Ilan Volkov

Patricia Highsmith 1963/4

Well here i can definitely do only the arts/music and lifeeee
Here is something i found tonight at Holit,Tel Aviv

YouTube video by grinblat James Tenney: Clang (1972)

James Tenney!
My performance with BBC SSO in 2018

Carrousel (1982), by Costin Miereanu from the album Poly-Art Recordings 1976-1982

So gooooood
Fuck Netanyahu,burn in hell

A great 4 LP compilation

YouTube video by Israel Contemporary Players אנסמבל המאה ה-21 The 'Teiva' marathon 2022 - Nico Teen

Nico Teen with ensemble,Yoni Silver wonderful arrangements

Haha
Yeah,with a heavy heart i didnt buy it 😜

Just saw this LP(the original release) in a Lisbon shop

Cromometrofonia No. 1, by Oscar Vargas Leal y David Espejo Aviles 2 track album

Mexico!

Oh fantastic,thanks!

Oh!

Dallas Downton 6.45am

First day in Dallas and encountering Deep Vellum bookstore and its huge selection of Dalkey Archive Press book 😮
What a place!

New Music Show - Tectonics Glasgow 2/2: Hilda Dianda, Barbara Monk Feldman, Baudouin Oosterlynck - BBC Sounds Day Two of Tectonics Glasgow - adventurous new music and specially commissioned work.

Second programme from Tectonics Glasgow
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Beethoven’s “Eroica” - Dallas Symphony Orchestra World-renowned violinist Leonidas Kavakos interprets Shostakovich’s Concerto, whose sonorities range from quiet contemplation to the most spectacular cadenza you’re ever likely to witness to a frenzie...

Next week in Dallas
Anything i must do/see/hear/buy there?
Excited to a piece by Kyle Gann there,he was born in Texas.

New Music Show - Tectonics Glasgow 1/2: Clara Iannotta, Beatrice Dillon, Oyvind Torvund - BBC Sounds Adventurous new music and sound art from Tectonics Glasgow 2025

First programme from Tectonics Glasgow on the New Music Show,BBC Radio 3
Torvund,Iannotta,Dillon,Alessandrini,Maiguascha,Lauren Sarah Hayes and improvisation by Rachel Musson,Mark Sanders and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

So great to work on this music again
Schönberg's first chamber symphony

Wonderful to read this writer for the first time!

Chocolate Monk batch!

Excited about conducting Barbara Monk Feldman this week!World Premiere of this orchestral version(2018)

Brahms’s Second Symphony Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by Gabrieli alongside Stravinsky’s last major work, the Requiem Canticles. Brahms’s happiest symphony, the Second, makes up the se...

This year's Proms just announced
Gabrieli/Maderna,Stravinsky and Brahms

David Toop legendary label! So amazing,released in 1979!was rereleased on Ideologic Organ in 2016

Post Korea visit

YouTube video by Daniel Locus La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même. Erratum musical

Will post some words and links on the upcoming Tectonics Festival in Glasgow.
Starting with the unique Baudouin Oosterlynck from Belgium.I visited him couple of times and I am only now starting to understand how vast and mindblowing his work is.Here he performs a mad work by Duchamp!

In Memoriam Pierre Boulez & Wolfgang Rihm <p>Am 26. März 1925 ist Pierre Boulez zur Welt gekommen. Hundert Jahre später und in einer Konzertsaison, die unter dem Thema «Vergehen» steht, widmet ihm das Musikkollegium eine Hommage. Den Auftakt ...

Next up is a visit to Winterthur(i think my last visit was around 20 years ago).Quite a programme including Wolfgang Rhim's big piece for String Quarter and Orchestra played by the Jack Quartet.

Totally agree! Many thanks

Awesome!

Reading Peter Hill's book on The Rite of Spring and finding this quarrel between Stravinsky and Monteux 🤣

Gamelan Gong Kebyar Listen to Gamelan Gong Kebyar

Gamelan forever
Released on Kind Record,legendary Japanese label(recorded 1990)

Le Sacre & Amériques · 22.03.2025 · Flagey Igor Stravinsky led the way with Le Sacre. A lone oboe begins, the orchestra takes over slowly building up until suddenly—BAM! CRASH!—the rhythms explode into a wild, hypnotic pulse that makes you wan...

Next week with Brussels Philharmonic conducting Sacre and a recent work by the amazing Jo Kondo.Tom de Cock conducts Varèse's Amériques which I am really looking forward to hearing.Concerts in Bruges and Brussels.