1988 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

  • Gerald Barry – Cheveux-de-frise
  • Luciano Berio – Sequenza XI
  • George Crumb – Zeitgeist (Tableaux Vivants) for two amplified pianos
  • Peter Maxwell Davies – oboe concerto, trumpet concerto no. 1 (from the Strathclyde Concertos)
  • Mario Davidovsky – Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape
  • Joël-François Durand – Die innere Grenze for string sextet
  • Lorenzo Ferrero – La cena delle beffe (incidental music)
  • Michael Finnissy – Red Earth for orchestra
  • Henryk Górecki – String Quartet No. 1, "Already it is Dusk"
  • Stephen Hartke – Pacific Rim Overture
  • Vagn Holmboe – Symphony No. 12, M. 338
  • Frederik Magle - We Are Afraid (Vi er bange), cantata for choir and chamber orchestra
  • António Chagas Rosa – Piano Sonata
  • Bogusław Schaeffer – Concerto for Piano Duet and Orchestra
  • Alfred Schnittke – Piano Quartet; Symphony No. 5/ Concerto Grosso No. 4; Concerto for Piano four hands and Orchestra; Klingende Buchstaben
  • Peter Sculthorpe – Kakadu
  • Philip Sparke – Concerto Grosso
  • Tōru Takemitsu – Tree Line for chamber orchestra
  • John Tavener – The Akathist of Thanksgiving
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu – Concerto for Bassoon "Unicorn Circuit"

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