Ferneyhough Lemma-Icon-Epigram Pt 1

Composer: Brian Ferneyhough (b. 1943)
Performer: Ian Pace (b. 1968)
Piece: Lemma-Icon-Epigram (1981)


As far as I know, the first taste of New Complexity youtube has for the piano, unless you count those Kiyama videos that had been posted. Personally, I prefer this interpretation over Massimiliano Damerini's; I feel it's more aggressive and athletic. If you enjoyed this piece, I suggest you also look into Damerini's, if you think you'd like to hear it played a bit more... delicately.


I would also like to shamelessly plug Ian Pace by noting that he's the most technically insane pianist ever, and you should really look into some of his recordings.

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[helenrushful]

beautiful playing, John11Inch, why are you so angry ? This is a great piece, stop the arguing guys, get over it !

[John11inch]

Why would you assume I'm angry? I have to be angry to disagree with someone?

Perhaps you shouldn't tell me what to do; why so authoritative?

[faroenmano]

Brilliant!

[Hero0fSilence]

Brians and Schonbergs relation was purely romantic and purely on a metaphysical plain. They went on Astral blind dates but never experienced the music of each other, for they were afraid of catching disease.

[madlovba2]

Do you have any of Ian Pace's recordings of not avant-garde piano music (Beethoven, Liszt, Alkan, Chopin, Bartók, etc.)?? His technique is insane and I bet he plays those pieces very well, but unfortunately I can't find any of those recordings...

[lovesGenet]

I discovered this piece years ago at univ of miami and the score looks nothing like Schoenberg,too long for Webern.Dense,intense,clusters.­Entire dialectic even sounds different.DEf could be expressionist but why guess? I need to do some research. so i cant talk with any familiarity : his intention,school or aesthetic.Wonder &Curiosity are a good place to start but they don't provide answers.People should research before comments.I adore Pace is alI I have a right to say.

[bloozie599]

@TassiloDavid yeah right

[bogorzelak]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[TassiloDavid]

No Ferneyhough score can be played "perfectly" as written, although such virtuosos as the extraordinary Mr. Pace may be able to hit all of the right notes.  Ferneyhough's rhythms are notated with a finicky intricacy beyond the reach of even the best human ears to grasp precisely. Obviously, the approximations we hear in performance convey the music well enough.

[TassiloDavid]

Yes, I mean Ferneyhough's Sonatas for String Quartet. (I don't know how I got the title wrong: I bought the Berne Quartet recording a quarter of a century ago and own the study score.)

[John11inch]

I think you just mean the Sonatas for String Quartet. No such thing as the "Sonatas and Interludes for String Quartet".

I uploaded the piece yesterday.