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LE356Unforgettable Hues

LE356 CD Total time: 72:10.
Artists: Eva Wasserman-Margolis, clarinet; Luigi Magistrelli, clarinet and basset horn; Massimo Laura, guitar.

Composers: Anton Diabelli, Hansjoachim Kaps, Ernst Kraehmer, Heinrich Neumann, Mario Broeders, Norbert Burgmueller, Mr. Henry, Jamie K. Auberg
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LE355Lil' Light O' Mine

LE355 CD Total Time 77:00
Harold Jones, flute; Colette Valentine, piano

Composers: Gabriel Fauré, Cécile Chaminade, W.A. Mozart, Henri Busser, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Pierre Sancan, Erik Satie, Franz Schubert/Gounod, Adolphus C. Hailstork, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and William Foster McDaniel. The Perkinson and McDaniel works are arrangements of Negro spirituals
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LE354 2 Clarinets & Piano:
Original Music from Finland, Malta, Israel, and points in between

LE354 CD Total time: 62:00.
Artists: Eva Wasserman-Margolis and Luigi Magistrelli, clarinet; Claudia Bracco, piano.

Composers: Felix Mendelssohn, Ernesto Cavallini*, Lotti Amit-Kalev*, Bernard Crusell, Sarah Feigin, Charles Camilleri, Jaroslav Mastalir*, Franz Schweinsberg* (* world premiere recording)
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LE353 Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found

LE353, two CDs 2.3 hours long
2 CDs, remastered. These are a supplement to the book by the same title by Dr. Diane Peacock Jezic, published by The Feminist Press at CUNY, but can also stand alone. Various artists.

Composers: Music by Hildegard, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Anna Amalia (Princess of Prussia), Anna Amalia (Duchess of Saxe-Weimar), Maria Theresia von Paradis, Louise Reichardt, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Josephine Lang, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Louise Farrenc, Cécile Chaminade, Louise Héritte-Viardot, Lili Boulanger, Amy Beach, Rebecca Clarke, Katherine Hoover, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Ruth Schonthal, Barbara Kolb, Marga Richter, Judith Lang Zaimont
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LE352 Songs by Women

LE352 CD Total Time 68:10
Susan Gonzalez, soprano; Marcia Eckert, piano

Composers: Joyce Suskind, Ruth Schonthal, Elizabeth Austin, Elisenda Fábregas (Fabregas)
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LE351 Orchestral Excursions

LE351 CD Total Time 73:21
The Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Joel Subin, conductor. Soloists: Renata Knific, violin; Pamela Frame, cello; Robert Weirich, piano, The Carinthian Saxophone Quartet, Gilbert Sabitzer, solo alto sax

Composers: Marga Richter: triple concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra.
Howard Harris: work for alto saxophone and orchestra
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LE350 La Musica
16th & 17th Century Music & a Surprise

LE350 CD Total Time 73:11
Carol Plantamura (soprano), Jürgen Hübscher (lute, Spanish baroque guitar, archlute), Beverly Lauridsen, (viola da gamba). Julie Kabat (spoken and pitched voice, glass harmonium, saw), Ben Hudson (violin)

Composers: Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Sigismondo d'India, Alessandro Piccini, Francesca Campana, Settimia Caccini, Fabritio Caroso, Giovanni Kapsperger, Anonymous
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LE349 Flute & Company
Flute music by Katherine Hoover

LE349 CD Total Time 59:36
Wendell Dobbs, flute; Mary Kathleen Tryer, harp; Members of the Montclaire String Quartet (Kathryn Langr, violin; Christine Vlajk, viola; Andrea DiGregorio, cello); Leo Welch, guitar

Works: Dances and Variations (flute and harp); Winter Spirits and Reflections (solo flute); Divertimento (flute, violin, viola, cello); Canyon Echos (flute and guitar)
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LE348 The New York Bassoon Quartet
Now & Then: Recorded works from 1979 and 1999

LE348 CD Total Time 73:30
Bernadette Zirkuli, Jane Taylor, Lauren Goldstein, and Julie Feves, bassoon

Composers: Christopher Weait (arranger, "Suite of Early American Tunes"), John Corigliano, Prokofiev, William Schuman, John Harbison, Peter Schickele, Katherine Hoover, Alvin Brehm, Vaclav Nelhybel, Rudolph Palmer
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LE347 American Choral Music

LE347 CD Total Time 58:25
Shaffer: Amor Artis Chorale (double choir), Leonarda Chamber Orchestra, with choral soloists Elizabeth Farnum, soprano; Megan Friar, alto; Jonathan Goodman, tenor; Richard Holmes, bass
Somary: Amor Artis Chorale (SSA), flute, viola, piano, with vocal duet by soprano Arlene Travis soprano and alto Karen Krueger

Composers: Jeanne Ellison Shaffer and Johannes Somary
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LE346 Baroque for the Mass: Ursuline Composers of the 17th Century

LE346 CD Total Time 67:21
Motets: Andrea Folan, soprano; Brian Brooks and Deborah Howell, violins; Rob Haskin, organ continuo. Anthem: Andrea Folan, soprano; Roya Bauman, alto; Kirk Dougherty, tenor; Rob Haskin, organ continuo. Mass: University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum; choral soloists Catherine Kilgore, Marquetta McChristian, Rager Moore, Samuel Pitts; Jack Groh, conductor; Richard Fuchs and Barbara Garvey Jackson, violins; Stephen Gates, cello; Jane Heinrichs, organ

Composers: Maria Xaveria Peruchona (ca.1652-after 1709) and Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
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LE345 Sunbursts: Solo piano works by 7 American women

LE345 CD Total Time 67:06
Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano

Composers: Ruth Schonthal, Sheila Silver, Diane Thome, Stefania de Kenessey, Vivian Adelberg Rudow, Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, Emma Lou Diemer
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LE344 Souvenirs

LE344 CD Total Time 71:07
Roger Rundle, piano

Composers: Domenico Scarlatti, W.A. Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Debussy, Francis Poulenc, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Isaac Albéniz, (Albeniz) R. Nathaniel Dett, George Gershwin
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LE343 The Vocal-Chamber ART: Music by Judith Lang Zaimont

LE343 CD Total Time 71:52
Singers: Elena Tyminski, Charles Bressler, Price Browne, Berenice Bramson, David Arnold. Conductor (Songs of Innocence): Roger Nierenberg. Instrumentalists: Judith Lang Zaimont, piano; Patricia Spencer, flute; Barbara Bogatin, cello; Nancy Allen, harp; Sara Cutler, harp; Zita Zohar, piano; Jonathan Haas, percussion

Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont
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LE342 Composers of the Holocaust: Ghetto Songs and Instrumental Works

LE342 CD Total Time 66:49
Downtown Music Productions: Mimi Stern-Wolfe, artistic director and pianist. Isabelle Ganz, mezzo-soprano; Robert Abelson, baritone; Marshall Coid, violin; Bert Lucarelli, oboe; Downtown Chamber Singers.

Composers: Mordekhai Gebirtig, Karel Svenk, David Beigelman, Ervin Schulhoff, Martin Rosenberg, Pavel Haas, Misha Veksler, Ilse Weber, Carlo Taube.
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LE341 Ave Maria

LE341 CD Total Time 69:37
Ellada Chakoyan, soprano; Rouben Aivazian, organ

Composers: Jacob (Jachet) Arcadelt, J. S. Bach, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Carlo Bassini, Luigi Cherubini, Augusto Bendelari, Giovanni E. Conterno, Curto, Luigi Luzzi, Giuseppe Verdi, Adolphe Adam, Camille Saint-Saëns, John M. Loretz, Jr., Tchouhadjian [also Tashchyan, Tashchyàn], Makar Egmalian [also Yekmalyan, Yikmalyàn, Ekmalyan], Heitor Villa-Lobos
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LE340 The Medieval Lady

LE340 CD Total Time 64:21
Elizabeth Conversation: Susan Sandman (medieval fiddle, lute, recorders, viola da gamba, bass viola da gamba) and Derwood Crocker (symphonia, psaltery, organetto, lute) with guest artist soprano Andrea Folan

Composers: Hildegard of Bingen, Queen Blanche of Castile, Countess of Dia, Maroie de Dregnau de Lille, Anne Boleyn, Mary Harvey, Lady Killigrew, Richard Farnaby, Giles Farnaby, anonymous
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LE339 Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American women

LE339 CD (solo piano; violin and piano; solo violin) Total Time 72:27
Helen Walker-Hill, piano; Gregory Walker, violin

Composers: Irene Britton Smith, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Julia Perry, Betty Jackson King, Margaret Bonds, Lettie Beckon Alston, Undine Smith Moore, Rachel Eubanks, Valerie Capers, Lena Johnson McLin, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Dolores White, Nora Douglas Holt, Florence Price
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LE338 Women's Voices
Five Centuries of Song

LE338 CD (soprano and harpsichord; soprano and piano) Total Time 58:15
Neva Pilgrim, soprano; Edward Smith, harpsichord (Boleyn-Paradis); Steven Heyman, piano (Lang-Vercoe)

Composers: Anne Boleyn, Caterina Assandra, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Anna Amalia (Duchess of Saxe-Weimar), Josephine Lang, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Wieck Schumann, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Alma Schindler Mahler, Poldowski (Irene Wieniawska Paul), Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Lili Boulanger, Germaine Tailleferre, Cécile Chaminade, Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, Margaret Bonds, Rebecca Clarke, Miriam Gideon, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Marion Bauer, Judith Lang Zaimont, Ann Silsbee, Libby Larsen, Gwyneth Walker, Elizabeth Vercoe
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LE337 Marga Richter
Snow Mountain

LE337 CD (cello and piano; solo piano; violin and piano) Total Time 71:50
David Wells, cello; Marga Richter, piano; Daniel Heifetz, violin; Michael Skelly, piano

Composer: Marga Richter
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LE336 Vive la Différence: String Quartets by 5 Women from 3 Continents

LE336 CD (string quartets) Total Time 71:30
Crescent String Quartet (Nancy McAlhany; Alicia Edelberg; Jill Jaffe; Maxine Neuman) (first four pieces)
Alard String Quartet (Joanne Zagst; Donald Hopkins; Raymond Page; Leonard Feldman) (Rainier quartet)

Composers: Lucie Vellère, Sarah Aderholdt, Ruth Schonthal, Amy Beach, Priaulx Rainier
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LE335 Exotic Impressions: Flute Works by Karg-Elert

LE335 CD (flute and piano with piccolo double; flute, clarinet, horn and piano) Total Time 70:34
Douglas Worthen, flute; Janice Weber, piano; Richard Shaughnessy, clarinet; Richard Menual, horn

Composer: Sigfrid Karg-Elert
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LE334 Character Sketches: Solo piano works by 7 American women

LE334 CD (solo piano) Total Time 73:15
Nanette Kaplan Solomon, pianist

Composers: Victoria Bond, Tania León, Jane Brockman, Ruth Schonthal, Gwyneth Walker, Marga Richter, Judith Lang Zaimont
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LE333 Harold Jones, Flutist: Let Us Break Bread Together

LE333 CD (flute and piano; solo flute) Total Time 59:43
Harold Jones, flute; Colette Valentine, piano

Composers: J. S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Michel Colombier, Negro Spirituals, Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Lloyd G. McNeill, Daniel Paget
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LE332 KV (K Five), Jonathan Kramer: Five Compositions

LE332 CD (symphony orchestra; chamber ensemble; solo piano; clarinet with tape) Total Time 70:10
The London Philharmonic; Harold Farberman, conductor; The Atlanta Chamber Players; Frank Weinstock, piano; Phillip Rehfeldt, clarinet; Lynn Raley, piano

Composer: Jonathan Kramer
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LE331 The London Philharmonic Celebrates American Composers

LE331 CD (symphony orchestra) Total Time 64:22
The London Philharmonic; Harold Farberman, conductor; Gregg Henegar, contrabassoon soloist (Erb)

Composers: Donald Erb, Marga Richter, Erik Lundborg, Irwin Bazelon
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LE330 Masques: The Huntingdon Trio

LE330 CD (flute, cello, piano/flute, oboe, cello) Total Time 58:37
The Huntingdon Trio: Diane Gold, flute; Lloyd Smith, cello; Rheta Smith, piano and oboe

Composers: Bohuslav Martinu, Walter Burle Marx, Ned Rorem, David Loeb
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LE329 The American Chamber Ensemble

LE329 CD (clarinet and piano plus mezzo or violin and cello) Total Time 60:41
The American Chamber Ensemble: Naomi Drucker, clarinet; Blanche Abram, piano; Deirdre Kingsbury, mezzo-soprano; Timothy Baker, violin; Chris Finckel, cello.

Composers: Judith Lang Zaimont, Vally Pick Weigl, Paul Hindemith
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LE328 Florilegium Chamber Choir

LE328 CD (chamber choir) Total Time 43:00
Florilegium Chamber Choir; JoAnn Rice, conductor. Parable: soloists Cheryl Benson, soprano; Paul Kelly, tenor; William Sharp, baritone; John Franklin, speaker; Walter Hilse, organ

Composers: Thea Musgrave, Judith Lang Zaimont
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LE327 Journeys: Orchestral Works by American Women

LE327 CD (chamber orchestra; symphony orchestra; string orchestra) Total Time 65:27
Bournemouth Sinfonietta (tracks 1 through 6). Twenty-five additional players were added for Larson and Van de Vate pieces. Arioso Chamber Ensemble (Hartford, Connecticut) (Brockman, track 7) Carolann Martin, conductor

Composers: Nancy Van de Vate, Kay Gardner, Libby Larsen, Marga Richter, Katherine Hoover, Ursula Mamlok, Jane Brockman
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LE326 The Verdehr Trio

LE326 CD (violin, clarinet, piano) Total Time 65:57
The Verdehr Trio: Walter Verdehr, violin; Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, clarinet; Gary Kirkpatrick, piano

Composers: Max Bruch, Leslie Bassett, Charles Hoag, Katherine Hoover
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LE325 Collage: The Huntingdon Trio

LE325 CD (flute, cello, piano; flute, oboe, cello) Total Time 68:18
The Huntingdon Trio: Diane Gold, flute; Lloyd Smith, cello; Rheta Smith, piano and oboe

Composers: Carl Czerny, Eugene Goossens, Gustav Holst, Arthur Foote, Katherine Hoover, Thea Musgrave
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