Henry Cowell - Three Irish Legends (1922)
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8 жыл бұрынComposer: Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 - December 10, 1965)
Pianist: Steffen Schleiermacher
0:06 The Tides of Manaunaun
3:52 The Hero Sun
6:47 The Voice of Lir
Small tone clusters played with the fist or open hand, large tone clusters with the forearm.
Scores I engrave: github.com/CMajSeven
Program I develop for this channel: github.com/edwardx999/ScorePr...
@Cmaj7 4 жыл бұрын
0:06 The Tides of Manaunaun 3:52 The Hero Sun 6:47 The Voice of Lir
@SKYTHEFOX2024 16 күн бұрын
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@PolybrowTheVods 7 жыл бұрын
the melodies are so beautiful, yet the baseline is so overwhelmingly terrifying. What you'd picture to feel if some guy was causing massive waves all around our fair and beautiful universe.
@V-Ner_d 3 ай бұрын
Someone: "Sorry, mr. Cowell, we couldn't get those timpanies you wanted for your song" Cowell: slams his entire arm on the lowest notes "It's okay, I fiund a workaround"
@Singto60 8 ай бұрын
My friend just passed away. The first movement is so beautiful.
@theopenmouth9695 5 ай бұрын
the sound of grief.
@thenameisgsarci 8 жыл бұрын
Yay! You beat me to it, though, but thank you for doing this. :D
@ericangeloch4452 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting the score to what is perhaps my most favorite piano piece. I am old-ish. My son is young-ish. He brought these things to my attention. Cowell lived just up the road from where I grew up. This is wonderful. Thank you.
@stefanpredoi4564 Жыл бұрын
Only one listen and I'm in love. I've been a pianist most of my life and Cowell still manages to make me think of the instrument in a new way.
@konosxatz1 8 жыл бұрын
These are incredible!Thank you so much for uploading this.The bass notes make it seem like a storm is coming and the beautiful melody makes up for the stories told.Amazing.
@DanikaOliver Жыл бұрын
Oh I found something precious today. I love this.
@bagdarcan 7 жыл бұрын
wow i need to see this being played
@ashtonhettich9195 4 жыл бұрын
bagdarcan I have seen all three Irish legends played and I have even learned other pieces by Henry Cowell and I have to say it's not as hard as it looks. I have even written a couple of pieces in a similar style to Henry Cowell too.
@AndrewNeslo 4 жыл бұрын
Here you go... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hsiSi5N7mKmaqYE.html
@ferguscullen8451 2 жыл бұрын
Check out Fausto Bongelli's channel to see him playing many Cowell pieces
@brendanward2991 7 жыл бұрын
Astonishing. Thanks for sharing.
@FabriziodeRossiRe 3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic ! Cowell a great composer of the twentieth century.
@sebastianzaczek 6 жыл бұрын
I really love these pieces, but i feel like my parents would kill me if i started smashing the keys of the Piano with my whole arms...
@written12 4 жыл бұрын
I think they would.
@michaelrogers5486 3 жыл бұрын
Tell them "it's great art, you philistines"
@slateflash 7 жыл бұрын
soo beautiful and evocative
@amerain1729 7 жыл бұрын
very beautiful and creative...
@ContraereaSerba 4 жыл бұрын
I never heard anything like this. The first piece is wonderful. It reminds me of Liszt's legend in some way. The low notes used to conceive the idea of tides.
@random_user_hmm Жыл бұрын
Epic Irish legends
@christophedevos3760 Жыл бұрын
Interesting piece, amazingly played by Schleiermacher.
@gavinroberts2581 5 жыл бұрын
Certainly more of an acquired taste but still brilliant. Reminds me of the songs we had to sing in primary school, a bit. Also sounds like what I reckon Debussy would sound like if he never used arpeggios, and instead just played all the notes at one.
@claudiabrouwer4170 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing! Great composer
@loudlikelove5016 4 жыл бұрын
This is intense and beautiful
@random_user_hmm Жыл бұрын
The Best recording for my opinion
@FirstRoyceMusic 2 жыл бұрын
5:28 the lick
@jslasher1 7 жыл бұрын
I love Cowell; I loved him more after he was rejected by Ives on account of being an 'invert' [late 19th-century term for homosexuality]. Cowell did not need Ives, as he proved later on.
@gabrielackerman3237 3 жыл бұрын
A common misconception about the Cowell-Ives friendship is that once Cowell was arrested for being homosexual (which doesn't seem likely all things given), is that Ives refused to ever communicate with Cowell again. In fact, it was Harmony Ives, Charles' wife who didn't want to get their name involved with the drama, and so she did not let him communicate with his old friend Cowell. If I do remember correctly, shortly after Cowell was released, the two picked up communication once more.
@marekkarelmarkvart5061 Жыл бұрын
Neuvěřitelná nádhera!
@hevorg1381 5 жыл бұрын
Amazing, hope you get loads of views.
@miguelangelmartinramirez8659 4 жыл бұрын
No conocía a este compositor ¡WoW!
@udomatthiasdrums5322 3 жыл бұрын
still love it!!
@mikeg2924 Жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@squedwed8545 5 жыл бұрын
6:48 hellish hot cross buns
@ethanhill9331 7 жыл бұрын
I've read much about Cowell as a function of reading much about Ives. I hear here why anyone would make a fuss about him. This is interestingly pretty.
@renan1033zinho 8 жыл бұрын
Wow !
@MrGoandrush 3 жыл бұрын
OMG! If he should live today....
@remiaudibert2538 7 жыл бұрын
Extra ! Cowell est un Ovni hélas trop méconnu
@user-qz3lh6nx1g 6 жыл бұрын
素晴らしい！
@wcsxwcsx 6 жыл бұрын
I'd swear I hear MacDowell in this music.
@casrifay 4 жыл бұрын
UpAndOut Sea Pieces....?
@SacrilegiousOrnstein 2 ай бұрын
Especially the first movement!
@akashrima7917 4 жыл бұрын
It sounds more like a Funeral March.
@Woodcut60 Жыл бұрын
At 00:02, the instructions, how do you play the top symbol with your left hand when the right hand is playing the melody? I mean, you are supposed to press down 12 keys at the same time but you only have five fingers.
@user-km4me8yh1z Жыл бұрын
uh I think is with ur elbow
@Woodcut60 Жыл бұрын
@@user-km4me8yh1z You can't press down those 12 keys with your elbow. You won't hit certain keys. Or is it supposed to be blurry and not exact?
@user-km4me8yh1z Жыл бұрын
@@Woodcut60 sorry not elbow but with your entire palm
@chiufranz Жыл бұрын
@@user-km4me8yh1z but when i watch some live video in YT it seems that the pianists use elbow more than palm only
@user-km4me8yh1z Жыл бұрын
@@chiufranz palm for the 00:02 the 12 keys ones and elbow for the 2 octave ones in the middle of 1st and 2
@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms Жыл бұрын
Based
@therealhelmholtz 3 жыл бұрын
South Carolina tone clusters!!!??!!!???!
@jesuscocaine4428 6 жыл бұрын
How does one play, in voice of lir, the passages at 8:49 and 9:46
@AndrewNeslo 6 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLKbmpCV2s-qo3k.html
@sebastianzaczek 6 жыл бұрын
Jesus Cocaine play the cluster-part with your elbow and up to about half of your forearm and Play the single notes with a finger
@Anarchips 3 жыл бұрын
8:50 I think the F should stay sharp during the whole bar. Awesome recording and opus nevertheless.
@xTEETSx 7 жыл бұрын
so you basically post atonal modernism ? love the unique composer variety GRAZIE
@abraxasstone 3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't doubt they post atonal modernism, but this definitely isn't an example. This is extremely tonal :')
@sneddypie 3 жыл бұрын
@@abraxasstone yeah was just about to say. also, _found you_
@ambrecoulibaley2703 Жыл бұрын
6:47
@ninadasilva1867 8 ай бұрын
The man spent 3 years in a Californian prison on a victimless morals charge in 1936. It broke his spirit Charles Ives ditched him. This is how America treats its musical geniuses.
@user-wn3np4wy8f Жыл бұрын
1:37
@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms Жыл бұрын
Where there any Irish Modernists?
@Giovanni-fj5cu 2 жыл бұрын
what means 15va?
@christophedevos3760 Жыл бұрын
Played two octaves (higher or lower) than the notes indicate.
@javiermanzo6603 5 жыл бұрын
Im sorry to be so negative, Im listening to this and find it to be negative, however, I understand why many like this what many refer to as "ultra-modernist" style since it is very unique. Its just not my cup of tea :)