Steve Reich: cannot go wrong with Music for 18 Musicians, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Six Pianos, Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards, Counterpoint (with Jan Garbarek), or Clapping.

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I can't believe nobody directed you here Gram.

Cheers!

rachael wrote:http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4026&highlight=capnrevers+discourse

I can't believe nobody directed you here Gram.

Cheers!

Aw shucks! How'd you end up so sweet!

Happy New Year to you...

a good intro to serial music might be schoenberg's piano concerto op. 42 conducted by boulez. it's a great piece and quite accessible. the cd also has a few small serial works by webern and one by berg.

check out the cd w/ the jeanne deroubaix version of boulez's great le marteau sans maitre, recorded in 1964 along w/ messiaen's sept haikai (boulez conducting). messiaen is one of my favorite composers and i recommend that 'un along with the turangalila symphonie. his quartet for the end of time is also a favorite of many.

for elliott carter i recommend the insane double concerto for harpsichord and orchestra. also his string quartets

varese: my favorites are "deserts" and "ameriques". you can get a double cd that has almost all of his compositions. the robert craft 2xLP from the 70s is pretty easy to find.

for ives i recommend symphony number 4, though i haven't heard everything by ives and i have liked everything i've heard!

also check out stravinsky's les noces in addition to the obvious and justly famous ones

hope this helps

i don't know much about ravel but i love his introduction and allegro for harp, strings, flute, and clarinet

i'll never forget the first time i heard it

Gramsci wrote:I'm interested in getting into modernist composers. I've been listening to Stravinky and Shostakovich for a few years but want to get in a little deeper.

Philip Glass, Steve Reich etc...?

I'm sure one of you geeks* is into this stuff.

Any "Primer" advice would be well appreciated.

got a long list for ya, just took a course on this stuff....


varese
john cage
cowell
luc ferrari
schaeffer
xenakis
stockhausen
alice shields
milton babbitt
davidovsky
ussachevsky
subotnick
chowning
truax
charles dodge
TRISTAN MURAIL.... spectral music!!!!
harvey
bayle
normandeau
parmerud
boulez
trueman
lewis
luening

Hey, they're playing that Shostakovich chap's stuff here in a few days, is it worth going along to see?

Well, obviously you lot think so but how about for someone who has never expressed any interest in this kind of music before but would like to hear some live music next week?

http://www.necgroup.co.uk/visitor/whats ... so0506&p=1

aaron wrote:a good intro to serial music might be schoenberg's piano concerto op. 42 conducted by boulez. it's a great piece and quite accessible.

Definitskly. That's a cantabile theme for sure. Reminds me... don't ignore the probably even more accessible Berg Violin Concerto, which uses some serial techniques to very euphonic results. Somehow I doubt that Berg was applying the rules as strictly as Webern.

Cranius wrote:Here is a mp3 program about him: Colin McPhee

Is this the same McPhee program that was on R4 a few days ago? If not then here's a link to that one.

I'd recomend (as a starting point) Webern (not much music to wade through), Reich's 'Different Trains', John Adams 'Shaker Loops' and Peteris Vask's 'String Quartet No. 4'.

For starters, obviously.

Champion Rabbit wrote:

Cranius wrote:Here is a mp3 program about him: Colin McPhee

Is this the same McPhee program that was on R4 a few days ago? If not then here's a link to that one.

Yes, that's where I heard about him. It made my bathtime enjoyable.

I think I'll listen to it again, because I missed the first half.