Classical Music
- Arthur Bliss – Violin Concerto
- Henry Cowell – Symphony No. 12
- George Crumb
- Diptych for orchestra
- Sonata for solo cello
- Mario Davidovsky
- Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
- Suite Sinfonica Para "El Payaso" for orchestra
- Einar Englund – Piano Concerto No. 1
- Ferenc Farkas – Bukki Varlatok
- Gerald Finzi – Cello Concerto
- Hans Werner Henze – Symphony No. 4
- Alan Hovhaness – Symphony No. 2 Mysterious Mountain
- Witold Lutosławski – Dance Preludes (2nd version for clarinet and chamber group)
- Bohuslav Martinů
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
- Oboe Concerto
- Darius Milhaud
- Symphony No. 5
- Symphony No. 6
- Luigi Nono
- Canti per tredeci, for 13 instruments
- Incontri, for 24 instruments
- Walter Piston – Symphony No. 6
- Edmund Rubbra – Piano Concerto
- John Serry, Sr. – American Rhapsody
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Klavierstücke V–VIII
- Alexandre Tansman
- Concerto for Orchestra
- Capriccio for Orchestra
- Michael Tippett – Sonata for Four Horns
- Ernst Toch – Symphony No. 3
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 8
- William Walton – Johannesburg Festival Overture
- Franz Waxman – Sinfonietta for Strings and Timpani
- Iannis Xenakis – Pithoprakta for orchestra
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