So here’s a little playlist I started of the really good solo piano music that was written approximately in the period between the two great wars. Some will be a little later, some a little earlier but in general it’s going to have that characteristic sound to it that I love so much.

It’s the freshness compared to a certain dullness and tiredness of late XIX and very early XX century music; it is also how inspired and full of life (albeit terrifying) this music is, compared to the music written after the war that is so wound up in not only analysing the music, but analysing and conceptualising the past and ‘what music can be written after so and so’.

Interwar music is really unique in the history of music just because it is genuinely novel and composers really went on to explore their new options.

Initially I wanted to do all music, but decided to limit to just piano, and the just to solo piano.

Maybe later I’ll do one for chamber music, then orchestral.

Hopefully not opera.