• End of the Matter: Premieres for Trumpet. MSR Classics. CD MS1199. 2007
• Concerto Piccolo for trumpet and electronics
  • Eric Berlin, trumpet
    
    
• New Voices: Contemporary American Piano Music. Capstone. CD CPS-8765. 2006
• Piano Sonata No. 2: "Thirteen Other Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" after Wallace Stevens
  • Jeffrey Jacob, piano
    
    
• Night Thoughts and Fancies. New Music for Flute and Piano. Capstone. CD CPS-8664. 1988
  • "A Wind in the Willows" for solo flute
    • Grzegorz Olkiewicz, flute

• Illuminations. Capstone. CD CPS-8643. 1997
  • "Of Times and Their Places" for soprano and piano
    • Paulina Stark, soprano
    • Estela Olevsky, piano

• Shadows of Ancient Dreams. Capstone. CD CPS-8635. 1997
  • "Conversations with Myself" for clarinet and interactive electronics
    • F. Gerard Errante, clarinet

• Music from the Setting Century. Living Artist. CD Vol.2. 1996
  • "Soliloquies" for oboe and interactive electronics
    • Fredric Cohen, oboe

• Symphonic and Wind Music of Charles Bestor. Centaur. CD CRC2216. 1995
  • Overture to a Romantic Comedy
  • Variations for orchestra
  • In Memoriam Bill Evans
    • Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bystrik Rezucha, conductor
  • Chaconne for chamber winds
  • Three Portraits for wind octet
    • Massachusetts Wind Ensemble, Malcolm W. Rowell, conductor

• Contemporary American Eclectic. Jeffrey Jacob, piano. New Ariel Recordings. CD AE001. 1995
  • "Stations of the Night", three blues for S
  • Five Sketches for jazz piano

• American Society of University Composers. LP SC19. 1990
  • Variations for violin & piano duo with synthesizer
    • Julian Olevsky, violin, Estela Olevsky, piano

• Music for Piano and Tape. Jerome Reed, piano. Capstone Records. LP CPS-8602. 1988
  • "The Second Moon of Venus"

• The Music of Charles Bestor. Orion. LP ORS87501. 1986
  • Sonata for cello & piano
    • Leopold Teraspulsky, cello, Estela Olevsky, piano
      
      
  • "More Sort of Love Songs"
    • Estela Olevsky, piano

  • Suite from the Incidental Music for the Play "J.B."
    • Avanti Wind Quintet

  • Suite for alto saxophone & percussion
    • Lynn Klock, saxophone, Peter Tanner, percussion

• Charles Lehrer, oboe. Orion Recordings. LP ORS82432. 1981
  • Lyric Variations for oboe and tape, with viola

• The Contemporary Music Project. Dwight Peltzer, piano. Serenus Records. LP SRS12069. 1976
  • Piano Sonata