Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
One of the greatest musician i ever heard (recorded privately because he had never done any concert he play privately with few disciples only to pray ) who i discovered after hearing that the great violonist Yehudi menuhin who hear him say that this is the greatest musical experience of his life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCmJrSGX3W4&list=RDDCmJrSGX3W4&start_radio=1 He was a sufi mystic.... His music is only prayer ... This modified tanbur with 5 strings is a tiny instrument ... |
I couldn’t get into his music. I think I’d have to be in the right mood. I’ve been writing a lot and took a break to listen. Although, it is also true that my ear has been exposed to mostly European and American music, and I need to really concentrate to listen to music from other genres. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Holst’s "The Planets." I think it’s a good piece of music for people to get into classical music. Some parts are absolutely beautiful. I think the part about Venus is one. |
I have an old CD conducted by Charles Dutoit of the Orchestre de Montreal. I like it. But if you want to take a few minutes, you can look up "best recording of Holst The Planets" and see what comes up. When I play it again I'll look for a different recording just because I like to hear how different conductors handle it. I do see my recording listed on Qobuz, though. Because I've met Simon Rattle and he's considered a first-rate conductor, I'd probably try him. But looking up other people's opinions can be fun if you have time. Enjoy!
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I want to add something about Scriabin... Scriabin is not as most could think a composer among others composers... Scriabin was not a simple composer when i discovered him without understanding why i loved him so much listening to a pianist able to play him, which is the rarest thing... (To play Scriabin you must understand the motivating idea behind the music from which the music emerge as a new dimension of time , it is different from the linear tonal time where it is the motives which emerge from the written music) Scriabin educated me about music in way i did not consciously integrated at first... I will explain it very briefly here : (i spoke too much sometimes)
If we divide all the history of Western written music in periods, viewed from a chosen perspective among many others possible, there is three periods with three names possible i will draw your attention to:
------The peak of tonal music as his highest expressive form is reached and mastered by Bach... (Few people can contest that it is a fact)
The next written revolution was Atonal dodecaphonic music, which co0mpletely quitted tonality then the usual emotive expressive character inherited by history. Here it is Schoenberg the genius...
----But who created and explored and opened the immense country between the tonal region and the atonal region, who walked between these two without falling backward or forward in neither of them. The only one who mastered it totally is Scriabin a genius on par with Bach and Schoenberg. The truth is simple, it will take a new century to understand the real genius of Scriabin in the future and the road he opened...He influenced a few composers like Feinberg (whose sonatas are strikingly beautiful) but none takes his legacy to the next level. Instead of making convenient motives emerging from the music why not making the music emerging from new motives themselves? it is why nobody can whistle Scriabin music but anybody must think and perceive a new world dimension listening Scriabin.
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