Dr. Jeremy Beck Collection of New Music Recordings

This collection contains cassette tapes of new music performances from the 1980s-90s. Beck collected teh materials from composers throughout the 80s and 90s while based in NYC and New Haven, and also while travelling in St. Petersburg, Russia. Most of the performances are live. Some of the composers featured on the tapes include Dan Becker, Jennifer Higdon, Scott Lindroth and Thomas Oboe Lee. The information available on each tape is inconsistent: some include performers and performance dates, while others only include the composer and work or works performed.

Three Choral Songs (1988), Martin Bresnick -- Steeley Pause (1990) for 4 C Flutes, Jennifer Higdon -- Beatus vir (1991), Bruce Bielawa.

Three Choral Songs: Yale Chorus, Margarite Brooks, cond. Beatus vir: Mary Ann Fountain, mezzo; Randy Gabowski, trumpet.

Nadine Jurgensen, Mezzo Soprano Yale School of Music Orchestra Martin Bresnick, Conductor.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. David Schifrin, carinet; Paul Neubauer, viola; Jon Klibonoff, piano.

Sonate No. 3 -- Sonate No. 5.

Sonate No. 3: Rudoph Levitin, piano. Sonate No. 5: Autor, piano.

Rudolph Levitin, piano. Container handwritten in Russian, not fully translated.

Chamber Concerto (1991) -- Piano Concerto (1995) -- Quintet for Oboe, Strings and Piano (1994) - in 3 movements -- Down to a Sunless Sea (1987).

Chamber Concert recorded for future release. Piano Quartet and Down to a Sunless Sea recorded on Centaur CRC 2103. Quintet for Oboe and Strings performed live at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Performers listed on container.

Steeley Pause for 4 C flutes -- Voices for string quartet: Blitz--, Soft Enlacing-, Grace.

Notes on Love for soprano, flute and piano: 1. LOVE 2. speak of night 3. Could it Be? 4. In Our Quiet 5. Nightingale 6. The Path 7. Day is Done 8. Vocalise -- rapid.fire for solo flute -- Lullaby for 2 flutes and piano -- Sonata for viola and piano: 1. Calmly 2. Declamatory -- String Trio for violin, viola, and violoncello.

To Sleep -- Woodshedding -- Woodshedding (conclusion) -- Ode to a Nightingale.

To Sleep: Ilya Speranza, soparno; Elizabeth Etters, harp. Woodshedding: Alan R. Kay, clarinet. Ode...: Michael Putsch, tenor; Leif Bjaland, conductor; Yale Symphony Orchestra.

Partita -- Centering -- The Rhythm of the Running Plough.

Copy of Edited Master A. Anton Nel and Barry Snyder, pianists.

Paul Sperry, tenor; Saul Gropman, guitar.

That Mountain (1991-92) -- I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1991).

Chasing the Trane Out of Darmstadt (1979) -- Relations to Rigor (1987).

Track 1: Andrew Sterman, tenor sax; Scott Lindroth, piano. Track 2: flute, bells, violin, violoncello, piano, marimba, tape; Scott Lindroth, conductor.

Produced by Jeremy Beck.

Concerto for four trombones -- Fantasia on East Asian Modes for orchestra.

Classical Symphony, Prokofiev -- Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Debussy -- Piano Trio (1987-88), Martin Bresnick -- Gridlock (1994), Dan Becker -- Lament (1986), Matthew Levy -- Rose (1996), Joe Rubenstein -- Blue Matter (1995), Joe Rubenstein.

Debussy: Rostropovich, 'cello; B. Britten, piano. Bresnick: The Monticello Trio. Becker: Common Sense - Hartford, CT. Levy: Prism Saxophone Quartet. Rubenstein Rose: fl, sop sax, ten sax, b cl, trt, pno, vibr/conga, vc, db. Rubenstein Blue Matter: solo piano, New Music New Haven (Yale).

Evan Ziporyn, clarinet Elena Ruehr, piano NUCLASSIX Concert, Boston.

24 Preludes and Fugues (1994), Sergei Slonimsky -- Musik for bariton and piano (1994) 1. View 2. Evening 3. Light of Novol, Georgy Firtich -- Fantasie for violin and piano (1994), Boris Tishchenko -- Octet, Galina Ustvolskaya.

Musik for bariton and piano: Words of Valery Bryusov. Octet: Solists of Maviinsky Theater; George Pehlivanian, conductor.

Rondo for flute solo (Paul-Heinz Dittrich) -- Evripid (reading)/Monodija for violin solo (Sergei Slonimsky) -- Cumanjayi for flute and record (Klaus H. Stahmer) -- Acoustic Concert of Modern Music: Monopartita for flute solo (Alexander Velyutin) -- Sonata for violin and piano (Boris Archimandritov) -- Sonata N.8 for piano (Georgy Firtich) -- Sonata for piano (S. Oscolcov).

III Seminare "Sound Ways". Track 2: reading of Evripid precedes Slonimsky. Track 4: House of Composers, 23-11-1994.

Five Songs to Lyrics by O. Driza -- Sonata #9 for forte-piano -- Concert for harp and orchestra (1977).

Sonata No. 6 for piano, I. Allegro Maestoso II. Presto III. Moderato con Moto -- Sonata No. 8 for piano, I. Allegro Energico II. Andantino III. Allegro Molto.

Performed by Vladimir Polyakov.

Piano Trio -- Harlequin, concertino for piano and chamber orchestra.

Piano Trio: The Arden trio: Suzanne Ornstein, violin; Clay Ruede, violoncello; Thomas Schmidt, piano. Harlequin: The Composers Ensemble; Jay Blumenthal, conductor; Earl Shenk, piano. Conneticut College Recording Studio.

reCollections, for guitar alone -- Etudes, for piano alone.

James McNeish, guitar; Kathleen Supove, piano. Connecticut College Recording Studio.

Romantic New Harmonies for flute, violin, cello, piano -- Antonquartet for two violins, cello, piano -- Three Preludes of Clean Water for flute, violin, piano -- Sonata N.2 for cello, piano -- Quartet N.6.

"Antonquartet" performed by Musica de Camera. "Three Preludes","Sonata N.2","Quartet N.6" performers included, but untranslated.

Time, Minoru Miki -- Forward Looking Back, Dorothy Hindman Fernandez -- Soliloquy for clarinet, Dorothy Hindman Fernandez -- Two Sides of a Coin - 1. Heads 2. Tails, Nick Ramliak -- Fantasy Sonata, Dennis Kam.

Scott Deal, marimba. Mary Kauffman, piano. Robyn Deal, clarinet. All live performances. Some loss of sound quality may result.