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Performing Arts Library Online Course Reserves

 

MUS 31121, Western Music Since 1900

Below are links to online recordings of music for this course. If you would like to listen to these recordings outside of the KSU campus network you will need to establish a VPN connection.

All of these works, except when noted, are available on the Music of the Twentieth Century CD set by Bryan R. Simms.

 

Bartók, Béla

Fourteen Bagatelles for Piano op. 6, BB 50 This is a link to another web site

Kornel Zempleni (piano)
 
 

Bartók, Béla

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, BB 114

I. Andante tranquillo This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Tapiola Sinfonietta

Jean-Jacques Kantorow (Conductor)

A recording is available on Reserve at the Performing Arts Library Circulation Desk - CD 220.
 
 

Berg, Alban

Four Songs, Op. 2

no. 4. Warm die Lufte This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Christianne Stotjin (mezzo-soprano)
Joseph Breinl (piano)
 
 

Berg, Alban

Lulu

Lied der Lulu This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Constance Hauman (soprano)
Julia Juon (mezzo-soprano)
Theo Adam (bass)
Peter Straka (tenor)
Monte Jaffe (baritone)
Michael Myers (tenor)
Gert Henning-Jensen (tenor)
Sten Byriel (baritone)
Helene Gjerris (contralto)
Ulrik Cold (bass)
Susanne Elmark (soprano)
Edith Guillaume (contralto)
Daniel Viklund (bass-baritone)
Morten Frank Larsen (baritone)
Helene Ranada (mezzo-soprano)
Stig Hoffmeyer (actor)
Jan Oluf Ostrom (actor)

Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ulf Schirmer (Conductor)
 
 

Berio, Luciano

Folk Songs

I. Black is the colour of my true love's hair This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Jean Stil Well (mezzo-soprano)

Canadian Chamber Ensemble

Raffi Armenian (Conductor)
 
 

Boulez, Pierre

Le marteau sans maitre

L'artisanat fureiux This is a link to another web site

Kammarensemblen

B. Tommy Andersson (Conductor)
 
 

Britten, Benjamin

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31

I. Prologue This is a link to another web site

V. Dirge This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor)
Michael Thompson (horn)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Bryden Thomson (Conductor)
 
 

Cage, John

Music of Changes

Part 4 This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Martine Joste (Piano)
 
 

Cage, John

Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

Sonata No. 5 This is a link to another web site

Elmar Schrammel (prepared piano)
 
 

Cowell, Henry

The Banshee This is a link to another web site

Chris Brown (Piano)
 
 

Crumb, George

Black Angels This is a link to another web site

Concord String Quartet
 
 

Davies, Peter Maxwell

Eight Songs for a Mad King

Country Dance

This work is currently unavailable online.
 
 

Debussy, Claude

Pour le piano

II. Sarabande This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
 
 

Debussy, Claude

Preludes, Book 1

II. Voiles This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

A recording is available on Reserve at the Performing Arts Library Circulation Desk - CD 339.
 
 

Fauré, Gabriel

Dans la foret de septembre, Op. 85 No. 1 This is a link to another web site

Bernard Kruysen (baritone)
Noel Lee (piano)
 
 

Hindemith, Paul

Das Marienleben

Vom Tode Maria I This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Veronica Lenz-Kuhn (soprano)
Wolfgang Kaiser (piano)
 
 

Ives, Charles

Charlie Rutlage This is a link to another web site

Patrick Carfizzi (Bass-Baritone)
Douglas Dickson (Piano)
 
 

Ives, Charles

From Paracelsus This is a link to another web site

Paul Sperry (Tenor)
Irma Vallecillo (Piano)
 
 

Milhaud, Darius

Saudades do Brazil

II. Botofogo This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
 
 

Prokofiev, Sergey

Piano Sonata No. 7

III. Precipitato (finale) This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Gyorgy Sandor (piano)
 
 

Ravel, Maurice

Jeux d'eau This is a link to another web site

Andre Laplante (piano)

A recording is available on Reserve at the Performing Arts Library Circulation Desk - CD 312.
 
 

Reich, Steve

Clapping Music This is a link to another web site

Benedict Hoffnung (Percussion)
William Lockhart (Percussion)

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers (Conductor)
 
 

Rochberg, George

String Quartet No. 6

Movement III

This work is currently unavailable online.
 
 

Satie, Erik

Sarabande No. 1 This is a link to another web site

Olof Hojer (piano)
 
 

Schoenberg, Arnold

String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37

I. Allegro molto energico This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Schoenberg Quartet
 
 

Schoenberg, Arnold

Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23 This is a link to another web site

Roland Pontinen (piano)
 
 

Shostakovich, Dmitrii

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk

Act 2, Scene 4-5: Orchestral Interlude This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Badische Staatskapelle

Wolfgang Heinzel (Conductor)
 
 

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Kreuzspiel This is a link to another web site

Ensemble InterContemporain

Pierre Boulez (Conductor)
 
 

Strauss, Richard

Salome

Scene 4: Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund kussen lassen, Jochanaan! (Ah! Thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan) This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Inga Nielsen (soprano)

Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Michael Schonwandt (Conductor)
 
 

Stravinsky, Igor

Mass

III. Credo This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Bamberg Symphony Chorus
Bamberg Symphony Big Band

Till Fabian Weser (Conductor)
 
 

Stravinsky, Igor

Petrushka

Scene 2: Petrushka's cell This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

London Symphony Orchestra

Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Conductor)
 
 

Stravinsky, Igor

Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

IX. Introduction to Part II This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden

Jascha Horenstein (Conductor)

A recording is available on Reserve at the Performing Arts Library Circulation Desk - CD 476.
 
 

Varese, Edgard

Octandre

I. Assez lent This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Kammarensemblen

B. Tommy Andersson (Conductor)
 
 

Webern, Anton

Cantata No. 2, Op. 31

V. Freundselig ist das Wort This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Claire Booth (soprano)

Simon Joly Chorale
Philharmonia Orchestra

Robert Craft (Conductor)
 

Supplemental Listening

 

Britten, Benjamin

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a

I. Dawn: Lento e tranquilo This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra

Yannick Nezet-Seguin (Conductor)
 
 

Hindemith, Paul

Mathis der Maler Symphony

I. Concert of Angels This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

London Symphony Orchestra

Jascha Horenstein (Conductor)
 
 

Milhaud, Darius

The Creation of the World This is a link to another web site

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Heinz Rogner (Conductor)
 
 

Prokofiev, Sergey

Symphony no. 1, "Classical"

I. Allegro This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

French National Radio Orchestra

Jean Martinon (Conductor)
 
 

Shostakovich, Dmitrii

Symphony no. 5, Op. 47

I. Moderato This is a link to another web site

complete work This is a link to another web site

Philharmonia Orchestra

Vladimir Ashkenazy (Conductor)
 
 

Stravinsky, Igor

Octet for Winds This is a link to another web site

Netherlands Wind Ensemble