This week’s Modern Notebook highlights two large scale works from the Late 20th Century: the Piano Concerto by György Ligeti and Harmonium by John Adams; plus, beautiful and evocative music from this century by Missy Mazzoli, Anna Clyne, and Julia Wolfe.

Hour 1

• Edgard Varèse’s Un grand sommeil noir for soprano and orchestra.
• A work by Missy Mazzoli that seeks to “find beauty in chaos, and chaos in beauty”: Still Life With Avalanche.
• György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto.
• Anna Clyne‘s double concerto for two violins, Prince of Clouds.

Hour 2

• Rain Tree Sketch by Toru Takemitsu.
• Julia Wolfe‘s A Wild Furze, which takes its title from a wild plant that grows throughout Ireland and the U.K.
• Beata Moon‘s Wind Quintet.
• Music for large orchestra and chorus: Harmonium by John Adams.