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I don't have real playing experience with a large amount of the pieces here so I would really appreciate feedback on placement. Even if you don't like lists like these I hope you can explore some new repertoire since I've tried to include many lesser-known concertos :) Factors taken into...

A bit of background. At the time this article was written, Copland had already written both his early, more difficult works, inspired by Stravinsky, and also his New Deal-era populist works (also inspired by Stravinsky, just more diatonic). A few years later the critic Henry Pleasants was to...

There's always a lot of talk on here about the difficulty of modern and contemporary music. But the 20th and 21st century have no monopoly on difficulty. What works from centuries past have you found inscrutable? Did you eventually come around to any of them? I'll start with a few: -Mahler's...

I am not quite sure what section I should have posted this in, so apologies if it's not in the correct one. As in the title, could anyone recommend some nice trios for piano, violin and viola? Anything Classical, Romantic or Modern. Thanks. (oh and the difficulty is not too important, as long...

Just for curiosity, can you please give me some of the least difficult symphonies of the Late Romantic, Early Modern Era? By least difficult, I mean least difficult for the orchestra in general, not just for one or two sections.