To Remember Those Who've Died...
...we honor their memory.
Almost 6 months prior to the writing of this entry, I wrote this. This entry is the promised continuation of that.
Here is another installment of the most brilliant and important musical works that we are fortunate enough to know today. I don't really have the time or energy at the moment to give blurbs about that many of them this time around though.
Beethoven - Violin Concerto, Op. 61 (1806) - The story goes that Beethoven did not finish the piece until the day Franz Clement premiered it.
Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844)
Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem (1873) - In honour of the poet Manzoni.
Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30 (1896)
Gustav Holst - The Planets (1916)
Bartok - 4th String Quartet (1928) - This work, along with the Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, exhibits the height of Bartok's formalized technique. The organizational structure and advancements in the new tonal framework are the subject of much discussion to this day. The counterpoint is unfathomably tight rivaling that of Scriabin in the 9th Piano Sonata.
Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms (1930) - When the BSO commissioned this work, they asked Igor for something in a "popular" style. Igor took out his english dictionary and looked up "popular" where he found "of the people." To him, religion was of the people. This work could never be mistaken for pop music. It is an extremely heavy work whose strange orchestration indicative of Stravinsky and second movement double fugue make it unforgettable.
Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936)
Toru Takemitsu - Requiem for String Orchestra (1957)
Tomiko Kojiba - Hiroshima Requiem (date of composition unknown to me) - It saddens me greatly to know that I was in Seattle when this was performed and I missed it. On May 19th, 2001, what was I doing? I was drinking 105 on at Matt and Terry's soon-to-be-mine-at-the-time apartment...ripping the hole in my stomach after blacking out.
György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna (1966) - Ligeti redefines the sonic paradigm for chorus.
Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No.3 for two violins, harpsichord, celesta, piano and 14 strings in five movements, Op. 188 (1985)
Wolfgang Rihm - String Quartet No.8 (Achtes Streichquartett) (1988)
Ligeti - Violin Concerto (1992) - This work changed the way I thought about microtonality.
Luciano Berio - Chemin IV (1975/2000)
Oliver Knussen - Violin Concerto, Op.30 (2002)
Rest assured that there is much more to come.
Almost 6 months prior to the writing of this entry, I wrote this. This entry is the promised continuation of that.
Here is another installment of the most brilliant and important musical works that we are fortunate enough to know today. I don't really have the time or energy at the moment to give blurbs about that many of them this time around though.
Beethoven - Violin Concerto, Op. 61 (1806) - The story goes that Beethoven did not finish the piece until the day Franz Clement premiered it.
Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844)
Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem (1873) - In honour of the poet Manzoni.
Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30 (1896)
Gustav Holst - The Planets (1916)
Bartok - 4th String Quartet (1928) - This work, along with the Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion, exhibits the height of Bartok's formalized technique. The organizational structure and advancements in the new tonal framework are the subject of much discussion to this day. The counterpoint is unfathomably tight rivaling that of Scriabin in the 9th Piano Sonata.
Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms (1930) - When the BSO commissioned this work, they asked Igor for something in a "popular" style. Igor took out his english dictionary and looked up "popular" where he found "of the people." To him, religion was of the people. This work could never be mistaken for pop music. It is an extremely heavy work whose strange orchestration indicative of Stravinsky and second movement double fugue make it unforgettable.
Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936)
Toru Takemitsu - Requiem for String Orchestra (1957)
Tomiko Kojiba - Hiroshima Requiem (date of composition unknown to me) - It saddens me greatly to know that I was in Seattle when this was performed and I missed it. On May 19th, 2001, what was I doing? I was drinking 105 on at Matt and Terry's soon-to-be-mine-at-the-time apartment...ripping the hole in my stomach after blacking out.
György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna (1966) - Ligeti redefines the sonic paradigm for chorus.
Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No.3 for two violins, harpsichord, celesta, piano and 14 strings in five movements, Op. 188 (1985)
Wolfgang Rihm - String Quartet No.8 (Achtes Streichquartett) (1988)
Ligeti - Violin Concerto (1992) - This work changed the way I thought about microtonality.
Luciano Berio - Chemin IV (1975/2000)
Oliver Knussen - Violin Concerto, Op.30 (2002)
Rest assured that there is much more to come.