Slightly unrelated but whats the most beautiful piece youve heard this month or even this year And then whats the most relentless, driving piece youve heard this month
@@erwinschulhoff4464 Hey and thanks for the interesting and challenging question! It's not that easy to answer, but I'd say one of the most overwhelming and astonishing pieces I heard and discovered recently might have been Frank Bridge's piano sonata. I'm in awe about the depth and personality of that composition. Frank Bridge flew totally under my radar before, now I'm making myself familiar with his strong music. The most relentless and driving piece? Hmmm.... That has to be Alberto Ginasteras Cello Sonata, which I listened to just the day before yesterday. And what about you?
Note how the composer introduces the seven instruments step by step : first a solo clarinet, then a woodwind trio, than a moderate tutti. The fugue which follows has some contrapuntal typical features, but is not a fugue indeed. It is a "quasi fuga " ! It is interesting also to note athe at each movement g has a color of its own, due to the prominent instruments used.
Slightly unrelated but whats the most beautiful piece youve heard this month or even this year And then whats the most relentless, driving piece youve heard this month
I had a chance to hear the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet live, maybe around 2012 or so. It was one of the most impressive performances I’ve ever heard. I had never heard dynamics like that from a small group. Oboe, flute, horn, clarinet, bassoon… all of these instruments have different tendencies at different volumes in different registers. But when they got louder or softer, the ensemble remained perfectly balanced, as if an invisible hand was turning the master volume on the world’s best stereo system. This piece of music in the video is not particularly technically demanding. But as I heard the voices come out of the score, I was perplexed at how humbled I felt by the expression I felt. Until I dropped down the video notes and saw the performers. “Ah, Berlin…”
Koechlin seems fated only ever to have a few fans. He doesn't fit in anywhere. Not impressionist, not neo-classical, not post-tonal, yet he also has little to do with the jazz-age gaiety of Les Six.
Slightly unrelated but whats the most beautiful piece youve heard this month or even this year And then whats the most relentless, driving piece youve heard this month
From what I have heard of him, I'd say it's rather that he's partly all of these and then some more, while also managing to keep his own voice through his navigating between different aesthetics, regardless of trends and dogmas. He actually famously worked on several scores at once, which had quite often not much in common at first sight, starting a composition in one kind of aesthetic one day, the next day orchestrating a melody he wrote years before in another style entirely. Depending on the pieces, you'll find atonalism, polytonality, medieval-inspired monodies, Mozartian reminiscence, some Bach influence, touches "impressionnism" (he orchestrated Debussy's "Khamma" for instance), and so on. Concerning the Six, Milhaud has been recorded stating Koechlin's being forgotten was most certainly the greatest injustice of the century - I wonder how much Koechlin's experiments with polytonality impacted Milhaud's music.
Koechlin is such a special and unique composer, always very surprising and original.
Slightly unrelated but whats the most beautiful piece youve heard this month or even this year
And then whats the most relentless, driving piece youve heard this month
@@erwinschulhoff4464 Hey and thanks for the interesting and challenging question! It's not that easy to answer, but I'd say one of the most overwhelming and astonishing pieces I heard and discovered recently might have been Frank Bridge's piano sonata. I'm in awe about the depth and personality of that composition. Frank Bridge flew totally under my radar before, now I'm making myself familiar with his strong music.
The most relentless and driving piece? Hmmm.... That has to be Alberto Ginasteras Cello Sonata, which I listened to just the day before yesterday. And what about you?
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Koechlin was a master orchestrator, it is a shame that his 4 vol treatise on orchestration was never translated into English.
Very Nostalgic
So light & evocative! I hear traces of his 'Persian Hours', as well as hints of the future Poulenc.
Note how the composer introduces the seven instruments step by step : first a solo clarinet, then a woodwind trio, than a moderate tutti. The fugue which follows has some contrapuntal typical features, but is not a fugue indeed. It is a "quasi fuga " ! It is interesting also to note athe at each movement g has a color of its own, due to the prominent instruments used.
Slightly unrelated but whats the most beautiful piece youve heard this month or even this year
And then whats the most relentless, driving piece youve heard this month
I had a chance to hear the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet live, maybe around 2012 or so. It was one of the most impressive performances I’ve ever heard. I had never heard dynamics like that from a small group. Oboe, flute, horn, clarinet, bassoon… all of these instruments have different tendencies at different volumes in different registers. But when they got louder or softer, the ensemble remained perfectly balanced, as if an invisible hand was turning the master volume on the world’s best stereo system.
This piece of music in the video is not particularly technically demanding. But as I heard the voices come out of the score, I was perplexed at how humbled I felt by the expression I felt. Until I dropped down the video notes and saw the performers. “Ah, Berlin…”
Wonderful. Thanks for posting 👍🏽👍🏽
this is sublime and otherwordly
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Koechlin seems fated only ever to have a few fans. He doesn't fit in anywhere. Not impressionist, not neo-classical, not post-tonal, yet he also has little to do with the jazz-age gaiety of Les Six.
Slightly unrelated but whats the most beautiful piece youve heard this month or even this year
And then whats the most relentless, driving piece youve heard this month
From what I have heard of him, I'd say it's rather that he's partly all of these and then some more, while also managing to keep his own voice through his navigating between different aesthetics, regardless of trends and dogmas. He actually famously worked on several scores at once, which had quite often not much in common at first sight, starting a composition in one kind of aesthetic one day, the next day orchestrating a melody he wrote years before in another style entirely.
Depending on the pieces, you'll find atonalism, polytonality, medieval-inspired monodies, Mozartian reminiscence, some Bach influence, touches "impressionnism" (he orchestrated Debussy's "Khamma" for instance), and so on. Concerning the Six, Milhaud has been recorded stating Koechlin's being forgotten was most certainly the greatest injustice of the century - I wonder how much Koechlin's experiments with polytonality impacted Milhaud's music.