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3027426, Post your favorite pieces of contemporary classical music
Posted by mind_grapes, Sat Oct-10-20 06:22 AM
"Gangamban" by Nico Muhly and Thomas Bartlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXutrGenFXo

"Alice In Wonderland" by Nahre Sol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLX3N8HquCU

"The Nicest Day" by Fillup Waters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi_j0MI9PlQ

"Ring A Ring O' Roses" by Justice Cow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi_j0MI9PlQ

"London Bridge" by Aimee Nolte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sifMUZlXaUs

"Double Fiesta" by Meridith Monk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQofI2aWvM
3027431, Suite for Ma' Dukes nm
Posted by Castro, Sat Oct-10-20 09:59 AM
3027485, Thanks for this
Posted by mind_grapes, Tue Oct-13-20 11:22 AM
I never heard it before and found the entire performance on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXtOLM6Z86Y
3027487, RE: Thanks for this
Posted by Castro, Tue Oct-13-20 11:44 AM
The arranger, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, has done some interesting projects melding classical ensemble structure to compositions from other genres. I don't know if its online but he did an orchestral remake of Charlie Parker's string album too.
3027490, check out his work with Carlos Nino generally too
Posted by thebigfunk, Tue Oct-13-20 12:08 PM
I love how flexible he is as an arranger and performer. He definitely flexes some of his more avant garde/experimental muscles in a lot of their collaborations beyond Ma Dukes. They just released a new live recording, improvisational I think, called Chicago Waves; it has some very strong minimalist Glass/Reich/Riley sort of vibes but a bit more ambient in feel.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~
3027488, I also found a link to Nas' 2014 performance of Illmatic with the Natl Symphony Orc
Posted by mind_grapes, Tue Oct-13-20 11:49 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEThEDDba9M

in case anyone hasn't seen it yet
3027469, some fairly recent stuff I've enjoyed
Posted by thebigfunk, Mon Oct-12-20 12:59 PM
*** Quest Ensemble - a piano trio - has a very engaging recent album, "The Other Side" -- I really enjoyed it. A favorite track: "The Boatman" - https://qensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-side

*** Ian William Craig's new record this year, "Red Sun through Smoke," is gorgeous and heartbreaking and mysterious all at once, written literally as his grandfather passed and it feels like it. It's one that I liked right away but didn't expect to come back to a lot. It got its hooks in me though. He releases via 130701, always a good place to look for music in the contemporary/post-classical vein. https://ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com/album/red-sun-through-smoke

*** John Luther Adams - In the White Silence is an absolute favorite of mine. https://open.spotify.com/album/5cI76ytLpOmAXDY53YtvLC?si=5l7PK5aLSOGQnjKMl8JZwA

(JLA also has a new set out featuring the "Become" trilogy on Canteloupe Music)

*** I'm smitten with Caroline Shaw (like the rest of the world). Partita for 8 Voices is a given but a personal favorite is the Plan & Elevation Suite from this album: https://open.spotify.com/album/5d0tz2baP5WGhMzZvONcgU?si=spZAzbanSoGKMqsRlNkuJQ


And although you asked for new classical, there have been some really amazing releases in the rest of the classical world this year that I've kept in steady rotation that I thought I'd share in case anyone is interested:
** Vikingur Olafsson's "Debussy-Rameau" puts the musical impressionism of Debussy side-by-side with late French Baroque's enfant terrible, Rameau, to stellar effect

** Alexandre Tharaud and Jean-Guihen Queyras have a beautiful album of a diverse range of music re-arranged for cello and piano called "Complices";

** Feico Deutekom's Philip Glass: Musical Offering is an eye-opening set of Glass's orchestral music transcribed for piano

** Igor Levit's just released "Encounter" is an *outstanding* performance of Bach and Brahms chorale preludes, capped off with a performance of Morton Feldman's "Palais de Mari"


-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~
3027486, Feico Deutekom's Glass arrangements for piano were interesting
Posted by mind_grapes, Tue Oct-13-20 11:32 AM
In case anyone wanted to hear him play Facades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOUmA1wBtTA

And Olfsson's piano playing was more delicate and precise than I am used to hearing Debussy played as.

Thank you for sharing all this music.