Modern Compositions #1

The Wire has always been thought-provoking in its musical machinations and one such article is the one from 1988 on twelve-tone music and serialism and the modern day composer that includes Ellington and Mingus.



So here are some post-midnight compositions from composers mentioned in the article.

Peter Maxwell Davies - Sir Charles his Pavan

Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies

Henry Brant - Solar Moth

The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 2

℗ 2004 Innova

Elliott Carter - Night Fantasies (1980)

Charles Rosen, piano

Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark

New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein

The piece was first titled "A Contemplation of Nothing Serious or Central Park in the Dark in 'The Good Old Summer Time' (in comparison to A Contemplation of a Serious Matter or The Unanswered Perennial Question). Ives wrote detailed notes concerning the purpose and context of Central Park in the Dark: This piece was composed in 1906.


This is just part one of a series of posts I will do involving modern-day composers and innovators. Coming up next will be Bela Bartok, Anthony Braxton, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington, Witold Lutoslawski, Olivier Messiaen, and Pierre Schaffer.

Open your ears and Enjoy

Maxwell Davies

For those who enjoyed the Peter Maxwell Davies track from the last post should look out for this compilation "Maximum Max" which I found today (Saturday) for a quid in a charity shop!



Peter Maxwell Davies - Farewell to Stromness

Enjoy.

Max

 For those who enjoy the  music of <b>Peter Maxwell Davies</b> or new to his work should look out for this compilation &quot;Maximum Max&quot; which I found today (Saturday) for a quid in a charity shop!

Peter Maxwell Davies - Farewell To Stromness

 

 

""Farewell to Stromness," Peter Maxwell Davies SD 480p" (Watch on YouTube)

Enjoy.

Good Morning

Modern Composition #2

Continuing on from that Wire article from 1988 -

Bela Barok - String Quartet No. 4

String quartet n°4 Sz.91, BB 93

I. Allegro 0:00
II. Prestissimo, con sordino 5:48
III. Non troppo lento 8:40
IV. Allegretto pizzicato 14:31
V. Allegro molto 17:29

The Juilliard String Quartet (Robert Mann - Isidore Cohen - Raphael Hillyer - Claus Adam)
Studio recording, New York, 15 & 16.V.1963


Anthony Braxton with Robert Schumann String Quartet

A1 Anthony Braxton With Robert Schumann Quartet - 8KN - (B-12) | R10
A2 Anthony Braxton - AOTH MBA H
A3 Anthony Braxton - (448-R) | C-234

B1 Robert Schumann Quartet - 8KN - (B-12) | R10
B2 Anthony Braxton - KSZMK PQ EGN
B3 Anthony Braxton - SOVA NOUB V-(AO)
B4 Anthony Braxton - RORRT 33H7T 4
B5 Anthony Braxton - NATK TD-(B)

Anthony Braxton - Alto Saxophone (tracks: A1 to A3, B2 to B5)
Robert Schumann Quartet:
Wolfgang Mehlhorn - Cello
Jürgen Weber - Viola
Chiharu Yuuki - Violin
Michael Geiser - Violin

Composed By – Anthony Braxton
Cover – A. Braxton
Design – Margit Lämmle

Recorded live at radio concert of Western Germany Radio Network in Köln (W.-Germany) on November 10, 1979, by WDR.


Duke Ellington - Blues For New Orleans

From the album "New Orleans Suite" (CBS)

Enjoy.

Modern Composition #3

Continuing from that article in Wire -

Aaron Copland - Clarinet Concerto

Awesome concerto btw.

Aaron Copland's "Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (with Harp and Piano)" performed by Benny Goodman (clarinet) and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Aaron Copland.

Witold Lutoslawski - Symphony no. 3

Berliner Philharmoniker,
Conducting: Wltold Lutoslawski,
November, 1985.


Oivier Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony: 1. Introduction

François Bayle - Espaces inhabitables (1966)

I. Jardins de rien 00:00
II. Géophonie 2:58
III. Hommage à Robur 5:36
IV. Le bleu du ciel 10:57
V. Amertumes 13:23

This concrete piece in five movements, goes way further in a direction usually neglected by the musicians:

The effect of sound. Effect of meaning, effect of truth, disturbing and inexpressible evidence of the musical that occurs.

The inductive power of electroacoustic sounds would help to narrow the obscure networks of perception and intuition into an intense and unique exercise.

A new logic would be woven by the bond of memory attached to natural sound objects. But also by the morphology of manipulated sounds, whose acoustic tracing speaks in a plastic language, with fluid values.
Thus the movements «Jardins de rien» and «Le bleu du Ciel» draw the shapes of an imagined world (an interval between the metaphor of objects and the metonymy of desires, as psychoanalysis, shows after linguistics).

«Géophonie» , «Hommage à Robur» and «Amertumes» evoke the brilliance and the shadow of a kind of Jules Verne, precursor also in surrealism. (François BAYLE).


Enjoy.

In Canterbury

In Canterbury doing a couple of sandwich shops, a charity shop, a furniture shop and a supermarket. So quite a busy day and so far a nice sunny dry day.

Well, I better crack on. Done two with three to go.