Joan Tower

  • Bright Angel: American Works for Clarinet and Piano
    Bright Angel: American Works for Clarinet and Piano

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    This release features contemporary works for clarinet and piano from American composers including world premieres of Abbie Betinis' "Nattsanger" and Roshanne Etezady's "Bright Angel", inspired by the architectural structures of Mary Jane Colter in the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 30, 2013

  • Dvorák, Shostakovich & Tower: Piano Trios
    Dvorák, Shostakovich & Tower: Piano Trios

    $16.99

    Founded in 1982 by distinguished faculty members at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Oberlin Trio has performed to enthusiastic acclaim throughout the world for more than 30 years. Since 2008, the tradition has been...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 08, 2016

  • American Flute Quintets
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    American Flute Quintets

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    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 12, 2012

  • Women Composers & Their Music for Saxophone
    Women Composers & Their Music for Saxophone

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    The recording features a program of contemporary works by women composers for saxophone. Bill Perconti is a virtuoso saxophonist. The accompaniment includes piano and guitar.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 28, 2013

  • Gershwin: Rhapsodies & Cuban Overture; Tower & Stucky: Works / Cole, Miller, NOIP
    Gershwin: Rhapsodies & Cuban Overture; Tower & Stucky: Works / Cole, Miller, NOIP

    $19.99

    The Gershwin titles included on this album are from the new Gershwin Critical Edition which seeks to publish the definitive versions of the composer’s works. All are premiere recordings. Joan Tower’s 1920/2019 is a propulsive...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 09, 2024

  • Red Maple - Music for Bassoon & Strings / Kolkay, Calidore String Quartet
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    Red Maple - Music for Bassoon & Strings / Kolkay, Calidore String Quartet

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    Peter Kolkay's new recording of music for bassoon and strings, Red Maple, takes its title from a work that Joan Tower wrote for Kolkay in 2013. Tower's piece is joined by fellow American composer Russell...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 06, 2023

  • Tower: Made in America, Tambor, Etc / Slatkin, Nashville Symphony
    Tower: Made in America, Tambor, Etc / Slatkin, Nashville Symphony

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    This album was awarded the 2008 Grammy Awards for "Best Classical Album" and "Best Orchestral Performance."All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 29, 2007

  • Tower: Violin Concerto… / Lin, Guerrero, Nashville Symphony
    Tower: Violin Concerto… / Lin, Guerrero, Nashville Symphony

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    Joan Tower creates music which is bold, colorful and communicative, her list of commissions and awards providing ample evidence of her ability to engage performers and audiences alike. Emotional intensity characterizes Stroke, which vividly conveys...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 26, 2015

  • Tower: Strike Zones / Glennie, McMillen, Miller, Albany Symphony
    Tower: Strike Zones / Glennie, McMillen, Miller, Albany Symphony

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    Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of today’s most important American composers. The works heard here in their world premiere recordings are part of a growing legacy that one pundit has described as “The...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 23, 2021

  • Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3-5 & Dumbarton Quintet / Daedalus Quartet, Miami Quartet
    Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3-5 & Dumbarton Quintet / Daedalus Quartet, Miami Quartet

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    Widely regarded as one of America’s pre-eminent living composers, Joan Tower, who is also a pianist, is particularly devoted to chamber music. Organic structures underpin her string quartets; there is ‘heat from within’ and radiance...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 08, 2016

  • Gershwin, Tower, Piston & Harbison / Cole, Miller, NOIP
    Gershwin, Tower, Piston & Harbison / Cole, Miller, NOIP

    $19.99

    This program represents American orchestral music in all of it's verve and expressive variety. Following the sensational success of Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin's Concerto in F was his first foray away from jazz bands into...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2020

  • American Classics - Tower: Instrumental Music
    American Classics - Tower: Instrumental Music

    $19.99

    Joan Tower's chamber music has much the same emotional intensity and gestural ferocity as her orchestral works. Her primarily angular harmonic language, with its predominantly dissonant cast, evokes a sense of agitation bordering on rage--something...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 16, 2005

  • American Music For Percussion, Vol 1 / New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble
    American Music For Percussion, Vol 1 / New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble

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    Scored for as few as three marimbas or as many as a hundred percussion instruments plus celesta, harp and piano, these five striking works by contemporary American composers abound in fascinating rhythms, ingenious combinations and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 26, 2011