Sessions, Roger

Lines: Works for cello & piano by Bloch, Sessions, Lutoslawski, Stucky, Boulanger / Stinson, cello

1 CD / Albany Records / 2011-07-12

Works: Ernest Bloch: Suite no 3 for solo cello; Roger Sessions: Pieces (6) for cello; John Harbison: Suite for cello; Witold Lutoslawski: Metamorphoses for 'cello and piano; Steven Stucky: Studi su un nome;...
Performers: Morkoski, Molly; Stinson, Caroline

Lines, the title of this imaginative program, beguilingly performed, links pupils to teachers in three principal strands: Bloch-Sessions-Harbison; Lutoslawski-Stucky-Waggoner and Weesner; and Boulange...continue...
Recording information: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York city (2009-10-22&2009-10-23&2009-)....continue...

American Classics - American Piano Sonatas Vol 2 - Griffes, Ives, Sessions / Lawson

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-11-24

Works: Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano Sonata, A. 85; Roger Sessions: Second Sonata for piano; Charles Ives: Sonata for Piano no 1
Performers: Lawson, Peter

American in Rome - Beaser, Barber, Thompson, etc / Six for Five Wind Quintet

4 CD / Bridge / 2008-10-14

Works: Robert Beaser: Four Dickinson Songs, for soprano & piano; Samuel Barber: In the Dark Pinewood; Beggar's Song; Of that so sweet imprisonment; Songs (3), Op. 10; Randall Thompson: Siciliano, for barito...
Performers: Ahlbeck, Laura; Akahoshi, Ole; Arnold, Tony [Soprano Vocal]; Bagg, Jonathan; Baker, James; Berman, Donald; Druckman, Daniel; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Leisenring, John; Lim, Sunghae Anna; Macomber, Cur...
Conductors: Milarsky, Jeffrey; Yoo, Scott; ; Hoose, David
Ensemble: ; Collage Music Ensemble; Curiously Strong Wind Quintet; Opus One Piano Quartet; Trio Solisti

This four-disc collection contains works by 37 composers who composed these pieces while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. The earliest work dates...continue...

Sessions: Symphonies 6, 7 & 9 / Davies, American Composers Orchestra

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2008-06-10

Works: Roger Sessions: Symphony no 6; Symphony no 7; Symphony no 9
Conductors: Davies, Dennis R.
Ensemble: American Composers Orchestra

20th Century Duos for Violin and Cello / Gil Morgenstern, Darrett Adkins

1 CD / Engine Company Records / 2008-03-18

Works: Zoltán Kodály: Duo for violin & cello, Op. 7; Roger Sessions: Duo for violin & cello; Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Performers: Adkins, Darrett; Morgenstern, Gil

Sessions, Shapey: Piano Music / David Holzman, et al

1 CD / Bridge / 2007-12-01

Works: Roger Sessions: Sonata for Piano no 1; Sonata for piano ("Kennedy Sonata" ), no 3; Ralph Shapey: Mutations, for piano; Mutations II, for piano; Variations (21) for piano
Performers: Holzman, David

David Holzman surely stands among the greatest living exponents of 20-century American Music. The 58 year old New York pianist's last CD (Music of Wolpe)...continue...

Piano Music in America, 1900-1945 / Works by Antheil, Barber, Carpenter, Copland, Cowell / Roger Shields, piano

3 CD / Vox Classical / 2007-10-09

Works: Edward MacDowell: Woodland Sketches (10) for piano, Op. 51; Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Roman Sketches (4), suite for piano, Op. 7; George Antheil: The Airplane Sonata, for piano (a.k.a. "Second Sonat...
Performers: Shields, Roger

Sessions: Violin Concerto; Bolle: Ritual / Ole Bohn, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2007-06-01

Works: Roger Sessions: Concerto for Violin; James Bolle: Ritual, for violin & orchestra
Performers: Bohn, Ole
Conductors: Bolle, James
Ensemble: Monadnock Festival Orchestra

Receiving its first commercial recording in 40 years, Sessions'work is a masterpiece, worthy of comparison to the Alban Berg Concerto. Bolle describes his work as...continue...

From the New World - Cage, Cowell, Druckman, Feldman, Ives

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2006-06-13

Works: Charles Ives: At the River; Ilmenau; Charlie Rutlage; Henry Cowell: Dynamic Motion, for piano, HC 213/1; The Banshee, for piano strings, HC 405; John Cage: Dream; Jacob Druckman: Valentine for double...
Performers: Bongelli, Fausto; Dillon, Francesco; Fels, Lucas; Riley, Terry [Composer]; Scodanibbio, Stefano; Soderberg, Peter; Svoboda, Michael

American Classics - Sessions: Quartet, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-05-16

Works: Roger Sessions: Quintet for 2 violins, 2 violas & cello; Canons for string quartet, "To the Memory of Igor Stravinsky"; Pieces (6) for cello; Quartet for Strings no 1 in E minor
Performers: Douglass, Jenny; Gordon, Joshua [Cello]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Columbia University Group for Contemporary Music

Roger Sessions' influence as a teacher of American composers compares favorably with that of Schoenberg, Hindemith, and Boulanger. In his works he evolved a remarkably...continue...

Roger Sessions: Works for Piano / Barry David Salwen

1 CD / Albany Records / 2005-11-01

Works: Roger Sessions: Sonata for Piano no 1; From My Diary for piano; Second Sonata for piano; Pieces (5) for piano; Waltz for piano; Sonata for piano ("Kennedy Sonata" ), no 3
Performers: Salwen, Barry David

Roger Sessions music is not for the casual listener of someone just getting into modern music. If you start with one of his later symphonies,...continue...

James Levine - Documents of the Munich Years

12 CD / Oehms / 2005-06-24

Works: Arnold Schoenberg: Gurrelieder; Elliott Carter: Variations for Orchestra; Charles Wuorinen: Grand Bamboula; Roger Sessions: Concerto for Piano; Robert Di Domenica: Symphony; Gustav Mahler: Symphony n...
Performers: Dilcheva, Kremena; Haefliger, Ernst; Heppner, Ben; Kisfaludy, Eörs; Meier, Waltraud; Morris, James; Polenzani, Matthew; Schulte, Eike Wilm; Spangenberg, Martin; Svendén, Birgitta; Taub, R...
Conductors: Levine, James
Ensemble: Bamberg Symphony Chorus; Munich Philharmonic Choir; Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Copland, Sessions, Perle / Leon Botstein

1 CD / New World / 2005-05-01

Works: Aaron Copland: Inscape; Roger Sessions: Symphony no 8; George Perle: Transcendental Modulations, for orchestra; Bernard Rands: ...where the murmurs die..., for orchestra
Conductors: Botstein, Leon
Ensemble: American Symphony Orchestra

Documents of the Munich Years, Vol. 2

1 CD / Oehms / 2004-12-14

Works: Recorded Sound: Applause; Elliott Carter: Variations for Orchestra; Charles Wuorinen: Grand Bamboula for string orchestra; Roger Sessions: Piano Concerto; Robert DiDomenica: Symphony
Performers: Taub, Robert
Conductors: Levine, James

New Waltzes for Piano / Eric Moe

1 CD / Albany Records / 2004-11-01

Works: Hayes Biggs: Susan's Waltz (Valse sentimentale), for piano; Wayne Peterson: Valse Subliminale, for piano; Robert Helps: Valse Mirage for piano; Andrew Imbrie: Waltz for piano, for piano; Eric Moe: Pu...
Performers: Moe, Eric [Composer]

Roger Sessions

1 CD / First Edition / 2003-09-01

Works: Roger Sessions: Divertimento for orchestra; Idyll of Theocritus, for soprano & orchestra
Performers: Nossaman, Audrey
Conductors: Leonard, Peter; Whitney, Robert
Ensemble: Louisville Orchestra

Over his 75 years of composition, Roger Sessions remained an umcompromising contemporary craftsman. These 1950s works, the stunning Louisville-commissioned and widely praised 'Idyll of Theocritus',...continue...

Pro Arte Quartet with Samuel Rhodes

1 CD / Albany Records / 2003-05-01

Works: Roger Sessions: Quintet for 2 violins, 2 violas & cello; Samuel Rhodes: Quintet for 2 violins, 2 violas & cello; Walter Mays: Quartet for Strings in G minor
Performers: Rhodes, Samuel [Viola]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Pro Arte String Quartet

"The Pro Arte play all of this very demanding music with perfect sympathy and superb musicanship, and Albany's sound is ideal. Anyone who cares about...continue...

Childhood Memories - Music for Younger Pianists / Arzruni

1 CD / New World / 2002-09-01

Works: Amy Beach: Children's Carnival, for piano, Op. 25; Robert Starer: Sketches in Color, for piano Sets 1 & 2; Ned Rorem: A Quiet Afternoon, pieces for piano; Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee: Toccatinas (3) for...
Performers: Arzruni, Sahan

"To Amy Beach and Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, writing for young people is a matter of pedagogy. For others as different as the neo-Romantic Rorem or...continue...

Panufnik: Symphony no 8; Sessions / Ozawa, Boston SO

1 CD / Hyperion / 2002-07-01

Works: Andrzej Panufnik: Symphony no 8 ("Sinfonia Votiva"); Roger Sessions: Concerto for Orchestra
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

"Absolutely the finest orchestral recording ever heard in any format." -Fanfare...continue...

Copland: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson; Rorem / Curtin

1 CD / Video Artists International / 2001-02-20

Works: Aaron Copland: Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as "Poems (8) of Emil; Ned Rorem: The Tulip Tree, for voice & piano; The Midnight Sun, for voice & piano;...
Performers: Copland, Aaron; Curtin, Phyllis; Helps, Robert; Rorem, Ned

Sessions: Sonatas for Piano no 2 & 3; Martino: Fantasies

1 CD / New World / 1998-10-01

Works: Roger Sessions: Second Sonata for piano; Sonata for piano ("Kennedy Sonata" ), no 3; Donald Martino: Fantasies and Impromptus, for solo piano
Performers: Helps, Robert; Hodgkinson, Randall

Dvorák: Concerto for Cello; et al / Wispelwey, Renes

2 CD / Channel Classics / 1998-08-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Andante cantabile for Cello and Strings, Op. 11; Antonin Dvorák: Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104/B 191; Rondo for cello & piano in G minor, B. 171 (Op. 94); Fro...
Performers: Giacometti, Paolo; Komen, Paul; Shapiro, Lois; Wispelwey, Pieter
Conductors: Renes, Lawrence;
Ensemble: Florilegium Musicum Ensemble (Netherlands); Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

"Pieter Wispelwey appears at ease with Dvorak's style...he powerfully conveys a tremendous sense of spontaneity encompassing the Bohemian folk harmonies tinged with regret and homesickness....continue...

Hindemith, Sessions, Ligeti / Pieter Wispelwey

1 CD / Channel Classics / 1997-07-01

Works: György Ligeti: Sonata for cello; Peter Sculthorpe: Requiem, for cello; Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 25; Roger Sessions: Pieces (6) for cello; Chiel Meijering: La Belle dame sans me...
Performers: Wispelwey, Pieter

"...this recent Channel Classics release confirms our impression of Wispelwey as a complete performer, ranging effortlessly from the most demanding virtuosity to playing of great...continue...

But Yesterday is not Today - The American Art Song 1927-1972

1 CD / New World / 1996-09-01

Works: Theodore Chanler: The Children; Eight Epitaphs; These, my Ophelia; Paul Bowles: Once a Lady Was Here; Song of an Old Woman; John Woods Duke: Richard Cory; Luke Havergal; Miniver Cheevy; Israel Citkow...
Performers: Beardslee, Bethany; Donald Hassard; Gramm, Donald; Hassard, Donald; Helps, Robert

"...this recording belongs in the collection of everyone with either an interest in the history of American song or simply collectors of great song recitals...Beardslee...continue...
REVIEWS:

New York Times (Publisher) (6/11/00, p.30) - "...The music is stunning in its variety and excellence....[Chanler] was a master of musical economy....Citkowitz's Five Songs From "Chambe...continue...

In Memoriam J.F.K. - Cage, Sessions, Ives / W.G. Naboré

1 CD / Doron / 1995-12-01

Works: John Cage: The Perilous Night, for prepared piano; Music for Marcel Duchamp, for prepared piano; Bacchanale for Prepared Piano; Charles Ives: Three-Page Sonata, for piano (& optional glockenspiel), S...
Performers: Nabore, William Grant

Thorne, Sessions: Piano Concertos / Oppens, Taub, Dunkel

1 CD / New World / 1994-06-16

Works: Roger Sessions: Piano Concerto; Francis Thorne: Concerto No 3 for piano & orchestra
Performers: Oppens, Ursula; Taub, Robert
Conductors: Dunkel, Paul Lustig
Ensemble: Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra

Juilliard Orchestra - Schumann, Copland, Sessions

1 CD / New World / 1992-12-08

Works: William Schuman: In Praise of Shahn -- Canticle for Orchestra; Aaron Copland: Connotations; Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers, suite from the incidental music
Conductors: Mueller, Otto-Werner; Ehrling, Sixten; Zukofsky, Paul
Ensemble: Juilliard Orchestra

Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd / Ozawa

1 CD / New World / 1992-12-08

Works: Roger Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd, cantata for soloists, chorus & orchestra
Performers: Cossa, Dominic; Hinds, Esther; Quivar, Florence [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji; Steinberg, Michael
Ensemble: Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Sessions: Symphony nos 4 & 5, etc / Badea, Columbus SO

1 CD / New World / 1992-12-08

Works: Roger Sessions: Symphony no 4; Symphony, No 5; Rhapsody for orchestra
Conductors: Badea, Christian
Ensemble: Columbus Symphony Orchestra

Helps, Adams, Brief, Sessions / Christopher O'Riley

1 CD / Albany Records / 1990-10-01

Works: Robert Helps: Homages (3) for piano; John Adams: China Gates, for piano; Phrygian Gates, for piano; Todd Brief: Nightsong for piano; Roger Sessions: Sonata for Piano no 1
Performers: O'Riley, Christopher