Twenty amazing pieces

The list author says:
	"Berio’s biggest folk piece, with stunningly virtuosic passages, for 40 solo voices and 40 solo instruments, inspired by African village music."

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	"Quirky, unpredictable, beautiful minimalism. In a just world this would be as popular as Gorecki’s Third Symphony."

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	"Mad, wild and eccentric. Brilliantly performed."

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	"Quiet, lyrical, odd, beautiful, pacific."

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	"A brilliant and fun orchestral showpiece."

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	"Earth Dances is a volcano of a piece. For Stravinsky, Xenakis and  Varese lovers. The Rite of Spring with knobs on."

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	"Tansy Davies’s Patterning is volatile, tactile, glittering and sensuous music- she is a young star of English music."

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	"Amazing music by a totally neglected American composer. Dream performances."

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	"The opposite of all those dark fantasies about industrialisation- a piece about the thrill and excitement of factories and heavy machinery."

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	"Lyrical, glittering and lovely: a good introduction to a neglected master."

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	"Rituel is austere, ritualistic, gamelan-influenced, but packing a huge punch."

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	"Tippett’s Corelli Fantasia is the ultimate over-ripe, virtuosic, intense, romantic English string piece. Ravishing tunes, glittering textures."

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	"Written using all the unconventional sounds instruments can make, but resulting in delicate, magical, atmospheric music."

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	"This has everything- including lyrical voices, jazzy improvisations, evocations of an industrial hell, beautiful words by Dante and the most inventive way to cover the side break on an old LP."

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	"That unusual thing- happy twentieth century art music. Fascinating, sunny, witty, Mediterranean."

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	"Either exuberant and dancing in the sunlight or singing in a magical midsummer’s night wood."

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	"The greatest piece of chamber music written in the last 60 years. Still as fresh as when it was written."

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	"Ligeti’s Horn Trio: the second greatest piece of chamber music written in the last 60 years."

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	"Crazily inventive."

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	"They don’t come much more original than this. Act Two, where Orpheus descends into hell, will blow you across your room. And Act 3 is the saddest music you’ll ever hear."