Contemporary Classical Composers - new discoveries
I’ll start with my most recent discovery…Valentin Silvestrov. I’ve been going thru some of this Ukrainian composer’s work and I have to say I’m impressed.
Highly recommend to check out the following albums a starting point…
What are some of your favorites?
This is a great thread and very timely for me as well, as I am trying to expand my listening of more contemporary (living or at least mid/late 20th or 21st century) composers. A few that have been playing in my space recently: Gabriela Lena Frank (first heard at Chicago Symphony), Alberto Ginastera, Per Nørgård, Mieczysław Weinberg, Henri Dutilleux, Stephen Hough, Rebecca Clarke, and Missy Mazzoli I'll be checking out some of the others from this thread as well. Thanks for all of this.
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Knowing you only by reading your posts i will give you as gift a Robert Simpsons symphony set or a quartet box...Perhaps you know him ? I consider him a genius ... As a safe gift i will gave you Silvestrov silent songs box...Moving as Schubert was but in his own minimalist way ... I am as you very picky on contemporary composers... They must move me.... I will not give you Akhnaten though because i would be afraid that you put it in a drawer, it is minimalist repetitive music but so amazingly good that it is the ONLY work ressusciting ancient Egypt and it moves me beyond word ... Read the autobiography of OM Seti or Dorothy Eady and AFTER that buy Philip Glass Akhnaten ...( Om Seti hated Akhnaten by the way and his explanation is very logical ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Eady The book about her is made by long parts of his journal with encounters at night with the Pharaoh Seti his past lovers who come to see her out of time from eternity ... The story is moving beyond words... And she became self taught one of the greatest Egyptologist recognized by all as having supernatural understanding of everything in old Egypt impossible to get by reading books ... His story is impossible to fake ... Then listening the Philip Glass Akhnaten i discovered that Glass tuned to the ancient Gods like a sleepwalker under hypnosis ... i insist here because the most stunning book which changed the course of my life was a mammoth book about Karnak temple by the late Schwaller de Lubicz i bought for 125 dollars in 1975... But this is another story ... 😊
The few exceptions in contemporary music i know was as in Sorabji case amazement by aspects of his obsessive long works that can be amazing to "see" ... And some music dont moves me but i use it more as sound meditation as Jeroen Van Veen which dont play as Sofronitsky or Moravec in an emotional tuned playing field but is able to create his own cosmos in rythms ... Nyman is a genius too in my book ... many others i did know but ... I am busy in jazz, persian music and Indian music and choral music before Bach... Jakob Obrecht and Josquin Des prez were my "contemporary composers" when i was young till this day ... And all the Franco flemish school of choral music...With Bach ... I listen music to be happy with jazz, or to be silent with choral, or to be meditative as with Peter Deunov a bulgarian music master and mystic which music is on youtube ... He died in 1944... His music is celestial as the last Liszt or the Bruckner Motets... All the songs are here ...
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