Charles Wuorinen - Selected Works

Selected Works

• Piano Variations (1963)
• Chamber Concerto for Cello and 10 Players (1963)
• Chamber Concerto for Flute and 10 Players (1964)
• Orchestral and Electronic Exchanges (1965)
• Janissary Music (1966)
• First Piano Concerto (1966)
• Duo for Violin and Piano (1967)
• The Politics of Harmony (1967)
• First Piano Sonata (1969)
• Time's Encomium (1969)
• Contrafactum (1969)
• Chamber Concerto for Tuba with 12 Winds and 12 Drums (1970)
• Grand Bamboula (1971)
• First String Quartet (1972)
• On Alligators (1972)
• Concerto for Amplified Violin and Orchestra (1972)
• Speculum Speculi (1972)
• Third Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano (1973)
• Arabia Felix (1973)
• Second Piano Concerto – for Amplified Piano and Orchestra (1974)
• The W. of Babylon, a baroque burlesque in two acts (1975)
• A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky (1975)
• Hyperion (1975)
• Tashi (1975/6)
• Percussion Symphony (1976)
• Second Piano Sonata (1976)
• Six Pieces for Violin and Piano (1977)
• The Winds (1977)
• Fast Fantasy (1977)
• Archaeopteryx for Bass Trombone and 10 Players (1978)
• Two-Part Symphony (1978)
• Fortune (1979)
• Second String Quartet (1979)
• Percussion Duo (1979)
• The Blue Bamboula (1980)
• The Celestial Sphere, an oratorio for chorus and orchestra (1980)
• New York Notes (1982)
• Third Piano Concerto (1983)
• Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra (1983)
• Bamboula Squared (1984)
• Movers and Shakers (1984)
• Crossfire (1984)
• The Golden Dance (1986)
• Third Piano Sonata (1986)
• Five: Concerto for Amplified Cello and Orchestra (1987)
• Sonata for Violin and Piano (1988)
• Genesis for chorus and orchestra (1989)
• String Sextet (1989)
• A Winter's Tale (text by Dylan Thomas; 1991)
• Saxophone Quartet (1992)
• The Mission of Virgil (inspired by scenes from Dante's Inferno;1993)
• Piano Quintet (1994)
• Percussion Quartet (1994)
• The Great Procession (inspired by scenes from Dante's Pugatorio; 1995)
• The River of Light (inspired by scenes from Dante's Paradiso; 1996)
• Symphony Seven (1997)
• Cyclops 2000 for 20 Players (2000)
• Fourth String Quartet (2000)
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories (libretto by James Fenton, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie – 2001)
• Fenton Songs II (poems of James Fenton; 2002)
• Fourth Piano Concerto (2003)
• Ashberyana (texts of John Ashbery; 2004)
• Duo Sonata for flute and piano (2004)
• Theologoumenon for orchestra (2005)
• Eighth Symphony (Theologoumena) (2006)
• Iridule for Oboe and 6 players (2006)
• Spin 5 for Violin and 18 Players (2006)
• Fourth Piano Sonata (2007)
• Synaxis (2007)
• Second Piano Quintet (2008)
• Metagong (2008)
• Time Regained, a fantasy for piano and orchestra (2008)
• It Happens Like This, a dramatic cantata on poems of James Tate (2010)
• Brokeback Mountain, an opera with libretto by Annie Proulx (2012)