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1 Events
2 Also in 1975
3 Albums released
4 Biggest hit singles
5 Chronological table of U.S. and UK Number One Hit singles
6 Other significant singles
7 Published popular music
8 Classical music
9 Opera
10 Musical theatre
11 Musical films
12 Births
13 Deaths
14 Awards

[edit] Events

January 2 - New York City U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former Beatle John Lennon and his lawyers can have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case.
January 5 - The Wiz, a new version of the classic The Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater in New York City.
January 6 - Approximately 1000 Led Zeppelin fans cause an estimated $30,000 in damage to the lobby of the Boston Garden. The fans had been waiting for tickets to go on sale for Led Zeppelin's February 4 concert. The fans reportedly broke chairs and doors and caused other damage to the building. Boston Mayor Kevin White cancels the upcoming show.
The Alice Cooper stage show for Welcome to My Nightmare becomes the largest stage spectacle of the decade.
January 8 - Three Led Zeppelin concerts at Madison Square Garden sell out in a record four hours.
January 12 - "The Warner Brothers Music Show" begins a nine city, 18 show tour of Europe. The tour included Warner Brothers acts Little Feat, Tower of Power, the Doobie Brothers, Bonaroo, Montrose, and Graham Central Station.
February 21 - John Lennon releases his Rock 'n' Roll LP, featuring John singing his favorite early rock songs from the 50's. To promote the album he conducts a telephone interview with 20 rock radio stations simultaneously.
March 2 - Los Angeles Police make a routine traffic stop that turns out to be Paul McCartney and his wife Linda. Linda McCartney is arrested for having six to eight ounces of marijuana in her pocketbook.
March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.
Welcome To My Nightmare, Alice Cooper's first solo album is released.
April 3 - Steve Miller is arrested and charged with setting fire to the clothes and personal effects of a friend, Benita DiOrio, and resisting arrest. DiOrio drops the charges the following day.
April 4 - Minnie Riperton scores a #1 hit single with "Lovin' You".
April 18 - Alice Cooper's first television special, Welcome To My Nightmare: The Making Of A Record Album airs.
April 24 - Pete Ham, founder of the group Badfinger, is found hanged in his London garage. His death is ruled a suicide.
April 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on the Tomorrow Show.
May 1 - The Rolling Stones announce their upcoming North American tour by performing "Brown Sugar" from a flatbed truck on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The occasion was guitarist Ronnie Wood's debut with the band.
May 10 - Stevie Wonder performs before 125,000 people at the Washington Monument as part of Human Kindness Day festivities.
June 1 - The Rolling Stones open their North American Tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
August 9 - The Bee Gees begin their mid-70s comeback when Jive Talkin' reaches #1 and goes platinum with sales over 1 million.
August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, the last of the great Soviet composers, dies.
August 9 - Renato Carosone's comeback concert after 15-year retirement.
September 15 - Pink Floyd releases their album Wish You Were Here and is a huge hit.
October 30 - Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour begins
November - The Ramones release their debut single, "Blitzkrieg Bop".
November 6 - The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
November 21 - Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes to number one. (5 weeks 1975 + 4 weeks 1976)
December 25 - Iron Maiden forms

[edit] Also in 1975

Firefall forms
Ramones sign to Sire Records
Pere Ubu forms in August
.38 Special forms
Motörhead forms
Wizzard disbands
Ocean disbands
John Rutter becomes Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge
Billy Davis, Jr. and Marilyn McCoo leave the Fifth Dimension and start solo careers
Peter Gabriel leaves British progressive rock group Genesis.
Camel's classic album, The Snow Goose, is realised.
The Goodies had five top twenty singles (in the UK) becoming, according to Bill Oddie, "the first, the only and the most successful comedy rockers".

[edit] Albums released

ABBA - ABBA
Adventures in Paradise - Minnie Riperton
Afro-Filipino - Joe Bataan
Alive! - Kiss
A Night at the Opera - Queen
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Another Year - Leo Sayer
Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart
Bandolier - Budgie
The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan & The Band
Beautiful Loser - Bob Seger
The Best of Carly Simon - Carly Simon
Between the Lines - Janis Ian
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
Blues for Allah - The Grateful Dead
Born To Be With You - Dion DiMucci + Produced by Phil Spector
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Bright Size Life - Pat Metheny Group
Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Captured Angel - Dan Fogelberg
Caress of Steel - Rush
Chicago VIII - Chicago
Chocolate City-Parliament
Come Taste the Band - Deep Purple
Crisis? What Crisis? - Supertramp
Das schönste im Leben - Die Flippers
Deluxe - Harmonia
Desperate Straights - Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez
The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! - The Dictators
Die schönsten Volkslieder - Die Flippers
Dreadlocks Dread - Big Youth
Dreamboat Annie - Heart (in Canada; released in U.S. in 1976)
Dressed to Kill - Kiss
Ella and Oscar - Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson
Extra Texture - George Harrison
Face the Music - Electric Light Orchestra
Fandango - ZZ Top
Fleetwood Mac (album) - Fleetwood Mac
Fly by Night - Rush
Fool for the City - Foghat
Gorilla - James Taylor
Have You Never Been Mellow - Olivia Newton-John
Head over Heels - Poco
Helen of Troy - John Cale
High Voltage - AC/DC
The Hissing of Summer Lawns- Joni Mitchell
Hokey Pokey - Richard and Linda Thompson
Horizon - The Carpenters
Horses - Patti Smith
In Praise of Learning - Henry Cow
In Trance - Scorpions
Initiation - Todd Rundgren
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett
Landed - Can
The Last Record Album - Little Feat
Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne
Let's Take It To The Stage-Funkadelic
Live! - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer
Main Course - The Bee Gees
Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull
Monster Planet - Steve Maxwell Von Braund
Montreux '75 - Ella Fitzgerald
Mother Focus - Focus
Natty Dread - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Neu! '75 - Neu!
Nighthawks at the Diner - Tom Waits
Nuthin' Fancy - Lynyrd Skynyrd
One of These Nights - The Eagles
One Size Fits All - Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
The Original Soundtrack - 10cc
Outlaws - The Outlaws
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Pieces of the Sky - Emmylou Harris
Playing Possum - Carly Simon
Pour Down Like Silver - Richard and Linda Thompson
Prisoner in Disguise- Linda Ronstadt
Radioactivity - Kraftwerk
Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson
Red Octopus - Jefferson Starship
Rimmel - Francesco de Gregori
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow
Rock 'n' Roll - John Lennon
Rock of the Westies - Elton John
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance - Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
Ripper - Various Artists
Rudy's Rock: The Sax That Changed the World - Rudy Pompilli and The Comets
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard - Robert Wyatt
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
Searchin' for a Rainbow - The Marshall Tucker Band
Shaved Fish - John Lennon
Siren - Roxy Music
Slow Dazzle - John Cale
Stampede - The Doobie Brothers
Stand Back - April Wine
Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
Straight Shooter - Bad Company
Sweet Deceiver - Kevin Ayers
Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads - IF
The Dragon is Dancing - Jimmie Spheeris
The Tubes - The Tubes
The Sun Collection - Elvis Presley
Tonight's the Night - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith
Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler
Venus and Mars - Paul McCartney & Wings
Waves - Jade Warrior
Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
The Who By Numbers - The Who
Wind on the Water - Crosby & Nash
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Young Americans - David Bowie
Zuma - Neil Young and Crazy Horse

[edit] Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1975.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	The Sweet	Fox on the Run	1975	Australia 1 of 1975, Germany 1 - Mar 1975, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Mar 1976, UK 2 - Mar 1975, Canada 2 - Nov 1975, Holland 2 - Apr 1975, Norway 2 - Apr 1975, South Africa 2 of 1975, Austria 3 - May 1975, Switzerland 3 - May 1975, France 4 - May 1975, US BB 5 - Nov 1975, Sweden (alt) 10 - Nov 1975, Germany 24 of the 1970s, RYM 24 of 1975, US CashBox 63 of 1976, Scrobulate 64 of glam rock, OzNet 535
2	ABBA	SOS	1975	France 1 - Sep 1975, Germany 1 - Jan 1976, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Aug 1976, Holland 2 - Jun 1975, Austria 2 - Sep 1975, Norway 2 - Oct 1975, Switzerland 3 - Aug 1975, UK 6 - Sep 1975, Italy 7 of 1976, South Africa 8 of 1975, US BB 15 - Oct 1975, US BB 15 of 1975, RYM 15 of 1975, Canada 16 - Oct 1975, Australia 16 of 1976, POP 21 of 1975, Germany 36 of the 1970s, 71 in 2FM list, Acclaimed 1175
3	George Baker Selection	Una Paloma Blanca	1975	Holland 1 - Mar 1975, Sweden (alt) 1 - Nov 1975, Austria 1 - Jul 1975, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1975, Norway 1 - Sep 1975, Germany 1 - May 1975, Germany 4 of the 1970s, Canada 5 - Jan 1976, South Africa 6 of 1975, UK 10 - Sep 1975, Australia 11 of 1975, US BB 26 - Jan 1976, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1975, Italy 44 of 1975
4	10cc	I'm Not In Love	1975	UK 1 - May 1975, France 1 - Jun 1975, Éire 1 - Jul 1975, US BB 2 - Jun 1975, Canada 2 - Jun 1975, Record World 3 - 1975, Holland 5 - Jun 1975, Norway 6 - Aug 1975, RYM 7 of 1975, Switzerland 8 - Aug 1975, Germany 9 - Aug 1975, Scrobulate 12 of 70s, US CashBox 24 of 1975, Europe 25 of the 1970s, Poland 37 - Mar 1995, Italy 96 of 1975, Belgium 176 of all time, Acclaimed 421
5	KC & The Sunshine Band	That's the Way (I Like It)	1975	US BB 1 - Nov 1975, Record World 1 - 1975, Canada 1 - Nov 1975, Holland 1 - Oct 1975, Sweden (alt) 3 - Nov 1975, POP 3 of 1975, UK 4 - Aug 1975, US BB 4 of 1975, Norway 5 - Nov 1975, Germany 25 - Nov 1975, RYM 44 of 1975, Scrobulate 44 of disco, US CashBox 49 of 1975, Italy 67 of 1976, OzNet 110, RIAA 303, Acclaimed 1119

[edit] Chronological table of U.S. and UK Number One Hit singles

U.S. Number One Singles and Artist (Weeks at Number One)	UK Number One Singles and Artist (Weeks at Number One)
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - Elton John (2) "Mandy" - Barry Manilow (1) "Please Mr. Postman" - The Carpenters (1) "Laughter in the Rain" - Neil Sedaka (1) "Fire" - Ohio Players (1) "You're No Good" - Linda Ronstadt (1) "Pick Up the Pieces" - Average White Band (1) "Best of My Love" - The Eagles (1) "Have You Never Been Mellow" - Olivia Newton-John (1) "Black Water" - Doobie Brothers (1) "My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons (1) "Lady Marmalade" - LaBelle (1) "Lovin' You" - Minnie Riperton (1) "Philadelphia Freedom" - Elton John (2) "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" - B. J. Thomas (1) "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) - Tony Orlando & Dawn (3) "Shining Star" - Earth, Wind & Fire (1) "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" - Freddy Fender (1) "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" - John Denver (1) "Sister Golden Hair" - America (1) "Love Will Keep Us Together" - The Captain & Tennille (4) "Listen to What the Man Said" - Wings (1) "The Hustle" - Van McCoy (1) "One of These Nights" - The Eagles (1) "Jive Talkin'" - Bee Gees (2) "Fallin' In Love" - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds (1) "Get Down Tonight" - K.C. and the Sunshine Band (1) "Rhinestone Cowboy" - Glen Campbell (2) "Fame" - David Bowie (2) "I'm Sorry" - John Denver (1) "Bad Blood" - Neil Sedaka (3) "Island Girl" - Elton John (3) "That's the Way (I Like It) - K.C. and the Sunshine Band (2) "Fly, Robin, Fly" - Silver Convention (3) "Let's Do It Again"- The Staple Singers (1)	"Lonely This Christmas" - Mud (2 weeks 1974 + 2 weeks 1975) "Down Down" - Status Quo (1) "Ms Grace" - Tymes (1) "January" - Pilot (3) "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (2) "If" - Telly Savalas (2) "Bye Bye Baby" - Bay City Rollers (6) "Oh Boy" - Mud (2) "Stand By Your Man" - Tammy Wynette (3) "Whispering Grass" - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle (3) "I'm Not in Love" - 10cc (2) "Tears on My Pillow (I Can't Take It)" - Johnny Nash (1) "Give A Little Love" - Bay City Rollers (3) "Barbados" - Typically Tropical (1) "I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" - Stylistics (3) "Sailing" - Rod Stewart (4) "Hold Me Close" - David Essex (3) "I Only Have Eyes For You" - Art Garfunkel (2) "Space Oddity" - David Bowie (2) "D.I.V.O.R.C.E" - Billy Connolly (1) "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (5 weeks 1975 + 4 weeks 1976)

note: best sellers of the year are bold

[edit] Other significant singles

"#9 Dream - John Lennon
"Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" - Helen Reddy
"All By Myself" - Eric Carmen
"All My Friends Are Getting Married" - Skyhooks
"Amie" - Pure Prairie League
"At Seventeen" - Janis Ian
"Autobahn" - Kraftwerk
"Back in the Night" - Dr. Feelgood
"Bad Luck" - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
"Ballroom Blitz" - Sweet
"Black Friday" - Steely Dan
"Black Superman Muhammed Ali" - Johnny Wakelin
"Blue Guitar" - Justin Hayward and John Lodge
"Boogie on Reggae Woman" - Stevie Wonder
"Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen
"The Boys Are Back in Town" - Thin Lizzy
"Bye Bye Baby" -Bay City Rollers
"Calypso" - John Denver
"Cavalry" - Daryl Braithwaite
"Can't Stop Myself from Lovin' You" - William Shakespeare
"Can't Get It Out of My Head" - Electric Light Orchestra
"The Carpet Crawlers" - Genesis
"Chevy Van" - Sammy Johns
"Convoy" - C.W. McCall
"Could It Be Magic" - Barry Manilow
"Curiosity Killed the Cat" - Little River Band
"Cut the Cake" - Average White Band
"Daisy Jane" - America
"Dance With Me" - Orleans
"Department of Youth" - Alice Cooper
"Doctor's Orders" - Carol Douglas
"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" - Sugarloaf
"Dreamer" - Supertramp
"Dynomite, Part 1" - Bazuka
"Ego Is Not a Dirty Word" - Skyhook
"Eighteen With a Bullet" - Pete Wingfield
"Emma" - Hot Chocolate
"Evil Woman" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Express" - B.T. Express
"Feel Like Makin' Love" - Bad Company
"Feelings" - Morris Albert
"Fight the Power (Part 1)" - The Isley Brothers
"Fly Away" - John Denver
"Fox on the Run" - Sweet
"Freedom" - Sherbet
"Get Dancin'" - Disco Tex and the Sexolettes
"Golden Years" - David Bowie
"Good Lovin' Gone Bad" - Bad Company
"Have a Cigar" - Pink Floyd
"Hey You" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
"Hijack" - Herbie Hancock
"Hold Back the Night" - Trammps
"Horror Movie" - Skyhooks
"How Does It Feel" - Slade
"How Long" - Ace
"How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)" - Pointer Sisters
"I Am Love" - The Jackson 5
"I Believe In Father Christmas" - Greg Lake
"I Love Music" - The O'Jays
'I'm Not In Love" - 10cc
"In Dulce Jubilo/On Horseback" - Mike Oldfield
"I Only Have Eyes For You" - Art Garfunkel
"It's a Miracle" - Barry Manilow
"I Write the Songs" - Barry Manilow
"They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" - The Spinners
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Eric Clapton
"Kometenmelodie 2" - Kraftwerk
"Lady" - Styx
"Let the Music Play" - Barry White
"Life...Is For Living" - Sherbet
"Lonely People" - America
"Long Tall Glasses" - Leo Sayer
"Love Hurts" - Nazareth
"L-O-V-E (Love)" - Al Green
"Love Is the Drug" - Roxy Music
"Love Rollercoaster" - The Ohio Players
"Love to Love You Baby" - Donna Summer
"Love Won't Let Me Wait" - Major Davis
"Low Rider" - War
"Lyin' Eyes" - Eagles
"Magic" - Pilot
"Mamma Mia" - ABBA
"Matter of Time" - Sherbet
"Man on the Silver Mountain" - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
"Midnight Blue" - Melissa Manchester
"Million Dollar Riff" - Skyhooks
"Miracles" - Jefferson Starship
"Mr. Jaws" - Dickie Goodman
"The Newcastle Song" - Bob Hudson
"Mr. Raffles (Man It Was Mean)" - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
"My Little Town" - Paul Simon
"Never Can Say Goodbye" - Gloria Gaynor
"Nightingale" - Carole King
"Nights on Broadway" - The Bee Gees
"The No-No Song" - Ringo Starr
"No Woman No Cry" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"Now I'm Here" - Queen
"Old Days" - Chicago
"Once Bitten Twice Shy" - Ian Hunter (singer)
"Once You Get Started" - Rufus
"Only Women Bleed" - Alice Cooper
"Only Yesterday" - The Carpenters
"Our Day Will Come" - Frankie Valli
"Out on the Floor" - Dobie Gray
"Please Mr. Please" - Olivia Newton-John
"Real Man" - Todd Rundgren
"Remember What I Told You to Forget" - Tavares
"Right Back Where We Started From" - Maxine Nightingale
"Rock and Roll All Nite" - Kiss
"Rocky" - Austin Roberts
"Rockin' All Over the World" - John Fogerty
"Rockin' Chair" - Gwen McCrae
"Roll on Down the Highway" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
"Roll Over Lay Down" - Status Quo
"Run Joey Run" - David Geddes
"Saturday Night" - Bay City Rollers
"Saturday Night Special" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"School's Out (EP)" - Alice Cooper
"Send in the Clowns" - Judy Collins
"Shame, Shame, Shame" - Shirley and Company
"Shaving Cream" - Benny Bell
"She Does It Right" - Dr. Feelgood
"Sing a Song" - Earth, Wind & Fire
"Sky High" - Jigsaw
"Slow Ride" - Foghat
"The Snake" - Al Wilson
"Solitaire" - The Carpenters
"Spirits in the Night" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
"Squeeze Box" - The Who
"Strange Magic" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Super Natural Thing" - Ben E. King
"Swearin' To God" - Frankie Valli
"Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith
"Sweet Thing" - Rufus
"Sweet Surrender" - John Denver
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" - Elton John
"Stand by Me" - John Lennon
"Summer Love" - Sherbet
"Swearin' To God" - Frankie Valli
"Tangled Up in Blue" - Bob Dylan
"That's the Way (I Like It)" - KC and the Sunshine Band
"Theme From Mahogany(Do You Know Where You're Going Too)" - Diana Ross
"Third Rate Romance" - Amazing Rhythm Aces
"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" - Natalie Cole
"Too Much Rock 'N' Roll" - Rabbit
"Up in a Puff of Smoke" - Polly Brown
"Venus and Mars/Rockshow" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"Walk Away From Love" - David Ruffin
"Walk This Way" - Aerosmith
"Walking in Rhythm" - The Blackbyrds
"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" - Freddy Fender
"The Way I Want to Touch You" - Captain & Tennille
"The Way We Were" - Gladys Knight and the Pips
"Welcome to the Machine" - Pink Floyd
"What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" - Esther Phillips
"What Am I Gonna Do With You?" - Barry White
"(What's the Word?) Johannesburg" - Gil Scott-Heron
"When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease" - Roy Harper
"When Will I Be Loved" - Linda Ronstadt
"Who Loves You" - The Four Seasons
"Why Can't We Be Friends - War
"Wildfire" - Michael Murphy
"W*O*L*D*" - Harry Chapin
"You Are So Beautiful" - Joe Cocker
"You Sexy Thing" - Hot Chocolate
"Young Americans" - David Bowie
"You're My Best Friend" - Queen
"Paloma Blanca" - George Baker Selection

[edit] Published popular music

"Anytime (I'll Be There)" w.m. Paul Anka
"At Seventeen" w.m. Janis Ian
"Calypso" w.m. John Denver
"I'm Not in Love" w.m. Graham Keith Gouldman & Eric Michael Stewart
"I'm Sorry" w.m. John Denver
"The Last Farewell" w.m. R. A. Webster & Roger Whittaker
"Mamma Mia" w.m. Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson & Björn Ulvaeus
"Love Will Keep Us Together" w.m. Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield
"Movin' On Up" w.m. Jeff Barry and Ja'Net DuBois, theme from the TV series The Jeffersons
"New York State of Mind" w.m. Billy Joel
"One" w. Edward Kleban m. Marvin Hamlisch
"Rockin' All Over the World" w.m. John C. Fogerty
"Wasted Days Wasted Nights" w.m. Freddy Fender & Wayne Duncan
"The Way I Want To Touch You" w.m. Toni Tennille
"What I Did For Love" w. Edward Kleban m. Marvin Hamlisch
"You" w.m. Tom Snow

[edit] Classical music

Samuel Adler - Symphony No. 5, "We are the Echoes"
Osvaldas Balakauskas - Sonata of the Mountains
Claude Bolling and Jean Pierre Rampal - Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
Mario Davidovsky - Scenes from Shir ha-Shirim for soprano, two tenors, bass soli and chamber ensemble
Theo Loevendie - Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra, "Incantations"
Witold Lutosławski - Les Espaces du Sommeil
Alexander Vustin - The Word
Dmitri Shostakovich - Viola Sonata - his final work.