Platt, Russell

Five Borough Songbook - 20 New Songs by 20 Composers celebrating New York

2 CD / GPR Records / 2013-03-26

Works: Ricky Ian Gordon: O City of Ships, for 2 voices & piano; Glen Roven: F from DUMBO, for voice & piano; Lisa Bielawa: Breakfast in New York, for 4 voices & violin; Martin Hennessy: The City's Love, for...
Performers: Abreu, Javier; Asselin, Mireille; Bagwell, Thomas; Blumberg, Jesse; Bragle, Margaret [Mezzo-soprano]; Dispensa, Scott; Dueck, Jocelyn; Gaissert, Blythe; Guth, Martha; Jameson, Keith [Tenor vocals]; M...

For its fifth anniversary internationally renowned Five Borough Music Festival commissioned twenty prominent American composers to compose original art songs about New York City. The...continue...
Recording information: Sound Associates (10/2011-11/2011)....continue...

Portraits & Elegies

1 CD / Innova / 2010-04-27

Works: Philip Lasser: Vocalise, for violin & piano; Berceuse Fantasque, for violin & piano; Ned Rorem: Day Music; Night Music; Peter Lieberson: Elegy, for violin & piano; Russell Platt: Autumn Music, for vi...
Performers: Almond, Frank; Zeger, Brian

"Almond, who plays here on the ex-Lipinksi Stradivari violin (the instrument's first commercial recording), produces an amazingly sweet, rich tone even in the highest registers...continue...
Recording information: Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (08/20/2008-08/22/2008)....continue...

Cosmic & Domestic Matters - C. Berg, D. Hagen, R. Platt / Mirror Visions Ensemble

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-06-10

Works: Christopher Berg: Lincoln Letters, for 2 voices, flute & piano; Daron Hagen: Dear Youth, song cycle on Civil War letters for soprano, flute & piano; Russell Platt: From Noon to Starry Night, cantata ...
Performers: Darling, Alan; Kampmeier, Margaret A.; Lalli, Richard; Malawista, Tobe; Murphree, Scott; Sheinbaum, Jody; Shelly, Jane
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Ensemble: The Mirror Visions Ensemble

Since its inception the Mirror Visions Ensemble has explored song repertoire from a number of angles. The initial interest was the back-to-back performance of multiple...continue...