In Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Repertoire, Dirk Meyer provides conductors, musicians, and librarians with all the information needed to plan their performances of modern chamber music. Meyer lists almost 4,000 works written during the 20th and 21st centuries, representing more than 1,100 composers. Entries are divided into three categories: Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Ensemble. Presented alphabetically by composer, each entry fully describes the composition, including its duration, year of composition, availability, publisher, and complete instrumentation. The comprehensive appendix allows users to search for repertoire based on a variety of criteria, such as instrumentation, duration, solo instruments, and solo voices. As a catalog of modern music, the appendix also provides categories for 21st-century repertoire as well as compositions that use electronics.

"An invaluable resource for conductors, librarians of chamber orchestras and anyone interested in learning about possible repertoire for the chamber orchestra....Dirk Meyer’s Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Repertoire: A Catalog of Modern Music will clearly be of significant help to programmers of twentieth and twenty-first century chamber orchestra literature." - Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association

"German conductor Dirk Meyer’s book strikes a hopeful chord . . . . This book is a catalog to chamber music after 1900; it has everything the Euterpe in us all longs to see. Patterned after David Daniel’s Orchestra Music, Meyer catalogs chamber orchestra and ensemble pieces. The main part of the catalog is arranged alphabetically by composer, and each entry contains information needed to know what instruments and their number are required to play it—flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, strings, and more—and the duration of each piece. The appendixes prove even more valuable. Arrangement here is first by solo voices, then solo instruments, string orchestras, ensembles by string count, followed by compositions that use no percussion, no harps or pianos, and so on. A twenty-first century repertoire comes next rounded out by a listing by duration." - American Reference Books Annual