April 1, 201015 yr What are your favourite piano works composed after 1980? I personally enjoy Night Fantasies(Elliott Carter) and the Sonatas by Carl Vine and Nikolai Kapustin very much. Sadly, apart from that I don't know many other compositions. What else would you recommend?
July 15, 201015 yr Ligeti Etudes are pretty amazing, definastely check them out if you haven't heard them already
July 19, 201015 yr Ligeti's 3 books of etudes for the piano are probably among the greatest music written for the instrument. Michael Finnissy has also written a great deal of very impressive piano music: "English Country Tunes" just barely misses the 1980 mark, written in '77, while his "Gershwin Arrangements" and "Verdi Transcriptions" (both are really more than the titles imply, closer to recompositions of the original material) were written in '75-88 and '72-2005, respectively. Frederic Rzewski is another interesting one: although the huge set of variations on "The People United Will Never be Defeated" was written in 75, he's also written a lot of music for the piano in more recent years (Nanosonatas, 2007, and "Mayn Yingele," '89). There's a lot of stuff to be found if you look around and dig a little.
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