Harrison Birtwistle: Tragoedia (1965)

[@machida5114]

sodelicious..............

[@lovelifebath]

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in B-flat, Bassoon, Horn in F, Harp, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello and Claves (played by Wind Quintet members)

[@gardikagigih5704]

rest in peace Maestro

[@machida5114]

quite good ...

[@henrygingercat]

A great piece - Birtwistle's response to Stravinsky's Symphonies of Winds?

[@x_mander4323]

This time 1920-70 will be remembered for music and all other Arts reaching their greatest heights. I had been listening to mainly popular musics for the last 15 years before coming across this again - what a complete degradation of the human soul popular culture is! This makes me understand the moral dimension to aesthetics.

[@rolandbuck4005]

+x_mander This period was a dark age for classical music the effects of which classical composers are still struggling to escape from.

[@mirandac8712]

It's a renaissance -- the ecstatic end of the European tradition that started in Paris in 1180. And this is one of its monuments.

[@jonathanlohn4376]

You mean you think it was a dark age when in fact it's because you can't seem cope with anything that isn't intuitively obvious. Many contemporary composers whore for money and public approval. I was at University wit Max Richter and I can tell you his music was a lot more like this than the greed-driven drivel he has composed since Piano Circle. Trying to reach a wider audience is laudable, but it doesn't mean just jumping in with their laziness, inferiority complexes and stupidity and Pythagorean additions. Brahms' 4th Symphony with its dense harmonies wan't obvious to me as a kid, but so handsomely was I rewarded that it taught give apparently difficult Art a chance. Btw this needs no effort - it just beautiful.

[@henrygingercat]

You are of course entitled to your opinion. But I do feel sorry for you because you are both missing out on a lot of great music and because you are also a sanctimonious prick.

[@DaveDexterMusic]

@@jonathanlohn4376 Would you accept that people compose things that you would categorise as "greed-driven drivel" purely because they like how they sound?

[@bogorzelak]

AMAZING! Thank you SO much for uploading this!

[@gerardbegni2806]

The musical style of Harrison Birtwistle is naturally rather harsh. He often compses by cakshing juxtaposed blocks. This trend can be heard here, transposed to a small instrumental set . On the other hand, ha has been greatly influenced by the antique thetre, which is perhaps the explanation of the title.

[@stueystuey1962]

I gather from the comments in a general way that this music is considered to be of the most modern and radical of sorts. Like most English music of the most progressive type (I'll start with Britten whose music I find very stimulating) it incorporates the newest of the new but never quite abandons the tradition. This particular piece is growing on me tremendously a peculiar blend of Mahler, Knussen and Babbitt.

[@FutureMoth]

This is really cool! Could you include a list of the instrumentation for the work? That would be fantastic

[@robertvalentinoscolaro7394]

Yesz

[@johnthefrogakakrazert819]

I tend not to like this style so much, but this one I like. Really unsettling and exciting. Most modernist music is just odd.

[@postbodzapism]

I hear some futurism in the piece....

[@redhairedstepchild]

far out!!

[@elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen]

The Ebola of music , highly contagious and deadly to the ears !

[@wastrel09]

someone who gets it haha, this is garbage