Question:
What are your favorite classical works composed in the 20th Century?
Zappa Fan
2010-02-14 06:45:32 UTC
If you can list great 20th Century Avant-Garde albums, that would be appreciated.

Here are some from me:

'Petrushka' by Igor Stravinsky
'Le Sacre Du Printemps' by Igor Stravinsky
'Five Pieces for Orchestra/ Cello Concerto' by Arnold Schoenberg
'Perrot Lunaire Op. 21' by Arnold Schoenberg
'String Quartet Op. 10' by Arnold Schoenberg
'Songs For Percussion Complete Edition Vol. 4 (1940-1956)' by John Cage
'The Seasons' by John Cage
'Sonic Seasonings' by Wendy Carlos
'Dracula' by Philip Glass
Eight answers:
petr b
2010-02-14 14:31:51 UTC
Toru Takemitsu: Dorian Horizon for string orchestra



Messiaen: Turangalila / Trois petites liturgies pour la presence divine / vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus, many other piano works and organ pieces / variations for violin and piano.



Ingram Marshal: Fog Tropes (original version with prepared tape and brass, II is the same prepared tape and string quartet)



Kevin Volans: Concerto for piano and winds.



Robert Moran: Chant du Cygne, Requiem



Ives: Three places in New England / Symphony No. 4 (imho, a masterpiece) / many songs, the orchestral 'sets.'



John Adams: Shaker loops / Hallelujah Junction / Century Rolls / Common Tones in Simple Time / Dharma at Big Sur



Stravinsky: Apollo / Concerto in D for string orchestra / The Rake's progress / Les Noces / Renard / Concerto for two solo pianos / Capriccio for piano and orchestra / Threni / Requiem Canticles



William Schuman: Some of the symphonies, sadly neglected and underexposed.



Milhaud: Six Petites Symphonies / Les Chorephores / La Creation du Monde / La muse Menagere. Viola Concerto



Carl Neilson: Symphony No. 5



Hindemith: Kammermusik, most of the first six, especially no. 1 and 4 - the latter a concertante piece for violin and ensemble / Mathis der Mahler



Honegger: Pastorale d'ete / Concertino for piano and orchestra



Berio, a number of works, Visage is one (I can't recall all titles now) other than but including the earlier Sinfonia.



Morton Feldman: Triadic memories / Crippled Symmetry / Piano and String Quartet.



Witold Lutosławski: Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 3



Lucia Dlugoszewski: Fire Fragile Flight



Debussy: La Mer



Bartok: Cantata Profana



A lot of Prokovieff



Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge



Barber: Capricorn Concerto / Piano Concerto / Summer Music



Boulez: his early cantata - Soliel des Yeux



Elliott Carter: Piano Sonata / Cello Sonata / Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord / Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord and two chamber orchestras / A symphony of three orchestras / A Mirror on Which to Dwell for Soprano and Ensemble / Syringa for Mezzo-Soprano, Bass-Baritone, Guitar and Ensemble.



Schoenberg: Kammersinfonie op.9



Berg: Lulu / Violin concerto



Webern, amongst a good handful, the Cello Sonata.



This list is partial and by no means near complete (if I gave it more thought and time than immediate memory while on-line, it would be overly long).

I've left off other already listed pieces, ex. Petruchka; Cage, piano concerto 'the seasons' etc.





Best regards.
2016-04-11 13:30:00 UTC
Hmm. Some people have interesting ideas about who are 'lesser-known' composers! Some of mine: Renaissance: Luzzaschi Baroque: Johann Bernhard Bach (JS's older cousin) Caldara Carissimi Geminiani Hasse Pandolfi Stradella Classical: Benda Kraus Krommer Myslíveček Reijcha (Reicha) Voříšek Wilms Romantic: Fibich Gade Kallinnikov Rott Schmidt Schmitt Suk 20th century: Holmboe Langgaard Rochberg Schulhoff Simpson
King Crimson
2010-02-14 14:29:21 UTC
Symphony of Psalms - Stravinsky

Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

Mikrokosmos - Bartok

Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland

Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin

The Planets - Gustav Holst

Einstein on the Beach - Philip Glass



and much of Ravel's work was in the 20th Century too, not sure which.
mephistopheles
2010-02-14 14:27:50 UTC
I'll have to keep within the last 50 years,post 1960 and leaving out completely composers like Stravinsky,Shostakovich,Schoenberg et al.

(otherwise there's an innumerable list of favourite works to think up as I especially love the early 20th Century composers).



http://www.amazon.com/Adams-Violin-Concerto-Shaker-Loops/dp/B000005J3B



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Penderecki-Violin-Concerto-Bart%C3%B3k-Sonata/dp/B00000613P



http://www.amazon.com/Henryk-Gorecki-Symphony-Sorrowful-Songs/dp/B000005J1C



I recently discovered this and was most impressed,don't quite know under what genre one would classify it

http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Dying-Planet-Ernst-Reijseger/dp/B000GB7DTE



Also the Symphonies of Robert Simpson though I've only listened to Nos.2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 up to now. Here's the opening to his 9th:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1huFQvyLk7w



The five (I believe?) string quartets of Elliot Carter are on my list as I hear very good things about them.



regards mephisto
Piccolo_Pro
2010-02-14 08:10:12 UTC
I tend to like those early 20th century French composers, but there are some others mixed in as well.



"Density 21.5" by Edgar Varese

"Danse de al Chevre" by Arthur Honnegger

"Vox Balanae" (Voice of the Whale) by George Crumb

"Kojo-No-Tsuki" (The Moon on the Ruined Castle) by Rentaro Taki

"Waltz" from "Masquerade" by Aram Khachaturian

"Allegro" from "Spartacus" by Aram Khachaturian

"Meditation" from "Thais" by Jules Massenet

"Syrinx" by Claude Debussy

"Prelude a L'apres-midi d'un faune" by Claude Debussy

"Fantasia para un gentilhombre" by Joaquin Rodrigo
Aurelia
2010-02-14 07:47:55 UTC
Anything composed by:-



-Andrew Lloyd Weber ( his Musicals)

-Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

-Alan Menkem ( Little Mermaid And Beauty and the Beast Soundtrack)

- Hans Zimmer ( Soundtrack of Prince of Egypt and Joseph)

-Sullivan( Twilight)

- Gabriel Faure ( Dolly Suite)

- Jazzy (Copland)

-Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos ( # 2 and # 3)

- Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues.



I like Stravinsky's Petroushka too.
ScarecrowPolitics
2010-02-14 06:56:49 UTC
Frank Zappa - Re-gyptian Strut



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBZ7lnMK0Rs



Frank Zappa - Little Umbrellas



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWsff2ekvW0
2010-02-14 06:54:57 UTC
I answered this because it's

an almost surreal question and 'it'

reminds me of how I've become

so "senza di cultura".



I'll buy "The Seasons" when stores open Monday.

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Oh wait... ! I have a CD of the soundtrack

to Rocky Horror Picture Show....



"dammit Janet" !

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