Yes, Alison - plenty of Eisler, including the disturbing Deutsche
Sinfonie. Schönberg & Stravinsky a go-go (I don't know any Oedipe by
Satie, but Strav's Édipe Roi is a prime contender.) Messiaen - Trois
Petites Liturgies. Glorious stuff by Tippett starting with the
spirituals of A Child of Our Time, Maxwell Davies Solstice of Light
based on poetry by Mackay Brown. Poulenc - Figure humaine. Lidholm's
...a riveder le stelle. Henze's Bond settings in Orpheus Behind the Wire
. Norgard's Wölfli & Rilke settings in Wie ein Kind. (The last four
being available on 1 superb CD - I say no more.) etc etc amen.
mj
Alison Croggon wrote:
>Eisler's magnificent Anti-Fascist Cantata, based on Brecht's poetry.
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>>20th c choral music is almost an oxymoron, but the Glagolitic Mass is a
>>glorious exception. There's also the fabulous Ligeti music Kubrick used for
>>2001, and also a central-eastern European tradition that Penderecki captures
>>in his St Luke Mass.
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>>Pace Mark's comments about minimalism, there's also Steve Reich's Desert
>>Music, which I think is wonderful. Based on W. C. Williams poems.
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>>Oh, and let's not forget Carmina Burana.
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>Alison Croggon
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