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Adventures in Fourths: Music of Debussy, Bartók, and Gershwin
The Greek name for the interval of the perfect fourth was diatessaron. Translating as “across four,” it is a word which brings to mind Pythagorean harmonic ratios. Wide open sonorities that suggest neither major nor minor, perfect fourths and fifths became prevalent in the early medieval polyphony of composers such as Léonin and Pérotin. In the piano pieces below, we hear twentieth century composers exploiting the perfect fourth for purely expressive reasons. Here are three ...
2020-12-03 07:36:02
Bristol Brass Consort This year's round up of discs for Christmas and Advent proved to be quite an eclectic mix. There are carols of course, traditional, modern and everything in between, but we also visit 17th century Puebla with its lively villancicos (showing that nuns singing with guitars in church was certainly not a new phenomenon) and skip back 800 years for a programme of medieval carols with readings. Contemporary music features quite strongly, with at least one disc featuring exclusively contemporary composers. Also featured rather too strongly is Britten's A Ceremony of Carols in various different combinations of forces. Alongside discs from Christmas regulars, it is nice to see other choirs such as Clifton Cathedral Choir, and the choir of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Perhaps the most surprising disc is a large scale work for male voice choir, children's choir and orchestra by a Georgian composer, […]
2020-01-20 01:00:00
Steve Reich - Nonesuch recordings 1965-1995
In the afterglow of his 60th birthday in 1997, Nonesuch Records delivered Steve Reich and his listeners an immense gift, this 10-CD retrospective of his work for the label, extending from his earliest tape-manipulation pieces to his most recent compositions utilizing samplers and the video artistry of Beryl Korot. Aside from the ear's liquid sense-making when it hears the dense and limber marimbas of Reich's Six Marimbas or his taut, dizzying Piano Phase, there is a physical response almost inevitable in Reich's music. It stuns and holds you. And he knows it. It's Gonna Rain struck an early chord of inventiveness, featuring an African American Pentecostal preacher's sermon and eventually spinning the title phrase into a jangling repetition of single words. Percussion works abound here: Clapping and Drumming stun with their deceptive similarity […]
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2019-12-31 17:29:09
Steve Reich’s list of the 5 greatest composers
In my latest BBC Music Magazine, several composers submitted lists for their top 5 all-time best composers. The most eclectic list, IMO, was from OG minimalist Steve Reich: 1.) Perotin 2.) Bach 3.) Stravinsky 4.) Bartok 5.) John Coltrane (!) I love how he goes all the way back to Perotin, whose work predates tonality, …
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