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This Glenlivet is doing me right, but it's making it hard to remember things.

I have the Edition RZ LP with "A Carlo Scarpa" (think it's contrabass clarinet and electronics??), very nice work. Also a little of his earlier stuff on a Time LP.

A good friend of mine is a Nono freak, though I think I've tried to turn him onto more jazz than he has with expanding my Nono vocabulary. When I return home this weekend, I'll refresh my memory on some deep pieces by this heavy composer.

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This Glenlivet is doing me right, but it's making it hard to remember things.

I have the Edition RZ LP with "A Carlo Scarpa" (think it's contrabass clarinet and electronics??), very nice work. Also a little of his earlier stuff on a Time LP.

A good friend of mine is a Nono freak, though I think I've tried to turn him onto more jazz than he has with expanding my Nono vocabulary. When I return home this weekend, I'll refresh my memory on some deep pieces by this heavy composer.

Let me know what it sounds like.

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I like what I've heard of the late material with live electronics, but my favorite piece is probably como una ola de fuerza y luz, which is really fiery and intense. I haven't heard the "late" operas like Prometeo, so can't comment there.

Oddly, I never really got into two of Nono's most famous pieces, Fragmente-stille: an Diotima for string quartet and ...Sofferte onde serene... for piano and tape, even though I'm a big quartet and solo piano enthusiast.

For composers influenced by Nono, I'd recommend Sciarrino (with some qualifications) and Lachenmann (more strongly), although both are somewhat weird...

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Lachenmann

which one do you recommend?

schreiben, concertini and chamber music i can all get for a nice price

My favorite is the Arditti disc with the quartets Reigen seliger Geister and Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied (the latter has devastating black humor) on Montaigne, although I fear it's OOP. Also the col legno disc with Gran Torso (quartet) and Salut für Caudwell (2 guitars), which may have been reissued on a budget label. I've only heard Mouvement...live, but that'd also be worth getting. I haven't heard the Match Girl opera, so can't comment.

From what you've mentioned, I'd try the chamber music disc if it has, say, Allegro Sostenuto and/or some solo piano music.

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Well, for a famous short piece that's abrasive and intense, look around for a recording of Alexander Mosolov's Zavod' (Iron Foundry), composed in 1927... ;)

More obscure, but really twisted and even terrifying is Miloslav Kabelac's bizarre Symphony #8 Antiphons for soprano, two mixed choirs, percussion ensemble and organ. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if it's available apart from an oop Praga CD (which I got as a cutout years ago...).

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