#rautavaara

[siins]

music time for polar animals

for @rautavaara

[symphonybracket]

Which symphony do you prefer?

Rautavaara 7 ("Angel of Light")

Pärt 3

Voting ended onNov 14, 2024

Rautavaara 7

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Pärt 3

This is the symphony that, to my opinion, best represents the work of Arvo Pärt. Even though it predates the establishment of tintinnabuli it is a step in the direction that would lead to the emergence of that style. This piece means a lot to me. It is my preferred symphony and the music piece that I recommend when people dismiss post 1950's classical music.

[mikrokosmos]

Rautavaara - Cantus Articus (1972)

Here one could see another example of a 20th century composer "leaving" behind a modernest style of writing to "revert" to a Neo-Romantic / Neo-Tonal style. This is sometimes used as an argument to show that the extended techniques of modernism have been exhausted and that there was no creative future in the avant-garde, and all this is used to reaffirm a kind of conspiracy or propaganda that "modern classical music isn't enjoyable" "it's just noise" "see even this big name composer agrees!". Maybe there are some people who believe that, but in this case it isn't so fitting. Even when Rautavaara was in his twelve tone days, his music still prioritized lyricism. If anything starting with ultramodernism helped as a foundation for his more characteristic style, which is the typical progression of a composer's creative life: get a foundation in the tradition, and focus on what you like until you find 'your voice'. In this work, a "Concerto for Birds and Orchestra", Rautavaara combines his lyricism and extended neo-romantic tonality and cluster chords with recordings of birdsong written to blend together as if the birds were like earlier imitations of birdsong in other parts of the tradition (Vivaldi, Beethoven, Schumann, Messiaen, etc. etc.) His inspiration came from the commissioner. Rautavaara was asked by the University of Oulu to write something for a graduation ceremony. The university is farther north of Helsinki and the composer said its "Arctic" location inspired him to incorporate northern birdsong recordings, instead of writing a more traditional or expected graduation cantata. In his own words;

The bird sounds were taped in the Arctic Circle and the marshlands of Liminka [a municipality in the former province of Oulu, in Northern Finland]. The first movement, Suo (The Bog), opens with two solo flutes. They are gradually joined by other wind instruments and the sounds of bog birds in spring. Finally, the strings enter with a broad melody that might be interpreted as the voice and mood of a person walking in the wilds. In Melankolia (Melancholy), the featured bird is the shore lark; its twitter has been brought down by two octaves to make it a “ghost bird.” Joutsenet muuttavat (Swans Migrating) is an aleatory texture with four independent instrumental groups. The texture constantly increases in complexity, and the sounds of the migrating swans are multiplied too, until finally the sound is lost in the distance.

Regardless of ideological biases, there is agreement that the unique use of recording technology incorporated in engaging orchestral writing makes this concerto a modern classic.

[burlveneer-music]

Scarlett Tong Zuo plays Rautavaara Piano Concerto No. 1 - 左彤演奏劳塔瓦拉第一钢琴协奏曲

I’ve been fascinated with this piece since I first heard it two years ago, and it just occurred to me to see what it looks like being played. Full-hand note clusters are present almost from the beginning; the forearm clusters begin around 9:25.

[lopbit]

fnaf merchandise? concept or real :-)

fOREVER upset we don't have a springbon mini. they’d absolutely have been an exclusive

[earhartsease]

Thinking about the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara whom I wrote to in the 90s to tell how much I loved his earlier music (oh, my arrogance - but also his violin concerto from the 70s really fucks and his later stuff was kind of anodyne "sacred music" to me) and he wrote back patiently saying how he was a stormier person in his youth and encouraging me to listen more to his recent stuff (I did and now I like it too), and I told a Finnish friend about this exchange and he said dismissively "he married a young wife now, she probably cuts his toenails for him" and I still don't really know what he meant

[venlathings]

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[musicalyikes]

tfw ur conductor starts singing a folk song and dancing to make a point