the older brother of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein - commissioned the work from Ravel and premiered it in 1932.

Paul Wittgenstein as soloist, accompanied by Bruno Walter and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Minimalism

A slab of minimalist composers this time -


David Lang - Slow Movement

David Lang's "Slow Movement" (1994) played by Icebreaker on their 1994 album Terminal Velocity.


Steve Reich - Six Marimbas

Written by Steve Reich

Performed by Bob Becker, Kory Grossman, Russ Hartenberger, James Preiss, Bill Ruyle, William Trigg.

Recorded May 1986 at RCA Studios, NYC.

( More here )

Enjoy.

Today's Finds

So these are the goodies i bought today from the charity shop visits.

DVD's

Magnolia
Immortals

Books