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21St Century Consort Composer Performance List 21st Century Consort Composer List 1975 - 2016 Archive of performance recordings Hans Abrahamsen Winternacht (1976-78) 1986-12-06 (15:27) flute, clarinet, trumpet, French horn, piano, violin, cello, conductor John Adams Road Movies 2012-05-05 (15:59) violin, piano Hallelujah Junction 2016-02-06 (17:25) piano, piano Shaker Loops (1978) 2000-04-15 (26:34) violin, violin, violin, viola, cello, cello, contrabass, conductor Bruce Adolphe Machaut is My Beginning (1989) 1996-03-16 (5:01) violin, cello, flute, clarinet, piano Miguel Del Agui Clocks 2011-11-05 (20:46) violin, piano, viola, violin, cello Stephen Albert To Wake the Dead (1978) 1993-02-13 (27:24) soprano, violin, conductor Tribute (1988) 1995-04-08 (10:27) violin, piano Treestone (1984) 1991-11-02 (38:15) soprano, tenor, violin, violin, viola, cello, bass, trumpet, clarinet, French horn, flute, percussion, piano, conductor Songs from the Stone Harp (1988) 1989-03-18 (11:56) tenor, harp, cello, percussion Treestone (1978) 1984-03-17 (30:22) soprano, tenor, flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, harp, violin, violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, percussion, conductor Into Eclipse (1981) 1985-11-02 (31:46) tenor, violin, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, trumpet, horn, conductor Distant Hills Coming Nigh: "Flower of the Mountain" 2016-04-30 (16:44) double bass, clarinet, piano, viola, conductor, French horn, violin, soprano, flute, violin, oboe, bassoon, cello Tribute (1988) 2002-01-26 (9:55) violin, piano Into Eclipse [New Version for Cello Solo Prepared by Jonathan Leshnoff] (2002) 2002-01-26 (31:53) violin, violin, viola, cello, cello, contrabass, flute, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, percussion, piano, conductor Distant Hills Coming Nigh: "Sun's Heat" 2016-04-30 (18:21) double bass, tenor, clarinet, piano, viola, conductor, French horn, violin, flute, violin, oboe, bassoon, cello Cathedral Music 2013-07-08 (24:03) piano, piano, electric organ, trombone, percussion, electric piano, conductor, flute, French horn, horn, cello, percussion, banjo , harp, flute, cello Into Eclipse (1981) 1982-03-07 (31:16) tenor, ensemble, conductor To Wake the Dead (1978) 1980-12-14 (26:52) soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, conductor Treestone (1984) 2008-02-23 (38:02) soprano, tenor, violin, violin, viola, cello, bass, harp, trumpet, clarinet, French horn, flute, percussion, piano, conductor To Wake the Dead (1978) (Six Sentimental Songs and an Interlude After Finnegans Wake) 2013-02-23 (28:24) violin, clarinet, piano, flute, conductor, piano/harmonium , soprano, cello Distant Hills Coming Nigh (1989-90) 1991-05-11 (31:28) tenor, soprano, violin, cello, bassoon, clarinet, viola, piano, French horn, double bass, flute, conductor Cathedral Music (1971) 1997-06-24 (21:05) percussion, flute, electric organ, French horn, electric guitar, cello, cello, trombone, percussion, harp, piano, piano, electric piano, flute, French horn, trumpet, conductor Thomas Albert Characters (2010) 2010-05-08 (35:13) violin, clarinet, piano, percussion, soprano, flute, cello Illuminations (2007) 2007-04-07 (18:14) flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello, tap dancer Thirteen Ways (1998) 2001-03-10 (28:08) narrator, violin, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano Thirteen Ways (1998) 2014-10-25 (29:57) clarinet, piano, percussion, conductor, violin, flute, cello Kathryn Alexander And the Whole Air is Tremulous (For Solo Flute and Electronics) (1985) 2008-10-25 (13:18) flute, electronics And the Whole Air is Tremulous (For Solo Flute and Electronics) (1985) 2001-04-21 (13:12) flute, electronics The Whole Air is Tremulous (For Solo Flute and Electronics) (1984-85) 1989-03-18 (13:03) flute, electronics Peter Alexander Headlock (1998) 2007-04-07 (5:05) violin, bass Dominick Argento Miss Havesham's Wedding Night (An Opera in One Act) (1979) 1997-12-06 (32:33) soprano, piano Malcolm Arnold Sonatina (Arnold, 1951) 1994-12-03 (7:57) clarinet, piano Milton Babbitt As Long as it Isn't Love (1946) 2009-02-21 (0:48) mezzo-soprano, piano Philomel (1963) 2001-03-10 (18:49) soprano, electronics Victor Babbitt Valse 1994-12-03 (1:21) clarinet, piano Simon Bainbridge Voicing (1982) 1987-12-05 (11:46) flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, conductor Louis Ballard Four American Indian Piano Preludes (1963) 2006-04-29 (7:24) piano Samuel Barber Dover Beach (1931) 2010-10-23 (8:02) violin, viola, violin, baritone, cello Bela Bartok Contrasts (1938) 2004-03-13 (16:45) clarinet, violin, piano Contrasts (1938) 2000-02-26 (17:26) violin, clarinet, piano Contrasts (1938) 1995-04-08 (17:29) violin, clarinet, piano Twenty Romanian Christmas Carols 2015-12-05 (12:33) piano, flute Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937) 1988-02-27 (29:32) piano, piano, percussion, percussion Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937) 2016-02-06 (29:30) piano, piano, percussion, percussion Contrasts (1938) 1989-02-11 (16:48) clarinet, violin, piano Robert Beaser Songs from the Occasions (1984-1985) 1994-11-05 (25:20) tenor, violin, viola, clarinet, flute, cello, horn, piano, conductor Variations (1982) 1990-10-20 (26:56) flute, piano Songs from the Occasions (1984-1985) 2009-02-21 (25:04) tenor, violin, viola, cello, flute, French horn, piano, conductor Variations for Flute and Piano in Three Movements 2012-02-11 (28:05) piano, flute David Bedford The Tentacles of the Dark Nebula (1969) 1980-11-09 (16:36) tenor, violin, violin, violin, viola, viola, cello, cello, double bass, conductor David Behrman Protest 1917-2004 (For Violin and Electronics) (2004) 2007-10-27 (8:14) violin, electronics Arthur Benjamin Le Tombeau de Ravel (1958) 1994-12-03 (14:37) clarinet, piano Le Tombeau de Ravel (1958) 2005-11-05 (14:05) clarinet, piano Richard Rodney Bennett Commedia II for Flute, Cello, and Piano (1972) 1983-03-19 (9:07) flute, cello, piano Night Music (1972) 1990-10-20 (12:32) soprano, electronics Commedia I (1971) 1976-02-09 (16:14) flute, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, cello, percussion Crazy Jane (1968) 1981-11-08 (11:31) soprano, clarinet, cello, piano Warren Benson Moon Rain and Memory Jane (1982) 1989-04-22 (34:07) soprano, cello, cello Moon Rain and Memory Jane (1982) 1995-03-04 (33:14) soprano, cello, cello Songs for the End of the World (1980) 1982-01-17 (34:39) soprano, ensemble, conductor Alban Berg Quartet Opus 3 (1910) 1983-01-15 (21:49) violin, violin, viola, cello Luciano Berio Sequenza I for Solo Flute (1958) 1984-12-08 (6:38) flute Folk Songs (1964) 1981-04-12 (22:24) soprano, flute, clarinet, viola, cello, harp, percussion, percussion, conductor Circles (1960) 2003-11-01 (21:51) soprano, harp, percussion, percussion Sequenza II (1963) 2000-11-04 (6:05) harp Folk Songs (1964) 1992-04-04 (22:10) soprano, flute, clarinet, viola, cello, harp, percussion, percussion, conductor Gesti (1970) 1990-04-14 (4:57) recorder Folk Songs (1964) 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Harrison Birtwistle Ring a Dumb Carillon (1964-65) 1987-12-05 (15:31) soprano, clarinet, percussion Ring a Dumb Carillon (1964-65) 2006-04-29 (17:17) clarinet, percussion, soprano William Bolcom Second Sonata for Violin and Piano (1979) 2003-02-08 (19:02) violin, piano Second Sonata for Violin and Piano (1979) 2007-04-07 (17:52) violin, piano Sonata for Two Pianos in One Movement (1994) 2005-12-10 (16:16) piano, piano Claude Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio (1975) 2007-04-07 (31:23) flute, bass, piano, percussion Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio (1975) 1995-05-13 (36:05) flute, piano, bass, percussion Susan Botti Talaio: Desdemona (1995) 2007-02-03 (39:53) violin, soprano, piano, percussion, harp, violin, violin, cello Pierre Boulez Sonatine (1946) 1994-03-12 (14:41) flute, piano Messagesquisse for Seven Cellos (1976) 1995-03-04 (9:11) cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello, cello William Brehm All Over Again 2009-02-21 (4:19) violin, tenor, mezzo-soprano, piano 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