by Matthew Friedman | 24 Mar 2017 | Latest, Podcasts
Henri Pousseur, David Tudor, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Pierre Boulez at Darmstadt in 1956 In the eleventh episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden, host Matthew Friedman explores how European composers built a new avant-garde, virtually out of nothing...
by Matthew Friedman | 21 Mar 2017 | Playlists
Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Gil Shaham (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Jian Wang (cello), and Myung-Whun Chung (piano). Deutsche Grammophon CD – 289 469 052-2. Pierre Boulez, Piano Sonata No. 1, Boulez: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3, Idil Biret....
by Matthew Friedman | 16 Mar 2017 | Essays
I came to avant-garde art music fairly early (and fairly easily), through the soundtrack album for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and my friendship with Robert Kermode. Robert had similarly obscure interests, and we played a game of trying to find the most...
