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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.

LR 01

Silvestrov, Valentin: Bagatellen: I.

Is modern classical music unlistenable? Let's start with a 21st-century piece of music and see for ourselves...!

LR 02

Lazkano, Ramon: Wintersonnenwende-4 II

How to achieve - and maintain - breathtaking rhythm with violin and piano? This way.

LR 01

Adès, Thomas: Darknesse Visible

Solo piano music composed in the late 20th century. Attention, this will most likely be your next favorite.

LR 02

Kancheli, Giya: In l’istesso tempo

…refinement…

LR 01

Crumb, George: MAKROKOSMOS I.

Evocative love-death piano music...

LR 01

Glass, Philip: Metamorphosis Five

The first steps towards music with a repetitive structure.

LR 01

Prokofiev, Sergei: Visions Fugitives

This is perhaps the most beautiful vision in a series of the lesser-known Prokofiev miniatures.

LR 01

Pärt, Arvo: Für Alina

A little peace of mind…

LR 01

Pärt, Arvo: Spiegel im Spiegel

Mirror in the mirror: infinity.

LR 01

Szymanski, Pawel: Deux études pour piano - II.

A fast track also can be unforgettable. ... fast ... waving ... ahead ... fast ... waving ... ahead ....

LR 02

Sørensen, Bent: Phantasmagoria for piano trio

Restrained but bursting unquietness? Crying violin? Shadows…

LR 03

Ligeti, György: Piano Concerto

A cavalcade of instruments? After a few listens, you'll feel that all the sounds are in the right place.

LR 02

Sokolovic, Ana: Portrait parle

Portrait talks: facial character analysis in thrilling musical language.

LR 02

Szymanski, Pawel: Deux études pour piano - I.

This music piece starts as if a child is practicing. The road from refined simplicity to complete virtuosity.

LR 03

Feldman, Morton: Patterns in a Chromatic Field

Playing with musical memory, differentiation, and repetition...

LR 03

Kagel, Mauricio: Tactil

Kagel’s experimental theater (yes, theater) piece. Innovative and creative use of the instrumentation.

LR 03

Henck, Herbert: Festeburger Fantasien

Centuries and ideals of beauty.

LR 03

Nordgren, Pehr Henrik: Piano Concerto No. 3 for the Left Hand

Ritual music based on Japanese ghost stories... and a generous gesture.

LR 04

Brown, Earle: From Folio

Digging deep.

LR 04

Oehring, Helmut - Schiphorst, Iris ter: Prae-Senz

Turn-of-the-century ballet music: know-how and state-of-the-art technology, full of inventions.