Top 10 compositions since 8/5/1945

[Barbirollians]

In honour of salymap's birthday a top ten thread . Your top ten of works composed since VE Day .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Far too many! I couldn't even narrow Stravinsky down to just 10 works from that time.

(In fact, I'd have just as much difficulty listing "my Top Ten" composers BORN since VE Day!)

[Pulcinella]

If I had to narrow it down to just one (possibly easier than going for 10), then, partly in honour of the date chosen, I would go for the Britten War Requiem. I know it divides opinion, but it never fails to move me.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Walton: Troilus & Cressida
Britten: War Requiem
Poulenc: Flute Sonata
Tippett: King Priam
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Copland: The Tender Land
Biggin: The Gates of Greenham
Rutter: Requiem
Taverner: The Protecting Veil
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna

[Petrushka]

Great thread, Barbirollians. Mostly orchestral in my case and in no particular order.

1) Britten: War Requiem
2) Tippett: Symphony no 4
3} Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
4) Bernstein: West Side Story
5) Shostakovich: Symphony no 10
6) Shostakovich: Symphony No 15
7) Boulez: Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna
8) Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony
9) Birtwistle: Earth Dances
10) Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements

Can easily do another ten from the same composers!

[richardfinegold]

My personal list of 10 would be dominated by Shostakovich: Most of his String Quartets, the First VC and Cello Concerto, Tenth, Eleventh, 13th and Fifteenth
Symphonies, The Preludes and Fuges Op. 87.

I'd try to add Rzewski (the People United...), Ligetti, Kurtag, Kancheli, Bernstein (West Side Story) and the odd Schnitke, but DSCH would have crowded them all out

[Serial_Apologist]

In composer alphabetical order:

Berio: Sinfonia
Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 2
Gerhard: Symphony No. 4 ("New York")
Goehr: String Quartet No.2
Ligeti: String Quartet No.2
Lutoslawski: Symphony No.3
Messiaen: Chronochromie
Schoenberg: String Trio Op.45
Stockhausen: Kontakte
Zimmermann: Die Soldaten

[Bryn]

Cage: Music of Changes

Messiaen: S. Francois d'Assise

Cardew: The Great Learning

Berio: Labyrinths II

Stockhausen: Carre

Feldman: For Philip Guston

Shostakovich: Symphony 15

Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements

Wolff: Burdocks

Cage: 4'33"

[EdgeleyRob]

Arnold,Symphony No 9
Simpson,Symphony No 9
Vaughan Williams,Symphony No 9
Weinberg,Symphony No 8
Leighton,Symphony No 2
Lloyd,Symphony No 7
Alwyn,Lyra Angelica
Rubbra,String Quartet No 4
Shostakovich,String Quartet No 7
Britten,Death in Venice

[maestro267]

Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica
Britten: War Requiem
Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus Christ
Lloyd: Symphonic Mass
Bernstein: Mass
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11
Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 (Seven Gates of Jerusalem)
Mathias: Symphony No. 2
Ginastera: Piano Concerto No. 2
Arnold: Symphony No. 4

[MrGongGong]

(todays list)

Feldman: Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano
La Monte Young: The Well Tuned Piano
Cage: 4:33"
Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room
Trevor Wishart: Encounters in the republic of heaven
Frederick Rzewski: Les Moutons de Panurge
Eliane Radigue:Jetsun Mila
Ligeti: Atmosphères
Messiaen: Visons de l'amen

[Bryn]

(todays list)

Feldman: Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano
La Monte Young: The Well Tuned Piano
Cage: 4:33"
Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room
Trevor Wishart: Encounters in the republic of heaven
Frederick Rzewski: Les Moutons de Panurge
Eliane Radigue:Jetsun Mila
Ligeti: Atmosphères
Messiaen: Visons de l'amen

Tut, tut Mr GG. Your final work predates the period we are dealing with here.

[MrGongGong]

Tut, tut Mr GG. Your final work predates the period we are dealing with here.

ooops

How about Ryoji Ikeda: x/- ?

[makropulos]

What a great thread!

I don't know about a top 10, but here, in no particular order, are 10 of my favourites. It would be simple enough to make this a list of 50...!

Boulez: Sur incises
Britten: War Requiem
Britten: Billy Budd
Vaughan Williams: Pilgrim's Progress (its origins go back before 1945, but it wasn't finished or performed until 1951)
Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur
Messiaen: Des Canyons aux étoiles...
Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles
Poulenc: Stabat mater
Bernstein: West Side Story
Copland: Third Symphony

[Honoured Guest]

I'd try to add Rzewski (the People United...),

I'm looking forward to listening to The People United Will Never Be Defeated! in St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major on Saturday 23 May at 1pm when Robin Green performs it as part of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival.