I like Gubaidulina's Chaconne, for example, but most of this 20th century piano repertoire strikes me like someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory sitting at the piano and improvising with one rule: don't conform to any known music theoretic principle. Seems self-defeating and the results are, in my opinion, almost always un-musical.
@claytonlisa the thing is that they probably don't compose, let alone improvise, with such rule. if you like gubaidulina i'm sure you will find plenty of other modern composers you might like, regardless of how they compose.
@claytonlisa I think you may come to realize that the results are infact, in all senses, extremely musical; it is merely a matter of understanding expression in an radical sense. One may call Picasso unartistic because his paintings don't reflect real life; in reality, they reflect most of the time what it really is; paint on paper, in it's most beautiful form, and the ideas the painter had in a very raw sense, without the filters of simplicity.
Amazing piano work. Skalkottas is one of the greatest composers!
JohannVanMozart 10 months ago
I like Gubaidulina's Chaconne, for example, but most of this 20th century piano repertoire strikes me like someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory sitting at the piano and improvising with one rule: don't conform to any known music theoretic principle. Seems self-defeating and the results are, in my opinion, almost always un-musical.
claytonlisa 1 year ago
@claytonlisa the thing is that they probably don't compose, let alone improvise, with such rule. if you like gubaidulina i'm sure you will find plenty of other modern composers you might like, regardless of how they compose.
xodn3300 11 months ago
@claytonlisa I think you may come to realize that the results are infact, in all senses, extremely musical; it is merely a matter of understanding expression in an radical sense. One may call Picasso unartistic because his paintings don't reflect real life; in reality, they reflect most of the time what it really is; paint on paper, in it's most beautiful form, and the ideas the painter had in a very raw sense, without the filters of simplicity.
Quandrify 3 months ago
I've never heard this work before.. Thanks so much for the post!
mynameisandycostello 1 year ago