ROGER SESSIONS
Discography
compiled by Andrea Olmstead
First period: 1910–1923
The
Black Maskers (1928)
(Incidental Music 1923) (for orchestra)
Juilliard Orchestra/Paul Zukofsky: New World Records, CD 268-2
Eastman-Rochester Sym. Orch./Howard Hanson: Mercury (mono); Polygram CD 34310
Second period: 1924–1935
Three Chorale Preludes for Organ (1924 and 1926)
Marilyn Mason, organ: Counterpoint/Esoteric
CTP 522 (mono)
Symphony No. 1 (1927)
Japan Phil. Sym. Orch./Akeo Watanabe: Composers Recordings Inc. CRI
SD 131; CRI CD 537
On the Beach at
Fontana (1930)
Bethany Beardslee, sop.; Robert Helps, piano: New World Records NS 243; NWR CD NW 80243
Phyllis Curtin, Robert Helps: VAI Audio CD VAIA 1194
Sonata for Piano, No. 1 (1930)
Robert Helps;
Composers Recordings Inc. CRI SD 198; CRI CD 800
Rebecca LaBreque: Opus
One 56/7 LPs
Christopher O’Riley: Albany
Troy CD 038-2
Barry Salwen: Koch CD 3-7106-2H1
Robert Shannon: Bridge CD, 9036 Piano Sonatas of Ives and Harbison
Four Pieces for Children (1935–1939) (piano)
Sahan Arzruni: New
World Records CD 80590
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1935)
Paul Zukofsky/French Radio and Television Phil.
Orch./Gunther Schuller: Composers
Recordings Inc.,
CRI SD 220; CRI
CD 676
James Bolle/Monadnock Festival Orchestra, Ole Bohn-violin, Albany Records (Troy 938)
Third period: 1936–1947
String Quartet No. 1 in e minor (1936)
Pro Arte String Quartet: New World Records 302
(mono)
Galimir Quartet: Guild
Recordings set no. RSSI (78 r.p.m.)
Group for Contemporary Music: Koch CD 7113
Chorale for Organ (1938)
Pages form a Diary
(1939) (piano)
Maro Ajemian: M.G.M. E 3218 (mono)
Leon Fleisher: Epic
LC 3862 (mono); Columbia FCX 999
(mono), SAFX 999
Robert Helps: CRI CD 800
Herbert Rogers: CRI CRI SD 281
Roger Shields: Vox
set no. SVBX 5303
Barry Salwen: Koch
CD 7106
Duo for Violin and Piano (1942)
Paul Zukofsky, violin; Gilbert Kalish, piano: Desto set no. DC 6435 to DC 6437 (record
no. DC 6437) LP
Patricia Travers, violin; Otto Herz, piano: Columbia LP MM 987
Curt Macomber, violin; Barry Salwen, piano: Koch CD 3-7153-2H1
Turn, O Libertad
(1944) (mixed chorus and piano four-hands)
Gregg Smith Singers/Oresta Cybriwsky and Raymond Beegle,
piano duet/Gregg Smith: Vox set no
SVBX 5353
Symphony No. 2 (1946)
Phil. Sym. Orch. of New York/Dimitri Mitropoulos: Columbia set no. MM 920
(78
r.p.m. records, nos. 13095 D to 13097 D) ML 2120 (10” mono), ML 4784 (mono);
Composers Records Inc, CRI SD 278 (also cassette), CD 593
San Francisco Sym./Blomstedt, cond.: London CD 443-376-2
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1946)
Robert Helps: CRI
CD 800
Randall Hodgkinson: New
World Records NWR 320
Rebecca LaBreque: Opus
One 56/7 LPs
Peter Lawson: Virgin
Classics CD 61928
Alan Marks: Composers
Recordings Inc. S-385 LP
Beveridge Webster: Dover
HCR 5265 (mono)
Barry Salwen: Koch
CD 3-7106-2H1
The Trial of
Lucullus (1947)
Fourth period: 1951–1960
String Quartet No. 2 (1951)
New Music Quartet: Columbia
MS 5105 (mono)
Juilliard String Quartet: CRI CD 587
Sonata for Violin Solo (1953)
Robert Gross: Orian
ORS 73110 LP
Paul Zukofsky: CP 2 1
LP
Curt Macomber: Koch
CD 3-7153-2H1
Idyll of
Theocritus (1954) (soprano and orchestra)
Audrey Nossaman, op./Louisville Orch./Robert Whitney: Lou. 67-4 (mono); First Edition CD
Mass for Unison
Choir (1955) (male voices)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956)
Robert Taub: New
World Recordings CD NW80443
Robert Taub, James Levine/Munich Phil. Orch.: Oehms Classics CD OEH 502
Symphony No. 3 (1957)
Royal Phil. Orch./Igor Buketoff, cond.: R.C.A. LSC 3095; Composers
Recordings Inc.
CRI
S0451; CRI CD 573
String Quintet (1958)
Pro Arte Quartet: Albany
CD
The Group for Contemporary Music: Koch CD 7113
Symphony No. 4 (1958)
Columbus Sym. Orch./Christian Badea, cond.: New World Records NWR 345; CD 345-2
Divertimento for Orchestra (1960)
Louisville Orch./Peter Leonard, cond.: Lou. 776; First Editions CD
Fifth period: 1960–1970
Montezuma (1963) (opera in three acts)
Psalm 140
(1963) (for soprano and orchestra)
Symphony No. 5 (1964)
Columbus Sym. Orch./Christian Badea: New World Records NWR 345;
CD NWR 345-2
Sonata for Piano No. 3 (1965)
Nabore: Doron CD,
ORC 3002
Robert Helps: New
World Records NWR 307
Robert Helps: CRI
CD 800
Rebecca LaBreque: Opus
One 56/7 LP
Barry Salwen: Koch
CD 7106
Symphony No. 6 (1966)
American Composers Orch./Dennis Davies, cond.: Argo CD 444 519-2
Six Pieces for Violoncello (1966)
Roy Christensen: Gasparo
GS 102
Joel Krosnick: Koch
CD 7153
Peter Wispelway: ChannelClassics, CD 7495
Joshua Gordon, The
Group for Contemporary Music: Naxos CD 8.559261
Matt Hamovitz: Deutsche Grammophon, 453 417-2 20th Century Cello, Vol. 2
Symphony No. 7 (1967)
Louisville Orch./Peter Leonard: Lou. 776 LP
American Composers Orch./Davies: Argo CD 444 519-2
Symphony No. 8 (1968)
New Philharmonia Orch./Frederik Prausnitz; Argo ARG 702 LP
Symphony No. 8 (2005)
Rhapsody for Orchestra (1970)
New Philharmonia Orch./Frederik Prausnitz: Argo ZRG 702 LP
Columbus Sym. Orch./Christian Badea: New World Records NWR 345; CD NWR 345-2
Sixth period: 1970–1981
When
Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (1971) (cantata for soprano contralto and
baritone
soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra)
Esther Hinds, op.; Florence Quivar, mezzo; Dominic Cossa, bar./Tanglewood
Festival Chorus,
Boston
Sym. Orch./Seiji Ozawa: New Word Records
NWR 296; NWR CD 296-2, NWR CD 80296
Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, and Orchestra
(1971)
Canons (1971) (for string quartet)
The Group for Contemporary Music: Koch CD 7113
The Group for Contemporary
Music: Naxos CD 8.559261
Concertino for Chamber Orchestra (1972)
University of Chicago Chamber Players/Ralph Shapey, cond.: Desto 7155 LP; Phoenix USA CD PHCD 137
Three Choruses on Biblical Texts (1972) (with orchestra)
Five Pieces for Piano (1975)
Robert Black: Composers
Recordings Inc. CRI S-481 LP
Barry Salwen: Koch
CD 7106
Waltz for Piano (1978)
Alan Feinberg: Nonesuch
79011
Barry Salwen: Koch
CD 7106
Symphony No. 9 (1978)
American Composers Orch./Davies: Argo CD 444 519-2
Concerto for Orchestra (1981)
Boston Sym. Orch./Seiji Ozawa: Hyperion A66050 LP; CD A66060
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