Dec 7, 2025
In the middle of making a winter playlist, music that's on the isolated or cold side, thinking of a grey winter day, or the eerie glow of a winter night. Please let me know what other music could fit this vibe
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In the middle of making a winter playlist, music that's on the isolated or cold side, thinking of a grey winter day, or the eerie glow of a winter night. Please let me know what other music could fit this vibe
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i don’t know the exact reason but i ssseriouslyyy love takemichi and mitsuya’s relationship <3 <3
Toru Takemitsu, Rain Coming - Ensemble intercontemporain moos for today #2 happy sunday don*t think i will ever arrive at the kind of calm, patient questioning that takemitsu does..in my life or my music (oh well). love the alto flute too
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top 100 pieces of western art music (2020 edition)
it’s been approximately a year since i posted my 2019 list, so here goes nothing!
100. Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 8
99. Bohuslav Martinu - String Trio No. 1
98. György Ligeti - String Quartet No. 1
97. G.F. Haas - String Quartet No. 2
96. Arnold Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
95. William Walton - Violin Concerto
94. Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto
93. Maurice Ravel - Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
92. Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
91. Krysztof Penderecki - Threnody
90. G.F. Handel/Johan Halverson - Passacaglia
89. Max Grafe - Moon Cycles
88. John Cage - 59 ½ for a string player
87. J.S. Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No. 1
86. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1
85. Jennifer Higdon - blue cathedral
84. Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 1
83. George Crumb - Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening)
82. Paul Hindemith - String Quartet No. 4
81. Alban Berg - Violin Concerto
80. Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 10
79. Luciano Berio - Sequenza XIVb
78. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
77. Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
76. Eugene Ysaye - Solo Sonata No. 2
75. Tomás Luis de Victoria - O magnum mysterium
74. Sergei Prokofiev - Sinfonia concertante
73. Maurice Ravel - String Quartet
72. György Ligeti - String Quartet No. 2
71. Witold Lutosławski - Partita (for Violin & Orchestra)
70. Pierre Boulez - Anthemes
69. Augusta Read Thomas - Incantation
68. Erwin Schulhoff - Five Pieces
67. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6
66. Krysztof Penderecki - Cadenza
65. Steve Reich - Music for Pieces of Wood
64. John Luther Adams - Dream of the Canyon Wren
63. Caroline Shaw - Valencia
62. Brian Ferneyhough - String Quartet No. 6
61. G.F. Haas - Solo (for viola d’amore)
60. Paul Hindemith - Viola Sonata
59. Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
58. Andy Akhio - to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem
57. Dmitri Shostakovich - Violin Sonata
56. Jessie Montgomery - Starburst
55. John Corigliano - Symphony No. 1
54. Kate Soper - Ipsa Dixit
53. Grazyna Bacewicz - Concerto for Strings
52. Alfred Schnittke - Concerto for Piano and Strings
51. Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 4
50. Igor Stravinsky - Petrouchka
49. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10
48. Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire
47. Folke Rabe - Basta
46. Bela Bartok - String Quartet No. 4
45. Jennifer Higdon - Viola Concerto
44. Elizabeth Maconchy - String Quartet No. 11
43. György Ligeti - Lux aeterna
42. Herbert Howells - Elegy
41. Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps
40. J.S. Bach - Violin Sonata No. 2
39. Arvo Pärt - Fratres
38. Alberto Ginastera - Piano Concerto No. 1
37. Igor Stravinsky - L’oiseau de feu
36. John Luther Adams - The Wind in High Places
35. Alberto Ginastera - Harp Concerto
34. Silvestre Revueltas - La noche de los Mayas
33. William Grant Still - Afro-American Symphony
32. George Rochberg - String Quartet No. 3
31. Jessie Montgomery - Source Code
30. Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 7
29. Bedrïch Smetana - String Quartet No. 1
28. Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte
27. Igor Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps
26. Alberto Ginastera - Violin Concerto
25. Kaija Saariaho - Nocturne
24. Grazyna Bacewicz - Quartet for Four Violins
23. György Ligeti - Sechs Bagatellen/Musica Ricercata
22. Salvatore Sciarrino - Capricci per violino solo
21. Dai Fujikura - Fluid Calligraphy
20. Sky Macklay - Many, Many Cadences
19. Alberto Ginastera - String Quartet No. 1
18. György Ligeti - Violin Concerto
17. Luciano Berio - Sequenza III
16. Jessie Montgomery - Strum
15. George Crumb - Black Angels
14. Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8
13. Iannis Xenakis - Naama
12. Luciano Berio - Sequenza VIII
11. Toru Takemitsu - Rain Spell
10. Andy Akhio - NO one to kNOW one
9. Alberto Ginastera - String Quartet No. 2
8. Alfred Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No. 1
7. Caroline Shaw - Partita for Eight Voices
6. John Luther Adams - Canticles of the Sky
5. György Ligeti - Mysteries of the Macabre
4. Maurice Ravel - Introduction & Allegro
3. Jennifer Higdon - Violin Concerto
2. György Ligeti - Requiem
1. Kate Soper - Voices from the Killing Jar
Reading Joyce’s Dubliners for the first time and it led me towards a train of thought that ended improbably at “wow, but composers’ Wikipedia pages can give you really inaccurate idea of what their music is like, and you can only get how misleading it is if you know enough to not need the Wikipedia page”
I remember being a teen and reading Sofia Gubaidulina’s wiki page which, at the time, not only talked about her symphony as if it was The Most central piece she’d written, but also described her entire musical style as “innovative in how it uses silence”.
Like... I can see that being a quote pulled from a review of someone attending Gubaidulina’s symphony, because of that memorable moment in the symphony when the conductor is conducting a silent orchestra. But that doesn’t describe her music at all. You might as well say “Gerard Grisey’s music is innovative in how it uses silence!” based on the last minute of Partiels where a cymbalist dramatically draws their cymbals apart instead of crashing them together! The theater of it! (Also, the cuteness of the score!)
To wrap up this thought, however:
When thinking about composers who are actually innovative in how they use silence, my answer is Toru Takemitsu.
The more you listen to his music and the more you read his writings, the clearer it is how much weight he gave to silence, and space, within the texture of his music.