Jennifer Higdon: Recordings by Album Title

All is Bright

Performer: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus (Grant Llewellyn, cond.) Higdon Work Performed: O Magnum Mysterium Other Album Contents: Dietrich Buxtehude's "In dulci jubilo" (BuxWV 52); Peter Cornelius' "Die Konige" (Weihnachtslieder (6), Op. 8, no. 3); Franz Xaver Gruber's "Silent Night"; Herbert Howells' "A spotless rose" (Carol-Anthems (3) for Chorus: no. 2); Charles Ives' "A Christmas Carol"; William Matthias' "A Babe is Born" (Op. 53) and "Sir Christemas"; Michael Praetorius' "Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen" (Musae Sioniae); Daniel Pinkham's "Sweet Music"; Ned Rorem's "While all things were in quiet silence" (Motets (7) for the Church Year); JanPieterszoon Sweelinck's "Hodie Christus natus est"; Virgil Thomson's "O my Deir Hart"; Tom Vignieri's "Hodie Christus natus est"; William Walton's "King Herod and the cock," "Make we joy now in this fest," and "What Cheer"; Eric Whitacre's "Lux aurumque"; and anonymous/traditional settings of "Coventry Carol," "Deck the Hall," and "Ther is no rose of swych vertu." Year of Release: 2005 Record Label: Avie - AVI 2078 Available for Purchase from: the Handel and Haydn Society and amazon.com

American Flute

Performers: Claudia Anderson, Julianna Moore, Jill Felber, Karen Yonovitz (flutes) Higdon Work Performed: Steeley Pause Other Album Contents: Aaron Copland's Duo, John Harris Harbison's Duo for Flute and Piano, Katherine Hoover's Sound Bytes, Shirish Korde's Tenderness of Cranes, Lowell Libermann's Gargoyles, Op. 29 (solo piano), and Rodney Rogers' April Hello Year of Release: 1994 Record Label: Centaur - CRC 2203 Available for Purchase from: amazon.com

American Flute Music

Performers: Jeffrey Khaner (principal flute, The Philadelphia Orchestra), Hugh Sung (piano) Higdon Works Performed: Autumn Reflection Other Album Contents: Eldin Burton's Sonatina, Aaron Copland's Duo, Lowell Liebermann's Sonata, Walter Piston's Sonata, and Beryl Rubinstein's Sonata Year of Release: 2002 Record Label: Avie - AVI 0004 Available for Purchase from: Jeffrey Khaner, the gift shop in The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia, PA), and at amazon.com

An American Sampler: New Music from NACUSA

Performers: University of Northern Iowa Concert Chorale (Bruce Chamberlain, cond.) Higdon Work Performed: Voices Other Album Contents: Jeremy Beck's Never Final, Never Gone (chorus and piano), Robert Carl's Liberty (2 pianos & percussion), Nancy Bloomer Deussen's Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Charles Dvorak's Seven Bagatelles for Piano, Stefania M. de Kenessey's Sunburst, Op. 33 (solo piano), and Richard Nanes' Sonnet #9 in G Major (solo piano) Record Label: ERM 6662 Available for Purchase from: ERM (Editions de la Rue Margot)

The Best of Christmas on Logan Square

Performers: The Philadelphia Singers
Higdon Work Performed: Deep In The Night
Year of Release: 1998
Archival Recording; Not Currently Available for Purchase

Conspirare: Chamber Music for Solo Flute

Performer: Patti Monson (flute) Higdon Work Performed: rapid.fire Other Album Contents: Martin Bresnick's Conspiracies, Robert Dick's Afterlight, Harold Meltzer's Rumors, Steve Reich's Vermont Counterpoint, and Kaija Saariaho's NoaNoa Year of Release: 2000 Record Label: CRI - CD867 Available for Purchase from: amazon.com

Dream Journal

Performers: Network for New Music (Jan Krzywicki, cond.) Higdon Work Performed: wissahickon poeTrees Other Album Contents: James Primosch's Dream Journal (2 pianos, 2 percussionists, & electronic sound), Bernard Rands' Concertino for Oboe and Ensemble, and Augusta Read Thomas' Passion Prayers (cello & 6 instruments) Year of Release: 2002 Record Label: Albany Records (Troy 488) Available for Purchase from: Albany Records and at amazon.com

Inflorescence II-Music for Solo Flute

Performer: Laurel Zucker (flute) Higdon Work Performed: Song Other Album Contents: Daniel Akiva's Three Pieces for Flute Solo, Robert Baksa's Soliloquy (Krishna's Song), Ingolf Dahl's Variations on a Swedish Folk Tune and Eight Variations, Philip Glass' Serenade for Solo Flute, Andres Jolivet's Incantation pour flute en ut Pour que l'image devienne symbole, Oliver Knussen's Masks, Op. 3 (flute & glass chimes), Lowell Liebermann's Eight Pieces for Flute, Marin Marais' Les Folies d'Espagne, Astor Piazzolla's Six Tango Etudes, Francis Poulenc's Un Joueur de Flute Berce les Ruines, Gary Schocker's Solosuite, Toru Takemitsu's Itinerant, and Alec Wilder's The Geiger Suite Year of Release: 2003 Record Label: Cantilena Records (UPC#66022-2) Available for Purchase from: Cantilena Records, Flute World, and at amazon.com

International Connections

Performers: the Verdehr Trio: Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr (clarinet), Walter Verdehr (violin), and Silvia Roederer (piano) Higdon Work Performed: DASH Other Album Contents: Gernot Wolfgang's Reflections, Bright Sheng's Tibetan Dance, Stephen Chatman's Trio, and Wolfgang Rihm's Gesangstück Year of Release: 2006 Record Label: Crystal Records - CD 946 Available for Purchase from: Crystal Records and amazon.com Read a review of this recording here.

I Virtuosi, Volume 1

Performers: Jennifer Higdon (flute), Jayn Rosenfeld (flute), Pat Spencer (flute), Stephanie Starin (flute), Michael Isaac Strauss (viola), Hugh Sung (piano)
Higdon Works Performed: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Steeley Pause
Other Album Contents: David Berends' Fifteen Exceptions for Piano, Elizabeth Lauer's Five Flower Rags, Alan Seale's Child of the Moon, and chris wind's stillwood
Year of Release: 1996
Record Label: I Virtuosi - IVR 505
Available for Purchase from: amazon.com

Jennifer Higdon: City Scape and Concerto for Orchestra

Performer: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Robert Spano, cond.) Higdon Works Performed: City Scape and Concerto for Orchestra Other Album Contents: none Year of Release: 2004 Record Label: Telarc CD-80620 Available for Purchase from: amazon.com Read a review of this recording of City Scape here and of Concerto here.

Jennifer Higdon: Piano Trio / Voices / Impressions

Performers: Cypress String Quartet, Anne Akiko Meyers, Alisa Weilerstein, Adam Neiman, Nick Kitchen, Melissa Kleinbart, Hsin-Yun Huang, and Mina Smith Higdon Works Performed: Piano Trio, Voices, and Impressions Other Album Contents: none Year of Release: 2006 Record Label: NAXOS 8.559298 Available for Purchase from: NAXOS and amazon.com

Legacy of the American Woman Composer

Performers: Laurel Ann Maurer (flute), Joanne Pearce Martin (piano) Higdon Work Performed: Legacy Other Album Contents: Vivian Fine's Emily's Images, Libby Larsen's Aubade (solo flute), Marie Barker Nelson's Songs of the Moon, Gladys Nordenstrom's Rondo, Claire Polin's First Flute Sonata, Gwyneth Walker's Theme and Variation Year of Release: 2000 Record Label: 4 Tay - 4018 Available for Purchase from: Laurel Ann Maurer

Lesbian American Composers

Performers: Claudia Anderson (flute), Jill Felber (flute), John Piirainen (piano) Higdon Work Performed: running the edgE Other Album Contents: Ruth Anderson's SUM (State of the Union Message), Eve Beglarian's Wolf Chaser, Madelyn Byrne's Winter, Lori Freedman & Marilyn Lerner's Barbie's Other Shoe, Paula Kimper's I Want to Live, Annea Lockwood's I Give You Back, Linda Montano's Portait of Sappho, Pauline Oliveros' Poem of Change, and Nurit Tilles' Raw Silk (A Rag) Year of Release: 1998 Record Label: CRI - CD780 Available for Purchase from: amazon.com

Music in Our House

Performers: Flutes Unlimited Higdon Work Performed: Mountain Songs Record Label: The Women's Chorus of Dallas Available for Purchase from: amazon.com

Postcards from the Center

Performers: Moran Quintet Higdon Work Performed: Autumn Reflection Other Album Contents: Bernhard Heiden's Quintet for Woodwinds, Peter Lieuwen's Savannah, and Katherine Murdock's Postcards from the Center Year of Release: 1998 Record Label: Crystal Records - CD754 Available for Purchase from: amazon.com

The Rainbow Body

Performer: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Robert Spano, cond.) Higdon Work Performed: blue cathedral Other Album Contents: Samuel Barber's Symphony No. 1, Aaron Copland's Suite from Appalachian Spring, Christopher Theofanidis' The Rainbow Body Year of Release: 2003 Record Label: Telarc CD-80596 Available for Purchase from: amazon.com

rapid.fire

Performers: Jennifer Higdon (flute), Hsin-Yun Huang (viola), Nicholas Kitchen (violin), Melissa Kleinbart (violin), Jayn Rosenfeld (flute), Wilhelmina Smith (cello), Pat Spencer (flute), Stephanie Starin (flute), Michael Isaac Strauss (viola), Hugh Sung (piano) Higdon Works Performed: Autumn Reflection, The Jeffrey Mode, Lullaby, rapid.fire, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Steeley Pause, Voices Year of Release: 1995 Record Label: I Virtuosi - IVR 501 Available for Purchase from: Lawdon Press and at amazon.com Read a review of this recording here.

A Season's Promise

Performers: The New York Concert Singers (Judith Clurman, cond.) Higdon Work Performed: Deep In The Night Other Album Contents: Thomas Cabaniss' Behold the Star, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Lo, The Messiah, Dave Conner's A Season’s Promise, Lance Horne's All Together, Ruth Fox Hume & Paul Hume's The Shepherds and the Kings, Libby Larsen's So Blessedly It Sprung, Philip Lasser's Sing Christmas!, Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, Joan Morris & William Bolcom's Carol ("Neighbors on this frosty tide"), Wayne Oquin's Ave Maria, Stephen Paulus' Three Nativity Carols and Wishes and Candles, Ned Rorem's While All Things Were in Quiet Silence, and Virgil Thomson's O My Deir Hert Year of Release: 2001 Record Label: New World Records - 80592 Available for Purchase from: New World Records and at amazon.com

Sometimes I Wish...

Performers: Potomac Fever Higdon Works Performed: Imagine, A Quiet Moment Other Album Contents: Helmuth/Barnfield's Sometimes I Wish, Jester Hairston's arrangement of In Dat Great Gittin' Up Mornin', Dean X. Johnson's arrangement of Deep River, Jeff Bowen's arrangements of Bei Mir Bist du Schon, Rum and Coca-Cola, and Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy, Robert T. Boaz's arrangements of Lean on Me, It's Your Love, Verdi Cries, A Friend to Me, That Don't Impress Me Much, and We Shall Be Free, Kirby Shaw's arrangement of What'll I Do?, and Sean Mills' arrangement of Zombie Jamboree. Year of Release: 2000 Available for Purchase from: amazon.com

Sounds and Colors

Performers: James Madison University Flute Choir(Carol Kniebusch Noe, cond.) Higdon Work Performed: Mountain Songs Other Album Contents: Sonny Burnette's Seven Southern Sketches, Dona Gilliam & Mizzy McCaskill's Multicultural Madness, John Hilliard's Three Japanese Sketches, Anthony G. Holland's Angstrom, and Kathleen Mayne's Suite No. 2 Record Label: FC 356 Available for Purchase from: JMU Flute Choir

Spaces Between the Stars

Performers: Anna Crusis Women's Choir (Jane K. Hulting, cond.) Higdon Work Performed: My True Love's Hair Other Album Contents: Helen Butulezi's arrangement of Dilika Town Hall, Petar Lyondev's Kaval Sviri, Nathan Christensen's setting of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How Do I Love Thee?, Alix Dobkin's Crushes, Eric Helmuth's Finally Here, Judith Palmer's Menopause, John Schrag's Kore Evohe, Andrejs Jurjans' arrangement of Put Vejini, Beatriz Corona & Mario Benedetti's Corazon, Coraza, Kiril Todorov's Chompliche, Stephen Smith & Pat Lowther's what i want, Kim Baryluk's Warrior, and E. Aleah Long & Debra Kenya McGee's Higher Ground Year of Release: 2000 Available for Purchase from: Anna Crusis Women's Choir

Strange Imaginary Animals

Performers: eighth blackbird Higdon Work Performed: Zaka Other Album Contents: Gordon Fitzell's violence and evanescence, Steve Mackey's Indigenous Instruments, David Gordon's Friction Systems, and a dance remix of all the pieces on the album by Dennis DeSantis. Year of Release: 2006 Record Label: Cedille 9000 094 Available for Purchase from: eighth blackbird and amazon.com Read a review of this recording here.

Winter Spirits

Performers: Christina Jennings (flute), Rodney Waters (piano) Higdon Work Performed: Autumn Reflection Other Album Contents: Lili Boulanger's D'un matin du printemps, Richard Rodney Bennett's Summer Music, Siesta, and Games, Andre Caplet's Nuit d'automne, Cecile Chaminade's Concertino, Op. 107, Claude Debussy's Voici que le printemps, Gabriel Faure's Mai and Automne, Renaldo Hahn's Mai, and Katherine Hoover's Winter Spirits. Year of Release: 2001 Available for Purchase from: Christina Jennings and at amazon.com

ZAWA! Landmark Duos for Flutes

Performers: ZAWA! (Claudia Anderson & Jill Felber) Higdon Work Performed: running the edgE Other Album Contents: Frederic Chopin's Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2, Anne Deane's Dreams Awake (flute, alto flute, & piano), Ross Edwards' Ecstatic Dances, Jeremy Haladyna's Aluxes! (2 piccolos & piano), Richard Lavenda's Liquid Dialogues (2 alto flutes & 2 flutes - 2 players), and Jules Mouquet's Pan et les Oiseaux Year of Release: 2002 Record Label: Neuma Records - 450101 Available for Purchase from: ZAWA!, Flute World, and at amazon.com