Ferneyhough: La Chute d'Icare (1988) w/ score

[JohnRSamples]

Memo to self: don't fly too near to the sun. 

[bbopdude]

I think it's fun.

[wanekeef]

I've carefully analysed this piece and my conclusion is that as well as being quantifiable testicular to a large degree, it also has elements of codswollop.

[egapnala65]

@wanekeef It is interesting to follow the Clarinet line. The player is clearly bullshitting his way through it. No great surprise there. A friend of mine once played keyboard is a performance of Dillon's "Uberschreiten" and said all you can do in the face of such shit is bullshit.

[egapnala65]

@egapnala65 Sorry "Uberschreiben".

[egapnala65]

All texture, no substance.

[abigoater]

Once upon a time there was a conceited emperor. He visited a tailor to buy a new suit of clothes. The tailor was a bit of a con man and knew of the emperors conceit, so he decided to con the emperor by selling him nothing and convincing the emperor that it was the finest suit of clothes ever conceived, and that only a fool would not see this. The whole town joined the farce, no one wanted to appear a fool. Except one boy who pointed and said "the emperor is naked".

[egapnala65]

@abigoater It is hilarious how quickly the middle class cultural fascists who are promoting the likes of Ferney and co as absolute geniuses against whom only fools would dare speak out against are blocking comments on their videos or closing them down to comments in general. The triumph of democracy eh?

[AfroDeezeeYak]

@egapnala65 It would've been an apt comparison, if only serial music was widely accepted and not viewed by the masses as being uniformly pretentious and written for an exclusive group.

[SoyAussie]

0.0

[rjr1967]

At the Bartók summer school in Szombathely we played around with signal processing this piece, "blurring" the sounds on a recording and actually the result was... (would you believe?).... almost consonant!

I know its not programme music but it does convey a sense of fluttering.

By the way all of us who showed our own compositions to Ferneyhough were AMAZED at his ability to size up the piece and give constructive criticism and guidance - in just a few minutes! Genius teacher.

[egapnala65]

@rjr1967 Yes, nobody argues that he may be a great academic. Composer, however, is something different. Personally until somebody takes this crap and puts it through a computer attuned to all the pettifogging little tempo and microtonal inflections, then it is false to say that any performance of this work is actually Ferneyhough.

[ItsAnArtisticMonkey]

amazing!!!!

[Rige02]

wut.

[jaspernatchez]

As a professor at IU, used to say, contemporary squeaks and squawks.

[Compooky121]

Man, looking at this score makes me want to run away.

[maestromelnick]

The more I listen, the more entranced I become. Woah.

[MaestroTJS]

Ferneyhough

Who?

Ferneyhough!

Who?!

Yeah, he's not worth knowing anyway.

[jmarquar]

oh wow the score is so helpful...

[MisterSimnock]

@lovesGenet. Please could you be a little more sycophantic, the honey covering your ferneyhoughianism is beginning to dry and looks like dead flesh.

[theeReddVision]

is this the full score? i was confused because i didn't see the piano part or the xylophone part. so someone unfamiliar with this piece may not be able to follow the music.

[dawizard737]

@theeReddVision if you pause it at the beginning, you can see all of the instruments. the piano line is the third from the bottom, and marimba (which is probably what you're hearing) is right above the piano.

[FimbulvetrEuph]

@theeReddVision

It switches between being single and double staved. And it's place in the score moves with the addition and subtraction of voices from the ensemble. Makes it a bit thorny to read. lol

[vonklingelfeld]

Sublime work even this solist do not play the any slaps written ...nobody's perfect.

It is a great inrerpretation. Thank you.

[lovesGenet]

I can't get enough. Like eggnog :I'm addicted!!!!

[lovesGenet]

don't youy just love trying to read a Fern score. I want to find his collected writings.It's allso fastidious adn yet u don't feel a beat .Always amazed at how slow the sixteenths are in comparison to the other divisions.Fascinating to say the least.

[japanesesweet]

opening is a canon at the unison.

[bogorzelak]

Thank you for uploading this.