Seeger, Ruth Crawford

Scenes from a New Music Séance - works by Cowell, Crawford, Antheil, Hovhaness et al. / Kate Stenberg, violin; Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano

1 CD / Other Minds Music / 2012-10-30

Works: Ronald Bruce Smith: Tombeau for violin & piano; Josef Matthias Hauer: Fünf Stücke für Violine und Klavier, Op. 41; Henry Cowell: Sonata for Violin; Charles Amirkhanian: Rippling the La...
Performers: Amirkhanian, Charles; Stenberg, Kate; Zimmermann, Eva-Maria

American Record Guide, March / April 2013
Henry Cowell's 'Ballade' is tonal, pastoral, and simple. Rippling the Lamp by Charles Amirkhanian is a plaintive piece for...continue...
Recording information: Skywalker Soudn, Nicasio, CA (10/2010-12/2010); Studio of Amy X Neuburg, Oakland, California (10/2010-12/2010); Skywalker Soudn, Nicasio, CA (2010-01-12_2010-01-13&2010-); Studi...continue...

Declarations - Music Between the Wars / Pacifica Quartet

1 CD / Cedille / 2007-03-13

Works: Leos Janácek: Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Listy duverné," "Intimate Letters"), JW 7/13; Ruth Crawford Seeger: Quartet for Strings 1931; Paul Hindemith: Quartet for Strings no 4, Op. 22

"Like so many recent Cedille releases, the repertoire is so intelligently chosen (all three works are roughly contemporaneous, dating from 1922-31), so interestingly varied, and...continue...

Works for Violin - Cowell, Antheil, Mahler, et al / Abe,

1 CD / New World / 2006-08-01

Works: Henry Cowell: Sonata for violin & piano, HC 705; Stefan Wolpe: Second Piece for Violin Alone, C. 165; George Antheil: Sonata, for violin, piano & drums no 2, W. 131; Johanna Beyer: Suite for violin &...
Performers: Abe, Miwako; Harvey, Michael Kieran

Henry Cowell (1897-1965), in the introduction to the first edition on his prophetic "symposium" titled American Composers on American Music (1933), described features of contemporary...continue...

American Classics - A Continuum Portrait Vol 6 - Seeger

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-07-19

Works: Ruth Crawford Seeger: Suite no 1, for five wind instruments & piano; Sonata for violin & piano; Two Ricercare, for voice and piano; Prelude no 9 "Tranquillo"; Piano Study in Mixed Accents, for piano;...
Performers: Heineman, Susan; Hughes, Nan; Kitsopoulos, Maria; Rosenfeld, Jayn; Sachs, Joel; Seltzer, Cheryl; Wu, Mia
Conductors: Sachs, Joel
Ensemble: Continuum

Ruth Crawford Seeger was a pioneering figure of the American modernist movement. Her earlier mature works, such as the 'Sonata for Violin & Piano', show...continue...

SCENE American Ultramodernists / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2005-06-21

Works: Dane Rudhyar: Tetragram no 8, "Primavera", for piano; Ruth Crawford Seeger: Prelude no 9 "Tranquillo"; Carl Ruggles: Angels; Evocations, chants (4) for piano; Organum; Henry Cowell: Piece (Lento) for...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

The World of Crawford-Seeger / Jenny Lin, Timothy Jones

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2002-01-01

Works: Ruth Crawford Seeger: Little Waltz, for piano; Little Lullaby, for piano; Jumping the Rope, for piano; Caprice, for piano; Whirligig, for piano; Mr. Crow and Miss Wren Go for a Walk, for piano ("a li...
Performers: Lin, Jenny [Piano]

"[Jenny] Lin, whose previous CD offered Western music influenced by China, plays with a piercing clarity that is exactly in touch with this music." -...continue...

Crawford: 9 Preludes, Study in Mixed Accents; Beyer /Cahill

1 CD / New Albion / 2001-06-26

Works: Ruth Crawford Seeger: Prelude no 9 "Tranquillo"; Piano Study in Mixed Accents, for piano; Johanna Beyer: Dissonant Counterpoint, suite for piano; Gebrauchs-Musik, suite for piano
Performers: Cahill, Sarah

Voices from Elysium - Copland, Cowell, Crawford-Seeger, etc

1 CD / New World / 1998-09-01

Works: Aaron Copland: As it fell upon a day, song for soprano, flute & clarinet; Miriam Gideon: Voices From Elysium, for voice & ensemble, no 1, The Swallow; Voices From Elysium, for voice & ensemble, no 2,...
Performers: Bryn-Julson, Phyllis [Soprano Vocal]; Cassolas, Constantine; Emelianoff, Andre; Flax, Laura; Lester, Joel; Morgan, Beverly; Spencer, Patricia; Sperry, Paul [Tenor (Vocal)]; Tower, Joan
Conductors: ; Dunkel, Paul; Dunkel, Paul Lustig
Ensemble: ; Da Capo Chamber Players; Members of the Speculum Musicae (Members)

Personnel: Paul Sperry (tenor saxophone).

What joins this collection of well- and lesser-known 20th century American composers is the form in which they're represented, labeled conveniently if...continue...

Bauer, Seeger: Chamber Music / Eskin, Steinhardt, Charleston

1 CD / Albany Records / 1998-08-01

Works: Marion Bauer: From the New Hampshire Woods, Op. 12; Turbulence for viola & piano, Op. 17/2; Sonata for viola & piano, Op. 22; Piano Pieces (4), Op. 21; Ruth Crawford Seeger: Kaleidoscopic Changes on ...
Performers: Eskin, Virginia; Steinhardt, Arnold

Quartet Romantic - Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, et al

1 CD / New World / 1998-04-01

Works: Wallingford Riegger: Wind Quintet, Op. 51; Henry Cowell: Quartet Romantic, for 2 flutes, violin & viola, HC 223; Paragraphs (7), trio for 2 violins (or violin & viola) & cello, HC 408; Ruth Crawford ...
Performers: Blackwell, Virgil; Dunkel, Paul Lustig; Graham, John; Karis, Aleck; Martin, Lois; Morelli, Frank [Bassoon]; Palma-Nidel, Susan; Quan, Linda; Rose, Stewart; Schulte, Rolf; Shapiro, Madeleine; Taylor, ...

The generation of American composers who came of age in the 1920s are now generally acknowledged as seminal figures in the creation of a trrly...continue...

Premiere Performances by Boston Musica Viva

1 CD / Delos / 1987-01-01

Works: Ruth Crawford Seeger: Music for Small Orchestra; Thea Musgrave: Chamber concerto No 2, for winds, strings & piano; Joyce Mekeel: Planh, for violin solo; Corridors of Dream
Performers: Bravo, Donald; Brittan, Paul; Cirillo, Nancy; Coppock, Bruce; Curtis, Jan; Dee, Norman; Esch, Joan; Goldman, Maynard; Humeston, Jay; Markou, Kypros; Pittman, Richard; Price-Glynn, Cynthia; Robison, P...
Conductors: Pittman, Richard
Ensemble: Boston Musica Viva