Compact Disc 1:
1) Prélude a l'ápres-midi d'un faune (1894)
Claude Debussy (1892-1918)
2) The Unanswered Question (1906)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
from Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951):
3) No. 5 "Valse de Chopin" (Waltz)
4) No. 8 "Die Nacht" (Passacaglia)
5) No. 18 "Der Mondfleck"
from Le Sacre du printemps (1913)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971):
6) Introduction. Lento
7) The Spring Divinations - Dances of the Young Girls
8) Mock Abduction
9) Spring Round Dances
10) Games of the Rival Tribes
11) Procession of the Wise Elder
12) Dance of the Earth
13) Ballet Mécanique,Roll I (1926)
George Antheil (1900-1959)
14) Streichquartett Nr. 3, op. 30, I (1927)
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
from Music for Strings, Percussion, & Celesta (1937)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945):
15) I. Andante tranquillo
16) IV. Allegro molto
Streichquartett, op. 28 (1938)
Anton von Webern (1883-1945):
17) I. Mässig
18) II. Gemächlich
19) III. Sehr fliessend
Compact Disc 2:
from Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1941)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992):
1) Liturgie de cristal
2) Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes
from Serenadefor tenor, horn, and strings (1942)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976):
3) Prologue
4) Elegy
5) Dirge
bonus track!
6) A Roomfor prepared piano
John Cage (1912-1992)
7) All Set(1957)
Milton Babbitt (b. 1916)
8 & 9) It's Gonna Rain(1965)
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
10) Synchronisms No. 5(1969)
Mario Davidovsky (b. 1934)
from The Ancient Voices of Children(1970)
George Crumb (b. 1929)
11) El niño busca su voz
12) Dances of the Ancient Earth
13) Me he perdido muchas veces por el mar
Compact Disc 3:
from Music of Changes (1951)
John Cage (1912-1992):
1) Book I
from The People United Will Never Be Defeated!(1975)
Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938):
2) original song
3) Theme
4) Variation I
5) Variation II
6) Variation III
7) Variation IV
8) Variation V
9) Iscariot(1984)
Christopher Rouse (b. 1949)
from Nixon in China(1986), Act I Scene I
John Adams (b. 1947):
10) (Beginning)
11) "Soldiers of heaven hold the sky"
12) "The people are the heroes now"
13) Landing of the Spirit of '76
14) "Your flight was smooth, I hope?"
15)"News has a kind of mystery:"
from Concerto Grosso Nr. 6(1993)
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998):
16) II. Adagio
17) Idle Chatter Junior(1999)
Paul Lansky (b. 1944)