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ESSENTIAL LIBRARY
Part One - 1945-1960

1945 - Piano Concerto no 3
Composer: Béla Bartók
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Performer: Yefim Bronfman
Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Sony Classics - #66718

1945 - Metamorphosen
Composer: Richard Strauss
Performer: Wolfgang Boettcher, Thomas Brandis, et al.
Ensemble: Brandis String Quartet
Nimbus - #5614 

1947- The Seasons
Composer: John Cage
Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies
Performer: Margaret Leng Tan
Ensemble: American Composers Orchestra
Uni/Ecm - #465140

1948 - Il Prigioniero
Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Performer: Sven-Erik Alexandersson, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, et al.
Ensemble: Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Chorus, et al.
Sony Classics - #68323
1948 - Four Last Songs
Composer: Richard Strauss
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Performer: Gundula Janowitz
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Uni/Deutsche Grammophon - #47422 

1948- Violin Concerto no 1
Composer:  Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich
Performer: Maxim Vengerov
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
Wea/Atlantic/Teldec - #92256 

1948- Turangalîla Symphony
Composer: Olivier Messiaen
Conductor: Antoni Wit
Performer: Thomas Bloch, François Weigel
Ensemble: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Naxos - #8554478 

1950- Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Composer: Samuel Barber
Conductor: David Zinman
Performer: Dawn Upshaw
Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch - #79187 

1951 - Peter Grimes 
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Conductor: Benjamin Britten
Performer: Hervey Alan, John Cameron, et al.
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra
Vai Audio - #1034

1951 - String Quartet no 1
Composer: Elliott Carter
Performer: Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, et al.
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
Sony Classics - #47229 

1952 - The Midsummer Marriage
Composer: Michael Tippett
Performer: Dame Joan Sutherland
Gala - #100524 

1952 - Symphony Antartica
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conductor: Bryden Thomson
Performer: Catherine Bott
Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
Chandos - #8796

1954 - Deserts
Composer: Edgard Varèse
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Performer: Edgard Varèse, Sarah Leonard, et al.
Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ASKO Ensemble, et al.
Uni/London Classics - #460208 

1955 - Les Fresques De Piero Della Francesca
Composer: Bohuslav Martinu
Conductor: James Conlon
Performer: Jean Camosi, Jean-François Heisser, et al.
Ensemble: ORTF National Orchestra, Brandis String Quartet Wea/Atlantic/Erato - #24238

1955 - Mysterious Mountain
Composer: Alan Hovhaness
Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Performer: Charles Butler
Ensemble: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Delos - #3157 

1958 - Kontakte
Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Performer: Christoph Caskel, Gottfried Michael Koenig, et al.
Wergo (Ger) - #6009

1958 - Musique Funèbre
Composer: Witold Lutoslawski
Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
Ensemble: B. B. C. Philharmonic Orchestra
Chandos - #9421 

1958 - Concerto in Slendro 
Composer: Lou Harrison
Conductor: Barry Jekowsky
Performer: Al Jarreau, Maria Bachmann, et al.
Ensemble: California Symphony, California Symphony members
Uni/London Classics - #455590 

1958 - Metamorphoses
Composer: György Ligeti
Performer: David Alberman, Irvine Arditti, et al.
Ensemble: Arditti String Quartet
Sony Classics - #62306 

1958 - Sequenza I for Solo Flute 
Composer: Luciano Berio
Performer: Sophie Cherrier, Frédérique Cambreling, et al.
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain
Uni/Deutsche Grammophon - #457038 

 
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