Top 10 compositions since 8/5/1945

[ahinton]

Almost all of these lists seem to interpret the brief as "top 10 compositions in the first forty years of the seventy since May 1945", and only three 21st century compositions have been mentioned! So here is a list of ten compositions since 1985.

Anthony Braxton, Nine Compositions (Iridium) 2006
John Cage, Freeman Etudes, 1990
Morton Feldman, Violin and String Quartet, 1985
Brian Ferneyhough, String Quartet no.6, 2010
Michael Finnissy, Red Earth, 1988
Hans-Joachim Hespos, kaleidoskopes luftsilber, 2001
Luigi Nono, No hay caminos, hay que caminar…, 1987
Bernard Parmegiani, Plein-temps, 2006
Eliane Radigue, Trilogie de la mort, 1998
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sonntag aus Licht, 2004

Is that ten already? As others have said, there could be ten times as many...

Good point! OK, let's try that.
Lutosławski: Symphony No. 4 (1988-92)
Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge (2007–2009)
Simpson: Symphony No. 9 (1985-87)
Henze: Symphony No. 10 (1997–2000)
Carter: Symphonia (1993-96)
Berio: Piano Sonata (2001)
Matthews C: Renewal (1995-96)
Payne: Time's Arrow (1990)
Matthews D: Symphony No. 6 (2003-2007)
Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'au-delà... (1988–92)

[cloughie]

Send the (Padstow?) lifeboat!

For the raspberries to go with the Rodda's!

[teamsaint]

Good point! OK, let's try that.
Lutosławski: Symphony No. 4 (1988-92)
Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge (2007–2009)
Simpson: Symphony No. 9 (1985-87)
Henze: Symphony No. 10 (1997–2000)
Carter: Symphonia (1993-96)
Berio: Piano Sonata (2001)
Matthews C: Renewal (1995-96)
Payne: Time's Arrow (1990)
Matthews D: Symphony No. 6 (2003-2007)
Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'au-delà... (1988–92)

I Take it that there is no commercial recording of the Colin Matthews piece available, AH?

EDIT: ah, looks like Broken symmetry is avaklable, but not the rest of the work perhaps?

[ahinton]

I Take it that there is no commercial recording of the Colin Matthews piece available, AH?

EDIT: ah, looks like Broken symmetry is avaklable, but not the rest of the work perhaps?

I fear that there isn't - at least not commercially available, which is a great pity.

[Quarky]

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

An interesting thread.

Music since VE day has gone laterally, sideways, rather than pursuing an introspective, intellectual, straight ahead path:

Stockhausen - Kontakte
Moeller - der froehliche Wanderer
Shostakovich - Quartet no. 8
Messiaen - Vingt Regards/ Catalogue d'Oiseaux
Britten - Curlew River
Birtwistle - Silbury Air
Bernstein - West Side Story
Rogers & Hammerstein - Oklahoma!
Miles Davis - So What?
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Stravinsky - Agon.