Claude Vivier - Lonely Child (w/ score) (for soprano and orchestra) (1980)

[@bertvanelsacker665]

A true work of art that avoids and imitates banality, a form of beauty fit for our age, an expression of pain and redemption, unconcerned with any judgment of style or propriety.

[@augustwilliams1447]

What a wonderful piece that I feel tells a deeper story. Such unique expression

[@alejandrom.4680]

With this piece I felt in love with the composer. God damn, those harmonies man

[@johnappleseed8369]

You're really are a saint Belanna, I can't thank you enough!

[@ţťþtţtt]

I really wish this would never end

[@sebastianwrighton5591]

So beautiful. Thank you very much.

[@Philhamm]

Saw this tonight in Ottawa played by the National Arts Center Orchestra. The orchestra played their hearts out, but unfortunately (at least from my seat in the second balcony) soprano Erin Wall was unintelligibly quiet and swallowed up by the dense orchestral sonority. This fatal defect meant that the piece was lost on most of the audience around me. I'm glad I get to listen to this clear recording along with the score!

[@darrinheaton2614]

That's too bad - it's such a magnificent piece. I've been waiting for years for an orchestra around me to program this work, but it never seems to come up. I heard it years ago performed by the Esprit Contemporary Music Ensemble in Toronto: it struck me immediately in an extremely intense and profound way. I identified very strongly with the work for many years, until I realized that the work was asking me not to identify with it, but to experience it as a means of breaking free of my ego...this 'Lonely Child" that I told myself I would always be. Sorry for this unrequested response, but it's not every day you come across someone with whom you can talk about an (unfortunately) obscure Canadian composer.

[@dobbermanne]

​@@darrinheaton2614 Sounds interesting

[@louchesimon]

Incroyable, merci beaucoup

[@lautarofigueroabalcarce]

Very interesting piece!

[@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms]

For sure. Music that still manages to be both brutal as fuck dark/agressive/violent sounding and as condescendingly needlessly technical as humanly possible despite being decades old. It doesn't get much more challenging than this. From a time when music was meant to be enjoyed and not just passively consumed maybe.

[@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms]

Can really see why people think this guy had himself killed. He must have been absolutely insane to come up with something like this. Shit is brilliant though,a hopefully eternal testament to the creativity of man.

[@jamesbarlow6423]

Very interesting. The Montreal is a good orchestra too. Saw them some years back.

[@pawdaw]

Masterpiece

[@bariscanbilgin]

Incredible 👌🏻

[@LudsenMartinus]

Me mató

[@giovannibattistaboccardo1410]

This is impressive, it's baeautifull! It would be possible to have the score? I'd really love to study it, thank you so much

[@kaustin6969]

Available through the Canadian Music Center, and also commercially.

[@MooPotPie]

I find Vivier's work insufferably depressing. This piece is no exception.

[@jaredmilos5464]

Cranked the headphones and that bell turned my fart into a less pleasant reality good lawd

[@morganeheysecoloratura]

😂😂

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

The first few minutes were interesting but 19 minutes was more than I could take. This is all too monochromatic for me.

[@audunstolpe7408]

Monchromatic is the exact word that Cameron to me to

[@jonpettijohn6885]

If you like the sound of worn-out brake pads scraping the rotors, wait till you hear this!

[@audunstolpe7408]

Not too many ideas here I think. A single repeated interval. Very little transformation. Thats what I hear anyway

[@Destroyer_of_Worlds]

Who else is here after listening to today's Morning Cup of Murder podcast?