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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...

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

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...

Ned Rorem: On an Echoing Road

1 Super Audio CD / Linn Records / 2010-03-23

Works: Ned Rorem: Early in the Morning, for voice & piano; Are you the new person, for voice & piano; Rain in spring, for voice & piano (from "Poems of Paul Goodman"); For Susan, for voice & piano (from "Po...
Performers: Imbrailo, Jacques; Johnston, Jennifer; Leese, Anna; Mead, Tim [Countertenor Vocal]; Staples, Andrew
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Ensemble: The Prince Consort (Vocal Ensemble)

Import Hybrid-SACD pressing....continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, England (02/10/2009-02/13/2009)....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...

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

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
Interest continues in Ned Rorem's vocal music - more than 300 solo songs and numerous songcycles. There's little duplication between Laura Aikin's...continue...

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...