Contemporary Period > Gosling, Stephen

Paolo Cavallone: Confini / Nicholas Isherwood, voice; Magnus Andersson, guitar; Roberto Fabbriciani, flute

1 CD / Tactus / 2012-04-10

Works: Paolo Cavallone: (Dis)tensioni, pieces (8) for clarinet & piano; Confini, for fortepiano; Trompe l'o(r)eil(le), for viola; Scenderò a patti, for voice; Milagros, for chitarrone & fortepiano; Fra...
Performers: Andersson, Magnus; Arnold, Tony [Soprano Vocal]; Avery, James; Domenici, Catarina; Fabbriciani, Roberto; Gosling, Stephen; Kopperud, Jean; Pogossian, Movses; Sanzo, Luca; Windsor, Lorna
Conductors: Baldini, Christian; ; Lena, Marco
Ensemble: Farben Ensemble (Chamber ensemble); June in Buffalo Contemporary Ensemble (Chamber ens

In the contemporary music scene, Paolo Cavallone represents a latter-day Renaissance man, with an intimate love for all forms of art. This CD features pieces...continue...

Philip Ramey: Piano Music, Vol. 3 / Stephen Gosling, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2011-10-11

Works: Phillip Ramey: Suite, for piano; Short Pieces (2), for piano; Toccata Giocosa, for piano; Slavic Rhapsody (The Novgorod Kremlin at Night), for piano; Burlesque-Paraphrase on a Theme of Stephen Foster...
Performers: Gosling, Stephen

The piano music of American composer Phillip Ramey (b. 1939) is rooted in the motoric athleticism of Prokofiev and Bartók and then seasoned with sober...continue...
Recording information: Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, New York (05/07/2010-05/10/2010)....continue...

John Aylward: Stillness and Change / East Coast Contemporary Ensemble

1 CD / Albany Records / 2011-08-09

Works: John Aylward: Stillness and Change, for ensemble; Images of Departure, for viola & piano; Songs from the Wild Iris, for ensemble; Reciprocal Accord, for violin & cello
Performers: Finckel, Chris; Gosling, Stephen; Holloway, Mark; Macomber, Curtis
Conductors: Pintscher, Matthias
Ensemble: East Coast Contemporary Ensemble

Composer John Aylward has been awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright Grant and First Prize from...continue...

Music of Melinda Wagner / Joseph Alessi, trombone; Christine Brandes, soprano

1 CD / Bridge / 2011-08-09

Works: Melinda Wagner: Concerto for trombone & orchestra; Settings (4), for ensemble; Wick, for ensemble
Performers: Alessi, Joseph [Trombone]; Brandes, Christine; Gilbert, Laura; Gosling, Stephen; Kaye, Alan; Macomber, Curtis; O'Neill, Richard; Sherry, Fred [Cello]
Conductors: Maazel, Lorin; Lemon, J. Karla; Milarsky, Jeffrey
Ensemble: ; New York New Music Ensemble; New York Philharmonic

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner has composed a highly regarded catalog of chamber and orchestral music. Critic Tim Page writes: "Melinda Wagner's work suggests what...continue...
Recording information: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center For The Performing Ar (02/22/2007-02/24/2007); Theater C, SUNY College at Purchase, Purchase, NY (02/22/2007-02/24/2007); Avery Fisher Hall, Li...continue...

The Music Of George Edwards

1 CD / Albany Records / 2011-05-10

Works: George Edwards: The Isle is Full of Noises, for ensemble; Suave Mari Magno, for piano; Quartet for Strings no 2; Czeched Swing, for piano; Trio for horn, violin & piano
Performers: Boyd, Aaron; Gosling, Stephen; Pridemore, Patrick
Conductors: Milarsky, Jeffrey
Ensemble: Manhattan Sinfonietta

George Edwards graduated from Oberlin and then did graduate study at Princeton, where he studied with Milton Babbitt, Earl Kim and Edward T. Cone. He...continue...

Music of Arlene Sierra, Vol. 1

1 CD / Bridge / 2011-05-10

Works: Arlene Sierra: Cicada Shell, for chamber ensemble; Birds and Insects, Book 1, for piano; Surrounded Ground, for string quartet, clarinet & piano; Neruda Odes (2), for soprano, cello & piano; Colmena,...
Performers: Gosling, Stephen; Narucki, Susan; Neidich, Charles; Primakov, Vassily [Piano]; Ramakrishnan, Raman
Conductors: Ogren, Jayce
Ensemble: International Contemporary Ensemble

The music of Arlene Sierra (b. 1970) has begun to make waves on both sides of the Atlantic. With recent commissions by the New York...continue...

Jean Kopperud: Extreme Measures / Gosling, Kopperud

2 CD / Albany Records / 2010-09-14

Works: David Felder: Rare Air, for clarinet & piano; Eric Moe: Grand Prismatic, for clarinet & piano; Paolo Cavallone: (Dis)tensioni, pieces (8) for clarinet & piano; Steven Ricks: Amygdala, for clarinet & ...
Performers: Gosling, Stephen; Kopperud, Jean

Extreme Measures is the first project in clarinetist Jean Kopperud's Rated X series. It is seven clarinet and piano works written for Kopperud asking composers...continue...

Scott Johnson: Americans

1 CD / Tzadik / 2010-05-18

Works: Scott Johnson: Americans, for ensemble; The Illusion of Guidance, for ensemble; Bowery Haunt, for 2 guitars; Anthem Hunt (from Pact 2006), for ensemble
Performers: Chudzik, Greg; Cossin, David; Dancigers, Mark; Driscoll, Kermit; Ferrari, John; Gosling, Stephen; Johnson, Derek [Guitar]; Johnson, Scott [Guitar/Composer]; Lowenstern, Michael; Rowell, Mary L.; Sull...

A long awaited CD of a major new composition by one of America's greatest and most elusive composers from the early days of postmodern minimalism....continue...
Recording information: Kampo Studios....continue...

Donald Martino: Later Works

1 CD / Albany Records / 2010-01-12

Works: Donald Martino: Trio for violin, cello & piano; Quartet for Strings no 5; Trio for clarinet, cello & piano; Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2
Performers: Finckel, Christopher; Gosling, Stephen; Hesselink, Greg; Kampmeier, Margaret A.; Karis, Aleck; Kay, Alan R.; Macomber, Curtis; Martin, Lois; Sherry, Fred [Cello]; Zeavin, Carol

Rarely has a composer exhibited such an extraordinarily heightened awareness of the very details of music-making, every physical, acoustic and emotional gesture of performance, painstakingly...continue...
Recording information: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City....continue...

Byrne: White Bone Country, etc / Gosling, Shively

1 CD / New World / 2009-08-11

Works: Andrew Byrne: White Bone Country, musical landscapes (9), for piano & percussion; Tracks, for piano; Fata Morgana
Performers: Gosling, Stephen; Shively, David

Andrew Byrne has lived and worked mostly in New York since the early 1990s. This tripartite CD has a mobile-like character, working entirely with a...continue...

American Classics - Moe: Strange Exclaiming Music, etc / Macomber, Gosling, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-07-28

Works: Eric Moe: Strange Exclaiming Music, for violin & piano; Teeth of the Sea, for solo percussion; Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds, for 3 saxophones; Down the Stream, Merrily, for 2 marimbas; I Hav...
Performers: Coon, Kenneth; Gosling, Stephen; Lipsey, Michael; Macomber, Curtis; Riley, Elliot; Weinberger, Bruce
Conductors:
Ensemble: DoublePlay Percussion Duo; New York Saxophone Quartet

Eric Moe is an alchemist of expressive extremes, from what he calls "beautiful quiet music" to "the rough, raucous stuff". His exquisitely controlled music distils...continue...

Craig Walsh: Bugaboo / David Fulmer, Stephen Gosling, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-09-09

Works: Craig Walsh: Zook, for ensemble; Lines, for piano; Neshanic Wanes, for piano trio; Zoom, for violin & piano; Bugaboo, for ensemble; 0 to 33 in 1098.5, for violin, clarinet & piano
Performers: Finckel, Chris; Fulmer, David; Gosling, Stephen; Kopperud, Jean; Quan, Linda
Conductors: Baker, James
Ensemble: ; New York New Music Ensemble

Craig Walsh, born in New Jersey in 1971, is a composer on the rise, widely performed across North America and Europe. He is also a...continue...

Cory: Chasing Time, String Quartet no 2, etc / Kopperud, Gosling, Macomber, Atlantic String Quartet, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-07-08

Works: Eleanor Cory: Chasing Time; Conversation for Violin, Cello and Piano; Songs (3), for voice & piano; Mirrors, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano; Quartet for Strings no 2
Performers: Farnum, Elizabeth; Finckel, Chris; Gosling, Stephen; Kopperud, Jean; Macomber, Curtis; Sternberg, Jo-Ann
Conductors:
Ensemble: New York New Music Ensemble

The moods of the works on this survey of Eleanor Cory's chamber music range from serious introspection (Three Songs) to playful exuberance (Chasing Time). Beginning...continue...

Vine: Sonata for Flute & Piano, etc / Still, Gosling

1 CD / Koch International / 2008-01-22

Works: Carl Vine: Sonata for Flute and Piano
Performers: Gosling, Stephen; Still, Alexa

The extraordinary flutist Alexa Still returns with her first recording since the critically acclaimed "Pied Piper Fantasy" of John Corigliano. Highlighting this disc are colors...continue...

Music of Poul Ruders Vol 5 / Mann, Odense SO, et al

1 CD / Bridge / 2007-11-01

Works: Poul Ruders: Light Overture (A Symphonic Entertainment); Cembal d'Amore (First Book), for piano & harpsichord; Credo, for 2 violins, clarinet & string orchestra; Air with Changes (on the Danish folk ...
Performers: Beck, Steven; Gosling, Stephen; Han, June; Hansen, Bjarne; Kruse, John; Skowronek, Kazimierz
Conductors: Brown, Justin; Mann, Paul
Ensemble: ; Alabama Symphony Orchestra; Odense Symphony Orchestra

Morris Rosenzweig: Cycles / Lani Paulson, Susan Wenckus

1 CD / Albany Records / 2007-03-01

Works: Morris Rosenzweig: Points and Tales, for piano; A Certain Round of Events, for piano
Performers: Gosling, Stephen; Poulson, Lani; Wenckus, Susan

"These demanding works do respond to repeated hearings and have a haunting quality that raises this above the usual run-of-the-mill academic modern music release. Mr...continue...

Matrix - Louis Karchin / Hostetter, Shelton, Gosling, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2006-12-01

Works: Louis Karchin: Roethke Songs, for voice & piano; Fanfare for flute; Pavane for flute; Fanfare for Marty, for piano; Voyages, for saxophone & piano; Percussion Quartet; Plaint, for voice & piano; Matr...
Performers: Gold, Matthew; Gosling, Stephen; Kolor, Thomas; Leandro, Eduardo; Nonken, Marilyn; Shelton, Lucy [Soprano Vocals]; Spencer, Patricia; Sullivan, Tamur; Ward, Matthew
Conductors: Hostetter, Paul

Described by the New Yorker's Andrew Porter as a composer of "fearless eloquence," Louis Karchin has received performances of his music worldwide, by groups ranging...continue...

Ramey: Piano Music / Stephen Gosling

1 CD / Toccata / 2006-06-13

Works: Phillip Ramey: Color Etudes, for piano; Memorial (In Memoriam Alexander Tcherepnin), for piano; Chromatic Waltz, for piano; Sonata for Piano no 1; Sonata for Piano no 2; Sonata for Piano no 5 (For th...
Performers: Gosling, Stephen

The piano music of American composer Phillip Ramey (b. 1939) has its roots in the motoric athleticism of Prokofiev and Bartok, refracted through the wiry...continue...

Black Topaz - Joan Tower

1 CD / New World / 2006-04-10

Works: Joan Tower: Night Fields, for string quartet; Snow Dreams, for flute & guitar; Black Topaz, for piano & 6 instruments; Très Lent (In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen), for cello & piano; Stepping Sto...
Performers: Ansell, Steven [Viola]; Emelianoff, Andre; Flax, Laura; Gekker, Chris; Gekker, Christopher; Gosling, Stephen; Haas, Jonathan; Isbin, Sharon; Keyes, Bayla; Moore, Daniel; Moore, Deborah; Niemann, Edmu...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Double Edge; Muir String Quartet

Zorn: Mysterium

1 CD / Tzadik / 2005-11-22

Works: John Zorn: Orphée; Frammenti del Sappho; Walpurgisnacht
Performers: Bielawa, Lisa; Choi, Jennifer; Cluver, Martha; Fischer, Abby; Gosling, Stephen; Han, June; Martin, Lois; Mori, Ikue; O'Connor, Tara Helen; O'Neill, Richard; Sherry, Fred; Shively, David; Sollek-Avell...
Conductors: Lubman, Bradley

Louis Karchin: Orpheus, etc / Infera, Karchin, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2005-07-01

Works: Louis Karchin: Memory, for voice & piano; Poèmes (2) de Mallarmé, for voice & piano; Carmen de Boheme, for voice & piano; To the Sun, for soprano & piano; Orpheus, a masque for baritone, ch...
Performers: Farnum, Elizabeth; Gosling, Stephen; Inferrera, Dominic; Karchin, Louis
Conductors: Karchin, Louis
Ensemble: Players of the Washington Square Contemporary Musi

"The most charming song 'Carmen de Boheme', is an affectionate homage to Bizet's Habanera; here too the style recalls Berg in its incorporation of popular...continue...

Prevailing Winds

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2004-06-15

Works: Carl Vine: Sonata for flute & piano; Alfredo Casella: Sicilienne et Burlesque for flute & piano, Op 23; Camargo Guarnieri: Sonatina, for flute & piano; Ronn Yedidia: Arabesque for flute & piano; Lull...
Performers: Gosling, Stephen; Immanuel Davis, flute

Arthur Kreiger: Meeting Places, etc / NY New Music Ensemble

1 CD / Albany Records / 2003-11-01

Works: Arthur Kreiger: Meeting Places; Caprice for Percussion and Electronic Music Tape; Voyage; Uncommon Bonds; In Short Crystal Moments; Close Encounters; Electronic Study "In Memoriam Vladimir Ussachevsk...
Performers: Anderson, William; Bauch, Daniel; Druckman, Daniel; Finckel, Chris; Gosling, Stephen; Irving, Jeffrey; Kopperud, Jean; Milarsky, Jeffrey; Quan, Linda; Rosenfeld, Jayn; Solomon, Samuel; Stoup, Nicholas
Conductors: Milarsky, Jeffrey; Druckman, Daniel
Ensemble: Juilliard Percussion Ensemble; New York New Music Ensemble

"... after a generation of familiarity with electronic sound, the technique is no longer paramount, and what we are left with is music of tremendous...continue...

Eleanor Cory: Of Mere Being

1 CD / CRI / 2002-01-10

Works: Eleanor Cory: Visions; Play within a Play; Of Mere Being; Interviews; Bouquet
Performers: Bernard, Giles; Blount, William; Cassara, Frank; Cobb, Kevin; Finckel, Chris; Fitzgerald, Daire; Gosling, Stephen; Kampmeier, Margaret; Kopperud, Jean; Krause, Joan Peterson; Purvis, William; Quan, L...
Conductors: ; Rosenbaum, Harold; Milarsky, Jeffrey
Ensemble: New York New Music Ensemble; New York Virtuoso Singers; Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble

"Eleanor Cory is beginning to be recognized as a mojor force in comtemporary music. This is a little surprising, since she doesn't conform to any...continue...