L'era del serialismo/ The age of serialism

• Carter: Sonata piano (1946)
• Babbitt: Three Compositions for Piano (1947)
• Carter: Sonata cello & piano (1948)
• Boulez: Sonata piano 2 (1948)
• Boulez: Livre Pour Quatuor (1949)
• Messiaen: Mode de Valeurs (1950)
• Boulez: Structures (1951)
• Stockhausen: Kreuzspiel (1951)
• Barraque: Sonata piano (1952)

Nuovi strumenti/ New instruments

• Jolivet: Concerto pour ondes Martenot (1947)
• Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1948)
• Messiaen: Turangalila (1948)
• Schaeffer: Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul (1950)
• Cage: Concerto prep. piano (1951)

Nuovi metodi di composizione/ New methods of composition

• Cage: Imaginary Landscape no.4 (1951)
• Cage: Music Of Changes (1951)
• Feldman: Projections (1951)
• Luening: Fantasy In Space (1952)
• Cage: Water Music (1952)
• Brown: December 1952 (1952)
• Wolff: Twentyfive pages (1953)
• Wolff: Burdocks
• Schaeffer: Orphee (1953)
• Stockhausen: Kontra-Punkte (1953)
• Xenakis: Metastasis (1954)

I Quartetti Scientifici/ The scientific quartets

• Messiaen: Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps (1940)
• Cage: Quartet (1950)
• Carter: Quartet 1 (1951)
• Carter: Sonata fl, oboe, violoncello, clavicembalo (1952)
• Wolpe: Quartet per tromba, sassofono, piano & percussioni (1952)
• Babbitt: Quartet per archi 2 (1954)

Il canto fra tradizione e rivoluzione/ The voice between tradition and revolutioin

• Messiaen: Harawi (1945)
• Wolpe: Yigdal (1945)
• Dallapiccola: Prigioniero (1948)
• Blitzstein: Regina (1949)
• Menotti: Consul (1950)
• Henze: Boulevard Solitude (1951)
• Babbitt: Du (1951)
• Tippett: Midsummer Marriage (1952)
• Britten: Turn Of The Screw (1954)
• Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maitre (1954)
• Henze: Konig Hirsch (1955)
• Barraque: Sequence (1955)
• Moore: Ballad Of Baby Doe (1956)

La sinfonia nordica degli anni Cinquanta/ Nordic symphony in the Fifties

• Vaughan Williams: Symphony 7 (1952)
• Martinu: Symphony 6 (1953)
• Cowell: Symphony 11 (1953)
• Sostakovic: Symphony 10 (1953)
• Vaughan Williams: Symphony 8 (1955)
• Tubin: Symphony 6 (1954)
• Holmboe: Symphony 8 (1952)
• Harald Saeverud: Symphony 9 (1965)
• Hilding Rosenberg: Symphony 6 (1951)
• Karl-Birger Blomdahl: Symphony 3 (1950)
• Sandor Veress: Symphony 2 Minneapolitana (1952)

L'Elettronica/Electronic music

• Varese: Deserts (1954)
• Stockhausen: Gesang der Junglinge (1956)
• Hiller: Illiac Suite (1957)
• Berio: Thema (1958)
• Varese: Poeme Electronique (1958)
• Kagel: Transition II (1959)
• Xenakis: Orient Occident (1960)
• Babbitt: Ensemble For Synthesizer (1964)

Concerti del boom economico/ Concerts of the economic boom

• Schuman: Concerto per violino (1947)
• Korngold: Concerto per violino (1947)
• Hovhaness: Concerto 7 (1953)
• Hovhaness: Symphony 2 (1955)
• Sostakovic: Concerto violin 1 (1955)
• Sostakovic: Concerto piano 2 (1957)
• Sostakovic: Concerto cello 1 (1959)
• Carter: Doppio Concerto (1961)
• Harrison: Concerto in slendro (1961)
• Barber: Concerto pianoforte (1962)
• Carter: Concerto piano (1965)
• Gerhard: Concerto for Orchestra (1965)
• Sostakovic: Concerto cello 2 (1966)
• Sostakovic: Concerto violin 2 (1967)
• Carter: Concerto per orc (1969)
• Maric: Byzantine Concerto (1959)
• Tauno Marttinen: Violin Concerto (1962)

Sinfonie del boom economico/ Symphonies of the economic boom

• Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques (1956)
• Rochberg: Symphony 2 (1956)
• Wolpe: Symphony (1956)
• Dutilleux: Symphony 2 (1959)
• Gerhard: Symphony 3 (1960)
• Obradovic: Mikrosimfonija (1967)
• Part; Nekrolog (1960)
• Sostakovic: Symphony 13 (1962)
• Britten: Symphony per cello (1963)
• Bernstein: Symphony 3 (1963)
• Hartmann: Symphony 8 (1963)
• Hovhaness: Symphony 7 (1963)
• Harris: Symphony 9 (1963)
• Gerhard: Symphony 4 (1967)
• Eduard Tubin: Symphony 8 (1966)
• Rudolf Bruci: Symphony 2 Lesta (1965)
• Enriko Josif: Symphony 2 in one movement (1964)
• Ahmet Saygun: Symphony 3 (1960)
• Mordechai Seter: Jerusalem (1968)
• Egon Wellesz: Symphony 5 (1956)
• Primoz Ramovs: Symphony 4 (1968)
• Erich Korngold: Symphony in F# Major (1950)
• Havergal Brian: Symphony 8 (1949)
• Havergal Brian: Symphony 10 (1954)

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L'Alea/ Alea

• Boulez: Sonata piano 3 (1957)
• Cage: Concerto piano orc (1958)
• Austin: Improvisation (1961)
• Foss: Echoi (1963)

Esperimenti sul suono/ Experiments on sound

• Stockhausen: Gruppen (1957)
• Messiaen: Catalogue d'Oiseaux (1958)
• Partch: Revelation (1960)

Esperimenti sulla voce/ Experiments on voice

• Nono: Canto Sospeso (1956)
• Berio: Epifanie (1961)
• Boulez: Pli Selon Pli (1962)
• Ligeti: Aventures (1962)

Texture music

• Stockhausen: Carre (1960)
• Penderecki: Trenodia per le vittime di Horishima (1960)
• Ligeti: Atmospheres (1961)

L'ultima musica da camera/ The last chamber music

• Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesu (1944)
• Carter: Quartet 2 (1959)
• Gerhard: Quartet 2 (1962)
• Messiaen: Sept Haikai (1962)
• Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cite' Celeste (1963)
• Scelsi: Quartet 4 (1964)

La musica gestuale/ Gesture music

• Kagel: Sur Scene (1960)
• Pousseur: Votre Faust (1963)
• Stockhausen: Aus den Sieben Tagen (1968)
• Moran: Halleluja (1971)

La voce nell'epoca del silenzio/ Voice in the age of silence

• Britten: War Requiem (1961)
• Stockhausen: Momente (1963)
• Nono: La Fabbrica Illuminata (1964)
• Babbitt: Philomel (1964)
• Ginastera: Don Rodrigo (1964)
• Henze: Bassarids (1965)
• Ligeti: Requiem (1965)
• Penderecki: Passione di San Luca (1965)
• Bussotti: Passione Selon Sade (1965)
• Birtwistle: Punch and Judy (1967)
• Ligeti: Lux Aeterna (1967)
• Feldman: Rothko Chapel (1971)
• Roger Sessions: "When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd" (1970)

La citazione/ The quotation

• Zimmermann: Die Soldaten (1964)
• Rochberg: Contra Mortem Et Tempus (1965)
• Stockhausen: Telemusik (1966)
• Stockhausen: Hymnen (1967)
• Foss: Baroque Variations (1967)
• Pousseur: Couleurs Croisees (1968)
• Berio: Symphony (1968)
• Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children (1970)

Live Electronic Music

• Stockhausen: Mikrophonie (1965)
• Cage: HPSCHD (1969)
• Xenakis: Kraanerg (1969)
• Stockhausen: Sternklang (1971)

Il Minimalismo/ Minimalism

• LaMonte Young: A Well Tuned Piano (1964)
• Riley: In C (1965)
• Mumma: Dresden Interleaf (1965)
• Reich: Drumming (1971)
• Glass: Music In Twelve Parts (1974)

La moderna musica per ensemble/ Modern ensemble music

• Maxfield: Toy Symphony (1962)
• Boulez: Eclat (1965)
• Birtwistle: Tragoedia (1965)
• Ligeti: Horn Trio (1982)
• Sostakovic: Sonata violin & piano (1968)
• Xenakis: Nomos Alpha (1968)
• Birtwistle: Verses For Ensemble (1969)
• Ligeti: Concerto da camera per tredici strumenti (1970)
• Davies: Ave Maris Stella (1975)
• Sostakovic: Sonata viola & piano (1975)

Musica vocale del dissenso/ Vocal music of dissent

• Cage: Musicircus (1967)
• Stockhausen: Ensemble (1967)
• Penderecki: Dies Irae (1967)
• Henze: Das Floss der Meduse (1968)
• Penderecki: I Diavoli (1968)
• Stockhausen: Kurzwellen (1968)
• Dallapiccola: Ulisse (1968)
• Barraque: La Morte di Virgilio (1968)
• Davies: Taverner (1968)
• Allan Pettersson: Cantata "Vox humana" (1974)

Il misticismo orientale/ Eastern misticism

• Stokhausen: Stimmung (1968)
• Stockhausen: Mantra (1970)
• Eloy: Kamakala (1971)
• JeanClaude Eloy: Kamakala (1971)
• Dao Nguyen-Thien: Koskom (1971)

I Quartetti dell'era postmoderna/ The quartets of the postmodern age

• Schnittke: Quartet 1 (1966)
• Ligeti: Quartet 2 (1968)
• Babbitt: Quartet 3 (1969)
• Babbitt: Quartet 4 (1970)
• Sostakovic: Quartet 13 (1970)
• Rochberg: Quartet 3 (1973)
• Rochberg: Trio (1963)
• Carter: Quartet 3 (1973)
• Sostakovic: Quartet 14 (1973)
• Sostakovic: Quartet 15 (1974)
• Britten: Quartet 3 (1975)
• Aho: Bassoon Quintet (1994)
• Roussakis: Ephemeris (1979)
• Feldman: Quartet 2 (1983)
• Carter: Quartet 4 (1986)
• Riley: Salome dances (1989)
• Gorecki: Already it is dusk (1991)
• Dubravko Detoni: Forgotten music for String Quartet (1981)
• Vagn Holmboe: String Quartet 17 Mattinata (1982)
• Hilding Rosenberg: String Quartet 8 (1957)

Il poema elettronico/ The electronic poem

• Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)
• Subotnick: Touch (1968)
• Riley: Rainbow in curved air (1968)
• Wuorinen: Time's encomium (1969)
• Dodge: Earth's Magnetic Field (1970)
• Ussachevsky: Conflict (1971)
• Lansky: Mild und Leise (1973)

La dissoluzione del teatro musicale/ The dissolution of musical theatre

• Davies: Eight Songs For A Mad King (1969)
• Messiaen: La Transfiguration (1969)
• Davies: Vesalii Icones (1969)
• Birtwistle: Down By The Greenwood Side (1969)
• Kagel: Staatstheatre (1970)
• Gerhard: Duenna (?)
• Berio: Opera (1970)
• Berio: Recital (1972)
• Stockhausen: Atmen Gibt Das Leben (1974)
• Ferneyhough: Transit (1975)

La sinfonia dell'era della crisi/ The symphony of the age of crisis

• Davies: St Thomas Wake (1969)
• Davies: Worldes Blis (1969)
• Sostakovic: Symphony 14 (1969)
• Hovhaness: And God Created Great Whales (1969)
• Norgard: Symphony 2 (1970)
• Sostakovic: Symphony 15 (1971)
• Ligeti: Melodien (1971)
• Birtwistle: Triumph of Time (1972)
• Tubin: Symphony 10 (1973)
• Mennin: Symphony 8 (1974)
• Norgard: Symphony 3 (1975)
• Messiaen: Des Canyons Aux Etoiles (1975)
• Boulez: Rituel (1975)
• Del Tredici: An Alice Symphony (1976)
• Davies: Symphony 1 (1976)
• Wuorinen: Symphony delle percussioni (1976)
• Tippett: Symphony 4 (1977)
• Hanson: Symphony 7 (1977)
• Carter: Symphony of Three Orchestras (1977)
• Balakauskas: Ostrobothnian Symphony (1989)
• Roger Sessions: Symphony No 7 (1967)
• Allan Pettersson: Symphony 13 (1976)
• Balakauskas: Symphony 2 (1979)
• Kenins: Symphony 6 "Ad Fugam"
• Pascal Bentoiu (Romania, 1927): Symphony No 5
• Vasks: Symphony for Strings (1991)

Esperimenti sugli strumenti/ Experiments on instruments

• Ligeti: Volumina per organo (1962)
• Ligeti: Continuum per clavicembalo (1968)
• Kagel: Exotica (1971)
• Grisey: Jour Contre-jour (1979)
• Hugues Dufourt: Symphony for percussion instruments, Erewhon (1976)
• Michael Levinas: Les Rires de Gilles (1981)

Il risveglio della musica religiosa/ The revival of religious music

• Herman Koppel: Moses (1964)
• Bernstein: Mass (1971)
• Penderecki: Utrenja (1971)
• Harrison: La Koro-sutro (1972)
• Penderecki: Magnificat (1974)
• Schnittke: Requiem (1975)
• Penderecki: Te Deum (1979)
• Part: De Profundis (1980)
• Part: Passio Domini Nostri (1982)
• Penderecki: Polish Requiem (1983)
• Kutavicius: Panteistine` Oratorija (1970)
• Julius Juzeliunas: Cantus Magnificat (1979)
• Eduard Tubin: Requiem (1979)
• Edmund Rubbra: Symphony 9 Sacra (1972)

Il concerto nonostante il concerto/ The concert notwithstanding the concert

• Ligeti: Doppio concerto (1972)
• Petrassi: Concerto 8 (1972)
• Gubaidulina: Concerto per fagotto (1975)
• Gubaidulina: Music For Flute Strings & Percussion (1994)
• Cage: Concerto #3 piano orc "14" (1990)
• Penderecki: Concerto per violino n.1 (1976)
• Hovhaness: Concerto per euphonium (1977)
• Part: Tabula rasa (1977)
• Tippett: Triplo Concerto (1979)
• Lutoslawski: Doppio concerto (1980)
• Lutoslawski: Concerto piano (1986)
• Gubaidulina: Offertorium (1980)
• Gubaidulina: Canticle Of The Sun (1980)
• Harrison: Doppio concerto (1982)
• Wuorinen: Concerto pianoforte 3 (1983)
• Bolcom: Concerto per violino (1984)
• Zwilich: Concerto grosso (1985)
• Dutilleux: Violin Concerto (1985)
• Primoz Ramovs: Cello Concerto (1974)
• Anders Hillborg: Violin Concerto (1992)
• Talivaldis Kenins: Concerto for fourteen instruments (1982)
• Talivaldis Kenins: Concerto for five percussionists (1983)

Nuovi ensemble/ New ensembles

• Reich: Music for 18 musicians (1976)
• Boulez: Repons (1980)
• Ligeti: Trio per corni (1982)
• Carter: Triplo duo (1983)
• Oliveros: Wanderer (1985)
• Nyman: Water dances (1985)
• Finnissy: WAM (1991)
• Bastien: Mecanium (1988)

Il teatro musicale dopo l'opera/ The musical theatre after the opera

• Wuorinen: Whore of Babylon (1975)
• Berio: Coro (1976)
• Henze: We Come To The River (1976)
• Glass: Einstein on the beach (1976)
• Crumb: Star Child (1977)
• Ligeti: Grand Macabre (1977)
• Penderecki: Paradiso perduto (1978)
• Gruber: Frankenstein (1978)
• Tavener: Therese (1979)
• Monk: Dolmen music (1979)
• Stockhausen: Donnerstag Aus Licht (1980)
• Davies Peter Maxwell: Lighthouse (1980)
• Tippett: Mask of Time (1982)
• Stockhausen: Samstag Aus Licht (1983)
• Birtwistle: Mask of Orpheus (1983)
• Birtwistle: Secret Theatre (1984)
• Messiaen: San Francesco d'Assisi (1983)
• Berio: Un Re In Ascolto (1984)
• Nono: Prometeo (1984)
• Kagel: Die Erschopiano der Welt (1985)
• Machover: Valis (1987)
• Cage: Europera (1988)
• Rutter: Magnificat (1990)
• Corigliano: Ghosts of Versailles (1991)
• Bolcom: A View From The Bridge (1999)
• Moran: Desert of roses (1991)
• Schnittke: Life with an idiot (1991)
• Davies: Job (1997)
• Part: Kanon Pokajanen (1998)

La sinfonia nonostante la sinfonia/ The symphony notwithstanding the symphony

• Balakauskas: Ostrobothnian Symphony
• Maxwell Davies: Symphony 5
• Robert Simpson: Symphony 9 (1987)
• Konstantin Iliev: Symphony 6 (1984)
• Ib Norholm: Symphony 2 (1971)
• Tomas Marco: Symphony 5 (1989)
• Jozsef Soproni: Symphony 3 (1980)
• Udo Zimmermann: Sinfonia Come Un Gran Lamento (1977)
• Ake Hermanson: Symphony 4 Oceanus (1983)
• Norholm: Symphony 2 (1971)
• Alla Pettersson: Symphony 16 (1979)
• Alla Pettersson: Symphony 13 (1976)
• Kenins: Symphony 8 (1986)
• Kenins: Symphony 6 (1978)
• Gorecki: Symphony 3 (1976)
• Hovhaness: Symphony 36 (1979)
• Penderecki: Symphony 2 (1980)
• Schnittke: Concerto grosso 3 (1981)
• Adams: Harmonienlehre (1981)
• Norgard: Symphony 4 (1981)
• Lutoslawski: Symphony 3 (1983)
• Lutoslawski: Symphony 4 (1992)
• Branca: Symphony 3 (1983)
• Zwilich: Symphony 1 (1983)
• Schnittke: Concerto grosso 5 (1988)
• Zwilich: Symphony 2 (1990)
• Bolcom: Symphony 5 (1990)
• Schnittke: Symphony 8 (1994)
• Braga Santos: Symphony 4 (1948)
• Messiaen: Eclairs Sur L'Au-Dela` (1991)

1960-1990