Your Top 5 Favorite 20th Century Solo Piano Works

[aleazk]

Ligeti etudes
Boulez 2nd piano sonata
Ravel Miroirs
Debussy etudes
Barraqué piano sonata

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Ligeti etudes
Boulez 2nd piano sonata
Ravel Miroirs
Debussy etudes
Barraqué piano sonata

Pfft why listen to Barraqué when we have Boulez 

[amw]

Territoires de l'oubli
Klavierstück X
Le tombeau de Couperin
English Country-Tunes
Improvisation No.15 (Hommage à Edith Piaf)

a little eclecticism never hurt anyone <.<

[Florestan]

I have far more than 5 but I don't think these have been mentioned before.

Fauré - Nocturne no. 13 in B minor op. 119 (1921)
Weinberg - Piano Sonata no. 2 op. 8 (1942)
de Séverac - En vacances (1912)
Villa-Lobos - A prole do bebe, Books I & II (1918, 1921)
Esplá - Sonata Española (1949)

[aleazk]

Pfft why listen to Barraqué when we have Boulez 

" " indeed...

[kishnevi]

Ligeti Etudes
DSCH Op 87
Ravel--specific work to be advised, but certainly he wrote enough good stuff that at least one will qualify!
Scriabin--one of the later sonatas
Rachmaninov--Corelli Variations

[Jaakko Keskinen]

I very much enjoy the Debussy Preludes, especially the 'Sunken Cathedral' one unless that is from a different work.

Agreed 100 %. Sunken Cathedral has absolutely wonderful atmosphere made by a single instrument. Most of Debussy's preludes in general have countless wonderful effects.

Expect lots of Debussy works:

Debussy: Preludes Book 1
Debussy: Preludes Book 2
Debussy: Images Book 1
Debussy: Images Book 2
Ravel: Miroirs

[kyjo]

Let's see...

Medtner: Sonata Romantica in B-flat minor
Nielsen: Luciferian Suite
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major
Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Tippett: Piano Sonata No. 1

[springrite]

Medtner Piano Sonatas
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas
People United Will Never Be Defeated
Carter Night Fantasy


The final spot will belong to one of the followings:
Stevenson Passacaglia on DSCH
Sorabji Opus Clavicembalisticum
Shostakovich Op 87
Bridge Piano Sonata
Berg Sonata Op. 1
Ives Sonata 2

(This is a sneaky way of naming ten+ instead of five...)

[Hobby]

Prokofiev war sonatas
Rachmaninov Preludes
Debussy Preludes
Ravel Gaspard
Ligeti Preludes

[springrite]

Let's see...

Medtner: Sonata Romantica in B-flat minor
Nielsen: Luciferian Suite
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major
Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Tippett: Piano Sonata No. 1

I haven't heard any of Tippett's piano sonatas!

[San Antone]

John Cage: Music of Changes
Boulez: 12 Notations pour piano
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
Morton Feldman - Palais de Mari

[pjme]

Many favorites have been mentioned -
Jardins sous la pluie, Tombeau de Couperin, Messiaen -Merle noir , Enescu Carillon nocturne, Jolivet - Mana....
I love the mighty sonata (1948) by Dutilleux.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Debussy: Preludes Book II
Ligeti: Etudes
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Schoenberg: Sechs kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19
Takemitsu: Uninterrupted Rests (遮られない休息)

Whose recording of the Takemitsu work do you like (your link no longer works as that account has been deleted)?  I've heard very little of his music.

PD

[Lisztianwagner]

In no particular order:

Ravel - Miroirs
Debussy - Préludes, Book 1
Rachmaninov - Preludes, Op. 23
Prokofiev - Vision Fugitives
Schönberg - Suite, Op. 25

[Karl Henning]

I may or may not have replied already, but today:

Busoni, Fantasia contrappuntistica
Hindemith, Ludus tonalis
Feldman, Triadic Memories
Sorabji, Opus clavicembalisticum
Shostakovich, Op. 87

[Florestan]

Mompou - Musica callada
Albeniz - Iberia
Granados - Goyescas
Falla - Fantasia betica
Blancafort - Cants intims

[ritter]

Mompou - Musica callada
Albeniz - Iberia
Granados - Goyescas
Falla - Fantasia betica
Blancafort - Cants intims

Muy español todo... 

Buenas tardes, querido Andrei.

[Florestan]

Muy español todo... 

Muy fantastico tambien. 

Buenas tardes, querido Andrei.

Buenas tardes, Rafael.

[Mandryka]

Whose recording of the Takemitsu work do you like (your link no longer works as that account has been deleted)?  I've heard very little of his music.

PD

I think Mahlerian has long gone, unfortunately.

Uninterrupted Rest is a really hard piece of music I think. If you didn't know, you could think it was a Cage Etude - but unlike Cage, Takemitsu was explicit about the emotional impact he wants each movement to have. And there are lots of accents which can sound harsh and agressive. I like a pianist called Hiromi Okada. Roger Woodward also, but Okada has better sound.