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An American composer, critic and teacher of music (28 December 1896 - 16 March 1985).

ALBA


Godfrey Winham, Roger Sessions, Barry David Salwen*, Joel Suben*, Orchestra Of The West, Polish National Radio Symphony*
Orchestral Works
2020, CD, Album, Albany Records
Roger Sessions - David Bowlin, David Holzman
Music For Violin & Piano
2015, CD, Bridge Records (4)
Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions, Jason Eckardt, Miranda Cuckson, Blair McMillen
Carter - Sessions - Eckardt
2014, CD, Album, Urlicht Audio Visual
Roger Sessions & Ralph Shapey - David Holzman
Sessions & Shapey
2007, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4)
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
From The New World (Rassegna Di Nuova Musica Vol. 1)
2006, CD, Stradivarius
Aaron Copland / Roger Sessions / George Perle / Bernard Rands – The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein
Inscape / Symphony No. 8 / Trancendental Modulations / ...Where The Murmurs Die...
2005, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Twelve-tone/Contemporary/Modern
Roger Sessions – The Louisville Orchestra
Divertimento For Orchestra / Idyll Of Theocritus
2003, CD, Comp, First Edition Music
Roger Sessions / Samuel Rhodes / Walter Mays - Pro Arte Quartet With Samuel Rhodes
Quintet / Quintet / Quartet For Strings
2003, CD, Album, Albany Records, ,
Modern/Contemporary
Paul Zukofsky / Roger Sessions, Peter Mennin, Easley Blackwood
Sessions • Sessions • Mennin • Blackwood • Zukofsky
2002, CD, CP² Recordings
Copland* - Ives* - Carter* - Barber* - Griffes* - Sessions*, Peter Lawson
American Piano Sonatas
2001, 2xCD, Album, Comp, RE, Virgin Classics, Virgin Classics, ,
Modern/Romantic
Randall Hodgkinson , Robert Helps - Roger Sessions / Donald Martino
Piano Sonata No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 3 /Fantasies And Impromptus
1998, CD, Comp, New World Records
Roger Sessions, Robert Helps
Piano Sonatas 1-3 / From My Diary
1998, CD, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
Matt Haimovitz - Britten* · Davidovsky* · Harbison* · Hindemith* · Perle* · Sessions*
The 20th-Century Cello · Vol. 2
1997, CD, Album, Deutsche Grammophon, ,
Modern/Contemporary
Roger Sessions – American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies
Symphonies 6, 7 & 9
1995, CD, ,
Modern
Roger Sessions / Stefan Wolpe - Paul Zukofsky, Orchestre Philharmonique*, Gunther Schuller / Orchestra Of The 20th Century, Arthur Weisberg
Violin Concerto / Symphony
1994, CD, Comp, Mono, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), ,
Twelve-tone/Modern
Francis Thorne / Roger Sessions - Ursula Oppens, Robert Taub, The Westchester Philharmonic*, Paul Dunkel
Piano Concerto No. 3 / Concerto For Piano And Orchestra
1994, CD, Album, New World Records
Roger Sessions - Curtis Macomber, Joel Krosnick, Barry David Salwen*
Duo For Violin And Violoncello – Six Pieces For Violoncello – Duo For Violin And Piano – Sonata For Violin
1994, CD, Album, Koch International Classics
Sessions* / Harbison* – William Bennett (4), San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt
Symphony No. 2 / Symphony No. 2 / Oboe Concerto
1994
Cage*, Sessions*, Ives*, William Grant Naboré
American Piano Music Of The 20th Century: In Memoriam XI.22.1963
1993, CD, Doron Music, ,
Modern/Post-Modern
Roger Sessions, The Group For Contemporary Music
String Quintet · Canons · Six Pieces For Violoncello · First String Quartet
1993, CD, ,
Twelve-tone/Modern
Peter Lawson - Griffes*, Sessions*, Ives*
American Piano Sonatas Volume 2
1993
McPhee* / Sessions* / Thomson* / Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
Tabuh-Tabuhan / The Black Maskers / Symphony On A Hymn Tune / The Feast Of Love
1992, CD, Comp, RE, Mercury, Mercury Living Presence
Curtis Macomber - Roger Sessions, Joel Hoffman, Bruce Adolphe
Soliloquy
1992, CD, Koch International Classics
Roger Sessions - Barry David Salwen*
Complete Works For Solo Piano
1992
Roger Sessions
Symphonies Nos. 1 2 3
1990, CD, Comp, Mono, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), ,
Twelve-tone/Modern
O'Riley* - Robert Helps, John Adams, Todd Brief, Roger Sessions
Helps / Adams / Brief / Sessions
1990, CD, Albany Records
The Juilliard String Quartet* – Sessions* / Wolpe* / Babbitt*
String Quartet No. 2 / String Quartet / String Quartet No. 4
1990
William Schuman / Aaron Copland / Roger Sessions, Juilliard Orchestra* Conducted By Otto-Werner Mueller / Sixten Ehrling And Paul Zukofsky
In Praise Of Shahn / Connotations / Black Maskers Suite
1988, Vinyl, ,
Twelve-tone/Modern
Roger Sessions - Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Christian Badea
Symphony No. 4 · Symphony No. 5 · Rhapsody For Orchestra
1987, ,
Twelve-tone/Modern/Symphony/Rhapsody
Randall Hodgkinson - Donald Martino / Roger Sessions
Fantasies And Impromptus / Piano Sonata No. 2
1984, LP, New World Records, New World Records
Robert Black (4) Plays Roger Sessions, Miriam Gideon, Ben Weber
5 Pieces, Sonata, Variazioni
1983, LP, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
Sessions* / Panufnik* - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Concerto For Orchestra / Sinfonia Votiva (Symphony No. 8)
1982
Roger Sessions / The Louisville Orchestra, Peter Leonard
Symphony No. 7 / Divertimento For Orchestra
1981, LP, Album, First Edition Records, ,
Contemporary
William Naboré* - Ives* / Cage* / Sessions*
American Piano Music Of The 20th Century
1981, LP, Album, Pan (5)
Milton Babbitt / Roger Sessions
Philomel / Piano Sonata No.3
1980, LP, Comp, New World Records, ,
Contemporary
Walter Piston / Roger Sessions - Budapest String Quartet / Pro Arte String Quartet*
String Quartet No.2 / String Quartet No.1 In E Minor
1979, LP, Album, Mono, New World Records
Alan Marks - Boulez* / Sessions* / Chavez*
Alan Marks Plays Modern Classics
1978, LP, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
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
But Yesterday Is Not Today
1977, LP, New World Records, ,
Modern
Roger Sessions, The Boston Symphony Orchestra*, Seiji Ozawa
When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd
1977
Roger Sessions / Easley Blackwood - Paul Zukofsky
Sonata For Violin / Second Sonata
1976, LP, CP² Recordings
Krzysztof Penderecki / Roger Sessions / J. S. Bach* - Roy Christensen
Capriccio Per Siegfried Palm / Six Pieces For Violoncello / Suite No. 1 In G Major
1976, LP, Gasparo
Barber*, Sessions*, Ginastera*, Howard Hanson
Barber Sessions Ginastera
1974, LP, Comp, RE, Mercury, ,
Modern
Sessions* / Musgrave* / Riegger*
Rhapsody For Orchestra, Symphony VIII / Night Music / Dichotomy
1973, LP, Argo (2), Argo (2)
Robert Gross, Richard Grayson - Sessions* / Rosen* / De La Vega*
Solo Sonata / Five Pieces / Segmentos
1973, LP, Orion
Roger Sessions / George Crumb
Concertino For Chamber Orchestra / Songs, Drones And Refrains Of Death
1973
Roger Sessions / William Frabizio - The Amado String Quartet
String Quartet No. 1 In E Minor / String Quartet In One Movement, Opus 23
1972, LP, Apex (6)
Roger Sessions - Robert Helps / Charles Wuorinen - Paul Zukofsky, Charles Wuorinen
Piano Sonata No. 3 / Duo For Violin And Piano
1971, LP, Acoustic Research
Henry Cowell / Donald Lybbert / Roger Sessions / Louise Talma, Herbert Rogers
Session; Cowell; Lybbert; Talma
1970, LP, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
Roger Sessions
Violin Concerto
1968, Vinyl, ,
Modern
Sessions* / Lees* - Igor Buketoff, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 3 / Concerto For String Quartet And Orchestra
1968
Copland* / Sessions* / Carter* - Beveridge Webster
Modern American Piano Music
1966
Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
The Incredible Flutist / Suite From "The Black Maskers" / Merry Mount Suite / Prelude & Quadruple Fugue
1965
Hyman Bress / Charles Reiner / Sessions* / Webern* / Haba*
The Violin Vol. 5
1963, LP, Album, Folkways Records
Leon Fleisher, Aaron Copland / Leon Kirchner / Roger Sessions / Ned Rorem
Piano Sonata / Piano Sonata / From My Diary / Three Barcarolles
1963
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
Les Noces (The Wedding) / Renard (The Fox) / Ragtime For Eleven Instruments
1962
Roger Sessions / William Mayer
Sessions : Piano Sonata No. 1 / Mayer : Piano Sonata
1961
Roger Sessions / William Bergsma / Russell Smith
Symphony No. 1 / Music On A Quiet Theme / Tetrameron
1959
Roger Sessions / Colin McPhee, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
The Black Maskers / Tabuh-Tabuhan
1959, ,
Modern
Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra*
Suite From The Black Maskers
1958, Reel, 2tr Stereo, 7" Reel, Album, Mercury, ,
Classical
Roger Sessions / Colin McPhee
Second String Quartet / Concerto For Piano With Wind Octette Accompaniment
1956
Virgil Thomson / Roger Sessions - Marilyn Mason
Variations On Sunday School Tunes / Four Chorale Preludes
1954
Roger Sessions / Roy Harris / William Schuman - American Recording Society Orchestra : Walter Hendl
The Black Maskers / Symphony No. 3 / American Festival Overture
1953
Roger Sessions
The Black Maskers (An Orchestral Suite In Four Movements)
1952
Ives*, Sessions* - Patricia Travers With Otto Herz
Ives: Sonata No. 2, Sesssions: Duo For Violin And Piano
1951, 10", Mono, Columbia Masterworks
Sessions*, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Symphony No. 2
1950, 10", Mono, Columbia Masterworks
Aaron Copland / Roger Sessions / Elliott Carter / Noël Lee
La Musique Américaine De Piano Au XXᴱ Siècle - Volume 2
LP, Valois
Roger Sessions / Peter Mennin – New York Philharmonic-Symphony*, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Roger Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (1946) / Peter Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (1946)
LP, Album, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
Roger Sessions, Rebecca La Brecque
The Three Piano Sonatas
2xLP, Album, Ltd, Num, Opus One
Roger Sessions
Symphonies
Cass, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
Honegger*, Messiaen*, Sessions*
Untitled
LP, Mono, American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers
Roger Sessions, James Bolle
Violin Concerto / Ritual
CD, Albany Records
Milhaud*, Darius Milhaud Conducting The Columbia Broadcasting Symphony / Sessions*, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York
Symphony No. 1 / Symphony No.2

KOMPILACE +


Herbert Blomstedt
Complete Decca Recordings
2023, 33xCD, Comp + Box, Ltd, Decca,
Romantic/Classical/Modern/Choral
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic
The Complete RCA And Columbia Album Collection
2022, 69xCD, Comp, Mono, RM + Box, Sony Classical,
Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Neo-Classical/Modern/Opera
Elizabeth Chang, Steven Beck, Alberto Parrini
Transformations
2021, CD, Album, Albany Records
Elliott Carter, Luigi Dallapiccola, William Denny, Lukas Foss, Lou Harrison, Wilhelm Killmayer, Leon Kirchner, Ernst Krenek, Benjamin Lees, Jerome Rosen, İlhan Usmanbaş, Ben Weber
Fromm Music Foundation - Twentieth Century Composers Series
2020, 10xCD, Mono, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Sony Classical, ,
Modern
Jack Van Geem & Nancy Zeltsman
American Gifts For Marimba Duo
2020, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4)
New Music String Quartet
The Complete Columbia Album Collection
2019, 10xCD, Mono, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Mono, RM, Sony Classical, ,
Modern/Classical/Baroque/Romantic
Pietro Scarpini
Discovered Tapes From Baroque To Contemporary
2018, 12xCD, Comp, Mono, RM, Rhine Classics, ,
Baroque/Modern/Classical/Romantic
The Gregg Smith Singers*
20th Century American Choral Treasures: CD Premieres From The GSS Archives
2016, 2xCD, Album, RM, Albany Records, ,
Choral/Modern/Contemporary
Různí
Darmstadt Aural Documents - Box 4 · Pianists
2016, 7xCD + Box, Comp, NEOS, ,
Contemporary/Modern/Post-Modern/Experimental
Různí
Mercury Living Presence - The Collector's Edition #2
2013, 6xLP, Album + Box, Ltd, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, Mercury, ,
Classical
Leon Fleisher
The Complete Album Collection
2013, 23xCD, Comp, Mono + Box, Sony Classical, ,
Classical/Romantic/Modern
Darrett Adkins
Hypersuite - Music For Solo Cello
2013, CD, Album, Oberlin Music
Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky - The Ballets
2011, 7xCD, Comp + Box, Sony Classical, Sony Music
Stravinsky*
Sacred Works And Other - The Columbia Recordings (1957-1960)
2011, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Urania Records (4)
Donald Berman
Americans In Rome: Music By Fellows Of The American Academy In Rome
2008, 4xCD, Album, Bridge Records (4), ,
Modern/Contemporary/Post-Modern
Matt Haimovitz
The 20th-Century Cello
2005, 3xCD, Comp, Deutsche Grammophon, ,
Modern/Post-Modern/Contemporary
Eric Moe
The Waltz Project Revisited, New Waltzes For Piano
2004, CD, Album, Albany Records
James Levine (2), Münchner Philharmoniker
Documents Of The Munich Years
2004, 12xCD + Box, Comp, Oehms Classics, ,
Opera/Classical/Romantic/Modern
James Levine (2), Münchner Philharmoniker
Documents Of The Munich Years · Vol. 2
2004, CD, Album, Oehms Classics
Susan Narucki, Alan Feinberg, Nathan Randall
Extraordinary Vistas: Words & Music Of The MacDowell Colony
2003, CD, Album, Americus
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky The Complete Ballets
2003, 6xCD, Comp, RE, Sony Classical, Sony Classical
Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber, Carl Nielsen, Witold Lutoslawski, Philip Glass, John Tavener, Tan Dun
Modern Classics
1998, ,
Modern
Bethany Beardslee & Robert Helps / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard
But Yesterday Is Not Today (The American Art Song 1927 - 1972)
1996, CD, RE, New World Records, New World Records
Pieter Wispelwey
Hindemith - Sessions - Ligeti
1995, CD, Album, Channel Classics
No Artist
Muziekpsychologie
1995, CD, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, Uitgeverij Van Gorcum,
Dvořák*, Pieter Wispelwey, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra*, Lawrence Renes
Dvořák - Concerto For Cello & Orchestra In B Minor
1995, 2xCD, Channel Classics,
Mike Mainieri
An American Diary
1995, ,
Fusion/Modern
Yvar Mikhashoff
Panorama Of American Piano Music From Antheil To Zappa 1911 To 1991
1992, 4xCD, Comp, Mode,
Igor Stravinsky
The Recorded Legacy
1991, 22x CD, Box Set, ,
Modern
Igor Stravinsky
The Edition (An Introduction)
1991, CD, ,
Neo-Classical/Modern
Igor Stravinsky
Mavra. Les Noces. Oedipus Rex.
1981, 2xLP, Comp, CBS Masterworks
Stravinsky*, Isaac Stern, Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Stravinsky Par Stravinsky
1980, 3xLP + Box, Comp, CBS Masterworks
The University Of Michigan Symphony Band, William D. Revelli
The Revelli Years With The University Of Michigan Symphony Band, Volume One
1980, 6xLP, Ltd, Golden Crest
Různí
America Sings (1920-1950)
1977, 3xLP + Box, VoxBox, ,
Modern/Contemporary
Walter Hillsman
American Organ Music From Southwark Cathedral
1976, LP, Vista (2)
The Kohon String Quartet
American String Quartets Volume 2-(1900-1950)
1974
Olivier Messiaen / Sir Michael Tippett
Poèmes Pour Mi / Songs For Dov
1973, LP, Argo (2), Argo (2), ,
Contemporary
Peter Maxwell Davies
Points And Dances From ‘Taverner’ / Second Fantasia On John Taverner's ‘In Nomine’
1973, LP, Argo (2), Argo (2), ,
Contemporary
Různí
American Music
1973, 2xLP, Columbia,
Marilyn Mason
Variations On Sunday School Tunes / Four Chorale Preludes
1966
Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher
1963
Stravinsky*
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky (Les Noces / Renard / Ragtime For Eleven Instruments)
1962
The Louisville Orchestra
Idyll Of Theocritus
1957, LP, First Edition Records
The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney
The Complete 1957 Series
1957
Maro Ajemian, Anahid Ajemian
Double Concerto For Solo Violin and Piano With Orchestra
1955, LP, Mono, MGM Records
North Texas State University Symphonic Band*
North Texas State University Symphonic Band Volume X
LP, Austin Custom Records, Austin Custom Records
Melville Smith*
Postlude
LP, Not On Label, Not On Label, ,
Renaissance/Baroque/Contemporary
Igor Stravinsky, Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Trois Ballets de Stravinsky à L'opéra de Paris : Le Sacre Du Printemps, Les Noces, Renard
2xLP, CBS
Minnesota Orchestra
Minnesota Orchestra at One Hundred
12xCD, Comp, Minnesota Orchestra,
Mildred Andrews
Mildred Andrews At Kilgore, Texas
CD, Mono, RM, Not On Label
Howard Hanson Conducts The Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra*
Hovhaness: Prelude & Quadruple Fugue, LoPresti: The Masks, Sessions: The Black Maskers
,
Post-Modern
Různí
The American Avant-Garde In The 20th Century
2014, 2xCD, Album, Comp, LTM (4), ,
Modern/Avantgarde
Různí
50 Best American Classics
2012, 3xCD, Album, Comp, EMI,
Roger Shields
Piano Music In America (1900-1945)
1993, 3xCD, Comp, VoxBox, VoxBox3, ,
Modern/Neo-Romantic/Ragtime
Různí
The Waltz Project (17 Contemporary Waltzes For Piano)
1981, Vinyl, ,
Modern Classical/Minimal
Roger Shields
Piano Music In America Vol. II: 1900-1945
1976, 3xLP, Comp, Box, Vox Productions, VoxBox, ,
Modern
Různí
The Outstanding Contemporary Orchestral Compositions Of The United States: A Sampler And Comprehensive Survey
1975, 2xLP, Comp, Smplr, ICME, ,
Modern/Contemporary
Paul Zukofsky / Gilbert Kalish
Music For A 20th Century Violinist
1974, 3xLP, Album, Desto, ,
Contemporary
The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney
Louisville Orchestra Commissions Volume I
5xLP, Album, Mono + Box, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records
Různí
American Music
LP, Comp, New Editions (2)
Různí
Masterpieces Of American Music