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
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