Classical Recordings (20th century - Part 2)

  • 1901-1950 continued:
  • Francis Poulenc - Organ Concerto (Maurice Duruflé & Georges Prêtre: Concert champêtre)
  • Béla Bartók - Violin Concerto no. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra: Concerto for Orchestra/Dance Suite)
  • Herbert Howells - Hymnus paradisi (BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
  • Bohuslav Martinu - Double Concerto (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 1)
  • Roy Harris - Symphony no. 3 (New York Philharmonic)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams - Serenade for Music (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Wood Conducts Vaughan Williams)
  • Silvestre Revueltas - Sensemayá (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
  • Igor Stravinsky - Concerto in E flat, "Dumbarton Oaks" (Ensemble InterContemporain: Berg Kammerkonzert/Chamber Concerto)
  • Anton Webern - String Quartet, op. 28 (Artis Quartet: Complete Works for String Quartet and String Trio)
  • Benjamin Britten - Les illuminations (Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten: Serenade/Les Illuminations/Nocturne)
  • Benjamin Britten - Violin Concerto (Mark Lubotsky & Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto/Violin Concerto)
  • Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (Carlos Bonell & Steuart Bedford: Concertos for Flute, Guitar)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 6 (Leningrad Philharmonic: Mravinsky in Moscow 1965)
  • Michael Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: Concerto for Orchestra/Fanfare for Brass/Byzantium)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky (Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus)
  • William Walton - Violin Concerto (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Violin Concertos)
  • Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto (Joshua Bell & David Zinman: Violin Concertos)
  • Benjamin Britten - Sinfonia da requiem (New Philharmonia Orchestra: Cello Symphony/Sinfonia de Requiem)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Quintet (Borodin Quartet)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Sonata no. 6 (Ivo Pogorelich: Chopin Piano Sonata/Klaviersonate No. 2)
  • Aram Khachaturian - Violin Concerto (Philharmonia Orchestra)
  • Igor Stravinsky - Symphony in C (CBC Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky)
  • Sergei Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances (St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 3)
  • Arthur Honegger - Symphony no. 2 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonien Nos. 2 & 3)
  • Olivier Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time (Jean Pasquier, André Vacellier, Etienne Pasquier & Olivier Messiaen)
  • Benjamin Britten - String Quartets (Belcea Quartet: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 3)
  • Manuel Ponce - Concierto del sur (London Symphony Orchestra: The Great Guitar Concertos)
  • Richard Strauss - Capriccio (Wolfgang Sawallisch)
  • Michael Tippett - A Child of Our Time (Colin Davis)
  • Alberto Ginastera - Estancia (Odense Symphony Orchestra: Overture to the Creole 'Faust')
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 7 "Leningrad" (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 1/Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad")
  • Maurice Duruflé - Prélude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain (John Scott: The Complete Organ Music of Maurice Duruflé)
  • Aaron Copland - Rodeo (London Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral & Ballet Works 1936-1948)
  • Gerald Finzi - Let Us Garlands Bring (Janet Baker & Geoffrey Parsons: Baker)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Sonata no. 7 (Maurizio Pollini: Stravinsky Pétrouchka/Prokofiev Sonate No. 7)
  • Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Concerto (SWF Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra)
  • Richard Strauss - Horn Concerto no. 2 (Philharmonia Orchestra: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
  • Benjamin Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (Boyd Neel Orchestra)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - War and Peace (Valery Gergiev)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 5 (London Symphony Orchestra: The 9 Symphonies)
  • Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  • Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (San Francisco Symphony: Orchestral Works)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 8 (Leningrad Philharmonia Orchestra)
  • Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (Boston Symphony Orchestra: Composers Conduct)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Cinderella (London Symphony Orchestra: Cinderella/'Classical' Symphony)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony no. 5 (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 5/Symphony No. 7)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Trio no. 2 (Vienna Piano Trio: The Piano Trios)
  • Leonard Bernstein - On the Town (Michael Tilson Thomas)
  • Olivier Messiaen - Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (Yvonne Loriod: Messiaen Edition)
  • Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
  • Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto no. 3 (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: Klavierkonzerte 1-3)
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Violin Concerto (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: Concerto)
  • Béla Bartók - Viola Concerto (Netherland Radio Chamber Orchestra)
  • Frank Martin - Petite symphonie concertante (Geneva Chamber Orchestra)
  • Bohuslav Martinu - Symphony no. 4 (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 9 (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra: Complete Symphonies)
  • Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Benjamin Britten - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
  • Igor Stravinsky - Symphony in Three Movements (SWR Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky)
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras no. 5 (Pleeth Cello Quartet: Bachianas Brasileiras 1 & 5)
  • Aaron Copland - Symphony no. 3 (New York Philharmonic)
  • Benjamin Britten - The Rape of Lucretia (Benjamin Britten)
  • Arthur Honegger - Symphony no. 3, "Symphonie liturgique" (Roayl Concertgebouw Orchestra: Poulenc Gloria)
  • Xavier Montsalvatge - Canciones negras (Teresa Berganza & Félix Lavilla: Canciones Españolas)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Sonata no. 1 (David Oistrakh & Sviatoslav Richter: Brahms Violinsonate A-Dur op. 100)
  • Franz Waxman - Carmen Fantasy (RCA Victor Orchestra: Korngold Concerto)
  • Kurt Weill - Street Scene (John Mauceri)
  • Ned Rorem - Songs (Ensemble Oriol: Songs of Ned Rorem)
  • Arnold Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw (Male Chorus of the Vienna State Opera: Ein Überlebender aus Warschau)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 6 (New Philharmonia Orchestra: Symphony No. 4/Symphony No. 6)
  • Maurice Duruflé - Requiem (George Guest: Fauré Requiem)
  • Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Orchestra of St. Luke's)
  • Roberto Gerhard - The Duenna (Antoni Ros-Marbà: La Dueña)
  • John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes (Nora Skuta)
  • Aaron Copland - Clarinet Concerto (Columbia Symphony Strings: Orchestral & Ballet Works 1936-1948)
  • Conlon Nancarrow - Player Piano Studies (Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano)
  • Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony (Kent Nagano: Turangalîla-Symphonie)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - From Jewish Folk Poetry (Tatiana Sharova, Ludmila Kuznetsova & Alexei Martynov: New Babylon Film Music)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Violin Concerto no. 1 (Maxim Vengerov & Mstislav Rostropovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
  • Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs (Gundula Janowitz & Herbert von Karajan: Vier letzte Lieder/Four Last Songs)
  • Leonard Bernstein - Symphony no. 2, "The Age of Anxiety" (Ulster Orchestra)
  • Gerald Finzi - Clarinet Concerto (Northern Sinfonia)
  • Gian-Carlo Menotti - The Consul (Richard Hickox)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Cello Sonata (Mstislav Rostropovich & Sviatoslav Richter: Rostropovich Plays Prokofiev)
  • Astor Piazzolla - Tangos (Piazzoll, Console, Malvicino, Suarez Paz & Ziegler: Tango/Zero Hour)
  • Malcolm Arnold - English Dances (Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Dances)
  • 1951-Present:
  • Benjamin Britten - Billy Budd (Benjamin Britten)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues (Vladimir Ashkenazy: 24 Preludes & Fugues, op. 87)
  • Francis Poulenc - Stabat mater (City of London Sinfonia: Gloria-Stabat Mater)
  • Igor Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony-Concerto (Mstislav Rostropovich & Seiji Ozawa: Symphony No. 2)
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos - Guitar Concerto (London Symphony Orchestra)
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony no. 7 (London Symphony Orchestra: The Complete Symphonies)
  • Michael Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage (Colin Davis)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 10 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonie No. 10)
  • Michael Tippett - Fantasia concertante (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Ritual Dances)
  • Leonard Bernstein - Serenade (Philharmonia Orchestra: West Side Story)
  • Benjamin Britten - The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten)
  • Aram Khachaturian - Spartacus (Vienna Philharmonic)
  • Witold Lutoslawski - Concerto for Orchestra (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Joaquin Rodrigo - Fantasia para un gentilhombre (Royal Philharmonic: Concierto de Aranjuez/Fantasia para un Gentilhombre)
  • Iannis Xenakis - Metastaseis (French Radio National Orchestra)
  • Alan Hovhaness - Symphony no. 2, "Mysterious Mountain" (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
  • Pierre Boulez - Le marteau sans maître (Ensemble InterContemperain: Boulez Conducts Boulez)
  • Leonard Bernstein - Candide (Leonard Bernstein)
  • William Walton - Cello Concerto (London Symphony Orchestra: Cello Concertos)
  • Malcolm Williamson - Piano Works (Antony Gray: Complete Works for Piano)
  • Francis Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmélites (Kent Nagano)
  • Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story (Carol Lawrence, Larry Kent & Chita Rivera)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no. 2 (Dmitri Shostakovich & André Cluytens: Piano Concertos)
  • Samuel Barber - Vanessa (Dimitri Mitropoulos)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gruppen (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne: Gruppen, Punkte)
  • Igor Stravinsky - Agon (Southwest German Radio Orchestra: Le Domaine Musical Vol. 2)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 11, "The Year 1905" (London Symphony Orchestra)
  • Michael Tippett - Symphony no. 2 (London Symphony Orchestra: Piano Sonatas 1-3/String Quartets 1-3)
  • Olivier Messiaen - Catalogue d'oiseaux (Peter Hill: The Piano Works)
  • Luciano Berio - Sequenzas (Nora Shulman, Alain Trudel & Jasper Wood: Sequenzas I-XIV)
  • Hanns Eisler - Deutsche Sinfonie (Lothar Zagrosek)
  • Francis Poulenc - La voix humaine (French National Orchestra)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Concerto no. 1 (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Benjamin Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Richard Hickox)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 8 (Borodin Quartet: Complete Quartets)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (London Symphony Orchestra)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte (Jonny Axelsson & Fredrik Ullén: Zyklus)
  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Die Soldaten (Bernhard Kontarsky)
  • Elliott Carter - Double Concerto (Sequitur)
  • Benjamin Britten - War Requiem (Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Galina Vishnevskaya)
  • György Ligeti - Aventures & Nouvelles aventures (Ensemble InterContemporain: Clear or Cloudy)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 13, "Babi Yar" (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra: Complete Symphonies)
  • Olivier Messiaen - Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (Domaine Musical Orchestra: Messiaen Edition)
  • Giacinto Scelsi - String Quartet no. 4 (Quartet of Klangforum Wien: Streichquartett Nr. 4)
  • Benjamin Britten - Curlew River (Benjamin Britten)
  • Peter Maxwell Davies - Second Fantasia on John Taverner's In Nomine (SW German Radio Orchestra)
  • Henri Dutilleux - Métaboles (French National Orchestra)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 10 (Borodin Quartet: String Quartets 1-13)
  • Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms (Vienna Jeunesse Choir: Chichester Psalms/Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2)
  • Rodion Shchedrin - Carmen Suite (Russian National Orchestra)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Seven Blok Romances (Galine Vishnevskaya, Ulf Hoelscher, Mstislav Rostropovich & Vasso Devetzi: Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok)
  • György Ligeti - String Quartet no. 2 (LaSalle Quartet: Clear or Cloudy)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Violin Sonata (Oleg Kagan & Sviatoslav Richter: Sonata for Violin op. 134)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung (Singcircle)
  • Luciano Berio - Sinfonia (London Voices)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 14 (Mstislav Rostropovich & Galina Vishnevskaya)
  • Elliott Carter - Concerto for Orchestra (SW German Radio Orchestra: Piano Concerto)
  • Peter Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King (Fires of London)
  • Henri Dutilleux - Tout un monde lointain... (Paris Orchestra: Cello Concerto/Tout un monde lointain...)
  • Elliott Carter - String Quartet no. 3 (Arditti Quartet: String Quartets 1-4)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony no. 15 (Berlin Philharmonic: Im Takt Der Zeit)
  • Morton Feldman - Cello and Orchestra (Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra: Piano and Orchestra)
  • Harrison Birtwistle - The Triumph of Time (Philharmonia Orchestra)
  • Bruno Maderna - Aura (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Dallapiccola Three Questions with Two Answers)
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus arcticus (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra: Garden of Spaces)
  • Benjamin Britten - Death in Venice (Steuart Bedford)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 15 (Borodin Quartet: Complete Quartets)
  • Pierre Boulez - Rituel: in memorium Bruno Maderna (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
  • Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich & Musicians)
  • Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass Ensemble)
  • Henryk Górecki - Symphony no. 3 (London Sinfonietta)
  • György Ligeti - Le grand macabre (Esa-Pekka Salonen)
  • John Corigliano - Clarinet Concerto (Richard Stoltzman & Lawrence Leighton Smith: The Essential Clarinet)
  • Toru Takemitsu - A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (BBC National Orchestra of Wales)
  • Arvo Pärt - Fratres (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Tabula Rasa)
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara - Angels and Visitations (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra: Violin Concerto)
  • Pierre Boulez - Notations (Lyons National Orchestra)
  • Michael Tippett - String Quartet no. 4 (The Lindsays)
  • John Cage - Roaratorio (John Cage)
  • George Benjamin - Ringed by the Flat Horizon (BBC Symphony Orchestra: At First Light/A Mind of Winter)
  • Sofia Gubaidulina - Offertorium (Gidon Kremer & Charles Dutoit)
  • Brian Ferneyhough - Funérailles (Arditti Quartet)
  • Tristan Murail - Gondwana (French National Orchestra: Gondwana/Désintégrations/Time and Again)
  • Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos plango, vivos voco (Pierre Boulez: Tombeau de Messiaen)
  • William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and Experience (University of Michigan Musical Society & Symphony Orchestra)
  • John Tavener - Funeral Ikos (Choir of King's College, Cambridge: Voices of Praise)
  • Olivier Messiaen - Saint François d'Assise (Kent Nagano)
  • Oliver Knussen - Where the Wild Things Are (Higglety Pigglety Pop! & Where the Wild Things Are)
  • Olivier Messiaen - Livre du Saint Sacrement (Jennifer Bate)
  • Hans Werner Henze - Symphony no. 7 (South West German Radio Orchestra)
  • Helmut Lachenmann - Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung) (Ensemble Modern: Schwankungen am Rand)
  • John Adams - Harmonielehre (San Francisco Symphony)
  • György Ligeti - Études (Pierre-Laurent Aimard: György Ligeti Edition 3)
  • Witold Lutoslawski - Chain 2 (Anne-Sophie Mutter & Witold Lutoslawski: Partita/Chain 2/Piano Concerto)
  • Alfred Schnittke - String Trio (Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet & Mstislav Rostropovich: Concerto for Three/String Trio)
  • Milton Babbitt - Transfigured Notes (Boston Orchestra)
  • Peter Sculthorpe - Earth Cry (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
  • Philip Glass - Violin Concerto (Ulster Orchestra)
  • John Adams - Nixon in China (Edo de Waart)
  • John Tavener - The Protecting Veil (Steven Isserlis & Gennady Rozhdestvensky)
  • Louis Andriessen - De Materie (Netherlands Chamber Choir)
  • Ross Edwards - Maninyas (Sydney Symphony)
  • Steve Reich - Different Trains (Kronos Quartet)
  • Mark-Anthony Turnage - Three Screaming Popes (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Drowned Out)
  • György Kurtág - Officium breve (Keller Quartet: Musik für Streichinstrumente)
  • James MacMillan - Veni, veni, Emmanuel (Ulster Orchestra)
  • Olivier Messiaen - Éclairs sur l'Au-delà... (Bastille Opera Orchestra)
  • Simon Bainbridge - Ad ora incerta (Martyn Brabbins: Ad Ora Incerta/Four Primo Levi Settings)
  • György Kurtág - Stele (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Stockhausen Gruppen)
  • Magnus Lindberg - Aura (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Aura/Engine)
  • Carl Vine - Percussion Symphony (Synergy: Complete Symphonies 1-6)
  • Mark-Anthony Turnage - Blood on the Floor (Ensemble Modern: Some Days/Your Rockaby/Night Dances/Dispelling the Fears)
  • Thomas Adès - Asyla (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
  • Sofia Gubaidulina - Canticle of the Sun (Danish National Radio Choir)
  • Peteris Vasks - Violin Concerto, "Distant Light" (Swedish Chamber Orchestra)
  • Gérard Grisey - Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (Catherine Dubosc, Klangforum Wien & Sylvain Cambreling)
  • Wolfgang Rihm - Deus Passus (Helmuth Rilling)
  • Wolfgang Rihm - Jagden und Formen (Ensemble Modern)
  • Julian Anderson - Book of Hours (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group)