Artist	Song
Amici Chamber Ensemble	Quatuor pour la fin du temps, I. 22: II. Vocalise, for the Angel who announces the end ofTime
from Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (1995)
Aaron Copland & London Symphony Orchestra	Billy the Kid (Ballet Suite): Gun Battle
from Copland Conducts Copland: Appalachan Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Billy the Kid (1988)
Arthur Weisberg & Contemporary Chamber Ensemble	Ancient Voices of Children: Dances Of The Ancient Earth
from George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children - Music For A Summer Evening (2005)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez	Ionisation
from Boulez Conducts Varése: Amériques, Arcana, Déserts & Ionisation (2001)
Claudio Abbado, Günther Theuring, Wiener Jeunesse-Chor & Wiener Philharmoniker	Liebeslied (1954) [For Mixed Chorus and Instruments]
from Wien Modern (1990)
Dennis Marks, Lisa Leonard, Mark Hetzler & Mike Orta	Vocano Songs - Hips Dance
from American Voices (2005)
Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini, Slavka Taskova & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks	Como Una Ola de Fuerza y Luz: Orchestra and piano entry
from Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz ; Manzoni: Masse: ommagio a Edgar Varèse (2001)
Paul Hillier & Theatre of Voices	Stimmung: Model 11
from Stockhausen: Stimmung (2007)
Christian Lindberg	Sequenza V
from Berio - Xenakis - Kagel - Cage: Works for Solo Trombone (1989)
Pacifica Quartet	String Quartet No. 1: I. Maestoso
from Carter: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5 (2008)
Charles Ives	Four Transcriptions from Emerson: No. 1 (beg.)
from Ives Plays Ives: The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano (2006)
Balanescu Quartet	String Quartet No.2: 2. II
from Michael Nyman: String Quartets Nos.1-3 (2007)
Benjamin Simon, David Abel, Joan Jeanrenaud, Julie Steinberg & William Winant	Allegro
from Rhymes With Silver (2000)
Joan Jeanrenaud	Metamorphosis Four
from Metamorphosis (2002)
Daniel Adni, Isabelle Van Keulen, Rainer Moog & Young-Chang Cho	Piano Quartet No. 1, III. Allegretto poco moderato, Poco allegro, Allegro, Andante, Allegretto, Allegro
from Martinu: Chamber Music (1996)
Miya Masaoka	Part 2
from While I was walking, I heard a sound... (2005)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Dale Tracy, Marc Shapiro, Melodi Dalton & Vance George	Ecstatic Meditaions: No. 2. How the Soul Speaks to God
from Voices 1900/ 2000 (2001)
Anthony de Mare	Paris
from Cage & Monk: Pianos and Voices (1992)
Aequalis & Fred Bronstein	Synchronism No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sounds
from Aequalis: Brody/Davidovsky/Gideon/Steiger/Ung (1991)
Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio	Set of Five: III
from Set of Five (1991)
Alexandre Tharaud	Les Trois Valses Distinguées Du Précieux Dégoûté: II. Son Binocle
from Satie: Avant-dernières pensées (2009)
Gidon Kremer, Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic	Violin Concerto (1984): 4. Midnight: Slow
from Glass - Rorem: Violin Concertos, Bernstein: Serenade (2006)
Charles Wuorinen & New York Virtuoso Singers	Mass for the Restoration of St. Luke in the Fields: Symphonia
from Charles Wuorinen Series: Genesis (2004)
David Abel, Deborah Dietrich, Karen Rosenak, Philip Brett, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus & William Winant	Rothko Chapel: 4th Movement
from Feldman: Rothko Chapel, Why Patterns? (1991)

Comment:

No survey of the past century’s music would be complete if it ignored the advent of electronics and the rise of technological developments that changed the manner in which at least some of the recent past’s most notable works have been composed. Argentine-American composer Mario Davidovsky won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1971 with his “Synchronism No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sounds,” which combines live piano and pre-recorded tape. In “Ionisation,” the first-ever concert-hall composition for an unaccompanied percussion ensemble (and one which introduced the electric siren as an orchestral instrument), French composer Edgard Varèse delivers a masterpiece that one contemporary critic likens to “a sock in the jaw.” But just to bring it back to where we began, we conclude with French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, providing a thoughtful, original, reading of Satie’s “Les Trois Valses Distinguées Du Précieux Dégoûté: II. Son Binocle.”

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