Indeterminacy
Guale The Golden Coast Of Georgia (LP)
1976 composition for ensemble for a film, released on the composer's own Opus One label.
String Quartet / Watercolor Acrylic Watercolor (LP)
A 1975 string quartet with electronics and a 1981 composition for wind quintet and string quintet, released on Paula in 1983.
A Solo Requiem / Haiku Settings / Filigree Setting / Three Synthesizer Settings (LP)
1981 LP on Nonesuch with some great late 1970's synthesizer music by Powell plus compositions for soprano and piano and for string quartet by both composers spanning from 1958 to 1977. With insert.
Synchronisms No. 6 / Electronic Study No. 3 / Synchronisms No. 5 / Trobar Clus / Solitaire For Piano And Vibes (LP)
Excellent avant-garde compositions for instruments and electronics/tape spanning from 1965 to 1971, released on Turnabout's "The Contemporary Composer in the USA" in 1973.
Violin Concerto / Little Symphony No. 1 (LP)
First recordings of two acclaimed orchestral works composed respectively in 1954 and 1945, released on Columbia in 1964.
Violin Concertos (LP)
Two 1979 concertos for violin and orchestra performed by Itzhak Perlman with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa, and released by EMI in 1985.
Instrumental Music (LP)
Contemporary pieces for piano and ensemble composed in the 1970's and released on CRI's "American Contemporary" series in 1976.
O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag / String Quartet No. 2 With Soprano (LP)
A 1958 composition for mixed chorus and chamber ensemble backed with a 1961 string quartet with soprano, released by CRI in 1963.
Two Pastels / Andante For Strings / Concerto For English Horn And Orchestra (LP)
Three orchestral works composed in the 1950's and 60's and performed by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by one of the two composers, released on Desto in 1972.
Piano Concerto / Passacaglia Recitatives And Fugue (LP)
Two late 1950's compositions for piano and orchestra performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Igor Buketoff, released by RCA in 1971.
Symphony No. 9 - The Ardeatine Caves / Sinfonia Janiculum - Symphony No. 9 (LP)
First recordings of two 9th symphonies composed in the late 1960's performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, released on RCA in 1971.
Highlights Of Vortex (LP)
Essential 1959 electronic music / musique concrète album on Folkways documenting the soundtracks to a pioneering multimedia environment in San Francisco in 1957. With insert.
Robert Floyd Plays New Music by Hans Werner Henze and Larry Austin (LP)
1971 LP on Advance Recordings with late 1950's / early 60's compositions for piano by the German composer and by the founder of The New Music Ensemble, performed by Robert Floyd.
Ellsworth Snyder Plays New Piano Music (LP)
1976 LP on Advance Recordings with contemporaru compositions for piano, including two paragraphs from Cardew's Treatise, spanning from 1957 to 1972, performed by Ellsworth Snyder.
10th Anniversary Recording (LP)
Contemporary chamber music composed in the 1980's and performed by the Musical Elements ensemble, released on CRI in 1987.
New Trends (LP)
1975 LP on CRI presenting four contemporary instrumental pieces from the 1970's for solo instrument, duo or ensemble with vocals, plus Cross' Three Etudes For Magnetic Tape.
A Second Wind For Organ (LP)
Great 1967 album on Odyssey's "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series produced by David Behrman with three experimental works for organ performed by David Tudor, including Mumma's amazing ear-splitting Mesa.
New American Music Volume 4 (LP)
Fourth and last, and possibly best volume of Folkways's "New American Music" series released in 1975, presenting six superb experimental electronic compositions from the 1970's, most of which available only here.
New American Music Volume 3 (LP)
Third volume of Folkways's four-volume "New American Music" series released in 1975, presenting four excellent avant-garde compositions from the 1970's including Rzewski's great and intense Three Songs.
Four American Composers (LP)
1960's contemporary chamber works by four composers released on Desto in 1971.