The Vocal-Chamber ART
Music by Judith Lang Zaimont

CD: Vocal chamber music for one and two voices with accompaniments that include piano; harp; percussion and piano; and flute, cello, harp by internationally acclaimed American composer Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945). Leonarda Catalog #LE343. Total Time 71:52.

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  JUDITH ZAIMONT
VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC
 AUDIO SAMPLES MUSICIANS
  Greyed Sonnets (13:13) (1975)
1. Soliloquy (Millay)
2. Let it be forgotten (Teasdale)
3. A Season's Song (Millay)
4. Love's Autumn (Millay)
5. Entreaty (Christine Rosetti's poem "Echo") 		mp3 (:20) Elena Tyminski, soprano
Judith Lang Zaimont, piano
  Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales
(12:50) (1974)
1. Harmonie du Soir (Baudelier)
2. Chanson d'Automne (Verlaine)
3. Claire de Lune (Verlaine)
4. Dans l'interminable Ennui de la Plaine (Verlaine)
5. Départ (Rimbaud)		 mp3 Claire (:38)
mp3 la Plaine (:39) 		Charles Bressler, tenor
Judith Lang Zaimont, piano
  Songs of Innocence (10:36) (1974) (Wm. Blake)
1. Introduction
2. Elegy ­ The Garden of Love
3. I Asked a Thief
4. How Sweet I Roam'd 		mp3 -I Asked (:28)
mp3 How Sweet (:40)		 Elena Tyminski, soprano
Price Browne, tenor
Patricia Spencer, flute
Barbara Bogatin, cello
Nancy Allen, harp
Roger Nierenberg, conductor
  Two Songs for Soprano and Harp (10:14) (1978)
1. At Dusk in Summer (Rich)
2. The Ruined Maid (Hardy) 		mp3 (:33) Berenice Bramson, soprano
Sara Cutler, harp
  The Magic World (24:59) (1979-80)
Six songs based on American Indian texts
1. Flower Song
2. Firefly Song
3. Storm Song
4. A Spell to Destroy Life
5. Second Flower Song
6. Elegy Dream Song 		mp3 Storm (:35)
mp3 Spell (:49)
mp3 Elegy (:36)		 David Arnold, baritone
Zita Zohar, piano
Jonathan Haas, percussion
 


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Reviews: "Zaimont is clearly a composer of the first rank and her music deserves the widest circulation...A wide range of moods is also tellingly delineated here; there is much variety of atmosphere from song to song and cycle to cycle, and Zaimont clearly possesses a keen sense of characterization, pacing, and drama. Best of all, each cycle inhabits its own distinct emotional world ... Zaimont invariably composes excellently for both voices and instruments." The Music Connoisseur. *  Greyed Sonnets: "A very moving cycle to women poets." The New York Times.*  Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales: "Haunting settings of delicate verses" Stereo Review. *   "...vocal line of great beauty and lyricism supported and enhanced by the piano part...An important contribution to American song literature." American Music.*  Songs of Innocence: "Showed great depth and feeling." Memphis Press-Scimitar. *  Two Songs for Soprano and Harp: "The harp writing is substantial, varied, sonorous, and idiomatic without clichés; the vocal lines are gracious and expressive, with a relaxed and accurate treatment of text prosody." Perspectives of New Music. *  The Magic World: "Exhilarating and sometimes spectacular replication of the Indian's spirit and creed ­ his flower songs, his ghost dance, his storm song stamping a whirlwind, lightnings, thunder and great rains, his mystic, destructive spells." Deseret News (Utah). * "This is a piece of considerable poetic and incantatory power." Ovation.

Recording: Digitally remastered by Marnie Hall from analog tapes originally released on LP: Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales, Leonarda #LPI 101 (©1979), sound recordist David Barnes. Two Songs for Soprano and Harp, Leonarda #LPI 106 (© 1980), sound recordist John Kilgore. The Magic World, Leonarda #LPI 116 (© 1983), sound recordist Malcolm Addey. Greyed Sonnets and Songs of Innocence, Golden Crest #ATH-5051 (© 1977), sound recordist Gale Greenhouse. ADD. Support: This recording is made possible with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Music Publishers: Greyed Sonnets, Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales, and The Magic World: Sounds Alive! Two Songs for Soprano Harp: Lyra Music. Songs of Innocence is available through the Fleischer Collection. Cover Art: © Gary Zaimont, 1998. Graphic Design: Marnie Hall © Leonarda Productions, Inc., 1998. All rights reserved.

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