From Rodney Perkins Sent Tue, May 26th 1998, 05:59
I would recommend anything by Penderecki. To me, his works represent the height of experimental orchestral music. "St. Lukes Passion" and "Polish Requiem" knock most experimentalist diddlers flat on their backs. Transcendant in the purest sense of the word. Related tangent: The Wire article is similar in spirit to the Option piece where the writer played Orb, mu-Ziq, Aphex Twin and a few others for Steve Reich and Phillip Glass to get their feedback. For the most part, both artists disliked everything they heard. Of course, Phillip Glass sung the praises of his version of "Icct Hedral." This is not surprising since anytime Glass does an orchestration of someone else's works, he manages to make it sound exactly like something he wrote. At 11:14 PM 5/25/98 EDT, KaisrSolze wrote: >Check out this link to a 1995 Wire article >http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jkandell/music/stock/ks_inter.html > >I think the whole thing is really funny. Can anyone recommend some >Stockhausen and other important 20th century European classical to me? For >Stockhausen, I'm under the impression that Kontakte and Hymnen are damn >important, and that he and Boulez, Varese and Xenakis are the major European >composers of this century... Any help would be appreciated. > >And who's Daniel Pemberton? > >Sam > > -------------------------------- Rodney Perkins (mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx)