Classical Music
- Agustín Barrios - Variations on a Theme of Tarrega
- Arnold Bax - Pastoral Fantasia for Viola and String Orchestra
- Arthur Bliss - Piano Concerto in B-flat
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra
- Herbert Howells - Concerto for Strings
- Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
- Hilding Rosenberg - String Quartet No. 4
- William Schuman - American Festival Overture
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6 B minor, Op. 54
- Heitor Villa-Lobos - New York Sky-Line Melody
- William Walton - Violin Concerto
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