Classical Music
- Jean Barraqué - Sequence
- Arnold Bax - Autumn Legend
- Boris Blacher - Viola Concerto
- Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maître
- Havergal Brian - Symphony No. 10
- Carlos Chávez – Symphony No. 3
- George Crumb - String Quartet
- Mario Davidovsky - Concertino for Percussion and String Orchestra
- Ernő Dohnányi - American Rhapsody
- Ross Lee Finney - Second Piano Trio
- Gerald Finzi - Cello Concerto opus 40 in A minor
- André Fleury - Messe pour la fête de tous les saints
- Armstrong Gibbs - Dale and Fell
- Howard Hanson - Symphony No. 5, Sinfonia Sacra
- Andrew Imbrie - Violin Concerto
- Alemdar Karamanov - Symphony No. 1
- Aram Khachaturian - Spartacus, ballet
- György Ligeti - String Quartet No. 1, Metamorphoses Nocturnes
- Darius Milhaud - West Point Suite
- Walter Piston - Symphony No. 5
- Edmund Rubbra - Sixth Symphony, Op. 80 and Viola Concerto, Op. 75
- Roger Sessions - Idyll of Theocritus
- Robert Simpson (composer) - String Quartet No. 3
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Studie II, electronic music
- Igor Stravinsky - In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
- Virgil Thomson - Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp and Percussion
- Ernst Toch - String Quartet No. 13, Op. 74
- Henri Tomasi - Concerto for Horn
- Eduard Tubin - Symphony No. 6
- Edgard Varèse - Déserts (1950–54)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams - Tuba Concerto in F minor
- Stefan Wolpe - Symphony for 24 Instruments
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