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Brett Dean - Piano Concerto (Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey) (2019)
Brett Dean (*1961)
Piano Concerto (Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey) (2019)
Jonathan Biss, piano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Composer information:
https://www.boosey.com/composer/Brett+Dean
Publisher information:
https://tinyurl.com/um7sosj
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published: 19 Mar 2020
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Brett Dean - Viola Concerto (Official Score Video)
Listen and follow along with our B&H Study Score Video featuring the official publisher's score of Brett Dean's Viola Concerto, set to a recording by Sydney Symphony, conductor Simone Young, and the composer himself as soloist.
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Escucha y sigue con nuestro vídeo de la partitura de estudio de B&H, presentando la partitura oficial de la editora musical del Concierto para Viola de Brett Dean, con una grabación por la Sinfónica de Sydney, la conductora Simone Young, y el propio compositor como solista.
More info on Dean's Viola Concerto: https://bit.ly/DeanViolaConcertoInfo
Watch our other Study Score videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUr1r_wAANZGIh64QnTvQUtx84SAOvaE0
Music:
Viola Concerto
Composed by Brett Dean
Performed by Brett Dean, viola, Sydney Symphony, and Si...
published: 03 Sep 2021
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Score Reading 101 with Brett Dean
Composer, conductor, and violist Brett Dean gives us advice on how to read orchestral scores. Check out his tips for zooming out to see the shape of the musical lines and how different instruments interact, then watch the B&H score video for Brett Dean's Viola Concerto here: https://youtu.be/_FHV1-J8Bl8
Music:
Viola Concerto
Composed by Brett Dean
Performed by Brett Dean, viola, Sydney Symphony, and Simone Young
Courtesy of BIS Records
The recording of Brett Dean’s Viola Concerto is available from BIS (BIS-1696 SACD). Purchase the album here: https://www.eclassical.com/dean-brett/brett-dean-composer-and-performer.html
published: 08 Sep 2021
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Brett Dean: Viola Concerto [Lawrence Power]
Brett Dean (b. 1961): Viola Concerto (2004)
00:25 - I. Fragment
03:15 - II. Pursuit
14:36 - III. Veiled and Mysterious
(28:00 Brett Dean on stage)
Performers:
-Lawrence Power, viola (Antonio Brensi, Bologna, c.1590)
-Nicholas Collon, conductor
-Radio sinfoniaorkesteri
//
“I've often mused upon the fact that so much music written for the viola is characterised by a particular sense of melancholy, invariably coupled with a busy, dogged brand of defiance or even gruffness. While we violists may look with a certain envy upon the joyous abandon of the finale of Tchaikovsky's Violin concerto, the high drama of the entry of the violin in the Brahms Concerto or the sheer, wide-screen magnificence of the Dvorak or Elgar Cello Concertos, we have a particular voice that is uniquely ours, and...
published: 21 Oct 2022
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Hamlet by Brett Dean - Act II - Ophelia
Full opera here: bit.ly/HamletBrettDean
Subscribe to our channel for more videos http://ow.ly/ugONZ
Hamlet - Brett Dean
Barbara Hannigan: Ophelia
Sarah Connolly: Gertrude
Neil Armfield: Stage director
Ralph Myers: Set designer
Alice Babidge: Costume designer
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Vladimir Jurowski: Conductor
Opera recorded at Glyndebourne (Lewes, Great Britain), on July 6, 2017 19:00
© François Roussillon et Associés / Glyndebourne – avec la participation de France Télévisions
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published: 13 Jul 2017
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Brett Dean - Electric Preludes, for electric violin and strings (2012)
00:00 I. Abandoned Playground: Wide, reverberant arpeggios open onto furtive dense textures in the strings, slowly growing more frenzied (1:43) before returning to a solemn, open sound (2:21)
04:00 II. Topography - Papunya: The electric violin sneaks out of an eerie "spectral drone". The solo and orchestra gradually assert themselves more on a harsh downward motif, before the solo flies off into the extreme upper registers (6:41)
06:59 III. Peripeteia: A rapid frenzy of irregular rhythms in the solo electric violin, opposes an unrelenting beating drive in the orchestra
08:21 IV. The beyonds of mirrors: The electric violin, with an otherworldly theremin-like sound, sings over a kaleidoscope of descending lines.
10:43 (Really this part is just awesome!) The movement ends violently with heavi...
published: 29 Oct 2023
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Highlights of Brett Dean's Stringquintet "Epitaphs" at a concert in Berlin
German cellist Alban Gerhardt will be interviewing wonderful Australian composer Brett Dean tomorrow, March 6, at 18:00 CET (Berlin/Madrid) exlusively for his patrons in a livestream on his Patreon channel - here some "highlights" from the performance of his stellar string quintet "Epitaphs" which he performed last year at Berlin's Radialsystem - with Gergana Gergova, Baiba Skride, Micha Afkham and Brett Dean playing the second viola himself.
This will be after talks with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Johannes Moser and Julian Anderson his fourth "AlbanTalk" which are all available here: http://www.patreon.com/albangerhardt - please feel free to join in case you might be interested in the other content like all his Daily routines, How to vibrate, How to ricochet, How to memorize, How to fix proble...
published: 05 Mar 2021
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Brett Dean - Equality
Brett Dean - Equality (2004)
Live from the Sydney International Piano Competition, July 2016.
published: 07 Feb 2017
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Richard Tognetti & Brett Dean talk violins - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Australian Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and Lead Violin Richard Tognetti and composer Brett Dean discuss electric and acoustic violins. Richard demonstrates the sound of each.
http://www.aco.com.au
published: 22 Feb 2013
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Brett Dean – How do you start writing a new piece?
Episode 4 from The Studio: New LPO Composer in Residence Brett Dean discusses how he begins to compose a new work. When generating new ideas, quantity over quality is the key! #GetInspired #Creativity #MakingMusic #YoungMusician #YoungComposer
This video is part of The Studio, an online platform for the LPO Soundworks community, sharing insights from industry professionals across the arts, and creative resources for young musicians. LPO Soundworks is a programme for young people aged 14-19, uniting musicians with talented experts from other art forms, to collaborate and create performance pieces at various points across the year.
published: 21 Jul 2020
24:42
Brett Dean - Piano Concerto (Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey) (2019)
Brett Dean (*1961)
Piano Concerto (Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey) (2019)
Jonathan Biss, piano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor...
Brett Dean (*1961)
Piano Concerto (Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey) (2019)
Jonathan Biss, piano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Composer information:
https://www.boosey.com/composer/Brett+Dean
Publisher information:
https://tinyurl.com/um7sosj
This video has a purpose of promotion, not for profit.
If you have any complaints about copyright issues, please write me a direct message at fukbot75(at)hotmail(dot)com before submitting a report to Youtube. Then I will delete the video as soon as possible.
https://wn.com/Brett_Dean_Piano_Concerto_(Gneixendorf_Music_A_Winter's_Journey)_(2019)
Brett Dean (*1961)
Piano Concerto (Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey) (2019)
Jonathan Biss, piano
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Composer information:
https://www.boosey.com/composer/Brett+Dean
Publisher information:
https://tinyurl.com/um7sosj
This video has a purpose of promotion, not for profit.
If you have any complaints about copyright issues, please write me a direct message at fukbot75(at)hotmail(dot)com before submitting a report to Youtube. Then I will delete the video as soon as possible.
- published: 19 Mar 2020
- views: 4172
25:38
Brett Dean - Viola Concerto (Official Score Video)
Listen and follow along with our B&H Study Score Video featuring the official publisher's score of Brett Dean's Viola Concerto, set to a recording by Sydney Sym...
Listen and follow along with our B&H Study Score Video featuring the official publisher's score of Brett Dean's Viola Concerto, set to a recording by Sydney Symphony, conductor Simone Young, and the composer himself as soloist.
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Escucha y sigue con nuestro vídeo de la partitura de estudio de B&H, presentando la partitura oficial de la editora musical del Concierto para Viola de Brett Dean, con una grabación por la Sinfónica de Sydney, la conductora Simone Young, y el propio compositor como solista.
More info on Dean's Viola Concerto: https://bit.ly/DeanViolaConcertoInfo
Watch our other Study Score videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUr1r_wAANZGIh64QnTvQUtx84SAOvaE0
Music:
Viola Concerto
Composed by Brett Dean
Performed by Brett Dean, viola, Sydney Symphony, and Simone Young
Courtesy of BIS Records
#BHStudyScores
https://wn.com/Brett_Dean_Viola_Concerto_(Official_Score_Video)
Listen and follow along with our B&H Study Score Video featuring the official publisher's score of Brett Dean's Viola Concerto, set to a recording by Sydney Symphony, conductor Simone Young, and the composer himself as soloist.
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Escucha y sigue con nuestro vídeo de la partitura de estudio de B&H, presentando la partitura oficial de la editora musical del Concierto para Viola de Brett Dean, con una grabación por la Sinfónica de Sydney, la conductora Simone Young, y el propio compositor como solista.
More info on Dean's Viola Concerto: https://bit.ly/DeanViolaConcertoInfo
Watch our other Study Score videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUr1r_wAANZGIh64QnTvQUtx84SAOvaE0
Music:
Viola Concerto
Composed by Brett Dean
Performed by Brett Dean, viola, Sydney Symphony, and Simone Young
Courtesy of BIS Records
#BHStudyScores
- published: 03 Sep 2021
- views: 30938
3:17
Score Reading 101 with Brett Dean
Composer, conductor, and violist Brett Dean gives us advice on how to read orchestral scores. Check out his tips for zooming out to see the shape of the musical...
Composer, conductor, and violist Brett Dean gives us advice on how to read orchestral scores. Check out his tips for zooming out to see the shape of the musical lines and how different instruments interact, then watch the B&H score video for Brett Dean's Viola Concerto here: https://youtu.be/_FHV1-J8Bl8
Music:
Viola Concerto
Composed by Brett Dean
Performed by Brett Dean, viola, Sydney Symphony, and Simone Young
Courtesy of BIS Records
The recording of Brett Dean’s Viola Concerto is available from BIS (BIS-1696 SACD). Purchase the album here: https://www.eclassical.com/dean-brett/brett-dean-composer-and-performer.html
https://wn.com/Score_Reading_101_With_Brett_Dean
Composer, conductor, and violist Brett Dean gives us advice on how to read orchestral scores. Check out his tips for zooming out to see the shape of the musical lines and how different instruments interact, then watch the B&H score video for Brett Dean's Viola Concerto here: https://youtu.be/_FHV1-J8Bl8
Music:
Viola Concerto
Composed by Brett Dean
Performed by Brett Dean, viola, Sydney Symphony, and Simone Young
Courtesy of BIS Records
The recording of Brett Dean’s Viola Concerto is available from BIS (BIS-1696 SACD). Purchase the album here: https://www.eclassical.com/dean-brett/brett-dean-composer-and-performer.html
- published: 08 Sep 2021
- views: 5939
29:36
Brett Dean: Viola Concerto [Lawrence Power]
Brett Dean (b. 1961): Viola Concerto (2004)
00:25 - I. Fragment
03:15 - II. Pursuit
14:36 - III. Veiled and Mysterious
(28:00 Brett Dean on stage)
Performe...
Brett Dean (b. 1961): Viola Concerto (2004)
00:25 - I. Fragment
03:15 - II. Pursuit
14:36 - III. Veiled and Mysterious
(28:00 Brett Dean on stage)
Performers:
-Lawrence Power, viola (Antonio Brensi, Bologna, c.1590)
-Nicholas Collon, conductor
-Radio sinfoniaorkesteri
//
“I've often mused upon the fact that so much music written for the viola is characterised by a particular sense of melancholy, invariably coupled with a busy, dogged brand of defiance or even gruffness. While we violists may look with a certain envy upon the joyous abandon of the finale of Tchaikovsky's Violin concerto, the high drama of the entry of the violin in the Brahms Concerto or the sheer, wide-screen magnificence of the Dvorak or Elgar Cello Concertos, we have a particular voice that is uniquely ours, and a very telling and touching one it is too.
Largely deprived of such masterworks of the classical and romantic periods, viola players generally tend to embrace the music of the 20th and 21st centuries with greater passion than our violin and cello playing colleagues.
Here, the solo viola repertoire undoubtedly also has its moments of joy and vigorously positive energy. The last movements of the Bartok concerto and of Hindemith's "Schwanendreher", for example, both lend the viola a folk-inspired voice of singular freshness and exuberance. But when it comes to finding the true essence of the viola's character, these are perhaps exceptions rather than the rule.
So it is then a unique privilege and challenge to have the opportunity to now approach the form of the viola concerto as both composer and performer. Above all, it filled me with thoughts about my own relationship with this curiously beautiful, somewhat enigmatic instrument of my choosing. Due to the unusually hands-on directness of writing a concerto for oneself, it also inspired thoughts upon the workings of music itself, removed from any sense of external programmatic influences or stories which inform so many of my other pieces.
Hence this work is simply entitled Viola Concerto.
More by coincidence than design, the piece follows the traditional concerto shape of three movements. Having completed the substantial second and third movements, I felt the piece required a "scene setting" of some kind. Thus, the work begins with "Fragment", a brief visit to a delicate sound world in which some of the work's main motives and instrumental colours are introduced in the orchestra, eventually enticing a high, floating cantilena response from the soloist.
"Fragment" however serves merely as a short satellite of serenity before the orchestra tumbles into the longer second movement, "Pursuit". As its name implies, this is a restless ride for all concerned, presenting the solo viola as a harried, lonely figure fighting against the latent threat of the orchestra, which seems only too keen to burst in and have its say whenever it gets the opportunity. A solo cadenza of bird-call inspired flageolets and high C-string yearnings forms a fleeting central reprieve before the chase resumes.
This is music of jagged virtuosity and rhythmic edginess, the kind of hybrid that might have arisen if Paul Hindemith had played in a band with Tom Waits...
The piece closes with "Veiled and Mysterious", an extended elegy in which the viola sings an unfolding "Klagelied" over icy sonorities of solo celli and bowed percussion. After a passage of sudden stillness and delicate question marks in the solo voice, the viola's line develops again in intensity, eventually awakening the orchestra into action, taking over from the viola to emerge in a large scale tutti section in which statements from throughout the piece are thrown into a melting pot, by turns stark and lyric. Out of the remnants of this material, the solitary figure of the viola solo resurfaces in an atmosphere of conciliation and dreaminess. Accompanied by the weaving lines of oboe and cor anglais, the viola, no longer hassled and pursued, guides us to a peaceful, if somewhat ambivalent conclusion with a revisiting of the bird- like harmonics from the middle movement.”
~Brett Dean, 2005
https://wn.com/Brett_Dean_Viola_Concerto_Lawrence_Power
Brett Dean (b. 1961): Viola Concerto (2004)
00:25 - I. Fragment
03:15 - II. Pursuit
14:36 - III. Veiled and Mysterious
(28:00 Brett Dean on stage)
Performers:
-Lawrence Power, viola (Antonio Brensi, Bologna, c.1590)
-Nicholas Collon, conductor
-Radio sinfoniaorkesteri
//
“I've often mused upon the fact that so much music written for the viola is characterised by a particular sense of melancholy, invariably coupled with a busy, dogged brand of defiance or even gruffness. While we violists may look with a certain envy upon the joyous abandon of the finale of Tchaikovsky's Violin concerto, the high drama of the entry of the violin in the Brahms Concerto or the sheer, wide-screen magnificence of the Dvorak or Elgar Cello Concertos, we have a particular voice that is uniquely ours, and a very telling and touching one it is too.
Largely deprived of such masterworks of the classical and romantic periods, viola players generally tend to embrace the music of the 20th and 21st centuries with greater passion than our violin and cello playing colleagues.
Here, the solo viola repertoire undoubtedly also has its moments of joy and vigorously positive energy. The last movements of the Bartok concerto and of Hindemith's "Schwanendreher", for example, both lend the viola a folk-inspired voice of singular freshness and exuberance. But when it comes to finding the true essence of the viola's character, these are perhaps exceptions rather than the rule.
So it is then a unique privilege and challenge to have the opportunity to now approach the form of the viola concerto as both composer and performer. Above all, it filled me with thoughts about my own relationship with this curiously beautiful, somewhat enigmatic instrument of my choosing. Due to the unusually hands-on directness of writing a concerto for oneself, it also inspired thoughts upon the workings of music itself, removed from any sense of external programmatic influences or stories which inform so many of my other pieces.
Hence this work is simply entitled Viola Concerto.
More by coincidence than design, the piece follows the traditional concerto shape of three movements. Having completed the substantial second and third movements, I felt the piece required a "scene setting" of some kind. Thus, the work begins with "Fragment", a brief visit to a delicate sound world in which some of the work's main motives and instrumental colours are introduced in the orchestra, eventually enticing a high, floating cantilena response from the soloist.
"Fragment" however serves merely as a short satellite of serenity before the orchestra tumbles into the longer second movement, "Pursuit". As its name implies, this is a restless ride for all concerned, presenting the solo viola as a harried, lonely figure fighting against the latent threat of the orchestra, which seems only too keen to burst in and have its say whenever it gets the opportunity. A solo cadenza of bird-call inspired flageolets and high C-string yearnings forms a fleeting central reprieve before the chase resumes.
This is music of jagged virtuosity and rhythmic edginess, the kind of hybrid that might have arisen if Paul Hindemith had played in a band with Tom Waits...
The piece closes with "Veiled and Mysterious", an extended elegy in which the viola sings an unfolding "Klagelied" over icy sonorities of solo celli and bowed percussion. After a passage of sudden stillness and delicate question marks in the solo voice, the viola's line develops again in intensity, eventually awakening the orchestra into action, taking over from the viola to emerge in a large scale tutti section in which statements from throughout the piece are thrown into a melting pot, by turns stark and lyric. Out of the remnants of this material, the solitary figure of the viola solo resurfaces in an atmosphere of conciliation and dreaminess. Accompanied by the weaving lines of oboe and cor anglais, the viola, no longer hassled and pursued, guides us to a peaceful, if somewhat ambivalent conclusion with a revisiting of the bird- like harmonics from the middle movement.”
~Brett Dean, 2005
- published: 21 Oct 2022
- views: 2740
3:12
Hamlet by Brett Dean - Act II - Ophelia
Full opera here: bit.ly/HamletBrettDean
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Hamlet - Brett Dean
Barbara Hannigan: Ophelia
Sarah Conn...
Full opera here: bit.ly/HamletBrettDean
Subscribe to our channel for more videos http://ow.ly/ugONZ
Hamlet - Brett Dean
Barbara Hannigan: Ophelia
Sarah Connolly: Gertrude
Neil Armfield: Stage director
Ralph Myers: Set designer
Alice Babidge: Costume designer
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Vladimir Jurowski: Conductor
Opera recorded at Glyndebourne (Lewes, Great Britain), on July 6, 2017 19:00
© François Roussillon et Associés / Glyndebourne – avec la participation de France Télévisions
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Hamlet - Brett Dean
Barbara Hannigan: Ophelia
Sarah Connolly: Gertrude
Neil Armfield: Stage director
Ralph Myers: Set designer
Alice Babidge: Costume designer
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Vladimir Jurowski: Conductor
Opera recorded at Glyndebourne (Lewes, Great Britain), on July 6, 2017 19:00
© François Roussillon et Associés / Glyndebourne – avec la participation de France Télévisions
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- published: 13 Jul 2017
- views: 13646
21:57
Brett Dean - Electric Preludes, for electric violin and strings (2012)
00:00 I. Abandoned Playground: Wide, reverberant arpeggios open onto furtive dense textures in the strings, slowly growing more frenzied (1:43) before returning...
00:00 I. Abandoned Playground: Wide, reverberant arpeggios open onto furtive dense textures in the strings, slowly growing more frenzied (1:43) before returning to a solemn, open sound (2:21)
04:00 II. Topography - Papunya: The electric violin sneaks out of an eerie "spectral drone". The solo and orchestra gradually assert themselves more on a harsh downward motif, before the solo flies off into the extreme upper registers (6:41)
06:59 III. Peripeteia: A rapid frenzy of irregular rhythms in the solo electric violin, opposes an unrelenting beating drive in the orchestra
08:21 IV. The beyonds of mirrors: The electric violin, with an otherworldly theremin-like sound, sings over a kaleidoscope of descending lines.
10:43 (Really this part is just awesome!) The movement ends violently with heavily distorted, overdriven electric violin ("sound hack").
11:20 V. Perpetuum mobile: A hard-edged unrelentless drive
13:20 Cadenza: An open space is left as the "Perpetuum mobile" cuts out, allowing the solo to fill it with reverb and various electronic effects
17:08 VI. Berceuse: Contrapuntal lines rise out of the very depths of the orchestra, leading to a stratospheric lullaby over hauntingly beautiful string chords (18:43, 19:50). The electric violin slowly descends to its very lowest note (21:09) in a gorgeously bittersweet ending.
It seems fitting that my new work for Richard Tognetti and the ACO, “Electric Preludes”, has been commissioned by Melbourne art curator and gallerist Jan Minchin. My work has always had a strong visual aspect to it, owing much to the long-standing partnership with my wife, Heather Betts, herself a painter. Several of my works, such as “Beggars and Angels” and “Night Window” pay direct homage to the influence of Heather’s remarkable paintings on my own creative life.
These new preludes follow this line of creativity, owing much of their inspiration and development to visual stimuli. Whilst conceived as pieces of pure music, the lines, gestures and energies contained within nevertheless owe much of their ultimate shape to imagery.
Some of these came to my attention by traditional means; seeing the National Gallery of Victoria’s extraordinary exhibition “Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art” last year, for example, proved to be an especially inspiring encounter. The magical cartographic works of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri in particular, displaying such an encyclopaedic knowledge of his country, led directly to the second movement, “Topography-Papunya”, in which the music unfolds as if seen from above, taking in more and more detail as it scans and focuses, joining the dots as it were.
Another prelude was inspired simply by browsing through images on the web. The initial idea for the very opening of the piece, an ascending arpeggio over all six strings of Richard’s Violectra – and its subsequent descending counterpart heard somewhat later, reminded me of a rusty, squeaky swing in an abandoned playground. Just entering those two words in a google image search provided a beautifully wistful gallery of possible narratives and imagined sounds. Try it.
But the most striking image that fired my fantasy throughout the entire compositional process was that of Richard standing with the ACO, his exotic electric fiddle under his chin, taking mere breaths of sound and embryonic motivic shapes and transforming them, with the help of this impressive piece of electronics and sound designer Bob Scott at the mixing desk, filling the hall and enticing the orchestra’s manifold responses.
My heartfelt thanks to Richard and Bob for their invaluable contributions to this joyfully collaborative commission, and to Jan Minchin for her belief in the project and the financial support to allow us to realize it.
—Brett Dean
Composer: Brett Dean (October 23, 1961–)
Electric Violin: Richard Tognetti
Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra
Score available from Boosey and Hawkes: https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Brett-Dean-Electric-Preludes/57840
How I make my videos: https://github.com/CMajSeven/WorkflowTemplate
Program I develop for this channel: https://github.com/edwardx999/ScoreProcessor
https://wn.com/Brett_Dean_Electric_Preludes,_For_Electric_Violin_And_Strings_(2012)
00:00 I. Abandoned Playground: Wide, reverberant arpeggios open onto furtive dense textures in the strings, slowly growing more frenzied (1:43) before returning to a solemn, open sound (2:21)
04:00 II. Topography - Papunya: The electric violin sneaks out of an eerie "spectral drone". The solo and orchestra gradually assert themselves more on a harsh downward motif, before the solo flies off into the extreme upper registers (6:41)
06:59 III. Peripeteia: A rapid frenzy of irregular rhythms in the solo electric violin, opposes an unrelenting beating drive in the orchestra
08:21 IV. The beyonds of mirrors: The electric violin, with an otherworldly theremin-like sound, sings over a kaleidoscope of descending lines.
10:43 (Really this part is just awesome!) The movement ends violently with heavily distorted, overdriven electric violin ("sound hack").
11:20 V. Perpetuum mobile: A hard-edged unrelentless drive
13:20 Cadenza: An open space is left as the "Perpetuum mobile" cuts out, allowing the solo to fill it with reverb and various electronic effects
17:08 VI. Berceuse: Contrapuntal lines rise out of the very depths of the orchestra, leading to a stratospheric lullaby over hauntingly beautiful string chords (18:43, 19:50). The electric violin slowly descends to its very lowest note (21:09) in a gorgeously bittersweet ending.
It seems fitting that my new work for Richard Tognetti and the ACO, “Electric Preludes”, has been commissioned by Melbourne art curator and gallerist Jan Minchin. My work has always had a strong visual aspect to it, owing much to the long-standing partnership with my wife, Heather Betts, herself a painter. Several of my works, such as “Beggars and Angels” and “Night Window” pay direct homage to the influence of Heather’s remarkable paintings on my own creative life.
These new preludes follow this line of creativity, owing much of their inspiration and development to visual stimuli. Whilst conceived as pieces of pure music, the lines, gestures and energies contained within nevertheless owe much of their ultimate shape to imagery.
Some of these came to my attention by traditional means; seeing the National Gallery of Victoria’s extraordinary exhibition “Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art” last year, for example, proved to be an especially inspiring encounter. The magical cartographic works of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri in particular, displaying such an encyclopaedic knowledge of his country, led directly to the second movement, “Topography-Papunya”, in which the music unfolds as if seen from above, taking in more and more detail as it scans and focuses, joining the dots as it were.
Another prelude was inspired simply by browsing through images on the web. The initial idea for the very opening of the piece, an ascending arpeggio over all six strings of Richard’s Violectra – and its subsequent descending counterpart heard somewhat later, reminded me of a rusty, squeaky swing in an abandoned playground. Just entering those two words in a google image search provided a beautifully wistful gallery of possible narratives and imagined sounds. Try it.
But the most striking image that fired my fantasy throughout the entire compositional process was that of Richard standing with the ACO, his exotic electric fiddle under his chin, taking mere breaths of sound and embryonic motivic shapes and transforming them, with the help of this impressive piece of electronics and sound designer Bob Scott at the mixing desk, filling the hall and enticing the orchestra’s manifold responses.
My heartfelt thanks to Richard and Bob for their invaluable contributions to this joyfully collaborative commission, and to Jan Minchin for her belief in the project and the financial support to allow us to realize it.
—Brett Dean
Composer: Brett Dean (October 23, 1961–)
Electric Violin: Richard Tognetti
Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra
Score available from Boosey and Hawkes: https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Brett-Dean-Electric-Preludes/57840
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- published: 29 Oct 2023
- views: 4855
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Highlights of Brett Dean's Stringquintet "Epitaphs" at a concert in Berlin
German cellist Alban Gerhardt will be interviewing wonderful Australian composer Brett Dean tomorrow, March 6, at 18:00 CET (Berlin/Madrid) exlusively for his p...
German cellist Alban Gerhardt will be interviewing wonderful Australian composer Brett Dean tomorrow, March 6, at 18:00 CET (Berlin/Madrid) exlusively for his patrons in a livestream on his Patreon channel - here some "highlights" from the performance of his stellar string quintet "Epitaphs" which he performed last year at Berlin's Radialsystem - with Gergana Gergova, Baiba Skride, Micha Afkham and Brett Dean playing the second viola himself.
This will be after talks with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Johannes Moser and Julian Anderson his fourth "AlbanTalk" which are all available here: http://www.patreon.com/albangerhardt - please feel free to join in case you might be interested in the other content like all his Daily routines, How to vibrate, How to ricochet, How to memorize, How to fix problems with the bowarm, How to play Bach, 16 40-min videos of me learning two different pieces from scratch, four PlayTalks in which he slowly works through so far the first movements of the Dvorak, Schumann and Haydn D Major Concerto and explain his take on them - and much more! On top of it it's easy to cancel with no strings attached 😉
https://wn.com/Highlights_Of_Brett_Dean's_Stringquintet_Epitaphs_At_A_Concert_In_Berlin
German cellist Alban Gerhardt will be interviewing wonderful Australian composer Brett Dean tomorrow, March 6, at 18:00 CET (Berlin/Madrid) exlusively for his patrons in a livestream on his Patreon channel - here some "highlights" from the performance of his stellar string quintet "Epitaphs" which he performed last year at Berlin's Radialsystem - with Gergana Gergova, Baiba Skride, Micha Afkham and Brett Dean playing the second viola himself.
This will be after talks with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Johannes Moser and Julian Anderson his fourth "AlbanTalk" which are all available here: http://www.patreon.com/albangerhardt - please feel free to join in case you might be interested in the other content like all his Daily routines, How to vibrate, How to ricochet, How to memorize, How to fix problems with the bowarm, How to play Bach, 16 40-min videos of me learning two different pieces from scratch, four PlayTalks in which he slowly works through so far the first movements of the Dvorak, Schumann and Haydn D Major Concerto and explain his take on them - and much more! On top of it it's easy to cancel with no strings attached 😉
- published: 05 Mar 2021
- views: 897
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Brett Dean - Equality
Brett Dean - Equality (2004)
Live from the Sydney International Piano Competition, July 2016.
Brett Dean - Equality (2004)
Live from the Sydney International Piano Competition, July 2016.
https://wn.com/Brett_Dean_Equality
Brett Dean - Equality (2004)
Live from the Sydney International Piano Competition, July 2016.
- published: 07 Feb 2017
- views: 3355
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Richard Tognetti & Brett Dean talk violins - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Australian Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and Lead Violin Richard Tognetti and composer Brett Dean discuss electric and acoustic violins. Richard demonstra...
Australian Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and Lead Violin Richard Tognetti and composer Brett Dean discuss electric and acoustic violins. Richard demonstrates the sound of each.
http://www.aco.com.au
https://wn.com/Richard_Tognetti_Brett_Dean_Talk_Violins_Australian_Chamber_Orchestra
Australian Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and Lead Violin Richard Tognetti and composer Brett Dean discuss electric and acoustic violins. Richard demonstrates the sound of each.
http://www.aco.com.au
- published: 22 Feb 2013
- views: 4552
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Brett Dean – How do you start writing a new piece?
Episode 4 from The Studio: New LPO Composer in Residence Brett Dean discusses how he begins to compose a new work. When generating new ideas, quantity over qual...
Episode 4 from The Studio: New LPO Composer in Residence Brett Dean discusses how he begins to compose a new work. When generating new ideas, quantity over quality is the key! #GetInspired #Creativity #MakingMusic #YoungMusician #YoungComposer
This video is part of The Studio, an online platform for the LPO Soundworks community, sharing insights from industry professionals across the arts, and creative resources for young musicians. LPO Soundworks is a programme for young people aged 14-19, uniting musicians with talented experts from other art forms, to collaborate and create performance pieces at various points across the year.
https://wn.com/Brett_Dean_–_How_Do_You_Start_Writing_A_New_Piece
Episode 4 from The Studio: New LPO Composer in Residence Brett Dean discusses how he begins to compose a new work. When generating new ideas, quantity over quality is the key! #GetInspired #Creativity #MakingMusic #YoungMusician #YoungComposer
This video is part of The Studio, an online platform for the LPO Soundworks community, sharing insights from industry professionals across the arts, and creative resources for young musicians. LPO Soundworks is a programme for young people aged 14-19, uniting musicians with talented experts from other art forms, to collaborate and create performance pieces at various points across the year.
- published: 21 Jul 2020
- views: 386