The Best Album In The Past 10 Years

[Mark]

I have Naxos through my school, and the sad thing is almost no one uses it.

I'll have to check out the Symphony no. 1, chances are i won't like it, but i really wan't to like new music. I love anticipating new music in other generas, so i hope i'll eventually learn to love the post modern style.

I think Symphony No. 1 is quite an early work and not indicative of the later pieces with which he is, perhaps, now more closely associated. So I'm guessing you'll enjoy it.

[c#minor]

I think Symphony No. 1 is quite an early work and not indicative of the later pieces with which he is, perhaps, now more closely associated. So I'm guessing you'll enjoy it.

And you were correct. Much more tonal. Thanks

[Kullervo]

Carter - String Quartet #5 (Naive)

This is strangely the only Carter quartet I've heard, and it is indeed astonishing.

[longears]

Best album of works composed in the past decade?  Couldn't say...but some I enjoy include:

Spano/Atlanta--Higdon, Cto for Orchestra, Cityscape
Salonen/LAPO--Adams, Naive and Sentimental Music
Adams/BBCSO--Adams, The Dharma at Big Sur, My Father Knew Charles Ives
Nagano/Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin--Adams, El Niño
Segerstam/HPO--Rautavaara, Symphony #8, Harp Concerto
Segerstam/HPO--Rautavaara, Garden of Spaces, Clarinet Concerto
Franck/National Orchestra of Belgium--Rautavaara, Book of Visions
Layton/Polyphony--Whitacre, Cloudburst

[Sergeant Rock]

Only one rule,
1. The works have to have been composed in the last (approx.) 10 years.

Rautavaara's 8th Symphony The Journey, composed in 1999.




Sarge

[c#minor]

Best album of works composed in the past decade?  Couldn't say...but some I enjoy include:

Layton/Polyphony--Whitacre, Cloudburst

Agreed fully. I forgot about Whitacre, great composer for choral works!

[Lethevich]

Vasks - Distant Light (concerto for violin & string orchestra) & Voices (symphony no.1 for string orchestra) (Kremer)

[gmstudio]

Just got this (from the Library) today...can't say it's the "best album" from that last 10 years (based on the parameters spelled out in the first post), but wanted to add it for discussion anyway...I didn't expect to like this, but I really do...I just must be in the mood or something...normally this isn't my cup of tea...

[Catison]

Some quick ones from some of my favorites:



This one has Wuorinen's Fourth String Quartet from 2000.



This one has Wuorinen's Lepton for celesta, harp, and piano.  I really like this recording too, because it has Time Encomium, one of Wuorinen's best (but from 1968-9).



Reich's You Are Variations and Cello Counterpoint.  Two new Reich pieces from the most consistent minimalist.

I'll also echo El Nino, My Father Knew Charles Ives, and The Dharma at Big Sur as mentioned above.