Top 10 Favourite 90s Compositions

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I love the work and think it's one of the most gorgeous things Sculthorpe has composed, but why so surprised?

I like it very much but probably just not enough for it to secure a no. 2 place on a list.

[Mirror Image]

I like it very much but probably just not enough for it to secure a no. 2 place on a list.

Oh, my lists are always in no particular order. I don't have the strength to actually put them in number of importance (to me).

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Well.....I don't think any Sculthorpe will even be in my top ten at the moment...apart from maybe top ten 60s composition.

[Mirror Image]

Well.....I don't think any Sculthorpe will even be in my top ten at the moment...apart from maybe top ten 60s composition.

Sculthorpe is one of the composers located lower on my 'composer totem pole' whenever you start factoring in the first 50 years of the 20th Century, but, be that as it may, I still love so much of his music.

[amw]

I don't know when half the stuff I listen to comes from but here's a go

1990: Toru Takemitsu - From me flows what you call time
1991: John Cage - 103
1992: Brian Ferneyhough - Terrain
1993: Thomas Adès - Living Toys
1994: Richard Barrett - Vanity
1995: Jo Kondo - Three Songs of the Elderberry Tree
1996: Helmut Lachenmann - Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
1997: Salvatore Sciarrino - La bocca, i piedi, il suono
1998: Gérard Grisey - Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
1999: György Ligeti - Hamburg Concerto

[Gaspard de la nuit]

Great idea for a thread!  The 90s are extremely neglected.  I'm surprised to see how many great works I was able to find.

Ligeti - Études (2nd book)
Gubaidulina - Jetzt Immer Schnee or the Viola Concerto
Cerha - Acht Sätze nach Hölderlin-Fragmenten
Lutosławski - Symphony No. 4 or Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Kurtág - ...pas à pas – nulle part...
Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens or Graal théâtre
Birtwistle - Panic
Takemitsu - Archipelago S or Fantasma/Cantos
Rihm - Gesungene Zeit
Berio - Ekphrasis
Holliger - Lieder ohne Worte (2nd book)

[musicrom]

Ooh, this is a tough question. I don't think I know many pieces from the 1990s. Here's my attempt though:

Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances (1991)
Auerbach: Piano Trio (1992)
Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (1995)
Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto (1996)
Holmboe: Viola Concerto (1992)
Ligeti: Viola Sonata (1991-1994)
Lindberg: Gran Duo   (1999/2000) - I'm counting this, even though its premiere was in 2000.
Part: Summa (1991)
Penderecki: Symphony No. 3 (1995)

OK, that's not quite 10. There might be a few more that I could add that I either 1) could not think of, or 2) like, but don't know well enough. I'll stick with this list for the moment though.

[springrite]

When I first saw this, I thought it's about works composed after the composer had turned 90. So I had Carter and Brian ready when I realised...

[arpeggio]

Frank Ticheli-Blue Shades
Frank Ticheli-Postcard
Mark Camphouse-Watchman Tell Us of the Night
David Maslanka-Symphony #4
Donald Grantham-Fantasy Variations on Gershwin's Prelude #2 for Piano
Ron Nelson-Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H)
Nigel Clarke-Samurai
Phillip Sparke-Dance Movements
John McCabe-Canyons
Michael Daugherty-Niagara Falls 

[Keep Going]

Not necessarily "top", but 10 favourites:

Luther Adams: Dream in White on White (1992)
Schnittke: Piano Trio (1992)
Nyman: Musique à Grande Vitesse (1993)
Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 "Angel of Light" (1994)
Glass: La Belle et la Bête (1994)
Glass: Symphony No. 3 (1995)
Glass: Les Enfants Terribles (1996)
Boulez: Anthèmes II (1997)
Reich: Triple Quartet (1998)
Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music (1999)

[North Star]

When I first saw this, I thought it's about works composed after the composer had turned 90. So I had Carter and Brian ready when I realised...

Dutilleux, too!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Not necessarily "top", but 10 favourites:

Luther Adams: Dream in White on White (1992)
Schnittke: Piano Trio (1992)
Nyman: Musique à Grande Vitesse (1993)
Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 "Angel of Light" (1994)
Glass: La Belle et la Bête (1994)
Glass: Symphony No. 3 (1995)
Glass: Les Enfants Terribles (1996)
Boulez: Anthèmes II (1997)
Reich: Triple Quartet (1998)
Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music (1999)

Nyman MGV? I really like you!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

When I first saw this, I thought it's about works composed after the composer had turned 90. So I had Carter and Brian ready when I realised...

Well, age is not really what I think of when I think 'the 90s' especially when written as numerals not words................................