Edgard Varèse - Étude pour Espace (1947), orchestrated and arranged by Chou Wen-Chung in 2009 BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Singers Conductor - Sakari Oramo Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London, 6/5/2017 "This second project was to be a choral symphony entitled Espace. In its original conception, the text for the chorus was to be written by André Malraux. Later, Varèse settled on a multi-lingual text of hieratic phrases to be sung by choirs situated in Paris, Moscow, Beijing and New York City, synchronized to create a global radiophonic event. Varèse sought input on the text from Henry Miller, who suggests in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare that this grandiose conception—also ultimately unrealized—eventually metamorphosed into Déserts. With both these huge projects Varèse felt ultimately frustrated by the lack of electronic instruments to realize his aural visions. Nevertheless, he used some of the material from Espace in his short Étude pour espace, virtually the only work that had appeared from his pen for over ten years when it was premiered in 1947. According to Chou Wen-chung, Varèse made various contradictory revisions to Étude pour espace which made it impossible to perform again, but the 2009 Holland Festival, which offered a 'complete works' of Varèse over the weekend of 12–14 June 2009, persuaded Chou to make a new performing version (using similar brass and woodwind forces to Déserts and making use of spatialized sound projection). This was premiered at the Gashouder concert hall, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam by Asko/Schönberg Ensemble and Cappella Amsterdam on Sunday 14 June, conducted by Péter Eötvös." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtS0DpZqQMM

Darius Milhaud - Le Printemps for violin and piano, Op. 18 (1914) Dedicated to Yvonne Giraud Violin - Mauro Tortorelli Piano - Angela Meluso Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp-LF9rDr-A

Iannis Xenakis - Waarg, for 13 instruments (1988) Contempoensemble Conductor - Mauro Ceccanti Xenakis enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the London Sinfonietta. He composed Phlegra for the ensemble in 1975, and completed his fourth commission for them in 1997 with O-Mega. Waarg (1988) was a follow-up to the highly successful Thalleïn, premiered in 1985. While the earlier piece is characterized by a particular brilliance, Waarg is dense and rather sombre; the title itself means "work," perhaps an indication of its serious tone. While certainly challenging from a technical standpoint, Waarg is more orchestral than chamber-like, indicating an aesthetic shift in the years following Thalleïn. Waarg's opening features the winds in a sustained expansion from a single pitch to a chord. The emphasis on tone color is striking as the central note is passed from one instrument to another. The focus thereafter is on harmonic color, though instrumental timbre continues to play a role as Xenakis often treats the woodwind, brass, and string instruments as distinct entities. Xenakis sculpts and orchestrates the sonorities with great subtlety, fleshing out melodic passages with the addition of close-voiced parallel harmonies or clusters. The tempo is generally quite slow, but ostinato figures, often comprised of just two notes, provide rhythmic propulsion. Waarg takes shape in a quite fluid manner, various strands of material flowing over, under, and into one other. Gradually, the activity accumulates, with more and more frequent intrusions of faster elements. At Waarg's high point, there is an extraordinary passage in which each instrument pursues its own intricate path, creating a brisk contrapuntal texture of great density. A slow and chorale-like -- though fitful -- section for woodwinds and strings brings the work to a close. Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IsRL-Afx40

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Telemusik, Nr. 20, Electronic music (1966) Structure 1 - 0:00 Structure 2 - 0:22 Structure 3: Japan Gagaku-Music (E Ten Raku) - 0:35 Structure 4 - 1:09 Structure 5: Bali (Baris Bapan) + Africa (Ibani-Sansa-Lied) - 1:23 Structure 6, 7: Gagaku + Bali + Africa + Span. Flamenco Music - 1:45 Structure 7 cont.: Japan Priests Chanting (Kohyasan Temple) - 2:12 Structure 8 - 2:39 Structure 9: Span. (Sevillanas) + Hungary (Pista Bácsi, János Bácsi) - 3:34 Structure 10 - 4:09 Structure 11: Japan Kabuki (Yatai Aikata and Daidai Kagura) - 4:30 Structure 12: Hungary (Cont. of 9) - 5:59 Structure 13: Amazonas Shipibo Indians (Dance for Adolescent Girls) - 6:12 Structure 14: Kabuki (Cont. 11) + Hungary (Cont. 9) + Shipibo (Cont. 13) - 6:35 Structure 15: Kabuki (Cont. Daidai Kagura) - 6:49 Structure 16 - 7:26 Structure 17: Japan Conch Music (Omizutori Ceremony, Todaiji Temple) - 8:23 Structure 18: Cont. Conch Music - 8:45 Structure 19: Cont. Conch Music - 8:58 Structure 20: Bali (Like 5) + Gagaku (Like 3) + Africa (Like 5) + Shipibo (Like 13) - 9:12 Structure 21: China (Keihosu) - 9:35 Structure 22: Japan 2 Temple Chants (Kohyasan Temple) + Conch Music + Amazonas Javahe Indians (Lullaby) + Suyai Indians (Low Men's Choir) - 10:11 Structure 23: Conch Music (Cont. 22) - 11:41 Structure 24: Kabuki (Daidai Kagura) + Javahe Song (like 22) + Vietnam (Song Of The Festival Of Love [Girls]) And Concert Of Bamboo Whistles - 11:55 Structure 25: Cont. Vietnam - 12:51 Structure 26: Vietnam (Air Of Gongs) - 13:12 Structure 27: Vietnam Air Of Gongs And Concert Of Flutes Faded Into Each Other - 13:26 Structure 28: Vietnam (Cont. 27) - 14:00 Structure 29: Japan Temple Instruments - 14:14 Structure 30: Japan Yakushiji Temple (Jion-E) - 14:36 Structure 31: Gagaku Like 3 + 4 Temple Bells + Cont. Jion-E (Priests Chanting, With Geta Wooden Shoes) - 14:50 Structure 32: Japan Nô Percussionist (Voice) - 17:14 Final Sound: Taku And Taiko Beat (Nô) With Reverb - 17:26 Full score details, with CD booklet available in my Score Library. Telemusik was realized between January 23 and March 2, 1966 in the Studio for Electronic Music of the Japanese broadcasting system Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), in collaboration with the director of the studio, Wataru Uenami and the studio technicians Hiroshi Shiotani, Shigeru Satô and Akira Honma. The score is dedicated to the Japanese people. The first public performance took place at the NHK studios in Tokyo on 25 April 1966, in a program which also featured the first and second performances (in versions for trombone and for flute) of Stockhausen's other NHK commission, Solo. The substance of the work consists of recordings of a variety of traditional ethnic musics from around the world, together with electronically generated sounds. More than twenty of these recorded fragments are intermodulated on tape with electronic sounds and with each other to produce "odd hybrid-types"—modulating, for example, "the chant of monks in a Japanese temple with Shipibo music from the Amazon, and then further imposing a rhythm of Hungarian music on the melody of the monks. The work was created using a six-track tape recorder custom-built for the NHK studios. One track was reserved for editing during production, with the completed music being intended for playback in five channels, arranged in a circle around the audience. However, there are none of the continually-moving-sound techniques found in other of Stockhausen's electronic works, such as Kontakte, Sirius, or Oktophonie from Dienstag aus Licht. The spatial conception of Telemusik is therefore closer to that of Gesang der Jünglinge, which was also originally in five channels. For performances elsewhere than at the NHK studios, Stockhausen mixed down several two-channel stereo copies, using a panorama console to approximately position the five channels from left to right as I IV III II V. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemusik Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs PATREON - Pay a small monthly fee and gain access to my online score library, full of rare scores that I have used in videos - https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower PAYPAL - Donations of any amount welcome! - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/officialryan3?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeSG0EhWJ8