The following table lists all used CD albums with their instrumentation and release year. Main instrumentation refers to which instruments are present on most tracks. This may differ: some albums have tracks with fewer instruments (for example ballads) or have a track with extra instruments, for example extra percussion or brass instruments added.
| Solo instruments | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Artist - Album | Main instrumentation | Comment | Year |
| Jeroen van Veen - Einaudi: Waves The Piano Collection | Piano | 2013 | |
| Jean Guillou - The Great Organ of St. Eustache, Paris | Church organ | 2006 | |
| Bobby McFerrin - The Voice | Voice | 1984 | |
| Dan Brown - Angels & Demons | Voice | Audiobook | 2009 |
| Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser's lectures on the life and work of William Shakespeare | Voice | [1] | 1965 |
| Carmen Cavallaro - Songs of Our Times, Song Hits of 1921 | Piano | [5][1] | 1942 |
| Konrad Junghanel - Europaische Lautenmusik Volume 1 | 11-string baroque lute | 1989 | |
| Nicolò Paganini - 24 Capricci (Salvatore Accardo) | Violin | 1978 | |
| Acoustic ensembles and bands | |||
| Loosely sorted by size of ensemble | |||
| Artist - Album | Main instrumentation | Comment | Year |
| Alela Diana - The Pirate's Gospel (tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 10 and 11) | Voice and guitar with occasional vocal stacking | 2004 | |
| Fredrik Fors and Sveinung Bjelland - Les Nouveaux Musiciens | Clarinet and piano | 2004 | |
| Rosenberg Trio - Djangolists | 2 guitars and double bass | 2010 | |
| Szakcsi - Viragom, Viragom | 2 Voices, piano, flute | 1998 | |
| Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out | Saxophone, piano, double bass, drums | 1959 | |
| Dvorak - String Quartet No. 3 | 2 violins, alto violin, cello | 1993 | |
| Apocalyptica - Inquisition Symphony | 4 cello's | 1998 | |
| Flanders Recorder Quartet - Armonia di Flauti | Recorder quartet | 1998 | |
| Alison Krauss & Union Station - New Favourite | Voice, guitar, steel guitar, fiddle, upright bass | 2001 | |
| RiverBend Bluegrass Live at Jacoby Arts Center on 2021-07-29 | Voice, mandolin, banjo, violin, steel guitar, double bass | Live, [1] | 2021 |
| Piet Jeegers Clarinet Choir - Volume 4 | 15 clarinets (1x E♭, 8x B♭, 2x Alto, 2x Bass, 1x Contra Alto, 1x Contra Bass) | 2002 | |
| Equilibrium - Rekreatur (Acoustic bonus CD) | Flute, accordion, guitar, bass guitar, drums | Very fast paced | 2010 |
| Amplified ensembles and bands | |||
| Loosely sorted by amount of 'overdrive' | |||
| Artist - Album | Main instrumentation | Comment | Year |
| Coldplay - Parachutes | Voice, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums | 2000 | |
| Albert King - Years Gone By | Voice, 2 electric guitars, keyboard, bass guitar, drums | Vinyl rip | 1969 |
| Status Quo - Whatever You Want | Voice, 2 electric guitars, bass guitar, drums | Vinyl rip | 1979 |
| Muse - HAARP | Voice, overdriven guitar, bass guitar, drums | Live | 2008 |
| Iron Maiden - Powerslave | Voice, 2 overdriven guitars, bass guitar, drums | 1984 | |
| Animals as Leaders - Weightless | 2 overdriven 8-string guitars, drums | 2011 | |
| In Flames - Soundtrack to Your Escape | Growling vocals, 2 overdriven guitars, bass guitar, drums | 2004 | |
| Nightwish - Wishmaster | Voice, overdriven guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, drums | 2000 | |
| Epica - The Holographic Principle | Clean and growling vocals, guitar, synth, bass guitar, drums, orchestra and choir | 2016 | |
| Big bands | |||
| Artist - Album | Main instrumentation | Comment | Year |
| Bert Kaempfert - A Swingin' Safari | Big band with string section and amplified vocals | 1962 | |
| Dutch Swing College Band - Digital Dutch | Dixieland band | [3] | 1982 |
| Glenn Miller - The Best Of The Lost Recordings And Secret Broadcasts | Big band | [4] | 1943 |
| John Allmark Jazz Orchestra Live at The Met on 2019-05-20 | Big band | Live, [1] | 2019 |
| Ida Gotkovsky - Works for Symphonic Band | Symphonic Band (also known as concert band or wind orchestra) | 1989 | |
| Orchestral and choral | |||
| Loosely sorted by size of ensemble | |||
| Artist - Album | Main instrumentation | Comment | Year |
| Confido Domino Minsk - Sacred Choral Music From White Russia | Choir | 1994 | |
| Vivaldi - Four Seasons (Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, cond. Ton Koopman) | Baroque orchestra (small) | 1996 | |
| Dario Marianelli - Pride & Prejudice | Piano and chamber orchestra | Film score | 2005 |
| J.S. Bach - Magnificat | Baroque orchestra (small), vocal soloists and choir | Live | 2012 |
| Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles | 'Processed' orchestra, very upfront brass [7] | Film score | 2004 |
| Nicholas Hooper - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 'Processed' orchestra and choir [7] | Film score | 2004 |
| Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (Kirov Orchestra, cond. Valery Gergiev) | Ballet orchestra (intermediately sized) | 1998 | |
| Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps / Petrouchka (Isreal Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Leonard Bernstein) | Large symphonic orchestra | 1983 | |
| Verdi - Requiem (Berliner Philharmoniker cond. Claudio Abbado) | Large symphonic orchestra, vocal soloists and very large choir | 2001 | |
| Mahler - Symphony no.8 (Concertgebouw orchestra cond. Bernard Haitink) | Very large symphonic orchestra, vocal soloists and exceptionally large choir [6] | 1971 | |
| Electronic music | |||
| Artist - Album | Main instrumentation | Comment | Year |
| Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose - Pokemon Gold | Game Boy emulator (2x square wave, noise generator, wavetable) | 1999 | |
| Ubiktune - SOUNDSHOCK: FM FUNK MADDNESS!! | FM Synthesizers | 2011 | |
| Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby | Samplers (vocal and drum), synthesizers | 1998 | |
| The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die | Voice, samplers | 2009 | |
| Kraftwerk - Autobahn | Analog synthesizers, vocoder | 1974 | |
| Daft Punk - Alive 2007 | Sampling, vocoded voice | Live | 2007 |
| Skrillex - Bangarang | Highly 'overdriven' synthesizers, vocal samples, drum synth | 2011 | |
| The Ambient Visitor - Across the Milky Way | Very slow ambient music, drone | 2021 | |
| Music with specific traits | |||
| Artist - Album | Description of trait | Comment | Year |
| Merzbow - Cloud Cock OO Grand | Very noisy music | 1989 | |
| Ryoji Ikeda - dataplex | Dominated by transients | 2005 | |
| Horacio Vaggione - Fluides | Very short sounds (microsound) | 2018 | |
| Other | |||
| Description | Comment | Year | |
| Recordings of diffuse soundfields produced by choirs, ensembles and orchestras [2] | Own recordings | 2015 | |
| Rarewares test samples (https://www.rarewares.org/test_samples/) | 2005 | ||
[1] Available on archive.org
[2] Consists of: Recording of a choir in a small church; Recording of a (different) choir (part of recording is a capella, part of recording accompanied by a small ensemble) in a small theater; Recording of music directors exam, featuring first a small, later an intermediately sized and finally a very large choir in a concert hall; Recording of a choir, orchestra and solists in a intermediately sized church; All recordings with boundary microphones spaced 3 meters apart on a balcony, as far from the performers as possible
[3] 'Launch title' for first CD players
[4] Professional vinyl rip and restoration from a radio transcription disc
[5] Professional vinyl rip from a 78rpm commercial release
[6] Mahler's symphony no.8 is nicknamed 'Symphony of a Thousand' for its exceptionally large orchestra and choir
[7] Orchestra has been recorded in seperate sections (with sound barriers) so mix can be varied and some instruments are (at times) mixed in much louder or quieter than the really are. Also, for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, choir had been dubbed over orchestra. See https://youtu.be/0sASbCxnjAg for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1XcaQI5eU for Incredibles