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Seems Beethovian to me.

It's neat that this piece is basically long winding glissandos without any 'classic' notes, it makes it sound really floaty and meditative

Oh hey, I noticed the phrases gradually decrease in length at the start (5 eights, 4 eights, 3 eights, 2 eights, and finally 1 whole) And then start increasing again (2 eights, 3 eights, 4 eights, 5 eights, 6 eights) before the conclusion. Pretty neat!

I don't know Kúrtag's music quite well, but this sounds very pretty! I'd love to explore more of his music later.

For cortesy

This is confusic

The black garbage stretches high.

Adès is just on another level... O Albion... my god I wish I could write something even a fraction as beautiful

These were the first pieces I wrote in Tishchenko's class at the age of 47, 28 years ago when I arrived at the Conservatory.. what fun that was.

absolutely brilliant, 22 years old Ades here

Really makes me want to go listen to Schnittke's Cello Sonata again.

Fascinating

The score is so difficult to read. It's refuse to play it. Re-write it in a more acceptable way. There's no need for these isolated notes be played by different piano/people.

Based

here before the "Based" guy

2nd movement is very Ligeti. not bad. I just wish contemporary composers would move away from making every single piece/section a boring linear process

beautiful

So beautiful!

Eu respeito muito a musica atonal, tem algumas que acho muito interessantes. Contudo, também acho que muitas acabam mundando seu status musical para algo baseado só experimentações. Ja vi longas peças atonais, imagino o quanto dificil são suas composições e execuções, tanto pelos simbolos incomuns da partitura , quanto pela falta de padrão que a musica tradicional apresenta , que ajuda na execução. Eu vejo que todo esse sacrificio nao tem um custo beneficio interessante, porque a esmagadora maioria das pessoas não vão apreciar, a não ser fazer críticas.

Is this kinda art?

I really love that descending 5th modulating thing that has become his “signature,” and I’m happy to see it return in this piece. I hear the first three minutes as “digging,” then when that figure appears it is the “water”. Very effective use of dramatizing harmony, in a way. Adés kicks so much ass! Thank you for this upload.

I don't care whether you think this is music or not, you have to admit that the notation is precarious at best.

Why b*****r about with the four staves ?. Why not just write it properly

amazing

Huge thanks for the score! I love this music, thank you, thank youuu!!

Ades has often traced similar ground, but with this one he seems to be headed in a related but new direction

Gerald-Barryian also

Beautiful drawings

The section that starts in 1:28 is mind-boggling. I don't understand why Ades would make the cello play triple and quadruple stops at such a tempo, it makes the texture really muddy and any notion of time goes out of the window. The effect these quadruple stops have in the second movement, for instance, is entirely warranted, as the jarring texture is built gradually, as a breaking down of the established piano ostinato. Barring that particular moment in the first movement, the rest of the piece is fantastic. It's good to see contemporary composers who can avoid the tropes of tonality while still delivering thrilling drama. Ades is a gem!

Such a pretty piece

Maybe it's a bit late 'cause you already did all the work but I could provide you the score without any watermarks if you want to do the score video again. Anyways, thank you so much for the video!

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What a cool piece! Love Kurtág!

BRAVA, Maestra Delgado.....from Ixtapan de la Sal, Mexico!

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Really beautiful. Why does it have so many staves though?

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O Albion is at the height of Nimrod. absolutely sublime

thank you for these Ades score!

very stravinskian

Ahh, i really thought it said "I am no cat". Disappointing

Ades is such a reactionary mediocrity. So are his admirers.

Lovely piece. Thanks for sharing

Great.....BRAVO from Mexico City!