Music 266B:

Selected discography of contemporary Anthologies

WInter 1999

  • Contemporary Music, VolI (Albany #192).
  • New Music Series (Neuma #45081
  • Computer Music Currents 13 (Wergo WER 2033-2)
  • Five American Clarinet Quintets (Delos DE3183)
    Corrigliano, Taaffe Zwilich, Tower, Etc.
  • Spectrum: New American Music (Nonesuch 791222)
  • Musiques do notres temps: Reperes 1945-1975 (ADES 14.122.2)
    4 CD set with music by: Messiaen, Boulez, Xenakis, Henry, Stockhausen, Schaeffer, Dutileux, Ohana, Berio, Lutoslawski, Ligeti.
  • Contemporary American Music for Percussion/ Soundstroke (ALbany #214)
  • Percussion Music (Nonesuch 979150-2)
  • Winds of Change-American Wind Music of the 1950's-70's (New World 80211-2)
  • Electronic Music (CRI 611)
    Almost anything put out by CRI, especially the American Masters Series.
  • Orchestral Space (Varese-Sarabande VCD 47253)
    Ligeti, Takemitsu, etc.
  • The Emerson String Quartet Plays 50 Yrs, of American Music 1919-1969 (New World 80453-2)
    Cowell, Gunther Schuller, Andrew Imbrie.
  • Kronos Quartet (38 CD's on Nonesuch) 25 Years (multiple set).
  • Arditti Quartet (48 titles)
  • Seattle Symphony Orchestra
    Many contemporary works on Delos.
  • The Other Flute, Robert Dick (Allegro GM 2013)
    There are many discs featuring a particular wind instrument.
  • Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Vols 1-3 (Olympia 2013ff.)
  • Three American Operas (Premier PRCD 1009)
    Schuman, Barber, Blitzstein.
  • Aleck Karis, Secret Geometry: Music for Piano and Electronic Tape (CRI 707)
    Babbitt, Davidovsky, etc.
  • Yo-Yo Ma Premieres (Sony SK66299)
    Kirchner, Rouse, etc.

    • This list is merely an introduction. Domaine Musicale, Group for Contempoary Music, Speculum Musicae, Louisville Symphony, Eastman-Rochester WE, California EAR Unit, and many other specialized groups have anthologies. Performers such as Heinx Holliger, Glenn Gould, Ursula Oppens, John Jensen, Bethany Beardslee, etc. have their own collections.