What are you listening to now?

[Enrique]

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, prelude. In an interview shortly before his death, Verdi said that he stood in wonder and terror before the Tristan. Who would expect that Verdi could think so about one of Wagner's operas?

[Sorrano]

Tristan certainly points to new ground with an expanded harmonic concept. I caught the prelude on the radio the other day and it is like nothing else that Wagner had composed to that point.

[Enrique]

Yes, the Tristan leads to atonalism and the second Viennese school.

[Sorrano]

Anyone familiar with the music of Domenico Cimarosa? I hear his concerti often on the radio, but his music all sounds the same to me. I'm not sure if I hear versions of the same work for different sets of instruments or if his style was severely limited.

[Peter]

Anyone familiar with the music of Domenico Cimarosa? I hear his concerti often on the radio, but his music all sounds the same to me. I'm not sure if I hear versions of the same work for different sets of instruments or if his style was severely limited.

No not familiar with his music - wasn't the same comment said about Vivaldi?!!

[Sorrano]

No not familiar with his music - wasn't the same comment said about Vivaldi?!!

Vivaldi does have a very recognizable style, indeed, but what I am hearing on the radio sounds like a rehashing of the exact same work with very little variance. It may be that one concerto got arranged for other instruments, like a trumpet instead of an oboe. This morning I heard about one measure of the flute solo and knew who had composed it. It's also odd to me that the radio station plays this quite often during the same time period of the day.

[Enrique]

Ligeti, Lux Aeterna.

[Sorrano]

Ligeti, Lux Aeterna.

I haven't listened to that for a long time. My first experience with Ligeti was Lontano, which remains my favorite of his works.

[Enrique]

Ligeti, Lontano.

Stupendous. I made my aquaintance with Ligeti seeing Stanley Kubrick's 2001, a Space Odisey.

[Quijote]

Ligeti, Lontano.
Stupendous. I made my aquaintance with Ligeti seeing Stanley Kubrick's 2001, a Space Odisey.

That film was also my first introduction to the music of Ligeti, and have been a fan ever since!

[Quijote]

Compared to Boulez and Stockhausen, I have always found Ligeti to be less restricted by musical ideologies, a more free-thinking composer.

[Quijote]

Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and its ‘sing-speech’
‘How do you sound like a sickly moon or a gigantic black butterfly?’

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...h-claire-booth

Listening to this now as inspired to do so reading this Guardian newspaper article. It's been a very long time since I last listened to this work.

[Quijote]

Ligeti, Lontano.

Stupendous. I made my aquaintance with Ligeti seeing Stanley Kubrick's 2001, a Space Odisey.

[Quijote]

Ligeti, Lux Aeterna.

Problem is at such a slow tempo it's really hard to follow the rhythms. Still, magnificent "cathedral" sonorities!
It's almost like Perotin transported to the 20th century. Love it!
Thanks for posting this, Enrique.

[Quijote]

By way of comparison: Perotin :Sederunt Principes