Leo Ornstien really is underrated. Should be the most talked about classical composer of them all. He had such an incredible range and so much style and elegance to his music aswell.
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what amazes my interest in these types of compositions is that the composer is fluent in knowing how/when to gradually change the aspects of the piece. It always seems seamless when listening.
Yes. Excellent performance! This has the rubato that most reminds me of Bill Evans, the great JAZZ player. This results in a very personal feeling, almost like improvising.
He was atonal 'at times'. Momentarily. He was able to give drifting and spacious musicality to his dissonances, charm, detail and beauty. I am completely taken in, both as listener and composer. Thank you for this. And a great bravo to the pianist/interpreter.
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Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way to Heaven. We've all sinned and deserve Hell. Sins like lying, lusting, etc. Repent and trust only in Jesus, and you will be saved! You can be saved because he took the punishment for our sins on himself when he died on the cross, just like someone can pay your speeding fine in court, and you get off free. Romans 3:23 John 3:16❤😊❤
I love the depth of contrast of his compositions...sometimes playful and lyrical, other times, as mentioned in the intro, savage and brutal. I love them all.
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Medtnaculus No. It's my rule in the channel - if someone did it first, I'm gonna give up and go make something else; this is for letting them get the recognition they deserve. Though, there are exceptions because I break that rule every now and then. :)
#3 doesn't have any dynamic and articulation markings, and not much tempo indications, so I guess we are listening mostly to the performer's creative/interpreting ideas.
Unlike pieces by Debussy and other impressionists, Ornstein's work has that very soulful feeling of uncertainty and longing. The Jews have long been a "wandering" group, without a really secure home. Therefore such works are more profound to me! (We are living in an extremely uncertain ERA, for EVERYBODY!) Both Ornstein and Bloch did find homes in the USA, finally. Peace at last?
To the original poster, I disagree with your description: "Ornstein's early piano works were unlike anything else in music. He employed the piano as a percussion instrument, pounding out savage rhythms and ferocious cluster-chords with a raw primal energy." Nonsense! Wasn't Bartok doing the same thing, at least at the same time of these compositions or even earlier?
Not really. If you think of Bartók's musical language during the time of his Sonatina, Suite for Piano, String Quartet no. 2, and Violin Sonata no. 2 (finished in 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1922, respectively), they actually sound fairly conservative compared to Ornstein's Wild Men's Dance or Suicide in an Airplane (both from 1913-14). As another example, compare Bartók's compositions from around 1917-18, such as his 8 Hungarian Folksongs, or the aforementioned String Quartet no. 2, to Ornstein's Poems of 1917 (written in 1917). Ornstein's use of tone clusters preceded Bartók's by at least 10 years. Most European composers embraced a darker, more aggressive music writing in the years of WW-I (which, alongside WW-II, dramatically changed a significant portion of the World and its people) and shortly after that, whereas some of Ornstein's music was already quite modernist before WW-I even started. You can also look at Ornstein's Wild Men's Dance and Suicide in an Airplane in comparison to Debussy's Preludes, Book II, which was finished around the same time of Ornstein's first radical compositions. Because of this, and the fact that Ornstein was already in the U.S. during the time of his earlier compositions (thus being far away from the European composition scene of his time), this video's description (especially the bit with which you disagree) is objectively accurate.
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