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Performer: Gregg Smith Singers 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN CHORAL TREASURES: (Review by Raymond Beegle) | want list ensemble | A WORLD OF FOLKSONG: Au Clair de la lune. Avec mes sabots. Glädejens Bomster. Hymn for the Day. Das Lieben bringst gross Freud. Circirinella. Sakura. Ohara Bushi. The Irish Washerwoman. O Waly, Waly. Scarborough Fair. Oh, Jeanie, there's nothing to fear ye. All Through the Night. Riqui, Riqui, Riquirron, Tu Tu Marámba. Blow the Candles Out. The Railroad Corral. O What a Beautiful City. Jerusalem. The Riddle. The Cuckoo. High Barbary. Shenandoah. The Drunken Sailor (Review by Haig Mardirosian) | ensemble or orchestra | A WORLD OF FOLKSONG: Au clair de la lune. Avec mes sabots. Glädjen blomster. Hymn for the Day. Das Lieben bringt gross Freud. Circirinella. Sakura. Ohara bushi. The Irish Washerwoman. O Waly, Waly. Scarborough Fair. Oh, Jeanie, There's Nothin' to Fear Ye. All Through the Night. Riqui, Riqui, Riquirron. Tu tu maramba. Copias. Blow the Candles Out. The Railroad Corral. O What a Beautiful City. Jerusalem. The Riddle. The Cuckoo. High Barbary. Shenandoah. The Drunken Sailor (Review by Robert McColley) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: De Profundis (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: De Profundis. Tribulationes Civitatum. O my deir hert. Welcome to the New Year. The Holly and the Ivy. Four Songs on Poems of Thomas Campion. Mass for 2-Part Chorus and Percussion. Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripedes. My Shepherd Will Supply My Need. Hymns from the Old South (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: Hymns from the Old South (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | THE GLORY OF VENICE—GABRIELI IN SAN MARCO: Intonations for Organ. Plaudite, Psalite. O magnum mysterium. Hodie Christus Natus Est. Three Mass Movements. Deus qui Beatum Marcum. Sonata in the Ninth Tone. Canzonas (7). Jubilate Deo. Nunc dimittis. In eccleslis (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: Mass for 2-Part Chorus and Percussion (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: O my deir hert (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripedes (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: The Holly and the Ivy (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: Tribulationes Civitatum (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | HEAVEN IS MUSIC—CHORAL & VOCAL MUSIC OF VIRGIL THOMSON: Welcome to the New Year (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | A FESTIVAL OF FOLKSONGS, Volume I: (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | ANONYMOUS: My Lady. L'Amour de moy (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | ANONYMOUS: The Battle of Stonington (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | ANONYMOUS: Welcome to Our Music Feast (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | ATTAINGNANT: Danceries (6) (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | BARBER, SAMUEL: A Hand of Bridge (Review by Walter Simmons) | ensemble or orchestra | BEACH, AMY CHENEY: When Soul Is Joined to Soul. Message. Sea Song. Night Song at Amalfi. God Is Our Stronghold (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | BEESON: 3 Settings from the Bay Psalm Book (2nd version with pn) (Review by Colin Clarke) | ensemble or orchestra | BEESON: Tides of Miranda. 3 Rounds. Knots. In Praise of Singing. Summer Rounds and Canons. Epitaphs (Review by Colin Clarke) | ensemble or orchestra | BENNETT, RICHARD RODNEY: Two Madrigals (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | BERGSMA: Riddle Me This (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | BERNSTEIN, LEONARD: The Lark (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | BILLINGS: Chester“ (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | BILLINGS: The Continental Harmony (Review by J. F. Weber) | ensemble or orchestra | BLITZSTEIN: The Harpies (Review by Walter Simmons) | ensemble or orchestra | BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Grausam erweiset sich Amor an mir; Wille, wille will; So lange Schoenheitwird bestehn; Einfoermig ist der Liebe Gram (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | BRANDT, JOBST VOM: The 3-Way Canon Blues (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | BROWN, EARLE: Small Pieces for Large Chorus (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | CARTER, ELLIOTT: Choral Music. The Choral Masters Series, Volume I (Review by Dean P. Suzuki) | ensemble or orchestra | CARTER, ELLIOTT: Orchestral Songs. Complete Choral Music (Review by William Zagorski) | ensemble or orchestra | CARTER, ELLIOTT: Tarentella. Emblems. The Harmony of Morning. Heart Not so Heavy as Mine. Musicians Wrestle Everywhere. To Music. The Defense of Corinth (Review by Dean P. Suzuki) | ensemble or orchestra | CARTER, ELLIOTT: The Harmony of Morning (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | CARTER, ELLIOTT: Warble for Lilac-Time (1943). Voyage (1945). Three Poems of Robert Frost (Review by William Zagorski) | ensemble or orchestra | CHIHARA: Lie Lightly Gentle Earth (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | COPLAND, AARON: 4 Motets (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | COPLAND, AARON: An Immorality (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | COPLAND, AARON: In the Beginning (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | DRUCKMAN, JACOB: 4 Madrigals (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | DRUCKMAN, JACOB: Madrigals (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | DUCKWORTH: Southern Harmony (Review by Mike Silverton) | ensemble or orchestra | DUCKWORTH: Southern Harmony (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | DUFAY, GUILLAUME: Gloria (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | FAURÉ, GABRIEL: Madrigal (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | FAURÉ, GABRIEL: Pavane (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | FINE, IRVING: The Choral New Yorker (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | FINE, IRVING: The Hour Glass (mixed chorus); McCord's Menagerie-Four Poems for Men's Chorus; Alice in Wonderland (Review by John D. Wiser) | ensemble or orchestra | FINE, IRVING: The Hour-Glass. Alice in Wonderland (Review by Scott Wheeler) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: ". . . and then the rocks on the mountains begin to shout." Behold I build an House (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: "... and then the rocks on the mountains began to shout." De Profundis (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: 3 Airs on O’Hara’s Angel (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: 3 Airs on O’Hara’s Angel (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: Adón Ólom (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: Behold! I Build an House. Adon Olom (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: De Profundis (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: Introduction and Good-byes (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: Introductions and Good-byes (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: The Prairie (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSS: Three Airs on O'Hara's Angels (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | FOSTER, STEPHEN: Old Folks at Home The Old Folks Quadrille (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | GABRIELI, GIOVANNI: Canzonas for Brass, Winds, Strings, and Organ (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | GABRIELI, GIOVANNI: Intonations for the Organ on the 1st tone; 10th tone; 11th tone; 8th tone; 7th tone; 11th tone; 9th tone. Plaudite, Psalite. O magnum mysterium. Hodie Christus natus est Kyrie, Gloria, and Sanctus. Deus qui Beatum Marcum. Sonata in the 9th tone. Canzonas in the 9th tone; 7th tone; 8th tone; 12th tone; 1st tone. Jubilate Deo. Nunc dimittis. In ecclesiis (Review by Haig Mardirosian) | ensemble or orchestra | GABRIELI, GIOVANNI: Music for A Cappella Choirs (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | GABRIELI, GIOVANNI: Music for Multiple Choirs, Brass, and Organ (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | GABRIELI, GIOVANNI: The Glory of Gabrieli (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | GABRIELI, GIOVANNI: The Glory of Venice-Gabrieli in San Marco (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | GARCÍA, ORLANDO JACINTO: La Belleza del Silencio. On the Eve of the Second Year Anniversary of Morton's Death (1989). Improvisation with Metallic Materials. Sitio Sin Nombre. Metallic Images (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | GERSHWIN: Two Madrigals (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | GINASTERA, ALBERTO: North Argentinian Folk Dance (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | GOTTLIEB, JACK: Presidential Suite (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | GOULD, MORTON: Choral Music (Review by Scott Wheeler) | ensemble or orchestra | HARRISON, LOU: Mass (to St. Anthony) (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | HAWLEY: Two Motets (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | HEINRICH: The Minstrel's Catch (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | HENNAGIN: The House on the Hill (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | HENNAGIN: The House on the Hill-A Madrigal Cantata (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | HERBERT, VICTOR: Sweethearts (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | HILLER, LEJAREN: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | HINDEMITH, PAUL: Sine musica nulla disciplina (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | HINDEMITH, PAUL: Six Chansons; La belle dame sans merci (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | HOLST, GUSTAV: If t'were the time of lilies; Evening on the Moselle (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | IMBRIE: On the Beach at Night (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | IMBRIE: On the Beach at Night (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | IVES, CHARLES: Serenade. Waltz (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | IVES, CHARLES: Vote for Names (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | IVES, CHARLES: William Will (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | JERGENSON: Requiem for a City for Six Choirs and Prerecorded Tape; The Vision; Tanka Pieces for Soprano, Flute, and Clarinet. (Review by Peter Frank) | ensemble or orchestra | JOSQUIN DES PREZ: Milles Regretz (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | KAUFMAN, JEFFREY: Nexus (excerpts). Four Works for Small Chorus (Review by Colin Clarke) | ensemble or orchestra | KAUFMAN, JEFFREY: Nexus (excerpts). Four Works for Small Chorus (Review by Henry Fogel) | ensemble or orchestra | KODÁLY: (12) “Canzonets“ Bicinia Hungarica II (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | LAW: Bunker Hill (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | LE JEUNE, CLAUDE: Revècy venir du printans“ (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | LEWIS, ROBERT HALL: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. Serenades for Piano Solo. Three Prayers of Jane Austen (Review by Benjamin Pernick) | ensemble or orchestra | LONDON: Bach Again. Jove’s Nectar. Moon Sound Zone. Psalm of These Days I, Psalm of These Days V (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | LONDON: In Heinrich's Shoes . Auricles Apertures Ventricles. Sonnet Haiku (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | MADISON: Bitte (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | MADISON: Two Pieces (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | MAYER, WILLIAM: A Lover’s Lament. Distant Playing Fields. Ae Fond Kiss. Enter Ariel. The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | MAYER, WILLIAM: The Eve of St. Agnes (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | MENOTTI: Moans, Groans, Cries, and Sighs (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | MOZART: Lacrimoso; O du eselhalter Martin (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | NAJERA: In Dulci Jubilo (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | NAJERA: In Dulcí Jubilo (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | RAKSIN: Heigh Ho! Anyone for Love? (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | REYNOLDS, CHARLES: Acadian Mass (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | REYNOLDS, ROGER: The Emperor of Ice Cream (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | RICHARDS, ERIC: Through Under Medium . . (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | RIEGGER: Who Can Revoke (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | ROREM: Letters from Paris. In Time of Pestilence. Give All to Love. Missa Brevis (Review by Henry Fogel) | ensemble or orchestra | ROREM: Missa Brevis (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | ROSS, ROBERT: Departmental (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | ROUSSEL: Deux poèmes de Ronsard (Review by George Chien) | ensemble or orchestra | ROXBURY: Four Motets (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Complete Music (Review by Benjamin Pernick) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Evocations (orchestral version) (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Evocations (orchestral version) (Review by Lynn René Bayley) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Men and Mountains. Angels (trumpet/trombone version) (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Men and Mountains. Angels (trumpet/trombone version) (Review by Lynn René Bayley) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Organum. Exaltation (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Organum. Exaltation (Review by Lynn René Bayley) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Sun-Treader. Portals. Evocations (original piano version) (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Sun-Treader. Portals. Evocations (original piano version) (Review by Lynn René Bayley) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Toys. Vox Clamans in Deserto. Men. Angels (original trumpet version) (Review by Robert Carl) | ensemble or orchestra | RUGGLES: Toys. Vox Clamans in Deserto. Men. Angels (original trumpet version) (Review by Lynn René Bayley) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHOBER: Stabat Mater. Te Deum. Toccatas and Fantasias (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHOBER: Te Deum, for Mixed Chorus and Prepared Piano (Review by William Zagorski) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHOBER: Victimae pascali laudes (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Lullaby; Mr. Saunders (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHUBERT: Nachtelle; Der Gondelfahrer; Trinklied; Ständchen; Mirjams Siegesgesang (Review by Howard Kornblum) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHUMAN, WILLIAM: Mail Order Madrigals (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHUMAN, WILLIAM: Prelude for Voices (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHUMAN, WILLIAM: Prelude for Voices. Carols of Death. Perceptions. Five Rounds on Famous Words. Mail Order Madrigals. Esses. Orpheus With His Lute (Review by Henry Fogel) | ensemble or orchestra | SCHUMAN, WILLIAM: The Mighty Casey (Review by Walter Simmons) | ensemble or orchestra | SESSIONS: Turn, O Libertad! (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: In Re (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: Legend (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: Legend (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: Magnificat. Prayer for Peace. Variations on a Bach Chorale (Review by Scott Wheeler) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: Mark Twain Cantata (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: Missa Brevis (Review by Carson Cooman) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: Music for an Urban Church (Review by Carson Cooman) | want list ensemble | SMITH, GREGG: Scherzo and Blues (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: Shenandoah (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | SMITH, GREGG: The Continental Harmonist (Review by J. F. Weber) | ensemble or orchestra | SMIT, LEO U.S.A.: At the Corner of the Sky. Cock Robin. Copernicus. Songs of Wonder (Review by John Story) | ensemble or orchestra | SMIT, LEO U.S.A.: Lenten is Come (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | SOWASH: Philosophical Anecdotes (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Blessed Virgin (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Cantata (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Credo (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Mass (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Oedipus Rex. Babel. A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer. Zvezdolikiy“ (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Pater noster (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: The Owl and the Pussycat (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: The Rake’s Progress (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: The Rake’s Progress (Review by Lynn René Bayley) | ensemble or orchestra | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Zvezdolikiy (Review by James H. North) | ensemble or orchestra | SWINGLE: L'Amour de moy (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | TALMA: A Wreath of Blessings. Voices of Peace. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo. Holy Sonnets. Let's Touch the Sky (Review by Henry Fogel) | ensemble or orchestra | THOMPSON, RANDALL: Alleluia (Review by Raymond Beegle) | ensemble or orchestra | THOMSON, VIRGIL: Halfan Alphabet (Review by John Bauman) | ensemble or orchestra | WAXMAN, FRANZ: Thomas Hardy Songs—Eight Romances for A Cappella Chorus (Review by John Ditsky) | ensemble or orchestra | WEILL, KURT: Ho, Billy O! (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | ensemble or orchestra | ZAIMONT, JUDITH LANG: Sunny Airs and Sober; Three Ayres; Greyed Sonnets; Songs of innocence (Review by Walter Simmons) | ensemble or orchestra |
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