Music written after 1980

[pianoman53]

In most piano competitions you'd need a piece written after 1980 or so.
The problem is that neither me or my teacher is very interested in this sort of "random sounding music". I like the music by Barber, like his Ballad, but it's too short. I'd need something that's a bit more than 10 minutes.
I've listened to the Gargoyles, and liked it, but it's a bit too short.

Any ideas?

[ale_ius]

I discovers this few day agoes. I purchases music and it is very difficult, similars to very challenging Rachmaninov but with somes modern devices making even more challenge.
--Alee Marie.
from  https://www.daviddeltredici.com/works/virtuosoalice.html
Virtuoso Alice
from composer's channel

 
 'Grand Fantasy on a theme from Final Alice (1984) '
 
 
 
Duration:

13 min.


 
Premiere

10 November 1987
 Alice Tully Hall, New York City
 Anton Nell, piano


  
Dedication


"Dedicated to Harold Schonberg"


 
Commission


The William Kapell Piano Foundation

 
Program Note


Two events conspired to bring about Virtuoso Alice (1984), my first piano composition in more than twenty years. One was the commissioning request from Michael Sellars, director and founder of the William Kapell Piano Foundation, for a work to celebrate the grand, romantic tradition of piano playing. Another was an evening spent listening, for the first time, to rare recordings of legendary "golden age" pianists—Hofmann, Friedman, de Pachmann, Rachmaninoff, et al. So moved was I by the expressive idiosyncrasy of their playing—the unexpected, extravagant rubati and the breathtaking, effortless-sounding technical feats—that I decided to compose a piece memorializing and exploiting such pianistic virtues. Simultaneously, the idea of a paraphrase came to mind. The Harvard Dictionary of Music defines paraphrase as a "reworking and free arrangement of well-known melodies, such as Liszt's concert paraphrases of Wagnerian operas.'

 In Virtuoso Alice, I chose a melody of my own for this elaboration or "free arrangement"the "Acrostic Song" from Final Alice, written in 1976 for soprano and orchestra. The first part of Virtuoso Alice, though pianistically elaborate and highly embellished, follows the path of the original song quite faithfully. The second part, "Fantasia," is more freely associative and ranges through distant keys with bravura embellishment. This leads to a cadenza, then a reminiscence of the opening Acrostic theme and finally a repeated bell-tone, tolling an insistent, dissonant F-natural amid swirling, rising A major scale figures. Even as the motion quiets and the piece ends, this F-natural continues and is never resolved—a gentle, stabbing pain, throbbing on and on.

Virtuoso Alice is dedicated to Anton Nel, who premiered it.

- David Del Tredici, 2001

 
Press


"The evening's highlights were pieces that didn't strictly toe the party line. Mr. Sessions's students included enfants terribles like David Del Tredici, whose "Virtuoso Alice," here performed by the composer, should be programmed by star pianists. It is large-scale, heart-on-the-sleeve music that keeps winking at the listener, archly cocking its head as if to say, "Call me a guilty pleasure; I dare you," and then doing something startling and wonderful and fun."

- Anne Midgette, The New York Times, Wednesday, June 18, 2003

 

or shorter (too shorts maybe?)
"1981" by Lepo Sumera

[schubert_21]

Have a look at some of Leo Ornstein's later works - maybe the 8th sonata?

[schubert_21]

Also Frederic Rzewski.

[awesom_o]

Yeah, write your own stuff!

[prestoconfuocco]

There is a modern composer called Jan Freidlin. He has a set of three serenades (They are supposed to be played together, forming one piece,) that you can play. They last about 15 minutes, and they sound great.
Here is a video of the first two - "Midnight Serenade" and "Pastorale Serenade":

There is the third one - "Sad serenade":

Good luck!

[apmapmapm]

Boulez' "Incises" (2001) will win you the competition. xD
The original 4-5 minute piece was written to show off the pianist in a virtuoso style, but Boulez coudn't resist revising it to fulfill his deeper musical imagination.
It's still an excellent piece.

[lojay]

Pieces written after 1980, that are a bit longer than 10 minutes.

I was going to suggest Corigliano's Etude Fantasy (takes 17+ minutes to perform), but it was written 1976.  Ligetti's Musica Ricercata is also an amazing work, but unfortunately it was written in the 1950s and is about 30 minutes long.

Take a look at Liebermann's 3rd Sonata, Carl Vine's 1st Sonata, and Carl Vine's 2nd Sonata.  They all take at least 15 minutes to perform.  I'm unfamiliar with Liebermann's 2nd Sonata or Vine's 3rd Sonata, but I'm sure they would satisfy your requirements as well.  I haven't heard the Liebermann 3rd Sonata performed, but I've played through the score a few times.  The 1st and 3rd parts are really exciting and are very reminiscent of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

[classicalnhiphop]

carl vine sonata 1

[j_menz]

Good to see David Del Tredici get a mention, and Carl Vine, too.  In addition, something by Rodion Shchedrin should be in everyone's repertoire. Stephen Hough has written some nice stuff as well - particularly his two Sonatas. Tryvge Madsen is excellent, Ellen Taafe Zwillich has some good stuff, as does Henry Martin.

I should also give a plug to Peter Sculthorpe and Larry Sitsky, though they may be a bit "random sounding" at first. 

[cn75]

How about this piece? One of the composers nobody has ever heard of, but the music sounds nice (at least to me - you may disagree).
 
Constantin Stephan, piano prelude E-flat major:
 
https://imslp.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4ludium_(Stephan,_Constantin)#IMSLP306018
 

[ahinton]

I should also give a plug to Peter Sculthorpe and Larry Sitsky, though they may be a bit "random sounding" at first.  

Thus speaks the Qantas musical representative!

Seriously, though, very different as they are from one another, the work of each of these is nowhere near as well known as it deserves to be - and the latter composer is probably rather more widely known and appreciated as a scholar than as a composer.

Best,

Alistair

[richard black]

Ronald Stevenson, 'Motus Perpetuus Temporibus Fatalibus', and various other works.

Bill Doerrfeld, lots of nice pieces with jazzy feel.