Pick of the Decade

[Lat-Literal]

Apologies for the scrappy Thread title - I wanted to make a clear differentiation with the H&N, "New Year, New Music Thread". Following from CallMePaul's nomination of Korvits' Moorland Elegies as a work written in the last ten years that has particularly earned his admiration, this Thread is open to all Forumistas. No need to confine yourself to just one - but perhaps keep lists to no longer than ten nominations.

Surely we can do better than the offerings of the Beeb presenters?

Ferney, I subsequently re-read your post and realise that I have gone way over ten. It might be best if you take my second post as my ten although it is the first list with which I am fully familiar. No especial surprises there. Having said as much, I realised later that I had another one in my collection by virtue of this - https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...no-trios-vol-1 - not that I had bought it specifically for Azevedo's "Hukvaldy Trio" which was written in 2013. Also, I was investigating Ned Rorem of whom I have three symphonies. He is 95 now and has certainly been composing in the last decade although I couldn't find anything recent on disc. Incidentally, I rather like the Tonu Korvits piece in the opening post.

[kindofblue]

I may have overstepped the mark on occasion here in terms of genre...

Lance Austin Olsen - Dark Heart
Mette Henriette - Trio; Ensemble
Birtwistle - Trio
Linda Catlin Smith - Piano Quintet
Bryn Harrison - Receiving the Approaching Memory
Jurg Frey - String Quartet No.3
Michael Pisaro - Fields Have Ears 4
Hans Abrahamsen - String Quartet No.4
The Necks - Open
Christian Wolff - Small Preludes

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ferney, I subsequently re-read your post and realise that I have gone way over ten. It might be best if you take my second post as my ten although it is the first list with which I am fully familiar.

I wouldn't worry about overdoing things, Lats - I like the idea of this Thread allowing Forumistas to demonstrate their belief that "Music from the Western Classical Traditions" is alive and kicking. If we can't "contain" ourselves, then this is vibrantly achieved,

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I may have overstepped the mark on occasion here in terms of genre...

Well, there's enough in your "understepped" choices to supply any "overlooking" (if anyone were to feel that such was needed).

(Incidentally, I was at at the UK premieres of three of the works on your list.)

[kindofblue]

Well, there's enough in your "understepped" choices to supply any "overlooking" (if anyone were to feel that such was needed).

(Incidentally, I was at at the UK premieres of three of the works on your list.)

Wow, this is fun! Let me guess... the Harrison, the Frey, and the Abrahansen..?!?! One of the joys of loving this kind of music is that you get to be present at more premieres than the typical concert goer. It's a magical feeling.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wow, this is fun! Let me guess... the Harrison, the Frey, and the Abrahansen..?!?! One of the joys of loving this kind of music is that you get to be present at more premieres than the typical concert goer. It's a magical feeling.

2/3 - Smith rather than Abrahansen!

[kindofblue]

2/3 - Smith rather than Abrahansen!

Well, as Meat Loaf might have said... [Although not a new music fan to my knowledge.]

[Bryn]

For starters:

Smith (Dave, not Linda Catlin, on this occasion): 10th Piano Concert
Barrett (not Roushanavan, on this occasion: close-up
Wolff (not Barrett, on this occasion): Resistance
Skempton: Piano Concerto
Cardew: Bun Number 1 (scraping in as it was the first london performance)

more to follow.

[Richard Barrett]

Skempton: Piano Concerto

That's a highly fascinating piece to be sure. Has it been performed since the premiere? (he wrote, hoping the answer would be "yes, and the performers stayed together much more precisely")

[Bryn]

That's a highly fascinating piece to be sure. Has it been performed since the premiere? (he wrote, hoping the answer would be "yes, and the performers stayed together much more precisely")

Regrettably, not. I have it on good authority that the recording was gently edited to try and correct some of the weaknesses in the performance, prior to broadcast. I had hoped it might get a Prom performance, but it was not to be.

[Lat-Literal]

I wouldn't worry about overdoing things, Lats - I like the idea of this Thread allowing Forumistas to demonstrate their belief that "Music from the Western Classical Traditions" is alive and kicking. If we can't "contain" ourselves, then this is vibrantly achieved,

Superbly finessed.

Sorry, RB and Bryn, yours were for the ongoing constructive discussion:

That's a highly fascinating piece to be sure. Has it been performed since the premiere? (he wrote, hoping the answer would be "yes, and the performers stayed together much more precisely")

Regrettably, not. I have it on good authority that the recording was gently edited to try and correct some of the weaknesses in the performance, prior to broadcast. I had hoped it might get a Prom performance, but it was not to be.

[Beef Oven!]

My first three:

David Matthews - Symphony No. 7, for large orchestra, Op. 109 (2009)

Richard Barrett - life-form - for cello and electronics (2012)

Michael Matthews -String Quartet no.3 (2008)


..................... to be continued

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Michael Matthews -String Quartet no.3 (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c7UY8e1b3A

[gurnemanz]

Skempton: Piano Concerto

Thanks for pointing to this... and what an amazing contribution John Tilbury has made over the decades. I first came across him in the early 70s when I was working in Germany. Someone asked me about him and I confessed to not knowing him. I did then find out.

[Beef Oven!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c7UY8e1b3A

I have that set of 2 & 3 on download. He's written a fourth quartet, but I don't know of a recording.