his music always sounds to me, and i mean this in a very sincere and unjokingly manner, like the music written by someone who had half their face blown off. sometimes people of immense greatness die but fail to actually die due to their greatness not yet happening. this music always makes me think of that. listening to this i find it amazing that it existed in his mind before it was introduced to our ears via musicians. i feel like after listening to xenakis, nothing else sounds the same as it did before.
I'm NOT going to pretend that I'm at all an authority on this music, but I can understand its basics, to a degree. I seem to gravitate to music I don't necessarily UNDERSTAND, and enjoy it nonetheless! This piece falls into that category. Wonderful. Beautiful. DREAM-evoking!
WOW...GOOD for you! This music makes me want to confront & sometimes remember my dreams, AND nightmares. I LOVE dreams and nightmares. After a nightmare, you wake up...and ALL IS WELL.
recently tried this as love-making music. wife veto’d it immediately. i’d preemptively prepared bullet-point defences about why i felt it was important in our sex life to embrace serious western art music as a reflection of our dedication to each other. this too, unfortunately, was met with resistance.
...too bad... I wouldn't want to think your wife was closed-minded (I don't know!), but it's possible that this might have been distracting to her, and I might agree... GOOD TRY, though.
I have Anemoessa on a festival box set, it's an amazing Xenakis work! I am an obsessive fanatic with Xenakis though haha, so I've heard and/or nearly everything available!! Thanks though sir, I haven't listened to that in a little while..
Hi, John, it would be possible that you can rip that recording of Anemoessa you have and send it to me? I downloaded it from the video but the quality is awful. If you can't do it, no problem. Thanks!
Easily my favorite as well, though I have to say the performance from Fedor Lednev and Mikhail Dubov outranks even the magnificence of this recording for me.
indeed, how nice it'd be if people posted the names of the performers. do uploaders think the tons of hours of practice and rehearsal that go into playing this kind of music aren't noteworthy?
Don't know that I've listened to Zimmer but the "movie" guys are well known for that reason and that reason only. On their own I dont think they even begin to rank as true masters.
An exhilarating piece to hear... Must be exhausting to play! I can just see the conductor dressed like a coach and saying: "Pick up those bows, ladies. Piano, this is a marathon LET'S GO!"
I also enjoy the concert performance of Synaphai filmed in Japan. It's not just the music that is so great; it is stunning to actually watch the performers battling to get it all right.
To add to video description above: for piano and 92-piece orchestra (4 flutes, 4 oboes, 4 clarinets in B-flat, 4 bassoons, 4 French horns in F, 4 trumpets in C, 4 trombones, tuba, harp, timpani, a percussion section consisting of 2 bongos, 3 tom-toms, and bass drum, and a large string section consisting of 16 first violins, 14 second violins, 12 violas, 10 cellos, and 8 double basses) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keqrops
I had a mate years ago who had an argument with Xenakis about his esoteric notations which had to be learned anew for each piece - Iannis didn`t care how hard the musicians had to work apparently and my friend used to not look forward to learning his music but liked it and was quite taken aback when I told him that Iannis had died. I also had a book of interviews with Iannis which I unfortunately lost but from it there is still a strong sense of what a near death battlefield injury experience is like. You can hear that here I think. perhaps ; a mythology of pain etc
I've just discovered another most interesting work on RU-vid: the Universe symphony by Fazil Say. If you don't know it, please give it a try. It also has excellent video of the orchestra performing.
this is what ... song folly and noise brashness kinkles of crisp cracks in soundishness.... it does now no good but I like it!! never forget. ever. ===
@@mariegrevor1018 Je dirai l'évidence - ce n'est pas Bach :) Mais c'est une musique fondamentalement différente En conséquence, sa perception doit être abordée différemment La créativité de Xenakis, à mon avis, n'a pas la reconnaissance et la couverture appropriées Il s'agit d'un travail spécifique pour la première connaissance de la créativité de Xenakis peut être difficile à percevoir Et je conseille Oresteia et son travail pour les percussions (Rebonds et Pléiades notamment). (sorry for my terrible French, I used google translate)
Understood, to a point: there's LOTS of music I don't understand...some of it falls short, some of it is incredible. To ME, this piece is fantastic, even though it's not my favorite, by Xenakis.
