These are all works
that opened up windows / knocked down walls / focussed my attention on the
breadth and depth and nature of musical experience. They are arranged in the
order in which I met them, as far as I can recall. Those with an asterisk (*)
are works which I heard live; those with two asterisks (**) are works in which
I participated as performer. See in addition a brief list of visual arts influences.
1954-63
Bach, J.S. solo cello* & violin suites,
Brandenburg Concerti, etc
Palestrina motets
Beethoven - violin concerto
Boccherini - cello concerto
Brahms - Hungarian Rhapsodies
Corelli trio sonatas
Haydn - Cello Concerto *
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Khatchaturian - violin concerto
Mendelssohn - violin concerto
Mozart - horn concerto, clarinet concerto
Paganini - Caprices, Violin Concerto
Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf, Romeo & Juliet
Rameau - Pièces de Clavecin
Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals
Schubert - Impromptus*
Sibelius - Symphony, Swan of Tuonela
Tchaikovsky - violin concerto, Nutcracker Suite
Vivaldi - 4 seasons, violin concerto, cello concerto
a few classic folk tunes & childrens’ songs, rounds**
1963-64
range of North Indian music* (living in Old Delhi)
1965-70
Bach, J.S. - French suites**, Preludes &
Fugues**, solo violin sonatas**
Bartok - Roumanian Dances **
Beethoven - Symphony #6* - (Boston Symphony-Leinsdorf)
Britten - Ceremony of Carols*
Chopin - Preludes **
Debussy – Arabesques**, Children’s Corner **
Ginastera - Little Train of the Caipira
Kabalevsky - piano music **
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde, Symphony #1
Rachmaninoff - Piano concerto
Ravel - Pavane, Bolero
Schubert - Impromtu **
Stravinsky - Petrushka (my first record, given by my oldest brother)
Tartini - violin & piano sonata**
Spanish renaissance instrumental music
misc - Switched-on Bach, PDQ Bach, computer rendition of Daisy
music from other cultures: Pakistani folk music, oud music (lM Ayoub*),
more Indian music (Ali Akbar Khan* concert)
folk & rock music - (weekly concerts in Cambridge Common*; also Simon &
Garfunkel,Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Rolling Stones, Taj Mahal, Velvet
Underground, etc)
1970-75
rock (Deep Purple, Crosby Stills & Nash, The
Who, Moody Blues, Blood Sweat & Tears, Pink Floyd, Eagles,Emerson Lake
& Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Kraftwerk,
Veronique Sanson*, Harmonium*); jazz & blues (John Mayall, Earl Hines,
Monk, Charlie Parker, free jazz **, etc);
Reich - 6 Pianos
1976-80 (enrolled in BMus programme)
Bach, C.P.E. - keyboard sonatas
Bartok - Music for Strings Percussion & Celesta, violin sonatina**
Behrens
Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre
Cage - Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano, Atlas Elipticalis, etc
Couperin - keyboard works
Crumb - Ancient Voices of Children
Dallapiccola - Quaderno Musicale de Annalibera
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Giron
Hindemith - violin sonata**
Ives - Symphony #4, 3 Places in New England
Lutoslawski - String Quartet*, Concerto for Orchestra
Mamiya*
Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time*
Reich - Drumming, Violin Phase, It’s Gonna Rain
Riley - In C**
Respighi - Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome**
Stravinsky - Rite of Spring, Histoire du Soldat, Symphonies of Wind
Instruments, Symphony of Psalms
Schafer Requiems for a Party Girl**
Shostakovich - Symphony #5
Varese - Density 21.5
experimental – Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell; Jazz &
blues (Billie Holliday, Bessie Smith, Stephane Grappelli, Jean Luc Ponty, Al
DiMeola, etc); other cultures - Himalayan chants, African& Lombok drumming,
Arabic art music, Indonesian gamelan, etc
1980-83
Eckhardt-Grammatte - solo violin sonatas
Monahan - Speaker Swinging*, Tape Pulling*
Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Schafer - Crown of Ariadne*, Apocalypsis*
Southam - Reprieve
Zimmermann, Krystian
country & western (esp.Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, etc)
jazz (Grappelli *, Sheila Jordan & Steve Swallow*)
1983-93 (enrolled in MMus / PhD programme in music)
Andriessen, Louis - De Tijd
Bartok - Sonata for 2 Pianos & Percussion, String Quartets
Brant - viola & music box
Carter - Double Concerto for Piano & Harpsichord
Dhomont - musique concrète
Gobeil
Ichiyanagi - piano piece
Ives - Concord Sonata, etc
Komorous - Rossi, Gloomy Grace, York, etc.
Ligeti - Chamber Concerto, Ramifications, San
Francisco Polyphony, etc
Louie - orchestral piece
Lutoslawski - Concerto for Orch, Venetian Games,
Cello Concerto
Messiaen - Chronochromie, Turangalila
Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano
Pagan, Juan - solo violin
work, chamber music
Partch -
Pisendel - Sonata for unaccompanied violin
Prokofiev - Sonata #6
Rameau - Pieces de Clavecin
Reich - Violin Phase **
Rochberg - later string quartets
Rzewski - Moutons de Panurge
Saariaho - ea work
Smalley, Denis - water music (tape),
Sorabji - piano music
Stockhausen - Klavierstucke IX, Kontrapunkte
Subotnick - Sidewinder
Truax - Wave Edge
Vivaldi - Conc for mandolin
Xenakis - Metastaseis, Pithoprakta, ST-4, etc
Zimmermann, B.A. - Musique pour les Soupers du roi
Ubu
other cultures - Tuareg / Berber,
Scottish/Irish/French traditional songs; Persian, Azerbaijan art music; more
Indian music - sarangi, veena, mrdangam, sarod, voice;Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, L.
Subramaniam; Hamza El-Din - Escalay (Water Wheel)
more jazz (Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Charles
Mingus, etc); Tom Waits
1993 - present (often a new hearing of previously-heard works)
Hossein Alizadeh - music for films The Ugly and the
Beautiful; Ancient Legacy
Bacewicz - string quintet, string quartets
Boccherini - quintets (string qtt & guitar), vc
& cb, etc.
Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic
de Falla - piano music (N Harper*)
John Bull - harpsichord
Yves Gigon - Cercle Visqueux, Silo, Crickpet
Górecki - symphonies
Haydn - string quartets
Mossolov - string quartet
Normandeau -
Pärt - Tabula Rasa, Fratres
Piazzolla -
Reich - 6 Pianos, Drumming, Music for 18 Musicians -
live
Risset -
Scarlatti - keyboard sonatas
Schafer - String Quartets * (Molinari qtt)
Strauss, Richard - Till Eulenspiegel
Shostakovich - string quartets
Tartini - solo violin sonatas
Varese - Amériques
Volans -White Man Sleeps
Mick Wilson
Xenakis - Pleiades*
medieval - various interpretations - esp. La Nef,
Chronociamento di Gioia
17th c. chromatic (19-note-to-8ve) harpsichord music
crossover / world music - Ekova, Rabih Abou-Khalil
more jazz (Archie Shepp, Joe Henderson, Johnny
Griffen, etc)
more folk song - Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian,
also fado (Amalia etc)
more art music of other cultures - sufi, Persian,
Turkish, Cretan, etc.
visual arts /
architecture influences
1954-62
Montreal old brick & stone houses &
university buildings with wood interiors
Persian carpets, Islamic art & design
A.Y. Jackson paintings
calligraphy
1963-64
Taj Mahal, Qutb Minar, Red Fort (Delhi), etc
Chandigahr - Le Corbusier-designed town (visited 1963)
Kashmiri houseboat villages
Kashmiri carved wood designs
Moghul gardens (Chasma Shahi) - Kashmir
Michelangelo - Captives
de Medici palaces - Florence
1964-74
Tanguy painting (Oberlin)
de Chirico
Sume-i painting
Frank Lloyd Wright
assorted modern architecture - Cambridge
1975-80 (enrolled in art school, art courses; met H.M.)
David Smith sculptures
Marcel Duchamp
Louise Nevelson
Meredith Oppenheim
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Smithson
Harry Mountain
Jackie Windsor
Gerry Ferguson
De Maria - Broken Kilometre, etc
1980-present
Celtic hillforts - Portugal, Spain, England, Wales,
Ireland, Scotland esp Citania de Briteiros, Tiermes
Celtic artifacts - jewellery, weapons, games, etc.
Neolithic stone structures (henges, dolmens, fogous, etc)
Bell Beaker ware & fort
Alhambra and other Moorish architecture & design, azulejo tiles
Knossos Minoan palace ruins
various medieval castles, Iberian peninsula
various cities with a range of architecture: Madrid,
Prague, Berlin, Paris, Bologna, Bergamo
huge range of art and decorative arts in various
museums & galleries mainly Europe but including
treasures (often stolen) from cultures
internationally from prehistoric to present
etc.