21st Century works worth hearing

[Dave2002]

A few suggestions here - https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...e-21st-century

[Bryn]

A few suggestions here - https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...e-21st-century

[sgjames]

Very little on this list that corresponds to my best of the 21st Century. Based on CDs I own, I would offer (in no particular order):

1) Per Norgard - Symphonies 7 & 8
2) John Adams - The Dharma at Big Sur
3) Pascal Dusapin - Solos for Orchestra (some are 21st Century)
4) Kaija Saariaho - L'amour de loin
5) John Luther Adams - The Wind in High Places/Canticles of the Sky
6) Kalevi Aho - Symphonies 4 & 10
7) Peter Garland - The Birthday Party/Amulet

[jayne lee wilson]

Great list sgj (first four at least) - though I would put in Graal Theatre for Saariaho....don't know the Garland...

[DracoM]

Graal Theatre for Saariaho - YES!!

[jayne lee wilson]

Graal Theatre for Saariaho - YES!!

You know about this one? (CD release - 27/09/19)....

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/kaija-saariaho-circle-map-graal-theatre-vers-toi-qui-es-si-loin-neiges-peter-herresthal-clement-mao-takacs-oslo-philharmonic-orchestra/wvgairma3scob

I'd probably go for French Orchestral music, especially Dusapin, Dalbavie, Murail, but I haven't got a list together yet....(apart from this stunner...

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/marc-andre-dalbavie-la-source-dun-regard-concertos-ludovic-morlot-seattle-symphony/rqhkkavtivjfa

[Bella Kemp]

There is much to like on the above lists. I might also add Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem, which has a quiet beauty and which, like his better known masterpieces Earth Cry and Kakadu
seems to arise out of the earth of Australia and not so much composed as realised. He is, to my mind, the Australian Elgar, who heard the music in the air and just set it down.
A link to part of the Requiem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDMYcPhftFI
A link to Earth Cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDMYcPhftFI

[Bryn]

There is much to like on the above lists. I might also add Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem, which has a quiet beauty and which, like his better known masterpieces Earth Cry and Kakadu
seems to arise out of the earth of Australia and not so much composed as realised. He is, to my mind, the Australian Elgar, who heard the music in the air and just set it down.
A link to part of the Requiem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDMYcPhftFI
A link to Earth Cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDMYcPhftFI

Earth Cry dates from 1974, IIRC. The 2004 Requiem to which you linked twice, does qualify, however.

How any such list can be without CONSTRUCTION, defeats me.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Graal Theatre for Saariaho - YES!!

Not written in the 21st Century, though. (Mind you, neither was L'Amour de Loin ... )

[Edgy 2]

More suggestions here

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?19747-Pick-of-the-Decade

[Bryn]

More suggestions here

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-of-the-Decade

#51 there was more like it.

[Dave2002]

Sorry to have upset you, but at least this is a kick off for music I don't know much about.

There are some more works from the 21st Century here - http://sacconi.com/recordings/ including the latest string quartets by Graham Fitkin,
and also John Metcalf's Paths of Song CD, which I have heard a few times.

[Bryn]

Sorry to have upset you, but at least this is a kick off for music I don't know much about.

There are some more works from the 21st Century here - http://sacconi.com/recordings/ including the latest string quartets by Graham Fitkin,
and also John Metcalf's Paths of Song, which I have heard a few times.

Not upset by you, Dave. The contributors to the Grauniad piece were the target.

[Dave2002]

Not upset by you, Dave. The contributors to the Grauniad piece were the target.

OK - though it's not only the Grauniad which presents problems. This R3 programme today seemed a right load of old ********s today - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008h1s

Real drivel, downmarket presentation.

Your Youtube comment would have been very mlld if used to refer to that particular programme.

Wittering on, sound over music, some of which might have been OK - some less so. Who cares?