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History, analysis and commentary about western classical music

Introduction to Twentieth Century Music - Further Listening - Europe

Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Prélude l’après-midi d’un faune
[Prelude to the afternoon of a faun]
La Mer [The Sea]
Jeux [Games]
String Quartet
Preludes for Piano

Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
Friede aud Erden [Peace on Earth]
Verklarte Nacht [Transfigured Night]
Erwartung [Expectation]
Variations for Orchestra
A Survivor from Warsaw

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
Bolero
Sonatine
Piano Trio
String Quartet
Daphnis et Chloe
Pavane pour une infante defunte [Pavane for a dead infant]

Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945)
Allegro Barbaro
String Quartet No 4
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Concerto for Orchestra

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
The Soldier’s Tale
Oedipus Rex
Symphony of Psalms

Anton Webern (1883 - 1945)
Fugue (Ricercare) for 6 voices (The Musical Offering)
Das Augenlicht [The Light of the Eye]
Cantata No 1
Cantata No 2
Symphony
Variations for Orchestra

Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
Sieben fruhe Lieder [Seven Early Songs]
Altenberg Lieder
Three Pieces for Orchestra
Lyric Suite
Lulu (opera)
Violin Concerto

Carl Orff (1895 - 1982)
Carmina Burana

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975)
Symphony Nos 5, 7, 11, 15
Piano Concerto Nos 1, 2
Suite for Jazz Orchestra Nos 1, 2
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)

Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992)
Poemes pour Mi
Harawi: Chant d’amour et de mort [Songs of love and death]
Chant de Terre et de Ciel [Songs of Earth and Heaven]
Turangalila Symphony
Visions de l’Amen [Visions of the Amen]
Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine
[Three small liturgies of the Divine Presence]
Catalogue d’oiseaux [Catalogue of Birds]
Le Reveil des oiseaux [The awakening of the birds]
Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jesus
[Twenty looks on the Infant Jesus]
Des canyons aux étoiles... [From the canyons to the stars...]
Éclairs sur l'au-delà… [Illuminations on the beyond...]

Henri Dutilleux (1916 - 2013)
Symphony No 1
Symphony No 2
Violin Concerto
Cello Concerto
Le temps l'horloge [Time and the Clock]

Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001)
Herma
Mists
Evryali
Strategie

Gyorgy Ligeti (1923 – 2006)
Atmospheres
Lux Aeterna

Luciano Berio (1925 - 2003)
Circles
Folk Songs
Epiphanie
Visage

Pierre Boulez (1925 - 2016)
Pli selon Pli
Le Visage Nuptial
Le Soleil Des Eaux
Repons

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 - 2007)
Aus Licht

Sofia Gubaidulina (born 1931)
Figures of Time
Offertorium (Concerto for violin and orchestra)
Johannes-Passion