Having seen the total solar eclipse in Zambia last month, I've gone on
a search for works about heavenly objects and events. These are in my
library:
John Tavener: Total Eclipse
Harmonia Mundi 907271
Rued Langgaard: Music of the Spheres
Chandos 9517
Iannis Xenakis: Pleiades
BIS 482
Olivier Messiaen: Illuminations of the Beyond (The Constellation of
Sagittarius)
dg 439 929
Allan Hovhaness: Vision of a Starry Night
Koch 7288
Judith Weir: Airs from Another Planet
Lorelt 103
Anne Alice Le Baron: Solar Music
CHA 3023
Chen Yi: Pan Gu Creates Heaven and Earth
New Albion 090
Peter Sculthorpe: The Stars Turn
Vox Australis 018
Music about the polar Auroras (Borealis is the Northern Lights and
Australis, the Southern Lights):
Judith Zaimont: Sky Curtains
AR z6667
Eduard Tubin: Dance of the Northern Lights (from Kratt)
BIS 306
Lepo Sumera: Sym No 4, "Serena borealis"
BIS 690
Barry Conyngham: Southern Cross
Cala 1008
Susan