1968 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

• Milton Babbitt – Relata II for orchestra
• Samuel Barber – Twelfth Night and To Be Sung on the Water, op. 42
• Luciano Berio –
  • O King
  • Sinfonia
  • Chemins III
  • Questo vuol dire che for three female voices, small chorus, tape and other available resources
• Carlos Chávez – Pirámide (ballet)
• John Corigliano – Piano Concerto
• George Crumb – Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death for baritone, electric guitar, electric double bass, amplified piano/electric harpsichord, and two percussionists
• Mario Davidovsky – Music for Solo Violin
• Peter Maxwell Davies –
  • Stedman Caters
  • Stedman Doubles (revised version)
  • Fantasia on a Ground and 2 Pavans (after Purcell)
  • Epistrophe for two pianos
  • L’homme armé
• Edison Denisov –
  • Osen′ (Autumn), for 13 solo voices
  • Oda, pamyati Khe Gevara (Ode in Memory of Che Guevara)
  • Romanticheskaya muzïka
• Cristóbal Halffter –
  • Symposion
  • Yes, Speak Out, Yes
• Roy Harris –
  • Symphony no. 12
  • Concerto for Amplified Piano, Brass, Double Bass, and Percussion
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano (revised version)
• Hans Werner Henze – Das Floß der Medusa
• Heinz Holliger – h for wind quintet
• Ladislav Kupkovic – Souvenir (one of his few recorded works)
• Helmut Lachenmann – temA for flute, voice and cello
• György Ligeti – Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett (Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet)
• Witold Lutosławski – Livre pour orchestre
• Bo Nilsson – Attraktionen, for string quartet
• Per Nørgård – Rejse ind i den gyldne skærm (Voyage into the Golden Screen)
• Roger Sessions – Symphony no. 8
• Dmitri Shostakovich –
  • String Quartet no. 12 in D♭ major, op. 133
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major, op. 134
• Karlheinz Stockhausen –
  • Aus den sieben Tagen
  • Kurzwellen
  • Stimmung
  • Spiral
• John Tavener – The Whale (cantata)
• David Tudor & Lowell Cross – Reunion
• Charles Wuorinen –
  • Flute Variations II
  • String Trio
• Iannis Xenakis – Nomos Gamma for 98 musicians dispersed among the audience