where's the beat?

(a) György Ligeti - Sonata for solo cello, mvt i / (b) J.S. Bach, Suite for solo cello No. 1, mvt i / (c) György Ligeti - Sonata for solo cello, mvt ii

Antonio Vivaldi/Max Richter - Four Seasons, Winter, mvt i

Henri Dutilleux - Tout un monde lointain (for cello and orchestra)

Benjamin Britten - Violin Concerto, mvt iii

Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 3, mvt ii

Sofia Gubaidulina - Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten - perf. by Marina Piccinini (flute), Sivan Magen (harp), and Kim Kashkashian (viola), from Tre Voci: Toru Takemitsu / Claude Debussy / Sofia Gubaidulina

Christos Hatzis - Constantinople, Old photographs

Toru Takemitsu - Requiem - perf. by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under Hiroshi Wakasugi, from Takemitsu: Visions, November Steps

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem, Lacrimosa - perf. by Montserrat Figueras, Claudia Schubert, Gerd Türk, Stephan Schreckenberger, La Capella Reial De Catalunya, and Le Concert Des Nations under Jordi Savall, from W. A. Mozart: Requiem K 626; Maurerische Trauermusik K 477

György Ligeti - Requiem, Lacrimosa

Benjamin Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem - Lachrymosa

Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei

Samuel Barber - Adagio for strings

Dmitri Shostakovitch - Symphony No. 14, mvt 1, 2, 10

Gustav Mahler - Kindertotenlieder, No. 5

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5, mvt IV: Adagietto - perf. by the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev

Samuel Zyman - Piano Concerto, mvt 1

Michael Nyman - Memorial

Claude Debussy - La mer - perf. by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Mariss Jansons

John Chowning - Stria

Lindsay Cooper - Nightmare, for ondes martenot

Philip Glass/Nosaj Thing - Knee 1 remix

Philip Glass - Knee 1 (original)

György Ligeti - Lontano

Claude Debussy - Sonata for flute, harp, viola - perf. by Marina Piccinini (flute), Sivan Magen (harp), and Kim Kashkashian (viola), from Tre Voci: Toru Takemitsu / Claude Debussy / Sofia Gubaidulina

Toru Takemitsu -  and then I knew 't was wind - perf. by Marina Piccinini (flute), Sivan Magen (harp), and Kim Kashkashian (viola), from Tre Voci: Toru Takemitsu / Claude Debussy / Sofia Gubaidulina

Roger Reynolds - Whispers out of time - perf. by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, from Roger Reynolds: Whispers Out of Time [works for orchestra] 

Steve Reich - Double Sextet - from Steve Reich: Double Sextet/2x5

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel - perf. by Gidon Kremer (violin) and Naoko Yoshino (harp)

Gabriel Fauré - Elegie in C Minor - perf. by Jacqueline du Pré (cello) and Gerald Moore (piano)

Maurice Ravel - Piano concerto for the left hand - perf. by Pascal Rogé (piano) and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under Charles Dutoit

Aaron Copland - Piano concerto - perf. by Aaron Copland (piano) and the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein

Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 2

Salvatore Sciarrino - Tre notturni brillanti, for solo viola - perf. by Gnarth Knox

Iannis Xenakis - Keren

Samuel Barber - Adagio

Benjamin Britten - Piano Concerto

Christian Wolff - Duo for pianists I

Meredith Monk - Parlour Games, for 2 pianos - perf. by Bruce Brubaker and Ursula Oppens

Olga Neuwirth - incidendo/fluido, for piano and CD player

Antonio Vivaldi/Max Richter - Four Seasons, Summer, mvt 1

Henryk Górecki - Symphony No. 3, mvt 2

Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2, mvt 2

Christos Hatzis - Constantinople, Old Photographs

P. I. Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio, mvt 2

Dmitri Shostakovitch - Piano Trio, No. 1

Aram Khachaturian - Spartacus (ballet), Adagio

Roger Reynolds - Kokoro, for solo violin - perf. by Irvine Arditti

György Ligeti - Sonata for solo cello

P. I. Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake, Act 3: scene: sortie des invites et valse

Dmitri Shostakovich - Jazz Suite No. 2, Waltz 2 - from The Overcoat (OST)

Benjamin Britten - Variations of a theme of Frank Bridge, 7. Wiener Waltz

Benjamin Britten - Suite for violin and piano (Op. 6), IV. Waltz - perf. by Lorraine McAslan (violin) and John Blakely (piano)

Terry Riley - Mythic Birds Waltz - perf. by Kronos Quartet, from Cadenza on the Night Plain

Ken Thomson - Thaw for string quartet, IV: Thaw - perf. by the Jack Quartet

Pascale Dusapin - Trio for strings (musique fugitive) - perf. by the Arditti Quartet

Morton Feldman - Structures - perf. by the Arditti Quartet

Dmitri Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano, No. 7

Alexander Scriabin - 24 Preludes for piano

Frédéric Chopin - 24 Preludes for piano

Claude Debussy - 24 Preludes for piano

J. S. Bach - 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano

Lera Auerbach - 24 Preludes for piano

Gabriel Fauré - Pavane

The Doors/Albinoni - Adagio

Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Le Concerto d'Astrée

Lejaren Hiller - Iliac Suite

Hugh Le Caine - Dripsody

Hugh Le Caine - Paulution

Hugh Le Caine - Study No. 1 for piano player and tape

Camargo Guarnieri - Piano Sonata - perf. by Max Barros

Ricardo Peres/Astor Piazzola - Improvisation on Verano Porteno - from Dance of the white indian: piano music of South America

Max Richter/Antonio Vivaldi - Four Seasons, Winter, mvt 1

Camargo Guarnieri - Flor de Tremembe - perf. by the Camerata de las Americas under Joel Sachs

Vitold Lutoslawski/Nicola Paganini - Variations on a theme by Paganini - perf. by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner

Béla Bartók - Four pieces for ochestra

Anton Webern - Six pieces for orchestra

Arnold Schoenberg - Five pieces for orchestra

Darius Milhaud - Saudados do Brazil - perf. by Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

Béla Bartók - Two romanian dances - perf. by Zoltán Kocsis (piano)

Magnus Lindberg - Parada - perf. by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen

John Cage - Three Dances, for prepared piano

Carl Nielsen - Symphony 4, mvt iv - perf. by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Joseph Haydn - String Quartet No.3 (from Op. 33)

John Halle - Sphere[']s - perf. by Ethel (string quartet), from Ethel: Heavy

Mieczyslaw Weinberg - Concertino op. 42 - perf. by the Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer (violin)

J.S. Bach - Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 552, "St. Anne" (orch. A. Schoenberg)

J.S. Bach - 18 Chorales, BWV 651-668, "Leipziger Chorale": Schmucke dich, O liebe Seele, BWV 654 (orch. A. Schoenberg)

J.S. Bach - Komm, Gott Schopfer, heiliger Geist, BWV 631 (orch. A. Schoenberg)

Clara Rockmore - Serenade Melancolique - from The Art of the Theremin

Clara Rockmore - Pastorale - from Clara Rockmore's lost Theremin album

John Adams - Harmonielehre, Part I

Gustav Holst - The planets, Venus, arr. for 2 pianos - from Holst: Music for 2 pianos

Arvo Pärt - The Deer's Cry - perf. by Ars Nova Copenhagen under Paul Hillier, from Arvo Pärt: Creator Spiritus 

Andres Panufnik - Lullaby - from Polonia: Symphonic Works Vol. 2

Antonin Dvorak - Piano Quintet in A Major, mvt 2 (Dumka) - perf. by the Elias String quartet and Jonathan Biss (piano)

Roxanna Panufnik - Zen love song - from Love Abide

Edgard Varese - Integrales - perf. by the Ensemble InterContemporain under Pierre Boulez

Lera Auerbach - Sogno di Stabat Mater

Suzanne Ciani - pop and pour [coca cola logo]

Suzanne Ciani - Liberator [atari tv spot]

Suzanne Ciani - Second Breath

Annea Lockwood - Dusk (excerpt available at http://www.annealockwood.com/compositions.htm)

Delia Derbyshire - Dr. Who theme (original conception)

Delia Derbyshire - Dr. Who theme (original tv production), from Rough Trade Shops: Electronic Disc 1 

Delia Derbyshire - The pattern emerges, from Electrosonic

Delia Derbyshire - Celestial Cantabile, from Electrosonic

Monica Pearce - Clangor, for toy piano and bicycle bells

Clio Montrey - Dialektos, for cello and electronics

Eliane Radigue - Kyema (excerpt)

Jocelyn Morlock - Cobalt - from Morlock:Cobalt

Pauline Oliveros - Let me be not mad, from Crone Music

This playlist was compiled by and co-presented with Xenia Pestova, concert pianist and dear friend.  

Magic Malik - Chunky Delice - from Tranz Denied

Ed Bennett - Slow Down - perf. by Fidelio Trio, from My Broken Machines

Tawnie Olson - Suzanne un jour, excerpt (Katelyn Clark, harpsichord)

Nicole Lizee - This Will Not Be Televised, 2 excerpts from composer's website

Ed Bennett - Freefalling (with RTE orchestra, live recording, part of Horizons series)

Annie Gosfield - Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers, for piano and sampler, mvt I - perf. by Lisa Moore (piano and sampling keyboard)

Gilbert Nouno - Essay For a Scientific and Poetic Methodology (available at https://soundcloud.com/gilbert-nouno)

Katelyn Clark - Lea (excerpt) (available at https://soundcloud.com/katelynclark)

John Cage - Suite for toy piano - perf. by the Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo, from the album Cage: Works for Two Keyboards Vol. 1

Steve Reich - It's gonna rain, part one

Iannis Xenakis - Psappha - from the album Xenakis: Zyia; Sis Chancons Greques; Psappha; Persephassa

John Cage - Second construction

John Cage - Quartets I-VIII, Quartet I

Iannis Xenakis - Pithoprakta

Henry Cowell - 26 Simultaneous Mosaics - from Cowell: Mosaic

John Cage - one^8 (excerpt) - perf. by Michael Bach

Morton Feldman - Straits of Magellan - from Indeterminate Music

Gustav Mahler - Suite for Orchestra, Harpsichord and Organ (after J.S. Bach)

Ludwig van Beethoven - 3 Equali - perf. by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

R.Vaughan Williams - Romance for Harmonica, Strings & Piano in D flat major - perf. by Tom Reilly (harmonica), from Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works

Béla Bartók - Concerto for 2 Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra, mvt 2

Tristan Murail - Winter Fragments 

Lou Harrison - Concerto for Organ and Percussion

George Anthiel - Ballet Mecanique (excerpts) 

Igor Stravinsky - Histoire du soldat (excerpts) - from the recording with Jean Cocteau (narrator), Igor Markevitch (conductor), and Peter Ustinov (speaker)

A piece by Robert Normandeau

Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei - perf. by Ensemble Caprice under Matthias Maute, from their album Adagio

A piece by Giacinto Scelsi

Igor Stravinski - Psalms (complete)

John Young - X - perf. by Xenia Pestova (piano), from her album Shadow Piano

Lukas Foss - Salomon Rossi Suite

Maurice Ravel - La Valse - perf. by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit

Louis Andriessen - Sweet