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John Cage: Music For Keyboards 1935-1948/ Morton Feldman: The Early Years

John Cage: Music for Keyboard 1935-1948-Jeanne Kirstein, prepared piano, piano, and toy piano Morton Feldman: The Early Years-David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Edwin Hymovitz, Russell Sherman, pianos; Matthew Raimondi, Joseph Rabushka, violins; Walter Trampler, viola; Seymour Barab, cello This double-CD set combines two of the key titles of Columbia Records's legendary...


John Melby: Concerto for Violin, English Horn, & Tape; James Tenney: Saxony

Gregory Fulkerson, violin; Thomas Stacy, English horn; David Liptak, conductor; David Mott, saxophone“As a composer, I have a certain aversion to providing program notes about my pieces, a feeling which is shared by many, although certainly not all, of my colleagues. I feel that such notes often do more harm...


John Luther Adams: Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing

The Apollo Chamber Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation.... —T. S. Eliot Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing is a work of musical contemplation, an attempt to consecrate...


Russell Smith & Lee Hoiby: PIano Concertos

Andrzej Stefanski, piano; John Atkins, pianoPolish National Radio Orchestra, Jan Krenz, conductorSpeaking of his Second Piano Concerto, Russell Smith observes that it was written, “simply because I wanted to explore the piano concerto form again.” As in Tetrameron, composed at about the same time, Mr. Smith employs what might be...


John Luther Adams: In the White Silence

The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Tim Weiss, conductor *** Featured in The Encounter - Special Broadcast May 15-22, 2020 ***  Since 1978, Alaska has been John Luther Adams's (b 1953) home and a major inspirational source for most of his compositions. Almost all of his compositions evoke natural phenomena, in...


Charles Dodge: Cascando & John Harbison: Full Moon in March

D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano; Cheryl Cobb, soprano; David Arnold, baritone; Kim Scown, tenor; Boston Musica Viva; Nancy Cirillo, violin; Katherine Murdock, viola; Joel Moerschel, cello; Fenwick Smith, flute; Laura Grundstrom, oboe; William Wrzesien, clarinet; Randall Hodgkinson, piano; Richard Pittman, Conductor; John Harbison writes:“The title, Full Moon In March, is less simple...


La Montaine: Piano Concerto/Stevens: Symphonic Dances

Karen Keys, piano; Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra; Guy Fraser Harrison, conductor; London Philharmonic Orchestra; George Barati, conductorJohn La Montaine (1920-2013), though known among his professional colleagues for a decade as a highly gifted pianist, came into national prominence as a composer only in 1958, when the Piano Concerto recorded here...


Music for Merce, Vol. 8 (digital only)

The late Merce Cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. Particularly notable is his association with John Cage, who served as the founding musical director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company until Cage’s death in 1992. Spanning six decades...


H.C.E. (Here Comes Everybody)

New Millennium Ensemble: Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet; Gregory Hesselink, cello; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Sunghae Anna Lim, violin; John Ferrari, percussion; Margaret Kampmeier, piano; Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano We have borrowed H.C.E.,  (Here Comes Everybody) from John Cage, who borrowed it from James Joyce  in Finnegan's Wake. For Cage, the words symbolized...


Harbison: Quintet; Rochberg: Slow Fires of Autumn

Aulos Wind Quintet [Judith Mendenhall, flute; Rudolph Vrbsky, oboe; David Singer, clarinet; Alexander Heller, bassoon; Robert Routch, horn]; Carol Wincenc, flute; Nancy Allen, harpJohn Harbison writes:“Quintet, the Naumburg Foundation commission, was a welcome opportunity, because I admired the Aulos' playing, because I had been writing a string of impractical pieces,...