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Rochberg: Violin Sonata; Caprice Variations

2 CD / Metier / 2011-03-28

Works: George Rochberg: Sonata for violin & piano; Caprice Variations (50) for violin solo
Performers: Shorr, Aaron; Skaerved, Peter Sheppard

Peter Sheppard Skaerved is the dedicatee of more than 200 works for solo violin by composers such as George Rochberg, Judith Weir and Hans Werner...continue...

Inner Voice

1 CD / Centaur / 2010-11-05

Works: Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae for Viola and Piano, Op. 48; George Rochberg: Sonata for viola & piano; Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel, for viola & piano; Dmitry Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Pi...
Performers: Johnson, Lura; Minkler, Peter

The four compositions featured on this disc are striking examples of self-expression, guided and influenced by each composer’s fundamental essence, or “Inner voice.” Benjamin Britten...continue...
Recording information: Louise Hayley Gilliam Concert Hall, Carl J. Murphy Fine (08/04/2008-08/07/2008)....continue...

George Rochberg: Piano Music, Vol. 4

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-08-31

Works: George Rochberg: Carnival Music for piano; Short sonatas (4), for piano; Variations on an Original Theme for piano
Performers: Pinkas, Sally

Opposites abound in George Rochberg's music, never more so perhaps than in Carnival Music, his only piano work to employ popular musical idioms, where one...continue...
Recording information: Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, (12/1996/06/1997)....continue...

George Rochberg: Piano Music, Vol. 3

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-06-29

Works: George Rochberg: Partita variations (12), for piano; Nach Bach, fantasy for harpsichord or piano; Sonata-Fantasia for piano
Performers: Pinkas, Sally

George Rochberg's relationship with the past is not one of nostalgia; it is one of intimate, living familiarity. 'Partita-Variations', an energetic and exuberant work, makes...continue...
Recording information: Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, (12/1996/06/1997)....continue...

George Rochberg: Piano Music, Vol. 2

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-04-27

Works: George Rochberg: Bagatelles (12), for piano; Elegiac Pieces (3), for piano; Sonata Seria, for piano
Performers: Hirsch, Evan

"Volume 2 of Rochberg's complete piano music. These three pieces are (mostly) youthful efforts dating from 1945 to 1952....The later 12 bagatelles are serial experiments...continue...
Recording information: Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, (1998/2001)....continue...

Geoge Rochberg: Piano Music, Vol. 1

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-02-23

Works: George Rochberg: Circles of Fire, for 2 pianos
Performers: Hirsch, Evan; Pinkas, Sally
Conductors:
Ensemble: Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo

"There is a fire in the brain, in the mind, which comes from the universal fire that makes solar systems and galaxies, asteroid belts and...continue...
Recording information: Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (12/1998)....continue...

American in Rome - Beaser, Barber, Thompson, etc / Six for Five Wind Quintet

4 CD / Bridge / 2008-10-14

Works: Robert Beaser: Four Dickinson Songs, for soprano & piano; Samuel Barber: In the Dark Pinewood; Beggar's Song; Of that so sweet imprisonment; Songs (3), Op. 10; Randall Thompson: Siciliano, for barito...
Performers: Ahlbeck, Laura; Akahoshi, Ole; Arnold, Tony [Soprano Vocal]; Bagg, Jonathan; Baker, James; Berman, Donald; Druckman, Daniel; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Leisenring, John; Lim, Sunghae Anna; Macomber, Cur...
Conductors: Milarsky, Jeffrey; Yoo, Scott; ; Hoose, David
Ensemble: ; Collage Music Ensemble; Curiously Strong Wind Quintet; Opus One Piano Quartet; Trio Solisti

This four-disc collection contains works by 37 composers who composed these pieces while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. The earliest work dates...continue...

Rochberg: Trio, Schuller: Sonata / Combs, Covert

1 CD / Crystal Records / 2006-04-04

Works: Miklós Rózsa: Sonata for clarinet solo, Op. 41; Sonatina for clarinet solo; George Rochberg: Trio for clarinet, horn & piano; Gunther Schuller: Sonata for clarinet, horn & piano ("Romantic ...
Performers: Combs, Larry; Covert, Mary Ann; Williams, Gail

Kendall, 20th Century Consort

1 CD / Innova / 2006-01-01

Works: Allan Schindler: Take Me Places, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion; Maurice Wright: Cantata for tenor, percussion & electronic sounds; Joseph Schwantner: Elixir, for flute, clari...
Performers: Budd, David; Garlick, Glenn; Gordon, David [Tenor Vocal]; Jones, Thomas; Kitt, Loren; Orkis, Lambert [Keyboards]; Rouslin, Dan; Sonies, Barbara; Stern, Sara; Westphal, Barbara
Conductors: Kendall, Christopher
Ensemble: 20th Century Consort

Soaring Spirit - Tchaikovsky, et al / Pasquale

1 CD / Albany Records / 2004-12-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart, Op. 6, no 6; Arthur Benjamin: From San Domingo; Franz Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, D 343; Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & ...
Performers: Chang, Angelin; Pasquale, Joseph de

American Viola Works - Rochberg, Jacobi, Shulman, et al

1 CD / Cedille / 2000-01-01

Works: George Rochberg: Sonata for viola & piano; Frederick Jacobi: Fantasy for viola & piano; Alan Shulman: Theme & Variations for viola & orchestra (or piano); Quincy Porter: Speed Etude; Lowell Lieberman...
Performers: Basrak, Cathy; Koehler, William; Koenig, Robert

An American Cellobration / Richard Slavich, Alice Rybak

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1997-10-28

Works: William Bolcom: Sonata for Cello and Piano; Ned Rorem: After Reading Shakespeare, for cello; George Rochberg: Ricordanza Soliloquy for cello & piano; John Harbison: Suite for cello; Aaron Copland: Bi...
Performers: Rybak, Alice; Slavich, Richard

Rochberg: Four Decades of Piano Music / Martha Thomas

1 CD / ACA Digital / 1997-03-01

Works: George Rochberg: Bagatelles (12), for piano; Nach Bach, fantasy for harpsichord or piano; Partita variations (12), for piano; Short sonatas (4), for piano
Performers: Thomas, Martha

Palmer: Quintet; Rochberg: Trio; Cordero: Quintet

1 CD / Albany Records / 1995-05-01

Works: George Rochberg: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1; Roque Cordero: Quintet for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano; Robert Palmer: Quintet for A-clarinet, string trio & piano
Performers: Bloom, Arthur; Boehm, Mary Louise; Doktor, Paul; Kooper, Kees; Lash, Warren; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Wion, John

American Music for Viola & Piano / Wheeler, Tomfohrde

1 CD / Albany Records / 1994-12-01

Works: George Rochberg: Sonata for viola & piano; Paul Creston: Suite for viola & piano, Op. 13; Bernhard Heiden: Sonata for viola & piano; Elliott Carter: Elegy, for viola (or cello) & piano
Performers: Tomfohrde, Ruth; Wheeler, Lawrence

Cello Charms / Michael Rudiakov, Ron Levy

1 CD / Centaur / 1993-09-01

Works: Moritz Moszkowski: Guitarre, Op. 45 no 2; Carl Maria von Weber: Adagio ... Carl Maria von Weber; Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Felix Mendelssohn: Song without wor...
Performers: Levy, Ron; Rudiakov, Michael