Hovhaness Links on the Web
 Compact Disc Releases
The following sites have information, some with soundclips, of Hovhaness CDs and mail-order facilities
  • Crystal Records is the best single source for Hovhaness recordings. Most of the Crystal Hovhaness catalog comprises recordings which originally appeared on Poseidon Society, Hovhaness' own record label. Whilst recorded in the 1970s, before the advent of digital audio technology, Poseidon recordings can be regarded as definitive performances in that they were either conducted or supervised by the composer himself, usually in London, England. Because of the London connection, a few of these recordings initially appeared in Europe through being licensed to Unicorn Records.
  • Delos championed Hovhaness's music in the 1990s with about half a dozen CD releases. The orchestral CDs feature conductor Gerard Schwarz, an advocate of Hovhaness since the 1960s.
  • Telarc has released two good all-Hovhaness CDs, one with Harp music and the other orchestral works, with a fine recording of Concerto No.7 for Orchestra, one of his best works. A third CD includes Mysterious Mountain along with evocative works by other composers.
  • Grenadilla Music is an independent label whose releases over the years have included several works of Hovhaness. Their current Hovhaness release has the distinction of being the only commercial release thus far featuring the composer addressing a concert audience.
  • Overview of Hovhaness on CD discussed by Hovhaness discographer Eric Kunze.
 Catalog of Works
  • MusicWeb This comprehensive website about classical music has the current most comprehensive available listing of Hovhaness's large catalogue of published works. It was compiled by Richard Howard in association with the composer, and has listings by opus number and genre classification. Goes as far as Opus 360 (c.1980).
 Discography
  • Alan Hovhaness Discography An authoritative and comprehensive Hovhaness discography, as compiled and published by 'Hovhanophile' Eric Kunze. It lists CDs, LPs and 78s, and is usually updated once each year. If you wish to publicize an obscure commercial (or private) release, you can notify the author.
 Hovhaness-related Web Pages
 Hovhaness Obituaries
 Non Hovhaness-specific Modern Music Links
  • Otherminds Home Page Otherminds is a global New Music community where composers/students/listeners discover & learn about innovative music by composers from all over the world.
  • Walter-Simmons.com Musicologist and critic Walter Simmons' site contains a growing database of full-text CD reviews, program notes, and other writings. Learn about great neglected 20th- and 21st-century composers (including Hovhaness!). Hear selections of their work. Simmons' new book (on American neo-Romantics Barber, Bloch, Hanson, Giannini, Creston, Flagello) is now available from this site.
  • OgreOgress Independent recording label, specialisting in making available previously unknown music. As their homepage says: "Important Music, Finally Available"
  • Christina Fong is a young American string player whose enterprising CD releases on the OgreOgress label have championed many modern composers, including Hovhaness and other American pioneers such as Lou Harrison and John Cage.
  • Classical Discoveries is Marvin Rosen's "unique radio program of little-known repertoire with an emphasis on the old (Baroque and before) and the new" including Alan Hovhaness, whom Marvin knew personally.
  • Web pages by Frank Perry (percussionist extraordinaire) on maverick composers Harry Partch and Giacinto Scelsi plus his own home page