New Music for Oboe

Featuring oboist Jonathan Blumenfeld. Compositions: Ingrid Arauco - Trio for oboe, violin, and piano, "Jasper" for solo oboe; Curt Cacioppo - Concerto for Oboe and String Chamber Orchestra.

Daniel Adams - Shadow on Mist

Featuring the McCormick Percussion Ensemble. Compositions: Isorhythmic Concerto; Three Movements for Unaccompanied Marimba; Alloy; Ambience; Lignumvitae; Shadow on Mist; Stratum; Two Antiphonal Portraits.

In the Center - Daniel Kessner at Forfest

Compositions: Prière at Scherzo; Simple Motion; In the Center; tous les matins; String quartet.

Who Might Sing in All the Muted Woods

Erika Sunnegardh sings three song cycles by Joel Mandelbaum. Compositions: I Journey Back (poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay), Light and Shade (poems of Susan Fox), A Wind of Fall (poems of Léonie Adams).

The Truth About Love

Music and the poetry of W. H. Auden. Compositions: Benjamin Britten - Let the Florid Music Praise; Igor Stravinsky - Here I Stand; Russell Smith - Epitaph on a Tyrant; Lisa de Spain - Their Lonely Betters, We're Late; Joyce Suskind - The More Loving One; Don Hagar - Leap Before You Look; Binnette Lipper - As I Walked Out One Evening; W. A. Mozart - Pamina/Papageno duet; Don Stratton - Musee des Beaux Arts; Samuel Barber - The Monk and His Cat; Beth Anderson - Lullaby; John Lessard - I Cannot Grow; Ned Norem - Stop All the Clocks; Hans W. Henze - On a Forest Footpath; Benjamin Britten - Tell Me the Truth About Love, Underneath the Abject Willow.

Milestones

CD number 17 from the Society of Composers, Inc. Compositions: Maria A. Niederberger - Piano Quintet; Nickitas J. Demos - Postscript; Jeff Myers - Five Parametric Etudes; Gregg Wramage - Into the Black Oblivion; John M. Allemeier - Light Blossom; Emily Doolittle - Night Black Bird Song; Paul Richards - Kaleidophone.

Turning to the Center

Songs for baritone, clarinet, and keyboards by Phillip Schroeder: An Offering, From Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, Turning to the Center.

Recollections of the Inland Sea

Featuring Karen Demsey, flute, and Greg Giannascoli, percussion. Compositions: Tsuneya Tanabe - Recollections of the Inland Sea; Ingolf Dahl - Duettino for Flute and Percussion; Claude Debussy - Syrinx for Flute Along; Richard Rodney Bennett - After Syrinx II; Michael Holober - Toccata.

Banjaxed - Zack Browning

Compositions: Breakpoint Screamer; Trilimital Adversary: Cold Cuts; Sole Injection; Black Notes; Banjaxed; Network Slammer; Impact Addiction; GridRock.

Contradiction - Allen Savedoff

Compositions: Ary Barroso - Brazil; Leonard Bernstein/James Brown - I Feel Pretty Good; Kim Scharnberg - Contradance, Vista, Rumble; Victor Young - When I Fall In Love; George Gershwin - Summertime; Duke Ellington/Juan Tizol - Caravan; Thelonius Monk/Cootie Williams - 'Round Midnight; Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments; Irving Berlin - Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Lower); Kurt Weill - Speak Low; Joe Zawinul - (Big) Birdland.

I am - Deborah Thurlow

Compositions: Clive Smith - Ancient Future; Eric Ross - Serenade (Op. 46); Deborah Thurlow - Sacred Postlude, The Chaotic World; Yaacov Mishori - Prolonged Shofar Variations.

Whippin' the Keys
75 Years of Novelty Piano Ragtime

Matthew Davidson, piano solo, with Gary Smart, guest artist. Compositions: Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey - Poor Buttermilk; Arthur Schutt - Bringup Breakdown, Teasin' the Ivories, Piano Puzzle; Rube Bloom - Soliloquy; Roy Bargy - Pianoflage; Clarence M. Jones - Modulations; Sam Goold - Whippin' the Keys; Frank herbin - Peanut Cackle; Donald Thorne - Firecrackers, Spring Feelin'; William Albright - Sleight of Hand; William Bolcom - Seabiscuits; Matthew Davidson - Foggy Bottom; Robin Frost - Hard Luck Lulu; Ross Petot - Satisfaction; William Bolcom, William Albright - Brass Knuckles; Gary Smart - No Way Jam.

Music/Text II

Compositions: Michael Hamman - discourse/current; Linda Dusman - Becoming Becoming Gertrude; Wesley Fuller - vers; Agostino Di Scipio - Fragments for 'Tiresisas'; Thomas DeLio - think on parch.

Crossfade - The Hoffmann / Goldstein Duo

Compositions: Christian Wolff - Rosas; Jo Kondo - Aquarelle; Ralph Shapey - Gottlieb Duo; Stuart S. Smith - Links No. 6 (Song Interiors); Patrick Hardish - Duo.