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Xenakis, Penderecki, Ligeti...

Do you mean Liszt/Rachmaninoff in terms of skill of the player, or Liszt/Rachmaninoff in terms of the composition. There's plenty of other great pianist-composers out there who wrote way more difficult music. Equally there as fantastic pianists who will play anything you throw at them. Two things: 1. Remember what texture you're dealing with. The viola is great for emphasising dramatic passages and the complete opposite. 2. If you're always keeping cello and bass at least an octave away, then you can't use the very low register of the cello. Think on that one.

Because you need to stop being so formulaic, and just write angry, intense music. These are just some of the ways. You can't say that The Four Seasons actually sounds like thunder, because it doesn't. It's a representation. Use what you know about thunderstorms to get it across. A heavy texture could also help - I don't know what instrumentation you're using though.

Nice work, pleasant to hear. Maybe sometimes a little "saturated". But I wouldn't be able to compose so precisely (I'm a chaotic guy^^), so I say "well done" :)