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Judith Lang Zaimont (1945- )
Pure Colors
Wizards – Three Magic Masters (2003); Astral ... a mirror life on the astral plane (2004);
Virgie Rainey – Two Narratives (2002); Valse Romantique (1974);
Tanya Poems (1999); Bubble-Up Rag (2001)
Young-Ah Tak, piano; John Anderson, clarinet; Wendy Zaro-Mullins, soprano; Jean del Santo, mezzo-soprano;
Timothy Lovelace, piano; Tanya Remenikova, cello; Immanuel Davis, flute; Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano
Albany Records 785
"To describe Judith Lang Zaimont as an academic composer is fair and accurate provided that one intends the epithet to function simply as a means of pointing to the fact that she has been employed in academia throughout most of her working life. It would be quite wrong, however, to use the phrase academic composer if, by its use, one intended that any of its pejorative associations should apply to Zaimont’s music. There is nothing dry or pedantic about her work; there is no sense that her compositions are technical exercises or that they exist merely for teaching purposes or as demonstrations of one or another theoretical concept. In fact her music . . .is various and undogmatic, inventive and readily approachable, even if it also reveals her extensive technical knowledge. This is a rewarding fifty-five minutes’ worth of music varied in instrumentation and idiom, but consistently inventive and accomplished, the work of a composer who deserves to be more widely known . . ."
... to read more click here
- Glyn Pursglove, MusicWeb International
*** Click here to hear excerpts from this Albany disc ***
Check the Albany website for more information
Judith Lang Zaimont (1945- )
Pure Colors
Wizards – Three Magic Masters (2003); Astral ... a mirror life on the astral plane (2004);
Virgie Rainey – Two Narratives (2002); Valse Romantique (1974);
Tanya Poems (1999); Bubble-Up Rag (2001)
Young-Ah Tak, piano; John Anderson, clarinet; Wendy Zaro-Mullins, soprano; Jean del Santo, mezzo-soprano;
Timothy Lovelace, piano; Tanya Remenikova, cello; Immanuel Davis, flute; Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano
Albany Records 785
"To describe Judith Lang Zaimont as an academic composer is fair and accurate provided that one intends the epithet to function simply as a means of pointing to the fact that she has been employed in academia throughout most of her working life. It would be quite wrong, however, to use the phrase academic composer if, by its use, one intended that any of its pejorative associations should apply to Zaimont’s music. There is nothing dry or pedantic about her work; there is no sense that her compositions are technical exercises or that they exist merely for teaching purposes or as demonstrations of one or another theoretical concept. In fact her music . . .is various and undogmatic, inventive and readily approachable, even if it also reveals her extensive technical knowledge. This is a rewarding fifty-five minutes’ worth of music varied in instrumentation and idiom, but consistently inventive and accomplished, the work of a composer who deserves to be more widely known . . ."
... to read more click here
- Glyn Pursglove, MusicWeb International
*** Click here to hear excerpts from this Albany disc ***
Check the Albany website for more information
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Here are some
of the many record labels that feature contemporary art music.
Tell us about any others you know of - we'd love to add them to our growing list.
Tell us about any others you know of - we'd love to add them to our growing list.
Contemporary Music Recordings
Albany Records
Atopos
Blipfonica
Bridge Records
Cedille Records - contemporary
Centrediscs (Canadian Music Centre)
EMC (Experimental Music Catalog)
ERM Media
Fleur de Son Classics
Innova Recordings (The Label of the American Composers Forum)
Komplott
Mode Records
MSR Classics - contemporary
Musica Omnia - 20th century
musicnow
Naxos
New Albion Records
New Focus Recordings
New Music from Indiana University: Volumes 1 and 2
New Tertian Recordings
New World Records
Nonesuch Records
numusic.org
Toccata Classics
Trace Label (Paris, France)
Zimbel Records
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In addition
to individual record labels, contemporary recordings can be
searched
by the composer's name at such sites as:
by the composer's name at such sites as:
Amazon.com
ArkivMusic.com
CD Baby: Music Now
ClassicsOnline: 20th Century or Contemporary or by Composer
e classical: Contemporary
ArkivMusic.com
CD Baby: Music Now
ClassicsOnline: 20th Century or Contemporary or by Composer
e classical: Contemporary
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