elizabeth vercoe composer

"Reviews sometimes indicate that a disc is 'recommended.' I would call this
 issue of Elizabeth Vercoe's [Herstory 3]---required"       (IAWM Journal)            

 

 

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Butterfly Effects for flute and harp


  "...an artful exploration of the instruments and a wonderful addition to the chamber musician's librrary."  (Flutist Quarterly)


    Peter H. Bloom, flute
   Mary Jane Rupert, harp
  

   Navona Records CD
   website: amazon.com  
   score:  Noteworthy Sheet Music
cover art: Louisa King Fraser

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Butterfly Effects for oboe and harp


  "...a delicate fantasia...her gorgeous music is explored with striking inventiveness"  (ConcertoNet)


    Cynthia Green Libby, oboe
   Jeremy Chesman, harp
  

   MSR Classics CD
   website:  www.amazon.com   
   score:   Certosa Verlag

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Despite our differences #1 for piano trio


  "Real interest lies in the dialogues and differences"  (Boston Globe)


    Joseph Sheer, violin
   Karen Kaderavek, cello
   Christine Paraschos, piano

   Navona Records CD
   website: www.amazon.com  
   score: American Composers Alliance

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Elegy for viola and piano


  "moody, somber, interesting...moments of real beauty"
    (Journal of the American Viola Society)

  "poised, soulful"   (Boston Globe)


    Patricia McCarty, viola
   Ellen Weckler, piano
  

   Navona Records
   website: amazon.com   
   score:  American Composers Alliance
cover art: Louisa King Fraser

 

 

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Fantasy for Piano


  "An  imaginative, intense fantasy"  (Clavier)


    Rosemary Platt, piano

   Navona Records & Capstone Records
   website: www.amazon.com   
   score:   Fantasy for Piano

cover art: Karen Beckhardt

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Fantasy for Piano
  (Reissued from Capstone CD)

  "Exploits the resources of the piano in clever and musically satisfying ways."  (Audiophile Auditions)


    Rosemary Platt, piano

   Navona Records
   website: www.amazon.com   
   score:   Fantasy for Piano

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Fantavia for Flute & Percussion


  "timbral adventures and some lovely moments"   (New York Times)
 
 
  The Armstrong Duo
   Eleanor Armstrong, flute
   Dan Armstrong, percussion

   Centaur Records 2273
   8867 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
   website: www.amazon.com
   score:   Noteworthy Sheet Music


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Four Humors


  Chester Brezniak, clarinet
  Jeff Chappell, piano

 

  Centaur Records 2663
   8867 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
   website: www.amazon.com
    score:  American Composers Alliance

Phlegmatic mp3
Choleric mp3
Melancholy mp3
Sanguine mp3

Herstory I for soprano, vibraphone and piano

 "[Her] music, while challenging, has always seemed challenging as a means to serve both the text and the music." (Soprano Cheryl Cobb, Mt. Holyoke College)

  Boston Musica Viva
  Richard Pittman, conductor
  Cheryl Cobb, soprano
  Randall Hodgkinson, piano
  Dean Anderson, percussion
  

   Navona Records CD
   website: amazon.com 
   score:  American Composers Alliance
cover art: Louisa King Fraser

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Herstory II: 13 Japanese Lyrics

   "spare, reticent and suggestive" (Boston Globe)
 
  
  Boston Musica Viva
  Richard Pittman, conductor
  Elsa Charleston, soprano
  Randall Hodgkinson, piano
  Dean Anderson, percussion
  Northeastern Records (LP:  #NR 221)
   score:  American Composers Alliance

cover art: Anne Saussois
Lady Murasaki Shikibu mp3
Lady Otomo No Sakone mp3
Lady Horikawa mp3

Herstory II: 13 Japanese Lyrics
  (Reissued from Northeastern LP)

   "delicate and evocative" (Stephen Ellis, musicologist)
 
  
  Boston Musica Viva
  Richard Pittman, conductor
  Elsa Charleston, soprano
  Randall Hodgkinson, piano
  Dean Anderson, percussion
  Capstone Records
   score:   American Composers Alliance

Lady Murasaki Shikibu mp3
Lady Otomo No Sakone mp3
Lady Horikawa mp3

Herstory II: 13 Japanese Lyrics
  (Reissued from Capstone CD)

  "The Boston Musica Viva's rendition of Herstory II is exquisite." (Samuel Jay Keyser)


  Navona Records
   website: www.amazon.com
   score:  American Composers Alliance

 

 

Lady Otomo No Sakonoe mp3
Lady Izuni Shikibu mp3

Herstory III:  Jehanne de Lorraine
 
  "The most powerful work I know by a woman on a feminist theme" 
    (Washington Post)
 

 
  Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano
  Rosemary Platt, piano

   Starkland Recordings (OWL-35)
   website:  www.starkland.com  or   www.amazon.com
   score: American Composers Alliance

Jehanne, la bonne Lorraine mp3
I have labored sore mp3
I am a soldier mp3
Holy Cat Blues mp3
Inquisition mp3
God be in my head mp3

Irreveries from Sappho
  (Reissued from Capstone CD)

   "hugely funny, elegant"    (The Post-Standard, Ithaca)

  Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano
  Rosemary Platt, piano


  Navona Records
   website: www.amazon.com
   score: American Composers Alliance

Andromeda Rag mp3
Older Woman Blues mp3
Boogie for Leda mp3

Irreveries from Sappho

   "fresh and fun"    (William Bolcom)

  Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano
  Rosemary Platt, piano


  Navona Records & Capstone Records
   website:  www.amazon.com
   score: American Composers Alliance

cover art: Karen Beckhardt
Andromeda Rag mp3
Older Woman Blues mp3
Boogie for Leda mp3

Irreveries from Sappho
      ("Andromeda Rag" only)

  "[These] witty settings are real showstoppers."  (Jewish Advocate)

  Neva Pilgrim, soprano
  Steven Heyman, piano

  Leonarda CDs - LE 338
   P.O. Box 1736, New York, NY 10025
   website:  www.leonarda.com or  www.amazon.com
   score:   American Composers Alliance
 

Kleemation for flute & piano

   "Vercoe musically renders Klee's drawings with all the humor, fear, and reality that make each one leap from its canvas..."    (IAWM Journal)
 
   Peter H. Bloom, flute
   Mary Jane Rupert, piano


  Navona Records
   website: www.amazon.com
   score:   Noteworthy Sheet Music


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This is my letter to the World for voice, flute and piano

   "...almost like Georgia O'Keefe paintings set to music"  (Midwest Record)

  D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo soprano
  Peter H. Bloom, flute
  Mary Jane Rupert, piano
  

   Navona Records CD
   website: amazon.com   
   score:  elizvercoe@yahoo.com
cover art: Louisa King Fraser
Bee!
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Title Divine
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A Spider
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To Music
  (Reissued from Capstone CD)


 "sensitivity...poetic"  (Infodad.com)

  Nancy Stagnitta, flute
 

  Navona Records
   website:  www.amazon.com
   score:   Noteworthy Sheet Music
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To Music

   "highly abstract yet accessible"  (WRUV Reviews)


  Nancy Stagnitta, flute
 

  Navona Records & Capstone Records
   website:  www.amazon.com
   score:   Noteworthy Sheet Music
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