Songs Of Henry Cowell

On this CD:

1. St. Agnes Morning, for voice & piano
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

2. The Dream-Bridge, for voice & piano, L175
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

3. The Morning Pool, for voice & piano, L244
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

4. April, for voice & piano, L250
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

5. Song in the Songless, for voice & piano, L330
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

6. Music When Soft Voices Die, for voice & piano, L358
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

7. Angus Og (The Spirit of Youth), for voice & piano, L228
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

8. Manaunaun's Birthing, for voice & piano, L387
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

9. Where She Lies, for voice & piano, L400
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

10. How Old is Song, for voice & piano
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

11. Mother Goose Rhymes, for voice & piano, "Curly-Locks", L538
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

12. Mother Goose Rhymes, for voice & piano, "Three Wise Men of Gotham" L538
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

13. Mother Goose Rhymes, for voice & piano, "Dr. Foster went to Gloucester" L538
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

14. Mother Goose Rhymes, for voice & piano, "Goosey, Goosey, Gander" L538
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

15. Mother Goose Rhymes, for voice & piano, "Tommy Trot" L538
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

16. Songs (2) on Poems of Catherine Riegger, for voice & piano, "Sunset" L492/1
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

17. Songs (2) on Poems of Catherine Riegger, for voice & piano, "Rest" L492/2
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

18. The Pasture, for voice & piano, L665
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

19. Spring Pools, for voice & piano, L864
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

20. The Donkey
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

21. Daybreak, for voice & piano, L694
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

22. The Little Black Boy, for voice & piano, L783
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

23. Songs (3) on Poems of Langston Hughes, for voice, flute, clarinet & cello, "Demand" L935/1
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

24. Songs (3) on Poems of Langston Hughes, for voice, flute, clarinet & cello, "Moonlight Night" L935/2
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

25. Songs (3) on Poems of Langston Hughes, for voice, flute, clarinet & cello, "Fulfillment" L935/3
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

26. Mice Lament, for voice & piano, L604
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

27. Because the Cat, for voice & piano, L820
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

28. Songs (3) on Poems of Padraic Colum, No. 1, "Crane" L825
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

29. Songs (3) on Poems of Padraic Colum, No. 2, "I Heard in the Night" L826
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

30. Songs (3) on Poems of Padraic Colum, No. 3, "Night-Fliers" L827
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

31. Music I Heard, for voice & piano, L891
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

32. Firelight and Lamp, for voice & piano, L910
Composed by Henry Cowell
Performed by Mary Ann Hart, Sheryl Henze, Robert Osborne, Les Scott, Jeanne Golan

Songs Of Henry Cowell, Music, Les Scott, Henry Cowell, Sheryl Henze, Mary Ann Hart, Jeanne Golan, 20th/21st Century Music for Voice and Keyboard, Classical, Classical Composers, Orchestral & Symphonic, Vocal, Vocal Music
Henry Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music, Vol. 1
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • An overview of Cowell's various compositional styles - but not always his most innovative and interesting music
  • About Time
 Henry Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music, Vol. 1

Manufacturer: Naxos American
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ASIN: B00076SHHA
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

  1. Deep Color
  2. The Fairy Answer
  3. Fabric
  4. Tiger
  5. Con Moto-Allegro
  6. Lento
  7. Allegro Moderato
  8. Molto Vivace
  9. 'A Sharp Where You'd Expect A Natural'
  10. 'Hark! From The Pit A Fearsome Sound'
  11. 'Who Wrote This Fiendish 'Rite Of Spring'?'
  12. Largo
  13. Allegretto
  14. Andante Tranquillo
  15. Allegro Marcato
  16. Andante Calmato
  17. Presto
  18. Polyphonica, For Small Orchestra
  19. The Banshee
  20. The Leprechaun
  21. The Fairy Bells

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars An overview of Cowell's various compositional styles - but not always his most innovative and interesting music.......2007-03-25

This disc - a Naxos re-release of a recording made in 1990 and first published by Musical Heritage Society - provides a good overview of Cowell's various compositional styles - but not always his most innovative and interesting music.

The sunny Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord (1954) would make a fine companion piece to Manuel de Fallas's Concerto for Harpsichord. Its neo-classical style (including a Bach-derived melody erupting at 1:40 in the 1st movement and a kind of medieval court dance at 0:50 in the finale) and somewhat rarefied textures are close to Falla's, but without the Spaniard's unique compositional voice. It is the kind of music that Poulenc, Milhaud, Sauguet or Françaix at their lightest could have written. "Polyphonica" (1930) is a short (3:45) study in dissonant counterpoint, again sounding quite neo-classical in its perky sonorities and rhythmic sprightliness.

The 6-movement Suite for Violin and Piano from 1925 again is modeled after the baroque suite. While the piano part (especially in the 1st and 5th movements) has some of the traits so characteristic of Cowell's compositions for the instrument, like deep sounding tone clusters, the violin melodies are mostly Bach-derived, making it all sound like the kind of Bach transcription so much in favor in the fifties. The suite's concept reminds me of George Antheil's 2nd violin and piano sonata (see my review of George Antheil: Violin Sonatas 1, 2 & 4), in which the violin part is supposed to represent the trite music of past and present and the piano, the pounding, dissonant music of the future - but Antheil's composition is much more original, provocative and fun than Cowell's. In the same style, Stravinsky's Suite Italienne (an arrangement of his Ballet Pulcinella after music attributed - at the time of the composition - to Pergolesi) is also a more endearing composition. Violinist Mia Wu's pitch is not always perfect and her tone verges on the sour.

The three "Anti-Modernist" (e.g. anti modern music) Newspaper poems that Cowell set to music in 1938 are hilarious - and there is obviously a personal message in their selection by the composer: the first, written in 1884, castigates the "clang, clash, clatter, clatter, clang and clash" of... Wagner's music, the second, from 1909, denounces the "Symphonic cyclones", the unchained "dogs of war", "the wild sarrusophones", the heckelphone suggesting "the crack of doom", the earthquake-producing "tonitruone" in... Richard Strauss' operas, and the last, in 1924, berates the "crash, clash, cling, clang, bing, bang, bing" - "what right had he to write the thing?" - of... Stravinsky's "fiendish" Rite of Spring! So Cowell makes it clear that new and innovative music like his own is always first decried and accused of being mere noise, before gaining universal acceptance (which sadly is not yet really the case with his). That said, the three songs are somewhat disappointing, in that they are couched in a musical idiom that is far removed from Cowell's customary "crashes, clashes and bangs", but quite traditional, full of grand Romantic gestures. Mezzo Ellen Lang acquits herself serviceably but with a voice of no particular bloom.

Ultimately, the most interesting pieces on this disc are those in which Cowell the experimenter and innovator is more in evidence: the four piano pieces (but the 1963 composer-performed selection of 19 of them on a Smithsonian/Folkways CD of Piano Music is a better choice for this essential part of Cowell's output, despite the disc's sonic insufficiencies) and the Irish Suite for "String piano" (as Cowell called it) and Small Orchestra - actually an arrangement in form of a concerto of three of the solo string piano pieces, and a fascinating etude in mysterious sonorities.

5 out of 5 stars About Time.......2006-01-09

It is indeed about time that we get recordings of this American Master's work. His centennial passed in 1997 with all too little fanfare and many of his works unavailable to the listening public.
But leave it to the wonderful folks at NAXOS to bring such essential music from unjust obscurity and make it available at such friendly prices.
The venerable new music ensemble "Continuum" has recorded much obscure, difficult (at least to perform) and essential American music. Past recordings have included the works of Ives, Babbitt, Kirchner, Seeger, Wolpe, etc. And NAXOS is planning to re-release their recording of music by the expatriate genius Conlon Nancarrow as well.
This disc and its companion volume 2 (both apparently re-releases)contain great performances of this listenable repertoire by a composer whose work inspired the likes of John Cage, Lou Harrison, Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions and a host of significant composers. His experimental work gave rise to new musical techniques he later outlined in his seminal book "New Musical Resources".
These chamber works come from a range of times in Cowell's career and are representative of his talents in the chamber and solo repertoire.
Joel Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer along with their colleagues have given us great musicianship and fine recordings. Anyone interested in American classical music of the early and mid-twentieth century will not be disappointed. These discs belong in your collection.
Paul Sperry Sings An American Sampler
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Tantalizing tidbits
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ASIN: B0000049MO
Release Date: 1995-04-07

Tracks:

  1. Pied Beauty
  2. Orpheus with His Lute
  3. My Sweet Old Etcetera
  4. When Frost Moves Fast
  5. Dirge for Two Veterans
  6. Love in the Dictionary
  7. Mourn, Mourn
  8. George
  9. Bells in the Rain
  10. Horror Movie
  11. Rose Family
  12. And What of Love
  13. Who Wrote This Fiendish Rite of Spring
  14. Waitin'
  15. Shadow of the Blues: Silhouette
  16. Shadow of the Blues: Litany
  17. Shadow of the Blues: Island
  18. Shadow of the Blues: Could Be
  19. Quicksilver
  20. For Poulenc
  21. Leap Before You Look
  22. Solitary Hotel
  23. Lament of Ian the Proud
  24. Rain Song
  25. Bird and the Beast
  26. Spring
  27. David's Lamentation
  28. Dust of Snow
  29. No One to Love
  30. Lepidoptera Waltz
  31. I Don't Wanna Rock and Roll

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Tantalizing tidbits.......2000-06-14

You may not love Paul Sperry's voice, but you gotta love his wide-ranging interests and his obvious joy in performing American music. Singers exploring the contemporary American art song will note numerous composers' dedications to this quirky tenor, and listening to his recordings, you quickly understand why. His interpretations go right to the heart of the matter, and proceed right over the top only when it's rigorously demanded in the music. Singers looking for new repertoire will also appreciate the extensive liner notes, in which Mr. Sperry explains where he found the songs.

The range of composers, beyond Billings and Bolcom to Weill and Weisgall, is maddening, giving a tantalizing taste of the diverse flavors of American song in the 20th century. The songs run the gamut of emotions, too, from Ben Weber's powerful 'Mourn, Mourn' to Cowell's sarcastic 'Who Wrote This Fiendish Rite of Spring?' to the loving memory of 'George.'

I highly recommend this accessible and communicative Sampler, and would also suggest that listeners try Mr. Sperry's more tightly focussed collection, Romantic American Songs.
Henry Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music, Vol. 2
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    		Henry Cowell: Instrumental, Chamber and Vocal Music, Vol. 2

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    ASIN: B0007ACVMI
    Release Date: 2005-02-22

    Tracks:

    1. Andante Rubato
    2. Interlude: Presto
    3. Andante Rubato
    4. Con Spirito
    5. Piece For Piano With Strings
    6. Vestiges
    7. Euphoria
    8. What's This
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    12. Rest
    13. Rubato
    14. Andante
    15. Andante
    16. Allegro
    17. Adagio Cantabile
    18. Allegretto Con Brio
    19. Largo Sostenuto
    20. Allegro
    21. Andante
    22. Presto Leggiero
    23. Vigoroso
    The Composer-Performer 40th Anniversary
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • Very interesting
    		 The Composer-Performer 40th Anniversary

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    ASIN: B000005TWL
    Release Date: 1994-10-25

    Tracks:

    1. Aeolian Harp; The Banshee
    2. The Letter
    3. Waltz-Gavotte: Waltz - Gavotte
    4. Fantasy In Space
    5. Image
    6. Praises And Prayers
    7. Fanfare From Organ Book: Fanfare From Organbook
    8. Spatials
    9. Divertimento
    10. Five Sonorous Inventions
    11. The Nantucket Songs
    12. Petroushskates
    13. Samba D Hiccup
    14. Strange Quiet
    15. Requiem For Bosnia
    16. Nine Songs Ritual Opera
    17. Apocalypse

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Very interesting.......2001-02-23

    - especially the Walzt-Gavottte is playfull and summes of live and fun - a bit Childrens Corner here. But some of the pieces are very etniclike and can be foreign to listen to. Though - it sounds interesting.
    Voices from Elysium
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      		Voices from Elysium

      Manufacturer: New World Records
      ProductGroup: Music
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      ASIN: B00000AGK9
      Release Date: 1998-09-29

      Tracks:

      1. As It Fell Upon A Day
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      4. Prayer To Hermes
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      Permit Me Voyage: Songs by American Composers
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      • A real find
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      ASIN: B0000049NO
      Release Date: 1995-01-25

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars A real find.......2001-04-26

      This is a terrific recording of some familar and some little-known American composers. The most substantial work in this varied collection is certainly the Argento setting of selections from the diary of Virginia Woolf. Mary Ann Hart must be just about the ideal interpretter of these powerful songs. Great vocalism, great musicianship, and a special ability to do what the music demands without short-changing the words - which is essential to the success of this cycle. The entire CD - while varied both stylistically an in terms of the quality of compositions - is consistent in the brilliance of the performances and in the appeal of these songs. Highly recommended for anyone who is interested in contemporary American art songs, or who just loves great singing.
      Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • Item not received.
      • A Nice Assortment
      • Important American art songs performed by superb recitalists
      		 Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers

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      Customer Reviews:

      3 out of 5 stars Item not received........2006-01-15

      I have not received this item yet. It is on back order. I had to rate it so put 3 stars. However sicne it hasn't been received I can't really rate it. You ought to take situations like this into consideration if you're going to do this sort of thing.

      3 out of 5 stars A Nice Assortment.......2001-03-13

      The CD contains a nice selection of songs from composers who we may not hear that much of. I bought this CD for Copland's Dirge in Woods and it was very nice. But I found some other nice treasures on this CD too. Four vocalists, two males and two females, take on this sometimes very challenging music. The music for the most part is not soft and languid both rather has some what we would think of as mid 20th century types of chords. Unless you're into that kinda of thing, you may not want to get this CD. These aren't master works, but just nice little songs a composer might of written while taking a break between writing operas or symphonies.

      5 out of 5 stars Important American art songs performed by superb recitalists.......2000-05-30

      This CD, a digital remastering of a recording originally released in 1962, is an extraordinary value for anyone interested in American art song, or simply in fine singing. I bought it because I wanted to hear Eleanor Steber's performance of Griffes's "Waikiki", which did not disappoint. But there are many other wonderful songs, all presented with great artistry. They range from the demanding complexity of Barber's "Nuvoletta" and Ives's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" to the lyricism of the Ernst Bacon songs to texts by Emily Dickinson. The final song on the CD, John McCollum's performance of Henry Cowell's "The Donkey", is especially memorable; I recommend this version over the one on the Albany label's "Songs of Henry Cowell" CD (which I bought because my interest in Cowell's songs was raised by hearing "The Donkey").
      Songs Of Henry Cowell
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        		Songs Of Henry Cowell

        Manufacturer: Albany Records
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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