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onwan

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Favourite modern piece?

on: April 21, 2013, 09:23:46 AM

What is your favourite modern piano piece (Prokofiev, Bartok, Shostakovitch...)?

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Re: Favourite modern piece?

Reply #1 on: April 21, 2013, 03:42:17 PM

Quote from: onwan on April 21, 2013, 09:23:46 AM

What is your favourite modern piano piece (Prokofiev, Bartok, Shostakovitch...)?

"Modern"? Shostakovich, d. 1975, Prokofiev, d. 1953 and Bartók, d. 1945? Excusez-moi?(!)...

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Re: Favourite modern piece?

Reply #2 on: April 21, 2013, 04:38:46 PM

My favorite Bartok piece is his piano sonata. However my favorite modern piece at this moment is Elliott Carter's Night Fantasies for solo piano.

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Re: Favourite modern piece?

Reply #3 on: April 21, 2013, 09:13:11 PM

Quote from: patrickd on April 21, 2013, 04:38:46 PM

My favorite Bartok piece is his piano sonata. However my favorite modern piece at this moment is Elliot Carter's Night Fantasies for solo piano.

Two "t"s, please (no milk, no sugar) and this piece is itself more than 30 years old, but at least the composer hasn't yet been dead for six months, so one might just get away with classifying it as "modern"...

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patrickd

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Re: Favourite modern piece?

Reply #4 on: April 21, 2013, 10:34:00 PM

The Ligeti Etudes are also great pieces.

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j_menz

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Reply #5 on: April 22, 2013, 12:00:29 AM

The Carl Vine Sonatas and bagatelles; Stephen Hough's two Sonatas (and his transcriptions for a bit of fun); Tryvge Madsen Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven and Paganini Variations (as well as his P&Fs), Henry Martin P&Fs.

All alive, incidentally!

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Re: Favourite modern piece?

Reply #6 on: April 22, 2013, 12:15:58 AM

Quote from: j_menz on April 22, 2013, 12:00:29 AM

The Carl Vine Sonatas and bagatelles; Stephen Hough's two Sonatas (and his transcriptions for a bit of fun); Tryvge Madsen Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven and Paganini Variations (as well as his P&Fs), Henry Martin P&Fs.

I am listening to Carl Vine's first sonata right now, I cant believe I haven't heard any of his music before.

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Re: Favourite modern piece?

Reply #7 on: April 22, 2013, 12:19:46 AM

Quote from: patrickd on April 22, 2013, 12:15:58 AM

I am listening to Carl Vine's first sonata right now, I cant believe I haven't heard any of his music before.

Have a listen to his string quartets as well!

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