ENCOUNTERS I – X, XII -XV – WILLIAM KRAFT (composer)
SOUTHWEST CHAMBER MUSIC and TAMBUCO PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
(3 CD set)
“Classical Nomination” - 11th Annual Latin GRAMMY® Awards

Encounters I: Soliloquy for Solo Percussion and Tape; Encounters II: For Solo Tuba; Encounters III: Duel for Trumpet and Percussion; Encounters IV: Duel for Trombone and Percussion; Encounters V: In the Morning of the Winter Sea; Encounters VI: Concertino for Roto Toms and Percussion Quartet; Encounters VII: Blessed Are the Peacemakers; Encounters VIII: Divinations; Encounters IX: For Alto Saxophone and Percussion; Encounters X: Duologue for Violin and Marimba; Encounters XII: “The Gabrielic Foray;” Encounters XIII: Concertino for Percussion and Woodwind Quintet;
Encounters XIV: Concerto a Tre; Encounters XV: For Guitar and Percussion

CD-1191

Alexandra Hawley, flute; Ricardo Cobo, guitar
Maximo Diego Pujol – Suite Buenos Aires (1993)
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon – Tres Retratos (1990)
Carlo Domeniconi, - Sonatina Mexicana (1986)
Ernesto Cordero – Fantasia Mulata (1986)
Celso Machado, - Pacoca (Choro) (1988)
Astor Piazzolla – Histoire du Tango (1985)

CD1165

Jerome Summers, clarinet; Robert Kortgaard, piano

Music of Francis Poulenc - Sonata
Don Haddad – Andante and Allegro
Malcolm Arnold - Sonatina
Gerhard Wuensch – In Modo Antico
Gyory Aranyi - Rapszodia
Paul Reade – Suite from “The Victorian Kitchen Garden”

Southwest Chamber Music
Elissa Johnston & Kathleen Roland, sopranos
Jeff Von Der Schmidt, conductor

Aura – Elissa Johnston & Kathleen Roland, sopranos; with the Southwest Chamber Music Ensemble, Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor. Oracle - Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor and Southwest Chamber Music Ensemble; Still Life After Death – Kathleen Roland, soprano, with the Southwest Chamber Music Ensemble, Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor.

String Quartets No. 1, 2, 3; Sonatina for Piano; Sonatina for Violin & Piano; Sonatina for Violincello & Piano; Sextet for Piano & Strings; Three Pieces for Guitar; Three Spirals for Violin & Piano; Fuga H-A-G-C; Variations for Violin with Piano; Feuille d’Album for Guitar; Trio for Flute, Viola & Harp

PROKOFIEV: Quintet in G minor, op 39; Overture on Hebrew Themes Op. 34; POULENC: Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon; Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet; Elegies for Horn and Piano.

String Quartet No. 1. The Holmby Quartet; Songs of Love and Parting (Helen Dilworth, soprano, Gregg Nestor, Fred Benedetti, duo-guitars); Piano Sonata, Ron Gianattosio, piano. All Recordings Supervised by The Composer.

Duo, Op. 7; String Trio, Op. 1; Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op 2 - Leonard Pennario, piano; Endre Granat, violin, Milton Thomas, viola, Sheldon Sanov, violin; Nathaniel Rosen, cello. Recorded Under the Composer's Supervision, 1973/1975.

Sonata No. 1 and 2 for Violin and Piano; Pastorale for Violin and piano; Berceuse; Adagio and Sonatine for Violin and Piano. Marcia Eckert, piano; Ruth Ehrlich, violin. Romance, Impromptu; Three Pastorales and Hommage à Debussy for piano, Eckert, piano. Rondo for oboe and piano, Eckert, piano; Robert Ingliss, oboe. Chorale for Trumpet and Pn., Gaillarde for Trumpet and Piano. Eckert, piano, Raymond Mase, trumpet.

Chamber Music of Virko Baley
Nocturnal No. 5 (Laura Spitzer, piano); Partita No. 1 for 3 Trombones and 3 Pianos (Miles Anderson, trombones, Virko Baley, pianos); Sculptured Birds (William Powell, clarinet, Virko Baley, piano; Nocturnal No. 6 (Elissa Stutz, piano).

Chamber Music of Virko Baley Vol. 2 Concerto No. 1 (1987) version for chamber orchestra (New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs, cond.); Dreamtime Suite No. 1 (1993-94) trio version; Orpheus Singing (1994) for oboe and string quartet (Stephen Caplan, oboe ,with members of Continuum); Duo Concertante (1971); 3 paraphrases for violoncello and piano (Natalia Khoma, cello, Virko Baley, piano).

Chamber Music of Virko Baley, Vol. 3
PART I - PALM OF THE HAND - PART II: DREAMTIME. - Performed By THE CALIFORNIA E.A.R. UNIT.

Ricordo Di Mario, Op. 16A (Greg Donovetsky, oboe, Leon Levitch, piano); Fantasia For Oboe and Strings, Op. 12 (Donovetsky, oboe); First String Quartet, Op. 13 (The Valley String Quartet); Quartet for Flute, Viola, Cello and Piano, Op. 3 (Stokes, flute; Rehr, viola; Solow, cello; Gray, piano); Quintet for Flute and Strings, Op. 5 (Stokes, flute; Lenski, Watanabe, violins; Solow, cello, Polivnick, viola).

Oriental Translations for Denishawn - The Vaughan Ensemble conducted by the Composer (1940); Symphony No. 3 for Organ (1956) Clarence Mader, organist; Violin Concerto (1944), Sylvia Fischer, violin.

Includes Whitewater (The Laureate Wind Quintet and the West Virginia University String Quartet); On Chestnut Ridge (for violin, clarinet, cello and piano); Sonata for Violincello and Piano; Shaker Tunes (The Laureate Wind Quintet plus saxophone); Barn Dance from Mountain Music (Stephen Beall, violin, Carol Beall, piano). DDD

From the Rainbow (in memory of children,victims of violence) (Anya Karlin and Alexander Osi Osvaldsson, narrators); A Tale of Yore (piano quintet); Sextet Pacifica, Impressions (string quintet). DDD

"Contemplation for String Quintet; "Why" for String Quartet; "What If?" for String Quintet; "Is It?" for String Quintet; "Get Down" a Jazzy String Quartet. (Endre Granat, 1st violin; Richard Altenbach, 2nd Violin; Janet Lakatos, viola; Douglas Davis, cello, Arnie Egilsson, double bass)

Reflections (Iceland Sym. Orch., Koivula, cond.); Blaer (Hollywood Studios Woodwind Quintet); Just a Thought (Gloria Cheng, piano); Erinnerungen (Claudine Carlson, mez-sop, Robert Hunter, pn) Dies Irae (Choir of the Church of Langholt, Stefansson, cond.)

Includes To The Children of War; Diversions; Crossroads' Alley Trio; L'Alma Jubilo; Big Sur Triptych; Hexachord; Stile Antico; Affects and A Dad's Prayer. Deon Nielsen Price, piano; Darryl Taylor, tenor; Ayke Agus, violin and piano.; Bill Wilson, sax; Berkeley Price, clarinet; Gregory Newton, guitar; and Michael Arnold, clarinet. DDD

Includes Angelic Piano Pieces, Passacaglia Professor and Allegra Barbara,;Deon Price, piano; Blown Relationship for extended Voice, pn, & Cl.; Crosswinds at Crossroads for flute, bassoon, & Clarinet.; Mesuree Mexicana for sax & Guitar; Escape on Wilshire for Organ; Digital Rhapsody for sax & piano; Affects for clarniet & Pn.

Mauel Compinsky, violin; Alec Compinsky, cello; Sarah Compinksy, piano. Rachmaninoff: Elegiac Trio in D minor, Opus 9; Shostakovich: Trio in E minor, Opus 67.

Part of the Southwest Chamber Music "Composer Portrait Series". Text by Studs Terkel, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano; Dorothy Stone, flute/piccolo; Jim Foschia, clarinet; John Magnussen, percussion; Mark Menzies, violin; Paula Fehrenbach, violoncello; Gayle Blankenburg, piano; Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor.

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Song of the Black Swan; Gaspar Cassado: Requiebros; Marcelle De Manziarly: Dialogue; Manuel M. Ponce: Three Preludes; Victoria Bond: Sonata (V. Bond at the piano); Anton Webern: Sonata (V. Bond at the piano); Joaquin Nin: Spanish Suite (Thomas Hrynkiw, piano, except where noted).

CARLOS CHÁVEZ - CHAMBER MUSIC VOLUME ONE

Inventions I for Piano; Inventions II for String Trio; Invention III for Harp; Suite for Double Quartet; Upingos for Oboe (Southwest Chamber Music).

CD8850

Soli 1, II, IV; Energia for 9 Instruments; Sonata for Four Horns (Southwest Chamber Music).

Featuring Tambuco (Mexico's Premier Percussion Ensemble).

Whispers and Chants (Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano and Southwest Ensemble); Buccina for Horn and Piano (Jeff von der Schmidt, horn; Susan Svrcek, piano); Lamentazione for Solo Viola (Jan Karlin, viola)

A Winter's Tale (Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano and Southwest Ensemble); Horn Trio; Horn Trio Continued (Agnes Gottschewski, violin; Jeff von der Schmidt, horn; Gayle Blankenburg, piano); A Song to the Lute in Musicke; Christes Crosse (Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano; Gayle Blankenburg, piano)

Ernest Krenek
Sonata for Solo Viola, Op 92/3 (Jan Karlin, viola)

Joan Huang
Settings for Twelve Chinese Symbols for Viola, Horn, and Piano (Jan Karlin viola; Jeff von der Schmidt, horn; Gayle Blankenburg, piano)

Elliott Carter
Of Challenge and Of Love, ( Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano, Gayle Blankenburg, piano); Quintet  for Piano and Winds (Stuart Horn, oboe; Jim Foschia, clarinet; Leslie Lashinksky bassoon; Jeff von der Schmidt, horn, Gayle Blankenburg, piano; Stephen L. Mosko, conductor)

Quintet for Flute, Strings and Piano (Dorothy Stone, flute; Christine Frank, violin; Maggie Edmondson, cello; Gayle Blankenburg, piano; Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor); Duo for Horn and Piano (Jeff von der Schmidt, horn, Gayle Blankenburg, piano); Soliloquy for Solo Horn (Jeff von der Schmidt, horn)

Harry Partch
Barstow – 8 Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing At Barstow, California, for Baritone and Adapted Guitar (original version, 1941)  (Southwest Ensemble)

Lou Harrison
Suite for Violin and American Gamelan (Amy Sims, violin; and the Cal Arts Gamelan Ensemble)

Psychotropics (Southwest Ensemble, Stephen L. Mosko, conductor); Sting Quartet (Agnes Gottshewski, violin; Christine Frank,violin; Jan Karlin, viola; Maggie Edmondson, cello); Rupuze for Flute and Guitar (Dorothy Stone, flutes; Stuart Fox, guitar);  God Metot Enob(s) (Gayle Blankenburg, piano); Darling for Solo Double Bass (Tom Peters, double bass)

Haiku Settings ( Phylis Bryn-Julson, soprano; Gayle Blankenburg, piano); Two Prayer Settings (Southwest Ensemble conducted by Jeff von der Schmidt); Settings for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Phylis Bryn-Julson, soprano; Southwest Ensemble conducted by Jeff von der Schmidt); Little Companion Pieces for Soprano and String Quartet ( Phylis Bryn-Julson, soprano; Agnes Gottschewski, violin; Jan Karlin, viola; Maggie Edmondson, cello); Strand Settings: Darker (Phylis Bryn-Julson, soprano); "Die Violine" for Soprano,Violin and Piano (Phylis Bryn-Julson, soprano; Agnes Gottschewski, violin; Gayle Blankenburg, piano); Levertov Breviary (Phylis Bryn-Julson, soprano; Gayle Blankenburg, piano);  Letter to a Young Composer (Phylis Bryn-Julson, soprano)

Grand Oak Trees at Dawn (Dorothy Stone, flue); String Quartet No. 1 ( Agnes Gottschewski, violin; Christine Frank, violin; Jan Karlin, viola; Maggie Edmondson, cello); String Quartet No. 3 'Black Church" (Christine Frank, violin; Agnes Gottschewski violin; Jan Karlin, viola; Maggie Edmondson, cello); Barsdale for Solo Guitar (Stuart Fox, guitar)

Frederick Lesemann
Sir Blue Slips a Trend – 5 Fugues for String Quartet (Agnes Gottschewski, violin; Amy Sims, violin; Jan Karlin, viola; Marilyn Harris-Bardet, cello);  Doubles for Viola and Horn (Jan Karlin, viola; Jeff von der Schmidt, horn); Duo for Horn and Piano (Jeff von der Schmidt, horn; Susan Svrcek, piano)

Echoes from the Silent Call of Girona for String Quartet and CD Rom (Christine Frank, violin; Agnes Gottschewski, violin; Jan Karlin, viola; Maggie Edmondson, cello); A Fluttering of  Wings for String Quartet and Ghost Box Electronics (Agnes Gottschewski, violin; Christine Frank, violin; Jan Karlin, viola; Maggie Edmondson, cello)