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2021-11-08 07:00:44
Mario Lavista, one of the most acclaimed Mexican composers of his generation, passed away last Thursday at the age of 78. Born in Mexico City, Lavista studied with Carlos Chávez, Héctor Quintanar, and Rodolfo Halffter at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. In the 1960s, he went on to study in Paris with Henri Pousseur, Nadia Boulanger, Christoph Caskel, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1970, he founded Quanta improvisation, an ensemble dedicated to spontaneous ...
2021-08-06 06:51:07
Last Song: two Icelandic performers in an appealing programme mixing contemporary Icelandic music with older masters
[…] of avoiding sentimentality. Sveinbjarnardóttir brings a directness to her violin tone that is almost period at times, yet she never plays period-style all the music is integrated into her and Þorsteinsdóttir's singular vision. We begin with an atmospheric prelude which the performers have arranged from Louis Couperin, leading to Three Marian Prayers by Atli Heimir Sveinsson (1938-2019) whom Sveinbjarnardóttir describes as a mentor and friend. His studies included Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, and Frederic Rzewski, and attendance at Darmstadt summer courses. The three prayers originally set Icelandic texts, one by Sveinbjarnardóttir's grandmother, and Sveinbjarnardóttir performed them with Sveinsson. Each hints at a sort of religious chant or perhaps hymn, yet with lyricism and a feeling of the violinist elaborating over a basic melody. Despite some flowing tempi, the overall feel is melancholy. After a lovely account of Fritz Kreisler's arrangement of the Dance of the […]
2021-05-24 13:42:33
[…] Rosbaud, who was too unwell to show up; Boulez took the baton each time without fanfare or mention in the program. I shall never forget the first concert with him listed as conductor, I think in the late fall of 1961, featuring a stunning piece by Berio for three orchestras and probably the swiftest rendition of Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie ever performed (perhaps owing to Boulez’s nerves). Nothing like the music of Berio, Boulez, Stockhausen, or Henri Pousseur had been heard in most of the US then. At the time some New York composers (and critics) disdained a good deal of whatever new was coming from Europe, and very little of the Boulez/Berio/Stockhausen triumvirate’s music had traveled far enough west to be heard in Seattle or San Francisco. It could be heard, however, in California by the early 1960s; Leonard Stein and I, several weeks apart, gave the first US performances of […]
2020-07-20 23:00:00
Prophets of the New - Maderna - Lucier - Boulez - Berio - Carter - Crumb - Xenakis
Bruno Maderna 1920-1973 (100 years of his birthday)Prophets of the NewKarlheinz Stockhausen: KontrapunkteKrzysztof Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of HiroshimaEarle Brown: Availables Forms IHenri Pousseur: Rimes pour differentes sources sonoresFrederic Rzewski pianoRoma Symphony OrchestraRecorded 1967Luciano Berio Sinfonia Allelujah II Nones Concerto for two pianos and orchestra New York Philharmonic London SO BBC SO The Swingle Singers Bruno Canino piano Antonio Ballista piano Luciano Berio Pierre Boulez Recorded 1968 Igor StravinskyLe Sacre du PrintempsClaude DebussyJeuxThe Cleveland OrchestraNew Philñharmonia OrchestraRecorded 1970Bülent Arel: Stereo Electronic Music No. 1 Halim El-Dabh: Leiyla And The Poet Vladimir Ussachevsky: Creation - Prologue Milton Babbitt: Composition For Synthesizer Mario Davidovsky: Electronic Study No. 1 Otto Luening: Gargoyles Milton Babbitt: Ensembles For Synthesizer The Little Chorus Of Macalester College Max Pollikoff violin Recorded 1964 Elliott CarterVariations for OrchestraDouble Concerto for harpischord and pianoPiano ConcertoCharles Rosen pianoPaul Jacobs harpischordJacob Lateiner pianoNew Philharmonia OrchestraEnglish Chamber OrchestraBoston SSymphony OrchestraFrederik PrausnitzErich […]
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