London Sinfonietta and Warp Records

John

Have any of you heard Warp Works and 20th Century Masters yet? I picked it up yesterday, looks pretty interesting but haven't given it a spin yet.

Ghost Rider

The world seems to be full of orchestras desperate to make their music "relevant", doesn't it?

That infernal Kronos Quartet have a lot to answer for.

John

After listening to the album, you've hit the nail on the head. The stuff actually composed for orchestras is performed really while, nice versions of Cage's sonatas for prepared piano and Reich and Ligeti are done a lot of justice but the Warp stuff (essentially just Aphex Twin and Squarepusher) is fairly boring. Novelty value only on their part. Although, ignoring the Warp stuff, if you wanted to start someone on 20th century avant garde this would be a nice entry point.

Closing Doors

John wrote:

Although, ignoring the Warp stuff, if you wanted to start someone on 20th century avant garde this would be a nice entry point.

You've just added to my long list of recent impulse CD purchases

cornbb

Closing Doors wrote:

You've just added to my long list of recent impulse CD purchases

Ditto! Hehe.

Speaking of impulse purchases and Warp records, I recently obtained a copy of the WarpVision DVD, featuring loads of cool videos from the last 15 years or so. It comes with a WarpMix CD and a bunch of postcards. Well worth getting at under 25 euros including delivery.

John

I keep meaning to get that DVD but it's down on my list of priorities for now.

Ghost Rider

Some really nice videos on that, actually - not just the Chris Cunningham stuff either.

John wrote:

I keep meaning to get that DVD but it's down on my list of priorities for now.