Your Favorite 20th/21st Century Works?

[xdjuicebox]

Hey everyone! As someone who writes music, it kind of breaks my heart that a lot of the "serious" classical music of the 20th and 21st century doesn't get quite as much attention as music from the common practice period...so I thought we'd all have a big powwow and share the stuff we like! Here are some of my favorites:

Schoenberg:

Piano Concerto

Three Piano Pieces

Liebermann

Gargoyles for Piano

Barber

Sonata for Piano

Concerto

Reich

Piano Phase

Ives

Concord Sonata

Webern

Variations, Op. 27 (listen for Retrograde, it's pretty cool)

Berg

Sonata

Corigliano

Piano Concerto

Not a complete list, but a good amount of my favorites. Please contribute! Thanks!

[beethovenfan01]

Prokofiev: Toccata

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2.

Stravinsky: Firebird

Hamelin: Variations on a Theme by Paganini

[88kcookiezi]

Yoshimatsu memo flora concerto

Mozetich 3 pieces for piano

[klavieronin]

I know what you mean. It's a real shame classical audiences focus so much on the past and neglect the wonderful composers of today. Here are a few of my favourites by still living composers;

Akira Nishimura: Tapas (concerto for bassoon solo, percussions and strings)
[Recording not found, unfortunately]


Takashi Yoshimatsu: Threnody to Toki, Op.12 (for piano and strings)

Fausto Romitelli: Professor Bad Trip

Leo Brouwer: Concerto Elegiaco

Frederik Högberg: Dancing with Silent Purpose

[Available in four parts on Youtube: [ Invalid YouTube link ]dancing+with+silent+purpose+fredrik+Hogberg]

And here is a short except from Högberg's Ice Concerto

Svante Henryson: Songs from the Milky Way

[Available in six parts on Youtube: [ Invalid YouTube link ]songs+from+the+milky+way+svante+henryson]


Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Sonata No.1, plus Toccata Op.8

Carl Vine: Piano Concerto No.1 & Symphony No.6

[Available on Youtube:

]


Steve Reich: Triple Quartet

Those are just a few and I restricted myself to living composers because there would have been way too much otherwise. Would have liked to include some Górecki, Sculthorpe, Ifukube, Villa-Lobos, and Scelsi otherwise. Oh, what the hell;

Giacinto Scelsi: Anahit

Peter Sculthorpe: Earth Cry (for Didgeridoo and Orchestra)

Henryk Górecki: Symphony No.3 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

(The complete work is available on YouTube but I'll only include the 2nd mvt. because I like this performance)

Akira Ifukube: Ritmica Ostinata (for Piano and Orchestra)

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto

And I want to put one more in here which might not fit the topic because it's a film soundtrack but I think it's too good to ignore so here it is;

Alain Goraguer: La Planete Sauvage

(Sorry for the super long post, but you hit me where I live with this one.)

[xdjuicebox]

I know what you mean. It's a real shame classical audiences focus so much on the past and neglect the wonderful composers of today. Here are a few of my favourites by still living composers;

Akira Nishimura: Tapas (concerto for bassoon solo, percussions and strings)
[Recording not found, unfortunately]


Takashi Yoshimatsu: Threnody to Toki, Op.12 (for piano and strings)

Fausto Romitelli: Professor Bad Trip

Leo Brouwer: Concerto Elegiaco

Frederik Högberg: Dancing with Silent Purpose

[Available in four parts on Youtube: [ Invalid YouTube link ]dancing+with+silent+purpose+fredrik+Hogberg]

And here is a short except from Högberg's Ice Concerto

Svante Henryson: Songs from the Milky Way

[Available in six parts on Youtube: [ Invalid YouTube link ]songs+from+the+milky+way+svante+henryson]


Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Sonata No.1, plus Toccata Op.8

Carl Vine: Piano Concerto No.1 & Symphony No.6

[Available on Youtube:

]


Steve Reich: Triple Quartet

Those are just a few and I restricted myself to living composers because there would have been way too much otherwise. Would have liked to include some Górecki, Sculthorpe, Ifukube, Villa-Lobos, and Scelsi otherwise. Oh, what the hell;

Giacinto Scelsi: Anahit

Peter Sculthorpe: Earth Cry (for Didgeridoo and Orchestra)

Henryk Górecki: Symphony No.3 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

(The complete work is available on YouTube but I'll only include the 2nd mvt. because I like this performance)

Akira Ifukube: Ritmica Ostinata (for Piano and Orchestra)

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto

And I want to put one more in here which might not fit the topic because it's a film soundtrack but I think it's too good to ignore so here it is;

Alain Goraguer: La Planete Sauvage

(Sorry for the super long post, but you hit me where I live with this one.)

Oh man, you picked some reeeeeeeeeeeally good ones. I have a lot more to post too LOL but I thought I'd keep it short...nice taste!

[anaimadureira]

From the latest composers, I have a special affection for Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and Max Richter piano works 

Pärt's «Credo» for piano, orchestra and choir is absolutely an astonishing and unique work!

[worov]

Samuel Adler : The Road to Terpsichore :

William Mathias : Toccata alla danza :

Rodolfo Arizaga : Passacaglia, opus 14 :

William Schuman : American Festival Overture :

Nicolas : Flagello : Waltz in D

Paul Creston : Six Preludes opus 38 :

Alan Hovhaness : Suite opus 96 :

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Carl Vine has some serious heavy sh*t

There's another dude who's first name starts with E I think and last name is something ridiculous like ravenarrerenavavvrereea who has some pretty flame stuff but I can't find his stuff

[xdjuicebox]

Carl Vine has some serious heavy sh*t

There's another dude who's first name starts with E I think and last name is something ridiculous like ravenarrerenavavvrereea who has some pretty flame stuff but I can't find his stuff

Einojuhani Rautavaara?

[pianoville]

My favorite of them all

Seriously, this is the most genius piece every written. The harmonies are just so beautiful.

This one is also great

Schoenberg wrote some fantastic pieces too, like this

Rautavaaras piano sonata 2

There is a lot of other pieces too, but these were the ones I could think of right now.