NTT: This is very scary music... for instrumentation, I hear clarinet, guitar, strings, and I believe a cimbalom. The 150th anniversary of this composer's birth would put them at 1874 for a birth year, so I have to imagine this is either Second Viennese School or associated early atonalists. For my basket, I'll put in Schoenberg (not Berg, and certainly not Webern if it's 35 minutes long), Ives, and Varese.
NTT: Sounds Second-Vienese-y, and based on the hint, I'll go with Schoenberg. Part of me thinks I've listened to this piece before: A Sextet or Septet involving clarinets and strings? I remember it being very (seeming-unendingly) thickly scored despite being a chamber piece and have tried to not think about it too much since.
A bit more on Pollini with links to some great recordings and broadcasts from the Piano Files newsletter here https://www.patreon.com/posts/rip-maurizio-100932353 - some think he never played better than his account of Chopin Etudes at age 14.
Contemporary music might have played a bigger role in his career than it does in his recorded output. I have read elsewhere that there was a lot of modern/contemporary work in his repertoire and/or that he premiered, but never recorded. We missed a chance to have some “definitive” recordings by a great pianist working closely with composers.
NTT: This is very scary music... for instrumentation, I hear clarinet, guitar, strings, and I believe a cimbalom. The 150th anniversary of this composer's birth would put them at 1874 for a birth year, so I have to imagine this is either Second Viennese School or associated early atonalists. For my basket, I'll put in Schoenberg (not Berg, and certainly not Webern if it's 35 minutes long), Ives, and Varese.
NTT: Sounds Second-Vienese-y, and based on the hint, I'll go with Schoenberg. Part of me thinks I've listened to this piece before: A Sextet or Septet involving clarinets and strings? I remember it being very (seeming-unendingly) thickly scored despite being a chamber piece and have tried to not think about it too much since.
A bit more on Pollini with links to some great recordings and broadcasts from the Piano Files newsletter here https://www.patreon.com/posts/rip-maurizio-100932353 - some think he never played better than his account of Chopin Etudes at age 14.
Contemporary music might have played a bigger role in his career than it does in his recorded output. I have read elsewhere that there was a lot of modern/contemporary work in his repertoire and/or that he premiered, but never recorded. We missed a chance to have some “definitive” recordings by a great pianist working closely with composers.