Good modern piano music

[carter711]

Whilst exploring on Spotify (I love Spotify!) I found a musician called Maxence Cyrin who covers famous songs on the piano, and it sounds awesome.
Try his Aphex twin 'Windowlicker' cover.

After hearing this music I'd love to hear more like it, has anyone got any suggestions?

If you like piano music search for Aphex Twin (or Richard James) - Avril 14th. Amazing composition!

Edited by carter711 on Tuesday 15th September 19:51

[Sim89]

Hi,

There is a fairly wide range of modern piano music fading into contemporary classical. I can recommend a few relatively modern piano composers (solo piano mind)

Elvuium has done a solo piano album called 'An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death'
Dustin O'Hallorans piano solos album, Opus's 7 - 18.
Philip Glass's solo piano album.

Theres plenty plenty more but it all depends what you like, if you find these albums interesting you may also like the work of Satie (Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes) and Debussy's Klavierwerk.

I understand this might not be the direction you were hoping for but at least its out there.

Sim

[ShadownINja]

Am a big fan of Ludovico Einaudi. He got me back into classical piano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jpYMV1_2WQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbcsItHtjyA

[Gedon]

When you say "modern piano", I immediately think of Modern, 5 part harmony, rather than "modern classical".

Elaborate a tad. I play modern piano..... you would probably label it jazz though.

Keith Tippett? That's pretty crazy stuff technically.

[MoleVision]

Sim89 said:

Hi,

There is a fairly wide range of modern piano music fading into contemporary classical. I can recommend a few relatively modern piano composers (solo piano mind)

Elvuium has done a solo piano album called 'An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death'
Dustin O'Hallorans piano solos album, Opus's 7 - 18.
Philip Glass's solo piano album.

Theres plenty plenty more but it all depends what you like, if you find these albums interesting you may also like the work of Satie (Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes) and Debussy's Klavierwerk.

I understand this might not be the direction you were hoping for but at least its out there.

Sim

carter711 said:

Whilst exploring on Spotify (I love Spotify!) I found a musician called Maxence Cyrin who covers famous songs on the piano, and it sounds awesome.
Try his Aphex twin 'Windowlicker' cover.

After hearing this music I'd love to hear more like it, has anyone got any suggestions?

If you like piano music search for Aphex Twin (or Richard James) - Avril 14th. Amazing composition!

Edited by carter711 on Tuesday 15th September 19:51

had a listen to Maxence Cyrene, and Eluvium and the Philip Plass album (seem to remember I used to like his heroes symphony.. might look that up again) as suggested.....

I dont suppose you know if you can buy any of this music (sheet music not albums) for solo piano??.... I've been looking for something like Ludovico Einaudi but a bit less samey.
Had a brief browse of internet but not found anything obvious....


eta... found the philip Glass solo piano music on musicroom.com

Edited by MoleVision on Wednesday 16th September 23:09

[Sim89]

Hey, I think Dustin O'Halloran's sheet music is available in a lot of music shops. I have "Radio Ballet" by Eluvium on a pdf if you would like that. A lot of 'An accidental memory...' is fairly easy to figure out by ear.