1896-1981 US, Wahoo, Nebraska
Composer / Conductor of Classical
Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. He won a Pulitzer Prize (in 1944 for his Symphony no. 4) and received numerous other awards.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Hanson conducts American Music Volume 5 (1952-54) | Howard Hanson | 2012 | Album |
Symphony No. 3 • Merry Mount Suite | Howard Hanson, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz | 2011 | Album |
Symphony No. 2 'Romantic' • Lux Aeterna • Mosaics | Howard Hanson, Seattle Symphony Orchestra • Gerard Schwarz | 2011 | Album |
Hanson conducts American Music, Vol. 4 (1953-55) | Howard Hanson | 2011 | Album |
Symphony No. 1 'Nordic' / The Lament For Beowulf | Howard Hanson, Seattle Symphony Orchestra • Gerard Schwarz | 2011 | Album |
Hanson conducts American Music, Vol. 1 (1952-54) | Howard Hanson | 2011 | Album |
Symphony No. 4 'Requiem' • Symphony No. 5 'Sinfonia Sacra' | Howard Hanson • Seattle Symphony Orchestra • Gerard Schwarz | 2011 | Album |
Symphonies 1&2 / Lament For Beowulf / Prologue | Howard Hanson | 2009 | Album |
The Plow that Broke the Plains - The River - Symphony No.2 'Romantic' | Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Leonard Slatkin | 2008 | Album |
American Tapestry | Howard Hanson, George Gershwin, Robert Russell Bennett, John Philip Sousa, Joseph Willcox Jenkins, Steven Bryant, John Williams, Christopher Tucker, Richard Shuster, Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Eugene Corporon | 2008 | Album |
Merry Mount | Howard Hanson - Northwest Boychoir, Seattle Girls' Choir, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz | 2007 | Album |
Organ Concerto • Fantasy Variations • Nymphs And Satyr Ballet Suite | Howard Hanson, Joseph Jackson, Gabriela Imreh, Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Spalding | 2006 | Album |
Howard Hanson Conducts Howard Hanson | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 2005 | Compil. |
Bold Island Suite (World Premiere) • Symphony No. 2, "Romantic" • Suite From Merry Mount | Howard Hanson, Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | 2005 | Album |
Howard Hanson Conducts American Masterworks | Howard Hanson Conducts: Samuel Barber • Walter Piston • George Whitefield Chadwick • Charles Ives • Edward MacDowell • Morton Gould • William Schuman • Peter Mennin • Douglas Moore • Charles Griffes ‒ Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 2004 | Compil. |
Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (Symphony No. 1 "Nordic" / Merry Mount Suite) | Howard Hanson - Nashville Symphony Orchestra • Kenneth Schermerhorn | 2000 | Album |
Sinfonia Sacra (Symphony No. 5) & Cherubic Hymn; Symphony No. 1 | Howard Hanson - Samuel Barber Conducts The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra With The Eastman School Of Music Chorus | 2000 | Album |
Piano Sonata • Poèmes Érotiques | Howard Hanson, Thomas Labé | 2000 | Album |
Symphonies Nos. 2, 4 - Elegy | Howard Hanson | 1997 | Album |
Music For Quiet Listening Vol. 2 | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia | 1997 | Compil. |
Grofe Grand Canyon Suite / Herbert Cello Concerto No. 2 | Ferde Grofé, Victor Herbert, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1995 | Album |
Grand Canyon Suite / Mississippi Suite / Cello Concerto No. 2 | Ferde Grofé / Victor Herbert - Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1995 | Compil. |
Grief - Grand Canyon and Mississippi Suites / Herbert - Cello Concerto No. 2 | Ferde Grofé, Victor Herbert, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1995 | Album |
Celebrations | Howard Hanson • Vincent Persichetti / Jack Stamp • Stephen Melillo • Mark Camphouse • Fisher Tull, The Keystone Wind Ensemble And IUP Wind Ensemble | 1995 | Album |
Great American Composers | Aaron Copland, Charles Griffes, Morton Gould, Howard Hanson | 1994 | Compil. |
American Masters • Hanson / Schuman | Howard Hanson / William Schuman | 1994 | Compil. |
The Mystic Trumpeter / Dies Natalis / Lumen In Christo / Lux Aeterna | Howard Hanson - Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Seattle Symphony Chorale, Gerard Schwarz, James Earl Jones | 1994 | Album |
Barber / Hanson Orchestral Works | Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson | 1994 | Album |
Hanson Conducts Gershwin | George Gershwin / Eugene List, Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1994 | Compil. |
Symphonic Sketches / Suite For Large Orchestra / Sinfonia In G | George Whitefield Chadwick, Johann Friedrich Peter, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1994 | Compil. |
Symphonies No. 7, "A Sea Symphony" & No. 5, "Sinfonia Sacra" / Piano Concerto / Mosaics | Howard Hanson - Seattle Symphony Orchestra And Seattle Symphony Chorale, Gerard Schwarz, Carol Rosenberger | 1993 | Album |
Howard Hanson Conducts Barber, Piston, Griffes & Others | Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1992 | Compil. |
Hanson Conducts McPhee, Sessions, Thomson | Colin McPhee, Roger Sessions, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1992 | Compil. |
Symphony No. 4 "Requiem" / Suite From "Merry Mount" / Lament For Beowulf | Howard Hanson - Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, Seattle Symphony Chorale | 1992 | Album |
Douglas Moore, John Alden Carpenter, Bernard Rogers, Burrill Phillips | Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1992 | Compil. |
Spirituals • Fall River Legend • Medea | Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Morton Gould, Samuel Barber | 1991 | Compil. |
Merry Mount (Excerpts) | Howard Hanson | 1991 | Album |
Hanson Conducts Bloch | Ernest Bloch, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1991 | Compil. |
Symphony No. 3 - Elegy In Memory Of Serge Koussevitzky - Lament For Beowulf | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and Eastman School Of Music Chorus | 1991 | Compil. |
Hanson Conducts Ives, Schuman, Mennin | Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1991 | Compil. |
American Voices (The Choral Music) | Howard Hanson / Roy Harris / Randall Thompson | 1990 | Album |
Symphonies No. 3 & No. 6 / Fantasy Variations On A Theme Of Youth | Howard Hanson - Gerard Schwarz, Carol Rosenberger, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony | 1990 | Album |
Hanson Conducts Hanson: Symphony No. 1 «Nordic» / Symphony No. 2 «Romantic» / Song Of Democracy | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Eastman School Of Music Chorus | 1990 | Compil. |
A Sea Symphony • Pan And The Priest • Variations On Two Ancient Hymn Tunes • String Quartet | Howard Hanson, World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Art Quartet | 1989 | Album |
Symphonies (Complete) | Howard Hanson / Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony | 1989 | Compil. |
Symphonies No. 1 "Nordic" & No. 2 "Romantic" / Elegy In Memory Of Serge Koussevitsky | Howard Hanson - Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz | 1989 | Album |
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") / Violin Concerto | Howard Hanson, Samuel Barber, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Elmar Oliveira | 1987 | Album |
Concerto In F: Rhapsody In Blue | George Gershwin, Eugene List ; Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1987 | Album |
Symphony On A Hymn Tune / Feast Of Love / Four Psalms | Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1978 | Album |
Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"" (1930) And Macdowell's Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Minor, Op 23 | Howard Hanson, Edward MacDowell, Earl Wild, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt, Massimo Freccia | 1977 | Album |
Howard Hanson: Symphony no.2 "Romantic" / Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, The White Peacock | Howard Hanson, Charles Griffes | 1976 | Album |
Rhapsody In Blue / Obertura Cubana / Porgy And Bess | George Gershwin – Eastman-Rochester Orchestra - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson - Antal Dorati | 1976 | Album |
Symphony No. 6 / Louisiana Story (Suite) | Howard Hanson, Virgil Thomson, Siegfried Landau | 1973 | Album |
Symphony No. 3 · Suite No. 1, Opus 42 | Howard Hanson, Edward MacDowell, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1966 | Album |
Symphony No. 1, Overture To "The School Of Scandal", Medea Suite, Adagio For Strings | Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1965 | Album |
The Incredible Flutist / Suite From "The Black Maskers" / Merry Mount Suite / Prelude & Quadruple Fugue | Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1965 | Album |
Hanson Piano Concerto / Mosaics • La Montaine Birds Of Paradise | Howard Hanson / John La Montaine | 1965 | Album |
Porgy And Bess / Latin-American Symphonette | George Gershwin, Morton Gould, Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1964 | Album |
The Music Of MacDowell & Griffes | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1964 | Album |
Music Of MacDowell & Griffes | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1964 | Album |
Un Américain A Paris - Rhapsody In Blue - Concerto En Fa | George Gershwin - Eugene List, Howard Hanson, Antal Dorati | 1963 | Compil. |
Hanson Conducts Bloch | Ernest Bloch, Victor Herbert, Georges Miquelle, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1962 | Album |
The Composer and his Orchestra Vol. III | Howard Hanson, Eastman Philharmonia | 1961 | Album |
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic" / The Lament For Beowulf | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Eastman School Of Music Chorus | 1961 | Album |
The Composer And His Orchestra Volume 2 | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1961 | Album |
Concerto Grosso No. 1 And No. 2 | Ernest Bloch, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra Conducted By Howard Hanson | 1960 | Album |
Elegy In Memory Of My Friend Serge Koussevitzky / Song Of Democracy / Four Songs | Howard Hanson, Richard Lane, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1960 | Album |
Fall River Legend - Spirituals | Morton Gould, Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1960 | Album |
Three Pieces / Once Upon A Time / Gold And The Señor Commandante | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Kent Kennan / Bernard Rogers / William Bergsma | 1960 | Album |
Great Music By Russian Composers | Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Alexander Borodin, Anatoly Liadov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khatchaturian, Reinhold Glière, Frederick Fennell Conducts Eastman Wind Ensemble And Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Antal Dorati Conducts Philharmonia Hungarica And The London Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson Conducts Eastman Philharmonia | 1960 | Album |
Medea / Capricorn Concerto For Flute, Oboe, Trumpet And Strings | Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1960 | Album |
Sahdji Ballet / Creole Faust / Three Dances | William Grant Still / Alberto Ginastera / Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1960 | Album |
Carpenter, Adventures In A Peramblator, Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra | Howard Hanson | 1959 | Album |
The Composer And His Orchestra | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1959 | Album |
Music For Quiet Listening | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1959 | Album |
Three Places In New England / Symphony No.3 | Charles Ives, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1959 | Album |
Symphonic Sketches / The Incredible Flutist | Walter Piston, Douglas Moore, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1959 | Album |
Adventures In A Perambulator / Selections From McGuffey's Readers | John Alden Carpenter / Burrill Phillips, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1959 | Album |
Grand Canyon Suite / Mississippi Suite | Ferde Grofé - Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1958 | Album |
Symphonic Sketches | George Whitefield Chadwick, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1958 | Album |
Fiesta In Hi-Fi | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1958 | Album |
Concerto In F / Rhapsody In Blue | George Gershwin, Eugene List ; Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1957 | Album |
Symphony No. 1 In One Movement, Op. 9 / Overture To "The School For Scandal" / Adagio For Strings / Essay For Orchestra, No. 1 | Samuel Barber / Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1957 | Album |
Rogers: Leaves From The Tale Of Pinocchio / Hanson: Fantasy Variations On A Theme Of Youth / Triggs: The Bright Land | Howard Hanson, Eastman Rochester Symphony Orchestra, David Burge, Marjorie Truelove MacKown | 1956 | Album |
The Testament Of Freedom / Songs From "Drum Taps" | Randall Thompson / Howard Hanson | 1956 | Album |
Concerto For Organ, Strings And Tympani / Concerto For Organ, Strings And Harp | Francis Poulenc : Howard Hanson : Richard Ellsasser With Arthur Winograd Conducting Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg | 1956 | Album |
Pleasure Dome Of Kubla Khan / White Peacock / Clouds / Bacchanale / Memories Of My Childhood / Poem For Orchestra | Charles Griffes / Charles Martin Loeffler / Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1956 | Album |
La Fiesta Mexicana / Chorale And Alleluia / Suite Of Old American Dances / Divertimento For Band / Commando March | Herbert Owen Reed, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett, Vincent Persichetti, Samuel Barber - Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell | 1956 | Album |
Poem And Dance - New England Chronicle / Tres Himnos (Three Hymns) | Quincy Porter, Richard Donovan / Wells Hively - Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1955 | Album |
Wallingford Riegger Symphony No 3 Peter Mennin Symphony No 3 | Wallingford Riegger, Peter Mennin, Howard Hanson, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eastman Rochester Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York | 1954 | Album |
Sinfonia Sacra (Symphony No. 5) & Cherubic Hymn; Symphony No. 1 | Howard Hanson - Samuel Barber Conducts The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra With The Eastman School Of Music Chorus | 1954 | Album |
Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 3 | Roy Harris, Howard Hanson, Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra | 1954 | Album |
Through The Looking Glass, Op. 12 (Five Pictures From Lewis Carroll) | Deems Taylor, Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1954 | Album |
Concerto No. 2 In D Minor For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 23 / Symphony No. 2 "Romantic," Op. 30 | Edward MacDowell, Howard Hanson | 1953 | Album |
American Music For String Orchestra | Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1953 | Album |
Latin American Symphonette / School For Scandal, Adagio, Essay | Morton Gould, Samuel Barber, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | 1953 | Album |
Harris: Symphony No. 3 / Hanson: Symphony No. 4 | Roy Harris / Howard Hanson / Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1953 | Album |
Americana For Solo Winds And String Orchestra | Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1953 | Album |
Symphony #4 | Howard Hanson | 1952 | Album |
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"), Op. 30 | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1940 | Album |
Loeffler: Deux Rapsodies. William McCauley: Five Miniatures for Flute & Strings. Wayne Barlow: Night Song | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Robert Sprenkle, Francis Tursi, Armand Basile, Joseph Mariano | Album | |
Tabuh-Tabuhan / Sinfonia Breve / Seven Studies On Themes Of Paul Klee | Colin McPhee / Ernest Bloch / Gunther Schuller, Howard Hanson / Antal Dorati | Compil. | |
Symphony #4 | Howard Hanson | Album | |
Symphonic Sketches / The Incredible Flutist | George Whitefield Chadwick, Walter Piston, Howard Hanson | Album | |
Young Composer's Guide To The Six Tone Scale / ...And The Mountains Rising Nowhere / Emblems | Howard Hanson / Joseph Schwantner / Aaron Copland : Eastman Wind Ensemble | Album | |
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 | Howard Hanson / Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Album | |
The Minotaur / Symphony No. 4 / New Dance | Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger / Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Album | |
Symphony No. 1 "Nordic" / Fantasy Variations On A Theme Of Youth | Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | Album | |
Adventures In A Perambulator / The Pageant Of P.T. Barnum / Savannah River Holiday | John Alden Carpenter, Douglas Moore, Ron Nelson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | Album | |
Barber Sessions Ginastera | Samuel Barber, Roger Sessions, Alberto Ginastera, Howard Hanson | Album | |
The Composer And His Orchestra Vol. 2 | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Album | |
Légendes Musicales | Paul Dukas, Modest Mussorgsky, Richard Wagner, Anatoly Liadov, Jean Fournet, Paul Paray, Antal Dorati, Howard Hanson | Album | |
Adagio For Strings / First Essay For Orchestra, Op. 12 | Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Single | |
Concerto In G Major For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 36 / | Howard Hanson, Edvard Grieg, Rudolf Firkusný, Eastman-Rochester Symphony | Album | |
The Composer And His Orchestra Vol. 2 | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Album | |
Hanson: Symphony No. 5 (Sinfonia Sacra) ; The Cherubic Hymn For Chorus And Orchestra / Herbert: Violoncello Concerto No. 2, Op. 30 | Howard Hanson, Victor Herbert, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra with the Eastman School Of Music Chorus | Compil. | |
Piston: Symphony No. 3 / Hanson: Symphony No. 4 | Walter Piston / Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Album | |
Curtain Up! American Dance Favorites | Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Antal Dorati, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra | Album | |
Hovhaness: Prelude & Quadruple Fugue, LoPresti: The Masks, Sessions: The Black Maskers | Howard Hanson Conducts The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Album | |
Suite For Large Orchestra / Suite No. 2 "Indian" | Edward MacDowell - Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | Album | |
Gershwin, Concerto In F, Eastman Rochester Orchestra | Eugene List, Howard Hanson | Album | |
Bicentenaire U.S.A Bicentennial 1776 - 1976 | John Philip Sousa, Edward MacDowell, Charles Griffes, Charles Ives, Ferde Grofé, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Morton Gould, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Leroy Anderson | Compil. |