[Morimur]

Listing dead guys is punishable by lashing followed by upside down crucifixion.

Now then...

(01) György Kurtág
(02) Georg Friedrich Haas
(03) Beat Furrer
(04) Brian Ferneyhough
(05) Richard Barrett

 

[Guest]

Excellent! I'll have a think.

 

[Dim7]

A living composer!?!?!?!? I find that a very difficult concept to grasp. Could you explain it to me clearly and slowly?

 

[Vronsky]

1.Boulez
2.Kurtag
3.Lachenmann
4.Globokar
5.Ferneyhough

 

[Morimur]

1.Boulez
2.Kurtag
3.Lachenmann
4.Globokar
5.Ferneyhough

Had completely forgotten about old man Boulez. Wish he'd compose more.

 

[Guest]

Kurtag
Coates
Penderecki
Murail
Haas

Oh yes.

 

[joen_cph]

Random order and currently only, based on what I listen to mostly, not necessarily their "general importance":

- Nørgård,
- Saariaho,
- Gubaidulina,
- Silvestrov.

For no. 5,
Holliger, Narbutaite, Ruders, Murail, Slonimsky and Crumb are among the (many) other current candidates.

 

[MoonlightSonata]

In alphabetical order:
-Adès
-Crumb
-Haas
-Górecki
-Penderecki

I was quite shocked to discover that Ligeti has been dead for nine years

 

[joen_cph]

Gorecki isn´t alive any more either ...

 

[Trout]

Living composers whose, in my opinion, best works are (so far) not so recent:

1. Pierre Boulez
2. George Crumb
3. Philip Glass
4. Krzysztof Penderecki
5. Steve Reich


Living composers whose recent works are still top-notch:

1. John Luther Adams
2. Unsuk Chin
3. Beat Furrer
4. Georg Friedrich Haas
5. Kaija Saariaho

 

[Guest]

Holliger, Narbutaite, Ruders, Murail, Slonimsky and Crumb are among the (many) other current candidates.

And Slonimsky has been dead for twenty years.

I was at his hundredth birthday party in 1994. What fun that was!

Well, I'd like to play this game, too, but there's no way I would stop at five.

And a big old long list would look like bragging, instead of the sincere appreciation for everyone's unique contribution that it would really be. OK, sincere appreciation and bragging.

 

[joen_cph]

Slonimsky is alive and well. It´s a Russian composer, Sergei Slonimsky, who´s written about 35 symphonies so far.
Not for instance Nicholas Slonimsky (who composed as well and has been recorded).

 

[ptr]

Limiting to 5 makes it difficult!, in random order:

G.F. Haas
H. Lachenmann
K. Saariaho
P. Eötvös
M. Akita

/ptr

 

[Guest]

Joen_cph, just as I hit "send," I thought, "I wonder if...."

And sure enough.

Hey, now I want to go listen to some Sergei Slonimsky, so it's not all bad.

 

[Chronochromie]

L. Andriessen
Haas
Murail
Penderecki
Saariaho/Sciarrino/Gubaidulina/Reich/Adams/Chin...

 

[Guest]

I'm very interested in the lists folk come up with...

 

[joen_cph]

Joen_cph, just as I hit "send," I thought, "I wonder if...."

And sure enough.

Hey, now I want to go listen to some Sergei Slonimsky, so it's not all bad.

Unfortunately, the youtube selection of his works is quite conservative. Overall, almost 15 symphonies are available, one way or the other, as recordings etc.

Some do polystylism. Symphony 33 shows him in a dark "Shosty XV/Schnittke mood" and includes theatrical elements (21:40), etc.

 

[Dim7]

The Only True Living Classical Compose As Accepted By The Audiences Is Of Couse **** *********

 

[joen_cph]

Limiting to 5 makes it difficult!, in random order:

G.F. Haas
H. Lachenmann
K. Saariaho
P. Eötvös
M. Akita

/ptr

Oh yes, Eötvös. Akita is totally unknown to me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzbow).

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, the youtube selection of his works is quite conservative. Overall, almost 15 symphonies are available, one way or the other, as recordings etc. Some do polystystilism.

Yeah, so I discovered. Youtube is so easy though, and you don't have to register or anything. I'll search a bit more.

I did click around a bit, though, and am listening to Yuri Vorontsov's sym. no. 5, which is nice.