Boulez

http://youtu.be/cr0i9c21H2Q

Robert Breer

http://youtu.be/7JEDYnSStug

Olivier Messiaen - Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (1985)

http://youtu.be/hq49555qh5g

British Symphonies

Symphonies by composers who are either British or came to live in Britain in the 20th century.

http://youtu.be/x-NvvkGsMe

http://youtu.be/droDwztNmFY

http://youtu.be/iE3kifY4gyY

http://youtu.be/dAnFyzowTfU

http://youtu.be/G66OzVtHmB0

http://youtu.be/DxlGT-xB2c8

http://youtu.be/_f9m0FOT2iU

Hear the Northern Lights!

http://youtu.be/SrXJuhKiirI

Nancarrow: Pieces for Pianola

http://www.youtube.com/user/playerpianoJH#p/u/32/7hum6PgRk6k

Havergal Brian

http://youtu.be/CgUmpSWB-fc

http://youtu.be/RVgCa9UAMic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havergal_Brian

Fred Vargas

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/nov/18/italy.france

Alastair Roberts

http://www.alasdairroberts.com/news/

Neptune One Year On

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/10/neptune-orbit-anniversary-astronomy

20th Century Piano Music

Stayed up later than I should have tonight searching youtube for pieces of 20th century piano music I like

Debussy...

http://youtu.be/MswHKA4dako

Poulenc (my favourite piano duet after Percy Grainger's Country Gardens)...

http://youtu.be/p3cDpS1ehKs

Charles Ives...
http://youtu.be/gXHjeSamzno

Messiaen (he could make a piano sound like a bird - almost)...

http://youtu.be/JE4vSviuoSw

Shostakovich...

http://youtu.be/IqSwbzmgyGY


Cage (a great draughtsman, too)...

http://youtu.be/8fPSz-o4zzY

Schoenberg... Mitsuko Uchina talking about playing his piano concerto.  It's challenging music to listen to, but you don't have to be a fan to be inspired by her drive and passion for the music. I'd like to think her video could recruit new listeners...

http://youtu.be/PmWRttCo7lo

Stockhausen...

http://youtu.be/RhsvKEjxy7c

Percy Grainger...

http://youtu.be/T8cBGRiQwlU

Milva & Piazzolla

http://youtu.be/lzC1kKZGxBg

Astor Piazzola

http://youtu.be/0adwx5hDcVs

Mahler Symphony No 2

http://youtu.be/sHsFIv8VA7w

Shakespeare's Haiku

Gwilym William's

http://shakespeareshaiku.blogspot.com/

Jaco Pastorius

http://youtu.be/gtHbxsdExlE

Margaret Ashman

http://www.margaretashman.com/

Doo-Nanny

http://www.doo-nanny.com/

Samuel Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaryofengl01johnuoft

Charles Ives and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ives' use of the Hawthorne story, The Celestial Railroad.

The story itself:
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/127/ 

Ives' Piano Phantasy (based on the Hawthorne story):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ4Z7O_TIGc

Ives' 4th Symphony (second movement, based on the Hawthorne story):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbH5ruC-R5E 

More 4th Symphony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7fBNO7undU

Wikipedia: Ives' 4th Symphony

Gunther Schuller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag5UklJRyis

Ferneyhough and Babbitt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUvn_OkSfw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qMNvKJLo8U 

Stockhausen: Elektronische Music Studie I & II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_NWwUB6Dis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXqvBvOXV3U

Weather Report/Jaco Pastorius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-STXsuxWptk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco_Pastorius

Stockhausen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMavvpxKe70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-39Ves2vE

Sun Ra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMbC__R24t0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNvdLpLx-0 

Harry Partch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIOZexovcc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwDQv6S364Y 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Partch

Emerson

"OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29433/29433-h/29433-h.htm

The Dwarf Seneb And His Family

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/feb/09/egypt-portrait-seneb-family

Julius Eastman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_J_iCPc9S0 

http://www.mjleach.com/eastman.htm

http://www.mjleach.com/compositions.htm

Ives plays Ives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHjeSamzno

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3673

Weather Report

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Report

I didn't know that this track, Unknown Soldier, had its origin in Zawinul's discovery, as a child, of the dead body of a soldier in Austria in WWII:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9G6x98WdpA

Stockhausen

Stockhausen's obituary in The Guardian from 2007. One of the joys of blogging is that there is no pressure to be topical.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/dec/07/7

Peadar O'Donoghue Interview

http://www.mediafire.com/?5modo14xxaxbvd1

John Cage/Jan Steele...

...at UBUWEB:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/obscure5.html

Turnage, Kagel

Listening to contemporary music this afternoon:

Mark Anthony Turnage: Hidden Love Song

Kagel: Les Idées Fixes I

Reading about Turnage's new opera at The Guardian, too.