Milton Babbitt
American composer, born on May 10, 1916, in Philadelphia, died January 29, 2011.
Particularly noted for his serial and electronic music, also one of the foremost contributors to the undefined – the principal centre for tape and electronic music in the United States.
Main electronic works: Vision and Prayer, Philomel (for voice and tape), Sounds and Words, Phonemena (for soprano and piano or tape), Composition for Synthesizer, Ensembles for Synthesizer.
Works For Treble Voice And Piano
Milton Babbitt - Nina Berman, Steve Beck* with Eric Huebner
2022
New Focus Recordings
CD, Album
Orchester 2 / Relata II
Jürg Frey, Milton Babbitt - Windansea Symphony Orchestra*, Erik Carlson (2)
2020
Not On Label (Erik Carlson (2) Self-released)
2xFile, FLAC, Album
Philomel
Milton Babbitt - Juliet Fraser
2018
all that dust
File, FLAC
A Breath Upwards
Ah Young Hong Sings Works By Milton Babbitt And Michael Hersch
2018
Innova Recordings
CD, Album
The Flow Of Music: Piano Works Of Carter & Babbitt
Mari Asakawa - Carter* & Babbitt*
2018
Centaur Records
CD, Album
String Quartets
Milton Babbitt - The Ars Combinatoria String Quartet
2017
Not On Label (Erik Carlson (2) Self-released)
5xFile, FLAC, Album
All Set
Milton Babbitt, Lucy Shelton, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
2013
BMOP/sound
CD, Album
Occasional Variations
Milton Babbitt
2003
Tzadik
CD, Album
Babitt-Feldman
Milton Babbitt, Morton Feldman, Paul Zukofsky, Composers Ensemble
2003
CP² Recordings
CD, Album
The Music Of Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt
2003
Bridge Records (4)
CD
Diary Of A Seducer
William Anderson (2), Robert Martin (27), Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen
2000
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD
Sheer Pluck
Todd Seelye - Luciano Berio, Ursula Mamlok, James Dillon (2), Milton Babbitt, Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter, Robert Morris (3)
1998
Music & Arts
CD, Album
Transfigured Notes - Transfigured Night - Concerto In D For String Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg, Milton Babbitt, Igor Stravinsky, Gunther Schuller
1998
GM Recordings
CD, Album
Piano Music Since 1983
Milton Babbitt - Martin Goldray
1997
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD
Secret Geometry: Music For Piano And Electronic Tape
Aleck Karis - Milton Babbitt / Mario Davidovsky / Arthur Kreiger / James Primosch / Joji Yuasa
1996
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD, Album
Soli E Duettini
Milton Babbitt, The Group For Contemporary Music
1996
Philomel
Milton Babbitt
1995
New World Records
CD, Album, Comp, RE
None But The Lonely Flute: The Music Of Babbitt, Feldman, Mosko, Alexander & Cage
Dorothy Stone - Babbitt*, Feldman*, Mosko*, Alexander*, Cage*
1994
New World Records
CD, Album
Variations For Orchestra / Spectra / Correspondences / Atlas Eclipticalis
Cage* · Carter* · Babbitt* · Schuller* - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine (2)
1994
Three American String Quartets
Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, Mel Powell - Composers Quartet*
1990
Music & Arts
CD
Babbitt / Diamond / Persichetti
Milton Babbitt, David Diamond (2), Vincent Persichetti, Juilliard Orchestra*, Christopher Keene, Paul Zukofsky, James DePreist
1990
New World Records
CD
String Quartet No. 2 / String Quartet / String Quartet No. 4
The Juilliard String Quartet* – Sessions* / Wolpe* / Babbitt*
1990
Electro Acoustic Music: Classics
Edgard Varese*, Milton Babbitt, Roger Reynolds, Iannis Xenakis
1990
Perspectives Of New Music
Hostetler*, Babbitt*, Swift*, Amirkhanian*
1988
Perspectives Of New Music
CD
Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt
1988
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD, Album
Sextets / The Joy Of More Sextets
Milton Babbitt, Rolf Schulte, Alan Feinberg
1988
Out Of Bounds
Matthias Kriesberg - Milton Babbitt / Stefan Wolpe / Arthur Kreiger
1987
Spectrum Records (5)
LP, Album
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra · The Head Of The Bed
Milton Babbitt - American Composers Orchestra, Charles Wuorinen, Alan Feinberg · Parnassus (2), Anthony Korf, Judith Bettina
1987
Piano Works
Milton Babbitt - Robert Taub
1986
Music For Winds
Parnassus (2), Anthony Korf, Milton Babbitt / Donald Martino
1983
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
LP, Album
Opus One stereo number 67
Milton Babbitt, Steven R. Gerber, Stephen Peles, Noel Zahler
1982
Opus One
LP
A Solo Requiem / Haiku Settings / Filigree Setting / Three Synthesizer Settings
Milton Babbitt / Mel Powell
1981
Nonesuch
LP
Sonata / Responses / Three Compositions For Piano / Sonata
Kirchner* / Shifrin* / Babbitt* / Bartok*, Robert Taub
1981
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
LP, Album
Music For Viola
Babbitt* / Ghent* / Persichetti* / Pollock*, John Graham (2), Robert Black (4)
1981
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
LP, Album
Philomel / Piano Sonata No.3
Milton Babbitt / Roger Sessions
1980
New World Records
LP, Comp
Triple Concerto / Arie Da Capo
Donald Martino / Milton Babbitt
1980
Nonesuch
LP
New Music For Virtuosos
Milton Babbitt / Leslie Bassett / William O. Smith / Charles Wuorinen
1977
New World Records
LP, Album
Spectrum: New American Music, Volume V
Milton Babbitt / T.J. Anderson / Richard Wernick, The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble*, Arthur Weisberg
1974
String Quartet / String Quartet No. 5 / String Quartet No. 2
Ruth Crawford Seeger / George Perle / Milton Babbitt - The Composers Quartet
1973
Electronic Music
Milton Babbitt
1972
EAV Educational Audio Visual Inc., EAV Educational Audio Visual Inc.
2xLP
Quartet No. 3 / String Quartet
Milton Babbitt / Charles Wuorinen - The Fine Arts Quartet
1972
Philomel / Wake
Milton Babbitt / Fred Lerdahl
1970
Acoustic Research
LP, Album
New Electronic Music From Leaders Of The Avant-Garde
John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Milton Babbitt
1967
Music Of Mel Powell & Milton Babbitt
Mel Powell / Milton Babbitt
1961
Son Nova Records
LP
Modern Jazz Concert (Six Compositions)
George Russell, Harold Shapero, Jimmy Giuffre, Charlie Mingus*, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller
1958
New Music With Guitar, Volume 5
Mel Powell, Milton Babbitt, John Anthony Lennon, Mario Davidovsky, Roger Reynolds, Tom Flaherty — Anderson/Fader Duo • Elgart/Yates Duo • David Starobin • Todd Seelye • SMU Meadows Symphony Orchestra • David Milnes
Bridge Records (4)
CD, Comp
Volume 9: Contemporary American Chamber Music
Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, Igor Stravinsky, Henry Brant
Golden Crest Records, Inc.
LP
Chamber Works
Milton Babbitt / John Bavicchi
Metalofonico!
Metalofonico
2024
New Focus Recordings
CD
Volume 3
Jarvis and Friends
2020
Composers Concordance Records
CD, Album
The Heritage Collection: From The Vaults (Discs 6-7)
Stanley Drucker
2019
Clover Field Recordings
2xCD, Comp
Masterworks Of The 20th Century
Various
2015
When Still: New Music For Solo Vibraphone
Zeca Lacerda*
2013
Soundset Recordings
CD, Comp
Celebrating The American Spirit
Essential Voices USA, Kelli O'Hara, Ron Raines, Judith Clurman
2012
Sono Luminus
CD, Album
'Round Midnight: Hommage to Thelonious Monk
Emanuele Arciuli
2011
Stradivarius
CD, Album
Clarinet Quintets
Phoenix Ensemble, Mark Lieb
2009
Innova Recordings
CD, Album
Hommage À August Stramm
August Stramm, Steffen Schleiermacher, Hildegard Wiedemann, Holger Falk
2008
MDG
CD, Album
For All I Care
The Bad Plus Joined By Wendy Lewis (2)
2008
Gone For Foreign
Cygnus Ensemble
2006
Bridge Records (4)
CD, Album
Metalofonico!
Metalofonico
2006
8Bells
CD
Songs And Encores
Judith Bettina, James Goldsworthy
2006
Bridge Records (4)
CD, Album
The Noble Snare (Compositions For Unaccompanied Snare Drum)
Jason Baker (6)
2005
11 West Records
CD, Album
The Waltz Project Revisited, New Waltzes For Piano
Eric Moe (2)
2004
Albany Records
CD, Album
Music: An Appreciation (Eighth Edition)
Roger Kamien
2004
McGraw-Hill
8xCD, Comp
Viola Sonatas
César Franck, Darius Milhaud, The Zaslav Duo
2004
Music & Arts
CD, Comp
Window Silver Bright
Andy Laster's Lessness
2002
New World Records
CD, Album
Visions In Metaphor
John Sampen / Marilyn Shrude
2001
Albany Records
CD, Album
American Spiritual
Marilyn Nonken
2001
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD, Album
An Introduction to America's Music
Richard Crawford (3)
2001
Sony Music Special Products
3xCD, Comp
Norton Recorded Anthology Of Western Music, Vol. 2: Classic To Modern
Various
2001
Sony Music Special Products
6xCD, Comp
OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)
Various
2000
Newdance (18 Dances For Guitar)
David Starobin
1998
Bridge Records (4)
CD, Album
Divine Grandeur
New York Concert Singers Conductor Judith Clurman, Robert Beaser, Aaron Jay Kernis, Stephen Paulus, Simon Sargon, John Schlenck, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Judith Shatin
1997
New World Records
CD, Album
We Speak Etruscan
Lee Hyla
1996
New World Records
CD, Album
Morgan Powell
Morgan Powell, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, The Ineluctable Modality, Edwin London, Tone Road Ramblers
1996
New World Records
CD, Album
Music - An Appreciation - Sixth Edition
Roger Kamien
1996
Prime Meridian
Meridian Arts Ensemble
1995
Raised Pleasure Dot
Joey Baron
1994
The American Innovator
Alan Feinberg, Adams* · Ives* · Cowell* · Nancarrow* · Cage*
1993
Argo (2)
CD, Album
Where Silence Reigns
Griffin Music Ensemble
1992
GM Recordings
CD, Album
New Cantatas and Madrigals
New Calliope Singers*
1992
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD
Emergency Peace
Marty Ehrlich And The Dark Woods Ensemble*
1991
Spectrum: New American Music
The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble*
1990
Elektra Nonesuch
CD, Album, Comp
New Music With Guitar: Selected Works From Volumes 1, 2 & 3
David Starobin
1988
Bridge Records (4)
CD, Comp, RM
Songs Of America: On Home, Love, Nature, And Death
Jan DeGaetani ; Gilbert Kalish
1988
New Music With Guitar, Volume 3
David Starobin
1985
Bridge Records (4)
LP
Silver Linings (Songs By Jerome Kern)
Jerome Kern - Joan Morris, William Bolcom
1984
Nine Songs By Charles Ives / Songs By Theodore Chanler, Norman Dello Joio, Irving Fine, Robert Ward
William Parker (3) • Dalton Baldwin • Ani Kavafian*
1978
New World Records
LP
Brighten The Corner Where You Are - Black And White Urban Hymnody
Various
1978
New World Records
LP, Comp, Mono
Works By: Henry Cowell / Wallingford Riegger / John J. Becker / Ruth Crawford Seeger
Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger, John J. Becker, Ruth Crawford Seeger
1978
New World Records
LP, Album
Toward An American Opera (1911-1954)
Various
1978
New World Records
LP, Comp, Mono
Songs Of Samuel Barber And Ned Rorem
Samuel Barber / Ned Rorem
1978
Works By Arthur Shepherd, Henry Cowell, Roy Harris
Arthur Shepherd (2) / Henry Cowell / Roy Harris
1977
New World Records
LP, Album
Where Have We Met Before? - Forgotten Songs From Broadway, Hollywood, And Tin Pan Alley
Various
1977
New World Records
LP, Comp
Americana / The Odes Of Shang / To Music
Randall Thompson / Seymour Shifrin / Elliott Carter - The University Of Michigan Chamber Choir, Members Of The University Of Michigan Symphony Orchestra*, Thomas Hilbish
1977
Brave Boys: New England Traditions In Folk Music
Various
1977
The Enjoyment Of Music; Expanded Version: Album II
Joseph Machlis
1972
Columbia Special Products
7xLP, Comp, Box
Recordings For The Enjoyment Of Music - Third Edition And For the Norton Scores
Joseph Machlis
1970
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
9xLP, Comp + Box
M.O.O.T. (Music Of Our Time): A Guide To The Electronic Revolution Of Music
Various
1968
Columbia Masterworks
7", Promo
Philomel
Milton Babbitt
Beaten Paths
Milton Babbitt
Homily
Milton Babbitt
None But The Lonely Flute
Milton Babbitt
Part I
Milton Babbitt
Soli E Duettini
Milton Babbitt
Part II
Milton Babbitt
Semi-Simple Variations
Milton Babbitt
Play It Again, Sam
Milton Babbitt
Whirled Series
Milton Babbitt
Melismata
Milton Babbitt
Three Compositions
Milton Babbitt
Philomel (edit)
Milton Babbitt
Post-Partitions
Milton Babbitt
Philomel For Soprano, Recorded Soprano, And Synthesized Sound
Milton Babbitt
Composition For Guitar
Milton Babbitt
Partitions
Milton Babbitt
Ensembles for Synthesizer
Milton Babbitt
Occasional Variations
Milton Babbitt
Duet
Milton Babbitt
