rautavaara sounds otherworldly
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- 'Melancholy' from Rautavaara's 'Cantus Arcticus', Concerto for Birds and Orchestra. It was published in 1972 and unconventionally, incorporates tape recordings of birdsong near the Arctic circle and in Finland. Check out the full performance: • Einojuhani Rautavaara ...
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If you liked this, check out his 7th Symphony, it's a masterpiece. His approach towards color and tonality and the usage of added note chords is fantastic. Also the music continues to flow no matter what, supporting the shift of colors. His influence on Finnish music is undeniable.
Completely agree, the third movement is particularly beautiful!
The best Finnish composer since Sibelius, without a doubt.
One of my absolute favourite composers. Thanks for this interesting analysis - never really noticed how he plays with chord spacings to create that unique sound.
Cantus Arcticus was the first piece of Rautavaara’s work that I listened to, and it captivated me from start to finish. I highly reccomend his first Piano Concerto as well if you’re looking for something harmonically masterful and unlike anything else!
Glad more people are looking at his works!
I love your bits of theory explanations; I’ve listened to this piece many times trying to figure out what on earth was happening. It’s a stunning piece of music; the end of the first movement is also sublime, when the clarinet brings back the opening motif and finally resolves on the major third.
Rautavaara and Scriabin are the best otherworldly composers!
Agreed, but I gotta vote Ravel in there too
Both inspired by mysticism/spirituality.
What about Jonathan Harvey
It's silly to debate who is the "best", but the name Sorabji belongs in your comment also.
@@kingconcerto5860 Sorabji has some neat harmonic and rhythmic ideas, but I feel like his forms are often lacking. Feels like a slog to get through a lot of his pieces, I’d rather listen to someone like Szymanowski or Rzewski for example, who let their ideas flourish under more interesting forms
were my ears playing tricks on me? I was looking up the score trying to figure out the bird-like passages until reading in the description real birds were tweeting...
I still have to dive further, but his Eighth Symphony and his First and Third Piano Concerti are truly extraordinary works.
Autumn Gardens is a thing of beauty too.
Fineeee ill watch this video for the thousandth time
One of the biggest influences on my music, and one of my favourite modern-ish composers
Wonderful video
Thanks for watching!
Tienes muy buen gusto eligiendo música que nos quieres mostrar y gracias a eso, estoy descubriendo compositores que merecen la pena y sin embargo, desconocía. Gracias.
yo, this concerto is fire, i love it sm 🔥
Rautavaara have many extraordinary works, but I can recommend his organ concerto Annuncitations. It is one of his lesser known works, but if you enjoy modern art music and organ. This is a piece for you!
wow this is amazing... thank you so much
This sounds amazing ❤
I’m glad you enjoyed!
Why did you upload only 2min? Where is all the rest?
Why it sounds so Sibelius? The fact that they are both from Finland?
I don't know if it was intentional by Rautavaara, but I've always thought that the 'Melancholy' movement of Cantus Arcticus is some kind of reference to the Swan of Tuonela. In Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela, the English horn and strings famously dominate to depict Hades. In 'Melancholy,' Rautavaara uses strings and a bird song that was originally very high-pitched, but he lowered it by a couple of octaves, resulting in a deep, ghostly bird sound. 'Melancholy' draws from a similar landscape as the Swan of Tuonela.
With the tape playing, this sounds like something from an old Hollywood intermission scene (where they pan over to the Arctic birds in Finland or something)
The Myth of Sampo is my favorite work of his. This one is nice too though.
I play jazz and classical piano. I never really listened to non piano classical music much. This shi cool
Rautavaara is the only modern composer I like. Unfortunately his work doesn't seem to influence others; if so, maybe contemporary classical music wouldn't be so lost in the woods like it is now.
Idk I feel like contemporary classical is filled with tons of recent masterpieces. Try listening to Kaija Saariaho or Andrew Norman
Sample the concert works of Alan Hovhaness (Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain"), William Alwyn (Symphony No. 3), Robert Simpson (Symphony No. 9), and Michael Torke (Color Music).
I hope I can find a version without a tape track. It's like somebody is constantly wiping window glass. I can't truly get into the great music.
Considering that the tape track is a core part of the piece, probably not.
i think they are seaguls
@@camberrit’s a concerto for birds and orchestra
Concerto for window glass and orchestra
tape is SO important. it works very effectively at the start of the third movement, the texture with the wind scales is incredible
Sounds like my first try after purchasing Hollywood Orchestra Strings plugin
seagulls?
Yes.
@@f.scottwalters7349 That's what makes it sound otherworldly. Not the music. This is not a patch on the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" which has beautiful music as well as seagulls.
@@KeenBulldozer "Tomorrow Never Knows" relies on one mode for the entire duration of the song (not to say that it isn't beautiful).This music sounds otherworldly because of the way it utilises modes, add harmonies and polytonality *in conjunction* with the tape recording. Not sure how a stand-alone recording of seagulls can make it sound otherworldly.
@@joshua_warner Thank you
Apparently they are horned larks in this movement. It would be unlikely for there to be seagulls on the tape track.
Rautavaara is the shit