Contemporary Classical Composers - new discoveries

The problem with me is that music i loved i listen to it too often... Bach and Schutz and Monteverdi reach thousand of listening sessions each one during my long life... Jazz help me to break the spell...And falling in love with Bruckner, and scriabin helped me too ...

The music i like a lot, i listened to it more sparsely, but this music exceed vastly in numbers the music i love too much for sure than i could listen thanks to Persian and Indian music and Jazz other pieces than Bach or 15 and 16 centuries songs and choral music ...

In more popular music songs called pop, words and poetry matter very much at least if not much than music...

I like too much choral music to be immersed when young in pop music as were my friends...I prefered Dylan, Cohen and the french poet Leo Ferre to most because of poetry in these times ...

My first heard piece of music was small choral folks eighteen century french and anglo saxon songs picked at radio program each noon before even i can read... Choral music for me was beating everything else when young ...Obrecht and Josquin Des Prez put me in ectasy...All french flamish school in particular...

But i was excluded very young from the church choral because i cannot sang right; music is more a heart vibration some beat i felt or a a dancing geometry i look at more than a melody in time for me.... i guess that in choral works the beat as in Schutz Geistliche chor music, my favorite piece with the 8th book of madrigals by Monteverdi and all Bach choral music or the flowing geometry of the crowding voices in space were my obsession.

I imagine that my taste and journey and obsessions in music were caused by this handicap in music and my performance limitations.

I was fascinated and interested in acoustics more than in buying gear because of this habit of seeing music in space more than hearing it flowing in time ...Then i learned how to make any music stand up in space with headphones or speakers...

Bach beat all composers in geometric perfection, probably he wrote God music....Scriabin is a genius because he gave me a heart fractals demonically creative music he never used a recipe but reinvented his piano playings in this new fractals dimension space between tonal and atonal ... I was a Bruckner devotee because he pushed to perfection Bach geometry and cinematic almost movie like motivated music with a beat no one could ever recreated...Each Bruckner symphonies is for me a specific movie i can describe in details. I did it for the fifth the most "perfect" Bruckner symphonies... The most beautiful being the 6 the 7 the 8 and the 9... The 5 th was the most deep intellectually, for sure the 9th is the more tragic one... The 8 is between the 5 and 9 in beauty and perfection married together... The 6 and 7 are the more easy to listen and understand at first sight ...

Bruckner mastery of choral music was my introduction... At the Shubert level as Brahms...

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@mahgister I just heard several of the first posts, long dead Armenian composer, Persian song and Feinberg (I already have the Feinberg recording). All great, especially the Armenian choir. I read your Pop music interest. For me, I’m in love with 20th century pop music, 1900 to 1970 and then less so thereafter (my wife enjoys heavy metal up to Led Zeppelin-sounds great in my listening room but I’m not crazy about it). My pop music extends back to 1900+ dixieland, blues and tin pan alley and nearly all jazz periods including modern compositions (post bop, rock/jazz and country if pre-1960s) and especially close to my heart, Yiddish song. I have equally eclectic tastes. Through jazz, I am still discovering new interpretations of classic pop songs both vocal and mostly instrumental.

My only yiddisch inspired music love is The book of angels of Zorn... A genius for me...

@mahgister I get weepy watching Bogart in In A Lonely Place which stars Bruckner's symphony no.5, 4th movement.  Most Bruckner symphonies have great meaning to me as well.  

I have an acquaintance who is 84 and in feeble condition who needs to dispose of his about 800 to 1000 renaissance choral LPs. I am not an aficionado and if you are interested in an excellent collection at low cost, I can provide you with his contact information.  

For some brilliant religious Jewish choral music composed by a jazz/classical pianist in both lyrical and dramatic vein, this link Aminadav Aloni provides some free and great music.  He was like Beethoven of modern choral Jewish music whereby he used traditional/required thematic lyrics and music structures but developed them in a modern harmonic and rhythmic structure, incorporating jazz, pop and other modern forms. Search – HMSI  The S'Fatai Tiftach 13 choral works begin shrouded in mystery and extend to heartfelt and heartrending beauty.  Always with a hummable melody.

There are other live/current Jewish music composers who compose in grandiose schemes such as Meir Finkelstein (you apparently know Lucas Richman) and all jazz themes (jazz pianist and arranger) Chris Harden and all genres, Michael Issacson.  

Thanks very much for the recommendation all unknown to me...

I will look for some...

For your friend albums i keep no more cd nor any vinyls...

 Me deepest thaqnks for interesting suggestions....

@mahgister I get weepy watching Bogart in In A Lonely Place which stars Bruckner's symphony no.5, 4th movement.  Most Bruckner symphonies have great meaning to me as well.  

I have an acquaintance who is 84 and in feeble condition who needs to dispose of his about 800 to 1000 renaissance choral LPs. I am not an aficionado and if you are interested in an excellent collection at low cost, I can provide you with his contact information.  

For some brilliant religious Jewish choral music composed by a jazz/classical pianist in both lyrical and dramatic vein, this link Aminadav Aloni provides some free and great music.  He was like Beethoven of modern choral Jewish music whereby he used traditional/required thematic lyrics and music structures but developed them in a modern harmonic and rhythmic structure, incorporating jazz, pop and other modern forms. Search – HMSI  The S'Fatai Tiftach 13 choral works begin shrouded in mystery and extend to heartfelt and heartrending beauty.  Always with a hummable melody.

There are other live/current Jewish music composers who compose in grandiose schemes such as Meir Finkelstein (you apparently know Lucas Richman) and all jazz themes (jazz pianist and arranger) Chris Harden and all genres, Michael Issacson.  

1. Love Aarvo Paart, but no idea how he comes out of Schoenberg (atonal)

2. Michael Torque (eg album of color music including Bright blue) great fun.

3. Einaudi, currently alive, beloved music, speaks to human heart.

4. No longer alive, but Hovaness wrote many wonderful symphonies.

A little off-topic, but I was pleased to see a reference above to Arrigo Boito's great opera on the Faust legend, entitled Mefistofele.  

It's not contemporary.  But it is one of the greatest operas, musically stunning, sweepingly melodic, richly orchestrated  and lyrically fascinating (based on Goethe).  In my view, it far surpasses Gounod's Faust.  I strongly recommend the recording with Caesar Siepi and Renata Tebaldi.  Excellent sound, btw, even though recorded in the 1950s.

If you like Verdi (Boito was a librettist for Verdi) or Puccini, Boito's Mefistofele is a must.