Xenakis, Iannis

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes there is. https://www.col-legno.com/en/shop/20...is-anastenaria

And thanks from me too. This was well worth hearing: fascinating foretastes of later Messiaen, Serocki, Penderecki and Gorecki. I wonder if David Bedford had heard "Ais" when he composed his "Two Choruses on Poems of Kenneth Patchen" in 1963.

[RichardB]

I wonder if David Bedford had heard "Ais" when he composed his "Two Choruses on Poems of Kenneth Patchen" in 1963.

I doubt that, since Aïs was written in 1980. I'm reminded of being at a talk by Xenakis when someone asked him whether Metastaseis was influenced by Le marteau sans maître, to which he answered with characteristic terseness "when was Le marteau written?"

Although Xenakis withdrew the first two parts of Anastenaria after the third was finished, elements of that style do keep surfacing in his later work, particularly in his incidental music for Greek tragedies. What doesn't ever really return, on the other hand, are the serial framework and Fibonacci proportions of Le Sacrifice.

[silvestrione]

I doubt that, since Aïs was written in 1980. I'm reminded of being at a talk by Xenakis when someone asked him whether Metastaseis was influenced by Le marteau sans maître, to which he answered with characteristic terseness "when was Le marteau written?"

Although Xenakis withdrew the first two parts of Anastenaria after the third was finished, elements of that style do keep surfacing in his later work, particularly in his incidental music for Greek tragedies. What doesn't ever really return, on the other hand, are the serial framework and Fibonacci proportions of Le Sacrifice.

'Incidental music for Greek tragedies'? I'd be interested in that. Is it readily available?

[RichardB]

'Incidental music for Greek tragedies'? I'd be interested in that. Is it readily available?

He wrote music for the Oresteia, one chorus from each of Oedipus at Coionus and Helen, a more extended setting from Bacchae (one of his last works which was staged in London in the 1990s), and, in a related vein, music for Seneca's Medea. All of these have been recorded apart from the Bacchae.

[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_RISg3irID8&ab_channel=RogerWoodward

This is Woodward playing Mists. Does anyone know if it's from a commercial recording?

[Bryn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...=RogerWoodward

This is Woodward playing Mists. Does anyone know if it's from a commercial recording?

Not that I know of, but you could try asking him: http://www.rogerwoodward.com/index.php/contact/