Compositions
Solo pieces:
- Scherzo Fantastique by Alfred Reed
- Ombra by Franco Donatoni
- Anubis, Nout by Gérard Grisey
- interference by Richard Barrett - also employing the player's voice and a pedal bass drum.
- Celephaïs by Héctor Moro - with electronics created manipulating contrabass clarinet sounds -
Ensemble pieces:
- Triple Concerto for clarinet, bass clarinet, and contrabass clarinet by Donald Martino
- Saint François d'Assise and Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà... by Olivier Messiaen
- Fünf Orchesterstücke, Opus 16 by Arnold Schoenberg - in the first movement Schoenberg calls for a contrabass clarinet "in A" (see above)
- Symphony No. 1 ("Of Rage and Remembrance") by John Corigliano
- Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Niccolò Paganini by James Barnes
- The Flood by Igor Stravinsky
- Symphony No. 7 by Hans Werner Henze
- Asyla by Thomas Ades
- The Lost Art of Letter Writing by Brett Dean
- L.A. Variations, Wing on Wing and Piano Concerto No. 1 by Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Hadewijch - Part II of De Materie by Louis Andriessen
- KRAFT by Magnus Lindberg
- Kepler by Phillip Glass
- Doctor Atomic by John Adams
- "Josephslegende" by Richard Strauss
- "Fervaal" by Vincent d'Indy
- "Blue Shades" by Frank Ticheli
- "Poem" (woodwind transcription) by Charles Griffes
- Epitaph by Charles Mingus
- Frank Zappa regularly used the contrabass clarinet in his avant-garde compositions.
- "Frangelica II" by Steve Vai
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