Peter Mennin

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American composer and teacher (May 17, 1923, Erie, Pennsylvania – June 17, 1983, New York City).

ALBUMS

Myron Silberstein, Norman Lloyd, Peter Mennin

2014, CD, Naxos

Howard Hanson Conducts: Barber* • Piston* • Chadwick* • Ives* • MacDowell* • Gould* • Schuman* • Mennin* • Moore* • Griffes* ‒ Eastman-Rochester Orchestra

Howard Hanson Conducts American Masterworks

2004, 5xCD, Comp, RE, RM, Mercury Living Presence,

Romantic/Modern/Neo-Romantic

IUP Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp / Hazo* • Danielpour* • Mailman* • Tull* • Mennin* • Torke* • Yurko* • Persichetti*

2004, CD, Album, Klavier Records

Peter Mennin, The Louisville Orchestra

Symphony No. 5 / Concerto For Cello And Orchestra / Symphony No. 6

2003, CD, Comp, Mono, RM, First Edition Music,

Paul Zukofsky / Roger Sessions, Peter Mennin, Easley Blackwood

Sessions • Sessions • Mennin • Blackwood • Zukofsky

2002, CD, CP² Recordings

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell, Holst* / Vaughan Williams* / Mennin* / Persichetti* / Reed*

Suites 1 & 2 / Folk Song Suite & Toccata Marziale / La Fiesta Mexicana

Robert Kurka, Peter Mennin, Walter Piston, The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester, Robert Whitney, Jano Starker*

Orchestral Works (American Archives Series)

1998, CD, Album, Albany Records

Music Of Peter Mennin

1997, CD, Album, Mono, RE, RM, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)

Peter Mennin, David Alan Miller, Albany Symphony Orchestra

Symphony No. 5 / Symphony No. 6 / Concertato "Moby Dick" / Fantasia For String Orchestra

1997, CD, Album, Albany Records

Peter Mennin - Seattle Symphony*, Gerard Schwarz

Moby Dick / Symphonies 3 & 7

Robert Kurka, Peter Mennin, Walter Piston, The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester, Robert Whitney, Jano Starker*

Orchestral Works (American Archives Series)

1991, CD, Album, Albany Records

Charles Ives, William Schuman, Peter Mennin / Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra

Hanson Conducts Ives, Schuman, Mennin

John Corigliano / David Diamond (2) / Peter Mennin / Benjamin Lees

Sonata No. 1 For Violin & Piano And American Violin Sonatas

1990, CD, Album, Bay Cities

Peter Mennin, Alberto Ginastera

Mennin/Symphony #4 "The Cycle" ● Ginastera/Milena For Soprano And Orch.

1989, CD, Comp, Phoenix (7)

Peter Mennin / Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Christian Badea

Symphony Nos. 8 & 9, Folk Overture

José Serebrier* Conducts Peter Mennin, José Serebrier*, William F. Lee*, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre Symphonique De La RTBF*

Symphony No. 9 / Poema Elegiaco / Veri

1988, LP, Album, Finnadar Records

Peter Mennin, Henry Cowell, Lawrence Dillon, Martin Rokeach

Five Piano Pieces; Three Ostinati; Six Scenes And A Fantasy; Variations

1985, LP, Album, CRS (5)

Peter Mennin / Samuel Barber - Leonid Kogan, Ukrainian SSR Symphony Orchestra* , Conductor Pavel Kogan

Symphony No. 7 / Violin Concerto

1981, LP, Album, Мелодия

Symphony No. 7 / Piano Concerto

1979, LP, Comp, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI),

David Diamond (2), Peter Mennin

Symphony No. 4, Symphony No. 7

1976, LP, New World Records

Peter Mennin - Janos Starker / Arthur Honegger, The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester

Concerto For Cello And Orchestra

Peter Mennin / Carl Czerny - Jean Wentworth & Kenneth Wentworth, Camerata Singers & Camerata Symphony Orchestra, Abraham Kaplan

Symphony No. 4, "The Cycle" For Chorus And Orchestra / Concerto For Piano-Four Hands & Orchestra In C Major, Op. 153

Contemporary/Romantic

Mennin* / Yardumian* - John Ogdon, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Igor Buketoff

Piano Concerto / Passacaglia, Recitatives And Fugue

Neo-Romantic/Modern

Martinon* / Mennin*, Jean Martinon, Chicago Symphony*

First Recordings - Symphony No. 4 ("Altitudes") / Symphony No. 7 ("Variation-Symphony")

Henry Brant, Peter Mennin, Norman Dello Joio, Vienna Symphony Orchestra*, Hans Swarowsky

Symphony No. 1 - Concerto For Orchestra - Epigraph

1966, LP, Desto Records

William Schuman / Peter Mennin / Charles T. Griffes*, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson

New England Triptych / Symphony No. 5 / Poem For Flute And Orchestra

Modern/Romantic

Frederick Fennell Conducting The Eastman Symphonic Wind Ensemble*, Mennin*, Perischetti*, Thomson*, Hanson*, H. Owen Reed*

La Fiesta Mexicana/Canzona/A Solemn Music/Chorale And Alleluia

Modern/Wind Ensemble

Peter Mennin / Wallingford Riegger / Ernst Toch - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney

Symphony No. 6 / Variations For Piano And Orchestra / Notturno

1955, LP, Mono, First Edition Records, First Edition Records

Wallingford Riegger, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra*, Howard Hanson, Peter Mennin, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos

Wallingford Riegger Symphony No 3 Peter Mennin Symphony No 3

Ray Green / Peter Mennin / Norman Dello Joio

Sunday Sing Symphony / Concertato For Orchestra / Epigraph

1953, LP, American Recording Society, American Recording Society

Juilliard String Quartet, Peter Mennin, Andrew Imbrie

Quartet No. 2 / Quartet In B-Flat

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)

Peter Mennin, Norman Dello Joio, Hans Swarowsky, Henry Brant

Henry Brant Symphony No. 1 / Peter Mennin Concertato For Orchestra / Norman Dello Joio Epigraph

LP, Album, Mono, Desto

Peter Mennin, Joaquín Rodrigo, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney

Symphony No. 5 / Concerto For Violoncello And Orchestra

LP, First Edition Records

Mennin*, Russell Bennett*, Achron*, Kreutz*

Raretés Américaines Vol.3

CD, Comp, St-Laurent Studio

APPEARANCES +

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

Juilliard String Quartet

The Early Columbia Recordings 1949-1956

2021, 16xCD, Mono, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Sony Classical

Iowa Symphony Band*, Ebbs*, Pierson*, Welch*, Heidel*

Tradition: 1966-2014

2017, CD, Comp, Equilibrium,

Drake University Wind Symphony, Robert Meunier

2016, CD, Mark Masters

Jean Martinon, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Complete Recordings

2015, 9xCD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Comp, RM + Box, Comp, RCA Red Seal, Sony Classical,

Classical/Romantic/Impressionist/Modern

The Complete RCA Album Collection

2014, 6xCD, RE, RM + Box, Comp, RM, RCA Red Seal

The United States Army Field Band

The Legacy Of Edwin Franko Goldman

2011, CDr, RE, Altissimo!

North Texas Wind Symphony, Cincinnati Wind Symphony, "President's Own" United States Marine Band*, Showa Wind Symphony, United States Air Force Tactical Air Command Band*, Keystone Wind Ensemble*, Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble*

Teaching Music Through Performance In Band - Volume 1 Grade 5

2010, 4xCD, Album, GIA (2),

The United States Army Field Band

The Legacy of Edwin Franko Goldman

Neo-Romantic/Brass Band/Baroque

The United States Air Force Band, Washington D.C.*, Colonel Lowell E. Graham*

2006, CD, Klavier Music Productions

Malcolm W. Rowell, Jr., Massachusetts Wind Orchestra

2004, CD, Comp, Albany Records

Echoes, Volume Four: Symphonic Celebrations

2002, CD, Comp, Ltd, RM, Drum Corps International

Texas Tech University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, John Cody Birdwell

2001, CD, Album, Mark Custom Recording Service

The Wind Ensemble At Lehigh University

American Overture: Music For Winds

1999, CD, Album, Lehigh University,

Modern/Contemporary/Marches

New York Philharmonic

An American Celebration: Selections From The New 10-CD Set!

1999, CD, Comp, Promo, Smplr, The Philharmonic-Symphony Society Of New York, Inc.,

The United States Air Force Band*, Col. Lowell E. Graham*

1999, CD, Not On Label,

Concert Band/Modern/Contemporary

Frederick Fennell Conducting The Eastman Wind Ensemble

Holst Suites • Vaughan Williams • La Fiesta Mexicana

Dello Joio* / Camphouse* / Creston* / Persichetti* / Mahr*, The Keystone Wind Ensemble Conducted By Jack Stamp

Songs Of Abelard And Other World Premieres

1998, CD, Citadel (3)

Callas At Juilliard, The Master Classes

1998, CD-ROM, MP3, Audio Encyclopedia

Rutgers Wind Ensemble, William Berz

Transformations

1997, CD, Mark Records

United States Air Force Heritage Of America Band, Lt. Col. Lowell E. Graham*

American Originals

1985 Eastern Division Music Educators National Conference

1985, 2xLP, Album, Vogt Quality Recordings,

Texas Music Educators Association

Region XVIII AAAAA All-Region Bands Vol. I

1984, LP, Comp, Educational Recording Services

Edison High School

Edison High School Instrumental Music Concert May 17, 1978

1978, 2xLP, NCR (3)

Los Altos High School "Conqueror Band"*

Los Altos High School "Conqueror Band"

1978, LP, Location Recording Service

1976 Idaho All-State Band-Chorus-Orchestra, Pocatello, Idaho

1976, 2xLP, Crest Custom '76

UAH Wind Ensemble

April 30, 1975 Concert Hall - Von Braun Civic Center

1975, LP, Mark Records,

The Kohon String Quartet

American String Quartets Volume 2-(1900-1950)

1973 New Hampshire All-State

1973, 2xLP, Century Records (4), Century Records (4)

The Philadelphia Musical Academy (Music Sampler 1972-1972 Season)

1973, LP, Promo, Not On Label

Ramapo High School Bands

1972, 3xLP, Box, Silver Crest Custom,

Band of the Royal Norwegian Army*

Band of the Royal Norwegian Army

1972, LP, Album, Polydor

Hilton Kean Jones / Eastman School Of Music Student Ensembles

Hilton Kean Jones' Eastmontage And Performances By Eastman School Of Music Student Ensembles

The Louisville Orchestra

Louisville Orchestra First Edition Records 1969

1969, 6xLP + Box, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Max Rudolf

20th Century Orchestral Showpieces

1967, LP, Educational Record Reference Library

Louisiana All-State Band

Louisiana 1967 All-State Band

1967, LP, Album, Century Records (4)

U. S. Grant High School*

U. S. Grant High School Proudly Presents

1967, LP, Album, Regal Records (5)

American Encores From A Russian Tour

1963, LP, Golden Crest

First Performance - Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts

The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney

...Recordings Of Works Commissioned By The Louisville Philharmonic Society

1961, 6xLP, Mono + Box, First Edition Records

The Louisville Orchestra

Louisville Orchestra Commissions 1961

1961, 6xLP + Box, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records, First Edition Records

Frederick Fennell Conducting The Eastman Symphonic Wind Ensemble*

La Fiesta Mexicana

The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney

The Complete 1954/55 Series Part 1

1955, 7xLP, Mono + Box, Comp, First Edition Records,

North Texas State University Symphonic Band*

North Texas State University Symphonic Band Volume X

LP, Austin Custom Records, Austin Custom Records

Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, Vilem Sokol, Alan Hovhaness

3xLP, Album, Not On Label (Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Self-released)

Jorge Mester, The Louisville Orchestra

The Complete 1969 Series

6xLP, Box, First Edition Records,

New York Philharmonic

New York Philharmonic: An American Celebration, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

10xCD, Comp + Box, Comp, New York Philharmonic,

California State College At Long Beach Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band*

LP, Young Records (4)

Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra

Hanson Conducts Ives, Schuman, Mennin

The Louisville Orchestra, Janos Starker, Jorge Mester

Concerto For Cello And Orchestra

Region IV State Band

1985 Region IV Band Festival

1985, LP, Comp, Irish Valley Recording,

Musical/Marches/Classical

Paul Zukofsky / Gilbert Kalish

Music For A 20th Century Violinist

1974, 3xLP, Album, Desto,