a

[pies]

a

[retrouvailles]

No. Definitely not. It's just a bunch of tone clusters alternating registers. It's a good joke though (not as good of one as Anamorfosi though). Sciarrino has composed much better pieces than this one, like the nocturnes and Un Immagine d'Arpocrate. And I doubt many people on this forum have heard it. Don't post an mp3. It will just turn into another thread like the Xenakis, except I will be less inclined to defend it's musical value.

[pies]

a

[retrouvailles]

Anamorfosi is a parody of Ravel's Jeux d'Eau and Singing in the Rain. How much more of a joke can it be? He also did another joke piece called De La Nuit, which is a parody of Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.

The first piano sonata is better, yes.

[ferret_dance]

Rochberg is a joke.


To dispute this inately false statement is hypocrasy if De la Nuit is a joke.  I like Sciarrino's Sonata No. 4, although I personally believe No. 3 to be the strongest of the set.  Also, this is Damerini's recording, correct?  I've always found his interpretation of this particular piece fairly soulless.  Would you perhaps share Hodges' or Choi's?

[pies]

a

[pita bread]

Anamorfosi is actually pretty awesome. Not only does it have "Singin' in the Rain" embedded within the opening of Ravel's Jeux d'eau transposed down to D major, it ends with cascading cascading waterfalls from Ravel's Une Barque Sur l'Ocean. Great splashy encore IMO.