Classical

[Brian O'Blivion]

I have to be in the right mood for Schoenberg because some of his pieces are so profoundly unsettling that I've had my good mood changed to a bad one while listening. Powerful composer.

Lucianio Berio is another one who sometimes wrote in a similar vein. He wrote a lot of music in a variety of styles, but Sinfonia is my personal favourite. Pretty animated music while still being discordant and challenging.

[drift]

I have to be in the right mood for Schoenberg because some of his pieces are so profoundly unsettling

I only really find the operas unsettling, no idea why. I used to be madly into Luigi nono's atonal works



my break through into "not just Radiohead" if you see what I mean. it's still him in his tape music... i made a decision about 15 years ago to either learn about classical music or how to do noise.

[BrachliegenTapes]

Listening to a lot of Sarah Davachi atm, All My Circles Run and The Untuning of the Sky in particular: https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album ... of-the-sky

Really fantastic minimal classical drone...

[drift]

still enjoy arvo part: middle ground not middle brow lol

give me tears and remembrance of death

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[Scream & Writhe]

The new Kali Malone record is really great. https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/living-torch

[G R-L]

In terms of Contemporary Compostion/New Music, I'm a huge fan of Ellen Arkbro, especially 2017's For Organ And Brass. Highly recommend to listen to as loud a possible: https://ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/album/ ... -and-brass

In terms of older stuff, I really like Andrew Poppy's work - I first encountered him as the arranger for the orchestral sections of Psychic TV's Dreams Less Sweet, but his most famous work was at a really interesting intersection between post-serialism, systems music and new technologies. I recommend the whole 'The Beating Of Wings' record from '85 as a starting point. These are my two favourites from that LP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkcItO7n1qE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO-BkfjGAec

Also from the similar 80s London composition scene, Jeremy Peyton Jones/Regular music. I picked this LP up for a couple of quid in a charity shop one purely for the Charles Hayward credit, and I listen to it all the time. It feels a little like a road not taken in terms of trying to find a new form/context for chamber and small group music:
https://klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/regular-music

[Scream & Writhe]

This album is written and recorded on a reed organ with two manuals and pedals. The instrument was built by Alfred Cedergren who was a reed organ builder 1870–1925 in Vänge on the island Gotland, Sweden. During this period of time Hulda Veström lived in the same village. When Hulda was 14 years old she left her mother and sisters to travel to her father in Los Angeles. In spring 1912 she boarded the Titanic together with her aunt, who was also named Hulda. There is a picture of the two Huldas in the wooden chapel in Vänge where the Cedergren instruments today are gathered. In 2019 Felicia Sjögren moved to Vänge and the chapel with reed organs became her closest neighbor. Over time she got to know the instruments and stories of the village. When she decided to write music on one of the organs she knew she was going to dedicate it to Hulda, a teenage girl 100 years into space and time of this very place. Hulda is also the name of one of the few women prophets in the Bible, appearing in the Old Testament with warnings of the doomsday. The album is written and recorded in the chapel by Felicia Sjögren.

[SS1535]

I was listening to Alfred Schnittke yesterday, and I liked it quite a bit---at parts reminiscent of some early Nurse With Wound (though very different in other respects).