Innovative Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho dead at 70 from cancer. I've been a fan of her music for the past decade. Very sad news.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/a...iaho-dead.html
Innovative Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho dead at 70 from cancer. I've been a fan of her music for the past decade. Very sad news.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/a...iaho-dead.html
Originally Posted by StarThrower
Found this in the orbitary on the website of my newspaper. Interesting.
Great thread. I've always liked classical music, but it's been difficult to find things I like that I haven't heard.
I appreciate folks posting YouTube links, but if you can avoid posting videos where one must be a "Music Premium members" would be appreciated. Thanks!
Quick question... Are there certain sub-genres or keywords I can use to better find what I like? One filter I've never seen is tempo in a song.
RIP. I've heard and liked a few pieces of her's over the years.
Fairly new S4 with Nezet-Seguin...very very nice recording.
Classical, jazz, or?
Guillaume de Machaut
Francesco Landini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeWLspjiPvI
Today I added another Wim Mertens album to my collection. This time with a larger ensemble
Mozart clarinet concerto.Sounds to be a great performance
https://youtu.be/V5OGNi99MRs
A performance that should make it to this thread if hasn't already:
bach's t&f on (a suitable-sounding) electric guitar
https://youtu.be/rB7WKW7oEIY
Delius - Brigg Fair
https://youtu.be/ZJl5DHHcQ1M
A few posts back, saw Machaut, well I don't know about him but today coincidentally I was listening to several other medieval pieces, from other countries -- medieval music should have its own thread, didn't see one, and ain't starting one. Saw an Early Music thread but it instead wants re-interpretations into/by contemporary genres.
Among pieces posted here, if you're looking for lively/upbeat or calm ones, that are straightforwardly easy to listen to or relaxing, w/o things like dissonance incl 20th century mod/avant, or sound effectsy or wildly dynamic sonically etc, which are for another day, well I very briefly did some of such work but for only the last few pages of posts, between Page 60 (but only starting with some C. Shaw release) up thru now, and found these 14, fyi. A bunch are choral/religious so they fit the category easily and there are also other pieces. No idea about Nielsen (see: Hjortholm here) and Wertens but their pieces especially sounded interesting/suitable during the bits I heard.
CWU Chamber Choir
Hjortholm, by Nielsen
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Dies Or at - Gregorian Chant
Whitacre - Sleep
Arvo Part - da pacem domine
Zappa - oh no
Officium defuncturum
O Kerstnacht Schoner Dan De …
Bernard Lewkovitch - Requiem
De Machaut - Sacred and Secular Music
Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame
Wertens - Too good, too loose
Delius - Brigg Fair
For those who like Frank Zappa
Enjoyed that -- I don't know much Zappa -- I'll have to look to see if this is the same vibraphonist whose one great performance video was pointed to me a few years ago -- maybe it had even gone somewhat viral (not sure).
Turns out this piece was at the beginning of thread, will have to read that page
Great version of this Schubert piece Death and the Maiden
https://youtu.be/otdayisyIiM
One of those string quartets deemed worthy of orchestration. Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 being another.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
First part is like South American New Age.
Second part is like Frenchy like Satie.
Third part is like a Chopin player was asked to create from jazzy sheet music the hardware of a music box.
Fourth part, I'll save that for later.
All parts pleasantly enjoyable. Filing under relaxing. Good stuff.
I have no idea what South American New Age is but that Ravel piece was composed in 1917.
It's the opposite of South American Old Age, which is basically just old age.
I hadn't checked who wrote it and now I have even the year, ok great
A couple of decades ago when I still listened to New Age, I listened to the Music Choice New Age Channel. They'd often play New Age versions of Satie's 3 Gymnopédies, Debussy's Clair De Lune, et cetera.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
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