The Jorvik Ensemble - Darknesse Visible

Adès Darknesse Visible for solo piano, based on John Dowlands lute song In Darknesse Let Mee Dwell (1610), performed by Peter Roderick of the Jorvik Ensemble.

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Music

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• Jorvik
• Ensemble
• Darknesse
• Visible
• Thomas
• Ades
• Composer
• Contemporary
• Music
• York

[QuantikMusic]

@MrAgnostikos Call it what you will, I simply call it good music and enjoy it. Life is so much nicer when you view it in that light.

[PhysiqueQuantique]

He may be one of the first not to use irony or express angst in his quotation, but that doesn't make him a fraud. It makes him a different composer.

[marioguidoscappucci]

Semplice e geniale!

[MrAgnostikos]

A lot of new music I don't like, but I usually shrug. Different strobes for deferrent phobes, after all. But Ades' music--- my impeccable fraud detector goes off. His utter lack of irony tells me he might be fooling himself as well as trendy gullibles. And Dave, I couldn't slog through Jane Austen, either. Like Sorabji?

[daveisgr81]

@MrAgnostikos A little dramatic don't you think.... Although I'd rather staple my scrotum to a searingly hot radiator than trudge through another Jane Austen novel so we might not be of the same opinion.

[daveisgr81]

I think this piece (and the majority of Adès' music) is amazing. People seem to be concerned with the intelectual rather than the aural. I find this work tantalisingly fragile and i'm not even going to compare it to Sting's interpretation of the Dowland song... Well... I might just mention it...

[MrAgnostikos]

A lovely and innocent melody is battered, raped, and murdered by a brutal and mindless accompaniment. A pastiche, like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

[edufern1]

Wonderful. A piece in darkness, you see only some contours of the song. Great portrait of Dowland.

[MrAgnostikos]

Curiously tedious. This could be a joke.