Nevertheless, he wrote a concerto for Birds and Orchestra, Cantus Arcticus. The best way to discover his works is in a four-disc set of his concertos. (Amazon.com, Amazon UK) Dennis Johnson’s little-known November (Amazon.com, Amazon UK) is a 1959 work for piano that runs nearly five hours. Similar in style to Morton Feldman’s music, this astounding work was recorded for the first time only recently. (An earlier recording was never released.) Johnson might have been influential had his work become known, and had he continued writing music (he stopped a few years after he wrote November), but this testament to him is a wonderful example of a certain kind of minimalism.