1977 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

  • John Adams
    • China Gates, for piano
    • Phrygian Gates, for piano
  • Samuel Adler
    • Aeolus, God of the Winds, for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
    • Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
    • A Falling of Saints, for tenor, bass, chorus, and orchestra
    • It is to God I shall Sing, for chorus and organ
  • Kalevi Aho
    • Quintet, for 5 bassoons
    • Quintet, for flute, oboe, violin, viola, and cello
  • Necil Kazım Akses
    • Concerto for Orchestra
    • Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
  • Franghiz Ali-Zadeh – Zu den Kindertotenlieder (In Memoriam Gustav Mahler), for clarinet, violin, and percussion
  • Birgitte Alsted – Strygekvartet i CD, for string quartet
  • Javier Álvarez – Canciones de la Venta, for soprano, violin, viola, and baroque guitar
  • William Alwyn
    • Invocations (song cycle), for mezzo-soprano and piano
    • A Leave-Taking (song cycle), for tenor and piano
  • Charles Amirkhanian – Dutiful Ducks, for tape with optional live voices
  • Gilbert Amy
    • Strophe, for soprano and orchestra (revised version)
    • Trois études, for flute
  • Beth Anderson – Joan, for tape
  • Laurie Anderson
    • Audio Talk, performance art
    • On Dit, performance art
    • Some Songs, performance art
    • Stereo Decoy, performance art
    • That's Not the Way I Heard It, performance art
  • Ruth Anderson – Sound Portraits I–II, text pieces
  • Hendrik Andriessen – Ricercare, version for wind orchestra
  • Jurriaan Andriessen
    • Psalmen-trilogie, for baritone, chorus, and orchestra
    • Symphony no. 7, The Awakening Dream, for keyboard and electronics
    • Symphony no. 8, La celebrazione
  • Louis Andriessen – Hoketus, for two groups of 6 players each
  • Denis ApIvor
    • Chant Eolien, for oboe and piano, op. 65
    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, op. 64
  • Violet Archer – Plainsongs, for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • Malcolm Arnold
    • Sonata, for flute and piano, op. 121
    • Variations on a Theme of Ruth Gipps, for orchestra, op. 122
  • Larry Austin – Quadrants: Event/Complex no. 11, for double bass and tape
  • Luciano Berio
    • Coro, for 40 voices and 40 instruments (revised version)
    • Fantasia, for orchestra (after Giovanni Gabrieli)
    • Il ritorno degli snovidenia, for cello and 30 instruments
    • Sequenza VIII, for violin
    • Toccata, fpr orchestra (after Girolamo Frescobaldi)
  • Harrison Birtwistle – Silbury Air
  • Rob du Bois
    • Skarabee, for orchestra
    • Zodiak, for one or more instruments or instrumental groups
  • John Buller – Proença for mezzo-soprano, electric guitar, and large orchestra
  • Enrique Crespo – American Suite No. 1
  • George Crumb – Star-Child (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
  • Peter Maxwell Davies
    • A Mirror of Whitening Light, for chamber orchestra
    • Our Father Which in Heaven Art, for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
    • Runes from a Holy Island, for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
    • Westerlings, for SATB choir
  • Franco Donatoni
    • Algo, for guitar
    • Ali, for viola
    • Diario ’76, for four trumpets and four trombones
    • Portrait, for harpsichord and orchestra
    • Spiri, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, celesta, vibraphone, 2 violins, viola, and cello
    • Toy, for 2 violins, viola, and harpsichord
  • Brian Ferneyhough – Time and Motion Study I, for bass clarinet
  • Lorenzo Ferrero
    • Arioso
    • Adagio cantabile
    • Romanza seconda
    • Aivlys
  • Frans Geysen –
    • Muziek voor toetsenbord, for piano
    • Omtrent sib, for three oboes
    • Orgelstuk, for organ
    • Pentakel, for oboe
    • Stadssteeg, for 6 oboes, 4 trumpets, 2 trombones
  • Alberto Ginastera
    • Barabbas, opera (unfinished)
    • Concerto No. 1 for Cello and Orchestra, op. 36 (revised version)
    • Glosses sobre temes de Pau Casals, for orchestra, op. 48
  • Alexander Goehr – Romanza on the Notes of Psalm IV, op. 38c
  • Bengt Hambraeus – Antiphonie: Cathedral Music for Organ
  • Alan Hovhaness
    • Ananda, piano sonata, op. 303
    • Celestial Canticle, for coloratura soprano and piano, op. 305
    • Dawn on a Mountain Lake, for double bass and piano, op. 393
    • Fred the Cat, piano sonata, op. 301
    • Glory Sings the Setting Sun, cantata for coloratura soprano, clarinet, and piano, op. 292
    • How I Love Thy Law, cantata for high soprano, clarinet, piano, op. 298
    • Mount Belknap, piano sonata, op. 299, no. 1 (revised version)
    • Mount Ossipee, piano sonata, op. 299, no. 2 (revised version)
    • Mount Shasta, piano sonata, op. 299, no. 3 (revised version)
    • A Presentiment, for coloratura soprano and piano, op. 304
    • Suite, for flute and guitar, op. 300 (1977)
    • Sonata, for oboe and bassoon, op. 302
    • Sonata, for 2 clarinets, op. 297
    • Sonata No. 1, for harpsichord, Op. 306
    • Sonatina ("Meditation on Mt. Monadnock"), for piano, op. 288
    • The Spirit's Map, for voice and piano, op. 391
    • Srpouhi, duet for violin and piano, op. 398
    • Symphony No. 31, for strings, op. 294
    • Symphony No. 32 ("The Broken Wings"), op. 296
    • Symphony No. 33 ("Francis Bacon"), op. 307
    • Symphony No. 34, for bass trombone and strings, op. 310
  • Maki Ishii
    • Black Intention, for recorder
    • Voices—Violet, for gidayū ensemble, shō, and percussion
  • David C. Johnson – Ars Subtilior Electrica, electronic music
  • Mauricio Kagel
    • An Tasten, étude for piano
    • MM51, film score
    • Présentation für zwei
    • Quatre degrés (Schlagzeugtrio für Holzinstrumente)
    • Variété (Concert-Spectacle für Artisten und Musiker)
  • Jonathan Kramer
    • Renascence, for clarinet and tape (revised version)
    • Studies on Six Notes, for harpsichord
  • György Kurtág
    • Hommage à Mihály András (Twelve Microludes for String Quartet), op. 13
    • , op. 15, for guitar (unpublished, withdrawn)
  • Helmut Lachenmann – Salut für Caudwell, music for two guitarists
  • André Laporte
    • Icarus' Flight, for piano and twelve instruments
  • Mario Lavista
    • Pieza para caja de música, for music box
    • Los inocentes, incidental music
  • Luca Lombardi
    • Tui-Gesänge, for soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello
    • Variazioni su ‘Avanti popolo alla riscossa’, for piano
    • Variazioni, for orchestra
  • John McGuire – Pulse Music II, for four pianos and small orchestra
  • Tomás Marco
    • Herbania, for harpsichord
    • Hoquetus, for 1, 2, or 3 clarinets, live and/or recorded
    • Sicigia, for cello
    • Sonata de Vesperia, for piano
    • Tormer, for harpsichord, violin, viola, and cello
  • Bo Nilsson – Madonna, for mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble
  • Per Nørgård
    • Cantica, for cello and piano
    • Den afbrudte sang (Orfeus og Euridike), for chorus, percussion, harp, and other instruments ad lib.
    • Freedom, for tenor and guitar
    • Kredsløb, for SATB choir
    • Mating Dance, for flute (+ alto flute) and guitar
    • Recall, for accordion and orchestra (revised version)
    • Towards Freedom?, for orchestra
    • Twilight, for orchestra
  • Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
  • Henri Pousseur
    • Ballade berlinoise, for piano
    • Liège à Paris, electronic music
  • Aulis Sallinen
    • Simppeli Simme ja Hamppari, for mixed choir
    • Symphony No. 1
  • Dieter Schnebel
    • Canon (‘Diapason’)
    • Handwerke-Blaswerke I (Arianna), for 1 wind instrument, 1 string instrument, and 1 percussionist
    • Orchestra, for orchestra
    • Quintet in B♭ major, for piano and strings
    • Rhythmen, for 2 guitars, organ, and percussion
  • Kurt Schwertsik
    • Concerto for Violin No. 1, op. 31
    • Wiener Chronik 1848, ballet op. 28
  • Gerald Shapiro
    • Dance Suite, for piano
    • For Nancy, wordless vocalise, for soprano and piano
    • Questions, for SATB choir
    • You are Your Own Energy Source, electroacoustic dance score
  • Makoto Shinohara – Liberation, for orchestra
  • Roger Smalley – Seven Modulator Pieces, for 4 flutes
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    • Jubiläum
    • Sirius
  • Tōru Takemitsu
    • A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
    • Gitā no tame no jūni no uta, for guitar
    • Hanare goze Orin, film score
    • Ohan, incidental music for television
    • Quatrain II, for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
    • Sabita honoo, film score
    • Saigō Takamori den, incidental music for television
    • Toono monogatari wo yuku: Yanagida Kunio no fūkei, incidental music for television
    • Water-ways for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, two harps, and two vibraphones
  • Michael Tippett – Symphony No. 4
  • Alexander Vustin – In Memory of Boris Klyuzner
  • Isang Yun – Concerto for Flute and Small Orchestra

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