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Charles Wuorinen
p, *1938 US, Manhattan
Singer / Composer of Classical
Charles Peter Wuorinen (/ˈwɔːrɪnən/, born June 9, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City.His catalog of more than 260 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, and chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works. Salman Rushdie and Annie Proulx have collaborated with him. Wuorinen's work has been described as serialist, but he has come to disparage that term as meaningless.
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| The Group For Contemporary Music |
Popular Tracks 
Josquiniana: I. Helas madame on Wuorinen: Ashberyana / Fenton Songs I and Ii / Josquiniana by Charles Wuorinen & Da Camera Of Houston Time's Encomium: Part I on Lepton by Charles Wuorinen Big Spinoff on Modernists by Alarm Will Sound & Alan Pierson Josquiniana: II. Faulte d'argent on Wuorinen: Ashberyana / Fenton Songs I and Ii / Josquiniana by Charles Wuorinen & Da Camera Of Houston The Blue Bamboula on American Piano Music Of Our Time, Vol. 2 by Ursula Oppens Josquiniana: III. Cela sans Plus on Wuorinen: Ashberyana / Fenton Songs I and Ii / Josquiniana by Charles Wuorinen & Da Camera Of Houston Lepton on Lepton by Charles Wuorinen String Sextet on Wuorinen: String Sextet / String Quartet No. 2 / Piano Quintet / Divertimento by Charles Wuorinen Josquiniana: VI. El Grillo, "Josquin a'Ascanio" on Wuorinen: Ashberyana / Fenton Songs I and Ii / Josquiniana by Charles Wuorinen & Da Camera Of Houston Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (arr. C. Wuorinen) on Schoenberg: Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Variations for Orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg & "Mendelssohn-Duo"Track list and 30sec audio provided by 
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vol. 3: Alphabetical Ashbery, Fourth Piano Sonata, It Happens Like This | Charles Wuorinen, loadbang, Anne-Marie McDermott, The Group For Contemporary Music | 2017 | Album |
| Chamber Music For Violin, Piano And Harpsichord | Charles Wuorinen - Anna Skouras, Andreas Skouras | 2016 | Album |
| Sheer Pluck | Todd Seelye - Luciano Berio, Ursula Mamlok, James Dillon, Milton Babbitt, Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter, Robert Morris | 2011 | Album |
| Multiplicities: '38 - Music By Composers Born In 1938 | Blair McMillen Wih Sachiko Kato / John Corigliano, Joan Tower, Frederic Rzewski, Charles Wuorinen, John Harbison, William Bolcom | 2008 | Album |
| Tashi • Percussion Quartet • Fortune | Charles Wuorinen, The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, The Group For Contemporary Music | 2007 | Compil. |
| Cyclops 2000 / A Reliquary For Igor Stravinsky | Charles Wuorinen | 2006 | Album |
| String Sextet And Other Works | Charles Wuorinen - The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center, Tashi, The Group For Contemporary Music | 2006 | Compil. |
| On Alligators | Charles Wuorinen | 2005 | Album |
| Piano Works | Charles Wuorinen | 2005 | Album |
| Lepton | Charles Wuorinen | 2002 | Album |
| b. 1938 | William Bolcom / John Corigliano / John Harbison / Ellsworth Milburn / Joan Tower / Charles Wuorinen - The Fischer Duo | 2001 | Album |
| Broken Consort | Cygnus Ensemble, William Anderson, Chester Biscardi, Anthony Braxton, Sebastian Currier, John Halle, David Lang, Robert Pollock, Charles Wuorinen | 2000 | Album |
| Piano Quintet / Lightenings viii / The Mission Of Virgil / Percussion Quartet | Charles Wuorinen - The Group For Contemporary Music | 1998 | Album |
| Third Piano Sonata - Bagatelle - Capriccio / Palais de Mari | Charles Wuorinen, Morton Feldman - Alan Feinberg | 1996 | Album |
| Music Of Two Decades, Volume III | Charles Wuorinen | 1996 | Compil. |
| The Winds | Charles Wuorinen | 1996 | Compil. |
| Genesis - Mass | Charles Wuorinen | 1995 | Album |
| Three 20th Century Song Cycles | Olivier Messiaen, Charles Wuorinen, Luigi Dallapiccola - Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Mark Markham | 1995 | Album |
| The Flood • Abraham And Isaac • Variations • Requiem Canticles • A Reliquary For Igor Stravinsky | Igor Stravinsky, Charles Wuorinen - London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen | 1995 | Album |
| Fortune / Tashi / Violin Variations / Cello Variations II / Album Leaf | Charles Wuorinen - The Group For Contemporary Music | 1994 | Album |
| Music Of Two Decades, Volume I | Charles Wuorinen | 1994 | Compil. |
| Piano Sonatas By Wuorinen And Boulez | Charles Wuorinen, Pierre Boulez - Jeffrey Swann | 1993 | Album |
| Trios (1981-1985) | Charles Wuorinen / The Group For Contemporary Music | 1993 | Album |
| Second String Quartet / String Quartet No. 1 / String Quartet No. 1 | Charles Wuorinen / Jonathan Harvey / Wayne Peterson / The Group For Contemporary Music | 1992 | Album |
| Five; Archangel; Archæopteryx; Hyperion | Charles Wuorinen, Orchestra Of St. Luke's | 1992 | Album |
| Chamber Works | Charles Wuorinen - The Group For Contemporary Music, Garrick Ohlsson | 1990 | Album |
| Works For Violin And Piano (1969-1983) | Charles Wuorinen | 1988 | Album |
| The Golden Dance / Piano Concerto No. 3 | Charles Wuorinen | 1988 | Album |
| Concerto For Piano And Orchestra · The Head Of The Bed | Milton Babbitt - American Composers Orchestra, Charles Wuorinen, Alan Feinberg · Parnassus, Anthony Korf, Judith Bettina | 1987 | Album |
| A Fifteenth Anniversary Album | Speculum Musicae - Peter Lieberson / Charles Wuorinen / Seymour Shifrin | 1985 | Album |
| Chamber Concerto For Tuba • Dialectic • Music For Ten Stringed Instruments | Charles Wuorinen | 1983 | Album |
| New Music From The University Of Iowa | Charles Wuorinen / Peter Tod Lewis / Richard Hervig | 1983 | Album |
| Twentieth Anniversary Celebration (Arabia Felix / Angel And Stone / Voyage) | The Group For Contemporary Music - Charles Wuorinen / Harvey Sollberger / Nicolas Roussakis | 1982 | Album |
| American Composers Alliance Recording Award | John Anthony Lennon / Eleanor Cory / Chester Biscardi / Charles Wuorinen | 1982 | Album |
| New Music With Guitar, Volume I | David Starobin - Hans Werner Henze / Barbara Kolb / William Bland / Charles Wuorinen | 1981 | Album |
| The Da Capo Chamber Players Celebrate Their Tenth Anniversary | Da Capo Chamber Players - Philip Glass / George Perle / Shulamit Ran / Joseph Schwantner / Joan Tower / Charles Wuorinen | 1981 | Album |
| Parnassus Plays Works By Stefan Wolpe, Mario Davidovsky, Charles Wuorinen, Erik Lundborg, David Olan | Parnassus - Stefan Wolpe / Mario Davidovsky / Charles Wuorinen / Erik Lundborg / David Olan | 1980 | Album |
| The Seasons / 2-Part Symphony | American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies - John Cage / Charles Wuorinen | 1979 | Album |
| Four Pieces / Composition / Unseen Leaves | Ernst Krenek, Charles Wuorinen, Lawrence Moss, James Ostryniec | 1978 | Album |
| Percussion Symphony | Charles Wuorinen | 1978 | Album |
| New Music For Virtuosos | Milton Babbitt / Leslie Bassett / William O. Smith / Charles Wuorinen | 1977 | Album |
| String Trio / Bearbeitungen Über Das Glogauer Liederbuch / Grand Bamboula | Charles Wuorinen | 1975 | Album |
| Twentieth-Century Flute Music (Works By Berio, Davidovsky, Fukushima, Levy, Reynolds, Roussakis, Trombly, Varèse, Westergaard, Wuorinen) | Harvey Sollberger With Charles Wuorinen, Sophie Sollberger, Allen Blustine, Jeanne Benjamin | 1975 | Album |
| Notturno / Speculum Speculi | Donald Martino / Charles Wuorinen - Speculum Musicae, Daniel Shulman, Fred Sherry | 1974 | Album |
| Contemporary Piano Music | Charles Wuorinen, Stefan Wolpe, Yehudi Wyner, George Perle, Robert Miller | 1974 | Album |
| Quartet No. 3 / String Quartet | Milton Babbitt / Charles Wuorinen, The Fine Arts Quartet | 1972 | Album |
| Piano Sonata No. 3 / Duo For Violin And Piano | Roger Sessions / Charles Wuorinen | 1971 | Album |
| Time's Encomium (For Synthesized & Processed Synthesized Sound) | Charles Wuorinen | 1969 | Album |
| Chamber Concerto For Flute And Ten Players / Concerto For Wind Quintet | Charles Wuorinen / Donald Martino | 1969 | Album |
| Trombone Concerto/Contra Mortem Et Tempus/Janissary Music | Robert Parris / George Rochberg / Charles Wuorinen | 1968 | Album |
| 4 Contemporary Choral Works | Ulysses Kay, Ned Rorem, William Flanagan, Charles Wuorinen | 1963 | Album |
| Variations For Orchestra / Symphony No. 3 | Elias Tanenbaum / Charles Wuorinen, Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Akeo Watanabe | Album | |
| Piano Concertos | Ben Weber / Charles Wuorinen | Album | |
| Chamber Concerto For Cello & 10 Players / Ringing Changes, For Percussion Ensemble | Charles Wuorinen | Album |
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