Modern Classical - Recommendations please!

djslate · Post by **djslate** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:16 am

So, been listening to a lot of this of late. In particular, favourites go something like this:

Dustin O'Halloran: Piano Solo Vols. 1 + 2
- Amazing piano arrangements.
*The tune from a previous Audi A5 ad HERE

Tim Story & Hans-Joachim Roedelius: Lunz
- Ethereal loviness.
*Best track off the album HERE

Gonzales: Solo Piano
- Everyone must know this guy!
*Most famous track HERE

UNKLE: End Titles
- The ineffable. With Philip Glass. INCREDIBLE take on an excerpt from Beethoven's Fifth.
*Goosebumps HERE

Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood Ferguson: Suit For Ma Dukes
- Tears on the pillow business cover of Jay Dee 'Fall in Love'.
*Cry HERE

So what are you listening to at the moment? Give me some more of this type of stuff...

skywave · Post by **skywave** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:33 am

free album with orchestral content on my netlabel

FREE DOWNLOAD

01 Intro
02 Drone AD
03 Chrome
04 Interlude 1
05 Under A Canopy Of Blue
06 Interlude 2
07 Time Never Found
08 Interlude 3
09 Sap Rising

This album presents a few different sides of London based duo Regolith. Dave Graham and Graeme Ross have been experimenting for years and on this album take the us from solo piano, through treated instruments, power electronics, to geological guitar work and glacial drones. The album is an attempt to find the perfect mix between composition and sonic sculpture, where orchestral arrangements merge with subtle electronic textures. It has been described as tumbling in slow motion through different weathers.

also Maxence Cyrin's piano versions of electronic music classics

http://www.fcom.fr/maxencecyrin/

mondays child · Post by **mondays child** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:53 am

Max Richter, back catalogue.

William Basinski, any of his stuff really.

zhao · Post by **zhao** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:11 am

Giacinto Scelsi.

Morton Feldman.

Georgy Ligetti.

dj ld · Post by **dj ld** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:09 pm

Hauschka http://www.myspace.com/hauschka

oxide · Post by **oxide** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:23 pm

you shoud try some

library tapes
alva noto
ryuchi sakamoto

or just see boomkat shop, they have loads of that with nice description

djslate · Post by **djslate** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:52 pm

Great stuff, can't wait to get listening!

drokkr · Post by **drokkr** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:07 pm

phillip glass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il4VDf-ugPI

djslate · Post by **djslate** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:12 pm

DROKKR wrote:phillip glass

Personal favourite. Kronos Quartet Performs is immense...

saphyre · Post by **saphyre** » Sun May 03, 2009 8:55 pm

check the boomkat 2008 charts its full of this stuff

nndoctor · Post by **nndoctor** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:27 pm

Djslate wrote:
DROKKR wrote:phillip glass
Personal favourite. Kronos Quartet Performs is immense...

definitely...

godflesh fiend · Post by **godflesh fiend** » Sun May 17, 2009 8:29 am

Djslate wrote: Kronos Quartet Performs is immense...

Bang on.

They're the one's I would've recommended.

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:21 pm

Takemitsu
Penderecki
Michael Torke
Persichetti

all worth a Google if you want something that will challenge you. There's some great shit out there....

or peeps like Stravinsky, Lennox Berkely, Richard Strauss if you want something C20th but less abstract.

kultron · Post by **kultron** » Wed May 20, 2009 2:47 am

Arvo Part - Estonian minimalist composer, check out "Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten"
Johann Johannsson - Icelandic eclectic romantic composer, check out his suite "Fordlandia"
Ned Rorem - American Neo-Romanticist composer, check out his 1st Symphony

I have yet to find other modern composers that beat the above three.

the acid never lies · Post by **the acid never lies** » Wed May 20, 2009 3:14 am

Saphyre wrote:check the boomkat 2008 charts its full of this stuff

Peter Broderick
Docile
Float

Marsen Jules
Herbstlaub
Genesungswerk

I won't bother trying to communicate how beautiful/sublime these works are as I couldn't possibly do them justice - Boomkat has a better crack at it.

Listen to the samples!

Tombones · Post by **Tombones** » Wed May 20, 2009 10:26 am

A few of my current favorites:

Facades

El Camino Real

Chimeras

Check this too:

Footprints in The Snow

lost_for_words · Post by **lost_for_words** » Tue May 26, 2009 6:44 pm

Kattoo-''Megrim''(2005)

Eluvium - When I Live by the Garden and the Sea (2006)

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:59 am

The Acid Never Lies wrote: Peter Broderick
Docile
Float

both great, great thread peeps!!

djslate · Post by **djslate** » Wed May 27, 2009 11:51 am

Glad people are feeling! Thought I'd throw in a few classical guys:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
- English composer who based alot of his work on English Renaissance coral work and hymns, sounds corny but the melodies are BIG!
* Breakdown at 2:30 HERE

Michael Galasso: Angkor Wat Finale
- Film Scores, avant-garde, this guy does the lot.
* IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE classic HERE

More later!

Modern Classical - Recommendations please!

Modern Classical - Recommendations please!

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