Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Listening Journal: October 25-31, 2010

Olivier Messiaen - Catalogue d'Oiseaux: Book 7: XIII. Le Courlis cendré (1958) for piano
John Cage & Lou Harrison - Double Music (1941) for percussion quartet
Henri Dutilleux - Symphony No. 2 (1959)
Gyorgy Kurtág - Songs to Poems by Anna Akhmatova, op. 41 (1997)

Anton Webern - Orchestral Music - CD
   Passacaglia, op. 1 (1908)
   Five Movements for Strings, op. 5 (1929)
   Six Pieces, op. 6 (1909, rev. 1928)
   Five Pieces, op. 10 (1911-13)
   Symphony, op. 21 (1928)
   Variations, op. 30 (1940)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 (1707) for organ

Webern: Passacaglia, Symphony, Five Pieces
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2 comments:

Robert said...

Double Music is of course superb.

Brian said...

Yes it is. I have briefly read about the collaborative process of this piece. I plan on going back and reading more about it and then giving the piece another listen. What I have read is interesting.