A short playlist for The Rest Is Noise.
— Mahler, "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" from Rückert Lieder; Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walter conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (Decca)
— "Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst, Jochanaan" from Salome; Hildegard Behrens, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (EMI)
— Schoenberg, Six Little Pieces Op. 19: II; Mitsuko Uchida (Philips)
— Webern, Six Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6: IV; James Levine conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (DG)
— Stravinsky, "Danse sacrale" from The Rite of Spring; Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony (Sony)
— Bartók, String Quartet No. 4: III; Takács Quartet (Decca)
— Stravinsky, "Marche du Soldat" from Histoire du Soldat; Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony (Sony)
— Ives, "The 'St. Gaudens' in Boston Common" from Three Places in New England; Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony (RCA)
— Ruth Crawford Seeger, Andante from String Quartet; Pellegrini Quartet (cpo)
— Sibelius, Symphony No. 5: III; Osmo Vänskä conducting the Lahti Symphony (BIS)
— Weill, "Alabama Song"; Lotta Lenya (Sony)
— Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5: IV; Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic (Sony)
— Copland, Quiet City; Copland conducting the London Symphony (Sony)
— Messiaen, "Louange à l'éternité de Jésus" from Quartet for the End of Time; Ensemble Walter Boeykens (Harmonia Mundi)
— Xenakis, Metastasis; Michael Gielen conducting the SWR Symphony (col legno)
— Cage, Sonatas and Interludes: Sonata No. 5; Herbert Henck (ECM)
— Feldman, Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety; John Adams conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's (Nonesuch)
— Britten, "On the ground, sleep sound" from A Midsummer Night's Dream; Britten conducting (Decca)
— Ligeti, "Lacrimosa" from Requiem; Jonathan Nott conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and London Voices (Teldec)
— Reich, Drumming: IV; Steve Reich and Musicians (Nonesuch)
— Meredith Monk, "Do You Be," from Beginnings (Tzadik)
— Adams, "I am old and cannot sleep" from Nixon in China; Sanford Sylvan, Edo de Waart conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's (Nonesuch)
