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Contemporary Music on YouTube: collection updated

I’ve made a number of new admissions to the Rambler’s collection of YouTube videos of contemporary music. These include the following:

Berberian – Stripsody, performed by Diana Gamet.

Czernowin – Seed 1 and Seed 2, performed by Either/Or ensemble.

Kurtág – ‘Quarrel’, from Játékok. Played by the composer and his wife Martá.

Lachenmann – Guero. Played by Nick Tolle of the Ludovico Ensemble.

Lachenmann – Mouvement, part 1, part 2, part 3.

I’ve also deleted or replaced some links that had gone dead. To enjoy the full collection, including more new videos than are shown here, please go here.

(Photo of film canisters by atomicjeep on Flickr.)

Wow – Xenakis, Pleiades on YouTube

Loving these videos of Xenakis’s percussion masterpiece Pleiades by the Yale Percussion group. (Thanks to Jim Casella, whose Twitter feed pointed me towards finding these.)

Xenakis – Pleïades: Melanges; Claviers parts 1 and 2; Metaux parts 1 and 2; Peaux parts 1 and 2.

Also, Kagel’s Dressur, in three parts: 1, 2, 3.

Big update to The Rambler’s collection of new music on YouTube

I’ve added a whole load of videos to my legendary collection of YouTube new music videos. Check out these tasty additions:

Ablinger – weiss/weisslich, played by the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien. I think this is weiss/weisslich 4, but that’s supposed to be for piano and a minimum of 5 other instruments and there are only four here.

Ablinger – Ohne Titel for flute and piano, payed by the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien.

Cassidy – I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips. Performed by Carl Rosman.

Cassidy – What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile (or, First Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion). Performed by Tristram Williams.

Cassidy – Because they mark the zone where the force is in the process of striking (or, Second Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion). Performed by Benjamin Marks.

Corbett – Valentine no.11, played by Gustavo Balanesco.

Dench – Sum over histories. Played by Richard Haynes and Carl Rosman. Part 1, part 2.

Grisey – Talea, performed by the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien. Part 1, part 2.

Lang, Bernhard – Monadologie IV, performed by Timetable Percussion. Part 1, part 2, part 3.

Lang, Bernhard – Differenz/Wiederholung 14. Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8.

Lang, Bernhard – Der Alte vom Berge. Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7.

Lang, Klaus – Zwillingsgipfel. Played by the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien.

Mitterer – Idée Fixe. Played by the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien. Part 1, part 2. (There are two other performance of this piece by PLEW online, but this is the best sound quality I think.)

Take a look at the main post for many more like that.

YouTube post updated

… with live performances of Alvin Curran, Keiko Harada and Michael Maierhof, thanks to the Monday Evening Concerts series.

(This recent show looks like it was amazing – hope some of this ends up on YT.)

Also, I found this – haven’t added it to the main post because it’s not a video, just the sound file, but it’s a gem worth sharing:

Youtube post updated

My Youtube collection has been updated with some videos from ELISION’S recent appearance at King’s Place (reviewed here), including Richard Barrett’s knospend-gespaltener and Aaron Cassidy’s Being itself a catastrophe. The videos are from rehearsals, not the live performance, but they’re performed ‘as live’ aren’t from the King’s Place concert but were recorded at City University the next day.

YouTube goldmine

Because my YouTube mega-post is meant to collect new music videos of interest, not simply sound recordings, I’m not including in there anything from scriabinwasmydad’s channel, but seriously, you have to check it out. A real goldmine of new music uploads (all piano music I think) – composers include Finnissy, Durkó (!), Stockhausen, Rzewski, Eastman … Listening to each of Finnissy’s Verdi Transcriptions with the first page of the score is a real treat.