A number of people — namely, one person — asked me to post a playlist from my recent lecture at Southbank. It may be found below. These aren't necessarily my recommended recordings for each and every work, though I used many old favorites. Afterward, I was gently upbraided by Raymond Coffer for presenting outdated information about the suicide of Richard Gerstl. Dr. Coffer has recently published online his doctoral thesis on the fatal triangle of Gerstl, Schoenberg, and Mathilde Schoenberg. A summary of his findings may be found here; anyone who writes about the Second Quartet should take note of them. Dr. Coffer has cast doubt on the story that Gerstl burned some of his work before committing suicide, and he also notes that the act took place not at night but in the late afternoon.
— Leonard Rosenman, Rebel Without a Cause; John Adams conducting the London Sinfonietta (Nonesuch)
— Ligeti, Requiem; Jonathan Nott conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and London Voices (Teldec)
— Duke Ellington, Ko-Ko, from The Blanton-Webster Band (RCA)
— Frank Sinatra singing "It's a Lonesome Old Town" (arr. Nelson Riddle), from Only the Lonely (Capitol)
— Björk, "An Echo a Stain," from Vespertine (One Little Indian)
— Wagner, Tristan Prelude; Carlos Kleiber conducting the Dresden Staatskapelle (DG)
— Valley Tonga people, "Ngoma," from Dance Songs with Drums from the Valley Tonga People of Zambia (Smithsonian Folkways)
— Thelonious Monk, "Ruby My Dear," from The Blue Note Years (Blue Note)
— Debussy, "Voiles" and "La fille aux cheveux de lin"; Steven Osborne (Hyperion)
— Strauss, Salome; Hildegard Behrens, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (EMI)
— Berlioz, "Pandemonium" from The Damnation of Faust; Kent Nagano conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra de Lyon (Erato)
— Strauss, Notturno; Petja Petrova, Friedrich Haider conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice (Nightingale)
— Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony, with Benny Goodman and Earl Wild (Iron Needle)
— Schoenberg, Piano Piece Op. 11 No. 1; Mitsuko Uchida (Philips)
— Schoenberg, "Entrückung" from String Quartet No. 2; Dawn Upshaw, Arditti Quartet (Disques Montaigne)
— Schoenberg, "Vorgefühle" from Five Pieces for Orchestra; James Levine conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (DG)
— Berg, Wozzeck; Behrens, Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (DG)
— Webern, Langsam from Six Pieces for Orchestra; James Levine conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (DG)
— Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring; Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the LA Philharmonic (DG)
— Stravinsky, Petrushka; Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic (Sony)
— Stravinsky, The Firebird; Valery Gergiev conducting the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra (Philips)
— Stravinsky, Histoire du Soldat and Pulcinella; Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony (Sony)
— Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Nagano conducting the London Symphony (Virgin Classics)
— Poulenc, Les Biches; Charles Dutoit conducting the Orchestre National de France (Decca)
— Janáček, Amarus; Charles Mackerras conducting the Czech Philharmonic and Chorus (Supraphon)
— "Sír a kis galambom," recorded by Bartók, 1907
— Bartók, Three Hungarian Folksongs from the Csík District; Piotr Anderszewski (Virgin Classics)
— Bartók, Second Quartet; Takács Quartet (Decca)
— Grainger, Shallow Brown; John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and the English Country Gardiner Orchestra (Philips)
— William Grant Still, Levee Land; Celeste Headlee, Patricia Hoy conducting the Northern Arizona University Wind Symphony
— Ruth Crawford Seeger, Andante from String Quartet 1931; Schönberg Ensemble (DG)
— Sibelius, finale of the Fifth Symphony; Osmo Vänskä conducting the Lahti Symphony (BIS)
— Clément Doucet, "Wagneria"; Ophelia Orchestra
