Contemporary & Modern

The Contemporary & Modern Music section brings together two phases of “new” classical creation. Modern refers to the first 20th-century revolution: Gershwin’s jazz-tinged preludes, Erik Satie’s ironic miniatures, and Ennio Morricone’s symphonic-scale film scores. Contemporary, instead, points to languages still evolving: the hypnotic minimalism of Philip Glass, the rarefied spirituality of Arvo Pärt, and the neo-classical writing of today’s composers such as Einaudi and Luke Faulkner. From historical avant-gardes to the latest digital releases, this showcase offers piano albums, quartets, string-orchestra works, and soundtracks, perfect for discovering how the classical tradition continues to reinvent itself in the present.