Your mini-lectures are absolutely amazing, authority, insightful and even-handed. I am 76 and have two degrees in Music and am totally impressed with your KZread series. I seat at your feet. Thank you.

@davidschestenger3366

4 ай бұрын

Wonderful comment Charles I’m totally seduce by music, and the insight of this 15 minute are great Share totally your comment

My favourite composer for non-piano music, and in my top 3 overall!

I was lucky to catch Turangalila-symphony live back in 2010-11. The pianist had a nose bleeding, but performed beautifully regardless. In my region performances of such unique pieces is a quite rarity.

@ejb7969

2 жыл бұрын

I think that's true in all regions, unfortunately.

You’re so poetic and awesome introducing all of the great 20th century composers 🙌🌸🎶

such an excellent video. thanks

Enjoyed, as always.

Very in depth I’ve really been enjoying your videos

Thanks for making this! (Would have been even better if samples from his works were inserted, but I can't complain...) I find Messiaen oddly fascinating. There is so much sensuality in the sounds he creates - his works never sound too brainy or intellectual in spite of the demands they make on the listener. And there are aspects of his aesthetics that seems classical, for example his bird pieces seem to evoke the "art imitates nature" principle, but the result is totally progressive, avant-garde. PS. Great deadpan joke delivery around 12:08 there 😂

Thank you, for the fabulous 15 minutes that will translate into hours of research Wonderfully pack in information

love it!!

Woah just discovered this channel. I thought I was the classical nerd...

Killing the exams to finish off my studies at our conservatory. Great video! Thanks.

What about all his organ works!?

Thank you sir. I am afraid that M.Messiaen's music sounds more like a lecture in mathematics so scary to me but I read that he was thought of as a lovely man so you cannot do better than that. Blessings and peace

It goes by quite quickly in the video so I'd like to add that the modes of limited transposition are, above all, symmetrical modes. The limited transposition bit is very distracting, even though, in the end it boils down to the same thing. The symmetry is the most important part. The twelve note, chromatic scale is symmetrical but it has NO transpositions! You can't get more 'limited' than that. The whole tone scale can be transposed once. The octatonic or diminished scale can be transposed twice and so on. This was an interesting, informative and fun video. I especially like the joke about his new wife crying when Messiaen presented her with a piece to play. 😀

Did you mention that "Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus" (wich is part of the quatuor pour les fin du temps) is arranged from the earlier composition, "IV. L'Eau" from "Fête des belles eaux" for 6 Ondes Martenots, performed at the Paris International Exposition of 1937?

Hi, great video. Can I make a suggestion? could you make a video of the books you have on your shelf if possible? Cheers

@ClassicalNerd

3 жыл бұрын

I did one back in the day! My bookshelf has grown immensely since then, though. A remake may be in order soon.

12:12 hahahahaha that one caught me off guard

Impressive vids. Working through your backlog. Conlon nancarrow? Done him?

@ClassicalNerd

3 жыл бұрын

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

Are you familiar with the music of Charles Koechlin? (1867- 1950) He uses The Ondes Martenot to great effect in many of his pieces.

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

I've heard several Koechlin pieces, but none that-to my recollection-had any electronics involved.

@Mackeson3

5 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJiH06qvpLeWY6g.html Starting about 12 minutes into the piece. He also uses it in his "Seven Stars Symphony"

@pianomanhere

2 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd Yes, Thomas, PLEASE do a video on Charles Koechlin. Koechlin's entire cycle "Le Livre de la Jungle" is an unjustly neglected masterpiece. The opening triptych of choral / vocal soloist pieces known as "Trois Poemes du Livre de La Jungle" are remarkable, with the first piece being sublime. The remaining sections are La Loi de la Jungle - Les Bandar-Log - La Course de Printemps - Meditation de Purun Bhagat (My favorites among these are the latter two I listed). All, supremely beautiful works and a cycle whose overall neglect and consistent absence from the international orchestral repertoire are a crying shame and a scandal. Another piece called "Le Buisson Ardent" (The Burning Bush) is a great work, too, with some vague references to a couple themes heard in "The Jungle Book." (By the way, this burning bush is not a Biblical reference, but rather to an episode in Romain Rolland's vast toe-breaker of a novel "Jean-Christophe.")

I'd like for you to talk about where concert music is heading for the future as well as your thoughts on the compositional language used today.

It’s sometimes weird how musicologists want to define serialism solely as what it was in its initial stages and not what became of it. Same with tone rows and ”so and so did not use the method exactly” when talking about pretty much anyone except Webern...

@eemelin6660

5 жыл бұрын

Also I forgot to like like half of the videos in the series and now I have to watch them again and it makes me happy

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

I understand what you mean, but it's also necessary to define the Webern-Boulez-Babbitt-Stockhausen school of strict/total serialism as separate from the Berg-Stravinsky-Copland-Messiaen school of occasional serialist influence. If we lumped all composers who ever dabbled in serial technique into one list, said list would be encompass almost all Western twentieth-century composers, and wouldn't be as useful.

@eemelin6660

5 жыл бұрын

That being said, Witold Lutoslawski next? :)

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Lutosławski has been bumped up in the request pool.

Really enjoy your videos. How about information about Morton Feldman ? My personal favorite from him is piano and string quartet.

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Morton Feldman has been bumped up in the request pool at www.lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

when i heard the name olivier messiaen i tought he was a medieval composer i mistook him for palestrina

I'd love to see one of these on cage or glass/reich

@ClassicalNerd

7 жыл бұрын

One of my earliest videos was on Cage [watch?v=Ws5wDD_5TwE], while a video on the history of minimalism in general is already in the request queue.

@goonyougoodthing

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers man ,I only just discovered your chanel. Great job.

@autsni

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd Can I make a counter request for Glass....

@GUILLOM

3 жыл бұрын

@@autsni no

@samuelmincarelli5051

3 жыл бұрын

@@GUILLOM h

Pierre Boulez and Karol Szymanowski plz

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

You've already requested Szymanowski. You're the fifth person to request Boulez: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

what is the piece played in the introduction?

@ClassicalNerd

2 жыл бұрын

All music used in my videos is listed in the video descriptions.

What was the name of that 14 movement symphony / oratorio / concerto????

@ClassicalNerd

2 жыл бұрын

_La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ._

@_rstcm

2 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd Thanku!

Can Morton Feldman get a video?

@ClassicalNerd

4 жыл бұрын

You're in luck: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iKSAmpKklJzXk7w.html

George Crumb next!

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I don't do living composers; their careers aren't finished, making comprehensive retrospectives impossible.

@brahmabile

2 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicalNerd RIP Crumb

where did he get so much paper?

@ClassicalNerd

2 жыл бұрын

During the early years of the war, supplies were a lot easier to come by. I don't think Messiaen could have written the _Quartet_ by 1942.

PLAY THE MUSIC!!

@ClassicalNerd

2 жыл бұрын

Your caps lock seems to be broken

I never heard of this composer before. Weird compositions he has.

@TomCL-vb6xc

5 жыл бұрын

ShorkGamer 0 His quartet for the end of time is imo one of the greats musical accomplishments in history . It not only epitomises but sometimes transcends modernist music .

I see that you’re very open-minded! Could you do a video on Charlemagne Palestine, please? Peace.

It's hard to find a Messiaen work that is exclusively Roman Catholic and not simply, universally Christian. Everything he wrote could have been written by a Protestant except maybe his opera.

Dude, that part about his 2nd wife was hysterical! Wd u concider MUSICAL stand up comedy?? I think u cd be a kind of Youngin' Victor Borga! 😂 Peace