Barber, Samuel: Adagio
Modern classical music ... perhaps the most famous... and one of the saddest pieces...
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If you'd like a step-by-step approach to contemporary classical music, please check the listening category - from LR 01 to LR 04.
Panufnik, Andrzej: Autumn Music
Tranquillity and beauty.
Gundermann, Karsten: Faust
A fascinating and heartbreaking “night game” on the Faust theme.
Bartók, Béla: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Sinister music has to be so beautiful.
Penderecki, Krzysztof: Polish Requiem
Incredible requiems were born in the common practice period. The 20th and 21st centuries are no exception.
Eno, Brian: Emerald and Stone (arr. Knoth)
Demanding music works the same way. Or does the tone of the violin add something to the original version?
Penderecki, Krzysztof: 3 Pieces in Old Style
Music that is much more than an exercise in style…
Stravinsky, Igor: Le Sacre du Printemps
Sacre ... an absolute classic: incredible power, dynamics, and rhythm.
Buene, Eivind: Miniatures
A feeling of surrealism.
Schnittke, Alfred: Concerto For Viola And Orchestra
Transition to Listening Room 2 with Schnittke's perfect sense of beauty and morbidity.
Schnittke, Alfred: Concerto grosso no.1
Classical roots paired with amazing imagination: a 20th-century version of the baroque concerto grosso.
Abrahamsen, Hans: Stratifications
Authentic modern music with admirable classical melodies.
Matalon, Martin: Le scorpion
This site isn’t about soundtracks, but this music composed for a surreal film is worth the exception.
Schnittke, Alfred: Concerto Grosso No.5
Schnittke cannot be resisted. Here you can find another baroque concerto grosso with a slightly heavier tone.
Sørensen, Bent: The Deserted Churchyards
Referring to Sorensen: windy and unprotected area, threatening sea, and much much more…
Vivier, Claude: Zipangu
Ligeti himself recommended Vivier’s music to people’s attention in one of his interviews. No better reference.
Bauckholt, Carola: Laufwerk
“Mechanical devices”: carefully building a coherent whole from essential parts.
Romitelli, Fausto: Flowing down too slow
Nothing to add or remove from the title: "Flowing down too slow.".
Filidei, Francesco: Ballata No. 7
Sad and touching desert island music.
Gadenstatter, Clemens: Staffel 1
Comic sense.
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Pelle: Frere Jacques
Avant-garde music - inspired by neo-dadaist paintings.
Ivičević, Mirela: Case White
Attack and fall.
Ligeti, György: Chamber Concerto
Entering into Ligeti‘s harder to follow music, which is, at the same time, a fantastic universe.
Mitterer, Wolfgang: inwendig losgelost, rasant
Modern baroque music with electronics in Listening Room 3. Needless to say more.