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'Huapango -
Cafe Sin Nombre - Huapango-El Sol' 1938
Musicraft
Records Inc.
Number 1414 B (GM 427) One 10", 78 rpm single (B side only) disk Matrix
No. 427
Contains:
'Three Pieces for Piano' played by Paul Bowles
'Huapango' played by Jesus Duron
'Cafe Sin Nombre' 'Huapango-El Sol' played by Paul Bowles
'Sonata
for Flute and Piano' and 'Two Mexican Dances' 1943
Art of This Century Recording
Numbers 801/802/803 - 3 x 10", 78 rpm disks. Matrix Numbers B-101 to
B-106
Contains:
Disk 1: 'Sonata for Flute and Piano' 1st and 2nd Movements
(played by Rene Le Roy (flute) and George Reeves (piano)
Disk 2: 'Sonata for Flute and Piano' conclusion of 2nd Move and 3rd Move
Disk 3: 'Sonata for Flute and Piano' conclusion of 3rd Move and
Two Mexican Dances: 'El Bejuco' and 'Sayula' (Gold and Fizdale playing)
'Cuatro
Canciones Espanolas,
'Three' and 'Three Pastoral Songs' 1945
Hargail New American Songs Series. Two 10", 78 rpm disks.
Number HN 707 - 709, set 0090, Matrix 707A, 707B, 709A and 709B.
Performed by William Hess (tenor) and Robert Fizdale (piano)
Contains:
Disk 1: 'Cancioncilla Sevillana', 'Media Luna', 'Balada Amarilla'
Side B: 'Murilo al Amanecer', 'Three' (T. Williams)
Disk 2: 'Polly Pillicote' (anon), 'In the Passing of a Sigh' (Hendl)
Side B: 'The Feathers of the Willow' (Canon Dixon) and
'A Piper in the Streets Today'
'Night
Without Sleep'
1946
DISK (New York). Three 9.75", 78 rpm disks.
Disk Issue #730. Matrix D585, D586, D587, D588, D589 and D590.
Issued with a booklet.
Words by Charles Henri Ford. Sung by Romolo de Spirito (tenor)
played by Carrington Welch (piano)
Contains:
Disk 1: 'Night Without Sleep' (from Garden of Disorder)
Side B: 'Song for My Sister' (from ditto)
Disk 2: 'When Rain or Love Began'
Side B: 'Sailor's Song' (from Sentimental Playlet), 'You Can't Trust
Love' (from Denmark Vesey)
Disk 3: 'You're Right the Day Ain't Mine', 'Think of All the Hair
Dressing' (both from D.V)
Side B: 'They Cannot Stop Death'(lyrics by Joe Massey)
'The
Glass Menagerie' 1947
Thomas J Valentino Inc. Broadway, NY. Three 10", 78 rpm disks.
Numbers TJV-TI-8000 to 80005
Issued in 1947.
Played and Conducted by Max Marlin.
Includes the two tracks written by Paul Bowles: 'Gentlemen Callers' and
'Jonquils'.
Reissued
in 1973
Also
issued on Caedmon in 1964 2 x LPs
(with not a word mentioned of Paul Bowles.)
'Contemporary
American Piano Music' 1948
Vox presents, Vox Set #174. Four 10", 78 rpm disks.
One disk out of the set has Paul Bowles music on it:
'La Cuelga - El Bejuco -El Indio'
'Concerto
for Two Pianos, Winds and Percussion' 1948
Columbia
Masterworks MX-344. Two disks, 12", 78 rpm.
Played by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, Duo Pianos
'Sonata for Two Pianos' 1949
Concert Hall Society Inc
Limited edition of 2000, so stated, each one numbered
Signed by both pianists on the inside of the back cover.
Performed by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale.
Listen
to part of the Allegro from 'The Sonata for Two Pianos'
2 small red vinyl 10", 78 rpm disks in a red binder
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'Summer
and Smoke' 1949
Major Records, Thomas J. Valentino, NY.
Five phonodisks, 78rpm
Bowles contibutes: Side 7: 'Santiago Waltz' (E3-KB-5832-1)
Reissued
in 1973
'Summer and Smoke'
Double album, 33rpm, Major Records
'Night
Waltz' 1949
One 10" record, 78rpm, Columbia MM-956
Reissued
in 1950
Columbia
Masterworks matrix # 2287, Side 2, track 4,
Reissued
in 1955
Phillips
S-06614R, 33rpm, one record
'Concerto
for Two Pianos,
Winds and Percussion'
1950
Columbia
ML 2128, Number ML 2128.
Matrix numbers FLP 2389 and FLP 2605.
Reissue of original 1948 recording.
Played by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, Duo Pianos.
Also includes two pieces by Darius Milhaud:
'Carnaval a la Nouvelle-Orleans' and 'Les Songes'
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'Cyrano de
Bergerac' 1950
Capitol S283
One disk, 12",
33 rpm
Originally a Play, then a movie, with José Ferrer and Mala Powers |
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'The
Tempest' 1951
Two phonodisks, 33rpm
Polymusic PRLP 5001-5002
 Columbia Masterworks
'Modern American Music' 1954
One disk, 12", 33 rpm
Series ML 4845 (1950s) with 'Music for a Farce'(1938)
and 'Scenes d'Anabase' - Poems by St. Jean Perse (1932)
for Tenor Voice, Oboe and Piano.
Side 2 is Norman Dello Joio 'Variations and Capriccio
for Violin and Piano.'
'A Picnic Cantata' 1955
Columbia ML 5068, unknown number of issues.
One disk, 12", 33 rpm. Side 1, Bands 1 to 6.
Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, Duo Pianos,
Martha Flowers and Gloria Davy, Sopranos,
Mareda Gaither, Mezzo, Gloria Wynder, Contralto.
Side 2: Poulenc 'Sonata for Two Pianos'
please
click here to hear some of this Cantata
'No
Exit' 1957
Riverside
Records RLP 7004/5
Double LP, 33rpm
Betty
Field (with Douglas Watson and Nancy Wickwire.)
Translated and adapted by Paul Bowles.
'Facade' with Dame Edith Sitwell 1958
Columbia
Masterworks ML 5241
One disk, 12", 33 rpm. With 7 page pamphlet with poems and art work
from the Museum of Modern Art. Poems by Sitwell, 'Facade by Walton'
'Music for a Farce' by Paul Bowles. William Masselos, piano; David
Glazier, Clarinet; Herbert C. Mueller, trumpet; Elden C. Bailey,
percussion.
'The Wind Remains' 1958
MGM Metro/Goldwyn/Mayer E3549
One disk, 12", 33 rpm. Concert version
(was originally a stage version)
Contains 'The Wind Remains' - A zarzuela on text
of Garcia Lorca (1943,) 'Music for a Farce' (1938),
'Letters from Morocco' (1952) by Peggy Glanville-Hicks
(texts from letters by Paul Bowles.)
Also reissued in 1966.
'Six
Preludes' 1964
Golden
Crest Records, CR 4065, 33rpm, one disk
Record says 'Although Paul Bowles composed his Six Preludes between
1934 and 1945 as separate compositions, Mr Jahannsen plays them
together'
'Blue Mountain Ballads' 1964
Music
Library MLR-7033,
33 rpm, one LP
Donald Gramm (baritone), Richard Cumming (piano)
 'But Yesterday is not Today' 1977
New
World Records NW-243 One disk, 12", 33 rpm.
Songs by Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland,
Roger Sessions. Words by James Agee, Jane Bowles,
E.E. Cummings, Leonard Feeney, James Joyce.
The artists: Bethany Beardslee, Donald Gramm, Donald
Hassard, Robert Helps. Bowles music is:
'Once a Lady was Here', and 'Song of an Old Woman'
to words by Jane Bowles.
'American
Piano Music, Vol 1' 1984
from:
amazon.de...amazon.co.uk
Etcetera
Records ETC 1019, Netherlands, One record, 33rpm,
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
from:
amazon.com....amazon.fr
Etcetera
Records ETC 1020?, Netherlands, One record, 33rpm,
Works by
Bowles, Copland, Thomson, Ramey, Bennett Lerner
Contains the Bowles music:
'Sonatina', 'Dance' and 'Cross Country'
Weill, Varese, Bowles, Martinu. 1989
Chicago
Pro Musica, Reference Recordings, (No. RR-29)
Pure Analogue. One disk, 12", 33 rpm
Paul Bowles' contribution to this LP is his 'Music for a Farce',
which dates originally from 1938, when Bowles wrote this piece
for Orson Welles Play 'Too Much Johnson', which in fact was
dropped before it reached completion. Bowles arranged a suite
from the stage music, and in this form it was given its premiere
at a League of Composers in early 1939.
Please
click
here to
hear the opening part of this music.
'William Sharp, Baritone:
Works by Virgil Thomson,
Paul Bowles etc' 1989
New World Records (NW 369). One disk, 12", 33 rpm
With one page text insert. Contains 11 vocal songs on side 2, written
by T Williams (the 4 Blue Mountain Ballads,) G Stein and Paul and Jane
Bowles.
Please
click
here to
hear a part of 'Three' sung by William Sharp
Photos
of Columbia 'Masterworks Modern American Music' and 'The Wind Remains'
courtesy of Brian Gabel, Oakland CA. USA
Index
Notes
on 'The Baptism of Solitude' CD
Avant-Garde
and Spoken word
recorded by Paul Bowles
Various
and Compilation Recordings recorded by Paul Bowles
Recommended
Paul Bowles music on CD
About The 'Concerto for Two Pianos, Winds and
Percussion'
'The Concerto for Two Pianos,
Winds and Percussion'
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