Kraft, William

Edge (ej) Music for Trombone and Percussion by Doug Bristol, Aaron Dale, William Kraft, Perry Goldstein et al. / Joshua Hauser, trombone; Eric Willie, percussion

1 CD / Mark Custom Recording / 2013-01-29

Works: Doug Bristol: Conversation, for trombone & timpani; Aaron Dale: Passive at One, for tenor trombone, bass trombone & percussion; William Kraft: Encounters IV for Trombone and Percussion; Perry Goldste...
Performers: Hauser, Joshua; Willie, Eric

This duo is a different and interesting combination of trombone and percussion. Hauser, professor of trombone at Tennessee Technological University, has performed extensively in styles...continue...
Recording information: Wattenbarger Auditorium, Tennessee Technological Univer (05/2009)....continue...

Movement In Time: Wright, Rissman, Kraft / Philadelpha Percussion Project

1 CD / Equilibrium / 2012-01-10

Works: Maurice Wright: Grand Duo, for violin & percussion; Movement in Time, for 2 percussionists; Suite for percussion & electronic sound; Nick Rissman: McCoy's Mountain, for 2 marimbas & piano; Scherzo, f...
Performers: Juillet, Chantal; Liuzzi, Don; Nelson, Angela Zator; Oka, Hirono; Orlando, Antony; Rissman, Nick; Taylor, Marshall
Conductors: Liuzzi, Don
Ensemble: Philadelpha Percussion Project

This recording of percussion music is subtitled Philadelphia Percussion Project, Vol. 1 and includes composers and performers with ties to Philadelphia and Temple University. Percussionist...continue...

William Kraft: Vintage Renaissance & Beyond

1 CD / Albany Records / 2010-01-12

Works: William Kraft: Vintage Renaissance and Beyond, for ensemble; Suite for Percussion; Concerto for Four Solo Percussion & Wind Ensemble (transcribed from version for percussion & orchest; Encounters VI ...
Performers: Adkatz, Ted [Percussion]; Campo, Rhett Del [Percussion]; Liuzzi, Don; Manturuk, Matthew [Percussion]; Milstein, Eric [Percussion]; Morrison, Hans; Ridgeway, Jeff [Percussion]; Stucki, Joel [Percussio...
Conductors: Chun, Mary; Epstein, Frank; Battisti, Frank
Ensemble: ; Earplay; New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble

William Kraft (b.1923) has had a long and active career as composer, conductor, timpanist/percussionist and teacher. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California,...continue...

Kraft: Encounters

3 CD / Cambria / 2009-09-29

Works: William Kraft: Soliloquy "Encounters I"; Encounters II for Tuba solo; Encounters III for Trumpet and Percussion; Encounters IV for Trombone and Percussion; Encounters V "In the Morning of the Winter ...
Performers: Bjorkdal, Alison; Booth, William; Bringas, Alfredo; Collins, Zach; Ellis, Tony; Gallardo, Ricardo; Gonzales, Miguel; Jacobson, Peter; Mitchell, Richard [Sax/Flute]; Schneider, John; Tsu, Ming; Vartan...
Conductors: Schmidt, Jeff von der

An Encounter - William Kraft / Sheryl Staples, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-02-01

Works: William Kraft: Concerto a tre, for violin, piano & percussion; Incantation, for guitar; Vintage Renaissance, for orchestra; Encounters XII "The Gabrielic Foray"; Translucences, for piano; In Memoriam...
Performers: Centanni, Barry; Cheng, Gloria; Haladyna, Jeremy; Leventhal, Sharan; Staples, Sheryl; Stevens, Delores
Conductors: Fennell, Mitchell

Born in Chicago, William Kraft has had a long and active career as a composer, conductor, timpanist/percussionist and teacher. He is of that generation of...continue...

William Kraft

1 CD / First Edition / 2005-06-21

Works: William Kraft: Contextures II; Interplay for cello & orchestra; Of Ceremonies, Pageants and Celebrations for orchestra
Performers: Mack, Jonathan; Rawcliffe, Mary; Samples, Warren Jr.
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Polivnick, Paul; Wilkins, Christopher
Ensemble: Alabama Symphony Orchestra; New Albion Ensemble; Utah Symphony Orchestra

This brilliant all-world premiere collection of works by American composer William Kraft is a musical and sonic marvel. 'Contextures', Kraft's stunning percussion-based work, performed by...continue...

Kraft: Kennedy Portrait, etc / Polivnick, Shea, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2003-05-01

Works: William Kraft: Settings from Pierrot Lunaire, for soprano & ensemble; Vintage Renaissance, for orchestra; Symphony of sorrows; A Kennedy Portrait (Contextures III), for narrator & orchestra
Performers: Manning, Jane
Conductors: Polivnick, Paul
Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Kraft: Music for String Quartet and Percussion; Krenek, Huang

1 CD / Cambria / 2002-01-01

Works: William Kraft: Music for string quartet & percussion; Evening Voluntaries, for horn; Ernst Krenek: Sonata for solo viola, Op. 92/3; Joan Huang: Settings for Twelve Chinese Symbols, for viola, horn & ...
Performers: Blankenburg, Gayle; Forrester, Erik; Gottschewski, Agnes; Harris-Bardet, Marilyn; Karlin, Jan; Schmidt, Jeff von der; Sims, Amy

Southwest Chamber Music Composer Portrait Series

12 CD / Cambria / 2002-01-01

Works: Anthony Vazzana: Whispers and Chants, for voice & ensemble; Buccina, suite for horn & piano; Lamentazione; Charles Wuorinen: A Winter's Tale; Trio for Horn, Violin & Piano; A Song to the Lute in Musi...
Performers: Ambroson, Don; Atkinson, James; Blankenburg, Gayle; Boatman, Timm; Bryn-Julson, Phyllis [Soprano Vocal]; Campbell, Nathan [Horn]; Diamond, Theresa; Dickstein, Marcia; Edmondson, Maggie; Ellis, Tony; ...
Conductors: Schmidt, Jeff von der; Mosko, Stephen; Bergamo, John
Ensemble: ; CalArts Gamelan Ensemble; Mentorship Students from John Muir High School, Pa; Southwest Chamber Music Society

Kraft: Songs of Flowers, Bells and Death / Horne, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2001-04-01

Works: William Kraft: Songs of Flowers, Bells and Death, Requiem for Victims of all Wars, for chorus & percussion orchestr; Silent Boughs "To Jackie", for mezzo-soprano & string orchestra; Contextures II
Performers: Busher, Andrew; Eyden, Sarah; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Willis, Alastair; Lewis, Henry; Martinez, Odaline de la
Ensemble: ; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Shepherd School Percussion Ensemble

Ascending to Superlatives / Carolyn Hove, et al

1 CD / Crystal Records / 2000-09-26

Works: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Eclogues, for flute, English horn & guitar, Op. 206; William Kraft: Encounters XI; Paul Turok: Improvisations for English horn, violin & percussion, Op. 67/1; Gerhard Samue...
Performers: Avellano, Camille; Breidenthal, David; Carroll, Raynor; Cheng, Gloria; Chun, Ingrid; Hove, Carolyn; Rothmuller, Daniel; Stolper, Mary; Viapiano, Paul

"Carolyn Hove is truly a remarkable artist...[and] the players that assist Ms Hove are superlative in every way. I must also comment that the program...continue...

Rands, Kraft, et al / New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble

1 CD / Albany Records / 1999-08-01

Works: Bernard Rands: Ceremonial, for syphonic wind band; John Harbison: Olympic Dances, for band; William Kraft: Concerto for Four Solo Percussion & Wind Ensemble (transcribed from version for percussion &...
Conductors:
Ensemble: New England Conservatory Ensemble

Kraft: Timpani Concerto, Piano Concerto, etc / Akins, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 1999-05-01

Works: William Kraft: Concerto for timpani & orchestra; Concerto for piano; Evening Voluntaries, for horn; Veils and Variations, for horn & orchestra
Performers: Akins, Thomas; Golabek, Mona; Schmidt, Jeff von der
Conductors: Polivnick, Paul; Nagano, Kent
Ensemble: Alabama Symphony Orchestra; Berkeley Symphony Orchestra

The Art of Trumpet and Percussion / Sandor, McCutchen

1 CD / ACA Digital / 1998-03-01

Works: Roger Vogel: Temporal Landscape Number Six; Voyages; Alain Beney: Flashes; Anthony Cirone: Sonata no 2 for percussion and trumpet; Donald Erb: Diversion for Two; Stanley Leonard: Fanfare and Allegro;...
Performers: Sandor, Edward

Screamers - Difficult Works for the Horn / Cerminaro, et al

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1997-10-28

Works: Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano in A flat major, Op. 70; William Kraft: Evening Voluntaries, for horn; Franz Joseph Haydn: Divertimento for Horn, Violin and Cello in E flat ma...
Performers: Carno, Zita; Cerminaro, John; Larionoff, Maria; Saks, Toby
Conductors: Mosko, Stephen
Ensemble: California EAR Unit

Premieres - Kuchera-Morin, Phillips, et al / Jill Felber

1 CD / Neuma / 1997-05-01

Works: Mark Phillips: Rain Dance, for flute and tape; William Kraft: Cadeau, for flute & piano; Jeremy Haladyna: En la Estera Del Chilam Balam (On the Mat of the Jaguar Priest), for amplified flute; Zelman ...
Performers: Cheng, Gloria; Felber, Jill; Oberacker, Betty

Percussion by William Kraft / Kraft, Silverman

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1997-02-04

Works: William Kraft: Triangles; Theme and Variations; Momentum; Soliloquy "Encounters I"; Quartet for Percussion
Performers: Biorlin, Frederick; Florio, Daniel; Jones, Brian [percussion]; McNutt, Ian Craig; Raney, Tomas; Silverman, Barry
Conductors: Kraft, William; ; Epstein, Frank
Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic members; Pacific Percussion Ensemble; Percussion Quartet from Tanglewood

Thomas Stevens

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1997-02-04

Works: Verne Reynolds: Signals for trumpet, tuba & brass choir; William Kraft: Encounters III for Trumpet and Percussion; Chou Wen-Chung: Soliloquy of a Bhiksuni for trumpet, percussion & brass ensemble; Ro...
Performers: Atkins, David; Bobo, Roger; Christ, Peter; Greenberg, Roger; Peters, Mitchell; Shanley, Gretel; Stevens, Thomas [Trumpet]
Conductors: Henderson, Robert
Ensemble: Members of the Los Angeles Brass Society (Members)

Divinations - Child, Etler, Korde, et al / Dean Anderson

1 CD / Neuma / 1997-02-01

Works: Alvin Etler: XL + 1; Peter Child: Duo for Flute and Percussion; Matt Marvuglio: Simples of the Moon; William Kraft: Divinations; Shirish Korde: Drowned Woman of the Sky
Performers: Anderson, Dean; Smith, Fenwick

"The abundance of percussion-centered recordings since the compact disc's advent is surely no surprise. The digital medium, with its wide dynamic range and low distortion...continue...

Kraft: Settings from Pierrot Lunaire, etc / Pittman, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 1997-01-01

Works: William Kraft: Settings from Pierrot Lunaire, for soprano & ensemble; Concerto for percussion & chamber ensemble; Episodes; Gallery 4-5, for clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano
Performers: Anderson, Dean; Copes, Ronald; Haladyna, Jeremy; Manning, Jane

Dialogues and Entertainments - Bremer, Kraft, Toch, et al

1 CD / Klavier / 1997-01-01

Works: Carolyn Bremer: Early Light, for orchestra (or wind symphony); William Kraft: Dialogues and Entertainments, for wind ensemble; Ernst Toch: Miniature Overture, for winds; Jack Stamp: Four Maryland Son...
Conductors: Corporon, Eugene

Bobissimo! The Best of Roger Bobo

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1994-07-13

Works: Johann Ernest Galliard: Sonata no 5 in D minor for bassoon & continuo (from a set of 6); J. Ed Barat: Introduction and Dance for Tuba & Piano; Paul Hindemith: Sonata for tuba & piano; Alec Wilder: Ch...
Performers: Bobo, Roger; Grierson, Ralph

The Music of William Kraft

1 CD / Cambria / 1994-01-01

Works: William Kraft: Concerto for Four Percussionists & Orchestra; Contextures; Games; Double trio, for piano, tuba, heavy percussion & prepared piano, amplified guitar, light percussion
Performers: Bobo, Roger; Bunger, Richard; Carno, Zita; Clark, Forrest; DeLancey, Charles; Fox, Stuart; Goodwin, Walter; Kraft, William; Peters, Mitchell; Raney, Tomas
Conductors: Mehta, Zubin;
Ensemble: ; Los Angeles Horn Club

Voices of Change - Welcher, Kraft, LA Smith, RX Rodriguez

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1993-12-29

Works: Daniel Welcher: Evening Scenes, 3 poems of James Agee for tenor voice & ensemble; Robert X. Rodriguez: Meditation for flute, clarinet, cello & percussion; Chronies for bass clarinet & percussion; Son...
Performers: Boatright, Harvey; Boatright, Jo; Hustis, Barbara; Mashburn, Deborah; Powell, Ross; Sperry, Paul [Tenor (Vocal)]
Conductors: Welchor, Dan; Kraft, William
Ensemble: ; Voices of Change