Excellent performance. The writing is very vocal-friendly, in accordance with Renaissance melodic practices, and the simultaneities are mostly easy on the ears. A successful synthesis of styles.
Listen to this glorious organic 20th century expansion from the 19th. He is for me a wonderful discovery. I never received the whereabouts of his music outside of UA-cam. Shame on my professors. Only Schönberg Webern and Berg.
as i reported elsewhere i had a couple of CD's of Krenek and always felt guilty listening to them- like I was cheating on the more important composers. Krenek ranks way up there on the chart of masters.
For what it's worth, this is a 12-tone piece, too. Krenek just uses a series that implies diatonic modes and then augments them with a process called rotation (rather than development by transposition, inversion and retrograde like you see in the music of Schoenberg). This piece is closer to Stravinsky's serialism than any late Romantic music.
one of the rare pieces of contemporary classical music I can really get into and appreciate
Right up there with Tallis, Lassus, and Couperin for the best Lamentations. I only wish Krenek had written more like this.
This is some of the most superb music I have ever heard...
Glad you liked it. There's more Krenek on my channel. Thanks for commenting.
Excellent performance. The writing is very vocal-friendly, in accordance with Renaissance melodic practices, and the simultaneities are mostly easy on the ears. A successful synthesis of styles.
Thank you so much for this. I was aware that this work inspired Stravinsky's Threni but had not heard it.
Wow. Just...wow.
Listen to this glorious organic 20th century expansion from the 19th. He is for me a wonderful discovery. I never received the whereabouts of his music outside of UA-cam. Shame on my professors. Only Schönberg Webern and Berg.
as i reported elsewhere i had a couple of CD's of Krenek and always felt guilty listening to them- like I was cheating on the more important composers. Krenek ranks way up there on the chart of masters.
For what it's worth, this is a 12-tone piece, too. Krenek just uses a series that implies diatonic modes and then augments them with a process called rotation (rather than development by transposition, inversion and retrograde like you see in the music of Schoenberg). This piece is closer to Stravinsky's serialism than any late Romantic music.
Amazing, sounds like Carlo Gesualdo on acid!
Il n'y a aucun espoir en cette souffrance.