James MacMillan: Veni, Veni, Emanuel - Glennie / Edwards / DSO Berlin

[@tjfamily9263]

Saw it in 1993 at the Kennedy Center. One more my favorite pieces of music ever.

[@LiteratureTodayUK]

Bloody good! And wow - the last 5 minutes and wow, the last 10 seconds!!!!!

[@AnjaHuebel1]

Spectacular, magical. And great writing for French horns!!

[@joet7644]

There's definitely a few moments where Evelyn is ahead of the orchestra and conductor. It's like she's saying to them 'come on, you can do faster than this!'

[@luthereric5205]

hello, a wonderful piece for percussion and orchestra. for me it s an ideal of rythmic syncopes, betwin the orchestra and percussion, why the music of mister Macmillan is so wild and later so cuntrapunctic in the triads, chromatisms . it s like the English music scrives for greats orchestras, this music is good for who lives in the pure english soult. i like this version.

[@brianhammer5107]

He's a Scot, mate. And I'm not sure which 'soul' you are referring to - as there really is nothing particularly British about this piece of music. It's much more leaning towards American and German avante-garde, without the same level of creativity achieved by some of those composers.

[@starxsirius1429]

wow; superb performance

[@dustyboy8632]

I can definitely hear a huge influence of Vincent Persichetti's Symphony No.6 on this piece.

[@wichipi1164]

buenas," muy lindo el video te mereces un like" :)

[@TomKilworth]

Such a great piece, but maybe one day classical musicians will learn to groove in the "Dance" moments! Jukka-Pekka Saraste / Ulster Orchestra is the best attempt yet, but still way off anything jazz and pop musicians can already do. Glennie is excellent every time, of course

[@garrysmodsketches]

Pure, pure elitism in the form of musical sound. Impressive! When I listen to this music, I can almost hear a snooty voice in my head saying: "If you don't like this, you are uneducated and close-minded".

[@FernieCanto]

That voice in your head is your own problem. It has nothing to do with the music.

[@garrysmodsketches]

@@FernieCanto Well, it's very unlikely that it has nothing to do with the music. Because I don't have such reaction to most music. Therefore, there must be something about this music that triggers this reaction.

[@FernieCanto]

@@garrysmodsketches "Well, it's very unlikely that it has nothing to do with the music. Because I don't have such reaction to most music." So what? It's still *your* reaction. Maybe you're just unaware to what that inner voice says when you listen to other types of music. Music is just sound, it has no thoughts. However, you constantly project your own biases and your own prejudices into everything you hear. And it's very typical for people to be entirely ignorant of the thought processes going on in their own minds, and to believe that every feeling comes from outside. Nah, it's all inside. For me, it's quite clear that your "inner voice" is just saying what you *want* to believe. It's tempting to think this music is "elitist", because you're uncomfortable with music that asks for a bit of good will from the listener. If you have no such good will, just admit it, don't blame the music.

[@garrysmodsketches]

@@FernieCanto well, there you go, you yourself admit that this music requires "good will" (it's not really good will, in reality it probably requires years of intensive musical training in order to appreciate this kind of music). So in the end my reaction does have something to do with the music itself. Otherwise it would be strange. You would have to believe that this music triggers a very specific reaction in me, for no reason, while the remaining 99% of music does not.

[@FernieCanto]

@@garrysmodsketches "well, there you go, you yourself admit that this music requires "good will" (...). So in the end my reaction does have something to do with the music itself." No, it doesn't. You got it all wrong. Your reaction to the music is still exclusively your own fault, and the way you tag it as "elitist" says a lot about your fear of attempting a connection with something foreign. Once again, if you're afraid, admit it. Don't blame the music.

[@brianhammer5107]

It's a nice piece. However, Frank Zappa was doing this better, and earlier. His music is deemed too 'weird' by some, so that older people miss out on a lot of his 'serious' composing, which is a real shame, as he used percussion and brass/woodwinds to great effect, and was a better melodist than MacMillan shows here.

[@EGF1000]

Religion has been responsible for more violent human death than any other single entity, so I suppose one should be grateful that in this case it is only responsible for drivel from a two trick pony - a mess of musical notation in which you can alter at least 40% of what is written without altering how it sounds = conflict; and badly written ungrammatical church mode music full of the sonic problems solved centuries ago = 'repose'. Oh yes, add a few 'wrong' notes to show it is modern. Oh yes, yet another celebration of the triumph of connections over music.

[@MrNinjaFish]

Blatant copypasta. Why?

[@pablitoelraton1248]

cope

[@Belano1911]

Oh boo hoo.