Free Orchestra Music & British Accents
It's BBC Proms time in London, and for the next several days they have a bunch of their orchestra programs streaming online.
Steven Stucky's Second Concerto for Orchestra is worth listening to, a big glossy piece that won him the 2005 Pulitzer. (It has a lot in common with recent orchestra pieces by Esa-Pekka Salonen, who premiered Stucky's piece as conductor with the LA Philharmonic.) Jonathan Harvey's "Towards a Pure Land" has some great sounds in it, too — Harvey's a big electronic music guy, and you can hear the influence in his textures & quick cross-cuts, and also in the rough edge he can put on a very clear harmony.
Also available are Adams's "My Father Knew Charles Ives" and a rambling but fairly effective piano concerto by James Dillon, someone I haven't heard of before. I think that's most of the brand-new/unrecorded set there.
Steven Stucky's Second Concerto for Orchestra is worth listening to, a big glossy piece that won him the 2005 Pulitzer. (It has a lot in common with recent orchestra pieces by Esa-Pekka Salonen, who premiered Stucky's piece as conductor with the LA Philharmonic.) Jonathan Harvey's "Towards a Pure Land" has some great sounds in it, too — Harvey's a big electronic music guy, and you can hear the influence in his textures & quick cross-cuts, and also in the rough edge he can put on a very clear harmony.
Also available are Adams's "My Father Knew Charles Ives" and a rambling but fairly effective piano concerto by James Dillon, someone I haven't heard of before. I think that's most of the brand-new/unrecorded set there.
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