Music Library

Music Library Online Course Reserves

 

MUS 31121, Western Music Since 1900

Below are links to online recordings of music for this course. Recordings of this music are also available on reserve in the Music Library. 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 that is on reserve at the Music Library.

Bartok, Bela
Fourteen Bagatelles for Piano Op. 6, BB 50 This is a link to another web site
Kornel Zempleni (Piano)

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
Kantorow, Jean-Jacques (Conductor)
A recording is available on Reserve at the Music Library - CD-4 220.

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

Four Songs, Op. 2
no. 4. Warm die Lufte This is a link to another web site
Christianne Stotjin (mezzo-soprano)
Joseph Breinl (piano)

Berio, Luciano
Folk Songs
I.  Black is the color of my true love's hair This is a link to another web site
Well, Jean Stil (mezzo-soprano)
Armenian, Raffi (Conductor)
Canadian Chamber Ensemble

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
V.  Dirge This is a link to another web site
Anthony  Rolfe-Johnson (tenor)
Michael  Thompson (horn)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Thomson, Bryden (Conductor)

Cage, John
Music of Changes, Part 4 This is a link to another web site
Martine Joste (Piano)

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.  Saraband This is a link to another web site
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Preludes, Book I
II.  Voiles This is a link to another web site
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
A recording is available on Reserve at the Music Library - CD-4 339.

Faure, Gabriel
Dans la foret de septembre, Op. 85 No. 1 This is a link to another web site
Sarah Walker (Mezzo-soprano)
Malcom Martineau (Piano)

Hindemith, Paul
Das Marienleben
Vom Tode Maria I This is a link to another web site
Veronica Lenz-Kuhn (soprano)
Wolfgang Kaiser (piano)

Ives, Charles
114 Songs
Charlie Rutlage This is a link to another web site
Patrick Carfizzi (Bass-Baritone)
Douglas Dickson (Piano)

From This is a link to another web siteParacelsus 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
Alexandre Tharaud (Piano)

Prokofiev, Sergei
Piano Sonata No. 7
III.  Precipitato (finale) 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)

Reich, Steve
Clapping Music This is a link to another web site
Benedict Hoffnung (Percussion)
William Lockhart (Percussion)

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
Schoenberg Quartet

Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23
I.  Sehr langsam This is a link to another web site
II.  Sehr rasch This is a link to another web site
III.  Langsam This is a link to another web site
IV.  Schwungvoll This is a link to another web site
V.  Walzer This is a link to another web site
Roland Pontinen (Piano)

Shostakovich, Dimitri
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk
Act 2, Scene 4-5: Orchestral Interlude This is a link to another web site
Badische Staatskapelle
Wolfgang Heinzel (Conductor )
**This Orchestral Interlude is incorrectly labeled in Classical Music Library as "Act 1, Scene 1: Interlude."

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! This is a link to another web site (Ah! Thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan)
Reiner Goldberg, tenor / Anja Silja, soprano / Inga Nielsen, soprano / Robert Hale, bass-baritone / Deon van der Walt, tenor / Marianne Rorholm, mezzo-soprano / Gert Henning-Jensen, tenor / Ole Hedegaard, tenor / Michael Kristensen, tenor / Peter Gronlund, tenor / Sten Byriel, bass-baritone / Bent Norup, baritone / Morten Frank Larsen, baritone / Per Hoyer, baritone / Stephen Milling, bass / Anders Jakobsson, bass / Henriette Bonde-Hansen, soprano
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schonwandt (Conductor)

Stravinsky, Igor
Le sacre du printemps
IX.  Introduction to Part II 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 Music Library - CD-4 2418.

Mass
III.  Credo This is a link to another web site
Bamberg Symphony Chorus
Bamberg Symphony Big Band
Till Fabian Weser (Conductor )

Petrushka
Scene 2: Petrushka's cell This is a link to another web site
London Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Conductor)

Varese, Edgard
Octandre
I.  Assez lent 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
Claire Booth (soprano)
Simon Joly Chorale
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft (conductor)

                                                                                                                                     

Supplemental Listening

Hindemith, Paul
Mathis der Maler Symphony
I. Concert of Angels 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, Sergei
Symphony no. 1, "Classical"
I. Allegro This is a link to another web site
French National Radio Orchestra
Jean Martinon (Conductor)

Shostakovich, Dmitri
Symphony no. 5, Op. 47
I. Moderato This is a link to another web site
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (Conductor)

Britten, Benjamin
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a
I. Dawn: Lento e tranquilo This is a link to another web site
Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra
Yannick Nezet-Seguin (Conductor)

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 91
I. Prologue This is a link to another web site
Michael Thompson (horn)
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (Conductor)

Stravinsky, Igor
Octet for Winds
I. Sinfonia This is a link to another web site
II. Theme and variations This is a link to another web site
Netherlands Wind Ensemble