Another difficulty this thread may run into, rojo (I would not have predicted the brown note digression
), is that most classical listeners' concert experiences are largely if not wholly in concert halls. But the recently written musics one is most likely to hear in concert halls (particularly in the symphony type concert halls) are not going to be noticeably new in any way but date. Not to say that they're bad, or that they're not pleasant to listen to, at least once. But the edgier, more various, new musics have been leaving concert halls for other venues for several decades now. Living rooms, coffee shops, bars, hotel lobbies, rooms in palaces and consulates, and so forth. (Hmmm. Sounds like pre-Beethoven times, doesn't it?)
Anyway, if people are gonna be able to contribute to this thread in any informative way (not to deprecate humor in any way--I deny that!), you're gonna have to get members of this board to get out of the symphony halls and into the rooms where new music is being played. Not sure how to go about that on a forum, except by saying that the stuff is out there, go get it!!
Next best thing is recordings, of course. And that takes more cash than concert tickets. So.... But, for what it's worth, here are some other labels where you'll find new music of a fairly consistently high quality and variety:
col legno
cpo
Wergo
Cybele
empreintes DIGITALes
Ground Fault
many of these do older music, too, but there's naught wrong wit' that.
there are also several series:
Musik in Deutschland (distributed by BMG) presents music written between (roughly) 1950 and 2000 that was performed in Germany. It's mostly German music, but only mostly. You'll find Italians and Americans and French and so forth on these CDs.
Donaueschinger Musiktage and
Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (both on col legno) chronicle the two festivals identified, one in Donauesching and one in Darmstadt. Again, both international. And there's the likewise international festival in
Bourges (which I'll be going to for the third year in a row, yow!), which is chronicled on discs which used to be distributed by Harmonia Mundi, but which now can (only?) be purchased from
www.imeb.net). Or you can go to the festival and buy them there.
There's plenty more. More than plenty. But that's only for adventurous people with lots of money. There are a lot of ways to find new music online, of course. There are two places that have collected a fair amount: the Art of the States site and the iConcerts site. (i-Concerts with the hyphen is something other.)
Enjoy!
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Another difficulty this thread may run into, rojo (I would not have predicted the brown note digressionOk, maybe not.
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