Keyblade Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 A Winged Victory For The Sullen - We Played Some Open Chords And Rejoiced For Earth The Had Circled The Sun Yet Another Year Picked this up the other week, one of the best neoclassical albums I've heard in a long while and a terrific debut. Most things that come out of Erased Tapes tend to be well worth a listen, but this is a belter. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. On May 24th 2007, in Bologna, Italy, Adam was on tour and playing with the late Mark Linkous & his beloved Sparklehorse, on what would be their final European tour. That night Adam invited friend and colleague Francesco Donadello to see the concert, and Francesco's guest this evening was composer Dustin O'Halloran (Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ O.S.T.). Through a strange twist of backstage conversations surrounding passport cache conundrums, and love of Italian gastronomy, a curious friendship began that now has brought forth an offspring of truly curative compositions for the world to savour. The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination. In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous – they have taken the age-old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic bliss. Of the 13 minute track ‘Symphony Pathétique’, Wiltzie says ‘after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing’. Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, as well as Erased Tapes label comrade Peter Broderick on violin. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is not a side project – it is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of. The band are currently touring their highly acclaimed, self-titled debut album with great applause. Yeah, this is like the best album ever. One of my favorites for sure. Everything the dudes from Stars of the Lid touch is gold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Not purely classical, but this pretty much my favorite piece of music ever from one of my favorite ever albums: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Glad to see this thread still going albeit at a mere 10 pages I'm getting Orchestra withdrawal symptoms. Haven't been since December.. http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/music-in-birmingham/2012/12/21/review-birmingham-philharmonic-orchestra-at-adrian-boult-hall-65233-32459582/ This was the bugger in fact. The Russians do know how to compose an alright tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Perotin - 'Beata viscera' This is the cheapie recording on Naxos, but it was recorded in Notre Dame Cathedral which has knockout acoustics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Most things that come out of Erased Tapes tend to be well worth a listen, but this is a belter. I picked up the Erased Tapes Collection IV. Very nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 A Romanian conductor and orchestra doing Enescu's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 This years Proms have kicked off. This has pianist Stephen Hough playing orchestral variations on a theme by Paganini as composed by Rachmaninov & Lutoslawski. Hough is pretty bloody good, and a little freaky with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 J.S. Bach - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppKYRR8sZWg, Herreweghe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 J.S. Bach - Mass in B minor, Herreweghe Cheers for that, enjoying a good listen of it now. You gotta love Bach. Well, certainly that Bach. My offering for this eve. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8qGcqf698 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 John Tavener - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 For some reason I think Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is at its best when a woman plays it: maybe because Peter had a strong feminine side, or because they look so sexy doing it. http://youtu.be/GAkw_Wi4yIo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Got Heifetz doing Tchaikovsky, he's very good if not exactly Hi-Fi. If I was to get another, it would probably be the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgMVep8I2ko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Can I just say that I really love a bit of Ravel? I can? Good. And Nimrod by Elgar gives me goosebumps. That's it really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 (edited) Got Heifetz doing Tchaikovsky, he's very good if not exactly Hi-Fi. If I was to get another, it would probably be the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgMVep8I2ko. The dilemma with buying classical music is whether to be buy the best performance or the best recording. Always a tough call. Love the Kogan - thanks! Although I definitely find Tchaikovsky a bit too sweet for me in the morning. Edited November 13, 2013 by MakemineVanilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 50 years ago: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Spotify Try the second track, it's beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 (edited) I can understand why a lot of people dislike 'The Tree of Life', but it's soundtrack is one of the best in recent years. Edited December 3, 2013 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Xann Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Telemann - Teresa Stich-Randall has a lovely voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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