So different to the rest I´ve heard of chamber music. Imagine being on a romanian forest while listening to this at night. Shivering! This music comes from the deepest roots of the joys of darkness
Agreed. Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, even some of Bach's Leipzig chorales are still avant-garde now. I've been playing and listening to Bartok for at least 20 years now, and he still has the power to surprise me!
Pelodelperro-Two forms of Art complimenting each other brilliantly, and this goes for all of the other Bartok recordings that you've posted, as well as your entire collection, even though I have not heard it all the way through yet. All avant garde works should require their respectful visual counterpart from now on.
@ewparkentity this work is over three-quarters of a century old. It is used in Hollywood films. How, by any stretch of the imagination, is it avant garde?
@doctorfuse007 Bartok wasn't exactly an avant-garde composer so much as he was an unpopular one at the time (he was less progressive than Schoenberg or Messiaen), but the term can be applied very broadly. Certainly though, just because a work is old, and has been used in films after the composer's death, doesn't mean it can't be avant-garde. Debussy himself was considered avant-garde at his time, but today he sounds as old as Chopin and Beethoven.
At it's time it was considered avant guard and innovative, so the composition is innovative it's just that those innovations happened over half a century ago, just like Shonberg and Messiaen and less than half a century even Penderecki, and Stockhausen are no longer avant guard though at the time they were extremely different and new approaches. It is the 21st century now.
I think this work belongs to the the class of rare pieces which are among the best and at the same time the most extreme ever.
flexibartr 2 weeks ago
i think avant-garde is always avant-garde. its pushes time out in front of us and time does nothing to it.
SuperJewbot 3 weeks ago
It is worth living just to hear music like this!
TsanevMusic 1 month ago 2
This is such a beautiful performance!
TsanevMusic 1 month ago
Stanley Kubrik used this same music for The Shining! Very creepy stuff!
eeepictures 2 months ago 3
So different to the rest I´ve heard of chamber music. Imagine being on a romanian forest while listening to this at night. Shivering! This music comes from the deepest roots of the joys of darkness
Carlos111111able 2 months ago 5
Agreed. Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, even some of Bach's Leipzig chorales are still avant-garde now. I've been playing and listening to Bartok for at least 20 years now, and he still has the power to surprise me!
domcogan 3 months ago
Pelodelperro-Two forms of Art complimenting each other brilliantly, and this goes for all of the other Bartok recordings that you've posted, as well as your entire collection, even though I have not heard it all the way through yet. All avant garde works should require their respectful visual counterpart from now on.
ewparkentity 5 months ago 2
@ewparkentity this work is over three-quarters of a century old. It is used in Hollywood films. How, by any stretch of the imagination, is it avant garde?
doctorfuse007 3 months ago
@doctorfuse007 Bartok wasn't exactly an avant-garde composer so much as he was an unpopular one at the time (he was less progressive than Schoenberg or Messiaen), but the term can be applied very broadly. Certainly though, just because a work is old, and has been used in films after the composer's death, doesn't mean it can't be avant-garde. Debussy himself was considered avant-garde at his time, but today he sounds as old as Chopin and Beethoven.
TheWanderingNight 3 months ago
@TheWanderingNight
At it's time it was considered avant guard and innovative, so the composition is innovative it's just that those innovations happened over half a century ago, just like Shonberg and Messiaen and less than half a century even Penderecki, and Stockhausen are no longer avant guard though at the time they were extremely different and new approaches. It is the 21st century now.
AAceNo1 1 month ago
Perfectly beautiful no? The sensitivity and craftsmanship, its all there. Bartok got it all.
Bagas 9 months ago
This sounds very different than most other recordings, It's a real treat.
jdbrown371 1 year ago 3
I was so moved I just bought it!
jdbrown371 1 year ago 9
@jdbrown371 Great! That's the idea of sharing music here. Enjoy your new acquisition. This Levine version is just beautiful.
pelodelperro 1 year ago
@jdbrown371 you mean with all the hiss from being compressed to crappy mp3 format?
doctorfuse007 3 months ago