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Here's something I wrote back in 2012 for a similar thread -- I hope it proves helpful:
Hi Robert (and now c8, too!):
A brief Brass Fanfare of his, given the creative title: "Fanfare 1969" (along with other fanfares by contemporary composers such as William Kraft, etc.) is on an album called "Symphonic Brass," that you can easily find on CD from Amazon, or iTunes.
His "Chamber Music II" and "Chamber Music V" have been recorded and received record releases ("Chamber Music II" is on a Delos recording, I believe), and the university I went to had the albums for these - so, you should be able to get those through any Interlibrary Loan with your nearby library. Another piece of his: "Duo for Violin and Piano", received a Record issue - with another non-Rosenman piece on it (I liked that piece too, but don't remember what it was) - there are some great remarks from Leonard on the liner notes for that recording, too.
This link was posted up here sometime ago by no less than Lukas Kendall himself, but it bears reposting, since it's so great: http://archive.org/details/MC_1989_06_03
With this broadcast, you get a nice interview with Rosenman, and recordings of Chamber Musics II & V - the Double Bass Concerto - and (most of) Foci I - alas, there's a tape glitch on that one, but still - it's a brilliant piece.
Rosenman gave a later talk at USC where, towards the end he played a tape of "Foci I". That doesn't have the audio drop-out, but it is a recording of a recording. Still might be interesting to hear: https://archive.org/details/calasus_000036
His second violin concerto exists only as a private reference recording, done when the American Symphony Orchestra performed it in 1997. I think you can hear some brief excerpts from it at archive.org.
Otherwise, I'll keep thinking and see if any other readily available recordings come to mind. Hope this helps! Always glad to see interest in his concert music - there's some incredibly wild, and really rewarding material out there!
P.S. He would adapt his "Chamber Symphony" (aka "Chamber Music I") as the primary basis for his score to "The Savage Eye," so, if you're interested in hearing a bit of that piece, and can seek out the movie, it's well worth it.
Further edit: I'm not sure if you have it or not - but you may also be interested in Leonard's final film score, "Jurij." The final track is an adaptation of Vitali's "Ciaconna per Violino," which starts off straightforward, and then veers off between some incredibly wild, virtuosic stuff, and the original Vitali. The effect is really emotionally powerful - and it's an interesting cross-fertilization of his skills as an adaptor and composer.
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Valuable information, thank you!
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Additionally, I think it was 'Foci' which formed the basis for the score to the 1990 film AMBITION, released a few years ago by Caldera. Is that right?
Yes, thank you Graham! "Ambition" uses "Foci I" as its basis, which I'd forgotten about. "Ambition" also has a good amount of original material built into it, but the core is "Foci I."
He wrote a "Foci II" for string quartet, later rechristened "When Alpha Met Beta" -- alas, no recording exists as far as I've ever been able to turn up.
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Thanks to this very interesting thread, I found Chamber Music V on iTunes on a CRI album called Collage.
Also available for purchase on Amazon, including as a CD on demand.
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