Walter Piston - Symphonies Nos.2 and 6

Walter PISTON (1894-1976)

Symphony No. 2 (1943)

Symphony No. 6 (1955) 

Seattle Symphony

Gerard Schwarz

Recorded at Seattle Center Opera House, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 23, 1988 (No. 2); 

Dec. 6, 1989 (No. 6).

Harvard Composers (Piston; Kirchner; Kim; Rands; Davidovsky)

"Harvard Composers"

Walter PISTON (1894 - 1976)

String Quartet No.1 (1933)

Leon KIRCHNER (1919-2009)

String Quartet No.2 (1958)

Earl KIM (1920 - 1998)

Three Poems in French (1989) 

Lucy Shelton, soprano

Bernard RANDS (b.1934)

String Quartet No.2 (1994) 

Mario DAVIDOVSKY (1934-2019)

String Quartet No.5 (1998) 

 

Mendelssohn String Quartet: 

Miriam Fried, Nicholas Mann (Violins) 

Ulrich Eichenauer (Viola)

Macy Rowen (cello

Recording: May 2001 at Länna Church, Sweden

Ives; Ruggles and Piston - Orchestral Music

Charles IVES (1974-1954)

Orchestral Set No. 1 'Three Places in New England'

Carl RUGGLES (1876-1971)

Sun-treader

Walter PISTON (1894-1976)

Symphony No. 2

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Michael Tilson Thomas

Recorded: March and October 1970 at Symphony Hall, Boston

Walter Piston - Concerto for Orchestra

Walter PISTON (1894-1976)

Concerto for Orchestra (1933) 

Variations on a Theme by Edward Burlingame Hill (1963)  

Divertimento for Nine Instruments (1946) 

Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1967)

 

Michael Norsworthy (clarinet)

Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Gil Rose 

rec. 30 June 2015, Jordan Hall, Boston (Variations, Concerto for Orchestra), 11 August 2014, Fraser Hall, WGBH Studios, Boston (Divertimento) and 6 March 2011, Mechanics Hall, Worcester, USA (Clarinet Concerto)

Piston, Harbison & Adler - Viola Concertos

Walter PISTON (1894-1976) 

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra

John HARBISON (b.1938) 

Viola Concerto

Samuel ADLER (b.1928)

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra

Randolph Kelly (viola)

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Aleksandrs Vilumanis

Walter Piston: Violin Concertos 1 & 2; Fantasia for Violin

Walter PISTON: 

Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Fantasia for Violin

Conductor:

Theodore Kuchar

Orchestra:

Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

Artist:

James Buswell