DISCOGRAPHY of WOMEN COMPOSERS' MUSIC

This is a discography (list of recordings) of some of the Knight Library's Douglass Room collection. The recordings usually do not circulate outside the Library, except to the faculty and Graduate Teaching Fellows of the University of Oregon. However, any item listed as Doug. Circ. is part of our Circulating Compact Disc Collection, and may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan, and by anyone with a UO-approved card.

Because of copyright considerations, we do not honor requests for copies of these materials.

The call numbers designate the type of recording material represented. Those call numbers preceded by the designation PHONODISC are LP's; those with COMPACT DISC and CD's; and those with CASSETTE are cassettes or cassette kits.

Note:Items marked with an asterisk (*) designate those recordings for which we own a score in our Music Services Department score collection.

The list of scores by women composers owned by the University is available on the web and entitled the Scoreography of Music by Women Composers

For more information on women composers and musicians, see the Guide to Resources on Women in Music on our web page.

Collections

Collections: A

 

Ah! love but a day: songs and spirituals by women composers.
 Albany Records/Videmus TROY 385, 2000.
PERFORMERS:Louis Toppin, soprano; Jay A. Pierson, baritone; John B.O'Brien, piano.
CONTENTS:American lullaby/Gladys Rich--O'Jim; Into the night/Clara Edwards--Three cowboy songs. Bucking bronco; Lift me into heaven slowly; Billy the Kid/Libby Larsen--In the twilight; Irish love song/Margaret Ruthven Lang--From Though love be a day. Maggie and Millie and Molly and May; Still/Gwyneth Walker--Songs of the season. Young love in spring; Poeme d'automne; Winter moon; Summer storm/Margaret Bonds--Ah! love, but a day/Amy Beach--To be baptised; Set down; I want to die while you love me; Come down angels/Undine Moore--Sympathy; The glory of the day was in her face; Hold fast to dreams/Florence Price--Guide my feet/arr. Jackie Hairston--The pasture; Little David play on your harp/Margaret Bonds-- At the foot of yon mountain; Canaan/ arr. Barbara Poulshock--Ride up in the chariot/arr.Betty Jackson King.
DOUGLASS  COMPACT DISC CX11163                 

Collections: C

Cassatt.
CRI CD 671
Contemporary music for string quartet.
Selections include: Cassandra sings/ Tina Davidson--Four Marys/ Julia Wolfe--Lemniscates/ Eleanor Hovda
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX2732

Chamber works by women composers.
VoxBox CDX 5029, p1991.
PERFORMERS: Macalester Trio; Robert Zelnick, violin (6th work); Tamas Strasser, viola (6th work); Paul Freed, piano (3rd-4th works)
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Trio for piano, violin & cello in G minor, op. 17/ Clara Schumann --Trio for piano, violin & cello, op. 150/ Amy Beach --Sonata for violin & piano in C-sharp minor/ Germaine Tailleferre--Nocturne; Cortege/ Lili Boulanger --Trio for piano, violin & cello in D minor, op. 11/ Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- String quartet in B minor/ Teresa Carreno --Trio for piano, violin & cello no. 1 in G minor, op. 11/ Cecile Chaminade
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX9102

Character sketches: solo piano works by 7 American women.
Leonardo LE 334
Selections include:Sandburg suite/ Victoria Bond--Momentum/ Tania Leon --Character sketches/ Jane Brockman --Fiestas y danzas/ Ruth Schonthal --Cantos for the end of summer/ Gwyneth Walker -- Exequy; Fragments/ Marga Richter --Calendar collection/ Judith Lang Zaimont
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX2554

Childhood memories: music for younger pianists.
 New World Records 80590-2, p2002.
PERFORMER:       Sahan Arzruni, piano.
CONTENTS:        Children's carnival/Amy Beach--Three toccatinas/Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee--Altered steps to altered states/Miriam Gideon--Soundshots/Louise Talma.
DOUGLASS  COMPACT DISC CX11080                 

Contemporary anthology of music by women.
Compiled by James R. Briscoe.
Indiana University Press, p1999.
NOTES: Vocal and instrumental music by twentieth-century women composers.
CONTENTS: Fantasy on "O sacred head"/Emma Lou Diemer--What has caused my heart to feel songful: from Three poems by Osip Mandelstam/Elena Firsova--Blow flute: answer echoes in antique lands dying/Jennifer Fowler--Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten/Sofia Gubaidulina--Tagebuch: für Violine und Klavier. Teil II, Die Linien, movements I and II/Barbara Heller--Hängebrücken: Streichquartett an Schubert: excerpt/Adriana Hölszky--Plupart du temps II/Betsy Jolas--Millefoglie: excerpt/Barbara Kolb--To hear the wind roar: excerpt/Joan La Barbara--How it thrills us/ Libby Larsen--Tangram/Hope Lee--The old woman of Beare: conclusion/Nicola LeFanu--Momentum/Tania León--Ritual on a moonlit plain: from Music from night's edge/Alexina Louie--Standing in the gap for you/Babbie Mason--Hejira: from the album Hejira/Joni Mitchell--Airport: from Atlas: an opera in three acts: excerpt/Meredith Monk--Mother to son/Undine Smith Moore--Lethe: from Songstream/Alice Parker--Coat of many colors/Dolly Parton--Thorn trees. Movement III, Tema con 7 variazioni: from Concerto for marimba and orchestra/Marta Ptaszynska--The L and N don't stop here anymore/Jean Ritchie--Come to my garden: from The secret garden/Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman-- Hymn of promise/ Natalie Sleeth--A distant dream/Grace Wiley Smith--Night fields: for string quartet/Joan Tower-- Chernobyl/Nancy Van de Vate--The consolations of scholarship: excerpts/Judith Weir--The journey of Matuku Moana: beginning excerpt/Gillian Whitehead--Our Father: from Mary Lou's Mass/Mary Lou Williams--Parable: a tale of Abram and Isaac: excerpt/Judith Lang Zaimont.
Doug Circ COMPACT DISC CX15017

Collections: D

 

De toda la eternidad: songs of American women composers.
ACA Digital Recording CM20090, p2005.
PERFORMERS:Bonnie Pomfret, soprano; Laura Gordy, piano.
CONTENTS:De toda la eternidad. Un instante me escuchen; Afuera, afuera, afuera!; Tersa frente, oro el cabello; Esta tarde, mi bien; Diuturna enfermedad de la esperanza/Libby Larsen--Five songs. One need not be a chamber to be haunted; Rain song; Glory be to God for dappled things; Spring and fall: to a young child; Leap before you look/Louise Talma--Among dawn flowers/Augusta Read Thomas--Three dream portraits. Minstrel man; Dream variation; I, too/Margaret Bonds--Cuatro canciones andinas. Despedida; Yo crío una mosca; Carnaval de Tambobamba; Yunca/Gabriela Lena Frank--Songs from letters: Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, 1880-1902. So like your father's; He never misses; A man can love two women; A working woman; All I have/Libby Larsen.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX15851

Divine Euterpe.
Loft Recordings LRCD 1021, [2000]
PERFORMER: Kimberly Marshall, playing the Rosales organ of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Ore.
CONTENTS:Organ symphony in B-minor/Elfrida Andree--Suite for organ no. 1/Florence Price--Prelude and fugue on O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid/Ethel Smyth--Mass L'homme arme/Margaret Vardell Sandresky--Prelude for organ/Fanny Mendelssohn
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX14186

Collections: E

 

Early music by women composers.
Susan G. Sandman
Selections Include: Amours, u trop tart me sui pris/ Queen Blanche of Castile(Consort of Louis VIII, King of France, 1188-1252 --Mout m'abelist quant je voi revenir/ Maroie, de Dregnau de Lille--A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu non volria/ Countess of Dia--In vain, fair Chloris, you design; When first I saw fair Dorris eyes; And is this all? What one poor kisse/ Mary Harvey, the Lady Dering (1629-1704)- O deathe, rock me asleepe/Anne Boleyn.
DOUGLASS CASSETTE 1377M

Emergency music collection.
 CRI CD 770, [1998]
CONTENTS: Landscaping for privacy/Eve Beglarian; text by Linda Norton (Twisted Tutu (Eve Beglarian, voice; Kathleen Supove, keyboards))--Transparent victims/Tina Davidson (Marshall Taylor, saxophones)--Caught/Pamela Z(Pamela Z, voice with electronics)--Champagne in Mexico City: fragment set #1/Judy Dunaway(Judy Dunaway,balloons; Dan Evans-Farkas, electronics)--Call 330-CURB/Victoria Jordanova(Victoria Jordanova, Celtic harp with electronics)
DOUGLASS  COMPACT DISC CX11070                 

The eternal feminine.
Koch International Classics 3-7506-2 H1, p2001.
NOTES: "150 years of women's songs about love, loss and motherhood".
The Larsen work is a song cycle.
PERFORMERS: Susanne Mentzer, mezzo-soprano; Craig Rutenberg, piano.
CONTENTS:Warum willst du an'dre fragen?: op. 12, no. 11; Ihr Bild: op. 13, no. 1; Sie liebten sich Beide: op. 13, no. 2/Clara Schumann--Laue Sommernacht; Bei dir ist so Traut; Ich wandle unter Blumen/Alma Schindler Mahler--The seal man/Rebecca Clarke-- Selections from Clairieres dans le ciel/Lili Boulanger --Love after 1950/Libby Larsen-- God be in my heart; Heart of a rose/Elinor Remick Warren--Come, oh come; Cloths of heaven/Rebecca Clarke--To a blue-eyed baby/Elinor Remick Warren--Infant joy; Cradle song/Rebecca Clarke--Wiegenlied; Von den Engeln; Wenn's Kindchen gefallen ist; Schnecklied/Lisbeth Alexander-Katz--Wouldn't that be queer?/Amy Cheney Beach.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX11091

Collections: F

 

Der ferne Spiegel
Bayer Records 100 246, p1993.
PERFORMERS: Cornelia Thorspecken, flute; Cordula Hacke, piano.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Concertino op. 107/ Cecile Chaminade --Klange des Waldes: 1978 / Sofia Gubaidulina --Medieval suite: 1986 / Katherine Hoover --Non astrando: 1982/ Barbara Niewiadomska --Acht Skizzen: op. 5/ Ilse Fromm-Michaels --Diptyque: 1954/ Jeanine Rueff
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX7385

Fluffy ruffle girls: women in ragtime.
Koch International Classics 3-7457-2 H1, p1999.
PERFORMER: Virginia Eskin, piano.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Fluffy ruffle girls rag/ Marian I. Davis --Novelty rag; A totally different rag/ May Aufderheide --Possum rag/ Geraldine Dobyns --The Richmond rag/ May Aufderheide --Horseshoe rag/ Julia Lee Niebergall --Eatin' time/ Irene Cozad -- Reflective rag/ Judith Lang Zaimont -- That poker rag/ Charlotte Blake -- Sleepy Lou/ Irene Giblin --The thriller!; Dusty rag/ May Aufderheide -- Red rambler rag/ Julia Lee Niebergall --Black feather two-step/ Irene Giblin--Red peppers/ Imogene Giles-- Buzzer rag/ May Aufderheide--Piffle rag/ Gladys Yelvington -- Hoosier rag / Julia Lee Niebergall -- Dish rag/ Mary Baugh Watson --Judy's rag/ Judith Lang Zaimont --Chicken chowder/ Irene Giblin --That tired rag/ Charlotte Blake --Pickles and peppers/ Adaline Shepherd
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5462

Collections: H

 

Historical anthology of Music by Women
Indiana U. Press
CONTENTS:v.1=The Fallen Woman/ Kassia--*In Evangelium/Hildegard von Bingen--Kyrie/Hildegard von Bingen--O Deathe, rock me asleepe/Anne Boleyn--Morte-Che voi-Te chiamo/Maddalena Casulana--Maria, dolce Maria/Francesca Caccini--Aria of the Shepherd, from *La Liberazione di Ruggiero/Francesca Caccini--Kyrie, from Messa Prima/Isabella Leonarda--Adagio, from Sonata in F for Flute & Continuo/Anna Amalie--Symphonie, Recitatif, et Air, from Semele/Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre--Sinfonia, from Pallade e Marte/Maria Margherita Grimani--Allegro, from Sonata in A (For piano)/Marianne von Martinez--Morgenlied einese armen MannesMaria Theresia von Paradis?--Nocturne (for piano) Maria Agata Szymanowska--*Schwanenlied (soprano & piano)/Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel- *Liebst du um Schoenheit (soprano & piano)/Clara Schumann--*Fruhzeitiger Fruhling (soprano & piano)/Josephine Lang. v.2=*Allegro moderato, from Trio in G minor (piano, violin & cello)/Clara Schumann--Allegro deciso, from Trio in E minor (flute, cello & piano)/Louise Farrenc--Die Beschworung (soprano & piano) /Pauline Viardot-Garcia--*Elle et moi (soprano & piano)/Amy Marcy Beach--A Hermit Thrush at Morn(soprano & piano)/Amy Marcy Beach--The Wreckers, scene from Act I/Dame Ethel Smyth--Je garde une medaille d'elle, from Clairieres dans le ciel (soprano & piano)/Lili Boulanger-*Der Erkennende(soprano & piano)/Alma Mahler--*Allegro, from Trio for violin, cello, & piano/Rebecca Clarke--*Prelude No. 2 for piano/Ruth Crawford Seeger--Rat Riddles, from Three Songs (mezzo-soprano & instrumental ensemble)/Ruth Crawford Seeger-- Modere sans lenteur, from Sonata in C# minor for Violin & piano/Germaine Tailleferre--The Triumph of Alcestis, from Alcestis/Vivian Fine. v.3=*The Hound of Heaven (for baritone, oboe, violin, viola, cello)/Miriam Gideon--*Sonata No.2 for piano/Grazyna Bacewicz--La Corona, from La Corona, Seven Sonnets (chorus)/Louise Talma--*Homunculus C.F. (for percussion ensemble)/Julia Perry--Preamble, from Sonata for Alto Saxophone & piano/Violet Archer--Monologue of Mary, from *Mary, Queen of Scots/Thea Musgrave--First Movement, from Symphony No. 1/ Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
DOUGLASS CASSETTE 1431M

An Historical Sampling of Women Composers and their music.
Leonarda LP 1/2
CONTENTS: La Music by Francesca and Settimia Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Campana; French Baroque Cantatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre; Nine songs, by Louise Reichardt; Six Songs, Op. 1 by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel; Nineteenth Century Nonets, by Louise Farrenc; Clairieres dans le Ciel/Lili Boulanger; *Vier Lieder/Alma Mahler; *The Medieval Suite, Reflections/Katherine Hoover; Homage to Keith Jarrett and Gary Burton/Barbara Kolb; Landscapes of the Mind II, Sonara (for 2 clarinets & piano)/Marga Richter; A Calender Set (for solo piano); Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales (for tenor & piano); *Nocturne (for solo piano); Two songs for soprano and harp/Judith Lang Zaimont; Totengesange (for soprano and piano)/Ruth Schonthal; Bassoon Quartet/ Katherine Hoover;*Einsame Nacht/Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; Six Songs/Rebecca Clarke; *Kyrie/ Hildegard von Bingen; First Mass, Op.18/ Isabella Leonarda; Lieder/ Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel; Lieder/Clara Schumann; Lieder/Pauline Viardot-Garcia; Lieder/ Josephine Lang; *Trio in E Minor, Op.45/Louise Farrenc; Nocturne (for flute); D'un Matin de Printemps/Lili Boulanger; *Pastorale/Germaine Tailleferre; On the Betrothal of Princess Isabelle of France, aged Six Years (for flute)/Katherine Hoover; Elegy for a Whale (flute)/Ludmila Uhehla; Trio for violin, cello and piano/ Katherine Hoover; *Trio for violin, cello and piano/Rebecca Clarke; String Quartet No.3/ Lucie Vellere; String Quartet/Sarah Aderholdt; String Quartet/Ruth Schonthal; *String Quartet/Amy Beach; Theme and Variations, Op.80/Amy Beach; *Divertimento/Katherine Hoover; The Magic World (for baritone, piano, and percussion)/Judith Lang Zaimont; Quartet for Strings/Priaulx Rainier; On the Edge: Five works for pitched or spoken voice, in combination with glass harmonic, violin, piano, African drums, congas, saw and kalimba/Julie Kabat.
DOUGLASS CASSETTE 1435M

Collections: I

 

If tigers were clouds.
Innova 589, c2003.
PERFORMERSp;Zeitgeist: Heather Barringer, Patti Cudd, percussion; Pat O'Keefe, woodwinds; Anatoly Larkin, piano; Yuri Merzhevsky, violin; and others.
NOTES:Produced under the sponsorship of the American Composers Forum.
CONTENTS:Xanadu/Mildred Couper--Five will get you seven/Annie Gosfield--Sound fishes/Pauline Oliveros--If tigers were clouds ... then reverberating, they could create all songs/Eleanor Hovda--Swim!/Beth Custer--Pieces for orchestra/Yoko Ono-- Dirge/Mildred Couper--Ironia--Suite No. 2/Johanna M. Beyer.
DOUGLASS  COMPACT DISC CX11424                 

Images: music for horn and piano by women composers.
s.n. 1996?]
PERFORMERS:Cynthia Carr, horn ; Julie Nishimura, piano.
CONTENTS:Sonata for horn and piano/Edith Borroff--Images/Cindy McTee--Ballade normande/ Yvonne Desportes--Songs of the wolf/Andrea Clearfield--Four fables/Judith Olson.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX15847

In praise of woman: 150 years of English women composers.
Helios/Hyperion CDH55159, c2004.
PERFORMERS:Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor; Graham Johnson, piano.
CONTENTS:My mother/ Miss LH of Liverpool-- Juanita/ Caroline Norton--Orpheus/ Virginia Gabriel--In the gloaming/Annie Fortescue Harrison--The throstle; My soul is an enchanted boat; The devout lover; So we'll go no more a-roving/ Maude Valérie White--Slave song/ Teresa Del Riego-- A widow bird sate mourning; Ah, moon of my delight; The lily of a day; Thoughts have wings; Henry King; Charles Augustus Fortescue/ Liza Lehmann--Till I wake; Kashmiri song: (Pale hands I loved)/Amy Woodforde-Finden--Possession/ Ethel Smyth--The aspidistra; Shy one/ Rebecca Clarke--In praise of woman/ Elizabeth Poston--As I walked out one evening/ Elisabeth Lutyens--Have you seen but a bright lily grow; Meditation for his mistress/Elizabeth Maconchy--Crabbed age and youth; To the virgins, to make much of time/ Madeleine Dring--Epitaph/Phyllis Tate.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX15850

Collections: L

 

Lesbian American composers
CRI CD 780, p1998.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Poem of change/ Pauline Oliveros (Pauline Oliveros, voice, accordion, original text)--Raw silk: a rag/ Nurit Tilles (Nurit Tilles, piano)--Portrait of Sappho/ Linda Montano (Linda Montano, voice, electronics, piano) --Barbie's other shoe/ Lori Freedman, Marilyn Lerner (Queen Mab) --I want to live: Act II duet from Patience & Sarah/ Paula M. Kimper (Lori Ann Phillips, Elaine Valby, sopranos; orchestra conducted by Steven Osgood)--Wolf chaser/ Eve Beglarian (Robin Lorentz, violin, wolf chaser; Eve Beglarian, percussion, electronics) --running the edgE/ Jennifer Higdon (Claudia Anderson, Jill Felber, flutes;John Piirainen, piano)--I give you back/ Annea Lockwood (Elizabeth Eshleman, soprano)-- Winter / Madelyn Byrne (electronics: Lisa Frisari, crotales; voice of Malin Serner)--SUM (State of the Union message)/ Ruth Anderson (Collage)
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5437

Lieder by women composers. Vol. 1.
Musical Heritage Society MHS 512350
Selections include:Prendi l'ultimo addio/ Maria Walpurgis--Sie scheinen zu spielen/ Anna-Amalia von Sachsen --Fur Manner uns zu plagen; Jugendlied/ Corona Schroter --Endlich winkt der Freund der Muden; Es war einmal ein Gartner; Ihr Lieben, die ich Schwermuthsvolle/ Maria Theresia von Paradis --Peine et plaisir; Le connais -tu?/ Maria Szymanowska --Unruhiger Schlaf; Wassernoth; Daphne am Bach; Heimweh ; Nach Sevilla!/ Louise Reichardt --Aus "Faust"/ Bettina von Arnim --Sehnsucht; Die Nonne; Duett; Heimweh; Verlust/ Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy --Liebst du um Schonheit; An einem lichten Morgen/ Clara Schumann.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX3041

Collections: M

 

The medieval lady.
Leonarda LE 340, p1997.
PERFORMERS: Elizabethan Conversation (Susan Sandman, Derwood Crocker); with Andrea Folan, soprano.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: A chantar/ Countess of Dia --Mout m'abelist quant je voi revenir/ Maroie de Dregnau de Lille --Amours, u trop tart me sui pris/ Queen Blanche --Trotto; Estampie/ anon. --In Evangelium; O viridissima virga; O Ierusalem, aurea civitas/ Hildegard of Bingen --Saltarello; La manfredina/ anon. --O Deathe, rock me asleepe [attributed to] Anne Boleyn--Sweetest love I do not goe/ Lady Killigrew --Green sleeves/ anon--When first I saw fair Dorris' eyes; And is this all? What one poor kisse?; In vain fair Chloris, you design/ Mary Harvey, Lady Dering --La rosignoll/ anon
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5443

Mozart's sister: women's contributions to classical music.
National Public Radio HO 810611.01/01-C
DOUGLASS CASSETTE 999M

Music by American women.
Gasparo GSCD-300, p1995.
NOTES:The 1st work for solo violin.
PERFORMERS:Catherine Tait, violin; Barry Snyder, piano.
CONTENTS:From my garden; Designs; Sonata/Ursula Mamlok--Sonata/Ruth Crawford--Sonata/Louise Talma--Sonata in 3 movements/Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
DOUGLASS  COMPACT DISC CX11212  

Music by women: a celebration.
Capstone Records CPS-8714, p2003.
NOTES:The sicilienne attributed to Maria Theresa von Paradis is spurious and probably the work of Samuel Dushkin.
PERFORMERS:Rosemary Platt, piano; Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano.
CONTENTS:Disc 1.Fantasy/ Elizabeth Vercoe--Tell-tale fantasy/Jane Brockman--Toccata/ Emma Lou Diemer--Theme and seven variations/Ann Callaway--Five ceremonial masks/Ruth Lomon--Nine preludes/Ruth Crawford-- Study in mixed accents/ Ruth Crawford--Disc 2. Chants: Attente; Reflets; Le retour/Lili Boulanger--Songs of earth and air: The kingfisher; April rise/Rhian Samuel--Goethe Lieder: Zweifel; Heute geh' ich; Mailied; Iche denke dein; Die Jahre/ Mary Howe--Irreveries from Sappho: Andromeda rag; Older woman blues; Boogie for Leda/Elizabeth Vercoe--Sicilienne/ Maria Theresa von Paradis--Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann/Clara Schumann--Scherzo II, Opus 14, #2/Clara Schumann--D'un jardin clair/Lili Boulanger--Monologue/Thea Musgrave.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX15849

Musica de la Puebla de Los Angeles.
Nannerl Recordings ARS004, [1996].
PERFORMERS:Ars Femina Ensemble; with guest artists Cecilia Amorocho, soprano; Julie Hartwein, mezzo-soprano; Mike Schroeder, mandolin; Coterie.
CONTENTS:Son de La Ma Teodora/Teodora Gines--Due canzone per tre cornetti o violini/La Contessa--Conditor Alme Siderum/Gracia Baptista--Tocotin/Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz--Two Dutch carols. Christe Gotts eigner Sohn du bist/Anna Ovena Hoijer; Kommet her, mit fleiss betrachted/arr. Anna Ovena Hoijer--Componimento/Lucrezia Vizana--Laudate Domino/Chiara Margarita Cozzolani -- Musicos Ruysenores/Maria Joachina Rodrigues--Ad Gaudia, ad lubila/Maria Xaviera Peruchona--Ymbitatorio al Nascimiento de N[uestro].S[enor]/Lupe Ortiz--Son de La Ma Teodora/Teodora Gines.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5444

The mystic and the muse: celebrating 600 years of women in music.
Dorian Recordings: NPR Classics DOR-90247, p1997.
PERFORMERS:Ensemble Galilei: Marcia Diehl, recorders; Nancy Karpeles, percussion; Sue Richards, celtic harp; Erin Shrader, guitar & fiddle; Carolyn Anderson Surrick, viols; Sarah Weiner, oboe.
NOTES: Program notes by Carolyn Anderson Surrick, Erin Shrader, and Benjamin K. Roe, and biographical notes on performers.
Works by: Nancy Karpeles--Marcia Diehl --Hildegard von Bingen--Sue Richards-- Chris Romaine--Carolyn Anderson Surrick.
[For complete contents, click on album title.]
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX12074

Collections: N

 

New historical anthology of music by women. Companion compact discs.
Compiled by James R. Briscoe.
Indiana University Press, [2004]
CONTENTS:Disc 1. Augustus, the Monarch/Kassia --O virgo ac diadema; Kyrie; O rubor sanguinis/Hildegard von Bingen--A chantar/ La Comtessa de Dia--Je vous pri, dame Maroie/Dame Maroie de Diergnau and Dame Margot--Se je souspire; Ecce iterum/Margaret of Austria--O deathe, rock me asleepe/Anne Boleyn --Madrigal VI. Morte; Che vôi; Te chiamo/Maddalena Casulana-- Il primo libro di madrigale. Maria, dolce Maria; La liberazione di Ruggiero. Aria of the shepherd /Francesca Caccini--Hor che Apollo/Barbara Strozzi-- Missa prima. Kyrie; Crucifixus /Isabella Leonarda--Suite en ré mineur. La flamande; Chaconne et son double; Semelé/Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre--Pallade e Marte. Sinfonia/Maria Margherita Grimani--Sonata in F. Adagio/Anna Amalie, Princess of Prussia
Disc 2. Sonata in A. Allegro/Marianne von Martines-- Morgenlied eines armen Mannes/Maria Theresia von Paradis--Nocturne/ Maria Agata Szymanowska--Schwanenlied/ Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel--Er ist gekommen durch Sturm und Regen; Trio in G minor. Allegro moderato; Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann/ Clara Wieck Schumann--Trio in E minor. Allegro deciso/Louise Farrenc --Die Beschwörung/Pauline Viardot-Garcia--In the twilight; Concerto for piano and orchestra. Scherzo /Amy Beach --Italian sketches. Venise/ Teresa Carreño --Sonata in C minor, op. 21. Allegro/Cécile Chaminade --The wreckers. Scene from Act I/Dame Ethel Smyth --The thriller/May Frances Aufderheide-- Clairières dans le ciel. Demain fera un an/Lili Boulanger-- Der Erkennende/ Alma Mahler
Disc 3. Trio for violin, cello, and piano. Allegro vigoroso/ Rebecca Clarke--Sonata in C-sharp. Modéré sans lenteur /Germaine Tailleferre--Prelude no. 2 for piano; String Quartet 1931. Movement 3; Three songs. Rat riddles/Ruth Crawford Seeger--Song to the Dark Virgin/ Florence Price--Ouvrage de Dame. Variation VII/Elsa Barraine--The hound of heaven/Miriam Gideon --Sonata no. 2 for piano. Movement 1/Grazyna Bacewicz--Homunculus/Julia Amanda Perry--Alcestis. Dance of triumph: the rescue of Alcestis/Vivian Fine--Sonata for cello and piano. Sarabande/Jean Coulthard --Sonata. Preamble/Violet Archer-- Mary, Queen of Scots. Monologue of Mary/Thea Musgrave--Symphony no. 1. First movement/Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ----circle around the sun--/Augusta Read Thomas.
NOTES:Companion CDs to New historical anthology of music by women, Music Ref. M2 .N46 2004.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX14900

Non tacete! = (I'll not be silent): music by women written before 1800.
Nannerl Recordings NRARS002, p1991.
PERFORMERS: Ars Femina Ensemble.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: "Cari musici": motet/ Bianca Maria Meda --Sonata in A major (1707): viola d'amore, violoncello & cembalo/ Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre --Lamento: soprano, violins, viola & continuo/ Elisabeth Olin -- Sonata quarta: violins & continuo/ Mrs. Philharmonica -- La tempesta: soprano, violins and continuo/ Marianne Martines --A false designe to be cruel: soprano and virginal: "In vain fair Cloris--"/ Mary Harvey, the Lady Deering --Se pieta da voi trovo: soprano, violins, viola, violoncello/ Mary Barthelemon --Suite from La liberazione di Ruggiero/ Francesca Caccini.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5450

Collections: O

 

One hand on the manuscript: music in Australian cultural history, 1930-1960
Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 1995.
NOTES: Based on papers presented to the conference "Music and musicians in Australian culture, 1930-1960" held jointly by the Humanities Research Centre and the Canberra School of Music at the Australian National University, September 25-29, 1993.
PERFORMERS: Musical selections performed by members of Perihelion (works 1-3,4, 7), Jeanette Russell, soprano (works 4, 6, 10), Colleen Rae-Gerrard, piano (works 4, 10), Oriana Chorale (works 8, 11-12), or Alistair Noble, piano (work 9)
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Fantasy trio in B minor/ Miriam Hyde --Prelude for solo clarinet; Ballade for clarinet and piano/ Dulcie Holland --Profiles of China/ Peggy Glanville-Hicks --Sonata for viola & piano/ Margaret Sutherland --Australia: from Colitts' Inn/ Varney Monk --Australia, happy isle/ Lindley Evans --Bless this house/ May Brahe; arr. Palmquist [sic]
MUSIC ML3770 .O55 1995 + Doug Circ COMPACT DISC CX2773

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Piano works by women composers.
Turnabout TV 34685. p1979.
PERFORMER:Rosario Marciano, piano.
CONTENTS:La Guerre, E.J. de. Rondeau.--Paradis, M.-T. von.Sicilienne [originally for violin and piano]--Szymanowska, M. Nocturne in A-flat major.--Szymanowska, M. Nocturne in B-flat major.-- Cibbini-Kozeluh. Six waltzes.--Mendelssohn, F. Prelude.--Schumann, C. Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann, op. 20.--Bronsart, I. von. Valse-caprice.--Grondahl, A.B. Visnet,op. 39, no. 9.--Grondahl, A.B. Undomssang, op. 36, no. 6.--Carreno, T. Barcarolle-Venetia, Venetia.--Carreno, T. Intermezzo-scherzoso, op. 34.--Chaminade, C. Pas de echarpes [originally for orchestra]--Chaminade, C. La lisonjera, op. 50.--Tallieferre, G. Sicilienne.--Beach, [Mrs.] H.H.A. Improvisation, op. 148, no. 1.--Bacewicz, G. Maly tryptyk.
DOUGLASS  PHONODISC DMds 3863                  

A portrait of the viola: Rebecca Clarke and her contemporaries.
ASV CD DCA 1130, p2002.
PERFORMERS:Hellen Callus, viola; Robert McDonald, piano.
CONTENTS:Viola sonata (1918-19); Morpheus: 1917-18; Lullaby: 1909: Lullaby: an arrangement of an ancient Irish tune (1913)/Rebecca Clarke--English reel/Freda Swain--I'll bid my heart be still: old Scottish border melody (1944/Clarke--Viola sonata (1946)/Pamela Harrison--Oh can ye sew cushions: Scottish traditional (1978)/Janetta Gould.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX13129

Premiere: recorded performances of keyboard works by women.
Avant Records AV 1012. 1974.
PERFORMER: Nancy Fierro, piano.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Talma, L. Alleluja in form of toccata--La Guerre, E. C. Suite in D minor--Szymanowska, Maria. Etude in F major. Etude in C major. Etude in E major. Nocturne in B-flat major. --Boulanger, Lili. Cortege. D'un vieux jardin.--Bacewicz, Grazyna. II sonata for piano.
DOUGLASS PHONODISC DMds 4559

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20th century harpsichord music. Vol. IV.
Gasparo GSCD-290, p1999.
PERFORMER:Barbara Harbach, harpsichord.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:Toccata/Emma Lou Diemer--Hyperboles: 1990 /Edith Borroff--Parquet musique /Mary Jean Van Appledorn--Tres danzas para clavecin: 1989 /Barbara Harbach--Fantasy, 1983/Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
DOUGLASS  COMPACT DISC CX11723                 

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Vitality begun = Spriessendes Leben--Vitalite a commence.
Cavalli Records CCD 308, p2000.
NOTES:Music by women composers; the texts are all by women poets.
PERFORMERS:Patricia Stiles, mezzo-soprano; Graham Cox, piano.
CONTENTS:Zyklus nach Lyrik von Emily Dickinson/Gloria Coates--Vicarious; Shore grass/Flicka Rahn--Komplementar; Verwelkte Bucher/Gloria Coates--Let it be forgotten; Entreaty/Judith Lang Zaimont--Afternoon on a hill; The seashell; Who has seen the wind; The bluebird/Lita Grier-- Gleichnis; Terzinen; Blau-glaserne Minute/Ruth Zechlin--Aus "Late in the Day" von Jeanne Shepard. The ant and the grasshopper;Clinging;Travelling/Libby Larsen.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX11164

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Women at an exposition: music composed by women and performed at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
Koch International Classics 3-7240-2H1, p1991.
Contents include:Singing joyfully/Mrs. H.H.A. Beach--Rosemonde/ Cecile Chaminade--Good bye, sweet day/ Kate Vannah --Romance; Sweetheart, sigh no more/ Mrs. H.H.A. Beach --Polly Willis/ Dr. Arne; arr. Liza Lehmann --The throstle/ Maude Valerie White --Titania's cradle/ Liza Lehmann--Chanson bretonne/ Cecile Chaminade --Ah, love but a day/ Clara Kathleen Rogers --In autumn/ Mrs. H.H.A. Beach --Ashes of roses/ Mary Knight Wood --Out of my own great woe; Sonata for violin, op. 25/ Clara Kathleen Rogers --L'ete/ Cecile Chaminade --Liebst du um Schonheit/ Clara Schumann --Ici bas/ Maude Valerie White
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX3601

Women composers--: and the men in their lives.
Fleur de Son Classics FDS 57939, [1999?]
PERFORMER:Leanne Rees, piano.
CONTENTS:Sonata no. 3 in A major/Marianne Martinez--Sonata in E minor [i.e. major]/Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel--Notturno /Clara Schumann--Fantasy for piano/Emma Lou Diemer--Funky tango/Leanne Rees.
DOUGLASS  COMPACT DISC CX11184                 

Women of note.
Koch International Classics 3-7603-2, p1997.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Concertino for harp. Allegretto/ G. Tailleferre --Three pieces for cello and piano. Vite et nerveusement rythme/ N. Boulanger --Sonnets from the Portuguese. How do I love thee?/ L. Larsen--Das Jahr. Mai/ F. Mendelssohn --Ballad in D flat/ A. Beach --D'un matin de printemps/L. Boulanger --Symphony no. 3. Largo/ E.T. Zwilich --Missa Gaia. Introit/ L. Larsen --Sonata. Impetuoso/ R. Clarke --Sonata. Adagio/ C. Schumann --Ten preludes for cello. Preludes 1-4/ S. Gubaidulina --Travel song/ M. Monk -- Three fantasy movements. Slow/ S. Ran) --Orfeo II. Orpheo laments/ T. Musgrave --Sonata no. 6/ G. Ustvolskaya
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5515

The Women's Philharmonic
Koch International Classics 3-7169-2 H1, p1992.
PERFORMERS: Angela Cheng, piano (2nd work); Gillian Benet, harp (3rd work);The Women's Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, conductor.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Ouverture/ Fanny Mendelssohn--Piano concerto in A minor, op. 7/ Clara Schumann --Concertino for harp and orchestra/ Germaine Tailleferre --D'un soir; D'un matin de printemps/ Lili Boulanger.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5511

Women's voices: five centuries of song.
Leonarda LE 338, p1996.
PERFORMERS: Neva Pilgrim, soprano; Edward Smith, harpsichord (1st-8th works); Steven Heyman, piano.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: O death, rock me asleepe/ attributed Anne Boleyn --Jubilate Deo/ Caterina Assandra --Maria, dolce Maria/ Francesca Caccini -- Amor dormiglione; Chiamata a nuovi amori; Spesso per entro al petto/ Barbara Strozzi --Das Gartner liedchen [sic] aus dem Siegwart/ Maria Theresia von Paradis --Ihr solltet geniessen/ Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar -- Fruhzeitiger Fruhling/ Josephine Lang --Fruhling/ Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel --Liebst du um Schonheit/ Clara Wieck Schumann --Der Gartner / Pauline Viardot-Garcia -- Mot kveld/ Agathe Backer Grndahl --Si tout ceci n'est qu'un pauvre reve/ Lili Boulanger -- Berceuse d'A[r]morique/ Poldowski (Irene Wieniawska Paul) -- Mon mari, m'a diffamee/ Germaine Tailleferre --Plaintes d'amour/ Cecile Chaminade --Laue Sommernacht; Bei dir ist es traut; Ich wandle unter Blumen/ Alma Schindler Mahler -- Minstrel man/ Margaret Bonds --Infant joy/ Rebecca Clarke --Rogez/ Miriam Gideon --I would live in your love/ Jean Eichelberger Ivey --I love the night/ Marion Bauer --Let it be forgotten/ Judith Lang Zaimont --Iris/ Ann Silsbee --Maggie and Millie and Mollie and May/ Gwyneth Walker --When I am an old woman/ Libby Larsen --Andromeda rag/ Elizabeth Vercoe.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5442

Women write music: orchestral music by 20th century women composers.
ATMA ACD 2 2199, p1999.
CONTENTS INCLUDE: Nocturne/ Elizabeth Maconchy --Ge xu (antiphony)/ Chen Yi -- Introduzione/ Tera de Marez Oyens--Music to St. Cecilia/ Jean Coulthard --Bata/ Tania Leon --Preludio 2/ Nicola LeFanu --All in good time/ Barbara Kolb --Petite suite/ Germaine Tailleferre --Suffolk suite/ Doreen Carwithen
PERFORMERS: Foundation Philharmonic Orchestra; David Snell, conductor.
DOUGLASS COMPACT DISC CX5432

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