Night After Night

Playlist.

Zs - Xe (Northern Spy; due Jan. 27)

The Residents - The Sycamore Street Studio: 1974-77 Embracing Obscurity (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

The Residents - The Grove Street Studio: 1978-80 Embracing Visibility (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

The Residents - Performance Art: 1982-1990 Taking It on the Road (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

The Residents - Interactive Media: 1991-97 Game Design (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

The Residents - The Big Band: 1998-2003 Epic Productions (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

The Residents - Storyteller: 2005-2008 Once Upon a Time (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

The Residents - Party Band: 2009-2015 40th Anniversary (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

The Residents - And Also: 1974-2015 Volume One (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

The Residents - And Also: 1974-2015 Volume Two (Radio Thoreau Jr.)

John Harbison - String Trio; Four Songs of Solitude; Songs America Loves to Sing - Camerata Pacifica (Harmonia Mundi)

Rene Hell - Vanilla Call Option (PAN)

Rene Hell - Porcelain Opera (Type)

Rene Hell - Baroque Arcade (Night-People)

Rene Hell - The Terminal Symphony (Type)

Zs - Grain (Northern-Spy)

Zs - New Slaves (The Social Registry)

Jack DeJohnette - Made in Chicago (ECM; due March 10)

Robert Schumann - Symphonies Nos. 1-4 - St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Jerzy Semkow (Vox)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Fantasia in C minor "Choral Fantasia"; Rondo in B-flat; Elegischer Gesang; Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt; Richard Wagner - Rienzi: Overture; Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts I & III; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act I; Parsifal: "Good Friday Spell"; Die Walküre: Act III, "Ride of the Valkyries" - Walter Klien, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Jerzy Semkow (Vox)

Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious (Earache)

Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption (Earache)

Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade (Earache)

Opeth - Pale Communion (Roadrunner)

Minutemen - Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat (SST)

The Dead - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, April 25, 2009 (official concert recording)

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (Warner Bros.)

Stefan Mathieu - "III. Third Dream" (from Nachtstücke) (Schwebung < Bandcamp)

Celer - Snowfall (Bandcamp)

Zs - Score - The Complete Sextet Works: 2002-2007 (Northern-Spy)

Calmus Ensemble - Madrigals of Madness (Carus)

Steve Reich - Duet for Two Violins and Strings; Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor (BWV 1060r); Igor Stravinsky - Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks"; Colin Jacobsen/Siamak Aghari - Concerto for Santur, Violin and Orchestra; The Knights - The Ground Beneath Our Feet - The Knights (Warner Classics; due Jan. 26)

Parasitic Extirpation - Putrid Crown (Sevared < Bandcamp)

Castrator - No Victim (demo) (Bandcamp)

Abnormality - Contaminating the Hive Mind (Sevared < Bandcamp)

Grief - Turbulent Times (Southern Lord)

Grief - Come to Grief (Century Media)

Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer (Southern Lord)

Grateful Dead - Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 8, 1977 (Archive.org)

Playlist.

Demdike Stare - At Rest (DDS)

Kyle Landstra - Dream Array (Twin Springs Tapes)

Anne Guthrie - Codiaeum variegatum (Students of Decay)

King Crimson - Elzer Hof, Mainz, Germany, March 30, 1974 (Starless, CD 15) (DGM)

Richard Wagner - Die Walküre - Astrid Varnay, Birgit Nilsson, Ramon Vinay, Hans Hotter, Josef Greindl, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra/Hans Knappertsbusch (Walhall)

Sun Worship - Elder Giants (View from the Coffin < Bandcamp)

Alraune - The Process of Self-Immolation (Profound Lore < Bandcamp)

Mutilation Rites - Harbinger (Prosthetic < Bandcamp)

Panopticon - Roads to the North (Nordvis < Bandcamp)

Inter Arma - The Cavern (Relapse < Bandcamp)

Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Forever (Gilead Media < Bandcamp)

Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels (Profound Lore < Bandcamp)

Woods of Desolation - As the Stars (Northern Silence < Bandcamp)

King Crimson - Jahnhalle, Pforzheim, Germany, March 31, 1974 (Starless, CD 16) (DGM)

Anthony Cheung - vis-à-vis - Ensemble Modern/Franck Ollu; Roundabouts - Ueli Wiget; Hyperbaton - Ensemble Modern/Johannes Kalitzke; Fog Mobiles - Saar Berger, hr-Sinfonieorchester/Matthias Pintscher; Discrete Infinity - Ensemble Modern/Johannes Kalitzke (Ensemble Modern Medien)

Eyehategod - Eyehategod (Housecore)

Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall (Martyrdoom Productions < Bandcamp)

Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity (Candlelight < Bandcamp)

Diocletian - Gesundrian (Osmose Productions)

YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot)

Thou - Heathen (Robotic Empire < Bandcamp)

Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica (Relapse < Bandcamp)

Blut Aus Nord -  Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry (Debemur Morti < Bandcamp)

Mayhem - Deathcrush (Posercorpse)

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (Century Media)

Mayhem - Wolf's Lair Abyss (Misanthropy)

Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War (Season of Mist)

Mayhem - Chimera (Season of Mist)

Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao (Season of Mist)

Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare (Season of Mist)

Watain - Rabid Death's Curse (Season of Mist)

Watain - Casus Luciferi (Season of Mist)

Watain - Sworn to the Dark (Season of Mist)

Watain - Lawless Darkness (Season of Mist)

Watain - The Wild Hunt (Century Media)

Burzum - Burzum/Aske (Misanthropy)

Burzum - Det som engang var (Misanthropy)

Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss (Misanthropy)

Burzum - Filosofem (Misanthropy)

D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah (RCA)

Sarah Davachi - August Harp (Cassauna < Bandcamp)

David Sylvian - There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight (Samadhi Sound)

Kate Soper - Voices from the Killing Jar - Wet Ink Ensemble (Carrier)

Nina C. Young - Vestigia Flammae - Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Q2 stream)

Zs - "Corps" (from Xe) (Northern Spy; due Jan. 27)

Zs - The Hard EP (Three One G)

Zs - 33 (Northern Spy < Bandcamp)

Playlist.

Grant Evans - Respite (Vaald)

King Crimson - Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Germany, March 29, 1974 (Starless, CD 14) (DGM)

Asher Tuil - Landscapes Elsewhere (CONV < Bandcamp)

Asher Tuil - Interference (Semata Productions < Bandcamp)

Asher Tuil - Twenty-Four Views (Bandcamp)

Asher Tuil - Miniatures (Sourdine < Bandcamp)

Asher Tuil - Eventides (Bandcamp)

Peter Hammill - ...all that might have been... (Fie!)

Tashi Dorij - Blue 12 LP (X-Ray Records)

Pour Le Plasir - Tin Machine EP (X-Ray Records)

Chihei Hatakeyama - Too Much Sadness (White Paddy Mountain < Bandcamp)

Gimu - Blissful Haze, Hazy Bliss (Bandcamp)

Peter Hammill - Over (Virgin)

Markus Reuter - 6 Reflections (Iapetus < Bandcamp)

Harry Partch - Castor & Pollux; Ring Around the Moon; Even Wild Horses - Partch (Bridge)

Giacinto Scelsi - Pranam I; Pranam II; Khoom; Riti: I funerali di Alessandro Magno; Oknagon - Marianne Schuppe, Ensemble Phoenix Basel/Jürg Henneberger (Telos Music)

Yo La Tengo - Extra Painful (Matador)

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)

Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat (Century Media; due Jan. 27)

Punch Brothers - Phosphorescent Blues (Nonesuch; due Jan. 27)

Nathan McLaughlin - Nothing to Be Sad About (Eilean)

Twincities - Variations for the Celesta (Eilean < Bandcamp)

Tim Munro - one two three (Parlour Tapes+)

Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Ballade for a Wolf Moon (from Ballades) (Hooker Vision)

Grave Molt - Grave Molt (Vaald)

Dark Matter Travelers - Metta Physical Trance Mutations (Permanent Nostalgia)

Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Ballade for a Snow Moon (from Ballades) (Hooker Vision)

ECCE Ensemble at Goethe-Institut Boston, December 6, 2014

Isabel Mundry and Raphaël Cendo

ECCE Ensemble at Goethe-Institut Boston, December 6, 2014
Boston Globe
December 8, 2014

ECCE Ensemble's next public concert program will be a portrait of Mark Andre, a French composer based in Germany and a student of Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann, among others (and not to be mistaken for Marc-André Dalbavie). Bostonians can hear the program on Monday, February 2 at the New England Conservatory, where works by John Mallia and Katarina Miljkovic will also be included; New Yorkers will be able to hear ECCE play Andre at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on Friday, February 6.

I've just noticed an imprecision in this review, by the way. The opening quotation comes from an essay by Romain Rolland, but in that specific passage he is actually quoting someone else: a Dr. Max Bendiner, who wrote the words in question for the festival program book.

Oy. My chops are maybe a bit rusty.

Anyone curious to read the entire Rolland essay, "French and German Music," can find it here. Much of it seems quite dated, perhaps. but some of what Rolland claims of a world supersaturated with musical activities could be entirely contemporary. And his quick sketches of Mahler and Strauss are definitely worth reading.