Ohana, Maurice

[Mandryka]

I'm really enjoying the piano music - recordings by Prodromos Symeonidis - etudes and preludes especially. I would say that he's as original and as seductive a voice in piano music as Debussy and Stockhausen and Sciarrino.

Any suggestions for other good things by him?

[HighlandDougie]

I have a couple of CDs: Timpani 1C1044 - Tombeau de Claude Debussy; Silenciaire; Chiffres de Clavecin - and Timpani 1C1039 - Concerto pour Violoncelle; T'Harân-Ngô; Concerto pour Piano - both with the indefatigable Arturo Tamayo and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. I can't say that I've listened to them often but I would recommend them, especially the first of them. I also have the Prodromos Symeonidis piano disc.

[teamsaint]

When I listened to his music on The Avant Garde Project, the work that I recall enjoying the most was the Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra.

http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/AvantGardeProject/agp78/index.html

I’ll have another listen tonight to some of the other works.
The music on the two installments is all I have heard so will try to have a listen to the piano music that you are enjoying.

[oliver sudden]

There is a superb disc of his guitar music played by Stephan Schmidt on Montaigne. A fair bit of it for 10-string, if I remember right.

On the strength of that I have impulse-bought a few Ohana LPs over the years but alas listening time for them failed to eventuate before the twins came along, so it might be another couple of years before I manage a proper investigation…

[Mandryka]

There is a superb disc of his guitar music played by Stephan Schmidt on Montaigne. A fair bit of it for 10-string, if I remember right.

On the strength of that I have impulse-bought a few Ohana LPs over the years but alas listening time for them failed to eventuate before the twins came along, so it might be another couple of years before I manage a proper investigation…

Listening now to the wonderful Si le jour paraît. Alberto Ponce, not Stephan Schmidt (I think the Ponce performance sounds better.) I'd actually forgotten that I found this music a few years ago!

[oliver sudden]

Stumbled on a clip of Ponce playing:

https://youtu.be/bZLG6otwfvI?feature=shared