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Recommended Classical Music on CD


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William Sharp:
'Paul Bowles, Virgil Thomson'

USA,
UK
Paul Bowles
Heavenly Grass
Lonesome Man
Cabin
Sugar In The Cane
Sleeping Song
April Fool Baby
A Little Closer, Please

Three (click to hear a sample)
Letter To Freddy
Secret Words
My Sister's Hand In Mine

Richard Hundley

Sweet Suffolk Owl

Eric Klein

Kidnap Poem
Virgil Thomson
A Prayer To St. Catherine
If Thou A Reason Dost Desire To Know
English Usage
My Crow Pluto
John Peel
At The Spring

Lee Hoiby
What If . . .
Jabberwocky


John Musto

Echo
Recuerdo
A Last Song


'The Music of Paul Bowles'
from the USA
from Germany
from France
from England

All by Paul Bowles

1.'Pastorela: First Suite'
2.'Suite for small orchestra'
3.'The Wind Remains'
4.'Once a Lady Was Here '
5.'In the woods'
6.'April Fool Baby'
7.'Farther from the Heart'
8.'My Sister's Hand in Mine'
9.'Secret Words for voice & piano'

'Bowles: Sonata for Oboe & Clarinet/Nocturne forTwo Pianos/Selected Songs/Sonata for Flute and Piano/Cuatro Canciones'

from the USA
from Germany
from France
from England

All by Paul Bowles

1.Nocturne for 2 pianos
2. Sonata for oboe and clarinet
3. Three fo
r voice & piano: 1: 'Three'
4. Selected Songs: 2: 'Mes de Mayo'
5. 'Once a Lady Was Here'
6. Sonata for flute and piano
7. Canciones (4) de Garcia Lor
ca:
1: 'Cancioncilla'
8. Canciones (4) de Garcia Lorca:
2: 'Media Luna'
9. Canciones (4) de Garcia Lorca:
3: 'Balada Amarilla'
10. Canciones (4) de Garcia Lorca:
4: 'Murio Al Amancer'
11. Minatures (4) for piano:
1: 'Prelude for Bernard Suares'
12. Minatures (4) for piano:
2: 'Portrait of KMC'
13. Minatures (4) for piano:
3: 'Reverie'
14. Minatures (4) for piano:
4: 'Sarabande'
15. Scènes d'Anabase


'Music in the American Grain'

USA

Cedille, fully digital CD, 1992
Recorded 1991 at WFMT Chicago

PAUL BOWLES: Six Latin American Pieces (1937 - 1946)

These 6 are:
1) 'Huapango No.1'
2) 'Tierra Mojada'
3) 'El Bejuco'
4) 'La Cuelga'
5) 'Orosi'
6) 'Huapango No.2 "El Sol"'

also:


PAUL BOWLES: 'Carretera de Estopona' (1939 - 1st recording.)

LaMONTAINE: Piano Sonata, Op. 3 (1942)

PALMER: Third Sonata (1979) (1st recording)

JOHNSON: Piano Sonata (1933 - 1948) Ramon Salvatore, piano.


'An American in Paris'
USA,
UK
Songs, Piano Pieces, Concerto. CD
Koch 3-1574-2, Year: 1995

Performed by Howard Haskin(t),
Haridas Grief/Jo An Pickens/Jean-Francois Zygel(p).
1. 'Huapango no 2'
Composed by Paul Bowles
with Gustavo Romero, piano
25. 'Night Waltz'
Composed by Paul Bowles,
with Haridas Greif, Jean-Francois Zygel
2 - 6. Five Songs:
'Faint as leaf shadow'
'Night without Sleep'
'Three'
'Her Head on the Pillow'
'The Piper'
Composed by Paul Bowles,
with Haridas Greif, Howard Haskin
26 - 30. 5 Songs:
'My Love was Light'
'Blue Mountain Ballads (2): Lonesome man'
'A Quarreling Pair: The frozen horse'
'A Quarreling Pair: My sister's hand in mine'
'An American Hero'
Composed by Paul Bowles,
with Haridas Greif, Jo Ann Pickens
7 - 12. Preludes for Piano:
Prelude No. 1
Prelude No. 2
Prelude No. 3
Prelude No. 4
Prelude No. 5
Prelude No. 6
Composed by Paul Bowles
with Gustavo Romero, piano
31. Huapango No. 1 for piano
Composed by Paul Bowles
Kun Woo Paik piano, Huseyin Sermet, piano
Jean-Christophe Gayot, Oboe
Bernard Yanotta, Clarinet
Clément Garrec, trumpet
Guy-Joel Cipriani, percussion
Gérard Pérotin, percussion
13 - 19. 5 Songs:
|'Song of an Old Woman'
'Sleeping Song'
'Letter to Freddy'
'David'
'Blue Mountain Ballads (4): Sugar in the cane'
Composed by Paul Bowles,
with Haridas Greif, Jo Ann Pickens
32 - 35 Concerto for Two Pianos, Wind
Instruments and percussion.

1 -2 - 3 - 4
Composed by Paul Bowles
Kun Woo Paik piano, Huseyin Sermet, piano
Jean-Christophe Gayot, Oboe
Bernard Yanotta, Clarinet
Clément Garrec, trumpet
Guy-Joel Cipriani, percussion
Gérard Pérotin, percussion
20 - 24. 5 Songs:
'Once a Lady Was Here' 'A little closer, please' 'In the Woods' 'April fool baby' 'Down in yonder meadow'
Composed by Paul Bowles,
with Haridas Greif, Howard Haskin



'But Yesterday is not Today'
DE,
UK, USA
Songs by Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles,
Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions.

Paul Bowles:
'Once a Lady Was Here' for voice & piano
'Song of an Old Woman' for voice & piano


'Migrations'
USA


1. 'Concerto 2 pianos, winds, and percussion' (1946)
2. 'Sonata for flute and piano' (1932)
3.'Music for a Farce' (1938)
4. 'Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet' (1931)

5. 'Hippolytos and Salome' (1992,1993)
6. 'Scenes D'Anabase' (1932)
7. 'Night Waltz' (1949)





'American Piano Music, Vol 1' 1984

DE,
UK, USA
Etcetera Records ETC 1019, Netherlands
Works by Bowles, Copland, Thomson, Ramey, Bennett Lerner
Contains the Bowles music on Side 1: tracks 7 to 13:
'Six Preludes for Piano', Huapango #1, El Bejuco, Tierra Mojada,
Orosi, La Cuelga, Huapango #2 (El Sol)



'American Piano Music, Vol 2' 1985

FR,
UK, USA,
Etcetera Records ETC 1020?, Netherlands
Works by Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Phillip Ramey,
Bennett Lerner. Contains the Paul Bowles music:
'Sonatina', 'Dance' and 'Cross Country'


Paul Sperry 'Romantic American Songs'
FR,
DE, UK, USA,
(the below are Paul Bowles tracks 12 to 16 of this CD)
1.'Once a Lady Was Here' for voice & piano
2.'Three' for voice & piano
3.'Letter to Freddy' for voice & piano
4.'April Fool Baby' for voice & piano
5.'On Whitman Avenue', incidental music



Greatest Hits: 'Harpsichord'
FR,
DE, USA,

Paul Bowles:
Night Waltz for two pianos




'The American Love's Secret and other songs'
FR, DE, UK, USA

The American Composer Series 2 CDs
Paul Bowles, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson et al
Paul Bowles Compositions:

1.'Blue Mountain Ballads', for voice & piano
a) 'Heavenly Grass'
b) 'Lonsesome Man'
c) 'Cabin'
d) 'Sugar in the Cane'


Weill, Varese, Bowles, Martinu
UK, DE, USA
Paul Bowles:
'Music for a Farce'
for clarinet, trumpet, piano & percussion
please
click here to hear a sample of this music



An Introduction to the music of Paul Bowles

Classical music of Paul Bowles

Avante Garde and Spoken word recorded by Paul Bowles

Various and Compilation Recordings recorded by Paul Bowles

Notes on 'The Baptism of Solitude' on CD


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