Today’s Music by Today’s Composers.
4 February is the 16th anniversary of the death of French-Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. Although this isn’t an official jubilee year, his work is indispensable in a column on avant-garde music. His music has become unfashionable in the last decades and his place in the history books is shrinking. This undoubtedly is because of the cerebral mathematical models that are behind his music. But his work doesn’t deserve this, because its radical nature greatly speaks to the imagination.
- Troorkh.
Christian Lindberg, trombone. Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Rundel. - Nomos alpha
- Anémoessa, Evryali.
Kayako Matsunaga, piano
