1945+ Repertoire suggestion

[ewalker1]

Hello.

For a recital exam I have to do next year, I must play a piece composed during or after 1945.
The time restraints for this piece are 4 - 6 minutes, because of the other pieces in the programme.
Preferably something by an acceptedly brilliant composer and not some amateur piece.

I have a few ideas but I would like to hear your suggestions!

[worov]

Hovhaness fits the bill (though he's underplayed) :

[chopinlover01]

I don't know if this was written after 1945, but Ginastera is an excellent composer.
It's also a tad short, but the tempo changes can be dramatized to be around 4 minutes, as brought here.

[visitor]

[roncesvalles]

Some possibilities:

Saariaho- Ballade
Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketch I or II
George Benjamin -a selection from Shadowlines
Thomas Ades - Darknesse Visible, or a selection from 3 Mazurkas
Bolcolm - selections from 12 New Etudes
Sciarrino - Perduto in una cita d'aqua (more in the 7-8 minute range)
Murail - selection from Les Travaux et les Jours, selection from Estuaire, or the piece "Cloches d'adieu, et une sourire..."

[visitor]

pretty sure this was post 45 since Despic was  born in 30 and it's not an adolescent work

[visitor]

should be performable in in under 6 min

[visitor]

pretty much any of Wild's later works
the last movement of his piano sonata from 2000 is jiggy 'toccata (a la ricky martin)'

[visitor]

pretty much any of Wild's later works
the last movement of his piano sonata from 2000 is jiggy 'toccata (a la ricky martin)'

ps mvmnts i and ii, it really is a cool sonata, i hope it starts to get more coverage as more and more of Wild's works make their way into more standard programing (the Gershwin etudes are a sort of Fringe standard lately it seems so it's encouraging)

If i ever wanted to have another pianists playing in my hands, it would have been for me to play like Wild. He was a giant.

[visitor]

maybe Persichetti sonata no 9?

[ewalker1]

Thank you for your suggestions.

I have always been an appreciator of Persichetti, I wanted to play the 12th sonata but it is too long..so perhaps the 9th/7th.

I have a few ideas of my own which I am still sticking to so far

[ewalker1]

should be performable in in under 6 min

I like this!

[coherence]

I really want to recommend some Rzewski! But I think his most famous pieces are all fairly long (although maybe you could play a selection of The People United Will Never Be Defeated!). Perhaps Dreadful Memories:

? Or one of the Four Pieces, although I think they're a bit long.

Also someone mentioned Darknesse Visible above, which I'll second.

[visitor]

I really want to recommend some Rzewski! But I think his most famous pieces are all fairly long (although maybe you could play a selection of The People United Will Never Be Defeated!). Perhaps Dreadful Memories:

? Or one of the Four Pieces, although I think they're a bit long.

Also someone mentioned Darknesse Visible above, which I'll second.

the american ballads are groovy this is not too short or long

[ahinton]

What about some of the shorter pieces written by Elliott Carter in the latter part of his life, such as     90+ (1994), Two Diversions (1999), Retrouvailles (2000 - that's please at least one member here!), Two Thoughts about the Piano: Intermittences and Caténaires (2005–06) and Tri-Tribute: Sistribute, Fratribute and Matribute (2007–08)? The last of these was completed just as he was about to make his centenary, with at least 20 more works still to write after it (although none for piano solo).

Best,

Alistair