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Curtis-Smith: Gold Are My Flowers, A Civil War Song Cycle / Carmen Pelton

1 CD / Albany Records / 2011-09-13

Works: Curtis Curtis-Smith: Gold Are My Flowers (Christopher the Christ-Bearer), cycle for 2 voices & ensemble; A Civil War Song Cycle, for voice & piano
Performers: -Smith, Curtis; Ardizzone, Matthew; Bonhag, Mary [Soprano]; Buranskas, Karen; Knific, Renata Artman; Knific, Tom; Moonert, Judy; Opalach, Jan; Pelton, Carmen; Roederer, Silvia; Smith, Christine M.; T...
Conductors: Miller, Joe

Two works for voice by the internationally recognized composer C. Curtis-Smith are offered on this recording. The first - Gold Are My Flowers - is...continue...

Edward Collins: Daughter of the South / Alsop

1 CD / Albany Records / 2010-08-10

Works: Edward Joseph Collins: Daughter of the South, opera
Performers: Baker, Andrea; Watson, Keel
Conductors: Alsop, Marin

The only opera composed by Edward Joseph Collins, Daughter of the South, is set on a plantation on the Potomac River, near Leesburg, Virginia. The...continue...
Recording information: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, Scotland / All Saints Church, (2009-05-01_2009-05-03&2009-)....continue...

Songs of America - Copland, Gershwin, Ellington, etc / Oral Moses, Rosalyn Floyd, Timothy Holley

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-05-01

Works: Traditional: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning; Harry: I've Been in de Storm so Long, song; Hall Johnson: This River, for voice & piano; Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven, for voice & piano; Ain't G...
Performers: Floyd, Rosalyn; Holley, Timothy; Moses, Oral; Rosalyn Floyd; Timothy W. Holley

This recording is, in many respects, a unique and creatively conceived kaleidoscope of American culture presented through the expressions and influences of African Americans. Moses...continue...

Eye of Sparrow - Music of Carl MaultsBy

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-02-01

Works: Carl MaultsBy: Eye of the Sparrow, for chorus & orchestra; The View from the Mountain, for chorus & orchestra; Peace, Be Still, for chorus & orchestra; Hold On; African Traditional: Kumbaya, folk son...
Performers: Ferraiuolo, Jim; Hall-Moran, Alicia; Hazell, Earl; Pitman, James; Rayam, Curtis; Simpson-Hoffman, N'kenge; Solomon-Glover, Diana; Woodman, Branch
Conductors: MaultsBy, Carl
Ensemble: Rejoicensemble

Carl MaultsBy is a contemporary "renaissance artist" whose talents have been utilized both in the commercial realm of musical theatre, film, television, records and in...continue...

Amazing Grace - Organ Music of Adolphus Hailstork

1 CD / Albany Records / 2006-12-01

Works: Adolphus Hailstork: Fanfare on "Amazing Grace", for brass quintet, percussion & organ; Five Spirituals, suite for organ; Armageddon; Meditation on "Amazing Grace", for organ; Prelude on "Veni Emmanue...
Performers: Cross, Robert W.; Kosnik, James; Walker, David; Ward, Frank

Composer Adolphus Hailstork writes, "I began taking organ lessons in the 1950s as a member of the boy's and men's choir of the Episcopal Cathedral...continue...

Becoming a Redwood - Songs of Lori Laitman

1 CD / Albany Records / 2006-10-01

Works: Lori Laitman: Early Snow, song cycle for voice & piano; Daughters, song cycle for voice, violin, cello & piano; The Throwback, song cycle for voice & piano; Becoming A Redwood, song cycle for voice &...
Performers: Check, Jennifer; Green, Patricia; Gruber, Sari; Jones, Warren; Kang, Juliette; Kraines, Thomas; Laitman, Lori; Mcpherson, Robert; Poster, Gary; Poulis, Lee; Quintiliani, Barbara; Rosen, Marcy; Scarla...

According to The Journal of Singing as quoted in the liner notes, Lori Laitman (b. 1955) is "one of the finest art song composers on...continue...

Daron Hagen: Bandanna /UNLV Opera Theater and Wind Orchestra

2 CD / Albany Records / 2006-06-01

Works: Daron Hagen: Bandanna, opera in 2 acts & a prologue
Performers: Anderson, Alfonse; Barton, Jennifer; Corpus, Ed; DeGroot, Lesley; Demler, James; Jackson, Lauren; Kreider, Paul; Lewis, Travis; Noonan, Scott; Powell, Margarit; Repp, Brad; Thomsen, Mark; Zimmer, Dar...
Conductors: Hagen, Daron
Ensemble: University of Nevada Las Vegas Wind Orchestra

Daron Hagen (b. 1961), a graduate of both the Julliard School and the Curtis Institute, has achieved his greatest fame as a composer of art...continue...

Peter Westergaard: Moby Dick / Michael Pratt, et al

2 CD / Albany Records / 2005-12-01

Works: Peter Westergaard: Moby Dick, opera
Performers: Baker, Robert P.; Kellett, David; Millar, Douglas; Parcher, William; Thomas, Todd
Conductors: Pratt, Michael
Ensemble: Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra

"Melville's novel paints a vast canvas. But of the many stretches that might have made good scenes for an opera, I have chosen only those...continue...

Carlisle Floyd: Cold Sassy Tree / Patrick Summers, et al

2 CD / Albany Records / 2005-08-01

Works: Carlisle Floyd: Cold Sassy Tree, comic opera in 3 acts
Performers: Alexander, Diane; Christian, Judith; Clayton, Beth; Evans, Joseph; Gradus, Oren; Holloway, James; Jones, Jessica; Kreger, Matthew; Lenormand, Marie; Lloyd, Margaret; Marcinko, Kerri; McVeigh, John; P...
Conductors: Summers, Patrick
Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Chorus

Lee Hoiby: A Month in the Country / Steven Osgood

2 CD / Albany Records / 2005-04-01

Works: Lee Hoiby: A Month in the Country, opera
Performers: Albrink, Emily; Apland, Shae; Austin, Lisa; Bailey, David; Ball, Jon-Michael; Bonner, Liam; Boyer, Alexis; Hamms, Rena; Krich-Brinton, Vivian; Mintz, David; Mitchell, Amy; Park, Yoosun; Pena, Matthew...
Conductors: Osgood, Steven
Ensemble: Manhattan School of Music Opera Orchestra

"Lee Hoiby is one of America's finest living opera composers, and many of the current generation who have ventured into this arena could learn a...continue...

Bielawa: Voices

1 CD / Albany Records / 2004-07-01

Works: Herbert Bielawa: Five Rants, for SATB chorus & violin; The Snake and Other Creatures, for soprano & piano; Earth, for bass-baritone & ensemble; Dreams, for SSAA chorus, viola & piano
Performers: Aird, Brooke; Allen, Catherine; Artists, San Francisco Choral; Bielawa, Herbert; Howe, Eric; Mathias, Richard; Narucki, Susan; Okamura, Dwight; Oldfather, Christopher [Piano]; Paul, Sharon J.; San Fr...
Conductors: ; Paul, Sharon
Ensemble: Magen Solomon; San Francisco Choral Artists; San Francisco Girls Chorus

Personnel: Susan Narucki (soprano); Eric Howe (bass baritone); Brooke Aird (violin); Geraldine Walther (viola); Catherine Allen (cello); Lenora Warkentin (flute); Richard Mathias (clarinet); Dwight Ok...continue...

Charles Wuorinen: The Haroun Songbook / Bush, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2004-05-01

Works: Charles Wuorinen: The Haroun Songbook, for SATB solo voices & piano (after opera Haroun and the Sea of Stories)
Performers: Bush, Phillip; Chioldi, Michael; Farnum, Elizabeth; Golden, Emily; Schaffner, James

Floyd: Of Mice and Men/ Patrick Summers, Houston Grand Opera

2 CD / Albany Records / 2004-01-01

Works: Carlisle Floyd: Of Mice and Men, music drama in 3 acts
Performers: Evans, Joseph; Futral, Elizabeth [Soprano Vocals]; Griffey, Anthony Dean; Hawkins, Gordon; Maddalena, James; Patrick, Julian; Scully, Scott; Smith, Tyler
Conductors: Summers, Patrick
Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Chorus

"The performance could hardly be bettered, Conductor Summers has a particular sympathy for this style of contemporary music. He took Floyd's 'Cold Sassy Tree', Heggie's...continue...

Richard Owen Sr.: Rain / Richard Owen Jr., Camerata New York

2 CD / Albany Records / 2004-01-01

Works: Richard Owen Sr.: Rain, opera
Performers: Aaron, Adina; Burkhardt, Eric; Cole, Michael; Embree, Marc; Gordon, David [Tenor Vocal]; Hoyt, Robert; Kelly, Catherine; Miller, Ronnita; Owen, Lynn; Szwejbka, Michael; Zuspan, Peter
Conductors: Owen, Richard, Jr.

Spirituals in Zion - A Spiritual Heritage for the Soul

1 CD / Albany Records / 2003-08-01

Works: Traditional: Nobody knows the trouble I've seen; A little more faith in Jesus; And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word; Tryin' to get ready; City called Heaven; I'm a rolling thro' an unfriendly world; Lis...
Performers: Moses, Oral

Pasatieri: The Seagull / Gilbert, Ayers, Shoremount, Gough

2 CD / Albany Records / 2003-04-01

Performers: Ayers, Raymond; Behan, Keri; Gough, Amy; Kraus, Sarah; Munoz, Isai Jess; Pertel, Thomas; Shoremount, Amy; Toledo, Maxime Alvarez de; Vallejo, Alvaro; Worth, Matthew
Conductors: Gilbert, David
Ensemble: Manhattan School of Music Opera Chorus

This recording represents the New York premiere performances which took place in December, 2002. It uses the composer's revised score. In his notes for the...continue...

Horvit: The Mystic Flame / Krager, Whittaker, Evans, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2002-10-01

Works: Michael Horvit: The Mystic Flame, a choral symphony
Performers: Ciesinski, Catherine; Evans, Joseph; Fink, Richard Paul
Conductors: Krager, Franz Anton
Ensemble: Moores School of Music Chorus

Wilson: Aethelred the Unready /Wilson, Osborne, Weigle, etc

1 CD / Albany Records / 2002-06-01

Works: Richard Edward Wilson: Æthelred the Unready, opera
Performers: Blustine, Allen; Childs, Andrew; Gold, Matthew; Goodman, Jonathan; Hostetter, Paul; Lawson, Dorothy; Minter, Drew [Counter Tenor Vocals]; Osborne, Robert; Schulte, Rolf; Uribe, Blanca; Weigle, Elisab...
Conductors: Wilson, Richard Edward

Lewin: Burning Bright / Milanov, Overholt, Eckert, et al

3 CD / Albany Records / 2002-02-01

Works: Frank Lewin: Burning Bright, opera
Performers: Altman, Scott
Conductors: Milanov, Rossen; Mueller, Otto-Werner
Ensemble: Sofia New Symphony Orchestra

"The opera is a curiously effective one. There is fine clarity of text in the vocal line. A kind of general romantic haze permeates the...continue...

Machover: Resurrection / Summers, Houston Grand Opera

2 CD / Albany Records / 2002-02-01

Works: Tod Machover: Resurrection, opera
Performers: Belcher, Daniel; Christian, Judith; Ciesinski, Catherine; DiDonato, Joyce; Hendricks, Scott; Travis, Dale; Turner, Elizabeth
Conductors: Summers, Patrick
Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Chorus

Amen! - African-American Composers of the 20th Century

1 CD / Albany Records / 2001-12-01

Works: Traditional: Go down, Moses; Oh Mary, what you gonna name that pretty little baby?; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child; I don't feel noways tired; Zion Hallelujah; Witness; He's got the whole w...
Performers: Baily, George; Moses, Oral

The Songs of John Alden Carpenter / Osborne, Helmrich

1 CD / Albany Records / 2000-06-01

Works: John Alden Carpenter: Go, Lovely Rose; The Green River; Looking-Glass River; Dansons la Gigue! for voice & piano; Paul Verlaine Poems (5) for voice & piano; Il pleure dans mon coeur, for voice & pian...
Performers: Helmrich, Dennis; Osborne, Robert

Cowell: Songs / Mary Ann Hart, Robert Osborne, Jeanne Golan

1 CD / Albany Records / 1998-10-01

Works: Henry Cowell: St. Agnes Morning, song for voice & piano, HC 152; The Dream Bridge; The Morning Pool; April; Song of the Songless; Music, when Soft Voices Die; Angus Og; Manaunaun's Birthing; Where sh...
Performers: Golan, Jeanne; Hart, Mary Ann [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Henze, Sheryl; Hynes, Maureen; Osborne, Robert; Scott, Les

Tanenbaum: Last Letters from Stalingrad / David Tanenbaum

1 CD / Albany Records / 1997-06-01

Works: Elias Tanenbaum: Shadows for guitar & string quartet; Last Letters from Stalingrad, for baritone, guitar, viola & percussion; Reflected Images, for flute & guitar
Performers: Hersh, Amy; Osborne, Robert; Pelikan, Tina; Tanenbaum, David [Guitar]; Trigg, William

My Love Unspoken - Leo Sowerby: Songs / Osborne, Halliday

1 CD / Albany Records / 1996-10-01

Works: Leo Sowerby: Wanderer's Song, for voice & piano, H. 296; One Sunny Time in May, for voice & piano, H. 215; Prayer of the Seafarer, for voice & piano, H. 209/2; The Moor Grave, for voice & piano, H. 1...
Performers: Halliday, Malcolm; Osborne, Robert

Contemporary Music Vol 1

1 CD / Albany Records / 1996-06-01

Works: Stephen J. Albert: Into Eclipse, song cycle for tenor & chamber ensemble or orchestra; Christopher Rouse: Mitternachtslieder, for baritone & chamber ensemble; Madrigali (4), for 8 voices
Performers: Guinn, Leslie; Oosting, Stephen
Conductors: Hodkinson, Sydney; Neuen, Donald
Ensemble: Eastman Musica Nova

Moore: Gallantry; Hindemith: Hin und Zurlick; Menotti

1 CD / Albany Records / 1995-09-01

Works: Douglas S. Moore: Gallantry - A Soap Opera; Paul Hindemith: Hin und Zurück (There and Back), musical sketch in 1 act, Op. 45a; Gian Carlo Menotti: The Telephone (L'amour à trois), opera
Performers: Bishop, Margaret; Halvorson, Carl; Holmes, Richard; Moore, Austin Wright; Ommerle, Jeanne; Osborne, Robert; Parks, Julia
Conductors: Radcliffe, Stephen Rogers
Ensemble: New York Chamber Ensemble

Lloyd: John Socman (Highlights) / Lloyd, Philharmonia Orch

1 CD / Albany Records / 1994-11-01

Works: George Lloyd: John Socman, opera
Performers: Alder, Stephen; Booth, Thomas; George, Michael; Montague, Diana; Rivers, Malcolm; Sheffield, Philip; Watson, Janice; Wilson-Johnson, David; Winfield, John
Conductors: Lloyd, George
Ensemble: London Voices; Philharmonia Orchestra

Parker: Hora Novissma, Organ Concerto / Levick, Krahn, et al

2 CD / Albany Records / 1994-08-01

Works: Horatio Parker: Hora Novissima, oratorio; Concerto for organ & orchestra in E flat minor, Op. 55
Performers: Andersen, Duane; Hall, Kent; Krahn, Stephen; Simson, Julie; Sorrano, Anna
Conductors: Levick, John
Ensemble: Abendmusik Chorus; Nebraska Chamber Orchestra

Lloyd: Iernin / Lloyd, Hill-Smith, Powell, Pogson, et al

3 CD / Albany Records / 1994-06-01

Works: George Lloyd: Iernin, opera; Spoken Word: Conversation between Chris de Souza and George Lloyd
Performers: Herford, Henry; Jackson, Stephen [Choral Conductor]; Lloyd, George; Pogson, Geoffrey; Rivers, Malcolm; Robarts, Jonathon; Smith, Marilyn Hill [Soprano Vocal]; Souza, Chris de; White, Jeremy
Conductors: Lloyd, George
Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra