Classical Music
- Granville Bantock – Celtic Symphony
- Samuel Barber – Violin Concerto
- Lennox Berkeley – Symphony No. 1
- Benjamin Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem
- Aaron Copland – Episode, Music for Our Town
- Paul Creston – Symphony No. 1
- David Diamond – Concerto for Small Orchestra, String Quartet No. 1
- Hanns Eisler – Chamber Symphony
- Evaristo Fernández Blanco – Dramatic Overture
- John Fernström – Cello Concerto
- Vivian Fine – Suite in E Flat
- Jakov Gotovac – Guslar, op. 22
- Roy Harris – Folksong Symphony
- Paul Hindemith – Cello Concerto, Symphony in E-flat
- Aram Khachaturian – Violin Concerto
- Gideon Klein – String Quartet op. 2
- László Lajtha – Cello Concerto
- Igor Markevitch – Lorenzo il Magnifico
- Olivier Messiaen – Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet For The End Of Time)
- Darius Milhaud – String Quartet No. 10
- Gosta Nystroem – Viola Concerto
- Walter Piston – Suite from The Incredible Flutist
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances
- Roger Sessions – From my Diary
- Igor Stravinsky – Symphony in C completed
- William Walton – The Wise Virgins (ballet)
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“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)