Iannis Xenakis - A l`ile de Goree (w/ score) (for harpsichord and ensemble) (1986) 

Way more conventionally beautiful than I'm used to with Xenakis.

One of the most powerful of his pieces. The arrival at bar 123 is incredible. Xenakis was at his best mid 70s to late 80s, and this is amongst these great works.

He mastered the counterpoint, polyrhythm and instrumentation then he composed one of the greatest chamber works of the era.

I heard it live last night. Nice to look at the score today . Thanks

The orchestral works of Xenakis always have some massive effect, either the glissandos of his beginning or the heavy confloicting blocks of his late style. The works for small or medium scale ensemble, especially when there is a concerting instrument (here an amplified harpishord), are much carefully crafted. This is a good example of that kind of writing. Note that, in spite of the abtract and mathematical image usually associated to the name of Xenakis, here he takes care of the very tiny sound of the harpischord, and the writing is quite idiomatic to take it into fuill account.Nota also that, as many works by Xenakis, there is an obvious ideological background in that piece (The island of Gorée was a major place for african slave trade), but by no ways it is expressed in the music by 'illustrative' musical signals in a neoromantic style.

Imagine each of the orchestra members practicing their parts at home

I love this gorgeous piece

well, this is probably the best use of a harpsichord in about 300 years, huh?

Great piece, must be hell to perform on the harpsichord though, the keys being so light.

Thsi is really the best most immediaelt likeable msi Ive hear from Znakis. Insantly memorable in secions. 1986 . so late and yet so very listenable I can ece se a programme tavched t thsi . I was trin t wrte desert musi for Ni roeg;s Walkabout I bet he would have love this if it was record befr eh e died . thsis really incredible and so what i wish I had though f it . The dry harpsichord so seated to sdesert climes . I wil definitely be staetlig strutue and idess rm this . I ove ti Zenakis ww i wiould hate to have a work withot him . I would benever be bored if I hd to take mayeb 15 cds of his music and mayb on soe spiritual level wold eve grow to ths amaing oplantlife hew as . Zenkis was mMAESSIAH ,Believe w we cant all do this certainly not in 1978!11

Such a nice amusing piece!

so good...

You wouldn't happen to have the score for Xenakis' Keqrops or Synaphai, would you? It would be awesome to see those up on youtube.

Splendid!

C'est excellent !

Happy Xenakis! Never knew this existed... thanks!

Splendid performance!

Qui sont les interprètes ? Élisabeth Chojnacka, l'Ensemble Radio France dirigée par Huub Kertens peut-être ?

Xenakis style of EDM

Does anyone else hear some recollections of Keqrops in this?

Don't forget to tune your instruments.

sounds like a dog whistle trying to make a dog deaf