HELP: SUGGEST A MODERN PIECE FOR MY JUNIOR RECITAL

[pianista_03]

Can any of you guys suggest me a modern piece for my Junior Recital.

Here is the list of my repertoire:
Baroque: Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 871- BACH
Etude in C sharp minor op. 10 no. 4 - CHOPIN
Romantic: Hungarian Rhapsody no.11- LISZT
Concerto: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 25 no.1 - Mendelssohn

I really want a modern piece that has glissando.
you can also suggest pieces that doesn't have a glissando.
I just need a modern piece to complete my repertoire.
Before I have Pour Le Piano: 1. Prelude by Debussy, but I want to change it now.

Thanks in Advance!

[pianista_03]

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[liszt1022]

The 110-year-old Debussy suite counts as a modern work?

[drkilroy]

Menuet from Suite Bergamasque by Debussy has got a glissando.

Best regards, Dr

[krystellle]

Ginastera danzas argentinas has a glissando at the end of "Gaucho Matrero".

[lostinidlewonder]

[liszt_ani_rach]

Liszt's Paganini Etude no. 5 has glissandos , plenty

[retrouvailles]

Liszt's Paganini Etude no. 5 has glissandos , plenty

How is that a modern work???

[fftransform]

A better question is how could it possibly matter that a piece has a glissando in it.

Play Rzewski's North American Ballad No. 3.  This work has a strong track record in auditions and competitions, and has an improvisatory section in which you can play as many glissandi as you'd like.

Alternatively, you could play selections from Kurtag's Jatekok, if the Rzewski looks too difficult.  These are rapidly becoming popular, and one of the more popular ones consists of nothing but glissandi:

If you like Debussy so much, one of the Jatekok is based on a Debussy Prelude:

Skip to 3:45 for the Debussy one.  Just recently has the complete cycle, which is enormous, been recorded and published, although numerous selections of various pieces from the Jatekok have been recorded.  Perhaps play the Perpetuum Mobile, the Mad Girl with Flaxen Hair and one other that you particularly like, if you want a third.  There is enormous variety in the cycle; I'm sure that you can find something.

[phillip21]

If you are a real glissando lover (and it is modern enough) try something by the British composer York Bowen.  He seems to have been a huge glissando fan - he wrote a very good glissando study, and pretty well all of his concert works (which are being quite widely recorded now) have glissandi in them.  Another British work with a 'famous' black notes glissando is Cyril Scott's 'Lotus Land', which is quite often done in recital - I saw it played at an important British piano competition recently.

[healdie]

Could you do some Jazz? you could then put as many Glissandos in as you feel right

[pianista_03]

THANKS GUYS FOR THE HELP..

PLEASE KEEP POSTING. THANKS!

[liszt_ani_rach]

How is that a modern work???

I know that paganini etude 5 isn't modern, but i was talking about the glissando part of it. Does Prokofiev come under modern?

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