Classical Music
- Samuel Adler – Symphony No. 3
- Malcolm Arnold – Symphony No. 5
- Milton Babbitt – Vision and Prayer
- Niels Viggo Bentzon – Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra
- Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 19
- Benjamin Britten – Cello Sonata
- Earle Brown – Available Forms I
- Elliott Carter – Double Concerto (1959–61); revision of Holiday Overture
- Mario Davidovsky – Electronic Study No. 1; Piano 1961 for orchestra
- Edison Denisov – String Quartet No. 2
- Alun Hoddinott – Concerto for Piano, Winds and Percussion
- Jānis Ivanovs – String Quartet No. 3
- Yuri Levitin – Concertino for Cello and Orchestra, opus 54
- György Ligeti – Atmosphères for Orchestra
- William Mathias – Second Piano Concerto
- Einojuhani Rautavaara – Symphony No. 3
- Alan Rawsthorne – Concerto for Ten Instruments
- Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 12 D minor, Op. 112 "The Year 1917"
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Originale, musical theatre, Nr. 12⅔
- Edgard Varèse – Nocturnal
- Mieczysław Weinberg – Concerto for flute and orchestra in D minor, op. 75
- Isang Yun – Third String Quartet (1959–61)
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