For what it’s worth, I tried listening to Ferneyhough 2007, and the first few minutes were fascinating. It was as though the music was playing something in the back of my mind. And then I ran out of attention.
Is the sort of music you listed especially dependent on good reproduction, or is youtube enough for a fair sampling?
Is the sort of music you listed especially dependent on good reproduction, or is youtube enough for a fair sampling?
It’s especially dependent on good performance, but I don’t think recording quality is necessarily much more important than for works of earlier periods, at least above a certain minimum threshold. Certainly not for the works I listed, which I think are fairly represented by the linked recordings. (Excepting perhaps Carter’s Variations for Orchestra, for which the audio is too soft.)
For what it’s worth, I tried listening to Ferneyhough 2007, and the first few minutes were fascinating. It was as though the music was playing something in the back of my mind. And then I ran out of attention.
Is the sort of music you listed especially dependent on good reproduction, or is youtube enough for a fair sampling?
It’s especially dependent on good performance, but I don’t think recording quality is necessarily much more important than for works of earlier periods, at least above a certain minimum threshold. Certainly not for the works I listed, which I think are fairly represented by the linked recordings. (Excepting perhaps Carter’s Variations for Orchestra, for which the audio is too soft.)