Help Me Find Great Modern Classical Music

[Kalamata Kid]

Second Update To Clarify Things

Hello,

I apologize if I was not clear enough in the Origami Post. I learned a bit by the time we got to the seventh page.

I want to find some new music to listen to. Please help me.
I am primarily looking for:
1. Classical genre by modern day composers born after World War Two. It can be a bit earlier.
2. Any obscure Classical piece by an obscure composer qualifies regardless of birthday. A work that you think is great but somehow fell through the crack of the gatekeepers.
3. Symphonies or Concertos. Just love the big full sound! But I am flexible here.
4. I have a slight preference for adagios, but extremely flexible here.
5. Romantic music or the like but am extremely flexible here, even minimalism!
6. I like complexity, point counterpoint, intricate, interweaving, mysterious, dark, abstract.

7. Do not like a drum beat. Do not like loud drums that startle you. OK if occasionally or in the climax.
8. Do not like loud crashing or crystalline sounds often found in minimalist music or for that matter any music.
9. Do not like voice in Classical music. rp314 please take note. Pi?
10. Do not like dissonance.

If it helps any, my favorite composers are:
Sibelius, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Enescu, Dorius, Bruckner, Mendelsohn, Nielsen, Mahler, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Gluck, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Copland, Berloiz, Bartok, Grieg, Franck, Respighi, Shastakovich, Barber, Ravel, Albinoni, Henze, Hindemith, Faure, Strauss, Debussy, Pachelbel, ….
I primarily listen to Classical music in the car and just before sleeping.

My recent discoveries that I like but still very unfamiliar with most of their works:
Avro Part
Bruno Mars
Lars-Erik Larsson
Uuno Klami
Franz Waxman
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today found Alla Pavlova Symphony No.3

Heard part of it and seems worth checking him out.

So I have a craving for some new music that will blow me away. Please help me to satisfy this craving.

[parma]

Check out Gorecki's Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) from 1976

[Kalamata Kid]

Parma,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I will ask for a CD of Gorecki's symphonies from the library. Hope they have them. Will listen to them with headphones.

Also just heard:
Henryk Górecki - Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra Op. 40

Wow! Excellent!

[Musical Gym]

maybe something here

[Nightpolymath]

I grew up listening to classical music and have a collection of works similar to yours.

For contemporary try Jennifer Higdon. I loved her Violin Concerto, and the Hilary Hahn recording is worth getting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... fer_Higdon

You don't sound like a fan of the Schoenberg School but give Anton Webern a listen, for example his Passacaglia. Another one is his Concerto for Nine Instruments.

[aMUSEd]

Bartok - Music for strings etc

[piel]

Dmitri Shostakovich, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Kurtág, György Ligeti from the eastern block.

Liszt?

[Gamma-UT]

Philip Glass - Symphonies 2 & 3 and extend outward from there. Although they tend to the minimalist they have a more classical feel than operas like Einstein on the Beach.

William Walton - a lot of film music starts here, that isn't nicked from the Russians.

[Numanoid]

Dmitri Shostakovich

+10

The 10th Symphony is like the end all of music for me.

A lot has happened to the sound palette since 1953, but when it comes to thematics it just can't be beat

[aMUSEd]

Dmitri Shostakovich

+10

The 10th Symphony is like the end all of music for me.

A lot has happened to the sound palette since 1953, but when it comes to thematics it just can't be beat

Except by the 14th

[Zombie Queen]

Dmitri Shostakovich, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Kurtág, György Ligeti from the eastern block.

All of them were born before WW2.

[Numanoid]

Dmitri Shostakovich, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Kurtág, György Ligeti from the eastern block.

All of them were born before WW2.

I realized that now reading the OP, but feels a little biased towards old composer.

As long as it was released after WW2 should be of interest.

I mean Edgar Froese was born before WW2 was over and has managed to put out interesting music up untilt the very end (RIP)

[Ja.x]

Something obvious: Wim Mertens


Mertens is someone I had some talks about with my friend Alessandra Celletti, here herself with Roedelius (sorry for the blurred video):


Here she's solo:


Another Italian, Ludovico Einaudi:


Do I need to mention Michael Nyman?


Also there's that new guy called Philip Glass .

[Kalamata Kid]

maybe something here

Big list mostly of familiar composers.
Perhaps I will find something interesting.
Thanks

[Kalamata Kid]

I grew up listening to classical music and have a collection of works similar to yours.

For contemporary try Jennifer Higdon. I loved her Violin Concerto, and the Hilary Hahn recording is worth getting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... fer_Higdon

You don't sound like a fan of the Schoenberg School but give Anton Webern a listen, for example his Passacaglia. Another one is his Concerto for Nine Instruments.

Found this:
Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral (with introduction)

I will certainly find more of her work and listen to it.
Thanks

Passacaglia, Op. 1 - Anton Webern?

Loved it. This will be great with headphones in bed as I am trying to fall asleep.
Perhaps I should seek out more minimalist music!?

Concerto for Nine Instruments not for me, however my music taste evolves. When younger I detested adagios and wondered why composers did such awful composing. Now I love adagios. Oh well, such is life.

Thanks for your suggestions.