Waggoner, Andrew

Short Stories - Works for viola & piano by Clarke, Enescu, Jolas, Porter, Ligeti et al. / Melia Watras, viola; Kimberly Russ, piano

1 CD / Fleur de Son / 2012-05-29

Works: Rebecca Clarke: Passacaglia on an Old English Tune, for viola/cello & piano; George Enescu: Concert Piece for Viola and Piano; Betsy Jolas: Episode sixième for viola; Quincy Porter: Speed Etude;...
Performers: Russ, Kimberly; Watras, Melia

Short Stories demonstrates the versatility of the viola. In gathering these works, I wanted to find a wide variety of sound, color, and emotional content....continue...
Recording information: Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA (07/2001/08/2009)....continue...

Andrew Waggoner: Terror and Memory; String Quartet no 3; Exorcist; Livre; One Kindness; Improvisations, et al.

1 CD / Albany Records / 2011-11-08

Works: Open End: Improvisation; Andrew Waggoner: Quartet for Strings no 3; Exorcist, for chamber ensemble; Livre, for cello & piano; Inventory of Terrors, for chamber ensemble; One Kindness, for chamber ens...
Performers: Morkoski, Molly; Stinson, Caroline
Conductors:
Ensemble: Corigliano Quartet; Ensemble Nordlys; Flexible Music; Open End

Composer Andrew Waggoner notes that these are five recent pieces that grew somehow out of the narrow space in which experience is transformed into history....continue...

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...

Carter: Sonata for Cello & Piano in D Minor; Debussy, etc

1 CD / Centaur / 2009-10-04

Works: Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano; Elliott Carter: Sonata for Cello and Piano; Andrew Waggoner: Catenary, Memory Variations, for cello & piano; Gabriel Fauré: Après un rêve, O...
Performers: Burkhart, Robert; McMillen, Blair

"The adventurous cellist," writes Russell Platt of the New Yorker about Robert Burkhart and his 2008 Lincoln Center recital with pianist Blair McMillen. The culmination...continue...
Recording information: Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City....continue...

Viola Solo

1 CD / Fleur de Son / 2005-01-01

Works: Atar Arad: Sonata for solo viola; Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903; John Corigliano: Fancy on a Bach Air, for cello; Andrew Waggoner: Collines parmi étoile...
Performers: Watras, Melia

Legacy - Andrew Waggoner

1 CD / CRI / 2002-01-10

Works: Andrew Waggoner: Legacy; Symphony no 2; Quartet for Strings no 2
Performers: Bahn, Lina; Cholakian, Anna; Jinsoo Lim, Michael; Leshnower, Jennifer; Oshima, Michiko; Otani, Muneko; Watras, Melia; Zeigler, Jeffrey
Conductors: ; Pololanik, Petr
Ensemble: Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra; Cassatt String Quartet; Corigliano String Quartet