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A videorecording of The General is here at 0:30:27.
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Adams     general

Adès     Piano Quintet (Aldeburgh 2002)     Tevot     chamber

Andriessen     Rosa

Babbitt     Second Piano Concerto    chamber (New York 2000)     chamber/electronic

Bach    biographies

Barraqué     Sonata

Bartók     Contrasts

Beethoven     Ninth Symphony (Rattle 1998)     Egmont (Bard 2000)     ‘Eroica’ Symphony (Barenboim 2000)     Fidelio (Glyndebourne 2001)     Missa Solemnis

Berg     Wozzeck (Metropolitan 1999)     Violin Concerto     Wozzeck (WNO 2005)
 
Berio     Un re in ascolto (Chicago 1996)     Ofanim (interview)     Voci     obituary

Berkeley     Jane Eyre (Cheltenham 2000)

Berlioz    Roméo et Juliette

Birtwistle     Exody (interview)     Exody (Chicago 1998)     The Shadow of Night (interview)     Pulse Shadows     various     The Axe Manual

Bizet     Carmen (Metropolitan 2000)

Boulez     Notations VII (Chicago 1999)   sur Incises (New York 1999)     Second Sonata (Pollini 2000)     general

Brown     orchestral (New York 2000)

Bryars     various

Dalbavie    interview

Debussy     Pelléas et Mélisande (Glyndebourne 1999)     Pelléas et Mélisande (Metropolitan 2000)

Dutilleux     The Shadows of Time (interview)

Elgar     The Dream of Gerontius

Eötvös     Le Balcon (Aix 2002)     Angels in America (Paris 2004)

Feldman     orchestral     For Philip Guston (New York 2000)

Ferneyhough     chamber     chamber (New York 2002)

Glass     Monsters of Grace (New York 1998)     Fifth Symphony (New York 2000)     Timpani Concerto (New York 2000)

Gluck    Iphigénie en Aulide (Glyndebourne 2002)

Godard    Histoire(s) du cinéma

Goehr     Arianna

Golijov     interview

Grisey     Les Espaces acoustiques (New York 2000)

Gruber     general

Gubaidulina     chamber (Tanglewood 1997)     general      String Trio (New York 2001)     Perception (New York 2002)

Handel     Amadigi di Gaula (New York 1997)     Rodelinda (Glyndebourne 1998)     opera     Partenope (N.Y. City Opera 1998)      Giulio Cesare (Metropolitan 2000)     Orlando     Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne 2005)

Harrison     orchestral (New York 1997)

Henze     Tristan      Bohemian Fifths     El Cimarrón (New York 2000)     Ninth Symphony     L’Upupa (Salzburg 2003)

Holliger     Schneewittchen

Ives     various (New York 1996)

Janá…ek     Jençfa (Glyndebourne 2000)

Kagel     interview     various (Aldeburgh 2003)

Kim     Exercises en Route

Kirchner     general

Kurtág     various (London 2002)

Kyburz     The Voynich Cipher Manuscript

                   



Lachenmann     Gran Torso (New York 2001)     general     Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (Salzburg 2002)

Lieberson    Red Garuda (Tanglewood 2000)

Ligeti     various     Le Grand Macabre     orchestral     orchestral     obituary

Lindberg     general

Luening     chamber (New York 2000)

Mahler     Sixth Symphony (Sinopoli 2001)     Seventh Symphony

Mamlok     chamber (New York 1998)

Martinç     chamber operas (New York 2002)

Messiaen     St François d’Assise (Zagrosek)     St François d’Assise (Salzburg 1998)     St François d’Assise (Nagano)     St François d’Assise (New York 2000)     Vingt Regards (Aimard)     Vingt Regards     Visions de l’Amen

Monk      Celebration Service (New York 1999)

Mozart     Die Entführung (Salzburg 1998)     Da Ponte comedies (Glyndebourne 2000)     Requiem

Partch     Oedipus (New York 1997)

Pärt     general

Pfitzner     chamber (New York 1997)

Perle     interview     chamber

Reich     Music for 18 Musicians (New York 2000)   Three Tales (Vienna 2002)     70th birthday portrait

Revueltas     various

Rzewski     The Road (New York 1998)

Salonen     interview

Scelsi     orchestral (New York 2000)

Schoenberg     Von heute auf morgen (film)     Moses und Aron (Metropolitan 1999)

Schubert     ‘Great’ C major Symphony (von Dohnányi 1997)     Winterreise (Van Dam 2002)

Sciarrino     Infinito nero     Recitativo oscuro (New York 2000)

Shostakovich     general

Shapey     Sonata appassionata (New York 1998)

Silvestrov     various

Stockhausen     Piano Piece X (Pollini 1999)     Kontakte (New York 2001)     obituary

Stravinsky     Taruskin

Talman     Vanishing Point 1.1 (New York 1999)

Takemitsu     piano

Tchaikovsky     Poznansky

Verdi     Il trovatore (interview with Graham Vick)

Wagner     Parsifal (Amsterdam 1997)   Tristan und Isolde (Amsterdam 2001)     Das Rheingold (Eos 2002)   biography   Die Walküre (Covent Garden 2005)

Weber     Euryanthe (Glyndebourne 2002)

Weill     Der Jasager (New York 2000)

Wolpe     various (New York 2002)

Wuorinen     Fourth Quartet (New York 2001)     general

Xenakis     percussion (Schick 1999)     obituary

Zwilich     Second Quartet (Emersons 1998)

anon.     Edda (New York (2001)

pianists     Arnaldo Cohen (New York 1997)     Peter Serkin (New York 1997)   Grigory Sokolov (New York 1998)     Daniel Barenboim (New York 1998)     Piotr Anderszewski (New York 1998)     Maurizio Pollini (interview)     Peter Serkin (interview)     Pierre-Laurent AImard (interview)     Glenn Gould

singers     Hermann Prey (New York 1998)     Ian Bostridge (New York 1998)     Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (New York 1999)   Barbara Bonney (New York 2000)     Anja Silja (interview)     Ewa Podles (New York 2001)

other performers     Simon Rattle (1998)       Steven Schick (New York 1998)

orchestral programming     1997     1998     1999     2002

miscellanea     National Traditional Orchestra of China (New York 1997)     sarod (New York 2000)     Betty Freeman concert (Los Angeles 2001)    relaxation     Whitney Biennial (2002)     Parrot     Edward Said     Taruskin’s history