Alright, I decided to put this here since it’s mostly non-solo piano stuff, although there is some stuff with piano in here.
Exact pieces aren’t necessary but try to guess the composers at least!
I’ve picked alot of mainstay contemp/20th century composers. Most are very “big” composers. There is some stuff from the last ten years in here too and some stuff less well known. I will try to do one of these in the future with all piano rep too. You guys will probably do really well on that.
lou harrison or harry partch, possibly? i hear some nonstandard tuning.
boulez - sur incises, 2nd movt (i think)
b.a. zimmermann - prelude to die soldaten (one of the weirdest fucking operas around, saw a vid of this once)
hindemith - kammermusik no. 2, 1st movt
damn, i know ive heard some of this stuff before. others i have no clue. perhaps the samples are too short. and i dont expect many people will get any of this. are you sure all of it is really ‘mainstay’ 20/21st century music? i guess it depends what you define as mainstay. i know theres some 2nd viennese school in here also, but i dont recognize the pieces exactly. the three i know for sure were just fresh in my mind from listening to them recently. hints are needed.
one thing is for sure though. my challenge is gonna look a lot different when i get around to doing one. 20/21st century music is just that varied.
3 is actually really beautiful, I’d like to know what that is. And so are a couple of others. I’ve got a question for u guys, but I don’t wanna hijack so i’ll make a new thread
here’s another hint: there’s another richter clip on there. I’m counting on you chris!
oh, good call Jre, the second one is in fact Partch… i thought that one would be harder. And good call on the Zimmermann! the others are right too. i was going to make longer clips but decided against it since i thought these were stylistically pretty telling…
some little clues:
There are actually no Second Viennese School pieces here, however, there are some pieces from the generation of composers that immediately follow in their footsteps.
There are two seperate pieces as yet unguessed, by the same composer
some performers contained herein: Richter, Dawn Upshaw, Rostropovich, Gould
you guys are pretty good. Jre, it is the Dutilleux Cello Concerto. Chris, sorry, but that one is Gould although it does have a richter-like character to it in that moment.
So far we’ve got:
Harry Partch - Eleven Intrusions - study on olympos’ pentatonic scale
Boulez - Sur Incises
Dutilleux - Cello Concerto
Zimmermann - Prelude to Die Soldaten
Hindemith - Kammermusik no. 2: I
I can just post the answers if you want but here are some more specific hints:
is an american composer
is a living composer who composes very static, quiet music
and 11. are by the same composer
this composer as a student was hailed as a “young mozart” by messiaen
this piece is a famous early total serial piece
this is richter
you guys all know this composer’s piano music
gould, and he’s played more of this composer’s work
another composer who usually wrote very long, static, quiet pieces
stockhausen, then. i dont think i have any idea what the piece could be. the only piece i know that is for piano(s) and percussion is kontakte, but that has electronic sounds.
although it does have a richter-like character to it in that moment.