George Walker, Composer

Track Listings

1. In Time of Silver Rain
2. I Never Saw A Moor
3. Mother Goose
4. Response
5. Softly, Blow Lightly
6. Wild Nights
7. Mary Wore Three Links of Chain
8. Modus for Chamber Ensemble
9. Sonetto del Petrarca 104
10. Valse Oubliee No. 1
11. Mazurka in C, op. 33, no. 2
12. Mazurka in D flat, op. 30, no. 3
13. Mazurka in f minor, op. 63, no. 2
14. Etude in G flat, op. 10, no. 5
15. Scherzo in E, op. 54
16. Prayer
17. Improvisation on St. Theodulph
18. Spires

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Album Description
The songs for voice and piano by George Walker are among the finest written by an American composer and are "as outstanding as they are varied" according to Fanfare Magazine. Modus for Chamber Ensemble was commissioned by the Cygnus Ensemble. It received its premiere in New York in March, 2001. The four movements are characterized by recurring motives and highly rhythmical sections of great intensity. The title, Modus, refers to the elegant techniques used to transform and unify the movements. The Prayer for Organ was composed in 1996, 50 years after Walker's famous Lyric for Strings, a memorial to his grandmother, was written. The similarity between these two works lies in the use of contrapuntal techniques. The Improvisation on St. Theodulph is a fantasia on the melody stated before the work begins. The Prayer and the Improvisation were commissioned by the regional chapter of the American Guild of Organists in Washington, D.C. Spires was commissioned for performance by Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry at the Convention in Denver of the National Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in 1998.

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Tracks:

1. Oh! What A Beautiful Mornin'
2. Summertime
3. I Could Write A Book
4. It Never Entered My Mind
5. I Can Cook Too
6. Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please
7. If I Loved You
8. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
9. Thou Swell
10. I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen
11. There's No Business Like Show Business
12. South American Way

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African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 2 Ulysses Kay , George Walker , Roque Cordero , Adolphus Hailstork , Hale Smith , Paul Freeman , and Chicago Sinfonietta Manufacturer: Cedille ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Walker | Walker, George | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: African Heritage Symphonic Series III African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 1 Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th & 19th Centuries Still/Dawson/Ellington: Symphony No. 2/Negro Folk Symphony/Harlem William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony; In Memoriam; Africa (Symphonic Poem) ASIN: B00005YD68 Release Date: 2002-01-29

Tracks:

1. Overture To Theater Set
2. Lyric For Strings
3. Eight Miniatures For Small Orchestra: I. Marcha Grotesca
4. Eight Miniatures For Small Orchestra: II. Meditacion
5. Eight Miniatures For Small Orchestra: III. Pasillo
6. Eight Miniatures For Small Orchestra: IV. Danzonete
7. Eight Miniatures For Small Orchestra: V. Nocturno
8. Eight Miniatures For Small Orchestra: VI. Mejorana
9. Eight Miniatures For Small Orchestra: VII. Plegaria
10. Eight Miniatures For Small Orchestra: VIII. Allegro Final
11. An American Port Of Call
12. Ritual And Incantations
13. Epitaph For A Man Who Dreamed

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Volume II features compositions by exceptional Black composers from the 1940s to the 1980s, performed by the Chicago Sinfonietta led by its founder and music director, Dr. Paul Freeman,"one of the finest conductors our nation has produced." (Fanfare)

Ulysses Kay's ebullient Overture to Theater Set (1968) exudes a broad and good-natured energy. George Walker's intensely romantic Lyric for Strings (1941) is one of the great gems of the string orchestra repertoire. With his acclaimed Eight Miniatures for Small Orchestra (1948), Panama's Roque Cordero succeeded in synthesizing the avant-garde techniques he learned in the U.S. with the Latin and Afro-Caribbean music of his homeland. Accented with archetypal African drumming patterns, Hale Smith's Ritual and Incantations (1974), radiates an aura of mystery and suspense. Adolphus Hailstork's An American Port of Call (1985) takes the listener on a lush, fanciful, and jazzy excursion. Ten years in the making, Hailstork's Epitaph for a Man who Dreamed (1979) pays tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King with passages of exquisite tenderness and noble power.

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Tracks:

1. George Walker: Lyric for Strings (5:17) - Chicago Sinfonietta / Paul Freeman, conductor
2. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: October from The Seasons, Op. 37a (4:25) - Dmitry Paperno, pno
3. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Kyrie from Mass in G minor (3:47) - His Majestie's Clerkes / Anne Heider, director
4. Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo, Op. 116, No. 4 from Seven Fantasies, Op. 116 (4:16) - Dmitry Paperno, pno
5. Lita Grier: Andante from Renascence (Concertino for Flute and Orchestra) (3:41) - Mary Stolper, flute
6. Frank Ferko: Eia mater from Stabat Mater (2:31) - His Majestie's Clerkes / Anne Heider, director
7. Walter Piston: Prelude from Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings (5:16) - David Schrader, organ; Grant Park Orchestra / Carlos Kalmar, conductor
8. Sergei Rachmaninov: Moment musical in D-flat, Op. 16, No. 5 (4:12)Dmitry Paperno, piano
9. Thomas Albert: IV from Thirteen Ways (3:28) - eighth blackbird
10. William Grant Still: Adagio from Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American" (4:18) - Chicago Sinfonietta / Paul Freeman, conductor
11. Federico Mompou: Canción y Danza No. 1 (3:14) - Dmitry Paperno, piano
12. Aaron Copland: Midsummer Nocturne (1:53) - Ramon Salvatore, piano
13. Chevalier J.J.O. de Meude-Monpas: Adagio from Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major (5:48) - Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Encore Chamber Orchestra / Daniel Hege, conductor
14. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Alla sarabande from Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2 for Strings (5:35) - Chicago Sinfonietta / Paul Freeman, conductor
15. Alexandre Tansman: Dialogue from Sutie pour Trio D'Anches (2:06) - The Chicago Chamber Musicians
16. Fela Sowande: Nostalgia from African Suite (4:14) - Chicago Sinfonietta / Paul Freeman, conductor
17. Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati Quorum Via from Three Motets, Op. 38 (3:36) - His Majestie's Clerkes / Anne Heider, director
18. Johann Sebastian Bach: Sarabande from French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816 (5:12) - Dmitry Paperno, piano

Album Description

Say "adios" to the same old adagios you typically find on serenity-themed CDs of contemplative classical music.

This new disc of calming classics, drawn from 16 different, acclaimed CDs in the Cedille Records catalog, consists of rare gems of relaxing classical music, ranging from symphony and concerto movements to solo piano, choral, and chamber works. Included are the slow movement of a violin concerto by a Black contemporary of Mozart and numerous works by "Romantic" American composers.

It's some of the most sublime music you've never heard.

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Art Songs by African-American Composers Cecil Cohen , Undine Smith Moore , Robert Owens , Coleridge Taylor Perkinson , Florence B. Price , Howard Swanson , George Walker , John W. II Work , and David Korevaar Manufacturer: Msr Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Walker | Walker, George | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: You Can Tell the World: Songs by African-American Women Composers Dreamer: A Portrait of Langston Hughes ASIN: B00000243D Release Date: 2000-01-25

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Rich and moving.......2001-02-18

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George Walker, Composer Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Mazurkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Chopin | Chopin, Frédéric | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Liszt | Liszt, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Walker | Walker, George | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007MSUGW Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

1. In Time of Silver Rain
2. I Never Saw A Moor
3. Mother Goose
4. Response
5. Softly, Blow Lightly
6. Wild Nights
7. Mary Wore Three Links of Chain
8. Modus for Chamber Ensemble
9. Sonetto del Petrarca 104
10. Valse Oubliee No. 1
11. Mazurka in C, op. 33, no. 2
12. Mazurka in D flat, op. 30, no. 3
13. Mazurka in f minor, op. 63, no. 2
14. Etude in G flat, op. 10, no. 5
15. Scherzo in E, op. 54
16. Prayer
17. Improvisation on St. Theodulph
18. Spires

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African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. 2 Manufacturer: Cedille ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Walker | Walker, George | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008HATZ Release Date: 2001-01-01

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Let God Arise Manufacturer: Priory ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000DEQMN Release Date: 1993-03-05

Tracks:

1. Psalm 68: Let God Arise And Let His Enemies Be Scattered
2. Psalm 79: O God The Heathen Are Come Into Thine Inheritance
3. Psalm 80: Hear O Thou Shepherd Of Israel
4. Psalm 81: Sing We Merrily Unto God Our Strength
5. Psalm 3: Lord, How Are They Increased That Trouble Me
6. Psalm 90: Lord Thou Hast Been Our Refuge
7. Psalm 124: If The Lord Himself Had Not Been On Our Side
8. Psalm 2: Why Do The Heathen So Furiously Rage Together
9. Psalm 92: It Is A Good Thing To Give Thanks Unto The Lord
10. Psalm 141: Lord I Call Upon Thee
11. Psalm 86: Bow Down Thine Ear O Lord And Hear Me
12. Psalm 87: Her Foundations Are Upon the Holy Hills
13. Psalm 88: O Lord God Of My Salvation
14. Psalm 105: O Give Thanks Unto The Lord
15. Psalm 120: When I Was In Trouble
16. Psalm 134: Behold Now Praise The Lord

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Let God Arise Manufacturer: Priory Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003WKJ Release Date: 1993-10-11

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