Babbitt: All Set / The Crowded Air

Babbitt: All Set
Lucy Shelton / Boston Modern Orchestra Project - Gil Rose
BMOP Sound 1033 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Composition for Twelve Instruments (1948/54)
  2. All Set (for jazz ensemble; 1957)
  3. Correspondences (for string orchestra and tape; 1967)
  4. Paraphrases (for ten instruments; 1979)
  5. The Crowded Air (for eleven instruments; 1988)
  6. From the Psalter (for soprano and string orchestra; 2002)

Performers: Sarah Brady (flute), Jennifer Slowik (oboe), Amy Advocat (clarinet), Michael Norsworthy (clarinet), Ronald Haroutunian (bassoon), Margaret Philips (bassoon), Kevin Owen (horn), Eric Hewitt (tenor saxophone), Kenneth Kadnofsky (alto saxophone), Terry Everson (trumpet), Hans Bohn (trombone), Donald Rankin (tuba), William Manley (timpani), Robert Schulz (percussion), Nina Ferrigno (piano), Linda Osborn (piano), Maarten Stragier (guitar), Heidi Braun-Hill (violin), Piotr Buczek (violin), Gabriela Diaz (violin), Charles Dimmick (violin), Annie Rabbat (violin), Julia Cash (violin), Christina Day Martinson (violin), Krista Buckland Reisner (violin), Joan Ellersick (viola), Dimitar Petkov (viola), Kate Vincent (viola), Holgen Gjoni (cello), Rafael Popper-Keizer (cello), David Russell (cello), Anthony D'Amico (bass)

Playing time: 48'

Recording dates: May 2006 (track #2), September 2009 (#6), March 2010 (#3), January (#5) & March (#1) & August 2011 (#4); released: 2013

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Todd M. McComb