MUSOC.ORG 2009    Classics of Contemporary Art Music ~ November 2009 

American Solstice for Chamber Ensemble (Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass & Piano)
Transformations for String Quartet
Forces at Play for Chamber Ensemble (Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano & Percussion)
Carondelet Caprice for Chamber Ensemble (Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano)
Fantasy and Fugue for Woodwind Quintet
Separately Together – Synesthesia for Chamber Ensemble (Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano)
Rhapsody Ritmico for Brass Quintet
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Harbach Vol. IV MSR 1255 Chamber Music II – String Orchestra, Ensemble & Woodwind Quintet
Kirk Trevor, conductor Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Istropolis: Woodwind Quintet Slovak Radio Symphony Wind & String

Selected by Bob Briggs of MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL as a RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2009  

Selected by the PYTHEAS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC as the Featured Recording for November 2009  

MUSOC.ORG 2009    Classics of Contemporary Art Music ~ October 2009

The Soul of Ra for String Orchestra (2005/2006)
Freeing the Caged Bird for Woodwind Quintet (2006/2007) Maya Angelou; Sara Teasdale; Kate Chopin; Emily Hahn
Transformations for String Orchestra (2004)
Echoes from Tomorrow for Chamber Ensemble (2006)
Lilia Polka (Kate Chopin) for Woodwind Quintet (2007)
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Harbach Vol. V MSR 1256 Vocal Music - Soprano, Winds, Strings, Harp, Trumpet & Piano

Stella Markou - Soprano
Kurt Baldwin, Donita Bauer, Paul Garritson, Thomas George, David Gillham, Barbara Harbach, Diana Haskell, Paul Hecht, Paula Kasica, Joanna Mendoza, Alla Voskoboynikova, Ayako Watanabe, James Richards, Conductor

Abigail! for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Harp, Violin, Viola & Cello (2007) Miss Adorable, Lady Adams, Remember the Ladies,
My Heart is Light
Pleasure Flow, Tender Mist for Soprano and Piano (2003) Wind, Tend, Mist, In the Calm in the Cool, Pleasure is Flow
Emily! for Soprano, E-flat Trumpet and Piano (2007) I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, If You Were Coming in the Fall, Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
Light Out of Darkness for Soprano and Piano (2005)
Cherish-Caress for Soprano and Cello (2002)
Pioneer Women: From Skagway to White Mountain for Soprano, Clarinet & Piano (1994) Catherine Van Curler, Cordelia Nobel, Margaret Murie,
Gertrude Fergus Baker
Twenty-first Century Pioneer for Soprano and Piano (2007)
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Anna Bon di Venezia - Six Sonatas for Harpsichord, Opus 2 (1757)

MSR 1241 Barbara Harbach, harpsichord

(c. 1740-1767)
Sonata I in G Minor, Sonata II in B-flat Minor, Sonata III in F Major, Sonata IV in C Major, Sonata V in B Minor, Sonata VI in C Major
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Summershimmer: Women Composers for Organ

Barbara Harbach, organ. This disc by well-known organist and composer Barbara Harbach is an exciting foray into the richly diverse world of organ music by women composers. This disc, almost seventy-four minutes long, primarily surveys music not previously recorded including premieres of works by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Libby Larsen. Harbach’s previous recording of organ music by women composers, a landmark in the field, was labeled a “revelatory release” by The American Organist.
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Summershimmer: Organ Music by Women Composers (Hester Park) CD 7704 $15.98

Daystream Dances by Barbara Harbach. This exciting release captures a variety of twentieth century sounds for oboe and piano. Libby’s playing sparkles with clarity and brilliance, and she draws on a beautiful palette of sounds. Collins is an award-winning pianist in several national and international competitions. Together, they bring nuance and virtuosity to this international program of music from the U.K., Australia, Ukraine, France, and the U.S.
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Barbara Harbach, harpsichord. Enjoy the Baroque spirit at its frolicking best with the keyboard works of Elisabetta de Gambarini and Elizabeth Hardin. Energy, sparkle, wit, and engaging melodies characterize these delightful sonatas from the second half of the eighteenth century. Seventy-three minutes of premiere recordings by the well-known performer Barbara Harbach, who is also a pioneer in research on women composers.
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Sonatas by Elizabeth (Hester Park) CD 7702 $15.98

Classical Prodigies: Elizabeth Weichsell Billington & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Barbara Harbach, harpsichord. A striking comparison of two of the world’s most gifted child prodigies -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who needs no other accolades, and Elizabeth Weichsell, who went on to become one of the greatest singers England ever produced. This disc juxtaposes the keyboard works of each composer at age eight, and again at age eleven. This pure-digital recording is sure to make you hear the harpsichord with a brilliance that you’ve never heard before.
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Classical Prodigies (Hester Park) CD 7703 $15.98

Pieces Parisiennes: Madame de Villeblanche and Marie Bigot
Susan Chan, piano This is the first recording of the complete works of Madame de Villeblanche and Marie Bigot, both composers active in the Paris music scene at the close of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. These challenging pieces richly enhance and expand our conception of the role of women composers of this time period. Chan is a gifted interpreter of Eastern and Western keyboard repertoire, and has specialized in the
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Close Your Eyes: Women Jazz Composers
This CD is the first to highlight women composers of jazz--from Billie Holiday’s God Bless the Child to Sarah Hannah Sheppard’s Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. The powerful combination of piano and horn allows these great songs to speak with simple grace and undiluted charm. “Brilliantly performed, this disc will astound the casual listener with the number of familiar pieces included, and thrill the professional with the mastery these two musicians have of their craft.” (reviewer Thomas Erdmann in Women of Note Quarterly) Bernice Petkere, Billie Holiday, Maria Grever, Dee Libbey, Mable Wayne, Sharah Hannah Sheppard, Dana Suesse, Dorothy Fields, Kay Swift, Ann Ronell, Sadie Vimmerstedt, Ruth Lowe
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Close Your Eyes: Women Jazz Composers (Hester Park) CD 7701 $15.98

Twentieth-Century Harpsichord Music

Kingdom Records, London, UK (Now available on Gasparo, GSCD-251, no longer on Kingdom) (Barbara Harbach, harpsichord) Bohuslav Martinu, Deux Pieces, Sonate pour clavecin, Deux Impromptus Virgil Thomson, Four Portraits Vincent Persichetti, Harpsichord Sonata No. 7 William Albright, Four Fancies Samuel Adler, Sonata Rick Sowash, The Unicorn and Theme with Six Variations Alec Templeton, Bach Goes to Town
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Gasparo Records, GSCD-266, Peterborough, NH (Barbara Harbach, harpsichord) Dan Locklair, The Breakers Pound Vivian Fine, Toccatas and Arias Randall Thompson, Four Inventions Edith Boroff, Metaphors Gerald Near, Triptych Barbara Harbach Spaindango: CD Review has called Harbach’s Spaindango a “fetching piece, full of antique flourishes mixed with 20th-century rage and madness, a cauldron of churning notes.”
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Gasparo Records, GSCD-280, Peterborough, NH (Barbara Harbach, harpsichord) Dan Locklair, Fantasy Brings the Day Samuel Jones, Two Movements Arnold Rosner, Sonatine d’Amour Daniel Pinkham, Partita Samuel Adler, Bridges to Span Adversity
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Gasparo Records, GSCD-290, Peterborough, NH (Barbara Harbach, harpsichord) Emma Lou Dkiemer, Toccata Michael Rose, B’rachah (Benediction) Gardner Read, Fantasy – Toccata Edith Borroff, Hyperboles Mary J. Van Appledorn, Parquet Musique Vincent Persichetti, Serenade No. 15 Robert Stern, Fantasia (ancora?) Barbara Harbach Tres Danzas para Clavecin has a Spanish flavor and frenzied outer movements that feature flamenco clusters, glissandi, and fast arpeggios.
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Gasparo Records, GSCD- 294, Peterborough, NH, (Barbara Harbach, organ). Roberta Bitgood On an Ancient Alleluia Amy Beach, Prelude on An Old Folk Tune Elizabeth Stirling Psalm 104 and Fugue Edith Borroff, Passacaglia Fanny Mendelssohn, Prelude Marga Richter, Quantum Quirks of a Quick Quaint Quark Violet Archer, Sonatina Clara Schumann, Prelude and Fugue Gwyneth Walker, In Celebration Miss Steemson, A Dirge for Funerals Gracia Baptista, Conditor Alme Mary J. Van Appledorn, Sonnet Jeanne Demessieux, Prelude and Fugue Grete von Zieritz, Praludium & Fugue Barbara Harbach’s Fanfare and Toccata,Lasst Uns Erfreuen, is a bright-sounding toccata built on the easily-recognized “All Creatures of Our God and King.” Appropriate for concert or for church, it opens and closes with full organ fanfare and features a central part of perpetual motion and interesting modulations.
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Organ Music by Women Composers (Gasparo) CD 294 $15.98

Art of the Fugue, Gasparo Records, Peterborough, NH, 1990

Women of Note Quarterly WNQ $20.00
Women of Note Quarterly: Individual and Institution WNQ IN $25.00
Back issues of Women of Note Quarterly: $6.00 each
Women of NoteCards 1 (12 cards: Schumann, Boulanger, Seeger) WNC 1 $9.95
Women of NoteCards 2 (12 cards: Mendelssohn, Hildegard, Beach) WNC 2 $9.95