Iannis Xenakis - Cendrées
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- Cendrées, for mixed choir and large orchestra (1973)
Chœurs de la Fondation Gulbenkian de Lisbonne
Orchestre National de France
Michel Tabachnik
Cendrées, for choir and orchestra, by lannis Xenakis, was commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation, where it was performed for the first time in 1974. The first French performance was in Paris, at the Salle Wagram, on 21 December, 1977. The work is headed by a bucolic epigraph, exceptionally for Xenakis: "Before the autumn, before the summer, before every season, when the sun is like a snow-flake, and when it comes down to meet the earth, all is white and opal; and this at times may be long-lasting. These are no mists, no dews, but cinders." Nonetheless, this is no descriptive work after the manner of Vivaldi or Beethoven, while being perhaps less strictly abstract a canvas than his earlier pieces which were rightly, though vaguely, described as "cosmic" in character. Is this the beginning of Xenakis the landscape-painter? Perhaps, but he still remains difficult to penetrate. Here is none of that gentleness and silence that the epigraph seemed to promise. After the rising glissandi of the violins and the descending ones of the cellos, are quickly superimposed those of the female voices, bringing movement and humanity to the process; then the male voices proffer, with a vulgar brutality, like rough shouts, apostrophes sung to vowel-sounds; the choirs and instruments mingle in an extraordinary "landscape" of timbres, rhythms, cries, and violent
punctuations leading to a superb tumult. A curious central episode begins with a solo, then a duet on the flutes, with some very fine microtonal sounds, broadening into a concert of all the woodwind, with acid sonorities and rhythms, bringing in the return of the tumultuous chorus. Various evocative episodes follow one upon the other until the end: astonishing solos, sobs or barking by the two contraltos (one of them a young man), also making use of the very expressive aura of microtonal inflections and accents; light scrapings on the violins over a distant murmur of the horns; sometimes the heavy rain of the strings and further looming walls of fearsome sounds; and finally choruses of breath, whispered like the last whisper of a lonely strand when the sea withdraws (with one last cry), -all this that can scarcely be described, has indeed the relief of an unknown landscape and leaves the impression of a lyricism that is as powerful as it is strange.
--John Underwood
Art by William Congdon
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The Architecture of Vibrating Air!
Xenakis is so phenomenal and powerful like an elemental force. Praise and encouragement to those who can help us fully appreciate him
Xenakis is one of my favorite modern composers. Fresh sound, sparkling ideas, bold color. Love it!
What a creation. Xenakis was his own and he was brilliant
Perfectly captures the feeling I just had when a student who didn't do the work and showed up late each time complained about his grade.
Ha! I'm a teacher myself and completely understand where you're coming from...
Thats a very specific feeling!
Mr. Sykes it's me
@@loganh2140 *Music plays even louder*
It's fun to be a gatekeeper and jerk people around when they are at their weakest, isn't it?
Finally! I heard it decades ago and never found it again. One of the great Xenakis oeuvres.
This made me feel emotions that I had never felt before... This piece left me shaking and with many questions.
I love it!!!
Left me shaking and questioning greatness of all the works I've heard before. Thanks for sharing, greetings from Poland.
Fascinating music!
excellent composition.
Nice. I was feeling very stressed and listening to this helped me to liberate not only tension, but anger. There is close to no well made music expressing this kind of feelings.
Absolutely splendid!
brilliant piece of music!
Imposing and beautiful work! I always listen to it with a big pleasure.
Wauw ... More than impressed ! ...
Beautiful! Thank you for uploading this.
You're welcome. Thanks for commenting.
Este canal me da vida. Gracias
Gracias por comentar!
Puedo saber de quien es la ilustración de esta obra de xenakis?
Bravo.
This mesmerizing me.
Thank you pelo!
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A tiny bit of this is reminiscent of Yeibichai singing, i'm in awe!
Amazing I.Xenakis composition ("Cendrées").
MAESTRO.
This is to music as Samuel Beckett is to drama. Intense, raw and unsparing.
Or Lovecraft to existential awe, or the Greek myths (which Xenakis was heavily inspired by)
It is visceral and emotional....much better than the dry serialism of the Darmstadt school.
I love both Xenakis and the Darmstadt school. Not better - just different.
MY OWN PARADI(S)E!
Hmm...I dig this.
Es como si todo se fuera por el sumidero
jajajajajajajaja!
LOL
the sound of mathematics
and semantics differentiation
No
@@tadayoshiwatanabe ok
It's shining music or 2001 just definitely kubrick music.
The angst of election year for politicians! 😁🤣
LOL
tack tack !
Reminds me of Frank Zappa - Didja Get Any Onya?
guess we won't need that acid afterall
Opening is similar to jonchaies
Xenakis is well known for his glissandos
I legit thought it was Jonchais for a minute
🤘🏿😍🤘🏿
Pelo, Thanks. Could you please tell us who painted the picture?
William Congdon.
01:30
merci, ça mérite bien son pesant de cacahuète
bisou bisou
What is the artwork accompanying this? Looks a bit like Paul Klee. Whatever it is works pretty well.
Beckoning Chasm William Congdon.
Thank you! Now that I've seen the work, it doesn't look at all like Klee--not sure what I was thinking. Still looks great and adds to the music. Thanks again!
10:52 jazzy!
Is this available on cd?
Xenakis grew up intellectually in a torment of geopolitical strife brought upon Greece by Nato and Soviet disputes. His Peace of mind was found in Math and its expression thro sound. The strife in Greece left all there in Despair that continues for decades...this music is speechlessness and despair in a way. You can call all this exploratory but does anyone dare say it s an expression of Xenakis s despair and lack of words to deal with the constant strife in Europe? Ioannes Koukouzeles the Byzantinr Music composer expresses a different state of the Soul than Xenakis. Xenakis studied Plato but was his Soul living the peace and philosophy leading to God and contemplation that was Plato s aim? See the writings of Festugiere on the Contemplative Life of Plato. Xenakis built a Platonic architecture house in Corsica but was he at peace after losing an eye while opposing British tanks rolling around in Athens?
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Does someone have the score?
FYI only, the section around 18:00 sounds like a Monty Python sketch :)
Έργο κυψέλη
This reminds me
of the monkey chants. Oh oh oh
My "She dances in the wind", ","Threnody for Frank Zappa " are mild in comparison.