Hersch, Michael

Neomonology - works by Armando Bayolo, David Smooke and Michael Hersch / Jeffrey Weisner, double bass

1 CD / Innova / 2012-09-25

Works: Armando Bayolo: Mix Tape, for double bass; David Smooke: Introspection #11,072, for double bass; Michael Hersch: Caelum Dedecoratum, for double bass

On his first solo album, Neomonology, double bass hero Jeffrey Weisner leaves well-traveled musical paths behind, fearlessly tackling three profound and substantial new pieces for...continue...
Recording information: Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Balt....continue...

Michael Hersch: The Wreckage of Flowers

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2010-11-22

Works: Michael Hersch: Fourteen Pieces after texts of Primo Levi, for unaccompanied violin; The Wreckage of Flowers; twenty-one movements after poetry and prose of Czeslaw Milosz, for violin &; Five Fragmen...
Performers: Cuckson, Miranda; McMillen, Blair

Michael Hersch, who has been described by London's Financial Times as "one of the most fertile musical minds to emerge in the U.S. over the...continue...
Recording information: Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, The Peabody Institute....continue...

Michael Hersch: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-11-24

Works: Michael Hersch: Sonata no 1 for unaccompanied cello; Sonata for unaccompanied cello no 2
Performers: Gaisford, Daniel

For those string players aware of them, Michael Hersch's works for unaccompanied string instruments have quietly loomed large. This disc is the first in a...continue...

Hersch: The Vanishing Pavilions

2 CD / Musical Concepts / 2007-10-09

Works: Michael Hersch: The Vanishing Pavilions
Performers: Hersch, Michael

American Classics - Michael Hersch: Symphonies 1 & 2, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-11-21

Works: Michael Hersch: Symphony no 2; Fracta, for orchestra; Symphony no 1; Arraché, for orchestra
Conductors: Alsop, Marin
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Championed by distinguished conductors such as Marin Alsop and Mariss Jansons, since his mid-20s, Michael Hersch's music has been performed by leading orchestras and concert...continue...

American Orchestral Works - Kolb, Corigliano, etc / Kalmar

1 CD / Cedille / 2006-06-30

Works: Barbara Kolb: All in Good Time, for orchestra; Aaron Jay Kernis: Sarabanda in Memoriam, for orchestra; Michael Hersch: Ashes of Memory, for orchestra; John Corigliano: Summer Fanfare (Echoes of Forgo...
Conductors: Kalmar, Carlos
Ensemble: Grant Park Orchestra

A world premiere recording of American orchestral works with the Grant Park Orchestra (ensemble in residence for Chicago's summer Grant Park Music Festival) and principal...continue...

Hersch, Josquin, Rihm, Feldman / Hersch, Gaisford

1 CD / Artemis / 2004-10-19

Works: Josquin Desprez: Mille regretz, song for 4 parts; De profundis, motet for 5 parts; Michael Hersch: Milosz Fragments, for piano; Sonata for unaccompanied cello no 2; Morton Feldman: Piano Piece (to Ph...
Performers: Gaisford, Daniel; Hersch, Michael

Michael Hersch - Chamber Music

1 CD / Artemis / 2004-02-10

Works: Michael Hersch: Recordatio, for piano; Pieces (2) for piano (transcription of Piano Concerto); After Hölderlin's Hälfte des Lebens, version for viola & cello; Octet, for 4 violins, 2 violas...
Performers: Cappone, Alessandro; Carruzzo, Madeleine; Dodds, Stanley; Hersch, Michael; Hunter, Matthew; Ivic, Alexsandar; Kussner, Walter; Quandt, Ludwig; Riniker, David