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American Classics - Adler: Of Musique, Poetrie, Art and Love, etc / Melton, Farnum, Wincenc, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-12-16

Works: Samuel Adler: Preludes (3) for piano; Of Musique, Poetrie, Art, and Love, for voice, flute & piano; Four Composer Portraits, for piano; Sonata for flute & piano; Soundings, for alto saxophone & piano...
Performers: Farnum, Elizabeth; Melton, Laura; Sampen, John; Schupp, Roger; Wincenc, Carol
Ensemble: Bowling Green Philharmonia

Professor-emeritus at the Eastman School of Music, Samuel Adler has published more than 400 works and has won many prestigious awards. Wild, colourful and complex,...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; String Quartet No. 2
Performers: Farnum, Elizabeth; Finckel, Chris; Gosling, Stephen; Kopperud, Jean; Macomber, Curtis; Sternberg, Jo-Ann
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...

Charles Wuorinen Series - Vocal Works

1 CD / Albany Records / 2007-11-01

Works: Charles Wuorinen: Two Machine Portraits, for voice & piano; The Long Boat, for voice & English horn; Twang, for mezzo-soprano or soprano & piano; Lightenings VIII; Visible, for voice & violin; Septem...
Performers: Bryn-Julson, Phyllis; Bush, Phillip; Farnum, Elizabeth; Feinberg, Alan; Ferguson, William; Han, June; Leclair, Jackie; MacPherson, Ryan; Nessinger, Mary; Steinberg, Mark; Winn, James
Ensemble: ; Cygnus Ensemble

This series devoted to one of America's most significant composers brings together 12 vocals works, all but one written in the last two decades. Most...continue...

Eric Moe: Siren Songs / Farnum, Moe, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2007-10-01

Works: Eric Moe: Siren Songs, song cycle for voice & piano; And a Warm Hello from the Alien Ant Farm, song cycle for voice & piano; Sonnets to Orpheus, song cycle for voice & piano
Performers: Brandes, Christine; Farnum, Elizabeth; Frankenberry, Rob; Moe, Eric
Ensemble: Columbia University Group for Contemporary Music

Eric Moe has been described by the New York Times as a composer of "music of winning exuberance,: and has received numerous grants and awards....continue...

Adapting to the Times - Charles Wuorinen / James Winn

1 CD / Albany Records / 2006-11-01

Works: Charles Wuorinen: Katz Fugue, for piano; Christes Crosse, for voice & piano; Short Pieces (12), for piano; Self-Similar Waltz, for piano; Album Leaf for Howard Klein; Violin Variations; Album Leaf fo...
Performers: Bowyer, Kevin; Farnum, Elizabeth; Hudson, Benjamin; Macomber, Curtis; Nonken, Marilyn; Schick, Steve; Sherry, Fred; Winn, James

"Thanks to Wuorinen's connections and his credibility as a pianist, the performers here are of the highest quality-many of them were members of Wuorinen's Group...continue...

Burning with the Muse - Cacioppo, Hudson / Kampmeier, et al

2 CD / MSR Classics / 2006-08-01

Works: Curt Cacioppo: Sieben Thiel Lieder; Poems from Paternina; Franciscan Prayer; Joseph Hudson: Four Rilke Songs; Three Campion Songs; I Have Longed to Move Away
Performers: Bilger, David [trumpet]; Cacioppo, Curt; Cassolas, Constantine; Farnum, Elizabeth; Gordon, Joshua; Hart, Steven; Hudson, Benjamin; Inger, Leah; Kampmeier, Margaret A.; Martin, Lois; Orlando, Antony; ...

Curt Cacioppo is recognized as a composer, pianist and educator, and for his interests in Native American studies and music. He has written for the...continue...

Bell: Collection of Reflections / North/South Ensemble

1 CD / North/South / 2005-10-01

Works: Elizabeth Bell: Loss-Songs, for soprano & piano; Fantasy-Sonata, for solo cello; River Fantasy, for ensemble; Piano Sonata No. 2; Soliloquy, for solo cello
Performers: Drake, Stephen; Farnum, Elizabeth; Lifchitz, Max
Ensemble: North/South Consonance Ensemble

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
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...

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

Mélange / Elizabeth Farnum

1 CD / North/South / 2004-04-01

Works: Silvestre Revueltas: Tres Piezas, pieces (3) for violin & piano; Carlos Chávez: Sonatina for violin & piano; Ricardo Tacuchian: Cono Sur, for solo xylophone; Transparências, for vibraphone ...
Performers: Albagli, Richard; Dejean, Gilbert; Farnum, Elizabeth; Farnum, Elizabeth Henreckson; Goldsmith, Richard; Hansen, Lisa; Lifchitz, Max; Reinhold, Sheila

Personnel: Elizabeth Henreckson Farnum (soprano); Sheila Reinhold (violin); Lisa Hansen (flute); Richard Goldsmith (clarinet); Gilbert Dejean (bassoon); Max Lifchitz (piano); Richard Albagli (vibrapho...continue...

W. Peterson: Peregrinations, etc / Blustine, Winn, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2003-10-01

Works: Wayne Peterson: Peregrinations, for clarinet; Diatribe, for violin & piano; Colloquy, for flute & harp; Ceremony after a fire raid, for soprano & piano; Duo, for violin & piano; String Quartet No. 1
Performers: Blustine, Allen; Brody, Tod; Farnum, Elizabeth; Gottlieb, Karen; Macomber, Curtis; Winn, James
Ensemble: Columbia University Group for Contemporary Music

John Zorn: Chimeras

1 CD / Tzadik / 2003-04-22

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...

Carnaval/Carnival - Music from Brazil and the US / Farnum

1 CD / North/South / 2003-02-01

Works: Ricardo Tacuchian: Toccata Urbana; Wayne Peterson: Janus; Christopher James: In frostiger Nacht; Raoul Pleskow: Chamber Setting with Voice; Gilberto A. G. Mendes: Ulysses in Copacabana Surfing with J...
Performers: Farnum, Elizabeth
Ensemble: North/South Chamber Orchestra

Sorabji: The Complete Songs for Soprano / Farnum, Kampmeier

1 CD / Centaur / 2003-01-01

Works: Kaikhosru Sorabji: The Poplars, Op. 2 no 1; L'heure exquise, Op. 2 no 2; Vocalise pour soprano fioriturata, Op. 2 no 3; Chrysilla, Op. 1 no 1; Roses du soir, Op. 1 no 2; Apparition, Op. 4 no 3; Hymne...
Performers: Farnum, Elizabeth; Kampmeier, Margaret

Dickman: Who Says Words, etc / Thomas Buckner, et al

1 CD / New World / 1999-11-09

Works: Stephen Dickman: The Music of Eric Zann; Indian Wells; Rabbi Nathan's Prayer; Four for Tom; Who Says Words
Performers: Buckner, Thomas; Farnum, Elizabeth; Finckel, Michael; Kitzis, Gregor; Kubera, Joseph