Classical Music
- Arno Babadjanian – Third String Quartet
- Osvaldas Balakauskas – Symphony no 2
- George Crumb
- Apparition for soprano and amplified piano
- Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) for amplified piano (four hands)
- Star-Child (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
- Mario Davidovsky – Pennplay for sixteen players
- Hugh Flynn – Birds
- Jacques Hétu – Bassoon Concerto
- Miloslav Kabelac – Metamorphoses II, for piano and orchestra, op. 58
- William Lloyd Webber – Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
- Allan Pettersson – Viola Concerto
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