Gordon, Ricky Ian > Piano

Ricky Ian Gordon (b.1956): Rappahannock County; Late Afternoon / Walters, Sherman, Tuell, Moreno, Lattimore. Ricky Ian Gordon, piano

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2013-04-30

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Rappahannock County, song cycle for voices & theater orchestra; Late Afternoon, song cycle for mezzo-soprano & piano
Performers: Gordon, Ricky Ian; Lattimore, Margaret; Sherman, Faith; Tuell, Matthew [Tenor Vocal]; Walters, Mark
Conductors: Fischer, Rob
Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Orchestra

Inspired by diaries, letters, and personal accounts from the 1860s, Rappahannock County is a music-theatre work which movingly and dramatically commemorates the 150th anniversary of...continue...
Recording information: Harrison Opera House, Norfolk, Virginia, USA (2011-04-12&2011-04-16&2011-)....continue...

Five Borough Songbook - 20 New Songs by 20 Composers celebrating New York

2 CD / GPR Records / 2013-03-26

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: O City of Ships, for 2 voices & piano; Glen Roven: F from DUMBO, for voice & piano; Lisa Bielawa: Breakfast in New York, for 4 voices & violin; Martin Hennessy: The City's Love, for...
Performers: Abreu, Javier; Asselin, Mireille; Bagwell, Thomas; Blumberg, Jesse; Bragle, Margaret [Mezzo-soprano]; Dispensa, Scott; Dueck, Jocelyn; Gaissert, Blythe; Guth, Martha; Jameson, Keith [Tenor vocals]; M...

For its fifth anniversary internationally renowned Five Borough Music Festival commissioned twenty prominent American composers to compose original art songs about New York City. The...continue...
Recording information: Sound Associates (10/2011-11/2011)....continue...

Daniel Okulitch sings: The New American Art Song. Songs by Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie, Lowell Liebermann and Glen Roven

1 CD / GPR Records / 2013-03-26

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Quiet Lives, for voice & piano; Jake Heggie: Of Gods and Cats, for voice & piano; Grow Old Along With Me!, for voice & piano; Glen Roven: Songs From the Underground, for voice & pia...
Performers: Gordon, Ricky Ian; Heggie, Jake; Liebermann, Lowell; Okulitch, Daniel; Roven, Glen

Hailed by the Journal of Singing as "the most exciting and impressive art song of the last decade," Okulitch effortlessly delivers a host of intricately...continue...
Recording information: Sound Associates (2001-03-01_2001-03-02&2001-)....continue...

Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon: Once I Was / Stacey Tappan, coloratura soprano Stacey Tappan; Ricky Ian Gordon, piano

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2012-12-11

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: I Am Cherry Alive, for voice & piano; The Special Picnic, for voice & piano; Afternoon on a Hill, for voice & piano; My Sister's New Red Hat ("I'm a little jealous"), for voice & pi...
Performers: Gordon, Ricky Ian; Hartig, Caroline; Tappan, Stacey

This collection of songs by America's most beloved composer, Ricky Ian Gordon, is arranged to tell a chronological life story - childhood, growing up, falling...continue...
Recording information: Blue Griffin's Studio The Ballroom (03/23/2012-03/24/2012)....continue...

Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon: "Silver Rain" / Nicole Cabell, soprano; Ricky Ian Gordon, piano

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2012-09-11

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Heaven, for voice & ensemble; In Time of Silver Rain, for voice & piano; Harlem Night Song, for voice & piano; Dream Variations, for voice & ensemble; Stars, for voice & piano; Love...
Performers: Cabell, Nicole; Gordon, Ricky Ian

Nicole Cabell, the 2005 Winner of the BBC Singer of the World Competition in Cardiff is fast becoming one of the most sought-after lyric sopranos...continue...
Recording information: Blue Griffin's Studio "The Ballroom" (09/28/2011-09/29/2011)....continue...

Finding Home

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2012-07-03

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Heaven, for voice & ensemble; God's World, song for voice & piano; I Thank You God, song for voice & piano; Prayer, song for voice & piano; Will There Really Be A Morning?, for voic...
Performers: Gordon, Ricky Ian; Heggie, Jake; Moretti, Amy Schwartz [Violin]; Moretti, Steve; Partridge, Leah [Soprano Vocal]

Recording information: Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA; Neva Langley Ficklin (06/28/2011-07/05/2011)....continue...

Piano Music Of Ricky Ian Gordon

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2011-05-10

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Dances (5) for Piano; Desire Rag, for piano; The Caste System, for piano; Orpheus and Euridice; Ring-A-Ding-Ding for piano, 4 hands
Performers: Kvitko, Sergei; Nauman, John

This CD presents world-premiere recordings of the complete-to-date collection of piano music by Ricky Ian Gordon, and brings to light a lesser-known facet of one...continue...
Recording information: Blue Griffin's Studio 'The Ballroom' (08/2010)....continue...

Bric-A-Brac: Ricky Ian Gordon Sings Ricky Ian Gordon

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2011-03-08

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Bric-A-Brac, for voice & piano; Recuerdo, for voice & piano; Pont Mirabeau, for voice & piano; The Spring and the Fall, for voice & piano; Interior, for voice & piano; Friend, for v...
Performers: Gordon, Ricky Ian

Personnel: Ricky Ian Gordon (vocals, piano).

Recording information: Blue Griffin's Studio "The Ballroom" (08/2010); Blue Griffin's Studio The Ballroom (08/2010)....continue...

Ricky Ian Gordon: A Horse With Wings

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2010-06-08

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Finding Home, song for voice & piano; Heaven, for voice & ensemble; A Horse With Wings, for voice & piano; Drivers of Diaper Service Trucks Are Sad, song for voice & piano; The Ligh...
Performers: Gordon, Ricky Ian

Personnel: Ricky Ian Gordon (vocals, piano).

Recording information: Blue Griffin's Studio The Ballroom (06/2009)....continue...

A Moment of Joy

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2009-10-27

Works: Douglas S. Moore: The Ballad of Baby Doe; Sara Carina Graef: Prayers From the Long History of Happiness; Cécile Chaminade: Viens! mon bien-aimé! (Les beaux jours vont enfin renaître), ...
Performers: Kane, Susan Molini; Van Gryspeer, Kristof

Recording information: Raitt Hall, Malibu, CA (12/2008)....continue...

and flowers pick themselves - Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon / Helton, Gordon, Jimenez, et al

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2008-12-09

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Once I Was, for voice & piano; I Am Cherry Alive, for voice & piano; My Sister's New Red Hat ("I'm a little jealous"), for voice & piano; Air ("Oh to be an angel"), for voice & pian...
Performers: Gordon, Ricky Ian; Helton, Melanie
Conductors: Jimenez, Rafael

This stunning new recording of songs by Ricky Ian Gordon features Melanie Helton with the composer at the piano and contains the world premiere recording...continue...

R. I. Gordon: Orpheus & Euridice / Futral, Palmer, Chen

1 CD / Razor & Tie / 2007-01-23

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: Orpheus & Euridice
Performers: Chen, Melvin; Futral, Elizabeth; Palmer, Todd

New Waltzes for Piano / Eric Moe

1 CD / Albany Records / 2004-11-01

Works: Hayes Biggs: Susan's Waltz (Valse sentimentale), for piano; Wayne Peterson: Valse Subliminale, for piano; Robert Helps: Valse Mirage for piano; Andrew Imbrie: Waltz for piano, for piano; Eric Moe: Pu...
Performers: Moe, Eric [Composer]

Island of Hope - New American Choral Music / Longstreth

1 CD / Albany Records / 2002-12-01

Works: Ronald Perera: The Golden Door, choral song cycle; Randall Thompson: The Garment of Praise (4th movement of the Requiem); Paul Alan Levi: Acts of Love, for chorus; Ricky Ian Gordon: Three by Langston...
Performers: Feld, Melanie; Garment, Paul; Gomez, Lino; Rath, Lutz; Rodgers, Elizabeth; Rosenfeld, Jayn; Rosenfeld, Peter; Spencer, Patricia; Strenge, Maureen; Stuckenbruck, Dale; Ting, Liuh-Wen; Trigg, William; ...

American Classics - Dreamer -A Portrait of Langston Hughes

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-09-01

Works: Langston Hughes: My People (poem); The Weary Blues (poem); Negro (poem); Evil (poem); Sunday Morning Prophecy (poem); Madam and the Census Taker (poem); Sylvester's Dying Bed (poem); Still Here (poem...
Performers: Corley, Maria; Santos, Erik; Taylor, Darryl

Langston Hughes poetry lends itself so readily to musical setting that the composer Elite Siegmeister once declared him the "most musical poet of the twentieth...continue...

Hie Up the Mountain / Jonathan Faiman

1 CD / MSR Classics / 1999-08-01

Works: David MacDonald: Suite for Piano; Jonathan Faiman: Sonata for Piano; Five Vaults; Ken Sullivan: Maracaibo; Eric Samuelson: Sonata for Piano; David Shohl: Dynamophone; Derek Bermel: Funk Studies (3); ...
Performers: Faiman, Jonathan

Permit Me Voyage - Songs by Americans / Hart, Helmrich

1 CD / Albany Records / 1994-03-01

Works: Dominick Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, for voice & piano; Elliott Carter: Voyage, for medium voice & piano; Henry Cowell: How Old is Song?; Firelight and Lamp, song for voice & piano, HC...
Performers: Hart, Mary Ann [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Helmrich, Dennis