Recommended Recordings

– from “Surprised by Beauty” (2nd Ed.)

1. John Adams

2. Stephen Albert

3. George Antheil

4. Richard Arnell

5. Malcolm Arnold

6. Samuel Barber

7. Walter Braunfels

8. Frank Bridge

9. Benjamin Britten

10. Maurice Duruflé

11. Edward Elgar

12. Einar Englund

13. Gerald Finzi

14. Kenneth Fuchs

15. Hans Gál

17. Steven Gerber

18. Morton Gould

19. Roy Harris

20. Bernard Herrmann and Nino Rota

21. Vagn Holmboe

22. Leoš Janácek

23. Charles Koechlin

24. Erich Wolfgang Korngold

25. László Lajtha

26. Libby Larsen

27. Morten Lauridsen

28. Jonathan Leshnoff

29. Lowell Liebermann

30. Gian Francesco Malipiero

31. Frank Martin

32. Bohuslav Martinu

33. William Mathias

34. David Matthews

35. Eric(h) Zeisl and Franz Mittler

36. Carl Nielsen

37. Francis Poulenc

38. Günter Raphael

39. George Rochberg

40. Albert Roussel

41. Edmund Rubbra

42. Harald Sæverud

43. Aulis Sallinen

44. Ahmed Saygun

45. Peter Schickele

46. Franz Schmidt

47. Othmar Schoeck

48. Dmitri Shostakovich

49. Jean Sibelius

50. Robert Simpson

51. Sergei Taneyev

52. Alexander Tcherepnin

53. Michael Tippett

54. George Tsontakis

55. Eduard Tubin

56. Geirr Tveitt

57. Peteris Vasks and Einojuhani Rautavaara

58. Ralph Vaughan Williams

59. Heitor Villa-Lobos

60. Mieczysław Weinberg