Composer John Adams Dishes On Pop Culture
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/14/J...
"The great bifurcation in music is between pop and classical," ...
ForaTv • 33,030 views
Rubens Quartet - Joey Roukens/uit: Earnest and Game Ecstasy
Sarah Kapustin - 1st violin, Sidonie Riha - 2nd violin, Roeland Jagers - viola, Joachim Eijlander - cello
The Rubens Quartet whose members come f...
Vrijegeluiden • 3,436 views
Joey Roukens - From funeral to funfair, for orchestra, excerpt
High energy passage (audio only) from a recent orchestral piece of mine, called "From Funeral to Funfair (and back...)". The piece was performed by...
joeyroukens • 1,691 views
Boulez: "Sur Incises" 1/3
Pierre Boulez explains his composition, "Sur Incises". Part One
NewMusicXX • 10,918 views
Arnold Schoenberg: Six Little Piano Pieces opus 19
Me playing Arnold Schoenberg's Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke opus 19; despite the brevity of these pieces, I think it's a very important work in the 2...
11,980 views
It is an opinion to state that you don't enjoy this music. It IS painfully ignorant, however, to state there there's no talent behind this music or that anyone can do it. Schoenberg's music is highly personal, well crafted and intensely expressive. Also, listen to his early, still tonal works lik...
Rihm- String Quartet No. 1
Wolfgang Rihm's String Quartet No. 1 Op. 2 (1970)
Possibly a bit immature in comparison to his later output (some of which I will be uploading lat...
John11inch • 8,312 views
I agree that Rihm's first String Quartet is not yet on the same level as his later, mature string quartets. Still, it's amazing to realize that Rihm was only an 18-year-old boy when he wrote this music.
Blues on a bright background by Joey Roukens
Eclectic piano piece merging the worlds of blues/jazz and contemporary classical music. There are echoes of Oscar Peterson and Albert Ammons, but a...
joeyroukens • 1,519 views
Henri Dutilleux - Prélude I: D'ombre et de silence (1973)
Me playing the first of the three piano preludes composed by the eminent French composer Henri Dutilleux (b. 1916). This first prelude, entitled "D...
4,351 views
"Van Gogh treasure" stolen by Nazis surfaces in Athens
A tiny sketchbook said to have belonged to the Dutch master painter Vincent Van Gogh has surfaced in the Greek capital Athens.
The note book,contai...
Brabantfeatures • 6,300 views
Something's telling me that this sketchbook is a fake...
A tribute to Julius Eastman (1940-1990)
A tribute video to an unjustly neglected African-American composer called Julius Eastman who composed in a very personal minimalist idiom.
5,503 views
Charles Ives plays Charles Ives
UNIQUE historical recording of Charles Ives at the piano, playing the third movement "The Alcotts" from his Piano Sonata No.2 (Concord Sonata).
60,002 views
Zwiesprache III, by Wolfgang Rihm
Zwiesprache III, in memoriam Heinrich Klotz. A piano piece by eminent German composer Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952), arguably the foremost German compose...
7,212 views
Henry Cowell - The Tides of Manaunaun
The tides of Manaunaun (1917), a piano piece by American maverick composer Henry Cowell (1897-1965) in which he explores the use of tone clusters.
16,503 views
Arnold Schoenberg: Six Little Piano Pieces opus 19
Me playing Arnold Schoenberg's Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke opus 19; despite the brevity of these pieces, I think it's a very important work in the 2...
11,980 views
John Adams' A Flowering Tree (Excerpt)
A Flowering Tree
John Adams
Excerpt from Act 1, Scene 2
2007-03-01
San Francisco
John Adams conducting
The program came with the libretto, so I c...
philipglassfan • 14,525 views
Toru Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketch II (1992)
Me playing what is arguably Toru Takemitsu's finest piano piece: Rain Tree Sketch II (1992), in memoriam Olivier Messiaen.
18,544 views
Shitty shit, neoclassicist? What the hell are you talking about? There is nothing neoclassical about Boulez's late works. In fact, a late work like 'Sur Incises' sounds way more exciting, refined, sensuous, spontaneous and fresh than those early dry serial pieces you mention.