Favorite
Roger Sessions
An American composer, critic and teacher of music (28 December 1896 - 16 March 1985).
Orchestral Works
Godfrey Winham, Roger Sessions, Barry David Salwen*, Joel Suben*, Orchestra Of The West, Polish National Radio Symphony*
2020
Albany Records
CD, Album
Music For Violin & Piano
Roger Sessions - David Bowlin, David Holzman
2015
Bridge Records (4)
CD
Carter - Sessions - Eckardt
Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions, Jason Eckardt, Miranda Cuckson, Blair McMillen
2014
Urlicht Audio Visual
CD, Album
Sessions & Shapey
Roger Sessions & Ralph Shapey - David Holzman
2007
Bridge Records (4)
CD, Album
From The New World (Rassegna Di Nuova Musica Vol. 1)
Cage*, Cowell*, Druckman*, Feldman*, Ives*, Riley*, Sessions* - Francesco Dillon, Lucas Fels, Mike Svoboda*, Banda Comunale Di Pollenza*, Fausto Bongelli, Peter Söderberg, Stefano Scodanibbio, Terry Riley
2006
Stradivarius
CD
Inscape • Symphony No. 8 • Trancendental Modulations • ...Where The Murmurs Die...
Aaron Copland • Roger Sessions • George Perle • Bernard Rands - The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein
2005
New World Records
CD, Album
Divertimento For Orchestra / Idyll Of Theocritus
Roger Sessions – The Louisville Orchestra
2003
First Edition Music
CD, Comp
Quintet / Quintet / Quartet For Strings
Pro Arte Quartet With Samuel Rhodes - Roger Sessions / Walter Mays
2003
Albany Records
CD, Album
Sessions • Sessions • Mennin • Blackwood • Zukofsky
Paul Zukofsky / Roger Sessions, Peter Mennin, Easley Blackwood
2002
CP² Recordings
CD
American Piano Sonatas
Copland* - Ives* - Carter* - Barber* - Griffes* - Sessions*, Peter Lawson
2001
Virgin Classics, Virgin Classics
2xCD, Album, Comp, RE
Piano Sonata No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 3 /Fantasies And Impromptus
Randall Hodgkinson , Robert Helps - Roger Sessions / Donald Martino
1998
New World Records
CD, Comp
Piano Sonatas 1-3, From My Diary
Roger Sessions
1998
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD
The 20th-Century Cello · Vol. 2
Matt Haimovitz - Britten* · Davidovsky* · Harbison* · Hindemith* · Perle* · Sessions*
1997
Deutsche Grammophon
CD, Album
Symphonies 6, 7 & 9
Roger Sessions – American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies
1995
Violin Concerto / Symphony
Roger Sessions / Stefan Wolpe - Paul Zukofsky, Orchestre Philharmonique*, Gunther Schuller / Orchestra Of The 20th Century, Arthur Weisberg
1994
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD, Comp, Mono
Piano Concerto No. 3 / Concerto For Piano And Orchestra
Francis Thorne / Roger Sessions - Ursula Oppens, Robert Taub, The Westchester Philharmonic*, Paul Dunkel
1994
New World Records
CD, Album
Duo For Violin And Violoncello – Six Pieces For Violoncello – Duo For Violin And Piano – Sonata For Violin
Roger Sessions - Curtis Macomber, Joel Krosnick, Barry David Salwen*
1994
Koch International Classics
CD, Album
Symphony No. 2 / Symphony No. 2 / Oboe Concerto
Sessions*, Harbison*, William Bennett (4), San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt
1994
American Piano Music Of The 20th Century: In Memoriam XI.22.1963
Cage*, Sessions*, Ives*, William Grant Naboré
1993
Doron Music
CD
String Quintet · Canons · Six Pieces For Violoncello · First String Quartet
Roger Sessions, The Group For Contemporary Music
1993
American Piano Sonatas Volume 2
Peter Lawson - Griffes*, Sessions*, Ives*
1993
Tabuh-Tabuhan / The Black Maskers / Symphony On A Hymn Tune / The Feast Of Love
McPhee* / Sessions* / Thomson* / Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
1992
Mercury, Mercury Living Presence
CD, Comp, RE
Soliloquy
Curtis Macomber - Roger Sessions, Joel Hoffman, Bruce Adolphe
1992
Koch International Classics
CD
Complete Works For Solo Piano
Roger Sessions - Barry David Salwen*
1992
Symphonies Nos. 1 2 3
Roger Sessions
1990
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD, Comp, Mono
Helps / Adams / Brief / Sessions
O'Riley* - Robert Helps, John Adams, Todd Brief, Roger Sessions
1990
Albany Records
CD
String Quartet No. 2 / String Quartet / String Quartet No. 4
The Juilliard String Quartet* – Sessions* / Wolpe* / Babbitt*
1990
In Praise Of Shahn / Connotations / Black Maskers Suite
William Schuman / Aaron Copland / Roger Sessions, Juilliard Orchestra* Conducted By Otto-Werner Mueller / Sixten Ehrling And Paul Zukofsky
1988
Symphony No. 4 · Symphony No. 5 · Rhapsody For Orchestra
Roger Sessions - Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Christian Badea
1987
Fantasies And Impromptus / Piano Sonata No. 2
Randall Hodgkinson - Donald Martino / Roger Sessions
1984
New World Records, New World Records
LP
5 Pieces, Sonata, Variazioni
Robert Black (4) Plays Roger Sessions, Miriam Gideon, Ben Weber (2)
1983
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
LP
Concerto For Orchestra / Sinfonia Votiva (Symphony No. 8)
Sessions* / Panufnik* - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
1982
Symphony No. 7 / Divertimento For Orchestra
Roger Sessions / The Louisville Orchestra, Peter Leonard
1981
First Edition Records
LP, Album
American Piano Music Of The 20th Century
William Naboré* - Ives* / Cage* / Sessions*
1981
Pan (5)
LP, Album
Philomel / Piano Sonata No.3
Milton Babbitt / Roger Sessions
1980
New World Records
LP, Comp
String Quartet No.2 / String Quartet No.1 In E Minor
Walter Piston / Roger Sessions - Budapest String Quartet / Pro Arte String Quartet*
1979
New World Records
LP, Album, Mono
Alan Marks Plays Modern Classics
Alan Marks - Boulez* / Sessions* / Chavez*
1978
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
LP
But Yesterday Is Not Today
Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Theodore Chanler, Israel Citkowitz, John Duke (4), Robert Helps, Roger Sessions / James Agee, Jane Bowles, E. E. Cummings, Leonard Feeney, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Walter De La Mare, James Purdy, Edwin Arlington Robinson / Bethany Beardslee & Robert Helps / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard
1977
New World Records
LP
When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd
Roger Sessions, The Boston Symphony Orchestra*, Seiji Ozawa
1977
Sonata For Violin / Second Sonata
Roger Sessions / Easley Blackwood - Paul Zukofsky
1976
CP² Recordings
LP
Capriccio Per Siegfried Palm / Six Pieces For Violoncello / Suite No. 1 In G Major
Krzysztof Penderecki / Roger Sessions / J. S. Bach* - Roy Christensen
1976
Gasparo
LP
Barber Sessions Ginastera
Barber*, Sessions*, Ginastera*, Howard Hanson
1974
Mercury
LP, Comp, RE
Rhapsody For Orchestra, Symphony VIII / Night Music / Dichotomy
Sessions* / Musgrave* / Riegger*
1973
Argo (2), Argo (2)
LP
Solo Sonata / Five Pieces / Segmentos
Robert Gross, Richard Grayson - Sessions* / Rosen* / De La Vega*
1973
Orion
LP
Concertino For Chamber Orchestra / Songs, Drones And Refrains Of Death
Roger Sessions / George Crumb
1973
String Quartet No. 1 In E Minor / String Quartet In One Movement, Opus 23
Roger Sessions / William Frabizio - The Amado String Quartet
1972
Apex (6)
LP
Piano Sonata No. 3 / Duo For Violin And Piano
Roger Sessions - Robert Helps / Charles Wuorinen - Paul Zukofsky, Charles Wuorinen
1971
Acoustic Research
LP
Session; Cowell; Lybbert; Talma
Henry Cowell / Donald Lybbert / Roger Sessions / Louise Talma, Herbert Rogers
1970
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
LP
Violin Concerto
Roger Sessions
1968
Symphony No. 3 / Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra
Sessions* / Lees* - Igor Buketoff, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
1968
Modern American Piano Music
Copland* / Sessions* / Carter* - Beveridge Webster
1966
The Incredible Flutist / Suite From "The Black Maskers" / Merry Mount Suite / Prelude & Quadruple Fugue
Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
1965
The Violin Vol. 5
Hyman Bress / Charles Reiner / Sessions* / Webern* / Haba*
1963
Folkways Records
LP, Album
Piano Sonata / Piano Sonata / From My Diary / Three Barcarolles
Leon Fleisher, Aaron Copland / Leon Kirchner / Roger Sessions / Ned Rorem
1963
Les Noces (The Wedding) / Renard (The Fox) / Ragtime For Eleven Instruments
Stravinsky* - Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Roger Sessions, Mildred Allen, Regina Sarfaty, Loren Driscoll, Robert Oliver, Columbia Chamber Ensemble, The American Concert Choir, Margaret Hillis, Columbia Percussion Ensemble, George Shirley, William Murphy (2), Donald Gramm, Toni Koves, Columbia Chamber Ensemble
1962
Sessions : Piano Sonata No. 1 / Mayer : Piano Sonata
Roger Sessions / William Mayer
1961
Symphony No. 1 / Music On A Quiet Theme / Tetrameron
Roger Sessions / William Bergsma / Russell Smith (9)
1959
The Black Maskers / Tabuh-Tabuhan
Roger Sessions / Colin McPhee, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
1959
Suite From The Black Maskers
Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra*
1958
Mercury
Reel, 2tr Stereo, 7" Reel, Album
Second String Quartet / Concerto For Piano With Wind Octette Accompaniment
Roger Sessions / Colin McPhee
1956
Variations On Sunday School Tunes / Four Chorale Preludes
Virgil Thomson / Roger Sessions - Marilyn Mason (2)
1954
The Black Maskers / Symphony No. 3 / American Festival Overture
Roger Sessions / Roy Harris / William Schuman - American Recording Society Orchestra : Walter Hendl
1953
The Black Maskers (An Orchestral Suite In Four Movements)
Roger Sessions
1952
Ives: Sonata No. 2, Sesssions: Duo For Violin And Piano
Ives*, Sessions* - Patricia Travers With Otto Herz
1951
Columbia Masterworks
10", Mono
Symphony No. 2
Sessions*, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos
1950
Columbia Masterworks
10", Mono
La Musique Américaine De Piano Au XXᴱ Siècle - Volume 2
Aaron Copland / Roger Sessions / Elliott Carter / Noël Lee
Valois
LP
Roger Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (1946) / Peter Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (1946)
Roger Sessions / Peter Mennin – New York Philharmonic-Symphony*, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
LP, Album
The Three Piano Sonatas
Roger Sessions, Rebecca La Brecque
Opus One
2xLP, Album, Ltd, Num
Symphonies
Roger Sessions
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
Cass
Untitled
Honegger*, Messiaen*, Sessions*
American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers
LP, Mono
Violin Concerto / Ritual
Roger Sessions, James Bolle
Albany Records
CD
Symphony No. 1 / Symphony No.2
Milhaud*, Darius Milhaud Conducting The Columbia Broadcasting Symphony / Sessions*, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York
Complete Decca Recordings
Herbert Blomstedt
2023
Decca
33xCD, Comp + Box, Ltd
The Complete RCA And Columbia Album Collection
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic
2022
Sony Classical
69xCD, Comp, Mono, RM + Box
Transformations
Elizabeth Chang, Steven Beck, Alberto Parrini
2021
Albany Records
CD, Album
Fromm Music Foundation - Twentieth Century Composers Series
Elliott Carter, Luigi Dallapiccola, William Denny, Lukas Foss, Lou Harrison, Wilhelm Killmayer, Leon Kirchner, Ernst Krenek, Benjamin Lees, Jerome Rosen, İlhan Usmanbaş, Ben Weber (2)
2020
Sony Classical
10xCD, Mono, RE, RM + Box, Comp
American Gifts For Marimba Duo
Jack Van Geem & Nancy Zeltsman
2020
Bridge Records (4)
CD, Album
The Complete Columbia Album Collection
New Music String Quartet
2019
Sony Classical
10xCD, Mono, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Mono, RM
Discovered Tapes From Baroque To Contemporary
Pietro Scarpini
2018
Rhine Classics
12xCD, Comp, Mono, RM
20th Century American Choral Treasures: CD Premieres From The GSS Archives
The Gregg Smith Singers*
2016
Albany Records
2xCD, Album, RM
Darmstadt Aural Documents - Box 4 · Pianists
Various
2016
NEOS
7xCD + Box, Comp
Mercury Living Presence - The Collector's Edition #2
Various
2013
Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury
6xLP, Album + Box, Ltd
The Complete Album Collection
Leon Fleisher
2013
Sony Classical
23xCD, Comp, Mono + Box
Hypersuite - Music For Solo Cello
Darrett Adkins
2013
Oberlin Music
CD, Album
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky - The Ballets
Igor Stravinsky
2011
Sony Classical, Sony Music
7xCD, Comp + Box
Sacred Works And Other - The Columbia Recordings (1957-1960)
Stravinsky*
2011
Urania Records (4)
2xCD, Comp, RM
Americans In Rome: Music By Fellows Of The American Academy In Rome
Donald Berman
2008
Bridge Records (4)
4xCD, Album
The 20th-Century Cello
Matt Haimovitz
2005
Deutsche Grammophon
3xCD, Comp
The Waltz Project Revisited, New Waltzes For Piano
Eric Moe (2)
2004
Albany Records
CD, Album
Documents Of The Munich Years
James Levine (2), Münchner Philharmoniker
2004
Oehms Classics
12xCD + Box, Comp
Documents Of The Munich Years · Vol. 2
James Levine (2), Münchner Philharmoniker
2004
Oehms Classics
CD, Album
Extraordinary Vistas: Words & Music Of The MacDowell Colony
Susan Narucki, Alan Feinberg, Nathan Randall
2003
Americus
CD, Album
Igor Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky The Complete Ballets
Igor Stravinsky
2003
Sony Classical, Sony Classical
6xCD, Comp, RE
Modern Classics
Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber, Carl Nielsen, Witold Lutoslawski, Philip Glass, John Tavener, Tan Dun
1998
But Yesterday Is Not Today (The American Art Song 1927 - 1972)
Bethany Beardslee & Robert Helps / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard
1996
New World Records, New World Records
CD, RE
Hindemith - Sessions - Ligeti
Pieter Wispelwey
1995
Channel Classics
CD, Album
Muziekpsychologie
No Artist
1995
Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, Uitgeverij Van Gorcum
CD
Dvořák - Concerto For Cello & Orchestra In B Minor
Dvořák*, Pieter Wispelwey, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra*, Lawrence Renes
1995
Channel Classics
2xCD
An American Diary
Mike Mainieri
1995
Panorama Of American Piano Music From Antheil To Zappa 1911 To 1991
Yvar Mikhashoff
1992
Mode
4xCD, Comp
No. 3. Scherzo: Allegro
Roger Sessions
No. 2. Dialogue: Andante
Roger Sessions
String Quintet: II. Adagio ed espressivo
Roger Sessions
Canons (to the memory of Stravinsky)
Roger Sessions
No. 4. Berceuse: Lento e dolce
Roger Sessions
I. Movimento tranquillo
Roger Sessions
Six Pieces for Violoncello: Berceuse Lento e dolce
Roger Sessions
From My Diary: I. Poco adagio
Roger Sessions
II. Adagio molto
Roger Sessions
From My Diary: II. Allegro con brio
Roger Sessions
From My Diary: IV. Allegro pesante
Roger Sessions
I. Tempo moderato
Roger Sessions
String Quintet: I. Movimento Tranquillo
Roger Sessions
From My Diary: III. Larghissiimo e misterioso
Roger Sessions
No. 1. Prelude: Allegro energico
Roger Sessions
String Quartet No. 2 (1951): I. Lento
Roger Sessions
From My Diary: III. Larghissimo e misterioso
Roger Sessions
Six Pieces for Violoncello
Roger Sessions
String Quintet: III. Allegro appassionato
Roger Sessions
String Quartet No. 2 (1951): II. Allegro Appassionato, Alla Breve
Roger Sessions