Composers you recently have discovered
So in your recent classical listening experience, which composers have you recently discovered their music?
I have recently discovered
Scelsi
A few of his works are:
and
and of course other works.
Post some youtube videos of composers you have recently discovered!
The more one limits oneself - the more one frees himself - Igor Stravinsky
Scelsi is great
I recently heard Osvaldas Balakauskas a contemporary Lithuanian composer. He is kind of postmodern I suppose, I can hear baroque, late romantic and minimalism like influences I think. There's not a lot of his stuff out there but here's two.
Swiss late romantic composer Hans Huber.
More YouTube available here.
Und Morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen.....
Catoire. I recently downloaded an album of his work played by Hamelin.
Very enjoyable.
The last couple of composers whose works was hitherto unknown to me before a couple of impulse purchases were Humphrey Searle and Nikolai Roslavets. There isn't much available of either composer: Searle because of general apathy and neglect and Roslavets became he became a victim of the Soviet Union's damnatio memoriae policy due to his early Futurist tendencies - only recently have some of his suppressed or unheard works started to be realised from papers which had to be hidden for many years (and many other manuscripts/scores were confiscated and/or destroyed).
Alfredo Casella. I love his Symphony No. 2 in C minor. Some really dramatic and turbulent music throughout the work, and the whole culminates in a massive C major climax (with organ and bells) that doesn't quite reach the heights of Mahler 2, but comes pretty close.
"I like to think that oysters transcend national barriers" - Roger Waters
Eyvind Alnæs
"I wanted to make a caricature of romanticism. Perhaps it got the better of me. ”
—Maurice Ravel, on "Scarbo"
My two most recent discoveries were Josquin Desprez and Valentin Silvestrov.
"... as close to pleasing from start to finish as, say, the bulk of Beethoven's output after he ceased being encumbered with a sense of hearing ..." (J.D. Salinger, "Seymour: an Introduction")
Gabriel Faure: Amazing melodies (Après un rêve, le Papillon et La Fleur, ...)
Wagner and Bruckner. Got into Bruckners 4th and 9th, and Wagner's Tristan and Ring cycle.
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Kosenko - Recently heard his Passacaglia from the youtube suggestion, and was blown away:
Then there is Godowsky - Passacaglia on Schuberts Unfinished Symphony
I can't play Rachmaninoff etude.
Ivan Fedele--his Piano Concerto:
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George Perle.
Your closing key is not the same,
This gives the Masters pain;
But Hans Sachs draws a rule from this:
In Spring, it must be so! 'Tis plain!
"In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!" -Arnold Schoenberg
"I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not! But I’m sick and tired of being told that I am!" - Monty Python
I recently discovered a fresh appreciation for John Adams. The catalyst was hearing Harmonielehre live, which is not a work I recalled having listened to.
I have recently discovered Darius Milhaud which has been an exciting find for sure.
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