CDs with: Still, William Grant

A festive Sunday with William Grant Still.

Symphony no. 3 : the Sunday symphony -- Festive overture -- Romance for saxophone and piano -- Folk suite no. 4 : for flute, clarinet, violoncello, and piano -- Three rhythmic spirituals. Lord I looked down the road ; Hard trials ; Holy Spirit don't you leave me -- I feel like my time ain't long.

CD 1399

Afro American symphony ; Kaintuck' ; Dismal swamp / William Grant Still. Expansions III / Olly Wilson.

Still: Symphony no. 1 (Afro-American) (25:57) -- Still: Kaintuck, poem for piano and orchestra (13:40) -- Still: Dismal swamp, for piano and orchestra (13:40) -- Wilson: Expansions III (13:03).

CD 1840

Afro-American symphony / William Grant Still. Salome / Henry Hadley.

CD 1741

American orchestral works

From the Black belt (11:13) ; Darker America (11:48) / William Grant Still -- Six dances for string orchestra / Ulysses Kay (20:16) -- Suite from the ballet The incredible flutist / Walter Piston (17:04) -- Rhapsody for harp and orchestra (with Aristid von Wurtzler, harp) (13:08) ; New England autumn (11:36) ; Pioneer dances (11:30) ; Blue planet (9:51) ; Spirituals in sunshine and shadow (12:25) / Peggy Stuart Coolidge -- Prelude and fugue for piano and orchestra, op. 20 / Daniel Gregory Mason (with Mary Louise Boehm, piano) (11:02).

CD 1817

An American celebration, vol. 1.

Fanfare for the common man / Aaron Copland -- Melpomene, dramatic overture / George Whitefield Chadwick -- Suite no. 2 in E minor : Indian / Edward MacDowell -- The white peacock, op. 7, no. 1 / Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- A victory ball : fantasy for orchestra / Ernest Schelling -- Three places in New England / Charles Ives -- Music for the theatre / Aaron Copland -- Intégrales / Edgard Varèse -- Memories of my childhood : life in a Russian village / Charles Martin Loeffler -- Concerto grosso no. 1 : for string orchestra with piano obbligato / Ernest Bloch -- An American in Paris / George Gershwin -- Symphony no. 2, op. 30 : Romantic / Howard Hanson -- Four saints in three acts : Acts III and IV (abridged) / Virgil Thomson -- El salón México / Aaron Copland -- Sun-treader / Carl Ruggles -- Prairie journal / Aaron Copland -- Third symphony / Roy Harris -- Essay no. 1 / Samuel Barber -- The devil and Daniel Webster : suite / Bernard Herrmann -- Old California / William Grant Still -- Serenade : for solo flute, harp, and strings / Howard Hanson -- Lincoln portrait / Aaron Copland -- Appalachian spring : suite / Aaron Copland -- Symphony no. 2, op. 35 / Paul Creston -- Hymn and fuguing tune no. 2 / Henry Cowell -- Symphony no. 6 / William Schuman.

CD 2413

Black piano : a treasury of works for solo piano by black composers.

Three visions / William Grant Still (10:46) -- The cuckoo / Howard Swanson (2:55) -- In the bottoms / Robert Nathaniel Dett (17:24) -- Invention in G minor (1:54) ; Invention in A minor (:57) ; Invention in C major (1:19) / Ulysses Kay -- Big bunch of roses / John Wesley Work, Jr. (2:07) -- Seven traceries / William Grant Still (20:16) -- The gentle waltz / Oscar Peterson ; arr. D. McErlain (3:22) -- Come Sunday / Duke Ellington ; arr. D. McErlain (4:41) -- Valse-suite : opus 71 / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (8:07).

CD 2578

From the delta.

From the delta / William Grant Still -- Driftwood patterns / Julian Work -- Folk suite / William Grant Still -- Forever free : a Lincoln chronicle / Ulysses Kay -- Little red schoolhouse / William Grant Still.

CD 2576

Get on board! : American music for woodwinds / by William Grant Still.

Miniatures (flute, oboe, piano) -- Folk suite no. 4 (flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano) -- Incantation and dance (oboe, piano) -- Folk suite no. 3 (flute, oboe, bassoon, piano) -- Quit dat fool'nish (alto saxophone) -- Summerland (flute, piano) -- Folk suite no. 2 (flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp) -- Romance (alto saxophone) -- Vignettes (oboe, bassoon, piano) -- Get on board (instrumental ensemble).

CD 1820

Instrumental music. Selections

Miniatures (flute, oboe, piano) -- Folk suite no. 4 (flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano) -- Incantation and dance (oboe, piano) -- Folk suite no. 3 (flute, oboe, bassoon, piano) -- Quit dat fool'nish (alto saxophone) -- Summerland (flute, piano) -- Folk suite no. 2 (flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp) -- Romance (alto saxophone) -- Vignettes (oboe, bassoon, piano) -- Get on board (instrumental ensemble).

CD 1820

More Still : Music by William Grant Still : Caribbean suite ; Spirituals ; Art songs.

Caribbean suite. Two banana ; Going to my old home ; Bellamina ; Peas and rice ; Mama, I saw a sailboat ; Evalina ; Doo ma ; Héla grand pere ; Do an' nannie ; Ah, la sa wu! ; Hand a' bowl -- Spirituals and art songs. Didn't ma Lord deliver Daniel ; Hard trials ; Gwinter sing all along de way ; Here's one ; Breath of a rose (soprano, piano) ; Grief ; Bayou home ; Breath of a rose (saxophone, piano) ; Summerland.

CD 2297

Music by William Grant Still

Caribbean suite. Two banana ; Going to my old home ; Bellamina ; Peas and rice ; Mama, I saw a sailboat ; Evalina ; Doo ma ; Héla grand pere ; Do an' nannie ; Ah, la sa wu! ; Hand a' bowl -- Spirituals and art songs. Didn't ma Lord deliver Daniel ; Hard trials ; Gwinter sing all along de way ; Here's one ; Breath of a rose (soprano, piano) ; Grief ; Bayou home ; Breath of a rose (saxophone, piano) ; Summerland.

CD 2297

Music of Afro-American composers.

Three Negro dances / Florence Price -- Summerland / William Grant Still -- The American scene. Berkshire night (from Suite no. 1, The East) ; A New Orleans Street (from Suite no. 2, The South) ; Tribal dance (from Suite no. 3, The Old West) ; Grand Teton (from Suite no. 5, A mountain, a memorial and a river) ; Tomb of the unknown soldier / William Grant Still -- Levee land / William Grant Still -- Essay : for band / Roger Dickerson -- Marche brillante / William Foster.

CD 2577

Music of William Grant Still

Wailing woman (9:12) -- Swanee River (Old folks at home) / Stephen Foster (2:56) -- And they lynched him on a tree (18:04) -- Miss Sally's party (20:23) -- Reverie (3:56) -- Elegy (5:25).

CD 1819

Music of William Grant Still

Miniatures (flute, oboe, piano) -- Folk suite no. 4 (flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano) -- Incantation and dance (oboe, piano) -- Folk suite no. 3 (flute, oboe, bassoon, piano) -- Quit dat fool'nish (alto saxophone) -- Summerland (flute, piano) -- Folk suite no. 2 (flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp) -- Romance (alto saxophone) -- Vignettes (oboe, bassoon, piano) -- Get on board (instrumental ensemble).

CD 1820

Oboist Peter Christ.

Suite for oboe, clarinet & viola / Randall Thompson (15:39) -- Parable : for solo oboe / Vincent Persichetti (4:55) -- Duo for flute & oboe / Alberto Ginastera (8:07) -- The Sparrow and Mr. Avaunt / William Schmidt (8:08) -- Miniatures : for flute, oboe & piano / William Grant Still (12:14).

CD 1841

Orchestra music. Selections

Still: Symphony no. 1 (Afro-American) (25:57) -- Still: Kaintuck, poem for piano and orchestra (13:40) -- Still: Dismal swamp, for piano and orchestra (13:40) -- Wilson: Expansions III (13:03).

CD 1840

Piano music / Nathaniel Dett, William Grant Still.

After the cake walk ; Cave of the winds ; Inspiration waltzes ; Enchantment : a romantic suite for the piano on an original program / Nathaniel Dett -- Dark horsemen ; Radiant pinnacle ; Marionette ; Dance from Costaso ; Rising tide ; Quit dat fool'nish ; Entrance of the porteuses : from La guiablesse ; A deserted plantation / William Grant Still.

CD 1836

Piano music by African American composers.

In the bottoms / R. Nathaniel Dett (20:23) -- Easter Monday swagger : scherzino / Thomas Kerr (4:26) -- Three visions / William Grant Still (9:50) -- Scuppernong / John Wesley Work III (7:40) -- Sonata no. 1 / George Walker (15:31) -- Engrams / Arthur Cunningham (5:48) -- Sound-gone / Talib Rasul Hakim (10:45) -- Evocation / Hale Smith (3:16) -- Piano piece : for piano & electronic sound / Olly Wilson (10:49).

CD 1742

Summerland / William Grant Still.

Summerland (3:27) -- Quit dat fool'nish (1:21) -- Pastorela (10:35) -- Folk suite : no. 1 for string quartet, flute, and piano (7:30) -- From Suite for violin and piano. Movement II, suggested by Sargent Johnson's "Mother and child" (7:07) ; Movement III, suggested by Augusta Savage's "Gamin" (2:09) -- Prelude for flute, string quintet, and piano (11:00) -- Here's one (3:23) -- If you should go (1:25) -- Song for the lonely (3:12) -- Bayou home (4:27).

CD 1842

Symphonies, no. 1

CD 1741

The American scene / William Grant Still.

The American scene : The southwest. Grand Teton (3:04) ; Tomb of the unknown soldier (7:08) ; Song of the rivermen (6:37) -- From the hearts of women. Little mother (3:22) ; Mid tide (3:02) ; Coquette (1:42) ; Bereft (2:01) -- Mother and child (7:19) -- American scene : The far west. The plaza (Los Angeles) (2:11) ; Sundown land (4:21) ; Navaho country (2:19) -- The Citadel (2:28) -- Phantom chapel (6:40) -- Costaso. Golden days (4:18) -- Serenade (7:16) -- American scene : The east. On the village green (2:36) ; Berkshire night (4:31) ; Manhattan skyline (3:06).

CD 1821

The incredible flutist : American orchestral works / by Still [and others].

From the Black belt (11:13) ; Darker America (11:48) / William Grant Still -- Six dances for string orchestra / Ulysses Kay (20:16) -- Suite from the ballet The incredible flutist / Walter Piston (17:04) -- Rhapsody for harp and orchestra (with Aristid von Wurtzler, harp) (13:08) ; New England autumn (11:36) ; Pioneer dances (11:30) ; Blue planet (9:51) ; Spirituals in sunshine and shadow (12:25) / Peggy Stuart Coolidge -- Prelude and fugue for piano and orchestra, op. 20 / Daniel Gregory Mason (with Mary Louise Boehm, piano) (11:02).

CD 1817

Volume II

Wailing woman (9:12) -- Swanee River (Old folks at home) / Stephen Foster (2:56) -- And they lynched him on a tree (18:04) -- Miss Sally's party (20:23) -- Reverie (3:56) -- Elegy (5:25).

CD 1819

William Grant Still

Wailing woman (9:12) -- Swanee River (Old folks at home) / Stephen Foster (2:56) -- And they lynched him on a tree (18:04) -- Miss Sally's party (20:23) -- Reverie (3:56) -- Elegy (5:25).

CD 1819

William Grant Still 100th Anniversary Celebration

Three Negro dances / Florence Price -- Summerland / William Grant Still -- The American scene. Berkshire night (from Suite no. 1, The East) ; A New Orleans Street (from Suite no. 2, The South) ; Tribal dance (from Suite no. 3, The Old West) ; Grand Teton (from Suite no. 5, A mountain, a memorial and a river) ; Tomb of the unknown soldier / William Grant Still -- Levee land / William Grant Still -- Essay : for band / Roger Dickerson -- Marche brillante / William Foster.

CD 2577

William Grant Still.

La guiablesse (18:35) -- Quit dat fool'nish (1:29) -- Summerland (3:48) -- Danzas de Panama (14:00).

CD 1839

Witness. Vol. 2 : William Grant Still.

Wailing woman (9:12) -- Swanee River (Old folks at home) / Stephen Foster (2:56) -- And they lynched him on a tree (18:04) -- Miss Sally's party (20:23) -- Reverie (3:56) -- Elegy (5:25).

CD 1819

Works / by William Grant Still.

Suite for violin and piano (14:00) -- Songs of separation (8:00) -- Incantation and dance (4:56) -- Here's one (3:28) -- Summerland (4:19) -- Citadel (2:33) -- Song for the lonely (3:44) -- Out of the silence (4:50) -- Ennanga (16:00) -- Lift every voice and sing / [J. Rosamond Johnson, arr. W.G. Still] (3:02).

CD 589

Works. Selections

The American scene : The southwest. Grand Teton (3:04) ; Tomb of the unknown soldier (7:08) ; Song of the rivermen (6:37) -- From the hearts of women. Little mother (3:22) ; Mid tide (3:02) ; Coquette (1:42) ; Bereft (2:01) -- Mother and child (7:19) -- American scene : The far west. The plaza (Los Angeles) (2:11) ; Sundown land (4:21) ; Navaho country (2:19) -- The Citadel (2:28) -- Phantom chapel (6:40) -- Costaso. Golden days (4:18) -- Serenade (7:16) -- American scene : The east. On the village green (2:36) ; Berkshire night (4:31) ; Manhattan skyline (3:06).

CD 1821

Works. Selections

Suite for violin and piano (14:00) -- Songs of separation (8:00) -- Incantation and dance (4:56) -- Here's one (3:28) -- Summerland (4:19) -- Citadel (2:33) -- Song for the lonely (3:44) -- Out of the silence (4:50) -- Ennanga (16:00) -- Lift every voice and sing / [J. Rosamond Johnson, arr. W.G. Still] (3:02).

CD 589

Works. Selections

La guiablesse (18:35) -- Quit dat fool'nish (1:29) -- Summerland (3:48) -- Danzas de Panama (14:00).

CD 1839

Works. Selections

Caribbean suite. Two banana ; Going to my old home ; Bellamina ; Peas and rice ; Mama, I saw a sailboat ; Evalina ; Doo ma ; Héla grand pere ; Do an' nannie ; Ah, la sa wu! ; Hand a' bowl -- Spirituals and art songs. Didn't ma Lord deliver Daniel ; Hard trials ; Gwinter sing all along de way ; Here's one ; Breath of a rose (soprano, piano) ; Grief ; Bayou home ; Breath of a rose (saxophone, piano) ; Summerland.

CD 2297

Works. Selections

Wailing woman (9:12) -- Swanee River (Old folks at home) / Stephen Foster (2:56) -- And they lynched him on a tree (18:04) -- Miss Sally's party (20:23) -- Reverie (3:56) -- Elegy (5:25).

CD 1819

Works. Selections

Symphony no. 3 : the Sunday symphony -- Festive overture -- Romance for saxophone and piano -- Folk suite no. 4 : for flute, clarinet, violoncello, and piano -- Three rhythmic spirituals. Lord I looked down the road ; Hard trials ; Holy Spirit don't you leave me -- I feel like my time ain't long.

CD 1399

Works. Selections

Summerland (3:27) -- Quit dat fool'nish (1:21) -- Pastorela (10:35) -- Folk suite : no. 1 for string quartet, flute, and piano (7:30) -- From Suite for violin and piano. Movement II, suggested by Sargent Johnson's "Mother and child" (7:07) ; Movement III, suggested by Augusta Savage's "Gamin" (2:09) -- Prelude for flute, string quintet, and piano (11:00) -- Here's one (3:23) -- If you should go (1:25) -- Song for the lonely (3:12) -- Bayou home (4:27).

CD 1842