The eighty-third classical recording: #978 Milton Babbitt - Transfigured Notes

It looks like, after receiving the score, it took three years for someone to even take on performing the piece. Scored for strings along, Transfigured Notes is discordant, off putting and odd sounding, a mess of notes that never settles in, but still creates some musicality out of the different sounds and sudden switches of tempo that are present in this piece. The piece merges it into something a bit more concordant as time goes on, but this isn't a piece that really lets you settle.