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Kernis: Songs of Innocents / Narucki, Berman, et al

1 CD / Koch International / 2007-12-04

Works: Aaron Jay Kernis: Simple Songs, for soprano & piano; Valentines, for soprano & piano; Songs of Innocents, Book 1, for soprano & piano; Songs of Innocents, Book 2, for soprano & piano
Performers: Berman, Donald; Druckman, Daniel; Farina, Danielle; Gilbert, Laura; Han, June; Mills, Jesse; Myers, Philip; Narucki, Susan; Smith, Mina; Staples, Sheryl; Sylar, Sherry
Conductors: Kernis, Aaron Jay

Winner of the coveted 2002 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and one of the youngest composers ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Aaron Jay...continue...

Christmas Wishes / Auréole

1 CD / Koch International / 2007-10-09

Works: Christmas Traditional: Angels We Have Heard on High; El Cant dels ocells (Carol of the Birds), carol (Catalan); Coventry Carol (2); The Holly and the Ivy (English); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (Eng...
Performers: Aureole; Gilbert, Laura; Shames, Stacey

Personnel: Stacey Shames (harp); Mary Hammann (viola); Laura Gilbert (flute).

Recording information: SUNY Purchase College Performing Arts Center....continue...

Music from Copland House - Currier: On the Edge

1 CD / Koch International / 2007-03-13

Works: Sebastian Currier: Verge, for clarinet, violin & piano; Static, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano; Night Time, for harp & violin; Variations on Time and Time Again, for flute & piano
Performers: Bermel, Derek; Boriskin, Michael; Dunkel, Paul Lustig; Langlamet, Marie-Pierre; Macomber, Curtis; Velin, Jean-Claude
Conductors:
Ensemble: Music from Copland House

"Fluid and restless in color, pensive and ethereal in sensibility, the music of Sebastian Currier has a strong personality yet is curiously hard to pin...continue...

Natural Escapes

1 CD / Koch International / 2003-01-21

Works: William Grant Still: Summerland, for piano; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony no 4 for chorus, children's chorus & orchestra ("The Gardens"); Alan Hovhaness: Ananda, sonata for piano, Op. 303; Symphony ...
Performers: Glaser, Susan; Gruppman, Igor; Mitchell, Emily; Rosen, Marvin; Smith, Susan DeWitt; Still, Alexa
Conductors: Gregorian, Leon; ; Jordania, Vakhtang; Richman, Steven; Barra, Donald; DePreist, James; Sedares, James
Ensemble: Aureole Trio; Harmonie Ensemble of New York; KBS Symphony Orchestra; Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; San Diego Chamber Orchestra; University of Michigan Symphony O...

Times Like This

1 CD / Koch International / 2003-01-21

Works: Frank Loesser: Warm All Over; Somebody Somewhere, song (for the musical The Most Happy Fella); If I Were a Bell; Ralph Blane: The Boy Next Door; Jerry Bock: Will He Like Me; Vanilla Ice Cream, song (...
Performers: DiPippo, Angelo; Gilbert, Laura; Hammann, Mary; Murphy, Heidi Grant; Murphy, Kevin; Okura, Meg; Richard Clark [Violin/Viola]; Rostad, Egil; Rostron, Karen; Shames, Stacey

Personnel: Heidi Grant Murphy, Christopher Murphy (vocals); Richard Clark (violin, viola); Meg Okura, Karen Rostron (violin); Egil Rostad (cello); Stacey Shames (harp); Laura Gilbert (flute); Angelo D...continue...

Harrison: Suite for Violin, etc / Bachman, Sedares, et al

1 CD / Koch International / 1999-07-20

Works: Lou Harrison: Suite for Violin with Strings (arr. of "Suite for Violin & American Gamelan"); Western Dance, for piano; New York Waltzes (3), for piano; Suite for Cello and Piano; Gigue & Musette, for...
Performers: Bachmann, Maria; Boriskin, Michael; Flyer, Nina; Gandolfi, Josephine; Levitan, Dan
Conductors: Sedares, James
Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Lou Harrison is known primarily for his rejection of 12-tone equal temperament in favor of "just intonation", as well as his use of percussion inspired...continue...

Maw, Bennett / Auréole Trio

1 CD / Koch International / 1998-06-16

Works: Nicholas Maw: Night Thoughts, for solo flute; Roman Canticle, for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola & harp; Quartet for flute & string trio; Richard Rodney Bennett: After Syrinx for oboe & piano; Six tunes...
Performers: Gilbert, Laura; Hammann, Mary; Nessinger, Mary; Shames, Stacey; Whitfield, John [Bass]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Aureole Trio

"A generously filled CD divided, albeit unequally, between Nicholas Maw and Richard Rodney Bennett...All the performances are highly accomplished and Laura Gilbert in the solo...continue...

Griffes, Hanson, et al: Music for Flute / Alexa Still, et al

1 CD / Koch International / 1991-08-20

Works: Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Poem, for flute & orchestra, A. 93; Howard Hanson: Serenade for flute, harp & strings, Op. 35; Alan Hovhaness: Elibris (Dawn God of Urardu), concerto for flute & orchestra,...
Performers: Mills-Williams, Carolyn; Still, Alexa; Yendoll, Vyvyan
Conductors: Braithwaite, Nicholas
Ensemble: New Zealand Chamber Orchestra