Research Catalog

Title

Dystopia / Michael Gordon.

Author

Gordon, Michael, 1956-

Publication

• Brooklyn, NY : Cantaloupe Music, [2015]
• ℗2015

Details

Additional Authors

• Robertson, David, 1958-
• Nott, Jonathan
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
• Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, instrumentalist
• Bamberger Symphoniker, instrumentalist

Description

1 online resource (1 sound file)

Summary

Combining two of Michael Gordon's most daring large-scale orchestral works, the long-awaited release of Dystopia documents Gordon's dream of not only stretching the capabilities of the modern symphony, but in his words, of "exploring the gray areas between harmony and dissonance." On its own, the music of Dystopia paints a picture of one city's future - in this case, the city of Los Angeles - that is frenzied, chaotic, dazzling, electric, and ultimately...loud.Gordon had discovered similar sensibilities in composing Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. "Beethoven's brutish and loud music has always inspired me," he explains. "At the time it was written, it was probably the loudest music on the planet." Using one element from each of the original movements as a starting point, Gordon crafts a post-modern take on the master's classical forms that managed both to mesmerize and scandalize the audience at Beethovenfest Bonn, who commissioned the work's premiere in 2006. "I had tread on hallowed ground - no, I was leading the way into the future. Well, all in a day's work," he wrote of the crowd's reaction in a blog post for the New York Times. Taken together, both works reimagine the 21st-century symphony as equally reverent of the past (if not also a bit irreverent), while envisioning, as an L.A. Times review of the Dystopia premiere put it, "a drunken fugue of the future.'

Uniform Title

Orchestra music. Selections

Alternative Title

Orchestra music.

Subject

Orchestral music

Genre/Form

Streaming audio.

Contents

Dystopia (30:58) -- Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh symphony (21:45).

LCCN

• US3Q51510101
• US3Q51510102
• US3Q51510103
• US3Q51510104
• US3Q51510105

OCLC

926056911

Author

Gordon, Michael, 1956- composer.

Title

Dystopia / Michael Gordon.

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY : Cantaloupe Music, [2015]

Copyright Date

℗2015

Playing Time

003058 002145

Type of Content

performed music

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

audio file

Performer

In the 1st work: Los Angeles Philharmonic ; David Robertson, conductor. In the 2nd work: Bamberger Symphoniker ; Jonathan Nott, conductor.

Event

1st work recorded in performance 2008 January 12 Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles.

2nd work recorded in performance 2006 September 30 Beethovenfest Bonn.

Source of description

Hard copy version record.

Connect to:

Access Naxos Music Library

Added Author

Robertson, David, 1958- conductor.

Nott, Jonathan, conductor.

2nd work based on (work): Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies, no. 7, op. 92, A major.

Container of (work): Gordon, Michael, 1956- Dystopia.

Container of (work): Gordon, Michael, 1956- Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh symphony.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, instrumentalist.

Bamberger Symphoniker, instrumentalist.

Other Form:

Source record: Gordon, Michael, 1956- Dystopia. Brooklyn, NY : Cantaloupe, p2015 (OCoLC)903960179

Other Standard Identifier

US3Q51510101

US3Q51510102

US3Q51510103

US3Q51510104

US3Q51510105

Publisher No.

CA-21105 Cantaloupe Music

Branch Call Number

eNYPL Music