Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 1990s – Part II (1995-1999)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

13 votes is more than I expected given how relatively recent and hence unknown most of these works are. And I fucking love Gubaidulina's Viola Concerto, so no complaints here!

Wow, this is an amazing list of pieces to work through. Thanks!

You're most welcome!

Alas, the end draws near:

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 2000s – Part I (2000-2004)

couldn't decide who to vote for and then had an early night... quite a coherent, dry feeling to this set of pieces. despite my aversion to opera I find myself drawn to the raspy tension of the sciarrino, radulescu has been a great discovery and love this SQ (did he finish his 5th after his 6th??), the scodanibbio is very pleasing and reminds me at times of steffen basho-junghans, and the takemitsu is gorgeous, the only one I'd heard previously

First one I didn't vote in, as I didn't know enough to make a judgement call. I already love Gubaidulina's 'Viola Concerto' though, and look forward to checking out more of her stuff!

You won't be disappointed! She doesn't seem to be composing much lately, and it makes me sad. Granted, she's 88 now, but that didn't stop Elliott Carter from writing some remarkable pieces up until the very end.

did he finish his 5th after his 6th?

I was puzzled by this as well. He seems to have overhauled the 5th in 1995, but I don't know quite to what extent.

I really hope Mode Records will complete their Rădulescu cycles with Stephen Clarke and the JACK Quartet. I did find it worrying that the composer's widow, the cellist Catherine Marie Tunnell, had to Kickstart The Complete Cello Works, which came out last year with Mode as vol. 3 of the Rădulescu Edition.

xp Carter another one I really need to search out. These polls - more than any other poll or thread series - have given me so much joy.