The Magic Lantern

Mel Bonis / Piano Quartet No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 69 (1905) - I. Moderato

Mélanie Bonis (1858-1937) is a completely new voice on the scene. She was a French woman composer whose real name was Mélanie Domange née Bonis, but when composing, she used the pseudonym Mel Bonis in an attempt to gain more recognition.

During her lifetime, she received great praise from her renowned male colleagues such as Gounod and Saint-Saëns but long before her death, she was totally forgotten.

Gordan Nikolitch, violin
Jean-Philippe Vasseur, viola
Jean-Marie Trotereau, cello
Laurent Martin, piano

Astor Piazzolla / Le Grand Tango (arranged for violin & piano by Sofia Gubaidulina)

Mikhail Dubov, piano - Jaroslav Krasnikov, violin

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh / Apsheron Quintet; II. Reverse Time

 Kronos Quartet; Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, piano

Here is the first part of this quintet, Tactile Time.

(via itnumberpi, rendan, & musicophilia)

Sofia Gubaidulina / Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Violoncello (1957) - III. Larghetto sensibile

performed by Rieko Aizawa, piano; Kai Vogler and Mira Wang, violins;
Ulrich Eichenauer, viola; Peter Bruns, cello

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh / Apsheron Quintet; I. Tactile Time

performed by Kronos Quartet; Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, piano

In the first part (“Tactile Time”) of the Apsheron Quartet (2001), a violin imitates one of Azerbaijan’s indigenous stringed instruments. The swooping and soaring melody, very Eastern in its melismatic cut, is punctuated and embellished by the other three string instruments and by the piano. — Raymond Tuttle (via)

I encourage everyone to take a thorough listen.

(via musicophilia) 

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) / Sequence to St. Rupert: O Ierusalem

Performed by Sequentia, Ensemble für Musik des Mittelalters, Benjamin Bagby & Barbara Thornton, dirs

Sylvie Bodorová / ‘Concerto dei fiori for Violin and Strings’ (1996)

performed by Quattro Orchestra, Marek Štilec (conductor)

This tonal but restless work includes lovely lower-string writing and a spectacular cadenza halfway through […] The concerto, mostly quiet and thoughtful, ends not with flowery spectacle but with a quotation from Bach’s Cantata No. 180. (text via)

Amy Beach / Theme & Variations for Flute and String Quartet, Op. 80: Variation 1 - L’istesso tempo

performed by The Ambache Chamber Ensemble

This is beautiful. Amy Beach is so unfairly overlooked.

Amy Beach / IV.Molto Lento e Tranquillo G-flat maj. Five Improvisations op.148 from Fire Flies (Solo Piano Music of Amy Beach vol.3)

performed by Joanne Polk

(Thank you, james88han)

I’lana Sandra Cotton, “Music for Midwinter: III. Listening to Snow,” performed by Max Lifchitz (piano)

(Thanks, theshipthatflew, musicophilia, shinyslingback)

‘Running’ by Delia Derbyshire (via UBUWEB)

from Dreams (1964)

1. Running
2. Falling
3. Land
4. Sea
5. Colour
6. Outro

“Dreams” was made in collaboration with Barry Bermange (who originally recorded the narrations). Bermange put together The Dreams (1964), a collage of people describing their dreams, set to a background of electronic sound. Dreams is a collection of spliced/reassembled interviews with people describing their dreams, particularly recurring elements. The program of sounds and voices attempts to represent, in five movements, some sensations of dreaming: running away, falling, landscape, underwater, and colour.

Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 - 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music and musique concrète. She is best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer’s theme music to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

 (Thank you, fuckyeahdeliaderbyshire & prostheticknowledge)

P.S. You should all listen to these. They’re eerie and fantastic.

Lili Boulanger: Nocturne for Violin and Piano in F major (1914)

Jascha Heifetz, violin

Isidor Achron, piano

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danielgarrick:

Roxanna Panufnik (b. 1968) - Deus, deus meus (Westminster Mass)

Alla Pavlova / Symphony #3 (2000) for full orchestra, 3rd movement.

Dedicated to my mother.

performed by Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov (conductor), Olga Vedernikova (violin)

Inspired by a statue of Joan of Arc, Pavlova chose a tonal, romantic idiom to express her deeply personal reactions to this tragic figure. Each movement of the symphony has a melancholy, folk-sounding tune at its core, giving the work a decidedly wistful atmosphere. (via)

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