Discography
Explore recordings of Hilary Tann's music, from orchestral works to intimate chamber pieces, available on major streaming platforms and record labels.
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And The Snow Did Lie
Ten Images for String Quartet based on André Bergeron's Lithographs
And the Snow Did Lie (string quartet)
Only Breath
Robert Fokkens conducts the Cardiff University Contemporary Music Group on this recording of new choral music from Wales.
Paradise (SAATBB)
In The Theater of Air
Performed by the Marsyas Trio: Zubin Kanga piano, Helen Vidovich flute, Valerie Welbanks cello.
In the Theater of Air (fl, vc, pn)
Tomorrow's Air
State Philharmonic Orchestra of Târgu Mureș | Ovidiu Balan conductor | Ovidiu Marinescu cello
Anecdote (a soliloquy for cello and orchestra)
Stories for Our Time
Music for Trumpet and Piano by Women Composers
World premiere recordings performed by Thomas Pfotenhauer (trumpet and flugelhorn), Vincent Fuh (piano).
Look Little Low Heavens is based on a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, entitled Spring. A dramatic fanfare lies at the center and is surrounded by two serene, reflective sections.
Look Little Low Heavens (solo trumpet)
Exultet Terra
Choral Music CD
Radiant, nature-inspired choral music exquisitely sung by Cappella Clausura under the direction of Amelia LeClair.
Exultet Terra (antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet)
The Moor (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 8, 9 (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 21, 22 (a cappella women's choir)
Unto Thee I Burn
Song Settings of E.E. Cummings
Eileen Strempel, soprano; Sylvie Beaudette, piano.
Between Sunsets (sop, pn)
Seven Poems of Stillness
Performed by cellist Guy Johnston, with archival recordings of R.S. Thomas reading his own poems.
Seven Poems of Stillness for violoncello solo with poems by R. S. Thomas was composed in response to a request from Dr. Rhian Davies, Artistic Director of the Gŵyl Gregynog Festival, to whom the work is dedicated.
Seven Poems of Stillness (cello solo)
Musical Landscapes of Hilary Tann
Performed by Eunmi Ko, piano; Sini Virtanen, violin; Andrew Barnhart, cello, and Albert Kim, piano.
On Ear and Ear...
Light from the Cliffs
Kilvert's Hills
Doppelgänger
The Cresset Stone
Water's Edge
...slate, blue-gray
Nothing Forgotten
Odyssey
New Music for Viola
Hsiaopei Lee, viola; Chialing Hsieh, piano
The Cresset Stone (va)
Dragon
William Perconti and the Alloy Saxophone Quartet
William Perconti, alto saxophone. The Alloy Saxophone Quartet was formed to explore contemporary music.
Windhover (alto sax)
Of Erthe and Air
Susan Fancher and Friends play Music of Hilary Tann
The CD includes works from one to four saxophones and concludes with a Live Concert Recording from the XVth World Saxophone Congress (2009).
Windhover (solo soprano saxophone)
Of Erthe and Air (fl/picc, saxophones, percussion)
Songs of the Cotton Grass (mezzo soprano, soprano saxophone)
Shōji (fl, soprano saxophone)
Some of the Silence (saxophone quartet)
Shakkei (soprano saxophone, small orchestra)
Here, The Cliffs
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, conductor.
A retrospective CD of Hilary Tann's orchestral music from 1994-2004.
With the Heather and Small Birds (chamber orchestra)
In the First Spinning Place (Concerto for Solo Alto Saxophone and Orchestra)
From the Feather to the Mountain (full orchestra)
Here, the Cliffs (Rhapsody for Solo Violin and Orchestra)
From Afar (full orchestra)
La Voix Nue
Mezzo-soprano Patricia Green performs Hilary Tann's dramatic song cycle Arachne
Arachne (soprano solo with crotale)
The Lotus Pond
Cynthia Green Libby, oboe and Peter Collins, piano.
Exotic Oboe Sounds with piano, harp and percussion featuring an oboe and piano transcription of Shakkei.
Shakkei (oboe and piano transcription)
PNM 49/2 Supplement
Milton Babbitt: A Composers' Memorial
Recorded by Matthew Jones (viola) and Annabel Thwaite (piano) for the PNM/Open Space Milton Babbitt Memorial Project.
On Ear and Ear... (va, pn)
Expressions
North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor
The Walls of Morlais Castle (string orchestra)
These Visions
Performed by the Lunar Saxophone Quartet
Some of the Silence (saxophone quartet)
Metamorphosis
Virginia Shaw, oboe; Krassimir Ivanov, bassoon.
Like Lightnings (solo ob)
Kilvert's Hills (solo bn)
World Without Words
Debra Richtmeyer, alto saxophone; Leng-leng Lam, piano.
In The First, Spinning Place (alt sax, pn)
A Garland for Presteigne
Gillian Keith, soprano; Simon Lepper, piano.
Wings of Grasses (sop, pn)
Endangered
Marthanne Verbit, piano.
Based on slow movement of violin concerto, Here, The Cliffs.
Light From the Cliffs (pn)
Millennium Overture
Deborah Buck, vn; Wolfram Koessel, vc; Max Lifchitz, pn.
Nothing Forgotten (vn, vc, pn)
American Women Composers
Max Lifchitz, piano.
Based on slow movement of violin concerto, Here, The Cliffs.
Light From the Cliffs (pn)
Celtic Connections
Madeleine Staunton, fl/picc; Paul Roe, cl/b cl; Richard O'Donnell, perc; Alan Smale, vn.
Of Erthe and Air (fl/picc, cl/b cl, perc)
The Cresset Stone (vn)
Songs of the Cotton Grass
Matthew Jones and Ensemble: Matthew Jones, Thomas Carroll, Kathryn Thomas, Lucy Wakeford, Alun Darbyshire, Michael Hampton, and Elizabeth Donovan.
The Walls of Morlais Castle (ob, va, vc)
Songs of the Cotton Grass (sop, va)
The Cresset Stone (va)
From the Song of Amergin (fl, va, hp)
Duo (ob, va)
Nothing Forgotten (vn, vc, pn)
Women's Work and Play
Community Women's Orchestra, CA. Conducted by Kathleen McGuire.
Reibo (full orchestra)
Landscapes for Chamber Orchestra
Susan Jolles, Virginia Shaw, Claudia Knafo, Helen Lin. North-South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor.
Shakkei (ob and small orchestra)
Emily Beynon Flute & Friends
Emily Beynon, flute; Roland Krämer, viola; Petra van der Heide, harp.
From the Song of Amergin (fl, va, hp)
American Tapestry
North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor
Water's Edge (string orchestra)
Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici
Meininger Trio: Christianne Meininger, flute; Rainier Gepp, piano; Francoise Groben, cello.
Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici (fl, vc, pn)
The Cresset Stone (vc)
Windhover (fl)
Llef (fl, vc)
British Women Composers Vol. II
LONTANO: Odaline de la Martinez, conductor; Viara Finnimore, viola; James Potter, cello; Ingrid Cuilliford, flute; David Rix, clarinet; Shelagh Sutherland, celeste.
Winter sun, Summer rain (fl, cl, va, vc, cel)
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