Works you would love to hear performed live.

[Thropplenoggin]

Some Bruckner symphonies. I have my eye on those that are being performed at the Barbican this year:

No. 8 - LSO/Fabio Luisi http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/eve...l.asp?ID=14581
No. 4 - Royal Concertgebouw/Jansons http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/eve...l.asp?ID=14429
No. 7 - Royal Concertgebouw/Jansons http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/eve...l.asp?ID=14430

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... anything by Rafael Cendo.

A name new to me, Beresford: a trip to youTube revealed works of a truly astonishing erythrocytic power - not for the faint-hearted. I, too, would very much love to hear this Music in concert. Many thanks

[Thropplenoggin]

A name new to me, Beresford: a trip to youTube revealed works of a truly astonishing erythrocytic power - not for the faint-hearted. I, too, would very much love to hear this Music in concert. Many thanks

I like it when people force me to look up new words. It doesn't happen often. I take it you're using this biological term to mean 'red-blooded' here. It's a brave usage. Perhaps even pioneering. You'll make a poet of yourself yet, FHG.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I like it when people force me to look up new words. It doesn't happen often. I take it you're using this biological term to mean 'red-blooded' here. It's a brave usage. Perhaps even pioneering. You'll make a poet of yourself yet, FHG.

Glad you like it, Thropple: I'd often thought that there should be a better antonym to "anaemic" than the rather prosaic "red-blooded", so I consulted a medical dictionary and thought "That'll do it!"

[Richard Barrett]

Sorry to be a party-pooper, but the mere existence on a forthcoming concert programme of most of the interesting works mentioned in this thread would be sufficient to ensure a sparsely populated hall.

There speaks someone who only goes to concerts in the UK! A recent orchestral concert I went to in the Berliner Konzerthaus consisted of Ferneyhough's Firecycle Beta, Jean-Pierre Guézec's Formes (a fascinating piece by a composer of massive potential who died too young) and Lachenmann's Air for solo percussion and orchestra, and the hall was full. I could say the same about numerous other equally adventurous programmes I've seen. If they aren't put on regularly, which they aren't in London any more, they become a drop in the ocean and aren't noticed. (When I first moved to London in 1977 I remember going to see Boulez conducting modern repertoire every couple of weeks!)

[EdgeleyRob]

any Miaskovsky symphony & Violin Concerto
any Vainberg Symphony

Also any piece of chamber music by either of the above.

[Zucchini]

El Nino

[Mattbod]

Monteverdi Vespers and the Praetorius Mass for Christmas Day in the same venue and with the same performers as the Paul McCriesh (sic?) Archiv disc at Roskilde Cathedral in Denmark.

Also any Bach Cantata at the Thomaskirche and sung by the Leipzig boys. I have heard them sing the Mass in B minor on tour here (in the incredibly dry "Anvil" in Basingstoke but it is a dream to hear them in that church: it must be very moving.

[Beresford]

Just noticed that there is a performance of a short Cendo piece at the Huddersfield Festval on 16th November 2013 at 2230, and it is down to be broadcast by R3.
Also on the programme is a composer called - dare I say it - Ferneyhough.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Also on the programme is a composer called - dare I say it - Ferneyhough.

Courage, mon brave!

[Beef Oven!]

Courage, mon brave!

Still struggling with that Ferneyhough CD I bought a while back. Currently palaying 'Les Froissements d'Ailes de Gabriel' as I type. The easiest work on the CD methinks.

On 'Terrain', it does seem like they are playing all the wrong notes, but in the right order

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

On 'Terrain', it does seem like they are playing all the wrong notes, but in the right order

- Well, you're halfway there, BeefO!

You might get on better with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCaOfEax8MM

... which has greater affinities with some of the other Music you've recently mentioned as having ticked boxes with you. Furious, exhilerating, energetic - and with one of the most sinister codas in Music (just when we think we've survived the fray, the real danger watches us from the shadows - this is Beowulf territory.)

[Beef Oven!]

- Well, you're halfway there, BeefO!

You might get on better with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCaOfEax8MM

... which has greater affinities with some of the other Music you've recently mentioned as having ticked boxes with you. Furious, exhilerating, energetic - and with one of the most sinister codas in Music (just when we think we've survived the fray, the real danger watches us from the shadows - this is Beowulf territory.)

Thanks ferney - I listened to this, this morning and really liked it

[Nick Armstrong]

1947

Aram Khachaturian’s 3rd Symphony subtitled ‘Symphony-Poem’ was written in commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution and includes an extra 15 trumpets and an organ. The work is rather notorious and the scoring is horribly cluttered and brash and ideas rather banal at times, despite a more relaxed central section.

Having spent a lot of the last week in the RFH (including marvelling at the pipework once again arrayed across the hall behind the orchestra), and then hearing the Khachaturian 3rd Symphony on COTW this afternoon, it struck me that I'd love to hear it live, in the RFH with the latter's organ going like the clappers... I rather enjoyed the piece on the radio, slightly contrary to Suffo's comments above - although it is cluttered and brash, that's for sure. I reckon the LPO (esp the unparalleled brass section at the moment) under Jurowski plus THAT organ in old Aram's 3rd would make for an unforgettable experience.

Laurie - having supper with Vladimir any time soon?

[Dave2002]

I have a vague recollection of having watched/listened to this earlier on this year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v1B-LoSGN0