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F. Liszt, Sposalizio, Marcus Baban, piano

Live à Lyon, Novembre 2011
Mathieu GREGOIRE, piano
piano Bechstein

Toru Takemitsu, Les Yeux Clos

STIMMUNG by Karlheinz Stockhausen performed live @ OPENING Festival 2014


STIMMUNG by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Klavierstück IX (1960)

Hayk Melikyan, piano
www.haykmelikyan.com

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX

Missa Brevissima (Commande de Radio France) par le choeur de Radio France dirigé par Sébastien Boin. Enregistrement du 2 avril 2014 au Studio 101 à la Maison de la Radio.

Missa Brevissima (Commission from Radio-France) by the Radio France Choir under the direction of Sébastien Boin. April 2 2014 recording.

Missa Brevissima

Enregistré en Live à Kyoto, au Japon. Très bel hommage de Toru Takemitsu à Olivier Messiaen.

Toru Takemitsu, Rain Tree Sketch II

This etude is a toccata that moves up and down the keyboard in multiple rhythms and ends with an effect of bells ringing in different pitches and times.

This etude is in my experience the most evocative depiction of a mathematical concept in music. It represents the Cantor function, which is sometimes called the devil’s staircase. The function was devised by Georg Cantor, a 19th-Century German mathematician, to serve as a sort of paradox that confounds naïve mathematical intuition. The intuition is that the mathematical derivative of a function corresponds to the slope of the line in a graph of the function. The Cantor function has a derivative of zero. By the naïve intuition, the value of the function should be constant (that is, have zero change). However, the function is not constant, but increases in value from zero to one across the range of its input, which is also zero to one.

A graph of the Cantor function resembles a series of rising steps, where the depth of each step (the “tread,” as it were) varies from step to step. This resemblance to an uneven set of steps prompted the functions nickname, devil’s staircase. Of course, this nickname conjures up all sorts of non-mathematical allusions, which the music exploits as well.


Ligeti – Etude No. 13: L'escalier du diable (The Devil's Staircase)

Premiere recording by Daniele Colombo

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Cutouts [solo violin] 2014

Roaming in a Wood is a song for a quartet comprising two violins, a cello, and a flute. The theme, which glides from the strings to the flute, invokes a feeling of continuous bewilderment in an unknown realm.

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Roaming in a wood

CEPRY

A symphonic composition by Kordian Piwowarski
Cepry is a part of the Symfonia Tatrica project.
More information soon.

composed, arranged and produced by Kordian Piwowarski

featuring:
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Tallin Chamber Choir 
recorded at Teldex Scoring Stage 
VST by Orchestral Tools

Mixed by Mania Studio
01.2025

all rights reserved Kordian Piwowarski

SYMFONIA TATRICA - CEPRY

for 6 players, TamTam and Live-Electronics

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mikrophonie 1 (1964) - Tutti157 Auschnitt

As a composer, guitarist, and poet, Giuseppe Bonaccorso is firmly attached to atonal, avant-garde, and highly experimental music. A countercultural artist, he works out his music through original compositional processes never tied to mainstream culture.
#Guitar #Composition #AvantGarde

Charles Finnegan was born in the United States, but at the age of four months, he took his family to England where he lived for the next 15 years. After the deaths of his parents in an auto crash, he returned to America to live with his mother's family. At Universities both in the US and in England, he earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry and mathematics and a doctorate in mathematics. Throughout his life he expressed a deep devotion to music, and he became a fine pianist. In July of 2015, after enduring nearly two years that included several surgeries and multiple other treatments for metastatic pancreatic cancer, Charlie died. He was 25 years old.

Ligeti – Etude No. 13: L'escalier du diable (The Devil's Staircase)

Charles Finnegan

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