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David Shifrin & Friends - works by Copland, Hartke, Kernis and Zwilich / Chamber Music Northwest

1 CD / Delos / 2012-07-31

Works: Aaron Copland: Sextet, for clarinet, piano & string quartet (arr. of Symphony no 2); Stephen Hartke: The Horse with the Lavender Eye, episodes (4) for violin, clarinet & piano; Aaron Jay Kernis: Trio...
Performers: Arm, Theodore; Ching, Daniel; Cho, Catherine; Cox, John [Horn]; DePonte, Niel; Feves, Julie; Gindele, Joshua; Heard, Cornelia; Kavafian, Ani; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Kuhns, Sally Nelson; Largess, Joh...
Conductors: ; Wilson, Ransom
Ensemble: ; Chamber Music Northwest

'... a score truly inspired by a tragic event (9/11) and one that is likely to transcend it.' - Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine...continue...

David Keberle: Caught In Time - chamber music with clarinet, flute, piano & strings

1 CD / Innova / 2012-06-26

Works: David Keberle: Soundings 2, for flute & flute choir; Four to Go, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion; Percorsi d'anima, for violin, clarinet, cello & piano; Incroci, for clarinet &...
Performers: Almarza, Alberto; Evans, Paul; Frankenberry, Rob; Howell, Jack; Keberle, David; Moe, Eric [Composer]; O'Boyle, Sarah; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Ojeda, Rodrigo; Premo, David
Conductors: ; Meyer, Daniel
Ensemble: ; Pittsburgh Flute Club Flute Choir; Trio Johannes

Caught in Time captures moments in clarinetist/composer David Keberle's work from 1997 to 2007 upon his return from seventeen years in Rome. These six eloquent...continue...

Barbara White: My Barn Having Burned to the Ground, I Can Now See the Moon / Jennifer & Laura Frautschi

1 CD / Albany Records / 2011-10-11

Works: Barbara White: Five Elements, for string quartet & piano; Enough Rope, for voice & flute; The Wound and the Eye, for piano; My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon, for flute, cla...
Performers: Blacklow, John; Boldin, Deborah; Frautschi, Jennifer; Frautschi, Laura; Kaye, Alan; Learman, Sabrina; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Panner, Daniel; Shao, Sophie

Barbara White's music subverts our presumptions and compels us to alter the way we listen, to discard tired preconceptions and generic expectations. She projects a...continue...
Recording information: Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University....continue...

John Zorn: Chimeras

1 CD / Tzadik / 2010-02-23

Works: John Zorn: Chimeras I-XII
Performers: Choi, Jennifer; Davidson, Ilana; Drury, Stephen; Farnum, Elizabeth; Lowenstern, Michael; Lubman, Bradley; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Sherry, Fred; Winant, William

Newly revised, this is the definitive version of a Zorn masterpiece! Loosely inspired by the remarkable worlds of Henry Darger, Lewis Carroll and Unica Zurn,...continue...

Korf: Presences from aforetime, Symphony no 3, etc / Rothman, Ingliss, Oldfather, et al

1 CD / Bridge / 2009-04-14

Works: Anthony Korf: Presences from Aforetime, for chamber ensemble; Miniatures (6), for flute & piano; Movements (3), for clarinet; Symphony no 3
Performers: Fader, Oren; Hesselink, Greg; Ingliss, Robert; Kay, Alan R.; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Oldfather, Christopher [Piano]; Shames, Stacey
Conductors: Korf, Anthony; Rothman, George
Ensemble: ; Riverside Symphony

The major work on this recording is the most recent - Anthony Korf's impressive Symphony No. 3. The composer writes: "The two movements, roughly equal...continue...

Neikrug: Through Roses / Zukerman, Rubinstein, et al

1 CD / Koch International / 2008-11-24

Works: Marc Neikrug: Through Roses, for speaker and 8 solo instruments
Performers: Denk, Jeremy; Forsyth, Amanda [Cello]; Levy, Todd; Marks, Jethro; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Tolen, David; Wang, Liang; Zukerman, Pinchas
Conductors: Neikrug, Marc

'Through Roses' is a theatrical concert work, which draws on the musical memories of a Holocaust survivor who is struggling to deal with his memories...continue...

Richard Festinger: Peripeteia, Triptych, etc / Haselböck, Henschel

1 CD / Bridge / 2008-02-01

Works: Richard Festinger: Peripeteia, for clarinet, violin & cello; Variations for piano; Triptych, for flute; Construction en metal et bois, for piano & persuccion; After Blue, for flute, piccolo, clarinet...
Performers: Ferrari, John; Hesselink, Greg; Kampmeier, Margaret A.; Kay, Alan R.; Lim, Sunghae Anna; O'Connor, Tara Helen
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Ensemble: New Millennium Ensemble

Richard Festinger studied composition at the University of California in Berkeley with Andrew Imbrie. Before turning to composing, he led his own groups as a...continue...

From the Philip Glass Recording Archive Vol 1

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2007-05-08

Works: Philip Glass: The Sound of a Voice, suite from the incidental music; In the Summer House, incidental music (Bowles)
Performers: Bennion-Feeney, Krista; Chang, Lynn; Cook, Gary; Man, Wu; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Rejto, Peter; Sher, Richard

Theater Music Volume 1 features two ravishingly beautiful works from the world of theater: the instrumental suite from Glass' 2003 chamber opera The Sound of...continue...

TIC - Common Sense Composers' Collective - Mellits, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2007-02-01

Works: Marc Mellits: Spam; Belinda Reynolds: coming around...; Edward Harsh: not a single night's sky; Randall Woolf: Alternative Music, for chamber ensemble; Dan Becker: S.T.I.C.; Carolyn Yarnell: Lapis la...
Performers: Ferrari, John; Gythfeldt, Marianne; Hesselink, Greg; Kampmeier, Margaret A.; Lim, Sunghae Anna; O'Connor, Tara Helen
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Ensemble: New Millennium Ensemble; The Millennium

It's been nearly a decade since the music of the Common Sense Composers' Collective first surfaced on CD. Their first disc challenged the rarified asceticism...continue...
Personnel: Anna Lim (violin); Tara Helen O'Connor (flute); Marianne Gythfeldt (clarinet); John Ferrari (percussion).

Recording information: Perfoming Arts Center, Recital Hall C, SUNY Purchase,...continue...

Music of Akemi Naito

1 CD / Bridge / 2006-09-01

Works: Akemi Naito: Memory of the Woods, for marimba; Voyage, for flute, viola & harp; Sanctuary, for accordion; Mindscape; Months
Performers: Han, June; Jacomucci, Claudio; Moersch, William; O'Connor, Tara Helen; O'Neill, Richard
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Ensemble: Cygnus Ensemble

Akemi Naito's music is the art of a sound-poet - a sensitive shaper of images that touch upon memory, distance and a deep sense of...continue...

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

Ayre

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2005-09-27

Works: Osvaldo Golijov: Ayre, for voice & chamber ensemble; Luciano Berio: Folk Songs, arranged for soprano & 7 instruments (or orchestra)
Performers: Dresser, Mark; Flower, Jeremy; Friedlander, Erik; Gottlieb, Gordon; Haddad, Jamey; Kibbey, Bridget; Krakauer, David; Ljova; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Palmer, Todd; Poland, Eric; Santaolalla, Gustavo; Som...
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Ensemble: Andalucian Dogs

"Golijov's music is at once intellectually lively and extremely accessible, emotionally direct and colorfully warm. A singer of extraordinary versatility, Upshaw rewards Golijov with a...continue...
The recording of Osvaldo Golijov's "Ayre" on this album was nominated for the 2006 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Contemporary Composition."...continue...

Charles Wuorinen - On Alligators

1 CD / Tzadik / 2005-02-22

Works: Charles Wuorinen: On Alligators, for flute/piccolo, oboe, clairnet, bassoon & string quartet; Quartet for Strings no 4; Natural Fantasy for organ; Concerto for piano & orchestra, No 3; Concerto for p...
Performers: Bowyer, Kevin; Frautschi, Jennifer; Geem, Jack van; Kolkay, Peter; Lim, Sunghae Anna; Neidich, Charles; O'Connor, Tara Helen; O'Neill, Richard; Ohlsson, Garrick; Reuter, Gerard; Rioth, Doug; Sherry, ...
Conductors: Wuorinen, Charles; Blomstedt, Herbert
Ensemble: ; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Personnel: Douglas Rioth (harp); Jennifer Frautschi (violin); Misha Amory, Richard O'Neill (viola); Fred Sherry , Nina Lee (cello); Tara Helen O'Connor (flute, piccolo); Charles Neidich (clarinet); Ge...continue...

Zorn: Rituals

1 CD / Tzadik / 2005-02-22

Works: John Zorn: Rituals
Performers: Choi, Jennifer; Drury, Stephen; Gardner, Heather [soprano]; Kolkay, Peter; Muroki, Kurt; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Pugh, Jim; Pugliese, James; Sherry, Fred; Winant, William
Conductors: Lubman, Bradley

Earthshine - Music by Beata Moon

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2004-11-02

Works: Beata Moon: Movement; Illusions, for marimba; Nursery, for piano; Guernica; Quartet for Strings ("Homage to Béla"); 1, 2, 3, for alto saxophone; Vignettes for electric guitar & electric piano;...
Performers: Bahn, Lina; Borg, Julianne; Ellsworth, Ann; Ford, Nmon; Ford-Livene, Nmon; Gallagher, Kevin R.; Gythfeldt, Marianne; Jinsoo Lim, Michael; Koepke, Laura; Leclair, Jacqueline; Moon, Beata; Nakura, Mako...
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Ensemble: Beata Moon; Corigliano Quartet

Personnel: Beata Moon (piano, electric piano); Nmon Ford (baritone); Tara Helen O'Connor (flute); Marianne Gythfeldt (clarinet); Jacqueline Leclair (oboe); Laura Koepke (bassoon); Brian Sacawa (alto s...continue...

Golijov: Yiddishbbuk / Palmer, St. Lawrence String Quartet

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2002-06-04

Works: Osvaldo Golijov: Last Round, for 2 string quartets & double bass; Lullaby and Doina, for flute, clarinet, string quartet & double bass; Yiddishbbuk, insriptions for string quartet; Dreams and Prayers...
Performers: Dresser, Mark; Nutall, Geoff; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Palmer, Todd; Shiffman, Barry

Ford - Icarus / Rohan Smith, Lisa Moore, Daryl Pratt, et al

1 CD / Tall Poppies / 2002-02-01

Works: Andrew Ford: Hymn to the Sun; Like Icarus Ascending; Chamber Concerto no 3 "In Constant Flight"; Parabola; Icarus Drowning
Performers: Bidlack, Molly; Giles, Alice; Gordon, Joshua; Gruesser, Eva; Jarvis, Peter; Jenkin, Peter; Jones, Bronwen; Lander, Deborah; Moore, Lisa; Moore, Richard; O'Connor, Tara Helen; Pratt, Daryl; Robinson, ...
Conductors: Ford, Andrew
Ensemble: Kowmung Music Festival Ensemble; Terra Australis Incognita