2017 Listening Project

Helping to ensure 2017 is better than the dumpster fire that 2016 was

[2017-listening-project]

12.31

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Tristan und Isolde (1857-59) // score

          Act 1

          Act 2 and Act 3

Well, here we are. Hope you enjoyed it. 

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12.30

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1770)

St. Matthew Passion (1727) // score

[This should have gone on Good Friday but we didn’t think of this piece until the list was already compiled and dates set. It’s still kind of Jesus season though.]

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12.29

Don Cherry (1936-1995)

Human Music (1970)

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12.28

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1770)

Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (1717-23) // score

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12.27

Charles Tyler (1941-1992)

Voyage from Jericho (1974)

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12.26

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (ca. 1718) // score

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12.25

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (1944)

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12.24

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1910)

Don Carlos (1867-86) // score

FotW: Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu in Truffaut’s The Last Metro (1980).

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12.22

Sun Ra (1914-1993)

Atlantis (1969)

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12.21

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 (1933-34) // score

Scythian Suite, Op. 20 (1915) // score

[Lieutenant Kijé Suite premiered this date, 1934]

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12.20

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (ca. 1717-23) // score

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12.19

Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935)

“...zwei Gefühle…” (1992)

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12.18

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major (”Coronation”), K. 537 (1788) // score

Mozart didn’t write a complete part for the left hand, so composer Timo Andres (b. 1985)... finished it.

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12.17

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Daphne (1937) // score

Film: Babette’s Feast (1987), directed by Gabriel Axel.

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12.16

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)

Eonta (1963-64)

Metastaseis (1953-54)

Pithoprakta (1955-56)

[Eonta premiered this date, 1964]

[It’s also Beethoven’s birthday if you want to watch Ludwig van today.]

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12.15

Albert Ayler (1936-1970)

Ghosts (1965)

[later released under Albert Ayler and Don Cherry as Vibrations]

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12.14

Michael Finnissy (b. 1946)

Etched bright with sunlight

Thus ends The History of Photography in Sound (1995-2001).