1982: Arvo Part's Passio. "I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener." -Part

1983: Schnittke's Symphony No. 4 "I found the answer when I understood there was no answer" -Schnittke

1983: Hovhaness' mystical Symphony No. 53 "Star Dawn." "The composer joins heaven and earth with threads of sounds, the publisher promptly prints the music, the performer promptly plays the music and the world promptly receives the benediction." -Hovhaness

1984: Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and Experience. An exuberant and powerful account of Blake's texts.

1986: Shahar's The Palace of Shattered Vessels

1987: Paz's Collected Poems. Paz composed astonishing prophetic verse.

1988: Kieslowski's The Decalogue. Fascinating exploration of the ten commandments in a modern setting.

1991: Takemitsu's How Slow the Wind. "I had the impression of a milk-white light shining pale in the midst of darkness; the appearance of nature’s great gentle change, or the delicate look of the poet at the infinite." -Takemitsu

1994: Saariaho's Graal Theatre. A shimmering, terrifyingly beautiful vision.

1996: Penderecki's Symphony No. 7 'Seven Gates of Jerusalem.'

1997: James MacMillan's "Vigil." The final section of his fantastic Easter triptych, "Triduum."

1998: Tuur's Violin Concerto

2000: Tan Dun's Water Passion. "This version of gospel story is a reflection of what's culture today. And most important in our culture today is something must be shareable." -Tan Dun

2000: Golijov's ecstatic Passion

2000: Adams' vibrant Nativity story. "The piece is my way of trying to understand what is meant by a miracle." -John Adams

2002: Per Norgard's Violin Concerto "Borderlines." "Cosmic is, of course, really a phenomenon we are all closely linked to. Breathing is cosmic, eating a cheese sandwich is cosmic, but when we use the term 'cosmic' this is because the experience is so intense that the actual cheese sandwich recedes into the back of our mind." - Per Norgard

2003: Ehrlich's transcendent meditations.

2004: Geoffrey Hill's The Orchards of Syon. "If I were you, would you believe? Ripe vastage of estate, the Fall revived with death-songs. Set this down as anatomy’s coherence, and the full- blooded scrub maples torch themselves in the swamp." -Hill

2004: "In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, is the place where the soul goes after leaving the body. Sirius's first ascent brought forth the annual flooding of the Nile, which marked the start of the growing season and so was also thought to symbolize renewal and reincarnation. SIRIUS CALLING is dedicated to brother Malachi, whose spirit lives on in our music."

2007: Del Toro's El Laborinto del Fauno. A moving Gnostic parable.