classical music: Joshua Gordon

classical music: Joshua Gordon

classical music:

Joshua Gordon

Music of Charles Jones
Gregory Purnhagen, Martin Kuuskmann, ...

Composers Recordings, 1999

Wuorinen: String Quartet No2; Harvey: String quartet No1

Joshua Gordon, Jonathan Harvey, ...

Koch Int'l Classics, 1997

String Quartet masteworks
Three radically different approches to the string quartet: includes the first recording of Wuorinen's SECOND STRING QUARTET, Wayne Peterson's String Quartet No. 1 (one of the few existing recordings of this Pulitzer Prize winner) and British composer Jonathan ...

Morton Feldman: String Quartet

Joshua Gordon, Morton Feldman, ...

Koch Int'l Classics, 1994

It's all about letting go...
This recording of Feldman's First (numbered) String Quartet came out five years ago and I came across almost by chance (I encountered it through a library catalogue). I was always used to Feldman's music, to a point that the long works, such as "For Philip Guston," ...

Mumford: The Focus of Blue Light

Susan Heineman, Andre Emelianoff, ...

Composers Recordings, 1994

Put Your Head in the Clouds
When listening to the music of Jeffrey Mumford, and especially the music on this CD, prepare to be transported to a beautiful place where music evokes the weightless feeling of clouds slowly shape-shifting and subtly changing hues. This powerful yet gentle music ...

Roger Sessions: Quintet; Quartet

Roger Sessions, Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia University, ...

Koch International Classics, 1997

Sessions at his best
This is actually a very elegant CD. This is twelve tone composition at its best (and written by an American at that). If you wish Webern had written longer chamber works, (and perhaps with more aggressive dynamics) Sessions rounds out that need very neatly in these ...

Roger Sessions: String Quartet

Roger Sessions, Joshua Gordon, ...

Naxos American, 2006

Well-crafted music, if perhaps a little dry
This disc, one of a number of recordings featuring the Group for Contemporary Music that have been reissued on Naxos American Classics after having previously being available on Koch, marks the first appearance of the music of Roger Sessions at Naxos price. Sessions, ...

Chamber Works
Joshua Gordon, Marty Ehrlich, ...

Tzadik, 1999

Leo Ornstein: Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Leo Ornstein, Joshua Gordon, ...

New World Records, 2007

Leo Ornstein for Cello and Piano
Leo Ornstein (1893 - 2001) was a child prodigy as a pianist. His family fled the Russian Pogroms and moved to New York City in 1906. From 1915 to the mid-1920s, Ornstein enjoyed a flamboyant and successful career as a concert pianist. He was also in the vanguard of ...

Bang on a Can Live, Vol. 2
Joshua Gordon, Theodore Mook, ...

Composers Recordings, 1994

Charles Wuorinen: String Sextet; Piano Quintet; Divertimento

Charles Wuorinen, Fred Sherry, ...

Naxos American, 2006

An American musical icon.
Many fans of 20th Century classical music will most likely have some works by Wuorinen in their collections; he was hard to avoid in the 1970's when Nonesuch issued a good number of his works on their bargain-priced albums. I have many of those great albums, and it is ...

Exhange: Latin America

Joshua Gordon, Rebecca Patterson, ...

Composers Recordings, 2000

Worthy inversion.
Some works in these recording first striked me as dryly academic, some others as pleasant background listening while others simply sounded brilliant. From any of my perspectives, however, this is an essential compilation in terms of getting a general Idea of the ...

American Christmas
Anonymous, William Billings, ...

Loft Recordings, 2003

The Tudor Choir explores Christmas tunes belonging to the American shapenote tradition. Contains an early American version of "Joy to the World."

Blue Minor: Chamber Music by Elizabeth Brown

Dennis James, Gregory Hesselink, ...

Albany Records, 2003

Wicked, Woozy and Wondrous
One of the joys of listening to music by little-known composers is that sometimes you really luck onto something wonderful. And that is what has happened for me with this CD of some chamber music by Elizabeth Brown; I'd known of her as a flutist, but not as a composer. ...