Heard this on car radio Wednesday night around midnight. I found it so moving I went through the schedules of a few stations to find out what it was. So glad I found it.
Driving to my gym today, radio 3 on, and as I pulled into the carpark I was transfixed. Turned the engine off and looked out over the fields in sunshine. Five minutes in I couldn't hold back the tears. Arvo Part's later work is closest, but this music hits deeper parts than even that giant reaches. There are really no words for this... hints of the divine, exquisite, fragile, beauty. It is the very finest. Thank you thank you Howard.
Is there an Arvo Part connection, or just comparison of sublimely devotional sound ? I still don't know if it's not a synthesizer, so balanced, production or performance.
I first heard the Lento whilst driving and was compelled to pull over and let the music flow over me. Have loved it ever since and play it often. So beautifully constructed and contrasting the strings, woodwind and brass. So simple yet engaging.
This is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard. I first heard this played to me by my composition teacher when I was at the Royal College of music Junior department, and then a few days later I went to an open day at Birmingham Conservatoire and who should I be introduced to but the very genius who composed this. I went onto study composition at the conservatoire and had some lessons with Howard. One memorable lesson I told him I had learnt three of his short pieces for Piano and he listened to me play them. that really was such an honour. He introduced me to the music of Dave Brubeck and gave me a real appreciation of the music of Steve Reich. Howard’s humility and absolute love and joy for music will always stay with me. His music is often so simple and Beautiful, but touches us so deeply. I don’t know how he does it. His genius is expressed so beautifully in this piece. Thank you Howard.
Saw this tonight performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Was much slower, richer and more textural than this - to be expected. Had a huge lump in my throat. Massively cinematic - couldn't help picturing the end of the world via Hollywood blockbuster scenes.
At once melancholic and hopeful. It evokes memories in me of the people that have touched my life and left for one reason or another. I mourn the loss but I am, at the same time, thankful for the experiences I shared with them.
jimmymisner9 This is exactly the part of me this music arouses, and why I continue to believe music is the fabric of our humanity that two strangers can have the same response to the work of another stranger. Music is human.
The Collapse will not be full of bombast and noise but a blinking out of lights, a powerful aching regret. Pray you have someone beside you to hold your hand as you say goodbye to earth's beauty, someone to share the memory of what was and what could have been.
Howard Skempton was recently been appointed as patron of my local orchestra (Leamington Sinfonia) as he lives in Leamington Spa. We've been inspired by Lento and are working on a remote improvisation project. We hope that we can capture some of the magic! :-)
such beautiful music - speaks to one's soul and fills you with reverence for the beauty that does exist despite the horrors of our world, echoes of Vaughan Williams
This music is so otherwordly. I feel as though I have heard it in a past life, and as though I am coming into contact with something truly eternal ... I don't think I even believe in such things on a literal level, but those are some feelings that this music gives rise to for me. Thank you for uploading.
I only heard this for the first time at the weekend whilst waiting on a bus. It's one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of music I've ever heard, literally breathtaking.
ever? It's very poignant and lovely. Not sure I feel as strongly as you about it, but taste is individual of course. To have so few moving parts, those parts must be sublime, above and beyond, etc. The sonority is stunning, but it isn't overly engaging harmonically or melodically. Hard to describe it. Slightly Debussy, slightly VW, slightly Nyman, Glass, etc, etc. This is just the rantings of a failed composer though, so feel free to ignore
I am new to this composer's music, but must say as a conservatory-trained composer that this is a most impressive work. Worth listening to several times over.
that is the most amazing comment i have ever heard. the piece is put together so perfectly, combining repetition and new material - you never get bored but you KNOW it inside and out.
I just cannot stop playing it now! Is there someone out there in the music world who intentionally ignores music like this, and decides not to let us know about it?
@20hawk I hope angusryan just pointed out the connection and wasn't insinuating that Pantha wrote this. In any case,Pantha is the one who brought me here. And while one always has to be careful with someone else's music when it comes to remixing etc., I think Pantha did an outstanding job.The main applause for this should obviously be Skempton's, but I still like Saturn Strobe for itself, even though Lento stands perfectly on its own...If one is willing to listen, music can give so much.
Easily one of the best pieces of music I've heard this far in this life. I heard the Pantha du Prince version first and thought it was great. But this - this is phenomenal.
Never heard from Howard Skempton until I red the book The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr, on Luca Turin. Smell and Music. The Vibration of all particles in the Universe. What does vanille sounds like? And what about menta?
I think Wittgenstein said that music 'points to something.' SO it's not about the music but what is pointed to. If we forget what it points to and just integrate it into our regular habits of commoditisation it goes nowhere. This sound is present in earlier Scandinavian music: Greig' Elegiac Melodies, Sibelius 7th Symphony, Nielsen etc.
+vincent stuart :) I was very lucky enough to be taught by Howard along with many other privileged contemporaries. He is a wonderful man and probably one of the most open-minded and perceptive teachers I had. If you get the chance check out his choral and piano works. All the best :D Rob
Do you mean that it feels like you've known it all your life? Like when you meat a person for the first time but it feels like you've known them for your whole life? Maby I'm just stupid haha, but I'm just not sure if I understand what you mean.
Sorry - a little late, but I would recommend you Rachel's and The Cinematic Orchestra (from them particularly Manhatta, Entr'acte and Crimson Wing soundtrack)
I've spent more than a few moments with thoughts of drowning. I almost drowned as a boy, the very first time I jumped in a pool (watched lots of old Tarzan as a child). Strangely enough, I wasn't even aware that I was close to losing my life... until the lifeguard pulled me out. So here's a song for sinking to the depths of a body of deep water... or any comparable act with a possibly fateful end.
Stunning piece of music. Other worldly. Heard it for the first time on Radio 3 this morning. A work of genius
Pantha du Prince brought me here and now everything is dashed to pieces
Beautiful, just beautiful... Compositions like this are eternal.
Defenitely True!!!
I knew there had to be music like this.
Masterful creation that bends the insensitivity of the most insensitive among the insensitive.
There is a majesty to this that is rare. Sublime.
Heard this on car radio Wednesday night around midnight. I found it so moving I went through the schedules of a few stations to find out what it was. So glad I found it.
Driving to my gym today, radio 3 on, and as I pulled into the carpark I was transfixed. Turned the engine off and looked out over the fields in sunshine. Five minutes in I couldn't hold back the tears. Arvo Part's later work is closest, but this music hits deeper parts than even that giant reaches. There are really no words for this... hints of the divine, exquisite, fragile, beauty. It is the very finest. Thank you thank you Howard.
Is there an Arvo Part connection, or just comparison of sublimely devotional sound ? I still don't know if it's not a synthesizer, so balanced, production or performance.
@@kingtantalus2633 It a live orchestra, but in know what you meen.
@@BRIRICO Yes, particular chord cadences, like Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughn Williams, or, many biblical movies, the rhythmic unison harmonised.
Did you work out that day, or were you too emotional?
Came across this today on radio 3
I first heard the Lento whilst driving and was compelled to pull over and let the music flow over me. Have loved it ever since and play it often. So beautifully constructed and contrasting the strings, woodwind and brass. So simple yet engaging.
Have not heard this piece for years. Sitting in car today, came across it. Magnificent.
This is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard. I first heard this played to me by my composition teacher when I was at the Royal College of music Junior department, and then a few days later I went to an open day at Birmingham Conservatoire and who should I be introduced to but the very genius who composed this. I went onto study composition at the conservatoire and had some lessons with Howard.
One memorable lesson I told him I had learnt three of his short pieces for Piano and he listened to me play them. that really was such an honour. He introduced me to the music of Dave Brubeck and gave me a real appreciation of the music of Steve Reich.
Howard’s humility and absolute love and joy for music will always stay with me.
His music is often so simple and Beautiful, but touches us so deeply. I don’t know how he does it. His genius is expressed so beautifully in this piece. Thank you Howard.
Wow!!!❤❤
How wonderful!!
God bless you and Jesus Christ be with you XOXO Peter blais
Just Beautiful
Beautiful
That arrangement is so beautiful, not from this world
Saw this tonight performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Was much slower, richer and more textural than this - to be expected. Had a huge lump in my throat. Massively cinematic - couldn't help picturing the end of the world via Hollywood blockbuster scenes.
This would be perfect for the ending of "THE MIST"
So beautiful and what a wonderful video! Thank you.
the amazing thing about this piece is the way you've known it all your life by the end.
At once melancholic and hopeful. It evokes memories in me of the people that have touched my life and left for one reason or another. I mourn the loss but I am, at the same time, thankful for the experiences I shared with them.
jimmymisner9
This is exactly the part of me this music arouses, and why I continue to believe music is the fabric of our humanity that two strangers can have the same response to the work of another stranger.
Music is human.
Can't stop playing this work
The Collapse will not be full of bombast and noise but a blinking out of lights, a powerful aching regret. Pray you have someone beside you to hold your hand as you say goodbye to earth's beauty, someone to share the memory of what was and what could have been.
I have loved this piece of music since Day One!!❤🎵🎶❤
Heard this ages ago and was just blown away, amazing piece so sorrow
Howard Skempton was recently been appointed as patron of my local orchestra (Leamington Sinfonia) as he lives in Leamington Spa. We've been inspired by Lento and are working on a remote improvisation project. We hope that we can capture some of the magic! :-)
such beautiful music - speaks to one's soul and fills you with reverence for the beauty that does exist despite the horrors of our world, echoes of Vaughan Williams
This music is so otherwordly. I feel as though I have heard it in a past life, and as though I am coming into contact with something truly eternal ... I don't think I even believe in such things on a literal level, but those are some feelings that this music gives rise to for me. Thank you for uploading.
thanks for the music 🎶🎵
Lovely
I only heard this for the first time at the weekend whilst waiting on a bus. It's one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of music I've ever heard, literally breathtaking.
ever? It's very poignant and lovely. Not sure I feel as strongly as you about it, but taste is individual of course. To have so few moving parts, those parts must be sublime, above and beyond, etc. The sonority is stunning, but it isn't overly engaging harmonically or melodically. Hard to describe it. Slightly Debussy, slightly VW, slightly Nyman, Glass, etc, etc. This is just the rantings of a failed composer though, so feel free to ignore
@@tomvl3993 How unkind!
I am new to this composer's music, but must say as a conservatory-trained composer that this is a most impressive work. Worth listening to several times over.
that is the most amazing comment i have ever heard. the piece is put together so perfectly, combining repetition and new material - you never get bored but you KNOW it inside and out.
I'm afraid your 'you' in this case doesn't include me. It's lovely but doesn't blow me away and is, possibly, sightly boring for me.
I just cannot stop playing it now! Is there someone out there in the music world who intentionally ignores music like this, and decides not to let us know about it?
A whole lot of people. They're scared to let you know there's new music you might like. They make more money on the old stuff.
@@kylegann4005 And the new stuff tends to be commissioned, played once, or maybe a few times when an orchestra goes on tour, then forgotten.
@20hawk I hope angusryan just pointed out the connection and wasn't insinuating that Pantha wrote this. In any case,Pantha is the one who brought me here. And while one always has to be careful with someone else's music when it comes to remixing etc., I think Pantha did an outstanding job.The main applause for this should obviously be Skempton's, but I still like Saturn Strobe for itself, even though Lento stands perfectly on its own...If one is willing to listen, music can give so much.
And after all these years this work still never gets old :) absolute classic
Easily one of the best pieces of music I've heard this far in this life. I heard the Pantha du Prince version first and thought it was great. But this - this is phenomenal.
wow, fantastic sampling choice by pantha du prinice. beautiful stuff here.
Heard this performed at the NCH today. It is thought provoking and beautiful. Thanks to HS for making my average Tues so much more xx
I really think this is a awesome piece of music which should be better known.
I just want it to go on forever and ever.
Thank you, John
E Babb
Lovely piece. Skempton's work seems to be an echo of Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Tallis Fantasia" many versions of which are here on UA-cam.
A lovely piece by a composer who is completely new to me.
This piece, adagio in g and adagio for strings is like a divine trio
Adagio in G, Suite Gothique - Toccata and this piece are my favourite pieces of music, and I absolutely agree with your comment
wow, just discovered this. all i need now is a string orchestra....
Never heard from Howard Skempton until I red the book The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr, on Luca Turin. Smell and Music. The Vibration of all particles in the Universe. What does vanille sounds like? And what about menta?
Recently introduced to this piece of music....totally beautiful....restful to the extreme...
beautiful piece, nice video. calmness of the sea, well done.
I think Wittgenstein said that music 'points to something.' SO it's not about the music but what is pointed to. If we forget what it points to and just integrate it into our regular habits of commoditisation it goes nowhere.
This sound is present in earlier Scandinavian music: Greig' Elegiac Melodies, Sibelius 7th Symphony, Nielsen etc.
It reminds me of 'The Russian Ark' for some reason. Perhaps it's the ghostly boat coasting by us.
Amazing! Thanks!!!!!
I love it so much....
Rautavaara’s 7th Symphony ”Angel of Light” comes pretty close to this, e.g. the slow movement.
Amazing. Thankyou. x
That is awesome!
This is great.
So close to perfection ❤
Such emotion would fit perfectly at the end of the film, "The Mist"
Never heard of 'the mist 'James.....is that a recent film?
Great music
Great ! Unusual thoughtfulness ....
over All Things .
beautiful music by a really unknown talent
+vincent stuart :) I was very lucky enough to be taught by Howard along with many other privileged contemporaries. He is a wonderful man and probably one of the most open-minded and perceptive teachers I had. If you get the chance check out his choral and piano works. All the best :D Rob
Pantha du Prince brought me here.
I can imagine this would be lovely to conduct..
🎵🎶🎥🔥
Very spiritual and remind me of how God loved the world so much that He gave us His own Son Jesus Christ
Excellent.
+A. Whatfish The seagulls are annoying.
pěkně řečeno
@uweeeeee cheers!
pantha du prince - saturn strobe
Do you mean that it feels like you've known it all your life? Like when you meat a person for the first time but it feels like you've known them for your whole life? Maby I'm just stupid haha, but I'm just not sure if I understand what you mean.
Thankyou very much and Jesus Christ be with you XOXO
Sorry - a little late, but I would recommend you Rachel's and The Cinematic Orchestra (from them particularly Manhatta, Entr'acte and Crimson Wing soundtrack)
Check out Wagner's Parsifal and Satie's Ogives (including a rendering of one by William Orbit) . . .
ey to on rohet ba in ghatat
please translate
Luca Turin brought me here lol
I've spent more than a few moments with thoughts of drowning. I almost drowned as a boy, the very first time I jumped in a pool (watched lots of old Tarzan as a child). Strangely enough, I wasn't even aware that I was close to losing my life... until the lifeguard pulled me out. So here's a song for sinking to the depths of a body of deep water... or any comparable act with a possibly fateful end.
Beautiful but the video is possibly dangerous - flashing images can induce panic or worse
shades of RV Williams but who cares very beautiful
I know absolutely nothing about classical music (yes, I'm ashamed). Anybody knows of music similar to this one ?
Try Arvo Part, Memoriam to Benjamin Britten
lots of echoes from the works of others. Nyman, Glass (moments of Truman Show sounds going on), VW, etc.
Try “Stone in Focus” by Aphex Twin, another sublime piece
Needs a beat…