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Matin. Robert Gibson. Robert Gibson Chamber Music [Capstone]. The composer is on the faculty of the University of Maryland.
Vergo for 18 Solo Strings. Lei Liang. Verge,Tremors Of A Memory Chord [Naxos]
Music For Piano With Amplified Sonorous Vessels. Alvin Lucier. Panorama [Lovely Music]. This may be my current favorite of Lucier's works.
How to Pray. David Lang. Elevated [Cantaloupe Music]

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Calling. Robert Gibson. Robert Gibson Chamber Music
Three Sketches. Robert Gibson. Robert Gibson Chamber Music
A Sound Within. Robert Gibson. Robert Gibson Chamber Music
Riverrun. Stephen Albert. Mstislav Rostropovich, National Symphony - Symphony Riverrun / To Wake the Dead. [Delos]. Won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize. The composer was killed in a car wreck in 1992.
Cross-Currents. Tom Flaherty. Matthew Elgart - New Music with Guitar, Vol. 5 [Bridge]
Synchronisms No. 10. Mario Davidovsky - New Music with Guitar, Vol. 5
Symphony No. 5. George Rochberg. Christopher Lyndon-Gee: Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra - Rochberg: Symphony #5, Black Sounds [Naxos]

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Cello Sonata. Andrew Violette. Ben Capps, Andrew Violette - Violette: Sonatas for Cello and Clarinet [Innova]
Setting. Mel Powell. David Starobin - New Music with Guitar, Vol. 5

****: Still Lives. Alvin Lucier - Still Lives (Lovely Music, Ltd); Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators. Alvin Lucier - Still Lives (Lovely Music, Ltd); In Memoriam Jon Higgins. Jürg Frey - Lucier • Wolff • Schlothauer • Frey (Edition Wandelweiser Records)
***: Small Waves. Arditti Quartet - Lucier: Small Waves; Navigations For Strings (Mode); Navigation for Strings. Arditti Quartet - Lucier: Small Waves; Navigations For Strings (Mode)

*****: Psycho: A Suite for Strings. Esa-Pekka Salonen: Los Angeles - Bernard Herrmann - The Film Scores (Sony)
****: On Remembering a Naiad. La Monte Young. Arditti String Quartet - U.S.A (Montaigne); An American Elegy. Frank Ticheli. University of Kansas Wind Ensemble - Landscapes (Naxos); Voices Within: A Requiem. Laurie Spiegel - Obsolete Systems (Emf Media)
***: Scherzo. Charles Ives. Arditti String Quartet - U.S.A (Montaigne); Sisters: Separation Nightmare. Bernard Herrmann. At the Movies (Label X); Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs. Frank Ticheli. University of Kansas Wind Ensemble - Landscapes (Naxos); The Red Pony Suite. Aaron Copland. JoAnn Falletta - COPLAND: Prairie Journal / The Red Pony Suite / Letter from Home (Naxos); Twenty-Six. Christina Fong - Cage, J.: Three 2 / Twenty-Three / Six / Twenty-Six (OgreOgress Productions)

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