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  • Re: Xenakis article

    From Todd M. McComb@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 18 23:43:10 2022
    The Xenakis anniversary year has sure fizzled so far, hasn't it?
    Maybe more will still appear... recorded this year, perhaps.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?N=C3=A9stor_Castiglione?=@21:1/5 to Todd M. McComb on Fri Nov 18 17:07:57 2022
    On Friday, November 18, 2022 at 3:43:14 PM UTC-8, Todd M. McComb wrote:
    The Xenakis anniversary year has sure fizzled so far, hasn't it?
    Maybe more will still appear... recorded this year, perhaps.


    Can't be worse than the missed Roberto Gerhard anniversary in 2020 marking 50 years since his death. Was really looking forward to that. Boosey & Hawkes announced a number of concerts; there was at least one recording of orchestral music in the works,
    from what I'd heard. Then a global pandemic came along and Gerhard was quickly tossed aside. Oh, well. Maybe I'll still be around for the sesquicentennial of his birth in 2046. I'll be 64 years young... :/

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  • From Todd M. McComb@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Nov 19 07:28:52 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Néstor Castiglione <[email protected]> wrote:
    Can't be worse than the missed Roberto Gerhard anniversary in 2020
    marking 50 years since his death. Was really looking forward to
    that.

    We'll see I guess. I see a lot more Gerhard recordings than I
    anticipated. I don't believe I'd heard anything by this composer
    in a long time... now listening to Lyrita recording of Symphony 4.
    What are your favorites?

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?N=C3=A9stor_Castiglione?=@21:1/5 to Todd M. McComb on Sat Nov 19 12:32:58 2022
    On Friday, November 18, 2022 at 11:28:56 PM UTC-8, Todd M. McComb wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Néstor Castiglione <[email protected]> wrote:
    Can't be worse than the missed Roberto Gerhard anniversary in 2020
    marking 50 years since his death. Was really looking forward to
    that.
    We'll see I guess. I see a lot more Gerhard recordings than I
    anticipated. I don't believe I'd heard anything by this composer
    in a long time... now listening to Lyrita recording of Symphony 4.
    What are your favorites?


    Definitely the symphonies. Hard for me to pick a favorite out of the four, but Gerhard 4 is, perhaps, the one dearest to me; that may have to do at least as much as the fact that it was the first work by the composer I ever heard, as its intrinsic
    musical qualities (and quality). For me it is one of the greatest manifestations of the human spirit heard in the last century; beneath is heartbreak and anguish, Gerhard's indomitable spirit remains uncowed.

    Then there's La dueña. A delightful work; a twelve-tone zarzuela! These two sound like an unlikely pairing, but give it a hearing. Gerhard fuses these idioms with mastery.

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  • From Todd M. McComb@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Nov 19 21:06:18 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Néstor Castiglione <[email protected]> wrote:
    Definitely the symphonies. Hard for me to pick a favorite out of the
    four, but Gerhard 4 is, perhaps, the one dearest to me; ....

    Well, I did happen to hear that first (also!), and liked it. Much
    more than the Violin Concerto on the same album.

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  • From Todd M. McComb@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Nov 20 20:14:56 2022
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Néstor Castiglione <[email protected]> wrote:
    Can't be worse than the missed Roberto Gerhard anniversary in 2020
    marking 50 years since his death.

    Well I can hear why Gerhard came to mind for you while discussing
    late Stravinsky....

    And compared to Stravinsky, Gerhard also wrote more late chamber
    music, something I usually enjoy, so besides the Symphony No. 4
    (from Colin Davis), I'm enjoying the Arditti String Quartet No. 2
    and the Neos/Zurich album of "Zodiac" title pieces, Leo/Gemini/Libra....

    The latter doesn't come with the liner notes online, though. Know
    anything about these Zodiac-titled pieces?

    Gerhard is definitely someone who continued to refine/develop his
    style right up to the end. Not that I really intend to distract
    from my own question about pending Xenakis centenary productions....

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