SUPERB. Engaging...it's like food, for my brain. Above and beyond that, I'll have to peruse his further works. I'm familiar with: TIME'S ENCOMIUM, which I purchased in the '70s. Time to check out the second & third piano sonatas (are there more?).
Serial music requires a different point of view and a new openness of mind. It's more about creating music through geometries, relations and restrictions. If you dare (lol) to listen again, I humbly suggest you listen for characteristics like change, contrast or disparity of range, tempo, duration, density or sparsity etc- beautiful harmonies are exactly what you shouldn't expect. I find serial music a bit easier to appreciate if you have a score handy. You can see what's going on before listening, or see the projection of a musical idea. This music is already old news! This is from 1969. If you'd like a program- just imagine the dissonant complexity of a city and its range of experience- the rumbling of industry and automobiles, crowds of people- all the complexity heard as chaos or dissonance, and yet the city is a high-functioning, high-powered human macro-organism. It may not be the most harmonious but it can be exhilarating! Happy listening.
I try to avoid "naked", lacking context comments. If to this point the commenter has heard nothing more than one or two Beethoven sonatas this work would come as a shock. If he is comparing to Boulez, Schoenberg, Barraque and others, well then I guess his comment wod have to be taken seriously. I find this composition, which folloes three years after the sa.e composers 1st Piano Concerto, this first issued Sonata is a rather mature work.
I've heard literally every solo piano piece by Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Haydn, Debussy, and Brahms as I am a solo piano composer myself. I've written many pieces myself, but only a few have ever been made digital and available online. I like to listen to different pieces as well. If I hear a piece and don't like it, I just never listen to it again, but I'm never afraid to voice my opinion on solo piano works or composers of them. I just don't understand how this is considered enjoyable music. @stuartsegan2783
A very mature piece of music. An easy listen but not easy to grasp. Boulez 1.5.
SUPERB. Engaging...it's like food, for my brain. Above and beyond that, I'll have to peruse his further works. I'm familiar with:
TIME'S ENCOMIUM, which I purchased in the '70s. Time to check out the second & third piano sonatas (are there more?).
there’s a fourth
Very interesting piece. I am new to Wuorinen
how difficult is this to learn to play?????
it depends-how's yer 'rithmetic !
so delicious....
This guy is just bad at writing sonatas.
Serial music requires a different point of view and a new openness of mind. It's more about creating music through geometries, relations and restrictions. If you dare (lol) to listen again, I humbly suggest you listen for characteristics like change, contrast or disparity of range, tempo, duration, density or sparsity etc- beautiful harmonies are exactly what you shouldn't expect. I find serial music a bit easier to appreciate if you have a score handy. You can see what's going on before listening, or see the projection of a musical idea. This music is already old news! This is from 1969. If you'd like a program- just imagine the dissonant complexity of a city and its range of experience- the rumbling of industry and automobiles, crowds of people- all the complexity heard as chaos or dissonance, and yet the city is a high-functioning, high-powered human macro-organism. It may not be the most harmonious but it can be exhilarating! Happy listening.
This guy is just bad at understanding music. Maybe he should stick to pop.
I try to avoid "naked", lacking context comments. If to this point the commenter has heard nothing more than one or two Beethoven sonatas this work would come as a shock. If he is comparing to Boulez, Schoenberg, Barraque and others, well then I guess his comment wod have to be taken seriously. I find this composition, which folloes three years after the sa.e composers 1st Piano Concerto, this first issued Sonata is a rather mature work.
I've heard literally every solo piano piece by Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Haydn, Debussy, and Brahms as I am a solo piano composer myself. I've written many pieces myself, but only a few have ever been made digital and available online. I like to listen to different pieces as well. If I hear a piece and don't like it, I just never listen to it again, but I'm never afraid to voice my opinion on solo piano works or composers of them. I just don't understand how this is considered enjoyable music. @stuartsegan2783
I love the 1st piano concerto. I never would have guessed this came 3years later...