I actually screamed (it usually never happens, also I almost never comment under anything) when I saw Arvo Pärt in the thumbnail. I'm always so surprised and happy when someone outside of Estonia mentions something to do with our small nation :) Espescially someone like Arvo Pärt who I'm sure every Estonian has at least heard of once and he's truly our national treasure, but it's sometimes still hard to believe that he is as well known as is said, so when something like that happens, it just shows that it's true. Also, I met him briefly at Uni and he is genuinely the nicest and most humble man, which says a lot about him, because he is considered (or at least I would consider him) the most well know Estonian in the world and as we see, especially nowadays form social media, it can change a man, but thankfully not him :) In the moments like these, where someone like Arvo Pärt is bit by bit, thanks to his nationality, introducing small Estonia to the wolrd, I'm really proud to be Estonian!!
You'll be happy to hear that we had several lessons on this guy in German grammar school, I even had to explain some of his composing characteristics in my A levels lol
Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on, And Mozart don't go shopping no more. You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again, And Elgar doesn't answer the door. Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh, Whilst composing a long symphony, But one hundred and fifty years later, There's very little of them left to see. They're decomposing composers. There's nothing much anyone can do. You can still hear Beethoven, But Beethoven cannot hear you. Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninov Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal, But nowadays, no one will serve them, And their gravy is left to congeal. Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds With their highly original sound. The pianos they played are still working, But they're both six feet underground. They're decomposing composers. There's less of them every year. You can say what you like to Debussy, But there's not much of him left to hear. - Monty Python, the Decomposing Composers
This video was absolutely necessary. I feel one of the reasons why classical music fails to connect with many young people on a wider manner is that sense of distancing powered by the fact that traditional composers all died many years ago. This is extremely beautiful music made by living people and I sincerely thank you guys for giving them a shout out, even knowing that this video was getting demonetised. Prime example of how much music actually matters to you, guys.
Trash popular culture (not all is trash but with each year it's getting worse) and a certain hatred for anything from the past is the bread and butter of modern youth. At least the nihilists of the past had the common decency to not be degenerates. For some reason there's this trend where the dumber you are, the cooler you are...
The problem I have with the division between classical music and any other music is that the supposed successors of the old master's are self proclaimed. In visual arts, old masters have their space in Museums. You can't do that with music. I doubt a contemporary born Bach, Mozart, Beethoven would be making western orchestral music. Orchestras are wonderful entities capable of a huge range of sounds, but maybe they are not well suited (or are not enough) to express what it is to live and die in 21st century.
I read somewhere that Arvo Pärt’s piece was written on his old piano which was the most out of tune in the middle, hence the fact that it only really uses the extremes of low and high. It was the last piece he wrote on this piano as he had to leave his home town,, which to me makes it more emotional knowing the context
I appreciate you giving a shout out to David Lang! His music usually has a lot concepts behind what he makes and his website has notes for every piece. For "cheating, lying, & stealing" he said: "I started thinking about how so often when classical composers write a piece of music, they are trying to tell you something that they are proud of and like about themselves. Here's this big gushing melody, see how emotional I am. Or, here's this abstract hard-to-figure-out piece, see how complicated I am, see my really big brain. I am more noble, more sensitive, I am so happy. The composer really believes he or she is exemplary in this or that area. It's interesting, but it's not very humble. So I thought, What would it be like if composers based pieces on what they thought was wrong with them? Like, here's a piece that shows you how miserable I am. Or, here's a piece that shows you what a liar I am, what a cheater I am. I wanted to make a piece that was about something disreputable. It's a hard line to cross. You have to work against all your training. You are not taught to find the dirty seams in music. You are not taught to be low-down, clumsy, sly and underhanded."
Well, there is enough low down, dirty, clumsy stuff out there. "Stuff" as in just about everything. It's still narcissistic, to base the focus on ones self, adventageous, or not. How about excellence, and beauty, and composing for whatever is needing to come through?
Joe Hisaishi also has some really interesting work outside of his work with Ghibli. He too explores minimalism and is a huge fan of Philip Glass. In a few past albums, he has experimented with how far he could push rhythm as a melody (melodies that were rhythmic and not focused on creating traditional flowing lines) and orchestral works that were focused almost entirely on melody (polyphony and layering melodies). Also, Ryuichi Sakamoto. LEGEND. Super experimental. He has the traditional classical stuff, electronic, folk ethnic, minimalism, experimental, bossa nova, etc. He's all about exploring. He's worked on a bunch of films too (including The Revenent). If you've heard of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Utada Hikaru, he wrote that too! It's from the movie by the same name, which he starred in with David Bowie. The thing that i love about Hisaishi and Sakamoto is that they both reinvent their works. They write something awesome, and instead of just playing it straight out of the books, they always re-arrange and cover it... remix it... to make it more interesting.
@@ckokomo808 about joe hisashi, youtube surprisingly, give a lot of his album, mostly original. His work for children of the sea hasn't yet appeared though... Minimal rhythm series is a good start, and another piano too
I was gonna mention Hisaishi! Just found the other day that he has this wonderful concerto for Electric Violin and Chamber Orchestra. Just a few other good ones I'd recommend: Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 Voices Takashi Yoshimatsu - Cyberbird Concerto Toru Takemitsu - A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden Eric Whitacre - Ghost Train Andrew Norman - Try Karel Husa - Music for Prague 1968
Arvo Pärt's Fratres is an absolutely astounding piece. It's built around adding an extra half note to the length of each consecutive phrase within a repetition, and the piano and violin combine to form such icy colors, it's as if you're some nomad hundreds of km out in the middle of the artic
Yoshimatsu is my favorite composer of the last 50 years. The aesthetic in his music is absolutely beautiful. Love memo flora (what they played) and Ode to Birds and Rainbows are two of my favorites as is his first symphony and his Pleiades Dancea.
Some contemporary recommendations: - Peteris Vasks's "The Fruit of Silence" & "Musica Serena." - John Luther Adams' "Become Ocean" & "Canticles in the Sky." - Maria Markan Sigfúsdottír's "Aequora" & "Oceans." - Eric Whitacre's "Deep Field." - Qigang Chen's "Er Huang." - "White Landscapes" & "Ode to Birds and Rainbows" by Takashi Yoshimatsu (from the video). - "Cantus Arcticus" by Einojuhani Rautavaara (I didn't make him up; he's Finnish).
To add to that, John Williams has some amazing concertos like his trumpet concerto and bassoon concerto the Five Sacred Trees. Also anything John Mackey writes is pretty amazing.
i love that they know that the video would get copystriked, but still decided to upload because they genuinely love what they do and want others to discover the joy of classical music
That Nyman piece was actually used in the film "The piano", with Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel, back in the 90's. Thanks for the reccomendations, and... we kinda like it when you go nerdy 💪
The difference between "film music" and "classical music" is mostly that in films, the movie itself has the attention, you cannot implement anything with too much detail, or too sophisticated, that would steal away your attention. This is why it will mostly be "simplistic" or "minimalistic". It is there to complement and strengthen the feeling you are supposed to get from watching the scene in the movie while in a standalone classical piece you can do a lot more because your interest is now purely in listening. Both have their strengths and both can be great
You could argue that ballets are also basically film music. I don't think there is a line between 'classical' and 'film' music. It just sort of blends into one another. Some film music is really modern, some clearly inspired by (or even straight up) classical music, some film music is the basic clichés we've heard a thousand times before others are experimental or really unique. Also, I'd like to point out that many people actually buy and listen to film music on its own merits, like they would listen to say, the music for a ballet by Tchaikovsky.
The music in this video in order: 1:40 Arvo Pärt : "Spiegel im Spiegel" 4:56 Max Richter : "Nature of Daylight", "Recomposed Four Seasons" 9:00 Takashi Yoshimatsu : "Memo Flora" 10:50 Michael Nyman : "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" 11:45 David Lang: "Cheating, Lying, Stealing", "This Was Written by Hand"
But everyone should definitely go check out Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Cyberbird Concerto if you haven’t. ua-cam.com/video/Xp9zhpuRlUw/v-deo.html it’s just so beautiful, especially the 2nd movement. Definitely one of my favorite pieces & it calms me down every single time.
Ting Ting sorry i didn’t realise 😬 someone else pointed out that it was the memo flora concerto, but the cyberbird concerto is also great and everyone should definitely check it out!
Here’s a list of contemporary composers and pieces I want to see them show: 1.Qigang Chen- Er Huang piano concerto, violin concerto, cello concerto 2. Rautavaara- 8th symphony, Cantus Arcticus, Cello concerto 1 (now deceased) 3. Steve Reich- Music for 18 musicians 4. Toru Takemitsu- Rain tree Sketch 1 (deceased) 5.Eric Whitacre- Sleep, A boy and a girl, Luc Aurumque 6. Olafur Arnalds- Nyepi (voice) 7. Anna Clyne-Cello concerto 8. Nils Frahm- Says (it’s hard to classify his music, but I think it could go under the contemporary classical music umbrella 9. Eyvis Evensen- Draugdrummr (it’s Icelandic I don’t remember how to spell it) 10. Wynton Marsalis- Violin Concerto There’s more I’d like to say but I’d love to see them make a video about these composers and their pieces.
me, a cellist performing at a school kids: “dang that’s a big violin” me: they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you’re fine when you’re not really fine, but you just can’t get into it, because they would never understand
I can't support because it's sold ooooout 😭😭😭 Eddy's face looking at Brett when listening to his personal favorite: me in a same situation looking at my husband's face Also I was hoping to see Eddy showcase his sister's work. Her music is cool and interesting also.
@@user-lh6yb3tq6t She does play piano, but she does compose her own tracks also. I guess some of her sounds don't necessarily falls under "classical music" so maybe that's why it's not included 🤔
I am so glad you talked about "On the nature of Daylight" They were disqualified from the oscars because this was published as an independent classical piece and not for the movie.
Yes! Jóhann Jóhannsson’s film score for the film Arrival was very innovative and praiseworthy, and it's deeply unfortunate that the Academy Awards disqualified them from nomination, especially considering he passed away so abruptly.
@Ethan Sturm in my part of the world nerd means egghead, brain person. I think that was the part that confused you. I just noticed that Eddy did all reseaches and explaned all intresting parts to Brett. Brett was adding his thoughts but Eddy was the main teller.
Mirror in a mirror is an example of mise en abîme. It's a technique used in film, photography and even literature, where strange parallels form and duplicate each other while creating something entirely new. It's interesting to see it applied to music. Representing the literature degree gang (?)
Very similar to the methods Wagner used to write The Ring. Taking a simple motif and reversing and evolving it to the point that each theme takes on it’s own meaning.
I just thought opening in "Nature of Daylight" is like a sunrise. And that pause in "Written by the hand" is like when you writing something and you take a moment to... choose best words, I guess. _Compose a phrase_ in your head first. I know the feeling.
Some recommendations from a pianist😄: Joe hisaishi - departures Max richter - the end of our exploring, a lamenting song Alexis Ffrench - bluebird, a time of wonder Yiruma - too much I like, but other than the well known pieces like “river flows in you” and “kiss the rain” check out “when the love falls”, “fotografia” and “do you?” Ludovico Einaudi - also too many pieces, I think the most well know are “una Mattina” and “nuvole bianche” but my favourites are probably “oltremare” and “tu sei” If you like movie music, some random pieces I really enjoy are: James Horner -for the love of a princes/ gift of a thistle (Braveheart) Jóhann Jóhannsson - domestic pressure, the theory of everyting (the theory of everything) Bear mcCreary - faith, the wedding (outlander) Danny Elfman - Black beauty’s end credits and main titles Now we are free (gladiator) Theme form Schindler’s list Arrival of the birds (also in theory of everything)
7:38 Eddy explaining his thoughts with calm and quiet voice and beautiful music in the background - so relaxing! I could listen to this kind of video for quite a while!
I must say I love Ludivico Einaudi, there’s just something about his music that’s so satisfying. Also for the dancers out there, I highly recommend his work for contemporary choreography... he literally carried me through dance ATAR
Omg... They have found Arvo Pärt. Or finally talking about him. A person from my country! I have seen him from a distance and he was a friend of my grandmother's. They went to school together.
@@kurisarm5828 Ma tean et teda teatakse, aga siiamaani minu ringkonnas pole teda mainitud. Nii et nüüd, kus muusikud kelle videoid ma olen juba tükkaega vaadanud, teda teavad ja teda üles toovad siis see on suur asi mu jaoks. Eesti on nii väike, nii et kui kedagi seal hea asja pärast tuntakse siis see on tähtis mu jaoks.
I've been hoping for this video topic for a long time and my spotify listening history now feels extremely validated, so thank you. Some of the artists I love that I haven't seen mentioned: Nils Frahm (his 2010 album The Bells is gorgeoussss), Olafur Arnalds (I don't know if he "counts" exactly but he combines classical with electronica elements in really cool ways, and his music has a similar feeling to the songs in the video), Rachel Grimes, and Zoe Keating.
i mentioned this in another comment, but thank you so much for doing this video even if you have to be copystriked… we really appreciate your effort in making quality content!!
I think its important to highlight that composers composing for concert bands are also creating beatutiful modern pieces. Some of my favourites from by band career include Alfred Reed and David Maslanka. They create music that is beautiful to listen to as well as being very fun to play. If you want to check out any of their pieces i would reccomend traveler by david maslanka, the first time i heard it, was live at a band competition and it blew me away it was so beautiful.
Eddy and Brett loving Max Ritcher's 'The nature of daylight' gives me life :') I've loved that piece so much and to see them appreciate it as I do makes me so happy!
I recommend : -Ligeti (Lux Aeterna, Requiem, Piano Studies) - Boulez (dialogue de l’ombre double) - Scelsi (Uaxuctum) - Dutilleux (timbres, espaces, mouvements) - Ives (unanswered question) - Schnittke (Eileitung, Concerto grosso no1) - Vasks (Gramata Cellam) - Takemitsu (From me flows what you call time, Air, I hear the water dreaming) - Taira (synchronie) - Grisey (Partiels) - Henry (livre des morts égyptien) - Saariaho (lohn, laterna magica) - Harvey (mortuos plango vivos vocco) - Glass (floe) ... There is so much to discover... I think everyone should try it at least once, even to then know that it’s definitely not your cup of tea !
Siphon Block, did you make an account just to leave shitty little comments? I wonder if you are the same person who left petty insults on ’s Twitter...
As a vocal performer, Whitacre's stuff is weird and extremely hard to learn, but every choir kid looks forward to singing Whitacre and I have yet to meet a vocal performer who doesn't like at least the way some of his pieces sound.
AHH as a native Japanese living in NY right now studying music, so happy to see Eddy enjoying Yoshimatsu 😍 I've been watching TwoSet since I started studying in college, I've gone through so many things in the few years I've been watching this channel 😅😂
There is a lot of amazing women composers today, also watch out for those, they are not only interprets. Let's break this tradition of only presenting men composers. I might suggest contemporary composers like Dobrinka Tabakova, Joan Tower, Jennifer Higdon for fan of violins (I know Alma Deutscher is very popular also, less my jam though) and more of the " "traditional" " classical music sound. [I'm in no way a professional, even a good ear on this subject, I just like those composers and their work]
@@PP-hh5rh Gubaidulina is very much not someone I would consider particularly accessible. I personally like her work, but I understand that it is not for the faint-hearted. She's definitely not as bad as someone like Stockhausen or Ligeti, though. There's also Alexina Louie. From what I've heard of her, she is also very obviously modern, but much more accessible than someone like Gubaidulina.
I love the musics of Max Richter, it's AMAZING! My favorites contemporaries composers are: Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds, Yann Tiersen, Nils Frahm, Hazy, Dario Marianelli. For the persons that liked of Vivaldi Recomposing by Max Richter , I recommend you to know the album The Chopin Project of Olafur Arnalds and Alice Sara Ott. Olafur Arnalds.
Here's some more: - John Adams - John Luther Adams - Jennifer Higdon - Lowell Liebermann (3rd Movement of his Flute Concerto) - Amy Beach - Alfred Schnittke (not alive anymore but the 5th Movement of his Concerto Grosso No. 1 is bomb)
Composers before 1800: I write my 15th simphony, my 230 sonata, my 52 concerto and i will keeping composing until my die Composer after 1800: When I will write my 9th symponhy I will die Composers after 2000: OH NO I DONT FINISHED MY THIRTH SONATAAAAAAA
You found that amazing Arvo Part piece I’d heard long ago and forgotten about. Thank you. The Max Richter score made me blab like a baby whilst watching the movie it’s from.
"On the nature of daylight" is the main theme of the movie "The Arrival".The movie it's like a 3D version of this piece. The music is beautiful, It made me feel so many emotions, very difficult to process. I recomended 100% to watch it.
@@penguinexpress12 Which also disqualified Arrival composer Jóhann Jóhannsson from the Oscar for Best Original Score since the Academy found Jóhannsson's own compositions for the film and the Richter piece blending together in a way that made it hard to discern the original parts from the previously used parts.
I've been listening to some of these pieces, but I never suspected that they were by contemporary composers TwoSet makes you smarter every day love you guys
I recently fell in love with the music by Ludovico Einaudi and Herman Beeftink. Einaudi's pieces are seeming like his music is full of human's knowledge and nostalgy. On the other hand, Beeftink's music is really creative and fit every theme he chooses. I don't know whether they are really a contemporary but they are definitely composers. If you want a calming pieces to listen, definitely check them out.
Caroline Shaw's "Partita for 8 Singers: No. 3. Courante" has been one of my favorite classical/modern works for awhile now. I always intro it to friends who are interested in classical music- kinda like a gateway drug. It has these amazing messa-esque choral phrases, and the polyphony and texture and skill of the breath work is wild. I find contemp music is a different way of enjoying the tiniest details (e.g. Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians"), and then when I go back to classical music it's like musical fireworks (think final episode of kaguya-sama s1). As a pianist, it literally physically hurt to see what John Cage had done to the piano, but listening to his piano sonatas is an absolute mind trip. Expectation of what a piano sounds like vs. nails embedded in the strings? Hectic, but so intriguing. Think gamelan + piano + bongos + chimes + marimbas.
YES to all of these suggestions!! I love Mac Richter and had the opportunity to see him in concert in New York. One of the best concerts I’ve been to. My absolute favorite composer of today!
"What people dont seem to realize is that there are classical composers alive today" oooo my time has come, my time has come y'all Composition students unite
i remember my dad listening to classical music when i was a kid, so i'm familiar with some of the most famous pieces, but since i started watching TwoSet a month ago i've been actually listening deeper and noticing how much film and videogame scores take from classical music. it's so cool to realise that i actually liked classical music all along. and it's so nice to see you talk about it, thank you Brett and Eddy~
Omg i was screaming when I heard Arvo Pärt ( oh, and the letter 'ä' is kinda prononced like @ (forgett the 't' that comes after the 'ä' of @) or like when you say "as'' it sounds like" ääs" for estonians. Yes I am a fellow Estonian LingLing Wannabe *Tere siit Eestist teile kõigile!*
Love this video! I’m so glad you guys are starting to cover modern classical composers. Some other great contemporary composers to check out would be John Luther Adams (Becoming Ocean), Caroline Shaw (wrote for Roomful of Teeth: Partita for 8 Voices, as well as Orange, this work for string quartet is incredible, and I think Brett and Eddy would both love it), Joseph Phillips Jr. (Vipassana), and Thomas Bergersen ( Sun, Final Frontier, So Small).
Now that you mentioned it, I suddenly had flashback when Brett was doing the country charades. He guessed England when Eddy played the most Italian piece ever. :v He also thought Turkey as an arabian country. :v
Some personal faves: “You can’t not dislike them” - (Brett Yang 2020) - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto (he also composed the score for the Revenant!!) - Oblivion by Gidon Kremor (Astor Piazzolla did a fab arrangement of this for string quartet) -Near Light by Ólafur Arnalds - Butterfly by Mia Makaroff (bonus link to the recording by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain: ua-cam.com/video/IaPpAfpgBHw/v-deo.html )
I love the Tatarigami music from Mononoke, so... Hisaishi (whose name I didn't know) has that for him. This piece is so intense, so full of anguish, it has me shivering and reviving the opening scene every time. Or maybe was I just an impressionable child ^^
Thank you so much for bringing Yoshimatsu’s Memo Flora Concerto to a wider audience!! It’s such a purely beautiful piece, people deserve to hear it and be moved by it.
I first heard Spiegel im Spiegel when it was used in a UK documentary film called Chosen about abuse that happened at a boarding school years ago. It was the most perfect piece they could've used. The guys, the survivors of this horrific abuse, were telling their heartbreaking stories with this piece in the background... it just made everything so much more... devastating? I don't have the words. It's just perfect.
Same! I first heard it during the BBC documentary The Final Solution about the Holocaust and I always get a bit emotional hearing it but it fitted so well.
Max Richter's "On the nature of daylight" is one of those pieces I purposely avoid to listen to, even though I adore it. It has this overwhelming emotional effect I cannot handle. If you haven't checked out his "Mercy" played by Hillary Hahn, you should.
though i will say the song seems to be a bit clunky , just something about it doesn't seem right, especially near the end when it crescendos all builds up it just feels less dramatic than the rest of the song that builds a bunch of tension and swelling feelings only to have them bashed to pieces near the end lol maybe that's what they wanted
There was one time they played this piece on radio on my way to work and I was crying for 6 minutes. Totally can relate, but I love this piece even though it hurts...
Thomas Bergersen from Two Steps from Hell imo needs a mention too!! His album "Seven" is literally one of the most interesting and uplifting album I have ever heard, featuring a lot of musical genres
the only expirience i've had with contemporary music was this year (before covid) my orchestra got to be the premire of three contemporary pieces for Elizabeth A Baker. It was a pretty cool expirience even though the music was basically 40 highschoolers screaming into their instruments while this women play a xerox printer and a theremin. and i had a major sinus infection and couldn't hear out of one ear.
@@eloisanzara237 I'm honestly surprised it wasn't a fever dream. we also used rubberballs attached to chopsticks and dragged them across our instruments to make this "reeeeeeeee" sound.
"the heart asks for pleasure first" is such a beautiful piece, one that marked my life. Look for "big my secret" also very fun to play! I met Nyman twice and he is such a talented pianist and a humble man. I didn´t know Takashi, he´s amazing! thanks for sharing :)
What about Nils Frahm or Ólafur Arnalds? I reckon they’re pretty good for contemporary composers but I was so glad to see that you guys included Michael Nyman specifically The Heart Asks for Pleasure First I was so excited to see that because I’m actually learning that piece right now!!
Also, "On the nature of daylight" is featured in the background of "This bitter Earth" by Dinah Washington and it's a pretty amazing song. I reccomended listening!!
Arrival is the first I heard it in, but I was told that most know it through Shutter Island. It's definitely the most accessible track on The Blue Notebook, I think. I'd also recommend Sleep (the whole album). I often hear that when falling asleep (which is exactly what it was composed for :))
OMG! When Nyman came up, I freaked because that's a piece I've been working on and still play. BTW, it is one of those deceptively tricky pieces. The version they play is on the slower side, but the left and right hands are playing opposite flow patterns. That piece is usually played on tandem with "The Promise" which frequently employs the use of rhythmic fifths on the right hand while the left is still playing quarters.
These contemporary composers are so underappreciated and it's good how you guys are able to support and bring them out to the rest of the world. I love these pieces. 💜
As a german speaker, when Eddy said 'Spiegel im Spiegel' I first understood it as seagull m seagull... it took me a second to realise what he actually meant to say 🤣
I’ve been playing ‘the hearts asks pleasure first’ for a while now and was so happy to see it in this video as it’s such a beautiful piece!! ❤️ Also Einaudi is one of my fave contemporary composers!
So happy that you make this content! Actually, in my city there is an orchestra group that held concert regularly. They usually always introduce at lesst one new repertoire of newer-more-contemporary-classical songs and somehow I usually like them a lot hehe so I kinda happy that you both are talking about these contemporary classical music, cause some of them are actually so nice One of the quite famous one that I like is Yiruma hahaha
6:47 thats my mum playing the 1st violin!!!!!!!!!!
That's cool
That's super cool!!
So she's Squid Queen
whoa, your mom's so wicked
Thats so amazing
Me: missing notes on my performance
Also me: it's minimalistic style
XD
Nah mate it's jazz
@@malfuriouz7717 counter-nah: jazz notes would've been all over the place, with additional 1-4 notes at the minimum
@@bakedmomo5693 not if you're listening to Miles Davis cool albums, or Dave Brubeck
Eddy: Not to go to nerdy, but
Me: pls go nerdy
My favorite contemporary composer is Brett Yang.
I love his psychedelic goth music.😁
Horri-fi music
Underrated comment :D
I actually screamed (it usually never happens, also I almost never comment under anything) when I saw Arvo Pärt in the thumbnail. I'm always so surprised and happy when someone outside of Estonia mentions something to do with our small nation :) Espescially someone like Arvo Pärt who I'm sure every Estonian has at least heard of once and he's truly our national treasure, but it's sometimes still hard to believe that he is as well known as is said, so when something like that happens, it just shows that it's true.
Also, I met him briefly at Uni and he is genuinely the nicest and most humble man, which says a lot about him, because he is considered (or at least I would consider him) the most well know Estonian in the world and as we see, especially nowadays form social media, it can change a man, but thankfully not him :)
In the moments like these, where someone like Arvo Pärt is bit by bit, thanks to his nationality, introducing small Estonia to the wolrd, I'm really proud to be Estonian!!
You'll be happy to hear that we had several lessons on this guy in German grammar school, I even had to explain some of his composing characteristics in my A levels lol
I’m from Scotland and I love his music :)
I'm from Russia and I love his music
He’s actually quite mainstream now because of “frartres” being studied in every music program in the states
Oh but he's universal :) Greetings from Colombia (Look for "fratres santiago canon", you won't be disappointed)
Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on,
And Mozart don't go shopping no more.
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again,
And Elgar doesn't answer the door.
Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh,
Whilst composing a long symphony,
But one hundred and fifty years later,
There's very little of them left to see.
They're decomposing composers.
There's nothing much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven,
But Beethoven cannot hear you.
Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal,
But nowadays, no one will serve them,
And their gravy is left to congeal.
Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
With their highly original sound.
The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground.
They're decomposing composers.
There's less of them every year.
You can say what you like to Debussy,
But there's not much of him left to hear.
- Monty Python, the Decomposing Composers
that's depressing
Idk why, but I'd like to read this again whilst listening to one of Shostakovich's piece. The depression is going to be real.
"The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground"
damn, that's *_deep_*
_you get it? lmao_
@@a.a.2573 Baaaaaaaaad. 🤪
A worthless comment.
This video was absolutely necessary. I feel one of the reasons why classical music fails to connect with many young people on a wider manner is that sense of distancing powered by the fact that traditional composers all died many years ago. This is extremely beautiful music made by living people and I sincerely thank you guys for giving them a shout out, even knowing that this video was getting demonetised. Prime example of how much music actually matters to you, guys.
Trash popular culture (not all is trash but with each year it's getting worse) and a certain hatred for anything from the past is the bread and butter of modern youth. At least the nihilists of the past had the common decency to not be degenerates.
For some reason there's this trend where the dumber you are, the cooler you are...
@@SerpMolot Yes, that's very true in our times
The problem I have with the division between classical music and any other music is that the supposed successors of the old master's are self proclaimed. In visual arts, old masters have their space in Museums. You can't do that with music.
I doubt a contemporary born Bach, Mozart, Beethoven would be making western orchestral music. Orchestras are wonderful entities capable of a huge range of sounds, but maybe they are not well suited (or are not enough) to express what it is to live and die in 21st century.
@@SerpMolot Damn, no wonder the youth today doesn't like classical music, thanks to elitist like you
@@Doug44393 pop music is just too repetitive
I read somewhere that Arvo Pärt’s piece was written on his old piano which was the most out of tune in the middle, hence the fact that it only really uses the extremes of low and high. It was the last piece he wrote on this piano as he had to leave his home town,, which to me makes it more emotional knowing the context
Arvo*
oof
This piece really touches my heart, and the mirror idea is very cool
ARVO PÄÄÄRRTTTT!!! HIS MUSIC IS JUST SO ETHEREAL!!!!!
Carl Ritchie Temple TRUTH
I appreciate you giving a shout out to David Lang! His music usually has a lot concepts behind what he makes and his website has notes for every piece. For "cheating, lying, & stealing" he said: "I started thinking about how so often when classical composers write a piece of music, they are trying to tell you something that they are proud of and like about themselves. Here's this big gushing melody, see how emotional I am. Or, here's this abstract hard-to-figure-out piece, see how complicated I am, see my really big brain. I am more noble, more sensitive, I am so happy. The composer really believes he or she is exemplary in this or that area. It's interesting, but it's not very humble. So I thought, What would it be like if composers based pieces on what they thought was wrong with them? Like, here's a piece that shows you how miserable I am. Or, here's a piece that shows you what a liar I am, what a cheater I am. I wanted to make a piece that was about something disreputable. It's a hard line to cross. You have to work against all your training. You are not taught to find the dirty seams in music. You are not taught to be low-down, clumsy, sly and underhanded."
nice info
Well, there is enough low down, dirty, clumsy stuff out there. "Stuff" as in just about everything.
It's still narcissistic, to base the focus on ones self, adventageous, or not.
How about excellence, and beauty, and composing for whatever is needing to come through?
Joe Hisaishi also has some really interesting work outside of his work with Ghibli. He too explores minimalism and is a huge fan of Philip Glass. In a few past albums, he has experimented with how far he could push rhythm as a melody (melodies that were rhythmic and not focused on creating traditional flowing lines) and orchestral works that were focused almost entirely on melody (polyphony and layering melodies).
Also, Ryuichi Sakamoto. LEGEND. Super experimental. He has the traditional classical stuff, electronic, folk ethnic, minimalism, experimental, bossa nova, etc. He's all about exploring. He's worked on a bunch of films too (including The Revenent). If you've heard of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Utada Hikaru, he wrote that too! It's from the movie by the same name, which he starred in with David Bowie.
The thing that i love about Hisaishi and Sakamoto is that they both reinvent their works. They write something awesome, and instead of just playing it straight out of the books, they always re-arrange and cover it... remix it... to make it more interesting.
Thumbs up for Sakamoto!
Yes! Sakamoto is so versatile, both orchestral pieces/songs and yellow magic orchestra!
Do you mind sharing which albums I should check out of Joe Hisaishi Aside from his Ghibli works??
@@ckokomo808 about joe hisashi, youtube surprisingly, give a lot of his album, mostly original. His work for children of the sea hasn't yet appeared though...
Minimal rhythm series is a good start, and another piano too
I was gonna mention Hisaishi! Just found the other day that he has this wonderful concerto for Electric Violin and Chamber Orchestra.
Just a few other good ones I'd recommend:
Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 Voices
Takashi Yoshimatsu - Cyberbird Concerto
Toru Takemitsu - A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Eric Whitacre - Ghost Train
Andrew Norman - Try
Karel Husa - Music for Prague 1968
1:40 Arvo Pärt
4:56 Max Richter
9:00 Takashi Yoshimatsu
10:50 Michael Nyman
11:45 David Lang
thanks
@Rhysenne totally!!!
@Rhysenne I feel like they don't take her seriously, they really should. She is the future of classical music.
@Rhysenne Alma Deutscher is actually really really good as a composer, I was also hoping to see her here
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Arvo Pärt's Fratres is an absolutely astounding piece. It's built around adding an extra half note to the length of each consecutive phrase within a repetition, and the piano and violin combine to form such icy colors, it's as if you're some nomad hundreds of km out in the middle of the artic
They've been so educational lately and I'm so loving it.
Yep more excuses for watching UA-cam- I mean NOTHING!
Number 1: Brett Yang for his aMaZiNg lofi music
@Eve Williamson iNtErEsTiNg
LoFi is born not created
If you can Lofi slowly you can LOfi quickly
That viola tho ;)
omg its ling ling 40hrs
Yoshimatsu is my favorite composer of the last 50 years. The aesthetic in his music is absolutely beautiful. Love memo flora (what they played) and Ode to Birds and Rainbows are two of my favorites as is his first symphony and his Pleiades Dancea.
Wow - it must be really cold in Australia now! Jumper/sweater + jacket! Lol
Some contemporary recommendations:
- Peteris Vasks's "The Fruit of Silence" & "Musica Serena."
- John Luther Adams' "Become Ocean" & "Canticles in the Sky."
- Maria Markan Sigfúsdottír's "Aequora" & "Oceans."
- Eric Whitacre's "Deep Field."
- Qigang Chen's "Er Huang."
- "White Landscapes" & "Ode to Birds and Rainbows" by Takashi Yoshimatsu (from the video).
- "Cantus Arcticus" by Einojuhani Rautavaara (I didn't make him up; he's Finnish).
Become Ocean is so good!!!
I second "Deep Field" and anything by Vasks and Adams
To add to that, John Williams has some amazing concertos like his trumpet concerto and bassoon concerto the Five Sacred Trees. Also anything John Mackey writes is pretty amazing.
love become ocean!! also, david lang "just" is incredible
Yesssss, love the Cantus Arcticus mention! Rautavaara is unbelievable. Chen too, fantastic stuff.
Eddy is so relatable when he's playing his favourite piece to Brett and glancing over to see his reaction.
Time stamp?
@@marinateddy3012 10:14
i love that they know that the video would get copystriked, but still decided to upload because they genuinely love what they do and want others to discover the joy of classical music
Agree, love them so much
"The most profound things can only be expressed through simplicity."
- Eddy Chen the philosopher
That Nyman piece was actually used in the film "The piano", with Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel, back in the 90's.
Thanks for the reccomendations, and... we kinda like it when you go nerdy 💪
Geez I love this type of videos, where you guys just sit and talk about music
I’m so glad I found this channel during quarantine
Welcome! I envy you, you have so many videos to binge still.
Do you play any instrument, by any chance?
aMAzing
welcome, you are now announced a ling ling wannabe
Wow.. welcome to the community... :D
oh same here!!
The difference between "film music" and "classical music" is mostly that in films, the movie itself has the attention, you cannot implement anything with too much detail, or too sophisticated, that would steal away your attention. This is why it will mostly be "simplistic" or "minimalistic". It is there to complement and strengthen the feeling you are supposed to get from watching the scene in the movie while in a standalone classical piece you can do a lot more because your interest is now purely in listening. Both have their strengths and both can be great
Hans Zimmer would disagree...
Thats not a complement to him btw... My ears will never be the same...
Yeah good point
Let me introduce you to Clint Mansell, Hans Zimmer, and Ramin Djawadi then...
Most film music that I've heard leans more to romanticism than minimalism
You could argue that ballets are also basically film music. I don't think there is a line between 'classical' and 'film' music. It just sort of blends into one another. Some film music is really modern, some clearly inspired by (or even straight up) classical music, some film music is the basic clichés we've heard a thousand times before others are experimental or really unique. Also, I'd like to point out that many people actually buy and listen to film music on its own merits, like they would listen to say, the music for a ballet by Tchaikovsky.
The music in this video in order:
1:40 Arvo Pärt
: "Spiegel im Spiegel"
4:56 Max Richter
: "Nature of Daylight", "Recomposed Four Seasons"
9:00 Takashi Yoshimatsu
: "Memo Flora"
10:50 Michael Nyman
: "The Heart Asks Pleasure First"
11:45 David Lang: "Cheating, Lying, Stealing", "This Was Written by Hand"
That’s not Cyberbird Concerto but I don’t know which one it is.
But everyone should definitely go check out Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Cyberbird Concerto if you haven’t.
ua-cam.com/video/Xp9zhpuRlUw/v-deo.html it’s just so beautiful, especially the 2nd movement.
Definitely one of my favorite pieces & it calms me down every single time.
Doc Addy oh thanks! i didn’t realise haha tysm
Ting Ting sorry i didn’t realise 😬 someone else pointed out that it was the memo flora concerto, but the cyberbird concerto is also great
and everyone should definitely check it out!
Thanks for this great service!
I want apparel that says “i am not procrastinating. I am de-composing.” now :0 lmao
U WHOEVER U R
LIKE THIS SO TWOSET CAN SEE
I mean like the comment above
Here’s a list of contemporary composers and pieces I want to see them show:
1.Qigang Chen- Er Huang piano concerto, violin concerto, cello concerto
2. Rautavaara- 8th symphony, Cantus Arcticus, Cello concerto 1 (now deceased)
3. Steve Reich- Music for 18 musicians
4. Toru Takemitsu- Rain tree Sketch 1 (deceased)
5.Eric Whitacre- Sleep, A boy and a girl, Luc Aurumque
6. Olafur Arnalds- Nyepi (voice)
7. Anna Clyne-Cello concerto
8. Nils Frahm- Says (it’s hard to classify his music, but I think it could go under the contemporary classical music umbrella
9. Eyvis Evensen- Draugdrummr (it’s Icelandic I don’t remember how to spell it)
10. Wynton Marsalis- Violin Concerto
There’s more I’d like to say but I’d love to see them make a video about these composers and their pieces.
Please see Ferran Lopez Carrasquer Composer too he is amazing
Rautavaara😍😍
Music for 18 Musicians when performed very well is utterly mind blowing.
I'll add Moskowski piano concerto
@@franceskinskij Moszkowski is not contemporary
me, a cellist performing at a school
kids: “dang that’s a big violin”
me: they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you’re fine when you’re not really fine, but you just can’t get into it, because they would never understand
My favorite Brett and Eddy kind of vids: where they just talk about music! Could watch it all day
Except Eddy does all the talking pretty much. And I think he chose all the music, too, haha.
Dear Mr.Yang,
Could you share your skincare routine?
Because your face looks
shining, shimmering, splendid ✨
My favourite contemporary composer is Brett Yang. His low-fy beats and pop songs are to die for😍
Finally come across a Carat-Twosetter💎
Absolutely
@@may26carat63 happy 5th anniversary!
I can't support because it's sold ooooout 😭😭😭
Eddy's face looking at Brett when listening to his personal favorite: me in a same situation looking at my husband's face
Also I was hoping to see Eddy showcase his sister's work. Her music is cool and interesting also.
His sister's a composer? I thought she played piano...
@@user-lh6yb3tq6t She does play piano, but she does compose her own tracks also. I guess some of her sounds don't necessarily falls under "classical music" so maybe that's why it's not included 🤔
he has a sister...? sorry im new here...
Plufish yea he does but I think he has only mentioned her once or twice on this channel
@@belacnihs9343 she's the pianist in their English music evolution video
I am so glad you talked about "On the nature of Daylight" They were disqualified from the oscars because this was published as an independent classical piece and not for the movie.
Yes! Jóhann Jóhannsson’s film score for the film Arrival was very innovative and praiseworthy, and it's deeply unfortunate that the Academy Awards disqualified them from nomination, especially considering he passed away so abruptly.
Brett likes Eddy's nerdy side and his feeling of music and doesn't interrupt him speaking. I like it too. How many of us are here?
@Ethan Sturm in my part of the world nerd means egghead, brain person. I think that was the part that confused you. I just noticed that Eddy did all reseaches and explaned all intresting parts to Brett. Brett was adding his thoughts but Eddy was the main teller.
Yea. It was nice. They really are good friends 😊
Its very intetesting
I love his nerdy side. I could listen to him speak everyday
Me too. Like to hear him talk passionately about music❤
I love that they're risking getting demonetized just to spread the joy and knowledge of contemporary music. They're an inspiration!
Can we just appreciate how they didn’t care if they were gonna get copyrighted because they just care about us and not money
Well, they do need money. But they probably earn a lot from merchandise
You only get copyrighted if you play something over a certain time.
@@Rog5446 they get, two
Yeah. They have golden hearts!!
Disagree
Mirror in a mirror is an example of mise en abîme. It's a technique used in film, photography and even literature, where strange parallels form and duplicate each other while creating something entirely new. It's interesting to see it applied to music.
Representing the literature degree gang (?)
I've become so used to the spelling reform that I forgot abime had a circumflex accent in the traditional spelling.
#justfrenchproblems
Very similar to the methods Wagner used to write The Ring. Taking a simple motif and reversing and evolving it to the point that each theme takes on it’s own meaning.
Bro their new apparel is so cool
I know right? It would be so cool if I could have one
Yeah even the Beethoven sweatshirt too! Sad that they're sold out.
gJb 1 lmao
I just thought opening in "Nature of Daylight" is like a sunrise.
And that pause in "Written by the hand" is like when you writing something and you take a moment to... choose best words, I guess. _Compose a phrase_ in your head first. I know the feeling.
Some recommendations from a pianist😄:
Joe hisaishi - departures
Max richter - the end of our exploring, a lamenting song
Alexis Ffrench - bluebird, a time of wonder
Yiruma - too much I like, but other than the well known pieces like “river flows in you” and “kiss the rain” check out “when the love falls”, “fotografia” and “do you?”
Ludovico Einaudi - also too many pieces, I think the most well know are “una Mattina” and “nuvole bianche” but my favourites are probably “oltremare” and “tu sei”
If you like movie music, some random pieces I really enjoy are:
James Horner -for the love of a princes/ gift of a thistle (Braveheart)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - domestic pressure, the theory of everyting (the theory of everything)
Bear mcCreary - faith, the wedding (outlander)
Danny Elfman - Black beauty’s end credits and main titles
Now we are free (gladiator)
Theme form Schindler’s list
Arrival of the birds (also in theory of everything)
Not a pianist but I love the piano pieces from Philipp Glass. Mainly Metamorphosis, Opening & Mad Rush.
Bro, check out rue de cascades by yann tiersen, really emotional
👍👍👍
@@geronimoste1298 I was looking for a comment about Yann Tiersen, here you are ! Portrait version is my fav !
Ludovico Einaudi was my inspiration and introduction to piano!! Tu sei is such a beautiful song!!!!! I love experience as well!
7:38 Eddy explaining his thoughts with calm and quiet voice and beautiful music in the background - so relaxing! I could listen to this kind of video for quite a while!
Eddy's hairstyle here is the best!
Video is truely enjoyable also, of course :)
I must say I love Ludivico Einaudi, there’s just something about his music that’s so satisfying.
Also for the dancers out there, I highly recommend his work for contemporary choreography... he literally carried me through dance ATAR
I was scrolling through the comments to see if anybody mentions Einaudi. I love him.
Love Einaudi! Divenire is one of my all time favourites. P.S Thanks for the recommendation
Pretty sure 90% of my chill playlist is Eindaudi 🤣
m krecik same!!! 😂
If you like Einaudi, go check Roberto Cacciapaglia
Omg... They have found Arvo Pärt. Or finally talking about him. A person from my country! I have seen him from a distance and he was a friend of my grandmother's. They went to school together.
Tere! Noh tegelikult Arvot teatakse küll ümber maailma aga noh kui Eesti saab tunnustust siis enda ego läheb ikka kõrgele
Huge respect. I love his music and it's wonderful to perform.
@@kurisarm5828 Ma tean et teda teatakse, aga siiamaani minu ringkonnas pole teda mainitud. Nii et nüüd, kus muusikud kelle videoid ma olen juba tükkaega vaadanud, teda teavad ja teda üles toovad siis see on suur asi mu jaoks. Eesti on nii väike, nii et kui kedagi seal hea asja pärast tuntakse siis see on tähtis mu jaoks.
I've been hoping for this video topic for a long time and my spotify listening history now feels extremely validated, so thank you. Some of the artists I love that I haven't seen mentioned: Nils Frahm (his 2010 album The Bells is gorgeoussss), Olafur Arnalds (I don't know if he "counts" exactly but he combines classical with electronica elements in really cool ways, and his music has a similar feeling to the songs in the video), Rachel Grimes, and Zoe Keating.
i mentioned this in another comment, but thank you so much for doing this video even if you have to be copystriked… we really appreciate your effort in making quality content!!
I think its important to highlight that composers composing for concert bands are also creating beatutiful modern pieces. Some of my favourites from by band career include Alfred Reed and David Maslanka. They create music that is beautiful to listen to as well as being very fun to play. If you want to check out any of their pieces i would reccomend traveler by david maslanka, the first time i heard it, was live at a band competition and it blew me away it was so beautiful.
I LOVE ALFRED REED!
steven Reinke!
Eddy and Brett loving Max Ritcher's 'The nature of daylight' gives me life :') I've loved that piece so much and to see them appreciate it as I do makes me so happy!
I recommend :
-Ligeti (Lux Aeterna, Requiem, Piano Studies)
- Boulez (dialogue de l’ombre double)
- Scelsi (Uaxuctum)
- Dutilleux (timbres, espaces, mouvements)
- Ives (unanswered question)
- Schnittke (Eileitung, Concerto grosso no1)
- Vasks (Gramata Cellam)
- Takemitsu (From me flows what you call time, Air, I hear the water dreaming)
- Taira (synchronie)
- Grisey (Partiels)
- Henry (livre des morts égyptien)
- Saariaho (lohn, laterna magica)
- Harvey (mortuos plango vivos vocco)
- Glass (floe)
...
There is so much to discover... I think everyone should try it at least once, even to then know that it’s definitely not your cup of tea !
I wonder what TwoSet is going to do about their 20-21 World Tour due to the *Carelli Variations 19*.
Maybe 21-22
Siphon Block, did you make an account just to leave shitty little comments? I wonder if you are the same person who left petty insults on ’s Twitter...
....on Twoset’s Twitter.... that should read.
ohh, i love The Heart ask pleasure first! thank you guys for mentioning Nyman in the video!
My favorite contemporary composers:
Julie Giroux
Karl Jenkins
John Mackey
Eric Whitacre
Ian Clarke
Warren Benson
lol, can you tell I'm a wind player?
Warren Benson was my composition teacher. He was a percussionist, but did compose a lot of wind music. He was a wonderful composer and person.
The whitacre gave it away 😂 his choral stuff can be...strange
I love Eric Withacre! I'm pianist in a choir so.... 😁
As a vocal performer, Whitacre's stuff is weird and extremely hard to learn, but every choir kid looks forward to singing Whitacre and I have yet to meet a vocal performer who doesn't like at least the way some of his pieces sound.
*High school bands have entered the chat*
twoset: check out our new merch!!
the merch: *gets sold out in less than 4 hours*
Please do more videos on contemporary classical music!! Fantastic vid
AHH as a native Japanese living in NY right now studying music, so happy to see Eddy enjoying Yoshimatsu 😍 I've been watching TwoSet since I started studying in college, I've gone through so many things in the few years I've been watching this channel 😅😂
So... you're a カレン?
Nan Wijanarko はい
@@nanwijanarko1969 そうです！
Do you know the name of the piece they played?
@@giovanni21mas it's from the memo flora concerto
There is a lot of amazing women composers today, also watch out for those, they are not only interprets. Let's break this tradition of only presenting men composers. I might suggest contemporary composers like Dobrinka Tabakova, Joan Tower, Jennifer Higdon for fan of violins (I know Alma Deutscher is very popular also, less my jam though) and more of the " "traditional" " classical music sound. [I'm in no way a professional, even a good ear on this subject, I just like those composers and their work]
Love this post, a very good point!!! Thank you!!!!
And there's Sofia Gubaidulina
How did this become a gender thing
@@PP-hh5rh Gubaidulina is very much not someone I would consider particularly accessible. I personally like her work, but I understand that it is not for the faint-hearted. She's definitely not as bad as someone like Stockhausen or Ligeti, though.
There's also Alexina Louie. From what I've heard of her, she is also very obviously modern, but much more accessible than someone like Gubaidulina.
Elena Kats-Chernin... I really like her, she is Russian/Australian, her wild swans is beauitiful, plus plenty of chamber music.
I love the musics of Max Richter, it's AMAZING!
My favorites contemporaries composers are: Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds, Yann Tiersen, Nils Frahm, Hazy, Dario Marianelli.
For the persons that liked of Vivaldi Recomposing by Max Richter , I recommend you to know the album The Chopin Project of Olafur Arnalds and Alice Sara Ott.
Olafur Arnalds.
Weird how no one mentions Morten Lauridsen
There is other like Ferran Lopez Carrasquer Composer he is amazing
Here's some more:
- John Adams
- John Luther Adams
- Jennifer Higdon
- Lowell Liebermann (3rd Movement of his Flute Concerto)
- Amy Beach
- Alfred Schnittke (not alive anymore but the 5th Movement of his Concerto Grosso No. 1 is bomb)
Julin Cheung hey julin
I would add Ola Gjeilo, if you like choral music
Joan Tower is another notable contemporary composer right now
Flute player count: 3
Amy Beach isn't contemporary
Composers before 1800: I write my 15th simphony, my 230 sonata, my 52 concerto and i will keeping composing until my die
Composer after 1800: When I will write my 9th symponhy I will die
Composers after 2000: OH NO I DONT FINISHED MY THIRTH SONATAAAAAAA
You found that amazing Arvo Part piece I’d heard long ago and forgotten about. Thank you. The Max Richter score made me blab like a baby whilst watching the movie it’s from.
"On the nature of daylight" is the main theme of the movie "The Arrival".The movie it's like a 3D version of this piece. The music is beautiful, It made me feel so many emotions, very difficult to process. I recomended 100% to watch it.
It was first used in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island
@@penguinexpress12 Which also disqualified Arrival composer Jóhann Jóhannsson from the Oscar for Best Original Score since the Academy found Jóhannsson's own compositions for the film and the Richter piece blending together in a way that made it hard to discern the original parts from the previously used parts.
I've been listening to some of these pieces, but I never suspected that they were by contemporary composers
TwoSet makes you smarter every day
love you guys
10:56 Brett being the usual derp he is, while Eddy's reaction says a lot about their friendship LOL
they are really so wholesome
Love this!
I would love to hear a podcast of you guys just commenting/ discussing music
oh i would too, its so nice listening to them speak about music. Their voices are really nice too owo
I recently fell in love with the music by Ludovico Einaudi and Herman Beeftink. Einaudi's pieces are seeming like his music is full of human's knowledge and nostalgy. On the other hand, Beeftink's music is really creative and fit every theme he chooses.
I don't know whether they are really a contemporary but they are definitely composers. If you want a calming pieces to listen, definitely check them out.
Very true, I was half hoping they would show Einaudi here. Maybe in a future video, who knows :)
Yes, I’m also a fan of Einaudi. I love the emotions in his works.
A fellow Beeftink stan!
yes! love beeftink so much. his birdsong album reaaally fits with the theme
team Einaudi!
Caroline Shaw's "Partita for 8 Singers: No. 3. Courante" has been one of my favorite classical/modern works for awhile now. I always intro it to friends who are interested in classical music- kinda like a gateway drug. It has these amazing messa-esque choral phrases, and the polyphony and texture and skill of the breath work is wild.
I find contemp music is a different way of enjoying the tiniest details (e.g. Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians"), and then when I go back to classical music it's like musical fireworks (think final episode of kaguya-sama s1).
As a pianist, it literally physically hurt to see what John Cage had done to the piano, but listening to his piano sonatas is an absolute mind trip. Expectation of what a piano sounds like vs. nails embedded in the strings? Hectic, but so intriguing. Think gamelan + piano + bongos + chimes + marimbas.
OMG I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE IF YOU WERE GONNA INCLUDE ARVO PÄRT AND YOU DID!! 🇪🇪
I LOVE Phillip Glass 💜 Metamorphosis and The Hours are the reason I wanted to learn piano
YES to all of these suggestions!! I love Mac Richter and had the opportunity to see him in concert in New York. One of the best concerts I’ve been to. My absolute favorite composer of today!
"What people dont seem to realize is that there are classical composers alive today" oooo my time has come, my time has come y'all
Composition students unite
I dont know why i said yall, english is not my first language
HAHAHHAHAHAHA we don't exist 😢
@@TheMotherOfBambi the "y'all" seems fitting in the sentence
Composition student here! 👋👋👋
m our name (contemporary classical) is a literal oxymoron .. I feel bad
i remember my dad listening to classical music when i was a kid, so i'm familiar with some of the most famous pieces, but since i started watching TwoSet a month ago i've been actually listening deeper and noticing how much film and videogame scores take from classical music. it's so cool to realise that i actually liked classical music all along. and it's so nice to see you talk about it, thank you Brett and Eddy~
The wonderful Memo Flora piano concerto by Yoshimatsu. One of my favourite pieces of all time. So glad you featured it.
Omg i was screaming when I heard Arvo Pärt ( oh, and the letter 'ä' is kinda prononced like @ (forgett the 't' that comes after the 'ä' of @) or like when you say "as'' it sounds like" ääs" for estonians. Yes I am a fellow Estonian LingLing Wannabe
*Tere siit Eestist teile kõigile!*
suht äge :D
thank you for the explanation! :D
Greetings from Finland :v
Sa oleks pidanud kirjutama, et nad ütlevad part nagu duck
@@vanilaaw Moi
They actually used Max Richter's recomposed Spring in the film The Current War.
I think they also used it in The Crown
And they used his Autumn too! It's used in the scene where Nikola Tesla comes to a university to read a lecture.
And 'My Brilliant Friend'... when Lila notices the boys are about to get beat up!
His tiny desk concert is awesome
@@kicksforlife yeah, right? I instantly recognised it too 🤔
Love this video! I’m so glad you guys are starting to cover modern classical composers. Some other great contemporary composers to check out would be John Luther Adams (Becoming Ocean), Caroline Shaw (wrote for Roomful of Teeth: Partita for 8 Voices, as well as Orange, this work for string quartet is incredible, and I think Brett and Eddy would both love it), Joseph Phillips Jr. (Vipassana), and Thomas Bergersen ( Sun, Final Frontier, So Small).
brett: looking completely dead inside as he listens
also brett: dude, i really like that
oh, brett, never change 😂
he's delighted !! on the inside...
His Crush will never have the slightest idea haha
It's a Brett thing and I love it
"You can't not dislike it"
"You can't not like it."
"4/4, 2/2, they all equal 0."
"One."
looks like eddy is the smarter one now
W H Y A R E Y O U E V E R Y W H E R E
@@jonjoe9657 like, yeah, he _is_ everywhere
Now that you mentioned it, I suddenly had flashback when Brett was doing the country charades. He guessed England when Eddy played the most Italian piece ever. :v
He also thought Turkey as an arabian country. :v
wiki:”brett yang and eddy chen first met each other in maths tutoring” thats probably why
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Thank for these boys! All gorgeous to listen to 😍
Some personal faves:
“You can’t not dislike them” - (Brett Yang 2020)
- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto (he also composed the score for the Revenant!!)
- Oblivion by Gidon Kremor (Astor Piazzolla did a fab arrangement of this for string quartet)
-Near Light by Ólafur Arnalds
- Butterfly by Mia Makaroff (bonus link to the recording by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain: ua-cam.com/video/IaPpAfpgBHw/v-deo.html )
Can vouch for Ryuichi Sakamoto as a great recommendation, on the strength of that I'll certainly be checking out the others 👍
Hmm I remember Ryuichi Sakamoto as a pop singer
The Revenant score was just absolutely insane. I loved all the tracks.
gidon kremer arrangement of oblivion is definitely a favorite of mine 💕💕 it hurts (but in a good way👀)
Butterfly made me feel something
"If you like Ghibli, go check Yoshimatsu"
Joe Hisaishi, composer of Ghibli music (and much more): "Am I a joke to you?"
haha
Hisaishi does sound a bit more pop tho
Hahah I have to say that some parts of what’s played here does sound like Joe Hisaishi’s pieces in Ghibli movies though.
Going to say the same thing haha
I love the Tatarigami music from Mononoke, so... Hisaishi (whose name I didn't know) has that for him. This piece is so intense, so full of anguish, it has me shivering and reviving the opening scene every time.
Or maybe was I just an impressionable child ^^
Thank you so much for bringing Yoshimatsu’s Memo Flora Concerto to a wider audience!! It’s such a purely beautiful piece, people deserve to hear it and be moved by it.
I love Max Richter’s Recomposed Vivaldi!! Thank you to The Crown for introducing me to his music!
I first heard Spiegel im Spiegel when it was used in a UK documentary film called Chosen about abuse that happened at a boarding school years ago. It was the most perfect piece they could've used. The guys, the survivors of this horrific abuse, were telling their heartbreaking stories with this piece in the background... it just made everything so much more... devastating? I don't have the words. It's just perfect.
You wouldnt happen to have this clip would you? If not, I'll try and find it
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Which Spiegel are we talking about?
Same! I first heard it during the BBC documentary The Final Solution about the Holocaust and I always get a bit emotional hearing it but it fitted so well.
I consider And birds are still… by Yoshimatsu to be one of the best classical music pieces ever made.
They now look like a kpop duo with the matching merch, also after seeing them modelling the sweater on twosetapparel ig. Love them flowerbois
Max Richter's "On the nature of daylight" is one of those pieces I purposely avoid to listen to, even though I adore it. It has this overwhelming emotional effect I cannot handle. If you haven't checked out his "Mercy" played by Hillary Hahn, you should.
I absolutely love Mercy. Just bought the sheet music a few weeks ago to play for a recital in November!! 😁🌹
Legit started tearing up when the violin came in.
just listened can confirm wow, hilary is something else..
though i will say the song seems to be a bit clunky , just something about it doesn't seem right, especially near the end when it crescendos all builds up it just feels less dramatic than the rest of the song that builds a bunch of tension and swelling feelings only to have them bashed to pieces near the end lol maybe that's what they wanted
There was one time they played this piece on radio on my way to work and I was crying for 6 minutes. Totally can relate, but I love this piece even though it hurts...
Thomas Bergersen from Two Steps from Hell imo needs a mention too!! His album "Seven" is literally one of the most interesting and uplifting album I have ever heard, featuring a lot of musical genres
the only expirience i've had with contemporary music was this year (before covid) my orchestra got to be the premire of three contemporary pieces for Elizabeth A Baker. It was a pretty cool expirience even though the music was basically 40 highschoolers screaming into their instruments while this women play a xerox printer and a theremin. and i had a major sinus infection and couldn't hear out of one ear.
this comment was wild from start to finish
Samantha Pape it’s like my dreams
@@eloisanzara237 I'm honestly surprised it wasn't a fever dream. we also used rubberballs attached to chopsticks and dragged them across our instruments to make this "reeeeeeeee" sound.
what pieces? that sounds so interesting
@@jzhang9498 I know there was one called paper dot, but I can't remember the rest 😔✌
"the heart asks for pleasure first" is such a beautiful piece, one that marked my life. Look for "big my secret" also very fun to play! I met Nyman twice and he is such a talented pianist and a humble man. I didn´t know Takashi, he´s amazing! thanks for sharing :)
The Piano soundtrack is all great and has sort of become a piece on it’s own, as the film is not the greatest!
@@mogmason6920 Agree about the soundtrack, but IMO the film is also absolutely beautiful. :) One of my favourites.
In my opinion, that is one of the most valuable video you guys have made. Thank you!
This is so cool because most of the compositions musicians play are made from the 1600-1900 but the contemporary composers deserve more attention
I am diggin' this educational content. I love a good informative TwoSet video.
What about Nils Frahm or Ólafur Arnalds? I reckon they’re pretty good for contemporary composers but I was so glad to see that you guys included Michael Nyman specifically The Heart Asks for Pleasure First I was so excited to see that because I’m actually learning that piece right now!!
Also, "On the nature of daylight" is featured in the background of "This bitter Earth" by Dinah Washington and it's a pretty amazing song. I reccomended listening!!
Wow, I just realized that it’s also in Arrival.
Arrival is the first I heard it in, but I was told that most know it through Shutter Island. It's definitely the most accessible track on The Blue Notebook, I think. I'd also recommend Sleep (the whole album). I often hear that when falling asleep (which is exactly what it was composed for :))
This Bitter Earth....powerful and lovely song....it is both a beautiful and painful song to listen to
Bretts imitation of a horse had me dying 😹😹😹 I think I rewatched it like ten times
OMG! When Nyman came up, I freaked because that's a piece I've been working on and still play. BTW, it is one of those deceptively tricky pieces. The version they play is on the slower side, but the left and right hands are playing opposite flow patterns. That piece is usually played on tandem with "The Promise" which frequently employs the use of rhythmic fifths on the right hand while the left is still playing quarters.
These contemporary composers are so underappreciated and it's good how you guys are able to support and bring them out to the rest of the world. I love these pieces. 💜
As a german speaker, when Eddy said 'Spiegel im Spiegel' I first understood it as seagull m seagull... it took me a second to realise what he actually meant to say 🤣
Hey, fellow German here XD
I thought he said smeagol as in lotr :D
German seagulls have an innate musicality; they instinctively Möwe with the rhythm ;)
I’ve been playing ‘the hearts asks pleasure first’ for a while now and was so happy to see it in this video as it’s such a beautiful piece!! ❤️ Also Einaudi is one of my fave contemporary composers!
So happy that you make this content! Actually, in my city there is an orchestra group that held concert regularly. They usually always introduce at lesst one new repertoire of newer-more-contemporary-classical songs and somehow I usually like them a lot hehe so I kinda happy that you both are talking about these contemporary classical music, cause some of them are actually so nice
One of the quite famous one that I like is Yiruma hahaha