NEW MUSIC


Ligeti, Messiaen, Penderecki and so on.

There doesn't seem to be much by way of Neue Musik in the archived threads. Shall we get one going on this contemporary niche?

Comments/sugg'ns re literature, interpretations or just stuff from bookmark files etc. are all welcome. A first post will follow shortly.
agonanon

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Here are some websites with sample listening material that provide a nice introduction to - and focus on - specific composers:

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stockhausen-Verlag, media files

György Ligeti - Tonbeispiele (music samples)

Isang Yun - Uni Mozarteum Salzburg (samples, discourse) (German)
Bienvenue cher confrères!

To Flex' book rec'n --coming in at 1,376pp (!) in its 2003 edition-- I'll add, for general purposes here, any of C. Rosen's writings on music, especially the slim & succinct monograph of '75.

One of the questions that often arises with regard to "new music" is - Who do you mean? In any case here are a number of composers for the categories Atonality, Electronic Music, Integral Serialism, Just Intonation, Microtonal Intonation, Minimalism, The New York School and Twelve-Tone from Mozilla's Open Directory Project (ODP), dmoz.

A couple of links to general sites where some of their music can be heard will be posted later :=)
In the same vein as the first post -but generally (not restricted to the contemporary)- visit also

GMN.com, Classical Plus, Composers (Birtwistle, Lutoslawski, ...-astonishing site :0)

Naxos.com, CD Catalogue (Berg, Shostakovich,...)

Classical Music Archives, artists' index
Shubertmaniac,
I have not been partial to Glass fearing the jokes may not be entirely untrue, will have to investigate further... For her may I rec'd Messiaen's rhapsodically tranquil Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus? It comes with a guarantee of longevity ;-)

Mais enchanté toujours, cher Gregm!

Esteemed Albertporter, Zaikesman, I was not aware of Edgar Varèse and am now finding him congenial - thank you...

EV excerpts:
Integrales f. small orchestra and percussion
Ofrandes: Chanson de la haut f. soprano and chamber orchestra
Ofrandes: La croix du sud f. soprano and chamber orchestra
Density for flute

Por todos los Zappatistas, EV: The Idol of My Youth
Flex: I am very grateful for your kind recommendations and specificity. I feel very much that -certainly as regards contemporary classical- our musical tastes significantly overlap (but you are much further along). Thank you for the benefit of your knowledge. Rautavaara- wow!

(For anyone interested, some quicklinks to bkgrnd, etc after some of the above rec'ns & contribs to be posted later.)

Incidentally, among my favorites are also the Str Q of Shostakovich - + Kurtág's
Music for Strings... for choral work Ligeti... I lament that more chamber works like Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie N 2 Op.38 are not easy to find. I also like the compactness of Berg & Webern's shorter works (e.g. Berg's 3 Pieces for Orchestra). Reaching further back, even the understatement of some of Bach's Orgel-Büchlein seem an interesting precursor of minimalism.
Indeed, and I hope others will continue to post comments, etc. re new music on the board - but I have to go shopping now too...

Schubert's Sym N 8 - also known as "Die Unvollendete"/"Unfinished".
Neue Musik - an incomplete blog based on music mentions in this thread.