What a discovery for me? This is music in its purest, most intens form. It is life itself, so painful because for me it expresses the lost, unexpressed life, my own life, which I find again in this music.
Ab initio erat silentium. If we manage to escape taking music for granted as we usually do today, it is always good to start from the very nature of tone, its abilities to express more than just melody and rhythm. I assume that you have chosen such attitude when approaching the task of composition of this quartett, It reminds me a bit of Ligeti, but I hear some associations to Vasks as well. When usual elements of musical expression are ignored, there is still a plenty of possibilities to be achieved, such as dynamics, traetment of colour etc. There are many ways to (re)discover music, especially if we already know a lot of music composed so far. Sometimes I find myself enjoying medieval music, admiring its calm and slow motion of time. It can be such a relief from neurotic daily routine, healing one's soul and recovering strength for the next step... This music of yours follows the same path. All the best!
Dear Vanja, it is great to hear again from you, and I am truly happy and honored that you took some time to listen to this work. Your words indeed describe very well the spirit of the music and the state of mind and of heart that I had when working on it. Thank you for your genuine and heartfelt response, which means a lot to me. All the very best to you and hope to be in touch again soon! Thomas
Also, you mentioned medieval music; I'd be very, very curious to know more in detail which particular works of that time have impacted you. Very inspiring!
@@ThomasSchwan Well, as far as medieval music was still quite a mistery at the time of my studying music and availability of recorded sources was rather poor, I made my personal research in the first years of my teaching in high school and bought some CD-s with early vocal poyphony and troubadour songs. So I discovered one entirely new world of splendid pieces of music full of misticism and cool sound of early instruments. Besides I read a lot and was hungry for written works on medieval music and culture, kept buying some italian reviews with CD-s enclosed to magazines on such issues and so I got aquainted to works of Hildegard von Bingen, Alfonso el Sabio and different Codexes with pilgrimage songs, especially Cantigas de Sancta Maria and Camino de Santiago from Spain, as well as some old songbooks from medieval Sicily. I am enclosing here one example of famous troubadour song that resembles well what I had on my mind in my comment. th-cam.com/video/HvDSlpLja5I/w-d-xo.html
@@ThomasSchwan Dear Thomas, I am sending you some music of Hildegard von Bingen, she made very versatile musical opus and some of her compositions reflect the same purity of musical content I was talking about when mentioning reduced quantity of building elements when creating a musical piece. All the best to you! Vanja
Dear Thomas! I have found also this piece composed by Peteris Vasks, I think you might find it interesting so I am enclosing it here. I hope you had received your book of Hamvas and that you are enjoying it. Sorry if my new identification signature confused you, I don't know what happened, I used it long time ago... I see that you are on tour these days, good luck! Vanja th-cam.com/video/paRg7uR8Xgc/w-d-xo.html
Dear Vanja, great to hear from you and thank you for sharing this other work by Vasks! I find this kind of music incredibly fascinating, as it is able to sound absolutely contemporary utilizing the pure diatonic scale material. Yet, the way tonal scales and sonorities are "listened to" is completely different than the 19th and early 20th century; it is somehow "static within movement", with a completely different sense of time (almost like an "eternal present"). I am still awaiting the Hamvas, and will definitely keep you posted on that! Regarding the usernames, I believe TH-cam did some changes to how usernames are displayed. Thank you again, talk soon! All the best! Thomas
Dear Vanja, I have just received Scientia Sacra by Hamvas translated in Italian and started reading the first chapter, and I am completely hooked. Thank you again for the great recommendation! Talk soon! Thomas
@@ThomasSchwanDear Thomas, I am so glad that you let me know and happy that you like it. Somehow it seemed to me that you might be the right person for such a literature after we had exchanged some thoughts. Hopefully it won't be to heavy for reading inbetween all your artistic obligations, but I have understood you are already well informed about such way of thinking of the world we all share. Enjoy the book and we can exchange some experiences after reading it some day. I recently got his book "Five wise men" as a birthday present and I enjoy in his marvellous sentences every time when I open these pages. The title was unknown for me so far, it is a book about Hungary, but whatever might be the topic, his poetic writing and wide comprehension of the events make me happy every time my sight moves across his lines. He is so good writer and I like his style of presenting the matter very much. Talk soon! Vanja
Yes, I will certainly keep you posted and I know it will be an extraordinary reading experience. I only found one other book of his translated in Italian, "War and Poetry", from the same small publisher, and I received that, as well. Thank you again and talk soon! Thomas
Dear Thomas, I am glad you got another work of Hamvas, I am sure it is worth of reading too. It is a bit confusing if one wants to collect Hamvas' works, because his entire literary heritage consists mainly from essays that someone organises in groups of five or eight and edits as a book giving some convenient title to it. Scientia Sacra and few novels are fortunately completed and issued by the author himself. Anyhow, it is always a pleasure to enjoy such a supreme writing style.
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What a discovery for me? This is music in its purest, most intens form. It is life itself, so painful because for me it expresses the lost, unexpressed life, my own life, which I find again in this music.
Dear Paul, thank you for listening to this, too, and for this incredible comment! I am truly humbled!! All the best, Thomas
great piece
Thank you for your kind words and for listening! Thomas
this is so very beautiful.
my favorite moment was around the 8 minute mark and the very end. excited to listen to the trio next :)
Hi Ethan!!! Thank you for listening and for your kind words! All the best, Thomas
Bellissima e originale
Grazie!
Ab initio erat silentium. If we manage to escape taking music for granted as we usually do today, it is always good to start from the very nature of tone, its abilities to express more than just melody and rhythm. I assume that you have chosen such attitude when approaching the task of composition of this quartett, It reminds me a bit of Ligeti, but I hear some associations to Vasks as well. When usual elements of musical expression are ignored, there is still a plenty of possibilities to be achieved, such as dynamics, traetment of colour etc. There are many ways to (re)discover music, especially if we already know a lot of music composed so far. Sometimes I find myself enjoying medieval music, admiring its calm and slow motion of time. It can be such a relief from neurotic daily routine, healing one's soul and recovering strength for the next step... This music of yours follows the same path. All the best!
Dear Vanja, it is great to hear again from you, and I am truly happy and honored that you took some time to listen to this work. Your words indeed describe very well the spirit of the music and the state of mind and of heart that I had when working on it. Thank you for your genuine and heartfelt response, which means a lot to me. All the very best to you and hope to be in touch again soon! Thomas
Also, you mentioned medieval music; I'd be very, very curious to know more in detail which particular works of that time have impacted you. Very inspiring!
@@ThomasSchwan Well, as far as medieval music was still quite a mistery at the time of my studying music and availability of recorded sources was rather poor, I made my personal research in the first years of my teaching in high school and bought some CD-s with early vocal poyphony and troubadour songs. So I discovered one entirely new world of splendid pieces of music full of misticism and cool sound of early instruments. Besides I read a lot and was hungry for written works on medieval music and culture, kept buying some italian reviews with CD-s enclosed to magazines on such issues and so I got aquainted to works of Hildegard von Bingen, Alfonso el Sabio and different Codexes with pilgrimage songs, especially Cantigas de Sancta Maria and Camino de Santiago from Spain, as well as some old songbooks from medieval Sicily. I am enclosing here one example of famous troubadour song that resembles well what I had on my mind in my comment. th-cam.com/video/HvDSlpLja5I/w-d-xo.html
@@ThomasSchwan Dear Thomas, I am sending you some music of Hildegard von Bingen, she made very versatile musical opus and some of her compositions reflect the same purity of musical content I was talking about when mentioning reduced quantity of building elements when creating a musical piece. All the best to you! Vanja
th-cam.com/video/52Clyua6LKk/w-d-xo.html
Dear Thomas! I have found also this piece composed by Peteris Vasks, I think you might find it interesting so I am enclosing it here. I hope you had received your book of Hamvas and that you are enjoying it. Sorry if my new identification signature confused you, I don't know what happened, I used it long time ago... I see that you are on tour these days, good luck! Vanja th-cam.com/video/paRg7uR8Xgc/w-d-xo.html
Dear Vanja, great to hear from you and thank you for sharing this other work by Vasks! I find this kind of music incredibly fascinating, as it is able to sound absolutely contemporary utilizing the pure diatonic scale material. Yet, the way tonal scales and sonorities are "listened to" is completely different than the 19th and early 20th century; it is somehow "static within movement", with a completely different sense of time (almost like an "eternal present"). I am still awaiting the Hamvas, and will definitely keep you posted on that! Regarding the usernames, I believe TH-cam did some changes to how usernames are displayed. Thank you again, talk soon! All the best! Thomas
Dear Vanja, I have just received Scientia Sacra by Hamvas translated in Italian and started reading the first chapter, and I am completely hooked. Thank you again for the great recommendation! Talk soon! Thomas
@@ThomasSchwanDear Thomas, I am so glad that you let me know and happy that you like it. Somehow it seemed to me that you might be the right person for such a literature after we had exchanged some thoughts. Hopefully it won't be to heavy for reading inbetween all your artistic obligations, but I have understood you are already well informed about such way of thinking of the world we all share. Enjoy the book and we can exchange some experiences after reading it some day. I recently got his book "Five wise men" as a birthday present and I enjoy in his marvellous sentences every time when I open these pages. The title was unknown for me so far, it is a book about Hungary, but whatever might be the topic, his poetic writing and wide comprehension of the events make me happy every time my sight moves across his lines. He is so good writer and I like his style of presenting the matter very much. Talk soon! Vanja
Yes, I will certainly keep you posted and I know it will be an extraordinary reading experience. I only found one other book of his translated in Italian, "War and Poetry", from the same small publisher, and I received that, as well. Thank you again and talk soon! Thomas
Dear Thomas, I am glad you got another work of Hamvas, I am sure it is worth of reading too. It is a bit confusing if one wants to collect Hamvas' works, because his entire literary heritage consists mainly from essays that someone organises in groups of five or eight and edits as a book giving some convenient title to it. Scientia Sacra and few novels are fortunately completed and issued by the author himself. Anyhow, it is always a pleasure to enjoy such a supreme writing style.