2 more tunes from Classical Boy

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Hi, here are two Mp3s which once again have nothing to do with home recording, sorry. http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/classical/davidk/

Stravinsky died in 1971, but the Suite Italienne is a reworking of old melodies, so it sounds like 1771. It is a beautiful work.

The Prokofiev 2nd movement will blow your mind. It is very disturbing, and heroic at the same time. I forgot what a cool piece this is, I guarantee that nobody has ever heard anything like this before; if you have, contact Brad's Mom.

Sorry for the crappy sound quality, it is wise to download them.
I promise my next MP3 will be something I have down recently with synths and my HomeRecording knowledge.
Thanks in Advance, Dave
 
i loved the 2nd movement. reminds of me of something...dont know what. i loved the tension and mood that piece created... dissonance, dissonance and more still. at some points it seemed to have no structure at all... really strange.
great stuff and im looking forward to hearing more
scriabin
 
Thanks Scriabin, I checked out a few more tunes of yours, very cool. Nice to see folks around here who dare to be different.
Also a big thanks to Waldo for providing a site for us to put our music, I am telling everyone I know about it.

I had hundreds of tapes of me playing in recital. I was dating a very stupid lady who took my box of tapes by accident, and left them in the sun in Texas all day. Needless to say, they were all destroyed. She also stole a violin off of me, so it did not end so well!!!!

Oh well, I guess it means I need to make more music. Cheers,Dave
 
Bravo, David! That was beautiful! The Stravinsky, somehow put me in mind of the Titanic. I felt like i was a passenger on the Titanic for some reason. LOL. You know, when they were dining and laughing? And it was such a happy little piece. Stravinsky wasn't one of the survivors was he? :)

The Prokofiev 2nd movement was cool! I never knew where it was going. You have really nimble fingers, and so does the Pianist. Is the Pianist the same one from before, Ms. Jazwinski? I was kind of disappointed in the end. I wanted it to finally come to a peaceful halt, but it just kind of stoped still not really feeling finished. But remember, i don't know anything about classical music except i like to hear it sometimes and you play it beautifully.

Fantastic job, t
 
Listened to Prok2. It's a whole other language, and it reminds me of Gormenghast, which I haven't even read...

They say music's an international language, but that's not true. You have to be familiar with the idiom to recognize what's being said.

You do play a mean fiddle, though...uh, violin, I mean. :D

Cut the lower end, cut the level on the piano and boost the level on the violin by the same amount. Mic everything closer next time. :D

Maybe the girlfriend who fried your tapes and stole your instrument had listened to this piece a lot. :D
 
Thanks for listening, Dobro. Unfortunately, I had absolutely nothing to do with the recording;, If I did, I would have the mic Shoved up my ass if need be to get the violin sound bigger!

Its funny how live tracking ends up, because the violin I used for that concert was extremely powerful, and you can barely hear it. It was at a University, and some students taped it.
 
Keith Turner, I think you responded to this thread, however nothing is working properly tonight, and the whole site is acting goofy, so I thank you for responding, even if you said " My landord makes better music". Please try again.

Dobro, I checked out Gormenghast, I had never heard of it before. It is not a bad analogy, although the Prok 2 has more form , and is based on the classical sonata form, in a loose way of course.
I find it very pleasing and ironic that people find the Prokofiev controversial. In classical terms, I would call this piece " you aint seen nothing yet", because it still contains a familiar form.

I will post some other tunes soon that will really push the idea of form and tonality, but for now I am glad everyone around here can understand the process of taking tonality to a different level.
 
David, don't exaggerate my understanding of that piece. :D I really, really like Baroque stuff - I know what those guys are saying and playing about, and I really like the sound - it's beautiful, engaging, moving music. I'm more picky about 19th century stuff - a lot of it is wonderful, but equally, lots more got more self-indulgent and, for me, more wishy-washy. Yawn. And I think 20th century classical more or less lost the plot. Guys like Bartok and Schoenberg and Stockhausen (sp?) make interesting sounds, but a whole lot of their stuff doesn't move me, and the impression I get is of guys so desperate to be original that they took musical language beyond the boundaries of what I recognize and understand. Like a lot of modern art, I think it's a defunct tradition. The contradiction in what I'm saying's obvious - if I don't understand it, how can I claim it's not a living tradition, right? Fair enough. But if they're not speaking a language I can understand, then both they and I lose out, right? And so does the tradition, which peaked somewhere in that 100 years that spans Vivaldi and Beethoven, and has been petering out ever since.

I still look forward to your posting the next bit, though. I like giving unusual stuff a listen, even if I don't go out and buy a copy of it afterward.
 
If you like 'unusual' you should check out some stuff that in many cases, have never been performed before.

Benjamin Godard, and Sergei Bortkeiwicz arranged by B.N. Thadani.

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/classical/bthadani/

A good couple of hours worth of listening, alas no downloads, but can arrange a private listening if the streaming doesn't function for you.

Definately worth a listen if you are an abstract classical fan.

We'll also have the world premier video of the Kiev Symphony Orchestra playing Bortkeiwicz works (the first time, ever) on NoWhere fairly soon as well. Make sure you check it out.

W.
 
Dobro, very interesting, I really like the way you said that, insightful and honest.

I often bring my few non-classical friends to my concerts, and am always fascinated by their comments: my favorite was when I took a pal to see the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, and his response was almost violence!!

To me, the Prokofiev is old-fashioned and quaint, so it is refreshing to hear different views. Modern Classical music is obviously an acquired taste, like coffee, and I sometimes forget that the music I love so much can be disturbing to people who didnt grow up listening to it, as I did.

For you, classical music died in 1913, when Stravinsky wrote the Rite of Spring. For me, it just started!! If you have a chance, please listen to the Stravinsky I posted, he was the most Avant-garde composer of the early 20th century, but he proves his musical knowledge in this piece.

Thanx so much for listening, I will try to post something soon that is Really modern, Dave
 
David-

Good job, no doubt you are a fine player.

Question- do you do other styles also? Like contemporary DMB stuff and the like? Just wondering. I'd love to work with you some time.

H2H
 
I hope my reply was not offensive; i certainly did not mean it to be. But as i have admitted, i completely lack any real knowledge about the classics. I will in future not waste your time.

Teresa
 
Teresa, there are about 9,600 members of this forum, and about 7 are female. How could I possibly be offended if the opposite sex would respond to yours truly?

I dont expect anyone here to know a damn thing about modern classical music; If I wished to discuss it at length I would have to find a forum called "modernclassical.com", but then I would get bored and rush back here to talk about cool mics, synths, software and Brad's mom ( dont worry, I dont know what that means either) I dont want to do geek-talk, I am just glad that I had a chance to play my music for the folks here: You gotta get up pretty early in the Morning to offend Ol' DavidK ( However, dont be making fun of my Momma, cause I will open a can of whoopass on ya, male or female).

Hardto hear, since I dont know what DMB means, I guess I am not hip, but I do lots of other music besides classical. I have a few jazz CDs, New Age, Rock, etc. My CD collection is basically rock stuff, with a special fondness for Zappa. I am always into working with anybody and everybody.
I recently made a list of people I have played with over the years, it is pretty wierd. I will email it to you if you want. Always in the mood to work with fellow HomeReccers-Dave
 
hi, david things were buggy that night so my post never showed up. this is kinda off topic but...it's killing me, i got to know something about that fine ax on your site. history?designer?anything else you would care to share. just pm if you don't want to post about it. thanks,keith
 
I listened to the Suite Italienne. You sure that's Stravinsky? He must have been listening to Bach when he wrote it (the main theme), and Vivaldi (that descending figure). Really beautiful, and really well played. I like this recording better too - the balance is better between the fiddle and the keys. :D

And just for the record, I don't think it all died in 1913, but I think there was some serious petering out going on. I mentioned Shoenberg, but I do like stuff like Transfigured Night, for example.
I have a special 'fondness' for Zappa too LOL.

Gee, you two play this piece well. That piano player's as good as you are. I hope I didn't step on anyone's toes there LOL.
 
Keith, the ax on my site is my electric violin. It was made for me by my buddy Mark Wood, Heavy-Metal Violinist, Composer, and all-around good guy, I really like Mark a lot. Check out www.woodviolins.com He is really one of a kind: he actually plays a double-neck fiddle, ala Jimmy Page!!

Mark and I play with a group called the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which is a bit hard hard to define, but it's a blast to play heavy-metal on violin! Check him out, he his literally the only violinist on the planet who does what he does. He does the strings for celine Dion as well, but his heart is into Metal. He plays a 7-string violin, and you gotta hear him do purple haze!

Mark has some solo CDs out, the most popular being "Voodoo Violince". However, Mark just sent me some stuff from his new CD, probably out soon, and it is amazing. He hired Celine Dions band to back him, and it really sounds awesome.
 
mark is definitely a mad-scientist ! thanks for the info and link.
 
DavidK,

Wow... amazing!

Great stuff, especially Suite Italienne.... perfecto! :)

Stravinsky kicked ass... a truly great composer.

Flawless performance with soooo much feel to it.

Stellar job, man!

Buck


BTW... Do you do any Jon Luc Ponti?

Just wondering... ;)
 
Buck, I used to do Jon-Luc Ponty stuff in high School: I had this cool book with the parts written out, and I did a few of them with the high School Jazz band, but I kinda lost touch with his music, particularly when I heard L. Shankar, awesome violinist who plays with Peter Gabriel.

BTW, I got "Nothing but Candlelight" on right now, getting some ideas for the Road Trip! Woohoo! Wait til you hear that last note with real violin harmonics.
 
Dobro, the pianist is as good as me? I am a god, the only person who can challenge me is the Father T---- fellow.

Seriously, you bet she is an awesome pianist, but even better, she made an awesome teammate. As you have noticed, the music I posted wasn't for Violin with a piano backup, it is a duet for violin and piano. I have posted a new movement, called Sherzo, by Stravinsky. If you have a chance, please download and listen to it, it is teamwork at its finest.
The best thing about Barbera is that she is a first-rate Composer.
She wrote a piece for solo violin that is absolutely amazing, I will post it soon. I cant possibly tell you how pleased I was to be with an artist of her caliber, We really enjoyed are Recitals as a team, and I hope we work together again.
 
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