Necropolis

In this episode, the discourse once again centers on the eminent composer Anton Bruckner, with a discerning emphasis on the deliberations of The Bruckner Journal Conference held at the prestigious Yale University this year. In addition, the colloquy ventures into several other subjects, including the contentious Haas editions discrepancies, the imperative significance of Bruckner’s metronome markings, the dichotomy between metal and classical music, and other such scholarly topics. The podcast features a distinguished panel comprising the editor of The Bruckner Journal, Dr. Michael Cucka, the illustrious composer Sébastian Letocart, and the erudite Tyler, a member of the Necropolis crew. Together we weave a profound and captivating discussion that will enthrall any discerning aficionado of music.

Bruckner Society of America: https://www.brucknersocietyamerica.org/

The Bruckner Journal: https://brucknerjournal.com/

Sébastian Letocart: https://sites.google.com/site/letocartsebastien/Home-english

Some lads chat Metallica.

The lads chat Bathory.

The lads chat Burzum

The lads chat Beethoven.

Info on Sébastien Letocart here: https://www.sites.google.com/site/letocartsebastien/Home-english

Music excerpts:

21:45 Beethoven 3rd symphony "Eroica", funeral march conducted by Sir Roger Norrington with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart

33:35 Beethoven 4th symphony finale conducted by Sir Roger Norrington with the London Classical Players

38:26 Beethoven 5th symphony, first movement, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

51:58 Beethoven 7th symphony, 2nd movement allegretto, conducted by Christopher Hogwood with The Academy of Ancient Music

1:08:01 Beethoven 8th symphony finale conducted by Riccardo Chailly with the Gewandhausorchester

Musc at the end of the episode is Beethoven 9th symphony conducted by Christopher Hogwood with The Academy of Ancient Music

A casual discussion about Shostakovich by two Bruckner enthusiasts (Jason and Sébastien).

A graduate from the Royal Conservatory of Liège in Belgium (1st prize organ, 1st prize harmony, 1st prize history of music, 1st prize musical analysis); Sébastien Letocart is a self-taught composer, who has built his musical equally by studying ancient music (i.e. Josquin Desprez, William Byrd, Tomas Luis Vitoria, Roland de Lassus, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Claudio Monteverdi, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach), practicing it (organ, harpsichord and singing) as well as analyzing the great scores of the Classical Symphony (Haydn, Mozart), the Romantic (Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Dvořák, Bruckner), the Post-romantic (Debussy, Roussel, R.Strauss, Mahler, Sibelius, Nielsen) and the symphonic repertoire of the first half of the 20th century (Bartók, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Bax, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Walton, Honegger, Martinu, Varèse). He is also highly interested in the music of the last sixty years, his preferences are going from György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis or Esa-Pekka Salonen to Einar Englund, Aulis Sallinen, Emil Tabakov, Kalevi Aho, Vagn Holmboe, John Adams, Sir Malcolm Arnold or Sir Andrzej Panufnik. He is also greatly attracted by chamber music, especially by the refined writing that the string quartet demands and by Béla Bartók's six String Quartets which are the nec plus ultra of the genre.

More info about Letocart here: https://www.sites.google.com/site/letocartsebastien/Home-english

Lecture/Rehearsal of Shostakovich 8 that Letocart brought up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snpK0q47YgA

First music excerpt is Shostakovich 4, last moments of the finale, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung with the Philadelphia Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXXiB0Lce5g

Second music excerpt is the ending of the finale of Shostakovich 5, conducted by Mariss Jansons at the Wiener Philharmoniker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKeFOij6J7A&t=2641s

Third music excerpt is the most popular movement of Shostakovich 8, conducted by Gergiev at the Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jFesZ-jxRw

Fourth music excerpt is the Scherzo from Shostakovich 10, conducted by Haitink at the London Philharmonic Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FRH22KRsU0

Final music at the end of the episode is Shostakovich’s 5th string quartet performed by Dudok Kwartet in Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsWTDiPixcU

The lads chat Celtic Frost

The lads chat Immolation

The lads chat Morbid Angel. Shelley from www.hatemeditations.com and Metalegion Magazine returns as cohost.

S. Craig Zahler (director of Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Dragged Across Concrete, etc) returns to Necropolis to discuss his new graphic novel ‘Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos’. We chat about what the creation process was like, why he prefers ‘hard’ science fiction over more fantastical takes on the genre, our disbelief in aliens giving hillbillies anal probes, etc. After that, we descend into a dense metal discussion which highlights some of the concerts we went to 2022, some of Zahler’s favorite albums, some of his experiences writing for Metal Maniacs, and we examine Morbid Angel, being we have different tastes in their oeuvre. Shelley from www.hatemeditations.com and Metalegion Magazine returns as cohost.