Xenakis, Iannis

[Lat-Literal]

This is a work of staggering genius IMV

Thank you.

Lat, it’s pretty much all Xenakis and like we’ve done with numerous threads in this new sub-forum, we could ask for the title to be updated. What do you think?

See Post 9.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Right - three Threads mainly concerned with Iannis, all merged into the new home.

Apologies for the delay - I was wondering who Al was.

[teamsaint]

Useful looking article by Tom Service here,

which is really a beginners guide.

Apologies if has been linked earlier in the thread.

[mahlerfan]

I've liked what I've heard of Xanakis' music and I've been eying this up.

Available as a Hi-Res (24/192) download for a reasonable price for 2.5 hours of music on Qobuz sublime.

Can some of the forum's Xenakis likers give me a steer as to whether this is a good buy for £20.59 or a good bye to hard earned cash?

Are these some of his best pieces?

I would very much appreciate a steer.

Thank you in anticipation......

[Bryn]

I've liked what I've heard of Xanakis' music and I've been eying this up.

Available as a Hi-Res (24/192) download for a reasonable price for 2.5 hours of music on Qobuz sublime.

Can some of the forum's Xenakis likers give me a steer as to whether this is a good buy for £20.59 or a good bye to hard earned cash?

Are these some of his best pieces?

I would very much appreciate a steer.

Thank you in anticipation......

Good heavens! 192/24. I must import.

[mahlerfan]

Goos heaves! 192/24. I must import.

Yes, I did. But I can't let go of 'ownership'

[Bryn]

Yes, I did. But I can't let go of 'ownership'

As John Cage, following Bucky Fuller, put it "Getting rid of ownership, substituting use".

[mahlerfan]

As John Cage, following Bucky Fuller, put it *Getting rid of ownership, substituting use".

You gonna practice what you preach?

[Bryn]

You gonna practice what you preach?

In this and many other cases, yes.

[mahlerfan]

In this and many other cases, yes.

Those 'other cases' full of CDs and other collectables, or Cage's 'substitutes'?

I bet your loft is full of hard copy!!

[Mandryka]

I listened to Tetras the other day, it’s very fine music, I’d forgotten how nice it is.

[RichardB]

Are these some of his best pieces?

I would very much appreciate a steer.

These pieces are all from the 1960s and recorded then or soon afterwards. Some of them have been released in better performances and/or recordings since then. They are all essential Xenakis though, and classic recordings. Syrmos and Polytope de Montréal are explorations of massed sound textures (for strings and for 4 orchestras respectively). Kraanerg was written as a ballet and is Xenakis's longest composition, using a chamber orchestra combined in various ways with prerecorded and electronically transformed orchestral sounds. Medea and Oresteia consist of choruses and incidental music for classical dramas (by Seneca and Aeschylus respectively) and are accordingly written in a more "archaic" style than the other works. Are they some of his best pieces? Certainly.

[mahlerfan]

These pieces are all from the 1960s and recorded then or soon afterwards. Some of them have been released in better performances and/or recordings since then. They are all essential Xenakis though, and classic recordings. Syrmos and Polytope de Montréal are explorations of massed sound textures (for strings and for 4 orchestras respectively). Kraanerg was written as a ballet and is Xenakis's longest composition, using a chamber orchestra combined in various ways with prerecorded and electronically transformed orchestral sounds. Medea and Oresteia consist of choruses and incidental music for classical dramas (by Seneca and Aeschylus respectively) and are accordingly written in a more "archaic" style than the other works. Are they some of his best pieces? Certainly.

Thank you for this.

I feel, on balance, that I'd do well to acquire these recordings and take it from there.

[RichardB]

I feel, on balance, that I'd do well to acquire these recordings and take it from there.

I don't think you'll be disappointed. These are some of the pieces that put Xenakis on the map, despite disapproval by the official "avant-garde" in general and Pierre Boulez in particular.

[Mandryka]

I listened to some Xenakis recently -- Tetras. I'd forgotten how wonderful it is!

I went back to it because I read a review of a quartet concert with some Parra and Xenakis, and some Cage I think. The reviewer, who spent most time talking about the Parra, said at the end that the most memorable and striking thing in the concert was Tetras. I'm nor surprised!