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Sep 26, 2023 · As Classic FM turns 30, we look at some of today’s most celebrated classical artists – one for every year since Handel’s Zadok The Priest heralded our day one. We celebrate some of today’s greatest classical musicians – from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, to violinist Maxim Vengerov, through to star rising soprano Lise Davidsen.
Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic music, experimental music, and minimalist music.
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Dec 6, 2021 · Learn to love choral music — ancient, contemporary, gospel, opera, sacred, romantic — with selections from our favorite artists. Looking for specific musicians?
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- Jennifer Higdon. 'Jennifer Higdon’s myriad accolades and accomplishments are impressive by any standard, but particularly in the world of contemporary classical music.
- Lera Auerbach. 'In an age of multitasking habits, polymodal perceptions and multisensory experiences, we are all now expected to become polymaths. As Vinnie Mirchandani put it in his preface to The New Polymath (Wiley: 2010): ‘[We] can no longer be just one person but a collection of many.’
- Sally Beamish. 'In a way, music was Sally Beamish’s first language. Her mother, a violinist, taught her to read and write notes at the age of four – before she could play an instrument, before she could even read or write words.
- Augusta Read Thomas. 'American classical music this past quarter-century has been dominated by the minimalist aesthetic that came to the fore as a reaction against the modernist thinking which had previously held sway.
This is a list of 21st-century classical composers, sortable by name, year of birth and year of death. The list includes composers who have made classical music since 2001.
Jan 22, 2022 · How Carlos Simon, Kamala Sankaram, the Living Earth Show and 19 more artists are changing the classical landscape.
