Modern pieces for the piano

[caroline7]

Hi , I started playing piano when I was 30 , and reached grade 5 . After a few playing here and there , and not much until the last couple of years . Am now in my fifties and have been taking lessons and enjoying playing very much . The music I am drawn to are moody , sensitive pieces ..Could you recommend pieces , would like some  modern pieces as well as older pieces .Also , welcome any practice tips .
Am around grade 6/7 and although I will never be as great as a performer, do dream of playing a few pieces and improving as I age !

[lelle]

Hello! I don't know muh about modern pieces but for moody, sensitive pieces, what do you think about this one?

As for practise tips, it's a very broad question that you can say many things about. Are there any specific things about your practising that you had in mind?

[chechig]

Maybe you could like W. GIllock

M. Mier

E, Rocherolle

Dello Joio

[kenbakermn]

Rachmaninoff Op. 23 No. 4

[j_tour]

Well, I'll go a bit different way than the above suggestions.

I'm not too far behind you in years, but I've been playing  the key and performing most of my life.

Obviously, being a Yanqui, rock and roll, jazz, folk music, I figured out for fun and profit (or "profit!")

But for "exciting" music, the very last of Scriabin's works for piano.  It's intellectually and emotionally interesting to me, those pieces toward the end of AS's life and career.  There is always something in Bach and Scarlatti that I'm reading at the keyboard, as well:  among Bach, I still find endless joy in the English Suites, the Partitas, the "48," and the Toccatas.

But I happen to have become a pretty competent sight reader, so it's not much effort for me to play around with the Debussy or Schoenberg or Berg.  Which is a very nice ability, but it doesn't mean anything about how well one can perform any given sonata or whatever.

I find it very rewarding to simply read through vast swaths of repertoire, sometimes not very well, and you might find that an exhilirating path as well.

[visitor]

From  piano folio
I usually try to recommend stuff itself have or will invest in getting to play ,this is on a list for one of my next purchased ,hot darnity dang it's good
Oh and hang on for a heck of a slap your momma this is Soo good ride at about 1:45 for bout a 40-50 seconds or so

[visitor]

Have a few other ideas can add later but here's a really good recent performance ie not score but see the hands once  it gets going and the artsy Intro here doesn't bother me it's actually pretty in line w the aesthetic of the piece

[lelle]

Have a few other ideas can add later but here's a really good recent performance ie not score but see the hands once  it gets going and the artsy Intro here doesn't bother me it's actually pretty in line w the aesthetic of the piece

Soo many hands helppppp

[nellylipuma]