Artist	Song
Ernest Bour and The Sudwesfunk Orchestra	Gyorgy Ligeti: Overture - Atmospheres (2:51)
Lawrence Beauregard	Edgar Varese: Density 21.5 for Solo Flute (4:11)
Singcircle	Karl Stockhausen: Tenor Section from Stimmung (1:44)
Pierre Boulez and Members of the Ensemble InterContemporain	Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4 (29:25)
Esa-Pekka Salonen and The London Sinfonietta with Paul Crossley, piano	Olivier Messiaen: Les Orioles from Des canyons aux etoiles (6:02)
F. Gerard Errante and Burton Beerman	Vladimir Ussachevsky: Four Studies for Clarinet and EVI (5:46)
Les Percussions de Strasbourg and Keiko Abe, marimba	Iannis Xenakis: Claviers from Pleiades (10:02)
Gennadi Rezhdestvensky and The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra	Aram Khachaturian: Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio, 5:17)
Stephen Drury	John Cage: In a Landscape (9:47)

Comment:

This mix represents the continuing soundtrack to Mark Prendergast's book The Ambient Century. The comments below are derived from Prendergast's book.
Born in 1923, Ligeti was born in Transylvania and his work, including the piece included here, was famously utilized by Stnaley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Edgard Varese was born in Paris in 1883 and was much beloved by Frank Zappa, whom Varese influenced enormously.
Stockhausen (b. 1928), beyond being one of the most significant figures in 20th Century music, famously influenced the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Revolution 9" and was given tribute on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Though Schoenberg is often associated more with the Serial school than with Ambience, he has often been cited as the one responsible for taking German Romanticism and breaking it in two, opening the doors form Ambience and Minimalism.
Messiaen was a French child prodigy born in 1908, who's sprawling work From the Canyons to the Stars was inspired by the Rocky Mountains in Utah.
Along with American Otto Luening, Russian-born Ussachevsky is credited with the first public performance of tape music in the United States in 1952.
Greek composer Xenakis was trained as an architect and became well-known for his firm grasp of environmental structures and how they related to sound.
Khachaturian's work was also utilized by Kubrick for its spatial, romantic quality.
John Cage is perhaps best known for his experiments with silence; with "In a Landscape" a blissful ambience is captured.

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