Larry Kart Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 Karl Weigl Eduard Erdmann http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FskQW0PMYI Quote
Larry Kart Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 Egon Wellesz Rued Langgaard (talk about your madmen!) Quote
Larry Kart Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 (edited) Martinu's surrealist opera "Julietta" is something else: http://www.opera.co.uk/view-review.php?reviewID=32 Feel very fortunate that I have the 1965 Suprahon set (cond. by Krombholc) on LPs Edited August 15, 2013 by Larry Kart further thought Quote
John Litweiler Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 John Ludy Has John Ludy been composing during recent decades? I'd love to hear more of his work. Quote
king ubu Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 What's she doing with her elbow? And can this be move to the classical section? Quote
Stefan Wood Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 I like Langgaard. Two Americans - Don Gillis and Roger Sessions. Quote
Larry Kart Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 John Ludy Who is he? Can't find any references via Google. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 John Ludy Who is he? Can't find any references via Google. Sorry, this was an inside joke. John was the husband of Lynne Ludy, a coworker at JRM/Delmark back in the day. John was an introvert and seemed to spend all his time composing. He had stacks of his work next to the piano in their apartment. On rare occasions he would play some of them for close friends. I'm sure John Litweiler heard a few. They moved home to central Michigan in the '70s and divorced. John passed away a few years ago. Sorry for the derailment. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 For Mahler fans I'd recommend Hans Rott. Amen. Rott's lone symphony is pure, 'primordial' Mahler. Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted August 15, 2013 Author Report Posted August 15, 2013 I bought a Wellesz box a few months back - only listened through once but enjoyed what I heard. Although it's not named a symphony I'd recommend Nicholas Maw's 'Odyssey' - orchestral music on a Mahlerian scale. Also interested (though again only superficially familiar) with the Henze and Hartmann symphonies. Is Martinu little known in the States? Although not likely to pack 'em in like Mahler or Shosty, he's pretty well known in Europe with several cycles of the symphonies available. Quote
Larry Kart Posted August 15, 2013 Report Posted August 15, 2013 John Ludy Who is he? Can't find any references via Google. Sorry, this was an inside joke. John was the husband of Lynne Ludy, a coworker at JRM/Delmark back in the day. John was an introvert and seemed to spend all his time composing. He had stacks of his work next to the piano in their apartment. On rare occasions he would play some of them for close friends. I'm sure John Litweiler heard a few. They moved home to central Michigan in the '70s and divorced. John passed away a few years ago. Sorry for the derailment. Oh, yes, now I remember -- vaguely, but I remember. Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted August 16, 2013 Author Report Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) Tippett got a brief mention earlier. Took me a long time to warm to him but once you get his sound world in your head, very rewarding. The 4th is the one I keep coming back to - there's a haunting melodic/harmonic passage at the start that seems to generate the piece - had it stuck in my head for days. The 3rd is a strange piece - direct quotes from Beethoven 9 and a long vocal 'blues' (the upper class British variant!) section at the end. A living composer I'm following with interest is David Matthews - 7 symphonies so far, 6 recorded (I believe the 7th is not far away). Tonal and conventional in many ways but quite astringent; warming up in the more recent symphonies with clear allusions to RVW and, especially, Sibelius (though I believe he's very Beethoven inspired). He's not avant garde in any sense but he's far from a rehasher. Worked alongside his brother David with Deryck Cooke on the reconstruction of Mahler 10 and also with the Britten estate. I've also been enjoying the Weinberg symphonies that both Chandos and Naxos have been releasing. Edited August 16, 2013 by A Lark Ascending Quote
John Litweiler Posted August 17, 2013 Report Posted August 17, 2013 John Ludy Who is he? Can't find any references via Google. Sorry, this was an inside joke. John was the husband of Lynne Ludy, a coworker at JRM/Delmark back in the day. John was an introvert and seemed to spend all his time composing. He had stacks of his work next to the piano in their apartment. On rare occasions he would play some of them for close friends. I'm sure John Litweiler heard a few. They moved home to central Michigan in the '70s and divorced. John passed away a few years ago. Sorry for the derailment. Sorry to learn John passed away. A good man and a wide-ranging music lover. Leon Kelert used to warehouse his trad jazz label in the Ludys' bookstore. Quote
StarThrower Posted August 17, 2013 Report Posted August 17, 2013 Henri Dutilleux Aulis Sallinen Karl Hartmann Hans Werner Henze Lutoslawski Alfred Schnittke Quote
StarThrower Posted August 17, 2013 Report Posted August 17, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jm6CKA6RRs Quote
Stefan Wood Posted August 17, 2013 Report Posted August 17, 2013 I am not as enamored with the British composers of the past century, as I have been of the Danish. Check out Per Norgaard's symphonies, for example. Also, Latin American compser Camargo Guarnieri's symphonies should not be overlooked. Quote
Bigshot Posted August 18, 2013 Report Posted August 18, 2013 Miyaskovsky's Symphonies are fantastic. A bit of Tchaikovsky and a bit of Shostakovich and a bit of classic movie soundtracks, like Waxman and Steiner. Svetlanov's box set is the best discovery I've made in years. Quote
David Ayers Posted August 20, 2013 Report Posted August 20, 2013 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 3. Takes a while to click. Quote
johnblitweiler Posted November 14, 2015 Report Posted November 14, 2015 On 8/14/2013, 8:55:14, Chuck Nessa said: John Ludy John gave me some interesting tapes of his piano improvising but I haven't heard his composed music. Has any been recorded, have any of his music mss. been published? Quote
T.D. Posted November 14, 2015 Report Posted November 14, 2015 Not sure how "symphonic" it is, but the extremely twisted 8th Symphony "Antiphonies", Op. 54, by Miloslav Kabeláč (for percussion ensemble, organ, soprano and two mixed choirs) is memorable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-057nR_Ft7g Quote
Peter Friedman Posted November 14, 2015 Report Posted November 14, 2015 I have long been interested in exploring lesser known composers from primarily the Classical and Romantic periods with a few from the Baroque period as well. In looking through my collection this morning I listed quite a few of those composers with symphonies on my shelves. Louise Farrenc - the only female composer on my list Berwald, Rheinberger, Clementi, Taneyev, Krommer, Goldmark, Raff, Fibich, Stenhammar, Lachner, Boyce, Reinecke, Kalivoda, Zemlinsky, Anton Rubinstein, Madetoja, Pichel, Abel, Potter, D'Indy, Kalinnikov, Vranicky, Volkmann, Svendsen, Chadwick, John Knowles Paine Quote
MomsMobley Posted November 25, 2015 Report Posted November 25, 2015 Magnard 4 Jolivet 3 (really) Quote
StarThrower Posted November 26, 2015 Report Posted November 26, 2015 Humphrey Searle 5 symphonies on CPO Laszlo Lajtha on Marco Polo Ernst Toch on CPO Alexandre Tansman on Chandos William Schuman on Naxos Gubaidulina symphony in 12 movements on Chandos Elliott Carter symphony of three orchestras on Sony Quote
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