Over 100 years old (this version at least), yet it sounds like it was written last week. Varese was a unique composer with a lasting influence on many that came after him. That final chord just sums up the massive scale of the piece in so many ways.
In my opinion, Varese is one of the greatest composers who ever lived. The musical concepts that he came up with goes beyond the imagination. Ameriques is my favorite piece of his. The dissonance of music altogether doesn't get more extreme than in this piece (especially in the finale). Thanks for the upload and thanks for the score!
Kyler LaViollette more like Schoenberg's Op 16 meshed with Webern's Op 6, influenced by the Rite Of Spring, with allusions to Debussy's La Mer and Nocturnes, while remaining completely original and forward-thinking into a new (at the time) world of music that hadn't truly been seen before!
@@slateflash When Villa-Lobos arrived in Paris he made a lot of friends. Rubinstein and Lucie Delarue-Mardrus explored his image as a naïve composer from the tropics, as opposed to formal musical education in the Conservatoire. So Villa-Lobos went fashionable and he explored this on his works from this period.
It is his elaborate and sophisticated use of counterpoint that fascinates me... the construction of these sections... and then hearing them conjoin into each other is a glorious musical feat. I'd say that this is his magnum opus along with Integrales. In terms of the specific writing for the instruments, there are very obvious similarities with The Rite of Spring. One CANNOT overthink Varese, or else they'll never enjoy him!
So this is Varese's original version, right? The Chou Wen-chung version is quite different in a couple of places (that is, there are several minutes of music in here that are completely absent in the later version --right?)
Well the title of the piece stands for "America's" (if you didn't already know). Edgard grew up with the image of America being a hopeful future, where he eventually relocated. Considering that he was at the premier of the Rite Of Spring, he also saw that as the opening of new musical landscapes. The two combined, is sort of him opening the doors further into the future of music, and modernism. Beautiful!
This is a piece of absolute music, not a tone poem. The title "Americas" is meant to evoke exploration, new vistas of the imagination as well as new vistas in the world around us. But it is not like movie music, where every gesture is meant to evoke some visual image or inner emotion. It was shocking to audiences of the 1920's, and is still a powerful composition today. It's too bad Varese only wrote two major orchestral works. But he wrote very little in general, disgusted with the complete lack of comprehension by audiences and critics. He was NOT ahead of his time. Rather, audiences and critics were (and generally still are) behind the times.
I can’t unhear the similarity between the beginning of this and the beginning of the rite of spring
and what about 12:20 and so on? Definitely Stravinsky's influence!
Not just Varese and Stravinsky, though. A distinctive wind solo is a great way to begin any piece!
Over 100 years old (this version at least), yet it sounds like it was written last week. Varese was a unique composer with a lasting influence on many that came after him.
That final chord just sums up the massive scale of the piece in so many ways.
This piece is so damned good.
In my opinion, Varese is one of the greatest composers who ever lived. The musical concepts that he came up with goes beyond the imagination. Ameriques is my favorite piece of his. The dissonance of music altogether doesn't get more extreme than in this piece (especially in the finale). Thanks for the upload and thanks for the score!
He assimilated the influences of Webern, Debussy and Stravinsky to completely change the face of classical music for the better :)
@@johnappleseed8369 how did he change it for the better?
Arcana, Hyperprism and Integrales are also superb
One of history's greatest works
An excellent performance!
FANTASTIC! I love the blackout at the end. Great siren playing!
Wonderful!!! On TV everyday!!!Varese the biggest classic composer i ever Heard .this pièce IS our World.
Thank you SO much for coordinating this with the score. You rock. This piece is amazing.
Absolutely feral. Love it!
The Rite of Spring, only significantly more hellish.
Kyler LaViollette more like Schoenberg's Op 16 meshed with Webern's Op 6, influenced by the Rite Of Spring, with allusions to Debussy's La Mer and Nocturnes, while remaining completely original and forward-thinking into a new (at the time) world of music that hadn't truly been seen before!
That summed it up quite nicely!
The American rite of spring
Great piece. Thanks for posting all these gems with scores to boot
yes it does have a Le Sacre vibe to it. I love how Stravinsky influenced other composers. And vice versa
Merci
When I hear this, I imagine tugboats, police in motorcars chasing robbers, the sounds of a chaotic city out a Manhattan window. Very cool.
Magnifique merci
Way, way ahead of his time.
Mr. Varèse and the brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos met in Paris in the 20s and became friends for a lifetime.
Interesting... because at 1:28 there is an Eflat clarinet solo that's very superficially similar to the one in Villa Lobos' Amazonas
@@slateflash When Villa-Lobos arrived in Paris he made a lot of friends. Rubinstein and Lucie Delarue-Mardrus explored his image as a naïve composer from the tropics, as opposed to formal musical education in the Conservatoire. So Villa-Lobos went fashionable and he explored this on his works from this period.
I couldn't agree with you more, Robert. This piece is just as edgy today as it was in the 1920s --maybe even more so.
absolutely a masterpiece!
nice
Varese's music is just..... real
I completely agree with that, inthe winds and percussions.
That siren... I nearly pooped my pants.
thank you for this!!
This is a great piece, it also sounds like a direct response to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
I came here after recommendations to similar sounding pieces
I love the brass crazy parts, like at 9:40 and 12:15
This could almost be a Soundtrack to a George Orwell 1984 movie!
It is his elaborate and sophisticated use of counterpoint that fascinates me... the construction of these sections... and then hearing them conjoin into each other is a glorious musical feat. I'd say that this is his magnum opus along with Integrales. In terms of the specific writing for the instruments, there are very obvious similarities with The Rite of Spring.
One CANNOT overthink Varese, or else they'll never enjoy him!
Does any one have a link to this version of the score? All I can find is the 1927 version.
The LA Phil Preformed this today. I was going to go and start a fight in the audience but i overslept
So this is Varese's original version, right? The Chou Wen-chung version is quite different in a couple of places (that is, there are several minutes of music in here that are completely absent in the later version --right?)
I think it's because of instruments that are in back of stage
It's the closest thing to James Joyce's stream of consciousness in music. It most definitely is not program music.
14:57 Prometheus?
2:39
Is there a story this piece is telling?
From what I understand this is some sort of representation or sound portrait of New York City or some other general American metropolis.
sushigod101 Huh. Thanks.
Well the title of the piece stands for "America's" (if you didn't already know).
Edgard grew up with the image of America being a hopeful future, where he eventually relocated.
Considering that he was at the premier of the Rite Of Spring, he also saw that as the opening of new musical landscapes.
The two combined, is sort of him opening the doors further into the future of music, and modernism. Beautiful!
Navel gazing of America's New York City...
This is a piece of absolute music, not a tone poem. The title "Americas" is meant to evoke exploration, new vistas of the imagination as well as new vistas in the world around us. But it is not like movie music, where every gesture is meant to evoke some visual image or inner emotion. It was shocking to audiences of the 1920's, and is still a powerful composition today. It's too bad Varese only wrote two major orchestral works. But he wrote very little in general, disgusted with the complete lack of comprehension by audiences and critics. He was NOT ahead of his time. Rather, audiences and critics were (and generally still are) behind the times.
Rite of Spring of the capitalism.
explain the second part!
13:24
7:34
un orchestratore coi controcoglioni. fa sembrare quasi banale mahler... :)
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