Jonathan Harvey Bird Concerto with Pianosong (2001)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2018
- Live performance from April 15, 2018, at Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Ensemble X
Timothy Weiss, conductor
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, piano and sampler - เพลง
Cantus arcticus is an orchestral symphony with many solos for birds. This is next level: a Bird symphony with instrumental reflections. Wonderful.
Listen to this, really listen, it's great!
Lovely man/composer.
So Messiaen wasn't the last word on birdsong after all! I love Harvey's distinctive spin on the sounds.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you.
Why didn't Messiaen use real birdsong recordings inhis work . Many composers were using tape and prerecorded sound when he was still living. His students all did great things . I must find out who Harvey taught . What a great experience this is !
This is a great question, and probably more practical than anything-Messiaen only made one experiment with musique concrete, Timbres-durées, which is certainly not his greatest work of art, and it seems he simply wasn't interested in the kind of labor that went into tape composition, or the outcome. Work with tape back then was cumbersome, and required weeks of effort in a studio-he probably felt like his skills were better used elsewhere. On the other hand, the bird pieces from the 50s (catalogue d'oiseaux, oiseaux exotiques, etc) are heavily indebted to musique concrète in their block-like structures, and while the "realism" of the bird calls is questionable (bird dialects change over time anyway), it seems Messiaen was more concerned with the timbral and rhythmic characteristics of each bird's song than anything else.
This makes me want to see who or what is making all the bird sounds! Might they be pre taped and being played along with the live musicians? Or is there a person playing the bird sounds? It's a mystery!
It's not really visible, but there's an electric keyboard on top of the piano connected to a computer playing back the samples. The mappings of key to bird sample changes constantly throughout the piece.
@@RyanMacMcC THANKYOU!! I feel better now! The combination of electronic and live is astounding. I love it!
Einojuhani Rautavaara's big hit was his Concerto for Birds and Orchestra "Cantus Arcticus" (1972), and he used a magnetic tape. He replaced it later with a computer recording, as it was wearing out/impractical.
It's been recorded often, by Ondine and Naxos and others.
I enjoy challenging music, but the Rautavaara is far more my cuppa than this work by Harvey, which strikes my ear as rather abstruse, hard slogging.
Nice and beautifull
Only one Camera is not enough
Danke