John Adams - Absolute Jest; Grand Pianola Music (Michael Tilson Thomas; John Adams)

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Composer: John Adams

• Absolute Jest
• Grand Pianola Music

St Lawrence String Quartet

    Geoff Nuttall, violin

    Scott St. John, violin

    Lesley Robertson, viola

    Christopher Costanza, cello

Orli Shaham, piano

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Micaela Haslam, soprano

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, soprano

Heather Cairncross, alto

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

John Adams, conductor

Date: 2015

Label: SFS Media

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John Adams - Harmonielehre; Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Michael Tilson Thomas)

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Composer: John Adams

1. Harmonielehre: I.
2. Harmonielehre: II. The Anfortas Wound
3. Harmonielehre: III. Meister Eckhardt and Quackie
4. Short Ride in a Fast Machine

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Date: 2012

Label: SFS Media

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John Adams - Naive and Sentimental Music (Esa-Pekka Salonen)

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Composer: John Adams

1. Naive and Sentimental Music: I. Naive and Sentimental Music
2. Naive and Sentimental Music: II. Mother of the Man
3. Naive and Sentimental Music: III. Chain to the Rhythm

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Date: 2002

Label: Nonesuch

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Various Composers - Balagan (Noa Wildschut; Pablo Barragán; Frank Dupree)

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• Paul Schoenfield - Trio for clarinet, violin, and piano
• Claude Vivier - Pièce pour violon et clarinette
• Béla Bartók - Contrasts
• Ernest Bloch - Prayer
• Eden Ahbez - Nature Boy
• Béla Kovács - Greetings from the Balkan

Noa Wildschut, violin

Pablo Barragán, clarinet

Frank Dupree, piano

Anton Spronk, cello (Béla Kovács' Greetings)

Date: 2024

Label: Accentus Music

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Various Composers - Last Silence (Martha Aarons; Lev Polyakin; Frances Renzi)

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• Nino Rota - Trio for Flute, Violin & Piano
• César Cui - 5 Petits duos, Op. 56
• Paul Schoenfield - 4 Souvenirs
• Jacques Ibert - 2 Interludes
• Paul Schoenfield - Last Silence

Martha Aarons, flute

Lev Polyakin, violin

Frances Renzi, piano

Date: 2020

Label: Azica

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Various Composers - Three American Sonatas (Cho-Liang Lin; Jon Kimura Parker)

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• Paul Schoenfield - Violin Sonata
• Steven Stucky - Violin Sonata
• John Harbison - Violin Sonata No. 1
• Leonard Bernstein - Canon for Aaron

Cho-Liang Lin, violin

Jon Kimura Parker, piano

Date: 2020

Label: Naxos

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Paul Schoenfield - Refractions (Various Artists)

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Composer: Paul Schoenfield

• Six British Folk Songs
• Peccadilloes
• Refractions

James Tocco, piano

Yehuda Hanani, cello

Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet

Paul Schoenfield, piano

Date: 2010

Label: Naxos

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Paul Schoenfield - Camp Songs; Ghetto Songs (Music of Remembrance)

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Composer: Paul Schoenfield

• Camp Songs
• Ghetto Songs
• Gerard Schwarz - Rudolf and Jeanette

Angela Niederloh, mezzo-soprano

Erich Parce, baritone

Music of Remembrance

Gerard Schwarz, conductor

Date: 2009

Label: Naxos

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Paul Schoenfield - Viola Concerto; Four Motets; The Merchant and the Pauper (Various Artists)

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Composer: Paul Schoenfield

• Viola Concerto
• 4 Motets
• The Merchant and the Pauper (Excepts from Act II

Robert Vernon, violin

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Yoel Levi, conductor

BBC Singers

Avner Itai, conductor

University of Michigan Opera

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor

Date: 2004

Label: Milken Family Foundation / Naxos

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Various Composers - Portraits. Works for Flute, Clarinet & Piano (McGill/McHale Trio)

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• Chris Rogerson - A Fish Will Rise
• Valerie Coleman - Portraits of Langston
• Guillaume Connesson - Techno Parade
• Sergei Rachmaninov - Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 (arr. Michael McHale)
• Paul Schoenfield - Sonatina for Flute, Clarinet & Piano
• Philip Hammond - The Lamentation of Owen O'Neil
• Traditional - The Lark in the Clear Air (arr. Michael McHale)

McGill/McHale Trio

    Demarre McGill, flute

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    Michael McHale, piano

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Mahershala Ali, narrator

Date: 2017

Label: Cedille

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George Gershwin; Maurice Ravel; Paul Schoenfield - Piano Trios (Eroica Trio)

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Composer: George Gershwin; Maurice Ravel; Paul Schoenfield

• Gershwin - Three Preludes (arr. Penaforte)
• Ravel - Piano Trio
• Godard - Berceuse (Jocelyn)
• Schoenfield - Cafe Music

Eroica Trio

    Adela Peña, violin

    Sara Sant'Ambrosio, cello

    Erika Nickrenz, piano

Date: 1997

Label: EMI

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Various Composers - American Postcard (Christina & Michelle Naughton)

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• John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine (arr. Preben Antonsen)
• Paul Schoenfield - Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive
• Conlon Nancarrow - Sonatina (arr. Yvar Mikhashoff)
• Aaron Copland - El Salón México (arr. Leonard Bernstein)
• John Adams - Roll Over Beethoven (transcr. Preben Antonsen)
• Aaron Copland - Variations on a Shaker Melody (arr. Bennett Lerner)

Christina Naughton & Michelle Naughton, pianos

Date: 2019

Label: Warner Classics

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Various Composers - American Chamber Music (Nash Ensemble)

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• Bernard Herrmann - Souvenirs de voyage, for clarinet and string quartet
• George Gershwin - George Gershwin's Song book, for solo piano
• Franz Waxman - Four scenes from childhood, for violin and piano
• George Gershwin - Promenade (Walking the dog), for clarinet and piano (arr. Anthony Wakefield)
• George Gershwin - Lullaby, for string quartet
• Aaron Copland - Waltz and Celebration from Billy the Kid, for cello and piano

Nash Ensemble

    Ian Brown, piano

    Richard Hosford, clarinet

    Marianne Thorsen, violin

    Laura Samuel, violin

    Lawrence Power, viola

    Rebecca Gilliver, cello

Date: 2015

Label: Hyperion

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Ella Fitzgerald; Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis

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1. Kay Swift, Paul James - Can't We Be Friends?
2. Karl Suessdorf, John M. Blackburn - Moonlight In Vermont
3. Irving Berlin - Cheek To Cheek
4. Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence - Tenderly
5. Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington - The Nearness Of You
6. Mitchell Parish, Frank S. Perkins - Stars Fell On Alabama
7. Yip Harburg, Vernon Duke - April In Paris
8. Irving Berlin - Isn't This A Lovely Day?
9. George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin - A Foggy Day
10. Al Neiburg, Marty Symes, Jerry Livingston - Under A Blanket Of Blue
11. George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin - They Can't Take That Away From Me

Ella Fitzgerald, vocals

Louis Armstrong, vocals

Oscar Peterson, piano

Herb Ellis, guitar

Ray Brown, bass

Buddy Rich, drums

Date: 1956

Label: Verve

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Ella Fitzgerald; Louis Armstrong - Porgy and Bess

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Composer: George Gershwin

1. Overture
2. Summertime
3. I Wants To Stay Here
4. My Man's Gone Now
5. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
6. Buzzard Song
7. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
8. It Ain't Necessarily So
9. What You Want Wid Bess?
10. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
11. Oh, Doctor Jesus
12. Medley: Here Come De Honey Man - Crab Man - Oh, Dey's So Fresh And Fine (Strawberry Woman)
13. There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
14. Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
15. Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way

Ella Fitzgerald, vocals

Louis Armstrong, vocals

Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Russell Garcia

Date: 1957

Label: Verve

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