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An extraordinary work - I love the clarity of ideas and emotions. First half of first movement is impossible for me...second half is passionate and wonderful to play. Second movement Maestoso section is glorious but tricky - even Vicky Chow stumbles (in her wonderful performance). Last movement is stunning.
Thank you! I’ve been wondering what that piece by Schoenberg was called for the best part of forty years. I used to have it on an amazing record that also included Pierrot Lunaire and a cabaret song of his. I didn’t remember the name and I haven’t heard it for all these years but I’ve been haunted by the memory of it. So good to actually hear it again!
For anyone who is coming from the Twoset video, I encourage you not to take the easy route and clown on this music, but rather be open to exploring what this type of music has to offer. 'This Video Proves Contemporary Music is a Joke' is such a harmful narrative to promote, both for the composers who dedicate their hours to creating works of art, and to the classical community as a whole, as it closes off a whole realm of brilliant music that is not as inaccessible as you might think! If you're interested in getting to know this type of music, there are plenty of people in the community (myself included!) who would be more than happy to give some pointers or answer questions - mainly on discord, either in Score Follower's own server (linked in the video description) or in other general classical music servers, such as the one linked on my channel :)) By the way, WE LOVE NORMAL MUSIC TOO... exploring this music doesn't mean you can't still keep enjoying the classics!!
Yeah the title wasn’t great- ‘sight reading experimental music’ would have suited better. I feel they were setting themselves up for a laugh as they struggled to read and interpret the scores, and then try to recreate the sound once they heard the performances…I laughed, anyway
I do have some question as to what is a definition of Contemporary? there’s so many flavours of it, from very “pretty” music to harsher sounds, and stuff that seems to be a thought excercise .. I guess I need a dictionary of the genres within the label of Contemporary..
Personally I think accessibility is an important dimension of music. Novelty is great but complete novelty with no accessibility is no more valid than zero novelty and repetitive simple music. Overly experimental music strikes me similarly to "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star" or just a major scale. Or maybe another way of thinking about it is, what's the point of saying something if it's in a language you invented that no one else understands? You can coin new words but if it's all gibberish then how are you connecting with an audience?
@@GooberNumber9 Yes but that is assuming that this piece has no accessibility, which is flat out wrong. It's impossible for something to have no accessibility, because there will always be something to grasp on to, be it rhythm, harmony, timbre and so on. There is plenty to follow in this music and if you disagree it just means you haven't tried. If your comparison is true, should we send out similar hate towards 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and major scales? You call it gibberish but yet people understand it - that's not gibberish, it's a different language :)
