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An American Kaleidoscope: Pasatieri: Three Poems of Oscar Wilde; Bolcom: Old Addresses; Rorem: Flight for Heaven / Shawn Roy, bass-baritone; Chan Kiat Lim, piano

1 CD / Centaur / 2012-10-17

Works: Thomas Pasatieri: Poems (3) of Oscar Wilde, for voice & piano; William Bolcom: Old Addresses, for voice & piano; John Duke: Three Gothic Ballads, for voice & piano; Ned Rorem: Flight for Heaven, song...
Performers: Lim, Chan Kiat [Piano]; Roy, Shawn

American Record Guide, March / April 2013
If you'd like a collection of good songs from these years and these composers, this is a fine sampler....continue...
Recording information: LSU Recital Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rou (08/16/2010-08/17/2010)....continue...

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival: Moravec, Rorem, Bunch & MacCombie / Marya Martin

1 CD / BMCF Records / 2012-05-29

Works: Paul Moravec: Wind Quintet; Ned Rorem: The Unquestioned Answer, quintet for flute, 2 violins, cello & piano; Kenji Bunch: Changes of Phase, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn & bassoon; Bruce MacCombie:...
Performers: Arron, Edward; Baer, Seth; Franch-Ballester, Jose; Guterman, Beth; Jaciw, Stefan; Kolkay, Peter; Lee, Yura; Martin, Marya; McGill, Anthony; Mills, Jesse; Rose, Stewart; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Snow, Jo...

Founded by flutist Marya Martin in 1984, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival is pleased to release its first recording on its self-published label BCMF RECORDS....continue...
Recording information: Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Bridgehampton, New Y....continue...

Ned Rorem: Chamber Music with Flute / Fenwick Smith, flute; David Leisner, guitar, Ann Hobson Pilot, harp

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-08-30

Works: Ned Rorem: Mountain Song, for flute (or oboe or violin or cello) & piano; Romeo and Juliet, for flute & guitar; Trio for flute, cello & piano; Book of Hours, pieces (8) for flute & harp; Prayers (4),...
Performers: Lee, Mihae; Leisner, David; Pilot, Ann Hobson; Smith, Fenwick; Thomas, Ronald [Cello]

Ned Rorem's clarity of emotional expression is perfectly suited to the 'breathy gold' of the flute. Covering much of the composer's career, these pieces range...continue...
Recording information: Campion Center, Weston, Massachusetts, USA (04/25/1993); First and Second Church, Boston, USA (04/25/1993); Sonic Temple, Roslindale, Massachusetts (04/25/1993); Campion Center,...continue...

Angels on Ivories

1 CD / Time Art / 2011-05-31

Works: Richard Strauss: Amor; Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation; Franz Liszt: Buch der Lieder, Volume 2; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339; Giulio Caccini: Amarilli mia bella, ...
Performers: Koldenhoven, Darlene [Singer/Songwriter]

Recording information: Time Art Studio, Los Angeles; Haven Studio (01/2011)....continue...

Mostly Americana / 20th-Century Songs and Arias

1 CD / Enharmonic Records / 2011-02-08

Works: Gian Carlo Menotti: The Medium; Richard Hundley: The Astronomers, an epitaph for voice & piano; Isaac Greentree, an epitaph for voice & piano; My Master Hath a Garden, for voice & piano; Birds, U.S.A...
Performers: Piitz, Lori [Piano]; Poffenberger, Jennifer [Soprano]

Coloratura soprano Jennifer Poffenberger studied at Indiana University School of Music. She lives in Columbus, Indiana, where she teaches voice and is active in regional...continue...
Recording information: Recital Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1990-1992)....continue...

Choirboys from Heaven

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-11-09

Works: César Franck: Panis angelicus; Dextera Domini, Choeur de Pâques; Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no 2 'Lobgesang'; Elijah; Giuseppe Verdi: Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra; Maurice Gre...
Performers: Connery, Liam; Cully, Tom; Day, Edward; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Grote, Ashley; Horncastle, Michael; Madine, Joshua; Payne, Callum; Schwinghammer, Matthew; Webber, Geoffrey
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen; Willcocks, David; Litton, John; Schwinghammer, Matthew; Muti, Riccardo

This 2-CD set contains an extremely wide range of music for boys' choirs, from the early polyphony of Allegri's Misere to the present-day popular songs...continue...

José Serebrier conducts Ned Rorem

5 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-10-26

Works: Ned Rorem: The Waking, for voice & piano; Root Cellar, for voice & piano (from "Three Poems of Theodore Roethke"); My Papa's Waltz, for voice & piano; I Strolled Across an Open Field, for voice & pia...
Performers: Farley, Carole; Khaner, Jeffrey; Mulligan, Simon; Quint, Philippe; Rorem, Ned; Yang, Wen-Sinn
Conductors: Serebrier, José

"This stuff is simply gorgeous. Ned Rorem's symphonies are shot through with long, lyrical melodies that some observers might relate to his gifts as a...continue...

The Art of Susan Graham

6 CD / Warner Classics / 2010-10-26

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Paride ed Elena; Iphigénie en Tauride; Orphée et Eurydice; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze de Figaro; La clemenza di Tito; Le nozze di Figaro; Idomeneo; Lucio S...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Graham, Susan; Martineau, Malcolm
Conductors: Bicket, Harry; Tortelier, Yan Pascal; Abel, Yves; Christie, William; Nagano, Kent; Nelson, John; Summers, Patrick;
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Oriol; Les Arts Florissants

Portraits & Elegies

1 CD / Innova / 2010-04-27

Works: Philip Lasser: Vocalise, for violin & piano; Berceuse Fantasque, for violin & piano; Ned Rorem: Day Music; Night Music; Peter Lieberson: Elegy, for violin & piano; Russell Platt: Autumn Music, for vi...
Performers: Almond, Frank; Zeger, Brian

"Almond, who plays here on the ex-Lipinksi Stradivari violin (the instrument's first commercial recording), produces an amazingly sweet, rich tone even in the highest registers...continue...
Recording information: Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (08/20/2008-08/22/2008)....continue...

Eight Visions: A New Anthology for Flute and Piano - Bunch, Hui, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-12-15

Works: Kenji Bunch: Velocity, for flute & piano; Paul Moravec: Nancye's Song, for flute & piano; Chen Yi: Bagatelles (3) from China West, for flute & piano; Tania León: Alma; Eve Beglarian: I will not ...
Performers: Martin, Marya; Valentine, Colette

New Zealand-born, American-based flautist Marya Martin enjoys an international career. She joins acclaimed American pianist Colette Valentine for this recording which brings together eight contrasting...continue...
Recording information: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA (12/12/2007-12/15/2007)....continue...

Touch - The Toccata Project / Rorem, Sowerby, Amalong

1 CD / Albany Records / 2009-11-10

Works: Ned Rorem: Toccata, for piano (4th mvt. of Piano Sonata no 1); George Antheil: Toccatas (2), for piano, W. 72; Lee Hoiby: Toccata, for piano, Op. 1; Irving Fine: Diversions for piano; Leo Sowerby: To...
Performers: Amalong, Philip

Touch: The Toccata Project is a collection of post-1900 piano toccatas written by American composers. The distinguished pianist Philip Amalong has uncovered many unknown gems...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...

Songs from American / Patricia Petibon, American Boychoir

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Aaron Copland: Old American Songs, Set 1; Old American Songs, Set 2; Samuel Barber: Mélodies passagères, Op. 27; Songs (4), Op. 13; James D'Angelo: The Loves of Krishna; The Dance of Kr...
Performers: American Boychoir; Bayl, Benjamin; D'Angelo, James; Goeman, Thomas; Harris, Timothy; Johnson, Matthew; Jr., Jonathon Luff; King, Catherine; Manoff, Susan; Miller, Justin Lee; Morse, Gregory; Petibon,...

The whimsically named FAST CATS AND MYSTERIOUS COWS is a joyous collection of American songs for both choir and solo voice. Some of America's finest composers are represented in this collection, inclu...continue...

American Classics - American Anthem - Ives, Copland, Barber, Rorem, etc / Nathan Gunn, Kevin Murphy

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-06-30

Works: Traditional: Shenandoah; Jay Gorney: Brother, can you spare a dime?; Ned Rorem: Early in the morning; The lordly Hudson; Gene Scheer: At Howard Hawks's house; Holding each other; Lean away; American ...
Performers: Gunn, Nathan; Murphy, Kevin

"Opera singers venturing into non-classical territory can easily produce embarrassing results: mannered, over-inflected performances that betray the spirit of the music. Fortunately, Nathan Gunn has...continue...

Rorem: Piano Works Vol 2 / Thomas Lanners

1 CD / Centaur / 2009-04-16

Works: Ned Rorem: Recalling, for piano; A Quiet Afternoon, pieces for piano; Barcarolles, pieces (3) for piano; Etudes (8) for piano; Song Without Words, for piano; Another Little Song Without Words, for pi...
Performers: Lanners, Thomas

Thomas Lanners, Professor of Piano, has appeared as a solo and collaborative pianist and clinician throughout the U.S. and abroad, presenting his New York solo...continue...

Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; et al / Bullock, Martineau

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: Richard Strauss: Romeo and Juliet, incidental music, o.Op. 86 (TrV 150, AV 86); Die erwachte Rose ("Die Knospe träumte von Sonnenschein"), song for voice & piano, o.Op. 66 (TrV 90,; Begegnung, A...
Performers: Bullock, Susan; Martineau, Malcolm

Susan Bullock, one of today's leading dramatic sopranos, offers a stunning recording for Avie's innovative Crear Classics series with a recital of songs which are...continue...

40 Most Beautiful Winter Classics

2 CD / Warner Classics / 2009-01-27

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in F major, Op. 8 no 3/RV 293 "L'autunno"; Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Arcangelo Corelli: Concerti grossi (12), Op. 6; Henry Purcell: Fair...
Performers: Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Bonney, Barbara; Cole, Natalie; George, Michael; Graham, Susan; Haas, Monique; Hampson, Thomas; Larmore, Jennifer; Linden, Joost van der; Lutz, David; Martineau,...
Conductors: Scimone, Claudio; Harnoncourt, Nikolaus; Koopman, Ton; Redel, Kurt; Masur, Kurt; Legrand, Michel; Pohjola, Erkki; Jennings, Joseph; Lazarev, Alexander; Serebrier, José; Svetlanov, Evgeny; Davis,...
Ensemble: ; Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra; Concentus Musicus Wien; I Solisti Veneti; Les Arts Florissants; Munich Pro Arte Orchestra; New York Philharmonic...

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death; Rorem: Songs / Gerald Finley, Julius Drake

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2008-11-11

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Don Juan's Serenade, Op. 38, no 1; It Was in The Early Spring, Op. 38, no 2; Songs (6), Op. 38; Does the Day Reign, Op. 47, no 6; The mild stars shone for us, song for voic...
Performers: Drake, Julius [Piano]; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]

Recorded Live at Wigmore Hall, 18 October 2007, this new release adds to Gerald Finley’s already illustrious career. After his initial appearances at Glyndebourne in...continue...

Marta Felcman Plays - Piano works by Scarlatti, Bach, etc

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2008-06-10

Works: Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata for Harpsichord in E major, K 531/L 430; Sonata for Harpsichord in D minor, K 34/L S7; Ferruccio Busoni: Chaconne, transcription for piano in D minor (after J. S. Bach, BWV...
Performers: Felcman, Marta

Transience - Rorem, Argento, et al / Broxholm, Ormand, et al

1 CD / Equilibrium / 2007-11-01

Works: Ned Rorem: Ariel, cycle of 5 poems of Sylvia Plath for soprano, clarinet & piano; Dominick Argento: To Be Sung Upon the Water, for high voice, piano & clarinet; George Gershwin: George White's Scanda...
Performers: Broxholm, Julia; Katz, Martin; Ormand, Fred

Fred Orm has played with the Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit Orchestras. Martin Katz is renowned as a major accompanist and teacher. Julia Broxholm is highly...continue...

Susan Graham - Portrait

1 CD / Erato / 2007-10-16

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; George Frederick Handel: Alcina; Ned Rorem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, for voice & piano; Early in the ...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Graham, Susan; Martineau, Malcolm
Conductors: Bicket, Harry; Christie, William; Nagano, Kent; Nelson, John; Summers, Patrick; Tortelier, Yan Pascal; Abel, Yves

Rorem: Evidence of Things Not Seen / Tyburczy, Kee, et al

2 CD / Albany Records / 2007-10-01

Works: Ned Rorem: Evidence of Things Not Seen, collection of 36 songs for SATBar voices & piano
Performers: Alamilla, Glenn; Barthelemy, Alexis; Eliasen, Mikael; Kee, James; Tyburczy, Tammy

As America's premiere writer of classical vocal works states, "...I embarked on the madness of a composer's career by writing songs... My singular reputation, such...continue...

American Classics - Rorem: Piano Concerto no 2, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-09-25

Works: Ned Rorem: Concerto for Piano no 2; Concerto for Cello
Performers: Mulligan, Simon; Yang, Wen-Sinn
Conductors: Serebrier, José

When Leonard Bernstein gave the premiere of Ned Rorem's Third Symphony with the New York Philharmonic in 1959, it signaled a significant triumph for his...continue...
Recording information: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, Scotland (08/30/2006-08/31/2006)....continue...

Rorem: Piano Sonatas / Thomas Lanners

1 CD / Centaur / 2007-05-01

Works: Ned Rorem: Sonata for Piano no 2; Sonata for Piano no 3; Sonata for Piano no 1
Performers: Lanners, Thomas

"Why these sonatas have so seldom been recorded I can't imagine. They are virtuoso showpieces that couldn't fail to delight concert audiences, yet their lapidary...continue...

Byways of French Song - Gounod, et al / Sperry, Hobson

2 CD / Zephyr / 2007-04-01

Works: Charles Gounod: Chanson du printemps, for voice & piano; Songs (6) for voice & piano; Au rossignol; Ce que je suis sans toi, song for voice & piano; Ma belle amie est morte, song for voice & piano; V...
Performers: Hobson, Ian [Piano]; Sperry, Paul [Tenor (Vocal)]

Rorem: Day Music, Night Music / Laredo, Carlyss, Schein

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2006-11-14

Works: Ned Rorem: Day Music, for violin & piano; Night Music, for violin & piano
Performers: Carlyss, Earl; Laredo, Jaime; Laredo, Ruth; Rorem, Ned; Schein, Ann

Ned Rorem: War Scenes; Five Songs; Four Dialogues for Two Voices & Two Pianos

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2006-11-14

Works: Ned Rorem: War Scenes, cycle of 5 songs from Whitman for voice & piano; Poems of Walt Whitman, for voice & piano; Dialogues (4) for 2 voices & 2 pianos
Performers: Cumming, Richard; Darian, Anita; Gramm, Donald; Istomin, Eugene; Rorem, Ned; Stewart, John [Tenor Vocal]

Rorem: Six Variations; Sicilienne; Corigliano: Gazebo Dances; Kaleidoscope

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2006-11-14

Works: Ned Rorem: Variations (6) for 2 pianos; Sicilienne, for 2 pianos; Dance Suite, for 2 pianos; John Corigliano: Gazebo Dances, for piano, 4 hands; Kaleidoscope, for 2 pianos
Performers: Goldina, Arianna; Loumbrozo, Remy

American Virtuoso - Liebermann, Hough, et al / Giles

1 CD / Albany Records / 2006-11-01

Works: Lowell Liebermann: Sonata for Piano no 3, Op. 82; Stephen Hough: Suite R-B, for piano; Augusta Read Thomas: Etudes (6) for piano; Ned Rorem: Recalling, for piano; C. Curtis-Smith / William Bolcom: Co...
Performers: Giles, James

"This is a splendid recital of new American piano pieces, all (except for the final item) first recordings. Nothing here is more than ten years...continue...

American Classics - American Saxophone Music

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-08-29

Works: Amy Quate: Light of Sothis, for alto saxophone & piano; Paul Creston: Sonata for Saxophone and Piano in E flat major, Op. 19; Ned Rorem: Picnic on the Marne, waltzes (7) for alto saxophone & piano; W...
Performers: Hornsby, Neil; Limb, Jeremy; Mitchell, Alex

The saxophone is commonly thought of as the quintessential American instrument, not least for the pivotal role it has played in jazz during key stages...continue...

I Hear America Singing

2 CD / Orfeo / 2006-08-02

Works: Spoken Word: Thomas Hampson provides commentary for the concert "I Hear America Singing"; Edward MacDowell: O Lovely Rose, for voice & piano, Op. 40/5; The Sea, Op. 47/7; Charles Martin Loeffler: Poe...
Performers: Hampson, Thomas; Martineau, Malcolm; Rieger, Wolfram

Blue Moods - Lloyd, et al / Treadway Lloyd, Williamson

1 CD / Albany Records / 2006-06-01

Works: Timothy Cameron Lloyd: Poems (4) by Kathleen Neese, for voice & piano; Native American Love Poems (4), for voice & piano; Ned Rorem: Orchids, for voice & piano; I Strolled Across an Open Field, for v...
Performers: Treadway, Theresa; Williamson, Marshall

Always in pursuit of versatility, Theresa Treadway Lloyd's career has been an evolutionary one. By 12 she was an accomplished pianist with her own roster...continue...

American Mosaic - Bernstein, et al / Yuki and Tomoko Mack

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2006-05-30

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Victor Babin: Etudes for 2 pianos; Aaron Copland: Rodeo; Ned Rorem: Variations (6) for 2 pianos; Earl Wild: Grand Fantasy on Porgy and Bess, ...
Performers: Mack, Tomoko; Mack, Yuki

Rorem: Songs / Curtin, Bressler, Gramm, D'Angelo, Rorem

1 CD / Other Minds Music / 2006-01-01

Works: Ned Rorem: On a Singing Girl, for voice & piano; Flight for Heaven, song cycle for voice & piano; Echo's Songs, for voice & piano; The Silver Swan, for voice & piano; Psalms (3), song cycle for voice...
Performers: Bressler, Charles; Curtin, Phyllis; D'Angelo, Gianna; Gramm, Donald; Rorem, Ned; Sarfaty, Regina

Ned Rorem: Miss Julie, etc / David Agler, et al

2 CD / Albany Records / 2005-06-01

Works: Ned Rorem: Miss Julie, opera; Aftermath, song cycle for medium voice, violin, cello & piano
Performers: Blumenschein, Jose; Boyer, Jacqueline; Canellakis, Nicholas; Eliasen, Mikael; Gunnell, Brenden; Inbar, Lishir; Kee, James; Murphy, Fiona; Reddy, Howard; Romphf, Joslin; Unice, Charles
Conductors: Agler, David
Ensemble: Curtis Institute Chorus

World Premiere Collection - Corigliano, Cowell, et al

1 CD / First Edition / 2005-02-22

Works: Henry Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune no 3 for orchestra, HC 660; Lou Harrison: Suite for Symphonic Strings, for string orchestra; Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no 15, Op. 199 "Silver Pilgrimage"; Luigi Dal...
Performers: Bowman, Peter; Fulkerson, Gregory; Harrell, Lynn; Larsen, Susan; Lowenthal, Jerome; Mitchell, Leona; Owen, Benjamin; Tocco, James [Piano]
Conductors: Whitney, Robert; Mester, Jorge; Smith, Lawrence Leighton; Endo, Akira; Gilbert, David; Harth, Sidney; Zinman, David; Slatkin, Leonard; Comissiona, Sergiu; Previn, Andre; Harbison, John

Specially priced, this essential 75-minute all-world premiere collection features 17 legendary composers of 20th century music. This virtual 'who's who' celebration of major modern world...continue...

Ned Rorem: Songs and Cycles

1 CD / Orfeo / 2004-04-13

Works: Ned Rorem: Six Songs for High Voice, for voice & orchestra (or piano); Last Poems of Wallace Stevens, song cycle for soprano, cello & piano; Ariel, cycle of 5 poems of Sylvia Plath for soprano, clari...
Performers: Aiken, Laura; Jurgensen, Nicola; Sulzen, Donald; Zank, Gerhard

Ned Rorem

1 CD / First Edition / 2004-02-01

Works: Ned Rorem: Eleven Studies for Eleven Players; Concerto for Piano no 3 in six movements
Performers: Fuge, Francis; Livingston, James; Lowenthal, Jerome; McAinich, Daniel; Rapier, Leon
Conductors: Whitney, Robert; Mester, Jorge
Ensemble: Louisville Orchestra

AngloSax: British & American Music for Saxophone

1 CD / The Classics Label / 2003-11-01

Works: Rodney Rogers: Lessons of the Sky, for oboe (or soprano saxophone) & piano; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Studies (6) in English Folksong; Michael Berkeley: Keening for sax & piano; Elliott Carter: Pastora...
Performers: Barton, Fenella; Horch, Kyle; Lidiard, Pamela

American Classics - Explore America Vol 1

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-05-01

Works: Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, ballet for 13 instruments; Charles Wakefield Cadman: Four American Indian Songs, for voice & piano, Op. 45; John Alden Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator, suit...
Performers: Bolcom, William [Composer]; Buswell, James; Corley, Maria; Currie, Colin; Farley, Carole; Posnak, Paul; Rorem, Ned; Starker, Janos; Taylor, Darryl; Weber, Janice; Zazofsky, Peter
Conductors: Gambil, Paul; Williams, John McLaughlin; Alsop, Marin; ; Davies, Dennis R.; Sinclair, James; Stromberg, William T.; Schermerhorn, Kenneth; Brion, Keith
Ensemble: ; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Kreutzer Quartet; Nashville Chamber Orchestra; Northern Sinfonia Chorus; Royal Artillery Band; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Ukraini...

The American Classics series captures some of the great moments of American music. In this collection, as wide-ranging and diverse as our land, little-known gems...continue...

American Classics - Rorem: The End of the Summer, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-02-01

Works: Ned Rorem: End of summer; Book of Hours, pieces (8) for flute & harp; Bright Music, for flute, 2 violins, cello & piano
Performers: Carney, Jonathan; Farrell, Julian; Gough, Ursula; Noakes, Anna; Sturrock, Kathron; Tingay, Gillian
Conductors:
Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence

"Altough Rorem is a tonal composer, who along with Bernstein defended tonality long before it was fashionable to do so, his harmonies are often spikier...continue...

Amazing Grace - An American Tapestry / Wissinger, Klibonoff

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2002-10-29

Works: Aaron Copland: Old American Songs, Set 1; Duo, for flute (or violin) & piano; Peter Schickele: Pleasant Song no 1; Pleasant Song no 2; Samuel Barber: Canzone (Elegy), for flute & piano (arr. from 2nd...
Performers: Klibonoff, Jon; Wissinger, Donna

Marta Felcman Plays Scarlatti, Bach/Busoni, Rorem, et al

1 CD / Jay Records / 2002-09-03

Works: Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata for Harpsichord in E major, K 531/L 430; Work(s); Ferruccio Busoni: Chaconne, transcription for piano in D minor (after J. S. Bach, BWV 1004), KiV B24; Carlos Guastavino: P...
Performers: Felcman, Marta

Childhood Memories - Music for Younger Pianists / Arzruni

1 CD / New World / 2002-09-01

Works: Amy Beach: Children's Carnival, for piano, Op. 25; Robert Starer: Sketches in Color, for piano Sets 1 & 2; Ned Rorem: A Quiet Afternoon, pieces for piano; Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee: Toccatinas (3) for...
Performers: Arzruni, Sahan

"To Amy Beach and Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, writing for young people is a matter of pedagogy. For others as different as the neo-Romantic Rorem or...continue...

American Orginals - Gottschalk, Barber, etc / Ruskin Cooper

1 CD / Centaur / 2002-08-29

Works: Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Souvenir de Porto Rico, RO 250/Op. 31 "Marche de Gibaros"; Dying Poet, RO 75; Ricordati, RO 227/Op. 26; Le banjo, Op. 15/RO 22; Samuel Barber: Excursions (4) for Piano, Op. 2...
Performers: Cooper, Ruskin

American Classics - Rorem: Selected Songs / Carole Farley

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-11-01

Works: Ned Rorem: The Waking, for voice & piano; Root Cellar, for voice & piano (from "Three Poems of Theodore Roethke"); My Papa's Waltz, for voice & piano; I Strolled Across an Open Field, for voice & pia...
Performers: Farley, Carole; Rorem, Ned

"American audiences have known about Ned Rorem's songs for ages, it seems; on the evidence of this disc, it's about time the rest of the...continue...
Recording information: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA (06/06/2000-06/09/2000)....continue...

A Collection of American Songs / Carole Bogard, et al

2 CD / Parnassus / 2001-06-03

Works: John Alden Carpenter: Night Songs (2) for voice & piano; Gitanjali, song cycle for voice & piano; John Woods Duke: Songs to Portions of From the Sea, for voice & piano; Poems (6), for voice & piano; ...
Performers: Bogard, Carole; Cumming, Richard; Del Tredici, David; Moriarty, John

Copland: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson; Rorem / Curtin

1 CD / Video Artists International / 2001-02-20

Works: Aaron Copland: Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as "Poems (8) of Emil; Ned Rorem: The Tulip Tree, for voice & piano; The Midnight Sun, for voice & piano;...
Performers: Copland, Aaron; Curtin, Phyllis; Helps, Robert; Rorem, Ned

Sing My Soul - Rorem: Choral Music / Coffey, Concora

1 CD / Albany Records / 1998-11-01

Works: Ned Rorem: Thee, God, for chorus & organ (from "Motets (3)"); While All Things Were in Quiet Silence (no 1 from "Motets (7) for the Church Year"); Before the Morning Star Begotten (no 2 from "Motets ...
Performers: Westfall, David
Conductors: Coffey, Richard M.

"Coffey's superb 36-member choral ensemble shines in this fine assemblage of Rorem's choral works...With excellent singing, both spirited and sensitive, this diverse selection offers as...continue...

20th Century Etudes - Rorem, Perle, Persichetti / Renzi

1 CD / Centaur / 1997-07-13

Works: Ned Rorem: Etudes (8) for Piano; George Perle: Etudes (6) for Piano; Vincent Persichetti: Mirror Etudes for Piano
Performers: Renzi, Frances

"This is a really fine recent release, albeit one whose likely audience is rather small, i.e. those interested in atonal - though not (for the...continue...