Sickening Classical Music? - Page 3

Geryon · 07-22-2004, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roivas

Just get everything you can by Schnittke
Any Shostakovich string quartet after the giddy No.3 should do. Nos.4-15.

Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No.1 / get his string quartets as well (I have the Kronos Quartet's recording on Nonesuch...I'm happy with it)

Another composer...sort of in the same vein: Sofia Gubaidulina: a good example of one of her darker pieces is Sieben Worte für Violoncello, Bajan und Streicher

If you want over-the-top, try Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Penderecki (it's a study in tone clusters, but it wouldn't have been so famous if it was named that!) The Naxos recording is good...and cheap.

One of the ultimate black pieces is Shostakovich's 8th Symphony (get the one conducted by Haitink).

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima is precisely the type of stuff i am looking for. Everything else you guys have suggested was great too.

Geryon · 07-30-2004, 04:58 PM

Can anyone send me The Witch Hunter By Shinjuku THief please? I had a few of the tracks but accidentilly got rid of them. Can someone send it to me via e-mail, AIM, MSN, or Yahoo?

Cage Fanatic · 08-10-2004, 02:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roivas

Just get everything you can by Schnittke

If you want over-the-top, try Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Penderecki (it's a study in tone clusters, but it wouldn't have been so famous if it was named that!) The Naxos recording is good...and cheap.
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A friend of mine introduced me to Penderecki's Threnody last spring. That very recording, in fact.

I recommend
Prokofiev: Scythian Suite

Luigi Nono:
A Floresta e Jovem e Cheja de Vida*
(for soprano, three reciters, B-flat clarinet, copper plates, and 8-channel tape)
Guia ai Gelidi Mostri
(for flute, clarinet, tuba, two contraltos, viola, cello, double-bass, and live electronics)

More easily available on
Mode Records
http://www.mode.com
cat. no. 87

Salvatore Martirano: L's G.A. (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address)
"for gassed-masked politico, helium bomb, and two channel tape recorder"
(from CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22--A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-1992 on Centaur Records, http://www.centaurrecords.com)

Roivas · 08-10-2004, 09:55 AM

Cage, Can you help me with a Nono piece?...I can't figure out what it is. I think it's "about" Vietnam. Pretty sure it's all tape. I heard it on DG.

(This piece is damn creepy, too)

Cage Fanatic · 08-12-2004, 04:38 AM

You're probably thinking of "Contrappunto dialettico alla mente" (1968), which used the words of Malcolm X and an anti-Vietnam war pamphlet.

ALSO

The one I just mentioned, "A Floresta e Jovem e Cheja de Vida" (The Forest is Young and Full of Life) (1966) is dedicated to the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam. The texts are excerpts from leftist leaders, writers, and students as well as a certain guerilla soldier in Angola, who said, "They cannot burn the forest because it is young and full of life."
(Nono, Mode Records, cat. no. 87)

I don't yet have recording of "Contrappunto dialettico alla mente," but I'm definitely going to get it. It's readily available on a CD from Deutsche Grammaphone.

As for "sickening," I'd say intense, shrill at times, not sickening...unless you're a fascist.

emptyingplace · 10-08-2005, 10:24 PM

Rachmaninov - isle of the dead
xenakis - shaar
mussorgsky - night on bald mountain (der)

godspeed you black emperor! is not classical. heh.