Minimalist piano pieces - please suggest some

[stucoy]

I know very little about minimalist piano music. I'm looking for some interesting pieces to listen to, or play. I'm looking for something sort of hypnotic, something like Arvo Part's 'Fratres', or the 2nd movement of Philip Glass's Violin Concerto. Can anyone suggest anything?

[mrdaveux]

How about Adam's music ?

China gates and Phrygian gates are both in the minimalist repertoire.

[quantum]

If you're in Canada you might want to check out Ann Southam and her three books of Rivers. 

[anodibu]

Philip Glass - Opening from Glassworks

[princess_moose]

Ludovico Einaudi?

[invictious]

Philip Glass - Mad Rush

[mike_lang]

How about any of the Metamorphoses by Philip Glass?  I was listening to them on the way back from my yoga class - it is quite the effect they have on you after 4 or 5 minutes of listening to the same thing repeated with minor alterations...  Kind of their own little world (this may be true with other minimalist music, but Glass is my only experience with the genre).

Best,
ML

[mikey6]

Composition 1960 no.3 by La Monte Young - shouldn't take you too long
seriously - 'It's gonna rain' by Reich is supposedly one of the 'great' minimalist pieces - tape splicing.
For a listenable one, Nixon in China by Adams (opera) is probably my favourite.

[counterpoint]

Hans Otte  Das Buch der Klänge - The Book of Sounds

Hans Otte composed this 12 wonderful pieces in the years 1979-1982

It's  all about sound and harmonies, in a debussyesque tonality

Infos about H.Otte:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Otte

[bernhard]

Have a look here:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,8225.msg113552.html#msg113552
(minimalist pieces – description of Einaudi pieces.)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[steve jones]

'Glassworks' has a nice piece. Not to difficult neither, once you sort out the rhythm.

SJ

[counterpoint]

Jaan Rääts (born 1932, one of Estonia's most often played composers) has written some very interesting minimalistic piano pieces

- 24 leichte Klavierstücke op.85  (Easy Pieces for Piano)

- 24 Estnische Präludien  op.80  Book 1 & 2


More Infos about the composer and sound examples here:

https://www.edition49.de/composers/j_raats/

[dnephi]

Webern's infamous Thunderstorm in one note.

[counterpoint]

Webern's infamous Thunderstorm in one note.

That must be a joke 

Webern never did compose a piece with less than twelve notes 

[dnephi]

That must be a joke 

Webern never did compose a piece with less than twelve notes 

He wasn't always a 12-tone composer you know. 

[verywellmister]

Would Rochberg count?

[lours]

Philip Glass - Opening from Glassworks

Yeah, I recommend it too,
It's my favorite minimalist piece for piano.

[lazlo]

Metamorphosis by Philip Glass is really beautiful
Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jesus by Messiaen is really beautiful

Those would be my top two choices.

[jre58591]

Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jesus by Messiaen

how is this minimalism?