21st Century Classical

23 articles related to 21st Century Classical:

Orchestra
Ravel's La Valse and the duel that wasn't

Completed by Maurice Ravel in 1920, La Valse stands as a remarkable composition distinguished by its innovative waltz…

August 11, 2023
Piano
Estampes: the world cultures of Debussy's imagination

Estampes, conceived as a three-piece piano suite by the French Impressionist Claude Debussy, is rightfully recognized…

February 17, 2022
Piano
Nuvole Blanche: the critical simplicity of Einaudi's best-known piece

Nuvole Blanche is one of the best-known piano pieces by the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi released on his 2004…

September 13, 2021
Film
Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle

Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001…

May 31, 2021
Film
Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody

Hedwig's Theme, also known as the main theme of all eight Harry Potter films, was the first piece written by John…

April 28, 2021
Contemporary Composer
The meaningless song lyrics of Adiemus

Adiemus is a cross-genre project conceived by Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Karl Jenkins to refresh…

April 4, 2021
Nature Sounds
Classical music examples imitating bees and buzzing insects

The seemingly monotonous buzz that bees emit is a developed communicative function allowing these social insects to…

May 6, 2020
Oboe
The dramatic-abstract of Thea Musgrave's music as influenced by serialism

Thea Musgrave is a Scottish-American composer whose formative years fell on the mid-1950s when revolutionary musical…

March 8, 2020
Music Theory
Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into…

August 24, 20194 comments
Game
Nobuo Uematsu refreshed prog rock concepts for his epic Final Fantasy score

Being a self-taught musician, Nobuo Uematsu accidentally entered the world of video game development where, quite…

April 17, 2019
Kora
African bard Foday Musa Suso represents griot culture by mixing kora music with Western minimalism and jazz

The most important role in the preservation of tradition in the culture of West Africa has been played by griots…

April 10, 2019
Game
The quiet adventure in the warm depths of Abzû game scored by Austin Wintory

American composer Austin Wintory made history after becoming the creator of the first-ever Grammy-nominated videogame…

March 15, 2019
Flute
Japanese traditions meet Western avant-garde in reflective tunes of Toshio Hosokawa

Japanese contemporary composer of extraordinary aerial themes, Toshio Hosokawa, draws inspiration from the ancient…

March 1, 2019
Contemporary Composer
The path to Earth's orbit for Errollyn Wallen's music

A modern composer, songwriter, and singer Errollyn Wallen was recounted by The Observer as a "renaissance woman of…

January 25, 2019
Collaboration
Nordic folk fiddle reshapes polished classical sound in the music of Gjermund Larsen

Gjermund Larsen is a Norwegian musician and composer who dedicated his career to the music of his native land. His work…

December 18, 2018
Collaboration
Literary recital for fiddle and harmonium with British flavour

A rare duo that brings together two of Britain's foremost folk and jazz artists was formed by a Scottish fiddler Aidan…

August 31, 2018
Classical Guitar
The fine blend of styles and cultures of the Assad brothers

Brazilian-born brothers Sérgio and Odair Assad have set the benchmark for every classical guitarist by creating a new…

July 24, 2018
Film
Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play

The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big…

July 12, 2018
Technologies
Pi for Piano in A minor

Everyone knows that Pi is a mathematical symbol representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, but…

May 22, 2018
Hardanger Fiddle
You can't stay still when you hear the reel

The Shetland islands, located between Norway and Scotland, has always had their folk music at the crossroads of two…

April 20, 2018
Violin
Max Richter's modern upgrade of The Four Seasons

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons could be rightfully called the most noted work of classical music. Contemporary composer Max…

April 4, 2018
Orchestra
The sounds of scenic Iceland in the Aeriality orchestral piece

Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Icelandic composer whose music is now often played around Europe and the US, captivating the…

March 28, 2018
Piano
Ambient and classical mixed on the Orkney Islands

Erland Cooper is a Scottish producer and musician born and raised on Scottish archipelago of Orkney. Cooper spent years…

March 14, 2018