Classical Music
- Joseph Achron – Concerto for Piano Solo
- Richard Addinsell – Warsaw Concerto
- Hanns Eisler – Fourteen Ways of Describing the Rain
- Roberto Gerhard – Sinfonía homenaje a Pedrell
- Reinhold Glière – Pochodnyj marš (Field march) for wind orchestra, op. 76
- Vítězslav Novák – De Profundis
- Harry Partch – Barstow
- Sergei Prokofiev – String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 92
- Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 7 C major, Op. 60 "Leningrad"
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