Varèse - Offrandes - Boulez, Anna Steiger

[Mrochlin1]

I am speechless! ... Zappa ... wonderful internet and You Tube renditions of recordings that otherwise could have missed. A wonderful way to share the mysteries of sound....an amazing experience. Just think, most people go thru life without truly realizing the range of the senses. The human range for enjoyment of sensory input is directly proportional to the ability of the mind to accept, analyze and accommodate the perceptions.

[iristacrat]

horrible non-music--I have an Anison headache--Stieger sounds good though--to bad she has to sing this crap to get noticed

[Trudetenor]

@iristacrat Your are, right she sounds good, in her case at least you got a good ear! ! Her name is Anna STEIGER though. Also having problems with your eyesight? Too bad you have to give these comments to get noticed :)

[Lifesucksdie123]

fascinating stuff!

never heard anything quite like it.

[Trudetenor]

very well sung from this superb singer!

[ToneKicker007]

There is something beneath the surface of this dissonance that is chronologically ingenious. It sounds virtually cinematic, and the passages from 3:44 on to the singing again were wonderful.

Wagner on LSD sounds about right. My cultural experiences are inhibiting me from seeing anything truly beautiful about this piece, but it's ugliness is an artistic statement.

[Bolender]

Harsh beauty.  Not ugliness.

[STEVERED23]

You're right, Laurion. Britney Spears have a real public! Go and listen to "musicians" they have sold many... then let's talk abot in 2100, 2200...

[freelancerkthnx]

adiabatic - occurring without gain or loss of heat (opposed to diabatic): an adiabatic process.

So not only does Varese's music sound great, it is scientifically revolutionary as well as musically revolutionary. In fact this means that his conception of sound was even more complex than we had previously thought! This revelation means his interest in the science of sound was not a nominal engagement without any concrete relations to his music - his music contained his very conceptions!

[GreggaryPeccary]

Jesus christ, get a life! You're seeking out all these videos and commenting on what shit it is... Are you on a crusade? You must have left your mark on half of youtubes avantgarde videos

[MusicaRicercata]

What I find to further the irony is that one of the videos in laurion's favourites list is "Interview with Arnold Schoenberg".

Tut tut tut

[revions]

The artist should not be held responsible if people's stupidity prevents them from folowing the process of perpetual transformation of these elements and principles, nor if their laziness and desire for mental ease makes them wish to stop this pitiless movement and to substitute for these elements and principles stereotyped formulas.

[Bolender]

Rubbish? Well, it takes me to another world. Couldn't imagine my life without it.

[freddydiamant]

Another astonishing work by this great Master.

[tromboneduracel]

C'est varèse le compositeur d'offrande au cas ou

[swanningaround]

She certainly has famous parents, both great actors - Rod Steiger and Clare Bloom!

[acoronab]

Is this music hated because we belong to the next generation? Bach's sons generation abhored of stuffy old Bach's music... Some of this sounds old-fashioned, edgy like old, rusty metal structures. But what came after these artists, Varese, Xenakis, Stockhausen, is minimalism...Glass, Reich... pretty bland stuff. I think I stick to these guys.

[intuos]

"This is the biggest unintelligible shit, disorder, a pain to hear this whole."

I'm sorry, you were saying something about unintelligible?

[frisovanwijck]

idiot

[captainfink]

seeing is believing

[talkingbook86]

like many i became aware of Varese through Frank Zappa. the first piece i heard was Arcana and i fell in love with it instantly. i have the Complete Works of Varese 2-CD set and have played the hell out of it but this is the first time i've ever seen a performance of his music so this is exciting for me!! i think it's brilliant! just the job!

[digitalshark]

Another great post! For long time Zappaphiles, getting the chance to see these Varese performances is both a revelation and great therapy. I was at the Zappa/Varese show at Lincoln Center, but seeing these performances helps make his influence on Frank that much more clear, and my appreciation for Varese's music more informed. Thanks!

[jm960]

this is hot making of stellar musique and anna steiger realizes the vocal part brilliantly. brava!

[bjarnifreyr]

Wow.. so zappa Like music... GREAT

[hasbeenshaken]

Agree. Zappa was heavily inspired by Varese. Not the other way around, I suppose, if you regard birth dates ;-)

[Celloluv]

Best classical I have seen here, picture, camera, performance. It is a site to see the works of Varese, it isn't boring like some other composers, one sees the brilliant orchestration. Their is lots of French composer sounds in it Satie, Milhaud if one hears carefully.

[krelid]

save to favorites

[samiceyhan]

c'est tres joli

[OlymPigs2010]

I like it - sort of like Wagner on LSD!

[JJ77TTUU3]

great singer imo

[collazzone]

My God,I never saw this.I am the singer in the video.Thank you for finding it!

[elephantine]

excellent performance

[elgranrafa]

your singing is beautiful!

[wurlybird9]

lovely voice, please do post some more of yourself, if you have the means!

[Mungo10]

I very much enjoyed your performance here (and the performances of your parents in films).

[etucker82]

Another great work we never hear.

[rubintal]

De plus j'ai grandi à Lyon - et je pense sans aucun problème si l'envie me prend de décrocher la médaille d'or du conservatoire de Paris. Mais j'ai des oeuvres à faire tourner moi monsieur!

[godelike]

hm... Je connais assez bien ce cher "suasoires" et je dois dire que ni son bon goût ni son âme ne sauraient être remises en question par quelqu'un dont l'ouverture d'esprit ne semble pas lui permettre de pouvoir assimiler une musique qu'il ne comprend pas dès le premier abord...

Et puis... je vois que tu es médaille d'or de Lyon... Désolé pour toi que tu aies raté le concours d'entrée à Paris! :-D

[rubintal]

pour ta gouverne l'ouverture d'esprit ne se limite pas à écouter mais aussi à comprendre. Viens me rendre visite au conservatoire internationale de Paris et je te montrerai ma liste d'oeuvres éditer che Leduc après on pourra parler de concours... A +

[BlueCougar]

Yeah, sure. If you knew ANYTHING about music, you should know that mathematics and Varèse are the absolute opposites. Varèse was 100% intuitive about composing. So stop claiming that you ever saw a music school from the inside... "published by Leduc" for sure...

[BrucknerEnthusiast]

Absolutely right! Varese hated any analysis of his music, he just wanted openmindedness from his listeners. That's clear from reading the fascinating memoir about him by his wife. But maybe Offrandes is a difficult work to approach for newcomers to Varese's music, especially if they don't understand the words. Great performance here, though.

[rubintal]

Tu te targues d'être cultivé - d'avoir du bon goût depuis 3 - 4 correspondances parce que tu proposes du Boulez. Sortez vos papiers millimètrés on va faire de la musique! Vas te payer une ame.

[godelike]

hm... Je connais assez bien ce cher "suasoires" et je dois dire que ni son bon goût ni son âme ne sauraient être remises en question par quelqu'un dont l'ouverture d'esprit ne semble pas lui permettre de pouvoir assimiler une musique qu'il ne comprend pas dès le premier abord...

Et puis... je vois que tu es médaille d'or de Lyon... Désolé pour toi que tu aies raté le concours d'entrée à Paris! :-D

[rubintal]

merci j avais vu. Ne te fais pas d'illusion tu n'es pas plus raffiné ni intelligent lorsque tu écoutes Boulez et consorts tu es juste victime de la mode.

[rubintal]

Chui désolé mais je suis médaille d'or du concervatoire de Lyon, chef d'orchestre en fonction donc passe ta route. Boulez c'est de la masturbation cérébrale et une émotion surfaite.

[rubintal]

SO wow it's a real shit!

Who listen that without thinking "you do it because it's cool and that's a cultural food?"

So it's not musique it's Mathematic.

[damildlyshreddah]

WOW! This is great!

[sleece6]

Wowie Zowie! Fantastic.

[lightninstrikes]

Does somebody have a video of Lachenmann or Eliot Carter? Thanks for this one by the way, very nice performance

[emtube]

What a find! Thanks for contributing this, a real cultural service.

[crowe]

stupendous! got any more Boulez?

[pixaninny]

Great to find Varese here. Looks like a fairly old clip considering Boulez's age but a fine performance, beautifully filmed.

[wbarco]

awesome. where/when was this performance?

[suasoires]

1991 concert recorded at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Realisation of Helmut Rost.