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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostAnd for that matter Howard Riley, Alex Hawkins and Veryan Weston from the UK, and then Fred van Hove, Eve Risser, Marilyn Crispell, Irene Schweizer, Alex von Schlippenbach, Cecil Taylor, Craig Taborn, Borah Bergman and so on and so on, all of whose work is closer to my heart than any contemporary composer of notes for the piano.
Just discovered Tract!
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Originally posted by Bryn View Post"English Country Tunes", surely? "Dances" tends to undermine the pun, slightly.
Without wishing to offend anyone, I so much prefer Finnissy’s own recordings of his music to Ian Pace’s - but it could be a question of sound (I like Ian Pace in other things - Dusapin for example, and indeed, Tract!) Finnissy’s piano music must be hard to record because of the dynamic range.
I know that Mark Knoop has started to perform History of Photography, maybe he’ll record it.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostMark R Taylor (b 1961), who has a recent CD out on Another Timbre, is IMO writing some of the most original and powerful piano music of the present time.
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Originally posted by Mandryka View PostWithout wishing to offend anyone, I so much prefer Finnissy’s own recordings of his music
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostI would have to agree. I don't think many people have been able to match the enormous range between extreme delicacy and violence that characterises Michael's own performances of his piano music, even if they have other qualities to recommend them. I've seen him play ECT quite a few times, several as pageturner, and these were all important and formative experiences for me. Which is not to detract from the way his piano music is interpreted by Ian Pace or Jonathan Powell or Nic Hodges and others.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostIf you're interested, there's a recording of Tract by him on my Soundcloud page.
Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post21st century piano music... that's an interesting thought. I agree about Stockhausen of course, and about Finnissy too although I'm not very well up on the latter's post-2000 piano music and what I do know doesn't excite me as much as his spikier and less allusive piano music from earlier on. I would mention also Sciarrino, although he's written hardly anything for piano since 2000. Mark R Taylor (b 1961), who has a recent CD out on Another Timbre, is IMO writing some of the most original and powerful piano music of the present time.
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Originally posted by Mandryka View PostI wonder if there’s some sort of connection between Mark R Taylor’s music and Walter Zimmermann’s.
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