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beboop · Post by **beboop** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:14 pm

Bartok and Monk pop to mind first, if we can take this just as a free-association exercise. I'm not much into proclamations of ultimate worthiness

CDs -- there's a good Bartok box on Nimbus, Hungarian State Orchestra, "Bartok For Orchestra" -- six discs, cheap, includes some Kodaly -- I don't have this particular box, but I do have some of the earlier releases that were compiled in to this set, good performances, good recordings, ya can't lose.

get that and the Takacs Quartet complete string quartets, you'll have pretty good picture of Bartok.

Monk, hmmmm... "Monk's Music" -- add "Underground" and "Criss-Cross" for a pretty good selection of tunes. If you find something you like there you'll want to pick up quite a few more, he wrote seventy tunes, many of which there are several performances available, solo to ten-piece band, different tenors, Charlie Rouse, Johnny Griffin, Coltrane.

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:38 pm

Elliott Carter
Stefan Wolpe
Morton Feldman
John Cage
Pierre Boulez
Thelonius Monk
Charles Mingus
Duke Ellington

All the composers interviewed in the two "Soundpieces" books and just about everyone everyone else has mentioned here...

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:55 pm

beboop wrote:Bartok and Monk pop to mind first, if we can take this just as a free-association exercise. I'm not much into proclamations of ultimate worthiness

Ditto, but I do have some favorites.

Btw, I hope you'll agree that The Miraculous Mandarin is a must-hear piece, along with the quartets.

Monk, hmmmm... "Monk's Music" -- add "Underground" and "Criss-Cross" for a pretty good selection of tunes. If you find something you like there you'll want to pick up quite a few more, he wrote seventy tunes, many of which there are several performances available, solo to ten-piece band, different tenors, Charlie Rouse, Johnny Griffin, Coltrane.

Also check out the various arrangements of Monk's music done by Miles Davis, absolutely fantastic stuff, some of my favorite music.

Good gracious, I left Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern off my list ! I'm definitely losing it...

I'm sure we can go on & on, there are so many still unrecognized giants from the 20th century. Does anyone else here ever listen to Roger Sessions music ? Or Ralph Shapey's ?

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:44 pm

StudioDave wrote:
Btw, I hope you'll agree that The Miraculous Mandarin is a must-hear piece, along with the quartets.

Oh yeah!

The Miraculous Mandarin is probably my favorite composition ever.

And Boulez nailed it.

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:47 pm

frank zappa ...

beboop · Post by **beboop** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:57 pm

StudioDave wrote:
Btw, I hope you'll agree that The Miraculous Mandarin is a must-hear piece, along with the quartets.

oh yeah absolutely -- pretty sure it's in the Nimbus box I recommended to the OP -- and the Boulez is a great one too.

ahhhhhh....there's no way, I can't pick a "favorite Bartok" -- Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta and the string quartets, those seem to be the ones I reach for first when I need a fix.

Does anyone else here ever listen to Roger Sessions music ? Or Ralph Shapey's ?

yeah, Session's 3rd symphony is a particular favorite, just some exquisite stuff. Shapey I don't know about, but now that you mention it I'm pretty sure I have something of his on an LP I bought for the Sessions side, don't think I ever turned the record over

-- have to dig that out and have a listen!

flippya2000 · Post by **flippya2000** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:00 pm

Alot of the stuff I listen to is underground

Having said that, does Moby count?

chardin · Post by **chardin** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:12 pm

Off the top of my head and sticking to pop music:

Pete Townshend
Elvis Costello
U2

... Too many more to list. The sheer amount of good music in so many different genres is staggering.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:29 pm

herodotus wrote:
StudioDave wrote:
Btw, I hope you'll agree that The Miraculous Mandarin is a must-hear piece, along with the quartets.

Oh yeah!

The Miraculous Mandarin is probably my favorite composition ever.

And Boulez nailed it.

Boulez nailed the Rite of Spring, too, imo, with the Cleveland Orchestra. Monstrous in proportion.

freddemillio · Post by **freddemillio** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:25 pm

Charles Mingus: inventiveness, creativity, freshness, beauty, technique.

Best album to start (ie, most accessible): Mingus Ah Um
An example of his strongest work: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

More info (and some streams)
http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingu ... raphy.html

Concert in Norway, 1964, with Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Johnny Coles, Jaki Byard, Dannie Richmond:
(in several parts, this is part one, you should be able to find the rest without much trouble)

Hewitt Huntwork · Post by **Hewitt Huntwork** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:40 pm

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony 3
Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings
Michael Nyman - Fish Beach, The Kiss

Nyman's "The Kiss" has an irritating manic beginning with an odd time signature and screechy vocal, but when it gets to the next section it is absolutely transcendent. "Fish Beach" is beautiful from the start but doesn't change much. It is hypnotic and moody - like the classical version of trance (but slower).

petterdass · Post by **petterdass** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:13 pm

steve reich
jeff mills
autechre

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:48 pm

FRANK ZAPPA

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:14 am

StudioDave wrote:Elliott Carter

I first saw him at a live performance of a work of his for piano and violin in NYC in 1978 when he'd just turned 70. Although he appeared to be in great health it's still amazing to think that he's approaching his 100th birthday in December of 2008.

http://www.carter100.com/

Nevandal · Post by **Nevandal** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:20 pm

Dewdman42 wrote:Define modern

...not dead?

Best Modern Composers