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Star-Child
1977
George Crumb
I. Introduction: Desolato
II. Vox Clamans In Deserto
III. Ascensus Potestatum Tenebrarum
IV. Musica Apocalyptica
V. Seven Trumpets of the Apocalypse
VI. Adventus Puerorum Luminis
VII. Hymnus Pro Novo Tempore
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Popular compositions
- Bach: French Suites BWV 812-817
- Barber: Adagio for Strings op. 11
- Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 E major op. 109
- Beethoven: Piano Trio E-flat major op. 38, "Grand Trio"
- Boito
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto F major
- Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 1
- Händel: Watermusic HWV 348, 349, 350
- Korngold: The Miracle of Heliane, op. 20
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 E-flat Major
- Mahler: Symphony No. 1 D major
- Mozart
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41 C major K. 551, "Jupiter"
- Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
- Purcell
- Schubert
- Schumann: Cello Concerto A minor op. 129
- Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos
- van der Aa
- Wagner: The Ban on Love
Popular composers
- Antonín Dvořák
- Béla Bartók
- Claude Debussy
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Frédéric Chopin
- Iannis Xenakis
- Igor Strawinsky
- Jean Sibelius
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johannes Brahms
- Joseph Haydn
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Pjotr Tschaikowsky
- Richard Strauss
- Robert Schumann
- Sergei Prokofjew
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Popular conductors
- Andrés Orozco-Estrada
- Antonio Pappano
- Claudio Abbado
- Daniel Barenboim
- Dima Slobodeniouk
- François-Xavier Roth
- Hannu Lintu
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mariss Jansons
- Matthias Pintscher
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Paavo Järvi
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Pierre Boulez
- Riccardo Chailly
- Simon Rattle
- Ton Koopman
- Valery Gergiev
Popular soloists
- András Schiff
- Bernarda Fink
- Boris Giltburg
- Christa Ludwig
- Damien Guillon
- Daniel Barenboim
- Fazıl Say
- Gidon Kremer
- Isabelle Faust
- Janine Jansen
- Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Jewgeni Kissin
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Khatia Buniatishvili
- Martha Argerich
- Mstislaw Rostropowitsch
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- Renaud Capuçon
- Sol Gabetta
- Yuja Wang
Popular orchestras
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Ensemble intercontemporain
- France Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Frankfurt Radio Symphony
- Freiburger Barockorchester
- French National Orchestra
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Orchestre de Paris
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- SWR Symphonieorchester
- Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Wiener Philharmoniker