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 source for Hovhaness recordings. These can be regarded as 'definitive' performances in that most releases are either conducted or supervised by the composer. Many of these recordings were originally released by Hovhaness for his own label, Poseidon, and the British label Unicorn. They were subsequently licensed to Crystal. Dating from the early 1970s, when Hovhaness sought to make more of his work available in recorded form, the orchestral recordings were made with British orchestras as these were (and still are) cheaper to hire than American orchestras.
  • 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 2 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.
  • Overview of Hovhaness on CD discussed by American Hovhanophile Eric Kunze
 Catalogue of Works
  • MusicWeb (an excellent Web site about classical music) contains the most comprehensive available listing of Hovhaness's huge catalogue of published works (compiled by Richard Howard), with both classified and opus number listings. Not entirely definitive, as more unpublished scores have surfaced since his death.
 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 violinist whose enterprising CD releases and concert performances tirelessly champion the cause of many modern composers, including American pioneers such as Hovhaness, 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