What Are You Listening To? #24

I doubt if there are many here who will even take the time, ,,but here I offer
.... Allan Pettersson - Symphony #7 - Perhaps the most Underrated
...........,,.....,,,,..composer of symphonic music in the Twentieth Century

Allan Pettersson: Symphony No. 7
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg



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Thanks for the cheery and uplifting music, Eadora. The next time I contemplate shoving a gun in my mouth I'll be sure to pop that song on the stereo...

 

OKAY So while we're in the mood for Blowing out our Brains

Let's ALL take a breather & go to Hell !! - with this gorgeous Aria
.............................. taken from Alfred Schnittke's "Faust Cantata"

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Alfred SCHNITTKE: "Seid nüchtern und wachet..."
VII. Es geschah... Альфред Шнитке
Iva Bittova - Soprano -


aside - her glasses must be glued to her face


or if you prefer something with a little less scorch and a little more shmaltz
Alfred Schnittke; Aria from Faust Cantata; VII.
Es geschah (It came to pass)
Alexander Plato - Baritone -



The Libretto
That night at Midnight a great wind blew.
As if it wanted to destroy Faust's home and obliterate everything.
Upstairs the desperate students leapt out of their beds .
They heard dreadful noises as if the house were full of snakes.
.................................................................. and other terrible worms.
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Faust cried - Help! and Murder! - But soon his voice died away.
When it was light the students went into his room.
The room was splattered with blood. His brains clung to the walls.
The devil had thrown him all about, eyes and teeth were scattered around.
It was a gruesome and grisly sight.
The found his body on a dunghill, it was still twitching


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One of the great strengths of classical music is it’s ability to paint large scale, utterly terrifying pictures of this kind. Punk rock gets nowhere near it although Disturb’s version of SOUNDS OF SILENCE does but even there classical technique is at work.

 

As always -
We seem able to trust the Mordentroge's perceptions regarding music genres

Here's a couple of Siberians I find Interesting

Юлияна Кривошапкина - Дьүрүйээнэ: "Сүрэҕим




& of course -
Olena UUTAi on the Jaw Harp
twanging away - barking like a dog, neighing like a horse, howling like a wolf & tweeting like a bird

Can't you just see all the pieces of what was once your teeth flying all over the room !

 

Wish you were here with a reggae beat and bagpipes? They must be stoned senseless but not on the same drug as the original musicians.
Somehow though is doesn’t work for this geriatric hippie.

 

Impressive skill, almost terrifying. I’d like to know where this would have originally been performed, around a campfire at night?
I guessing though this is a very ancient form of performance (not sure I’d call it music)

 

I took the time; downloaded a high-resolution version to play on my main system.
The complexity, dynamic contrasts and total richness of a full symphony orchestra are to an extent lost on Youtube.
It’s one of Pettersson’s I haven’t heard. Somewhat like an atonal version of Mahler. The problem for me, especially in the opening bars, is the sensation I get the instruments haven’t been tuned properly. I suffer from perfect pitch which makes in difficult for me to sit back and allow most atonal etc music just wash over me. Not that this is fully atonal, I’m not sure what it is, twelve tone? At least I got to me sufficiently at times to make me want to run in terror out of the room. I’ll give it another few listens. With classical music of this kind I need to lower myself gradually into the whirlpool.

 

These sweet little fairies need to take dance classes with Yannis Marshall.

 

The fisher's joy in love
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Yonder blinks
through the pasture
And winks
a pale
shimmer
From the room
Of the beloved toward me.

It sways
like a will-o'-the-wisp
And rocks
softly,
Its reflection
in the circle
Of the swelling lake.

I gaze
with longing
Into the blue
of the waves,
And greet
the bright,
Reflected ray.

And I jump
to the rudder,
And I swing
the small boat
Thereward
upon the flat,
Crystal way.

The fine beloved
sneaks cautiously
From the little room
downward,
And she hurries
chipperly
Toward me into the boat.

Gently
then the wind
Chases
us again
Lakeward,
away from the plants
On the shore out there.

The pale
night fog
Embraces,
as a covering
Look-out,
the still,
Innocent joke.

And we exchange
kisses,
While the waves
rustle
In sinking
and swelling
In spite of the listeners.

Only stars
observe us
From afar,
and bathe
Deeply
under the path
Of the boat.

So we sway
blissfully,
Surrounded
by darkness,
High above
the twinkling
Of the stars herein.

And we cry,
and we smile,
And imagine,
lifted above
The Earth,
already up,
Already above to be.
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There’s something intrigues me about performances like this. Stevie isn’t in her best voice, one of the back up singers is off tune yet the feeling of the event comes through as something special.

 

Oh, dear.

I'm going to have to take you to a brighter place...

 

And while we're in a brighter place, one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands...

 

Only the Anglicans can put on a show like this. Shame about the old lady in the blue outfit with the chamber pot hat.

 

Utterly spellbinding. I want to acquire this music on CD/DVD/ or as a download but have no idea how to even begin searching for it.
Any clues?
Think I can hear throat singing in the background. A web search hasn’t gotten me anywhere. HELP !

 

OK, I know I keep posting this clip all over the web but I keep coming back to it, maybe because I was in the audiance that night snorting my brains out. What always gets me is how Lisa Fischer upstaged the Stones every time she sang this with them. Bless the Stones though for letting her do it. The only downside is hearing Mick singing against Lisa tells you he’s often off key. Who cares though.

 

Her name is - Yuliyana Krivoshapkina -
She is - Khomus virtuoso from Yakutia
https://www.pnmartists.com/yuliana-krivoshapkina

On The Web:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Yul...me..69i57j0.2615j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

TRY THIS ONE - hit the arrow key to play the vid
https://vk.com/videos-167035401?z=video-167035401_456239441/pl_-167035401_-2


BTW
Thank you for giving Allan Pettersson's music a spin.
His seventh is perhaps his most accessable work
I know it is difficult music for most people to get into

 

&
https://soundcloud.com/j3ff3r00


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https://vk.com/videos-167035401?z=video-167035401_456239446/pl_-167035401_-2

on UTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yuliyana+Krivoshapkina

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