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Classical Contemporary Music Thread
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Gramophone had a behind the scenes rehearsal video from the Alban Berg Lulu section of this album and I watched it at least ten times while it was still online.
Barbara Hannigan has also got a some interesting -Mozart arias online over at the GSO LIVE site. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra which are good.
She is a very fascinating singer /Conductor.
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David Bruce's The Shadow of the Blackbird, world premier May 2011
James Matheson’s Windows, world premier May 2017 on this album
Bruce Levingston: Windows, Sono Luminus, DXD 352.8kHz 24 bit
Playing and engineering at a high standard
James Matheson’s Windows, world premier May 2017 on this album
Bruce Levingston: Windows, Sono Luminus, DXD 352.8kHz 24 bit
Playing and engineering at a high standard
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A question, is this the Chandos recording?
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i am sorry i dont know. i just did copy and paste from youtube...A question, is this the Chandos recording?
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OK ,thanks anyway for turning my attention to a work I had not played for years.i am sorry i dont know. i just did copy and paste from youtube...
I have a double SACD set from Chandos of a live concert recording that I have now listened to a couple of times again after hearing the first few bars on your posted version.
Imho it is a somewhat old-fashioned work that I would not really count as contemporary from a musical point of view. Yes it was composed in the 1930s, but the music looks more back in time than forward.
Schmidt was a conservative contemporary of both Mahler and Schönberg, Alban Berg and Webern who composed more modern contemporary music than both his symphony and this work.
Hearing it again was a bit like listening to a later version of Brahm's Ein Deutsches Reguiem or Elgar's The Dream of Geronthius.
Nice tunes and some good climaxes here and there, and the live Chandos recording is good and very realistic, but since I am not a Christian I found the religious declamation of it all a bit boring at times.
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https://www.discogs.com/Boulez-Stra...rchestra-Ensemble-Interconte/release/10221611
Seriously amazing collection. I downloaded a set of FLAC off Primephonic for a reasonable price strictly for Stravinsky and Messiaen.
This is what I have on now
Seriously amazing collection. I downloaded a set of FLAC off Primephonic for a reasonable price strictly for Stravinsky and Messiaen.
This is what I have on now
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The ICE recording of this piece is much better, especially fidelity wise:
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Unfortunately, IMO the youtube versions I`ve seen of the Synchronisms miss a lot of the intricacies and fidelity of the sound worlds of the electronics. I`b be curious to see them live to see how the parts get along in a performance.
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Not really in direct response to the previous post. But Prom 33 starts with a very interesting contemporary work by Thea Musgrave composed in 1998 when she was 70!
The main work of this concert is Brahms's Ein Deutshes Requiem which I still haven't listened to, but Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising as curtain riser is quite something!
I have already replayed it 5 times since it was broadcast.
And also via my Qutest DAC and Benchmark headphone amp and HEKV2 or Sennhesier HD800, surprisingly well recorded by the BBC RADIO 3 team imo.
Prom 33: Brahms's A German Requiem
BBC Proms, 2018
Cheers Christer
The main work of this concert is Brahms's Ein Deutshes Requiem which I still haven't listened to, but Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising as curtain riser is quite something!
I have already replayed it 5 times since it was broadcast.
And also via my Qutest DAC and Benchmark headphone amp and HEKV2 or Sennhesier HD800, surprisingly well recorded by the BBC RADIO 3 team imo.
Prom 33: Brahms's A German Requiem
BBC Proms, 2018
Cheers Christer
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His symphonies are also worth hearing.
Neeme Järvi recorded them for BIS while he was the chief conductor of the GSO in Sweden.
I still sometimes play the LPs.
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