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Piano Concerto Op 33 (1972)
Premiere: May 14, 1972 Brighton (UK) Brighton Festival · Daniel Barenboim, piano · Conductor: Lawrence Foster · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 2.2(2.ca).2(Ebcl,bcl).2(2.cbsn)-0.3.0.1-timp-str
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 32' 0''
Year of composition: 1972
Recorded here by Peter Serkin under Oliver Knussen
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Sonata for piano, Op. 2 (1952)
John Ogdon, piano
Rhythmic variation is an important feature of the piano sonata Op. 2 of Alexander Goehr (b.1932), recalling similar procedures in the music of Olivier Messiaen, with whom Goehr studied in the academic year 1955-56. The sonata, in fact, was written some years earlier in 1953, and performed for the first time at Morley College. A virile, energetic work, it is both bold in structure and forceful in expression. Even at a first hearing it gives an impression of real authority, of a lively and imaginative intellectual discipline. The melodic and harmonic ideas which form the basic substance of the music are themselves so full of character that they never lose their recognisable identity through the many subtle rhythmic transformations. As the music becomes more familiar it discloses an increasing number of ingenious cross-references which bind together the various overlapping sections into a closely knit, highly articulate formal unity. Towards the close of the sonata, which is dedicated to Margaret Kitchin, the opening phrase of Prokofiev's seventh piano sonata is woven into the texture as a tribute to the Russian composer who died in 1953.
--Robert Henderson
Art by Clr Morard
- published: 17 Jun 2014
- views: 1504
Alexander Goehr in conversation with Norbert Meyn
In this interview, composer Alexander Goehr talks about the life and career of his father Walter Goehr, music at Morley College during and after the war as well as the work and importance of émigré musicians including Hans Redlich, Matias Seiber, Roberto Gerhard, Leopold Spinner and Paul Hamburger. He also discusses the influence of émigrés like Walther Bergmann, Hans Keller, Alfred Kalmus, Erwin Stein and Ernst Roth on music publishing.
This interview is presented as part of the ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "Singing a Song in a Foreign Land", which focuses on musicians who emigrated from Central Europe because of Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 40s.
Visit the SINGING A SONG IN A FOREIGN LAND - ONLINE RESOURCE for more interviews and further information:
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong
This project has been generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Rothschild Foundation
- published: 30 Apr 2015
- views: 841
An imaginary ballet from Homer's "Odyssey." Circe changes Odysseus's men to swine and back again.
"After they had drunk from the cup, she struck them with her wand; and straightaway hustled them to her sties, for they grew the heads and shapes and bristles of swine, with swine voices too. Only their reason remained steadfastly as before; so they grieved. . . They turned to me again as they had been before, but younger now, further and much taller to the eyes."
from Homer's "Odyssey," translated by T. E. Lawrence.
The painting of Circe returning Odysseus's men to their human form is by Giovanni Battista Trotti (1555-1612).
- published: 09 Sep 2014
- views: 250
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Track 4. ...around Stravinsky: Intorduzione and Rondo
NMC D187
Artists:
Colin Currie percussion
Pavel Haas Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
David Alberman, Laura Samuel, Marianne Thorsen violin
Lawrence Power viola
Paul Watkins cello
Richard Watkins horn
Richard Hosford clarinet
Gareth Hulse oboe
Ursula Leveaux bassoon
Ian Brown piano
Tracks:
1. Since Brass, nor Stone... Op 80 (2008)
Fantasy for string quartet and percussion
...around Stravinsky for violin and wind
quartet Op 72 (2002)
2. Prelude, 'Dushkin'
3. Stravinsky: Pastorale
4. Introduzione and Rondo
Quintet for clarinet and strings Op 79 (2007)
5. I Maestoso
6. II Poco meno mosso
7. III Tempo 1
8. IV Tempo 1, poco scherzando
9. V Tempo 1, poco scherzando
10. VI Andante
11. VII Tempo 1
12. VIII Lento
13. IX Mosso, allegro
14. X Saraband
Manere Op 81 (2008)
for clarinet and violin
15. = 80 ma poco liberamente
16. come sopra
17. poco meno, sostenuto
18. tempo 1
19. meno mosso
20. in tempo
21. andante
22. in tempo dell'inizio, ma libaremente
23. in tempo
24. Largo Siciliano Op 91 (201
for horn, violin and piano
http://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recording/brass-nor-stone
- published: 16 Oct 2013
- views: 595
[Fantasy for string quartet and percussion op. 80]
Goerh es uno de los autores por los que más curiosidad he sentido recientemente, y uno de los que menos música he podido escuchar. Al menos por estos lares, su música permanece inédita y hasta ahora no he podido compartir nada.
- published: 11 Jan 2012
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Op. 85 (2010), for baritone, 2 clarinets, brass and strings.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by H. K. Gruber, Nigel Robson, baritone.
Texts by Franz Kafka, Jacob Boehme, Friedrich Durrenmatt, and from the Bible.
Painting is the Tower of Babel by an unknown, 16th Century Flemish painter.
I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets
II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms
III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum
IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding
V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued)
VI Choral Prelude II
VII Isaiah 14. 13-14
The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’
- published: 08 Nov 2014
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Capriccio, op. 6 (1957)
Stephen Pruslin, piano
The Capriccio dates from 1957 and is written frankly in the post-Webern idiom that was then such a dominant mode of expression. At this distance in time, the work transcends mere historicity by virtue of the powerful aural and intellectual control with which the idiom is spoken. Webern may be the music's nearest ancestor, but unlike so many post-war composers, who concerned themselves principally with the surface of Webern's music. Goehr hears his predecessor as a descendant of the classical Austro-German sonata tradition, albeit as the most exotic flower on its remotest branch.
The perceptive listener will hear in the Capriccio more than a vestige of sonata structuring: a series of introductory statements, separated by fermatas; an exposition proper, even incorporating the sense of two ideas (here also expressed as two tempi); a 'developmental' central section; a recapitulation by inversion and a coda, which circles back via a 'first ending' to a complete da capo, allowing us to corroborate all these impressions. A 'second ending' leads to a brief conclusion, but the final fade on the trill that opened and re-opened the work carries a strong suggestion that the music could continue to re-cycle senza fine. --Stephen Pruslin
Art by Neil Jenney
- published: 16 Jul 2015
- views: 421
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus,
Conducted by Michael Gielen
Premier performance, December 12, 1979, Royal Festival Hall, London
The first of four choral "pillars" for Goehr's opera, Behold the Sun, about the rise and fall of radical Anabaptists in Munster, Germany, 1534-35.
The biblical text (in Latin) is from Revelation 18.2
"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird."
The painting is a detail from "The Last Judgement" by Hieronymus Bosch.
- published: 08 Sep 2014
- views: 212
Two Choruses, Op. 14
l. "I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas'd," from Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
II. "Take But Degree Away," from Shakespeare's 'Troilus And Cressida', 1.3 [4:31]
John Alldis Choir
John Alldis
During the late 1950s, the first generation of British composers to have accepted the innovations of the Viennese serialists was beginning to gain a hearing. The time-lag characteristic of British music, together with a certain innate conservatism, has produced a group of composers whose methods are especially interesting. They have avoided the paths of some of the extreme continental experimenters, and have taken what best suits them from various sources.
Alexander Goehr hasn't found it necessary, in accepting the Schoenbergian experience, to restrict himself to twelve note (or even serial) methods. He writes against the background of serialism, but has also to a greater or lesser extent integrated it with other methods.
Goehr has tended to follow paths that stem from Schoenbergian expressionism. Despite the high norm of dissonance, his idiom can be accepted on comparatively few hearings as harmonically euphonious in the traditional sense. Witness the Two Choruses. The complex rhythmic developments and variations particularly need the listsner's concentration. They stem mostly from Messiaen, whose classes Goehr attended when studying in Paris in 1955. Goehr's vision is rich and powerful. Like many post-war artists he has occupied himself, in works such as The Deluge, Sutter's Gold and Hecuba's Lament, with the subject of tragic desolation. --Anthony Payne
Art by Matteo Massagrande
- published: 24 Nov 2014
- views: 459
Allegri String Quartet
Shared at one point by stanchinsky now "MUSIC?" if my memory serves me right. It has a kind of distanced, unemotional-emotional character. Very special.
Available via the Avant Garde Project to download for free in lossless quality http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/agp67/index.htm
- published: 18 May 2016
- views: 84
Alexander Goehr (born 10 August 1932 in Berlin) is an English composer and academic.
Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr. In his early twenties he emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers. In 1955–56 he joined Oliver Messiaen's masterclass in Paris. Although in the early sixties Goehr was considered a leader of the avant-garde, his oblique attitude to modernism — and to any movement or school whatsoever — soon became evident. In a sequence of works including the Piano Trio (1966), the opera Arden Must Die (1966), the music-theatre piece Triptych (1968–70), the orchestral Metamorphosis/Dance (1974), and the String Quartet No. 3 (1975–76), Goehr's personal voice was revealed, arising from a highly individual use of the serial method and a fusion of elements from his double heritage of Schoenberg and Messiaen. Since the luminous 'white-note' Psalm IV setting of 1976, Goehr has urged a return to more traditional ways of composing, using familiar materials as objects of musical speculation, in contrast to the technological priorities of much present-day musical research.
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30:17Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 1972
Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 1972Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 1972
Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 (1972) Premiere: May 14, 1972 Brighton (UK) Brighton Festival · Daniel Barenboim, piano · Conductor: Lawrence Foster · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra instrumentation: 2.2(2.ca).2(Ebcl,bcl).2(2.cbsn)-0.3.0.1-timp-str Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London Duration: 32' 0'' Year of composition: 1972 Recorded here by Peter Serkin under Oliver Knussen http://www.schott-music.com/shop/9/show,152086.html?showOldPerformances=true#show_audios & http://www.loganartsmanagement.com/alexander-goehr.html -
13:39Alexander Goehr - Piano Sonata
Alexander Goehr - Piano SonataAlexander Goehr - Piano Sonata
Sonata for piano, Op. 2 (1952) John Ogdon, piano Rhythmic variation is an important feature of the piano sonata Op. 2 of Alexander Goehr (b.1932), recalling similar procedures in the music of Olivier Messiaen, with whom Goehr studied in the academic year 1955-56. The sonata, in fact, was written some years earlier in 1953, and performed for the first time at Morley College. A virile, energetic work, it is both bold in structure and forceful in expression. Even at a first hearing it gives an impression of real authority, of a lively and imaginative intellectual discipline. The melodic and harmonic ideas which form the basic substance of the music are themselves so full of character that they never lose their recognisable identity through the many subtle rhythmic transformations. As the music becomes more familiar it discloses an increasing number of ingenious cross-references which bind together the various overlapping sections into a closely knit, highly articulate formal unity. Towards the close of the sonata, which is dedicated to Margaret Kitchin, the opening phrase of Prokofiev's seventh piano sonata is woven into the texture as a tribute to the Russian composer who died in 1953. --Robert Henderson Art by Clr Morard -
76:02Interview with Alexander Goehr
Interview with Alexander GoehrInterview with Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr in conversation with Norbert Meyn In this interview, composer Alexander Goehr talks about the life and career of his father Walter Goehr, music at Morley College during and after the war as well as the work and importance of émigré musicians including Hans Redlich, Matias Seiber, Roberto Gerhard, Leopold Spinner and Paul Hamburger. He also discusses the influence of émigrés like Walther Bergmann, Hans Keller, Alfred Kalmus, Erwin Stein and Ernst Roth on music publishing. This interview is presented as part of the ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "Singing a Song in a Foreign Land", which focuses on musicians who emigrated from Central Europe because of Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 40s. Visit the SINGING A SONG IN A FOREIGN LAND - ONLINE RESOURCE for more interviews and further information: http://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong This project has been generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Rothschild Foundation -
18:17Alexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/Dance
Alexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/DanceAlexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/Dance
An imaginary ballet from Homer's "Odyssey." Circe changes Odysseus's men to swine and back again. "After they had drunk from the cup, she struck them with her wand; and straightaway hustled them to her sties, for they grew the heads and shapes and bristles of swine, with swine voices too. Only their reason remained steadfastly as before; so they grieved. . . They turned to me again as they had been before, but younger now, further and much taller to the eyes." from Homer's "Odyssey," translated by T. E. Lawrence. The painting of Circe returning Odysseus's men to their human form is by Giovanni Battista Trotti (1555-1612). -
3:02Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone... Track 4. ...around Stravinsky: Intorduzione and Rondo NMC D187 Artists: Colin Currie percussion Pavel Haas Quartet The Nash Ensemble David Alberman, Laura Samuel, Marianne Thorsen violin Lawrence Power viola Paul Watkins cello Richard Watkins horn Richard Hosford clarinet Gareth Hulse oboe Ursula Leveaux bassoon Ian Brown piano Tracks: 1. Since Brass, nor Stone... Op 80 (2008) Fantasy for string quartet and percussion ...around Stravinsky for violin and wind quartet Op 72 (2002) 2. Prelude, 'Dushkin' 3. Stravinsky: Pastorale 4. Introduzione and Rondo Quintet for clarinet and strings Op 79 (2007) 5. I Maestoso 6. II Poco meno mosso 7. III Tempo 1 8. IV Tempo 1, poco scherzando 9. V Tempo 1, poco scherzando 10. VI Andante 11. VII Tempo 1 12. VIII Lento 13. IX Mosso, allegro 14. X Saraband Manere Op 81 (2008) for clarinet and violin 15. = 80 ma poco liberamente 16. come sopra 17. poco meno, sostenuto 18. tempo 1 19. meno mosso 20. in tempo 21. andante 22. in tempo dell'inizio, ma libaremente 23. in tempo 24. Largo Siciliano Op 91 (201 for horn, violin and piano http://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recording/brass-nor-stone -
13:42Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)
Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)
[Fantasy for string quartet and percussion op. 80] Goerh es uno de los autores por los que más curiosidad he sentido recientemente, y uno de los que menos música he podido escuchar. Al menos por estos lares, su música permanece inédita y hasta ahora no he podido compartir nada. -
27:08Alexander Goehr: Tower Music
Alexander Goehr: Tower MusicAlexander Goehr: Tower Music
Op. 85 (2010), for baritone, 2 clarinets, brass and strings. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by H. K. Gruber, Nigel Robson, baritone. Texts by Franz Kafka, Jacob Boehme, Friedrich Durrenmatt, and from the Bible. Painting is the Tower of Babel by an unknown, 16th Century Flemish painter. I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued) VI Choral Prelude II VII Isaiah 14. 13-14 The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’ -
5:43Alexander Goehr - Capriccio
Alexander Goehr - CapriccioAlexander Goehr - Capriccio
Capriccio, op. 6 (1957) Stephen Pruslin, piano The Capriccio dates from 1957 and is written frankly in the post-Webern idiom that was then such a dominant mode of expression. At this distance in time, the work transcends mere historicity by virtue of the powerful aural and intellectual control with which the idiom is spoken. Webern may be the music's nearest ancestor, but unlike so many post-war composers, who concerned themselves principally with the surface of Webern's music. Goehr hears his predecessor as a descendant of the classical Austro-German sonata tradition, albeit as the most exotic flower on its remotest branch. The perceptive listener will hear in the Capriccio more than a vestige of sonata structuring: a series of introductory statements, separated by fermatas; an exposition proper, even incorporating the sense of two ideas (here also expressed as two tempi); a 'developmental' central section; a recapitulation by inversion and a coda, which circles back via a 'first ending' to a complete da capo, allowing us to corroborate all these impressions. A 'second ending' leads to a brief conclusion, but the final fade on the trill that opened and re-opened the work carries a strong suggestion that the music could continue to re-cycle senza fine. --Stephen Pruslin Art by Neil Jenney -
9:01Alexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen I
Alexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen IAlexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen I
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Conducted by Michael Gielen Premier performance, December 12, 1979, Royal Festival Hall, London The first of four choral "pillars" for Goehr's opera, Behold the Sun, about the rise and fall of radical Anabaptists in Munster, Germany, 1534-35. The biblical text (in Latin) is from Revelation 18.2 "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." The painting is a detail from "The Last Judgement" by Hieronymus Bosch. -
24:54Alexander Goehr: Romanza for Cello and Orchestra
Alexander Goehr: Romanza for Cello and OrchestraAlexander Goehr: Romanza for Cello and Orchestra
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8:11Alexander Goehr - Two Choruses
Alexander Goehr - Two ChorusesAlexander Goehr - Two Choruses
Two Choruses, Op. 14 l. "I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas'd," from Milton's 'Paradise Lost' II. "Take But Degree Away," from Shakespeare's 'Troilus And Cressida', 1.3 [4:31] John Alldis Choir John Alldis During the late 1950s, the first generation of British composers to have accepted the innovations of the Viennese serialists was beginning to gain a hearing. The time-lag characteristic of British music, together with a certain innate conservatism, has produced a group of composers whose methods are especially interesting. They have avoided the paths of some of the extreme continental experimenters, and have taken what best suits them from various sources. Alexander Goehr hasn't found it necessary, in accepting the Schoenbergian experience, to restrict himself to twelve note (or even serial) methods. He writes against the background of serialism, but has also to a greater or lesser extent integrated it with other methods. Goehr has tended to follow paths that stem from Schoenbergian expressionism. Despite the high norm of dissonance, his idiom can be accepted on comparatively few hearings as harmonically euphonious in the traditional sense. Witness the Two Choruses. The complex rhythmic developments and variations particularly need the listsner's concentration. They stem mostly from Messiaen, whose classes Goehr attended when studying in Paris in 1955. Goehr's vision is rich and powerful. Like many post-war artists he has occupied himself, in works such as The Deluge, Sutter's Gold and Hecuba's Lament, with the subject of tragic desolation. --Anthony Payne Art by Matteo Massagrande -
22:52Alexander Goehr - String Quartet no. 2
Alexander Goehr - String Quartet no. 2Alexander Goehr - String Quartet no. 2
Allegri String Quartet Shared at one point by stanchinsky now "MUSIC?" if my memory serves me right. It has a kind of distanced, unemotional-emotional character. Very special. Available via the Avant Garde Project to download for free in lossless quality http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/agp67/index.htm
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Goehr, Alexander Filmography
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Alexander Goehr
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- Piano Sonata / Capriccio / Nonomiȳa released: 1981
- Two Choruses, Op.14 / Leopardi Fragments for soprano, contralto and chamber orchestra / Symphony for voices / Calendar for chamber ensemble released: 1965
- Das gesetz der quadrille Op. 41 / String Quartet No. 3 Op. 37 released:
- String Quartet No. 2 Op. 23 / Piano Trio Op. 20 released:
Two Choruses, Op.14 / Leopardi Fragments for soprano, contralto and chamber orchestra / Symphony for voices / Calendar for chamber ensemble
Released 1965- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Two Choruses, Op.14: "I had hope when violence was ceas'd" from Milton's 'Paradise Lost' / "Take but degree away" from Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida', 1.3
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Leopardi Fragments for soprano, contralto and chamber orchestra
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Symphony for voices: I. Invocation / II. Terra Australis / III. Jesus / IV. Envoi / V. New Guinea
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Calendar for chamber ensemble: I. Allegro / II. Lento espressivo / III. Molto animato
Das gesetz der quadrille Op. 41 / String Quartet No. 3 Op. 37
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen Das gesetz der quadrille Op. 41 "Songs after Franz Kafka"
- add to main playlist Play in Full Screen String Quartet No. 3 Op. 37: I. Non troppo allegro, con sensibilita / II. Allegretto e vivace / III. Introduzione: Lento molto sostenuto; Allegretto moderato, un poco leggero ma cantando
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Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 1972
Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 (1972) Premiere: May 14, 1972 Brighton (UK) Brighton Festival · Daniel Barenboim, piano · Conductor: Lawrence Foster · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra instrumentation: 2.2(2.ca).2(Ebcl,bcl).2(2.cbsn)-0.3.0.1-timp-str Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London Duration: 32' 0'' Year of composition: 1972 Recorded here by Peter Serkin under Oliver Knussen http://www.schott-music.com/shop/9/show,152086.html?showOldPerformances=true#show_audios & http://www.loganartsmanagement.com/alexander-goehr.html -
Alexander Goehr - Piano Sonata
Sonata for piano, Op. 2 (1952) John Ogdon, piano Rhythmic variation is an important feature of the piano sonata Op. 2 of Alexander Goehr (b.1932), recalling similar procedures in the music of Olivier Messiaen, with whom Goehr studied in the academic year 1955-56. The sonata, in fact, was written some years earlier in 1953, and performed for the first time at Morley College. A virile, energetic work, it is both bold in structure and forceful in expression. Even at a first hearing it gives an impression of real authority, of a lively and imaginative intellectual discipline. The melodic and harmonic ideas which form the basic substance of the music are themselves so full of character that they never lose their recognisable identity through the many subtle rhythmic transformations. As the mu... -
Interview with Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr in conversation with Norbert Meyn In this interview, composer Alexander Goehr talks about the life and career of his father Walter Goehr, music at Morley College during and after the war as well as the work and importance of émigré musicians including Hans Redlich, Matias Seiber, Roberto Gerhard, Leopold Spinner and Paul Hamburger. He also discusses the influence of émigrés like Walther Bergmann, Hans Keller, Alfred Kalmus, Erwin Stein and Ernst Roth on music publishing. This interview is presented as part of the ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "Singing a Song in a Foreign Land", which focuses on musicians who emigrated from Central Europe because of Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 40s. Visit the SINGING A SONG IN A FOREIGN LAND - ONLINE RESOURCE for more interviews and further i... -
Alexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/Dance
An imaginary ballet from Homer's "Odyssey." Circe changes Odysseus's men to swine and back again. "After they had drunk from the cup, she struck them with her wand; and straightaway hustled them to her sties, for they grew the heads and shapes and bristles of swine, with swine voices too. Only their reason remained steadfastly as before; so they grieved. . . They turned to me again as they had been before, but younger now, further and much taller to the eyes." from Homer's "Odyssey," translated by T. E. Lawrence. The painting of Circe returning Odysseus's men to their human form is by Giovanni Battista Trotti (1555-1612). -
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone... Track 4. ...around Stravinsky: Intorduzione and Rondo NMC D187 Artists: Colin Currie percussion Pavel Haas Quartet The Nash Ensemble David Alberman, Laura Samuel, Marianne Thorsen violin Lawrence Power viola Paul Watkins cello Richard Watkins horn Richard Hosford clarinet Gareth Hulse oboe Ursula Leveaux bassoon Ian Brown piano Tracks: 1. Since Brass, nor Stone... Op 80 (2008) Fantasy for string quartet and percussion ...around Stravinsky for violin and wind quartet Op 72 (2002) 2. Prelude, 'Dushkin' 3. Stravinsky: Pastorale 4. Introduzione and Rondo Quintet for clarinet and strings Op 79 (2007) 5. I Maestoso 6. II Poco meno mosso 7. III Tempo 1 8. IV Tempo 1, poco scherzando 9. V Tempo 1, poco scherzando 10. VI Andante 11. VII Tempo... -
Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)
[Fantasy for string quartet and percussion op. 80] Goerh es uno de los autores por los que más curiosidad he sentido recientemente, y uno de los que menos música he podido escuchar. Al menos por estos lares, su música permanece inédita y hasta ahora no he podido compartir nada. -
Alexander Goehr: Tower Music
Op. 85 (2010), for baritone, 2 clarinets, brass and strings. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by H. K. Gruber, Nigel Robson, baritone. Texts by Franz Kafka, Jacob Boehme, Friedrich Durrenmatt, and from the Bible. Painting is the Tower of Babel by an unknown, 16th Century Flemish painter. I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued) VI Choral Prelude II VII Isaiah 14. 13-14 The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’ -
Alexander Goehr - Capriccio
Capriccio, op. 6 (1957) Stephen Pruslin, piano The Capriccio dates from 1957 and is written frankly in the post-Webern idiom that was then such a dominant mode of expression. At this distance in time, the work transcends mere historicity by virtue of the powerful aural and intellectual control with which the idiom is spoken. Webern may be the music's nearest ancestor, but unlike so many post-war composers, who concerned themselves principally with the surface of Webern's music. Goehr hears his predecessor as a descendant of the classical Austro-German sonata tradition, albeit as the most exotic flower on its remotest branch. The perceptive listener will hear in the Capriccio more than a vestige of sonata structuring: a series of introductory statements, separated by fermatas; an exposit... -
Alexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen I
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Conducted by Michael Gielen Premier performance, December 12, 1979, Royal Festival Hall, London The first of four choral "pillars" for Goehr's opera, Behold the Sun, about the rise and fall of radical Anabaptists in Munster, Germany, 1534-35. The biblical text (in Latin) is from Revelation 18.2 "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." The painting is a detail from "The Last Judgement" by Hieronymus Bosch. -
Alexander Goehr: Romanza for Cello and Orchestra
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Alexander Goehr - Two Choruses
Two Choruses, Op. 14 l. "I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas'd," from Milton's 'Paradise Lost' II. "Take But Degree Away," from Shakespeare's 'Troilus And Cressida', 1.3 [4:31] John Alldis Choir John Alldis During the late 1950s, the first generation of British composers to have accepted the innovations of the Viennese serialists was beginning to gain a hearing. The time-lag characteristic of British music, together with a certain innate conservatism, has produced a group of composers whose methods are especially interesting. They have avoided the paths of some of the extreme continental experimenters, and have taken what best suits them from various sources. Alexander Goehr hasn't found it necessary, in accepting the Schoenbergian experience, to restrict himself to twelve note (or eve... -
Alexander Goehr - String Quartet no. 2
Allegri String Quartet Shared at one point by stanchinsky now "MUSIC?" if my memory serves me right. It has a kind of distanced, unemotional-emotional character. Very special. Available via the Avant Garde Project to download for free in lossless quality http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/agp67/index.htm
Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 1972
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Alexander Goehr
Piano Concerto Op 33 (1972)
Premiere: May 14, 1972 Brighton (UK) Brighton Festival · Daniel Barenboim, piano · Conductor: Lawrence Foster · Roy...
Alexander Goehr
Piano Concerto Op 33 (1972)
Premiere: May 14, 1972 Brighton (UK) Brighton Festival · Daniel Barenboim, piano · Conductor: Lawrence Foster · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 2.2(2.ca).2(Ebcl,bcl).2(2.cbsn)-0.3.0.1-timp-str
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 32' 0''
Year of composition: 1972
Recorded here by Peter Serkin under Oliver Knussen
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Alexander Goehr
Piano Concerto Op 33 (1972)
Premiere: May 14, 1972 Brighton (UK) Brighton Festival · Daniel Barenboim, piano · Conductor: Lawrence Foster · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 2.2(2.ca).2(Ebcl,bcl).2(2.cbsn)-0.3.0.1-timp-str
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 32' 0''
Year of composition: 1972
Recorded here by Peter Serkin under Oliver Knussen
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- published: 26 Oct 2014
- views: 1208
Alexander Goehr - Piano Sonata
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- Duration: 13:39
- Updated: 17 Jun 2014
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Sonata for piano, Op. 2 (1952)
John Ogdon, piano
Rhythmic variation is an important feature of the piano sonata Op. 2 of Alexander Goehr (b.1932), recalling s...
Sonata for piano, Op. 2 (1952)
John Ogdon, piano
Rhythmic variation is an important feature of the piano sonata Op. 2 of Alexander Goehr (b.1932), recalling similar procedures in the music of Olivier Messiaen, with whom Goehr studied in the academic year 1955-56. The sonata, in fact, was written some years earlier in 1953, and performed for the first time at Morley College. A virile, energetic work, it is both bold in structure and forceful in expression. Even at a first hearing it gives an impression of real authority, of a lively and imaginative intellectual discipline. The melodic and harmonic ideas which form the basic substance of the music are themselves so full of character that they never lose their recognisable identity through the many subtle rhythmic transformations. As the music becomes more familiar it discloses an increasing number of ingenious cross-references which bind together the various overlapping sections into a closely knit, highly articulate formal unity. Towards the close of the sonata, which is dedicated to Margaret Kitchin, the opening phrase of Prokofiev's seventh piano sonata is woven into the texture as a tribute to the Russian composer who died in 1953.
--Robert Henderson
Art by Clr Morard
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Sonata for piano, Op. 2 (1952)
John Ogdon, piano
Rhythmic variation is an important feature of the piano sonata Op. 2 of Alexander Goehr (b.1932), recalling similar procedures in the music of Olivier Messiaen, with whom Goehr studied in the academic year 1955-56. The sonata, in fact, was written some years earlier in 1953, and performed for the first time at Morley College. A virile, energetic work, it is both bold in structure and forceful in expression. Even at a first hearing it gives an impression of real authority, of a lively and imaginative intellectual discipline. The melodic and harmonic ideas which form the basic substance of the music are themselves so full of character that they never lose their recognisable identity through the many subtle rhythmic transformations. As the music becomes more familiar it discloses an increasing number of ingenious cross-references which bind together the various overlapping sections into a closely knit, highly articulate formal unity. Towards the close of the sonata, which is dedicated to Margaret Kitchin, the opening phrase of Prokofiev's seventh piano sonata is woven into the texture as a tribute to the Russian composer who died in 1953.
--Robert Henderson
Art by Clr Morard
- published: 17 Jun 2014
- views: 1504
Interview with Alexander Goehr
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- Duration: 76:02
- Updated: 30 Apr 2015
- views: 841
Alexander Goehr in conversation with Norbert Meyn
In this interview, composer Alexander Goehr talks about the life and career of his father Walter Goehr, music...
Alexander Goehr in conversation with Norbert Meyn
In this interview, composer Alexander Goehr talks about the life and career of his father Walter Goehr, music at Morley College during and after the war as well as the work and importance of émigré musicians including Hans Redlich, Matias Seiber, Roberto Gerhard, Leopold Spinner and Paul Hamburger. He also discusses the influence of émigrés like Walther Bergmann, Hans Keller, Alfred Kalmus, Erwin Stein and Ernst Roth on music publishing.
This interview is presented as part of the ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "Singing a Song in a Foreign Land", which focuses on musicians who emigrated from Central Europe because of Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 40s.
Visit the SINGING A SONG IN A FOREIGN LAND - ONLINE RESOURCE for more interviews and further information:
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong
This project has been generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Rothschild Foundation
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Alexander Goehr in conversation with Norbert Meyn
In this interview, composer Alexander Goehr talks about the life and career of his father Walter Goehr, music at Morley College during and after the war as well as the work and importance of émigré musicians including Hans Redlich, Matias Seiber, Roberto Gerhard, Leopold Spinner and Paul Hamburger. He also discusses the influence of émigrés like Walther Bergmann, Hans Keller, Alfred Kalmus, Erwin Stein and Ernst Roth on music publishing.
This interview is presented as part of the ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "Singing a Song in a Foreign Land", which focuses on musicians who emigrated from Central Europe because of Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 40s.
Visit the SINGING A SONG IN A FOREIGN LAND - ONLINE RESOURCE for more interviews and further information:
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong
This project has been generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Rothschild Foundation
- published: 30 Apr 2015
- views: 841
Alexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/Dance
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- Duration: 18:17
- Updated: 09 Sep 2014
- views: 250
An imaginary ballet from Homer's "Odyssey." Circe changes Odysseus's men to swine and back again.
"After they had drunk from the cup, she struck them with her ...
An imaginary ballet from Homer's "Odyssey." Circe changes Odysseus's men to swine and back again.
"After they had drunk from the cup, she struck them with her wand; and straightaway hustled them to her sties, for they grew the heads and shapes and bristles of swine, with swine voices too. Only their reason remained steadfastly as before; so they grieved. . . They turned to me again as they had been before, but younger now, further and much taller to the eyes."
from Homer's "Odyssey," translated by T. E. Lawrence.
The painting of Circe returning Odysseus's men to their human form is by Giovanni Battista Trotti (1555-1612).
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An imaginary ballet from Homer's "Odyssey." Circe changes Odysseus's men to swine and back again.
"After they had drunk from the cup, she struck them with her wand; and straightaway hustled them to her sties, for they grew the heads and shapes and bristles of swine, with swine voices too. Only their reason remained steadfastly as before; so they grieved. . . They turned to me again as they had been before, but younger now, further and much taller to the eyes."
from Homer's "Odyssey," translated by T. E. Lawrence.
The painting of Circe returning Odysseus's men to their human form is by Giovanni Battista Trotti (1555-1612).
- published: 09 Sep 2014
- views: 250
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
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- Duration: 3:02
- Updated: 16 Oct 2013
- views: 595
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Track 4. ...around Stravinsky: Intorduzione and Rondo
NMC D187
Artists:
Colin Currie percussion
Pavel Haas Quartet
...
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Track 4. ...around Stravinsky: Intorduzione and Rondo
NMC D187
Artists:
Colin Currie percussion
Pavel Haas Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
David Alberman, Laura Samuel, Marianne Thorsen violin
Lawrence Power viola
Paul Watkins cello
Richard Watkins horn
Richard Hosford clarinet
Gareth Hulse oboe
Ursula Leveaux bassoon
Ian Brown piano
Tracks:
1. Since Brass, nor Stone... Op 80 (2008)
Fantasy for string quartet and percussion
...around Stravinsky for violin and wind
quartet Op 72 (2002)
2. Prelude, 'Dushkin'
3. Stravinsky: Pastorale
4. Introduzione and Rondo
Quintet for clarinet and strings Op 79 (2007)
5. I Maestoso
6. II Poco meno mosso
7. III Tempo 1
8. IV Tempo 1, poco scherzando
9. V Tempo 1, poco scherzando
10. VI Andante
11. VII Tempo 1
12. VIII Lento
13. IX Mosso, allegro
14. X Saraband
Manere Op 81 (2008)
for clarinet and violin
15. = 80 ma poco liberamente
16. come sopra
17. poco meno, sostenuto
18. tempo 1
19. meno mosso
20. in tempo
21. andante
22. in tempo dell'inizio, ma libaremente
23. in tempo
24. Largo Siciliano Op 91 (201
for horn, violin and piano
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Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Track 4. ...around Stravinsky: Intorduzione and Rondo
NMC D187
Artists:
Colin Currie percussion
Pavel Haas Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
David Alberman, Laura Samuel, Marianne Thorsen violin
Lawrence Power viola
Paul Watkins cello
Richard Watkins horn
Richard Hosford clarinet
Gareth Hulse oboe
Ursula Leveaux bassoon
Ian Brown piano
Tracks:
1. Since Brass, nor Stone... Op 80 (2008)
Fantasy for string quartet and percussion
...around Stravinsky for violin and wind
quartet Op 72 (2002)
2. Prelude, 'Dushkin'
3. Stravinsky: Pastorale
4. Introduzione and Rondo
Quintet for clarinet and strings Op 79 (2007)
5. I Maestoso
6. II Poco meno mosso
7. III Tempo 1
8. IV Tempo 1, poco scherzando
9. V Tempo 1, poco scherzando
10. VI Andante
11. VII Tempo 1
12. VIII Lento
13. IX Mosso, allegro
14. X Saraband
Manere Op 81 (2008)
for clarinet and violin
15. = 80 ma poco liberamente
16. come sopra
17. poco meno, sostenuto
18. tempo 1
19. meno mosso
20. in tempo
21. andante
22. in tempo dell'inizio, ma libaremente
23. in tempo
24. Largo Siciliano Op 91 (201
for horn, violin and piano
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- published: 16 Oct 2013
- views: 595
Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)
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- Duration: 13:42
- Updated: 11 Jan 2012
- views: 1953
[Fantasy for string quartet and percussion op. 80]
Goerh es uno de los autores por los que más curiosidad he sentido recientemente, y uno de los que menos músi...
[Fantasy for string quartet and percussion op. 80]
Goerh es uno de los autores por los que más curiosidad he sentido recientemente, y uno de los que menos música he podido escuchar. Al menos por estos lares, su música permanece inédita y hasta ahora no he podido compartir nada.
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[Fantasy for string quartet and percussion op. 80]
Goerh es uno de los autores por los que más curiosidad he sentido recientemente, y uno de los que menos música he podido escuchar. Al menos por estos lares, su música permanece inédita y hasta ahora no he podido compartir nada.
- published: 11 Jan 2012
- views: 1953
Alexander Goehr: Tower Music
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- Duration: 27:08
- Updated: 08 Nov 2014
- views: 252
Op. 85 (2010), for baritone, 2 clarinets, brass and strings.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by H. K. Gruber, Nigel Robson, baritone.
Texts by Franz Kaf...
Op. 85 (2010), for baritone, 2 clarinets, brass and strings.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by H. K. Gruber, Nigel Robson, baritone.
Texts by Franz Kafka, Jacob Boehme, Friedrich Durrenmatt, and from the Bible.
Painting is the Tower of Babel by an unknown, 16th Century Flemish painter.
I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets
II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms
III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum
IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding
V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued)
VI Choral Prelude II
VII Isaiah 14. 13-14
The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’
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Op. 85 (2010), for baritone, 2 clarinets, brass and strings.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by H. K. Gruber, Nigel Robson, baritone.
Texts by Franz Kafka, Jacob Boehme, Friedrich Durrenmatt, and from the Bible.
Painting is the Tower of Babel by an unknown, 16th Century Flemish painter.
I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets
II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms
III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum
IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding
V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued)
VI Choral Prelude II
VII Isaiah 14. 13-14
The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’
- published: 08 Nov 2014
- views: 252
Alexander Goehr - Capriccio
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- Duration: 5:43
- Updated: 16 Jul 2015
- views: 421
Capriccio, op. 6 (1957)
Stephen Pruslin, piano
The Capriccio dates from 1957 and is written frankly in the post-Webern idiom that was then such a dominant mod...
Capriccio, op. 6 (1957)
Stephen Pruslin, piano
The Capriccio dates from 1957 and is written frankly in the post-Webern idiom that was then such a dominant mode of expression. At this distance in time, the work transcends mere historicity by virtue of the powerful aural and intellectual control with which the idiom is spoken. Webern may be the music's nearest ancestor, but unlike so many post-war composers, who concerned themselves principally with the surface of Webern's music. Goehr hears his predecessor as a descendant of the classical Austro-German sonata tradition, albeit as the most exotic flower on its remotest branch.
The perceptive listener will hear in the Capriccio more than a vestige of sonata structuring: a series of introductory statements, separated by fermatas; an exposition proper, even incorporating the sense of two ideas (here also expressed as two tempi); a 'developmental' central section; a recapitulation by inversion and a coda, which circles back via a 'first ending' to a complete da capo, allowing us to corroborate all these impressions. A 'second ending' leads to a brief conclusion, but the final fade on the trill that opened and re-opened the work carries a strong suggestion that the music could continue to re-cycle senza fine. --Stephen Pruslin
Art by Neil Jenney
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Capriccio, op. 6 (1957)
Stephen Pruslin, piano
The Capriccio dates from 1957 and is written frankly in the post-Webern idiom that was then such a dominant mode of expression. At this distance in time, the work transcends mere historicity by virtue of the powerful aural and intellectual control with which the idiom is spoken. Webern may be the music's nearest ancestor, but unlike so many post-war composers, who concerned themselves principally with the surface of Webern's music. Goehr hears his predecessor as a descendant of the classical Austro-German sonata tradition, albeit as the most exotic flower on its remotest branch.
The perceptive listener will hear in the Capriccio more than a vestige of sonata structuring: a series of introductory statements, separated by fermatas; an exposition proper, even incorporating the sense of two ideas (here also expressed as two tempi); a 'developmental' central section; a recapitulation by inversion and a coda, which circles back via a 'first ending' to a complete da capo, allowing us to corroborate all these impressions. A 'second ending' leads to a brief conclusion, but the final fade on the trill that opened and re-opened the work carries a strong suggestion that the music could continue to re-cycle senza fine. --Stephen Pruslin
Art by Neil Jenney
- published: 16 Jul 2015
- views: 421
Alexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen I
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- Duration: 9:01
- Updated: 08 Sep 2014
- views: 212
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus,
Conducted by Michael Gielen
Premier performance, December 12, 1979, Royal Festival Hall, London
The first of four choral "p...
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus,
Conducted by Michael Gielen
Premier performance, December 12, 1979, Royal Festival Hall, London
The first of four choral "pillars" for Goehr's opera, Behold the Sun, about the rise and fall of radical Anabaptists in Munster, Germany, 1534-35.
The biblical text (in Latin) is from Revelation 18.2
"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird."
The painting is a detail from "The Last Judgement" by Hieronymus Bosch.
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BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus,
Conducted by Michael Gielen
Premier performance, December 12, 1979, Royal Festival Hall, London
The first of four choral "pillars" for Goehr's opera, Behold the Sun, about the rise and fall of radical Anabaptists in Munster, Germany, 1534-35.
The biblical text (in Latin) is from Revelation 18.2
"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird."
The painting is a detail from "The Last Judgement" by Hieronymus Bosch.
- published: 08 Sep 2014
- views: 212
Alexander Goehr: Romanza for Cello and Orchestra
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- Duration: 24:54
- Updated: 10 Nov 2012
- views: 2354
- published: 10 Nov 2012
- views: 2354
Alexander Goehr - Two Choruses
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- Duration: 8:11
- Updated: 24 Nov 2014
- views: 459
Two Choruses, Op. 14
l. "I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas'd," from Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
II. "Take But Degree Away," from Shakespeare's 'Troilus And Cressi...
Two Choruses, Op. 14
l. "I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas'd," from Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
II. "Take But Degree Away," from Shakespeare's 'Troilus And Cressida', 1.3 [4:31]
John Alldis Choir
John Alldis
During the late 1950s, the first generation of British composers to have accepted the innovations of the Viennese serialists was beginning to gain a hearing. The time-lag characteristic of British music, together with a certain innate conservatism, has produced a group of composers whose methods are especially interesting. They have avoided the paths of some of the extreme continental experimenters, and have taken what best suits them from various sources.
Alexander Goehr hasn't found it necessary, in accepting the Schoenbergian experience, to restrict himself to twelve note (or even serial) methods. He writes against the background of serialism, but has also to a greater or lesser extent integrated it with other methods.
Goehr has tended to follow paths that stem from Schoenbergian expressionism. Despite the high norm of dissonance, his idiom can be accepted on comparatively few hearings as harmonically euphonious in the traditional sense. Witness the Two Choruses. The complex rhythmic developments and variations particularly need the listsner's concentration. They stem mostly from Messiaen, whose classes Goehr attended when studying in Paris in 1955. Goehr's vision is rich and powerful. Like many post-war artists he has occupied himself, in works such as The Deluge, Sutter's Gold and Hecuba's Lament, with the subject of tragic desolation. --Anthony Payne
Art by Matteo Massagrande
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Two Choruses, Op. 14
l. "I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas'd," from Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
II. "Take But Degree Away," from Shakespeare's 'Troilus And Cressida', 1.3 [4:31]
John Alldis Choir
John Alldis
During the late 1950s, the first generation of British composers to have accepted the innovations of the Viennese serialists was beginning to gain a hearing. The time-lag characteristic of British music, together with a certain innate conservatism, has produced a group of composers whose methods are especially interesting. They have avoided the paths of some of the extreme continental experimenters, and have taken what best suits them from various sources.
Alexander Goehr hasn't found it necessary, in accepting the Schoenbergian experience, to restrict himself to twelve note (or even serial) methods. He writes against the background of serialism, but has also to a greater or lesser extent integrated it with other methods.
Goehr has tended to follow paths that stem from Schoenbergian expressionism. Despite the high norm of dissonance, his idiom can be accepted on comparatively few hearings as harmonically euphonious in the traditional sense. Witness the Two Choruses. The complex rhythmic developments and variations particularly need the listsner's concentration. They stem mostly from Messiaen, whose classes Goehr attended when studying in Paris in 1955. Goehr's vision is rich and powerful. Like many post-war artists he has occupied himself, in works such as The Deluge, Sutter's Gold and Hecuba's Lament, with the subject of tragic desolation. --Anthony Payne
Art by Matteo Massagrande
- published: 24 Nov 2014
- views: 459
Alexander Goehr - String Quartet no. 2
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- Duration: 22:52
- Updated: 18 May 2016
- views: 84
Allegri String Quartet
Shared at one point by stanchinsky now "MUSIC?" if my memory serves me right. It has a kind of distanced, unemotional-emotional characte...
Allegri String Quartet
Shared at one point by stanchinsky now "MUSIC?" if my memory serves me right. It has a kind of distanced, unemotional-emotional character. Very special.
Available via the Avant Garde Project to download for free in lossless quality http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/agp67/index.htm
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Allegri String Quartet
Shared at one point by stanchinsky now "MUSIC?" if my memory serves me right. It has a kind of distanced, unemotional-emotional character. Very special.
Available via the Avant Garde Project to download for free in lossless quality http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/agp67/index.htm
- published: 18 May 2016
- views: 84
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Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 1972
Alexander Goehr
Piano Concerto Op 33 (1972)
Premiere: May 14, 1972 Brighton (UK) Brighton...
published: 26 Oct 2014
Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 1972
Alexander Goehr Piano Concerto Op 33 1972
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- published: 26 Oct 2014
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Alexander Goehr - Piano Sonata
Sonata for piano, Op. 2 (1952)
John Ogdon, piano
Rhythmic variation is an important feat...
published: 17 Jun 2014
Alexander Goehr - Piano Sonata
Alexander Goehr - Piano Sonata
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- published: 17 Jun 2014
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Interview with Alexander Goehr
Alexander Goehr in conversation with Norbert Meyn
In this interview, composer Alexander G...
published: 30 Apr 2015
Interview with Alexander Goehr
Interview with Alexander Goehr
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- published: 30 Apr 2015
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Alexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/Dance
An imaginary ballet from Homer's "Odyssey." Circe changes Odysseus's men to swine and back...
published: 09 Sep 2014
Alexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/Dance
Alexander Goehr: Metamorphosis/Dance
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- published: 09 Sep 2014
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Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Track 4. ...around Stravinsky: Intorduzione and...
published: 16 Oct 2013
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, Nor Stone...
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Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)
[Fantasy for string quartet and percussion op. 80]
Goerh es uno de los autores por los qu...
published: 11 Jan 2012
Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)
Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)
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- published: 11 Jan 2012
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Alexander Goehr: Tower Music
Op. 85 (2010), for baritone, 2 clarinets, brass and strings.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, ...
published: 08 Nov 2014
Alexander Goehr: Tower Music
Alexander Goehr: Tower Music
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- published: 08 Nov 2014
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Alexander Goehr - Capriccio
Capriccio, op. 6 (1957)
Stephen Pruslin, piano
The Capriccio dates from 1957 and is writ...
published: 16 Jul 2015
Alexander Goehr - Capriccio
Alexander Goehr - Capriccio
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- published: 16 Jul 2015
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Alexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen I
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus,
Conducted by Michael Gielen
Premier performance, Decem...
published: 08 Sep 2014
Alexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen I
Alexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen I
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Alexander Goehr: Romanza for Cello and Orchestra
published: 10 Nov 2012
Alexander Goehr: Romanza for Cello and Orchestra
Alexander Goehr: Romanza for Cello and Orchestra
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- published: 10 Nov 2012
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Alexander Goehr - Two Choruses
Two Choruses, Op. 14
l. "I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas'd," from Milton's 'Paradise Lo...
published: 24 Nov 2014
Alexander Goehr - Two Choruses
Alexander Goehr - Two Choruses
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Alexander Goehr - String Quartet no. 2
Allegri String Quartet
Shared at one point by stanchinsky now "MUSIC?" if my memory serve...
published: 18 May 2016
Alexander Goehr - String Quartet no. 2
Alexander Goehr - String Quartet no. 2
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Alexander Goehr - Since brass nor stone...(2008)...
Alexander Goehr: Tower Music...
Alexander Goehr - Capriccio...
Alexander Goehr: Babylon the Great is Fallen I...
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Putin blasts West on first trip to EU country this year
Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 28 May 2016
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — On his first trip to a European Union country this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday sharply criticized western policy toward Moscow, describing a newly expanded U.S. missile defense system as a threat to his… ... ....
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'Mass rape' video on social media shocks Brazil
Edit BBC News 27 May 2016
Brazilian police are hunting more than 30 men suspected of raping a teenage girl in Rio de Janeiro, and of putting video of the attack on social media. The girl is reported to have gone to her boyfriend's house on Saturday and to have regained consciousness later, surrounded by the men ... ....
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Brazil police identify 4 of 30-plus men wanted in gang rape
Edit One India 28 May 2016
Rio de Janeiro, May 28. Police has said that they have identified and are searching for four of the more than 30 men suspected in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl, a case that has rocked Latin America's largest nation ... ....
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It’s Game On for Sanders and Trump but Game Over for Hillary
Edit WorldNews.com 27 May 2016
Article by WNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. While it hasn’t been a good week for Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, the latest twist and turn in this surprising 2016 presidential race has just caused Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’ poll numbers to surge. Indeed, on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the presumptive Republican nominee was asked if he would consider debating with Sanders ... But it gets even worse ... Sanders....
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Real Madrid wins Champions League in penalty shootout
Edit Deseret News 29 May 2016
MILAN — Cristiano Ronaldo did it again for Real Madrid, stepping forward to score a penalty and inflicting another devastating loss in a Champions League final on rival Atletico Madrid. For the second time in three years, the biggest game in club soccer ended with Ronaldo sealing victory then ripping off his shirt to show off his muscled torso for adoring fans ... "I knew I was going to score the winning penalty ... ....
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BBC Philharmonic/Gourlay review – inventive, eclectic and ill-coordinated
Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2016
3 / 5 stars. Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Gourlay’s pulverising Montagues and Capulets upstages ambitious attempts to soundtrack Shakespeare via the Turing test and gay cruising. The original Manchester School of composers, centred around Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr and the late Peter Maxwell Davies, exerted a decisive influence on the course of contemporary English music ... ....
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies dies aged 81
Edit The Guardian 14 Mar 2016
The former Master of Queen’s Music had been suffering from leukaemia for several years. •A guide to Peter Maxwell Davies’s music. @tildeni. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died, aged 81 ... Maxwell Davies started composing as a teenager, and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwhistle, John Ogden and Alexander Goehr ... ....
Peter Maxwell Davies: strikingly original music composed at white heat
Edit The Guardian 14 Mar 2016
Together with his contemporaries Alexander Goehr and Harrison Birtwistle, whom he had met while studying in Manchester in the 1950s, they gave a new direction to British musical culture in the 60s, one that instead of looking inwards, absorbed and learnt from musical developments elsewhere in Europe....
British Composer Peter Maxwell Davies Dies At 81
Edit National Public Radio 14 Mar 2016
British composer Peter Maxwell Davies was Master of the Queen's Music from 2004-2014. Ross Gilmore/Redferns hide caption ... YouTube ... Later he studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music, Princeton University and Manchester University, where he helped form a coterie of like-minded composers interested in the latest serial techniques — including Harrison Birtwistle and Alexander Goehr — known as the New Music Manchester group ... ....
Obituary: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Edit BBC News 14 Mar 2016
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, celebrated for his prolific and often unpredictable compositions, has died aged 81 ... Maxwell Davies, later known simply as Max, was born in Salford on 8 Sep 1934, the son of a factory worker, ... He duly won places at both the Royal Manchester College of Music and Manchester University, where he teamed up with three other future composers, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and Alexander Goehr ... Fine ... Fine ... ....
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Composer and conductor who set out as an enfant terrible but ...
Edit The Independent 14 Mar 2016
He traversed the genres, from symphonies and concertos to opera, choral music and works for the theatre, ballet and film ... He was born in Salford in 1934, and attended what is now the Royal Northern College of Music, where he was part of the Manchester School with the likes of Harrison Birtwistle, John Ogdon and Alexander Goehr, and he later studied at Princeton with Milton Babbitt. He had had an early start in music ... Fine ... More about....
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies obituary
Edit The Guardian 14 Mar 2016
One of the great British composers and a former Master of the Queen’s Music. Peter Maxwell Davies, who has died aged 81 of leuk aemia, was a huge figure in British postwar music – and a deeply enigmatic one ... Twitter ... Fortunately he soon fell in with a group of kindred spirits, including the composers Alexander Goehr and Harrison Birtwistle, the pianist John Ogdon and the trumpeter (and later conductor) Elgar Howarth ... Twitter ... Twitter ... ....
Supporting artists as they create (The University of Iowa)
Edit Public Technologies 16 Dec 2015
(Source. The University of Iowa). On Dec. 5, the University of Iowa's Hancher presented performance artist Taylor Mac, who performed the '1846-1856' portion of his forthcoming epic work, A 24-Hour History of Popular Music ... Hancher's first commission was James Kudelka's The Heart of the Matter, for the Joffrey Ballet ... 25, 1986. The next is perhaps still Hancher's most famous ... 10, 1987 ... Feb ... Dec ... Alexander Goehr, for the Arditti String Quartet....
RICCARDO MUTI RETURNS TO CSO FOR ONE WEEK OF CONCERTS IN DECEMBER WITH PIANIST KIRILL ...
Edit Public Technologies 24 Nov 2015
(Source. Chicago Symphony Orchestra) c1a86c60-9899-478d-9d4d-6c8bb501fe2b.pdf. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts.. November 23, 2015 Rachelle Roe, 312.294.3090. Eileen Chambers, 312.294.3092. Photos Available By Request. ... 8 ... Gerstein has shared his prize through the commissioning of boundary- crossing works by Timo Andres, Chick Corea, Alexander Goehr, Oliver Knussen, and Brad Mehldau, with additional commissions scheduled for future seasons....
Roger Smalley: Composer, pianist and pupil of Karlheinz Stockhausen who became a leading figure of ...
Edit The Independent 12 Sep 2015
He was born in Swinton, near Manchester, in 1943 ... Private composition lessons with Alexander Goehr and, especially, participation in the Cologne Courses for New Music, presided over by Stockhausen, helped to make him one of the most well-informed and technically adept composers of the period, well aware of where new music had come from as well as where it seemed to be going ... KEITH POTTER ... ....
Winning works announced for Encore Choral (BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation)
Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2015
Since 2005, ENCORE Orchestral and ENCORE Chamber have presented 'lost' orchestral and chamber works by some of the UK's most distinguished composers, including Simon Bainbridge, Judith Bingham, Diana Burrell, Gary Carpenter, Philip Cashian, John Casken, James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Alexander Goehr, ......
Radio 3 and RPS commission new music works for emerging artists (BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation)
Edit noodls 06 May 2015
(Source. BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation). The composers were announced at tonight's RPS Awards 2015. They are Jonathan Dove, Matthias Pintscher, John Casken, Sally Beamish, Rolf Wallin and Kurt Schwertsik ... In the past, BBC Radio 3 has also commissioned a number of works for New Generation Artists from composers including Simon Holt, Geoffrey Burgon, Augusta Read Thomas, Karin Rehnqvist, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Alexander Goehr....
John McCabe
Edit The Guardian 13 Feb 2015
Prolific composer and pianist of international standing. John McCabe's piano technique was sensitive and unshowy, as faithful as possible to the composer's intentions. Photograph. Reg Wilson/Rex. John Turner ... His first recording, a 1967 LP of songs by Charles Ives, Alexander Goehr and Gerard Schurmann, with the American soprano Marni Nixon, was both pioneering and revelatory, not least because Ives was largely ignored at that time ... Topics....
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