In September 2012, a commercial recording of four orchestral works by Claude Baker was released on the Naxos label (8.559642). Included on the disc are The Glass Bead Game, Awaking the Winds, Shadows: Four Dirge-Nocturnes, and The Mystic Trumpeter. The pieces are performed by the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin and Hans Vonk.
On March 23, 2013, Mr. Baker’s CANTI GUERRIERI ED AMOROSI, commissioned under the auspices of Meet the Composer’s “Commissioning Music/USA” program, was premiered by the Canton Symphony Orchestra; subsequent performances of the work will be presented during the current season by both the Austin Symphony (April 4 and 5, 2014) and the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra (July 2014).
During the 2012-13 academic year, Mr. Baker was also a guest composer/lecturer at the University of Hawaii, Brigham Young University Hawaii, Hong Kong Baptist University, and California State University, Fresno.