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The new erato

#40
February 08, 2009, 12:33:11 AM
Quote from: some guy on January 27, 2009, 07:53:07 PM
Bulldog, you're the best; I love eating dinner!

SonicMan, those women are most certainly not obscure. Well, OK, some of them are. But they shouldn't be, that's my point!

And I did list all of them from right off the top of my head, but forgetting the one I had just met in Vilnius last October, Gráinne Mulvey. Wow, that's some high-powered orchestral music there. And such a great person, too. So regardless, I am filled with shame.

Anyway, for your churlish suspicions, I invite you to dinner with Bulldog and me. My treat. If we're ever all three in Albuquerque at the same time, anyway. But you must be sheepish. Fair's fair! ;)
You forgot Maja Ratkje!

istanbul

#41
May 14, 2009, 03:23:54 AM
Helena Tulve - Lijnen
1 à travers
2 Lijnen
3 Öö
4 abysses
5 cendres
6 nec ros, nec pluvia...

NYYD Ensemble
Olari Elts
Arianna Savall voice
Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
Sven Westerberg soprano saxophone
Jörgen Pettersson alto saxophone
Leif Karlborg tenor saxophone
Per Hedlund baritone saxophone
Emmanuelle Ophèle-Gaubert flute
Mihkel Peäske flute
Silesian String Quartet
Szymon Krzeszowiec violin
Arkadiusz Kubica violin
Lukasz Syrnicki viola
Piotr Janosik violoncello
Recorded between November 1997 and June 2006
ECM New Series

Grazioso

#42
May 14, 2009, 04:47:23 AM Last Edit: May 14, 2009, 04:51:25 AM by Grazioso
Quote from: Ten thumbs on February 02, 2009, 05:07:22 AM
Two composers I haven't yet heard are Alice Mary Smith (2 symphonies) and the Swede, Elfrida Andrée. One I would like to hear more of is Emilie

Smith's Mendelssohnian works are definitely worth a listen:



I'll also put in a strong word for Boulanger, whose works are of very high quality and inventiveness, particularly her Psalm 130: From the Depths of the Abyss, a dark and utterly striking choral/orchestral work with a highly dramatic Late Romantic style:



I'll add to the voices praising Farrenc, as well. Check out her symphonies and piano quintets on CPO. And I see there's a new CPO disc of her chamber music to be released later this month.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

snyprrr

#43
May 14, 2009, 11:37:59 AM
Priaulx Rainier:

20th cent., South African...totally unique sound. Her SQ of 1939 is some of the most strangely beautiful music. Being cut off from the "tradition", her rhythms come from the natural world around her rather than Stravinsky or Bartok.

Roxanna Panufnik
Germaine Tailleferre
Eve Beglarian: the balloon lady... ::)

Finsterer
Neuwirth
Speach

There seems to be plenty of composerettes who can stand or fall based on the merits of their work. Why so much p.c.? God help the person who starts the black composers thread.

Diamanda Galas...oh,hohoho!!!

Ten thumbs

#44
May 15, 2009, 08:12:56 AM
About to investigate Elfrida Andrée, at least her string quartet. There ought to be recordings of her major organ works out there but possibly only in Sweden. She also wrote four symphonies. I will have to see whether or not she proves to be yet another female genius.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

jochanaan

#45
May 16, 2009, 02:25:34 PM
One name I haven't yet seen on this thread is Amy Beach, known in her lifetime as "Mrs. H.H.A. Beach."  I've heard her Piano Concerto, a big, fine, late-Romantic piece. :D

The Joan Tower pieces I've heard (over the radio) have been beautiful and challenging. 8)
Imagination + discipline = creativity

Ten thumbs

#46
May 17, 2009, 05:39:19 AM
Quote from: jochanaan on May 16, 2009, 02:25:34 PM
One name I haven't yet seen on this thread is Amy Beach, known in her lifetime as "Mrs. H.H.A. Beach."  I've heard her Piano Concerto, a big, fine, late-Romantic piece.
Her composing for full orchestra was restricted by her husband but look out for her chamber works, e.g. Quartet Op 89 (single movement) or the Op 67 Piano quintet (yes, this is in  F# minor). Her music is many layered and often requires careful listening.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

vandermolen

#47
May 18, 2009, 12:23:48 AM
Ruth Gipps (Symphony No 2 - a lovely score) and Grace Williams (Symphony No 2 - like VW No 4 - he was her teacher, Sea Sketches etc) are both composers I admire
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

San Antone

#48
October 01, 2015, 07:31:27 AM
Kate Soper : vocal experimentation

Kate Soper (born 1981) is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice.

She was a recent Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012-13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

More information including audio clips are found here.

jochanaan

#49
October 01, 2015, 06:40:40 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on October 01, 2015, 07:31:27 AM
Kate Soper : vocal experimentation

Kate Soper (born 1981) is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice.

She was a recent Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012-13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

More information including audio clips are found here.
Very nice! ;D
Imagination + discipline = creativity

Karl Henning

#50
October 02, 2015, 04:01:44 AM
"[T]he wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice" is certainly not how Evelyn would have liked me to compose my Op.129  8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Wandering Aengus

#51
October 03, 2015, 06:04:49 AM Last Edit: October 03, 2015, 06:06:36 AM by Wandering Aengus
Hildegard von Bingen was brought up, but before her was Kassia (9th century).

Vocame has a nice disc and I seem to recall Naxos has a disc or two of her hymns (I once owned the Vocame disc, enjoyable, though I'm not sure it's HIP enough):



Also, on the other end of the chronological (and sonic!) spectrum, there's Pauline Oliveros and the long dronescapes of Eliane Radigue.
'And pluck till time and times are done...' - Yeats

San Antone

#52
October 03, 2015, 04:20:15 PM
Quote from: Wandering Aengus on October 03, 2015, 06:04:49 AM
Hildegard von Bingen was brought up, but before her was Kassia (9th century).

Vocame has a nice disc and I seem to recall Naxos has a disc or two of her hymns (I once owned the Vocame disc, enjoyable, though I'm not sure it's HIP enough):



Also, on the other end of the chronological (and sonic!) spectrum, there's Pauline Oliveros and the long dronescapes of Eliane Radigue.

Excellent!  Thanks.

torut

#53
October 03, 2015, 09:02:41 PM
I was just listening to Variations on the Orange Cycle of Elodie Lauten (1950-2014) when I found this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etflo3D8zL4

Some contemporary composers I like:

Si bleu, si calme by Misato Mochizuki (b 1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r66LJ3Rd1mg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4dS1IKv3I

Go Guitars by Lois V Vierk (b 1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VchDQb-X-Is

And, I recently listened to very nice cantatas of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729).
http://www.amazon.com/Jacquet-Guerre-Bibliques-Isabelle-Poulenard/dp/B00005V8RX/

Karl Henning

#55
October 05, 2015, 06:13:14 AM
Elizabeth Vercoe

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Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Cato

#56
October 05, 2015, 06:19:46 AM
How have I not placed Lera Auerbach on this topic?

https://www.youtube.com/v/rpRr-tTEpfw
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Karl Henning

#57
October 05, 2015, 06:22:58 AM
Pamela Marshall

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Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#58
October 05, 2015, 06:30:19 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#59
October 05, 2015, 06:33:34 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot
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