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Roger Sessions

p, 1896-1985 US, Brooklyn
Composer of Classical

Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.

     
Genres
  • Classical
  • Electronic
Discography



Title Artist Year Type
American Piano Sonatas Volume 2Peter Lawson - Charles Griffes, Roger Sessions, Charles Ives2008Album
Sessions & ShapeyRoger Sessions & Ralph Shapey2007Album
La Musique Américaine De Piano Au XXᴱ Siècle - Volume 2Aaron Copland / Roger Sessions / Elliott Carter / Noël Lee2006Album
From The New World (Rassegna Di Nuova Musica Vol. 1)John Cage, Henry Cowell, Jacob Druckman, Morton Feldman, Charles Ives, Terry Riley, Roger Sessions - Francesco Dillon, Lucas Fels, Michael Svoboda, Banda Comunale Giuseppe Verdi Di Pollenza, Fausto Bongelli, Peter Söderberg, Stefano Scodanibbio2006Album
Inscape • Symphony No. 8 • Trancendental Modulations • ...Where The Murmurs Die...Aaron Copland • Roger Sessions • George Perle • Bernard Rands - The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein2005Album
Divertimento For Orchestra / Idyll Of TheocritusRoger Sessions – The Louisville Orchestra2003Compil.
The Black Maskers / Tabuh-TabuhanRoger Sessions, Colin McPhee2003Album
Sessions • Sessions • Mennin • Blackwood • ZukofskyPaul Zukofsky / Roger Sessions, Peter Mennin, Easley Blackwood2002Album
The 20th-Century Cello · Vol. 2Matt Haimovitz - Benjamin Britten · Mario Davidovsky · John Harbison · Paul Hindemith · George Perle · Roger Sessions1997Album
But Yesterday Is Not Today, The American Art Song 1927-1972Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Theodore Chanler, Israel Citkowitz, John Duke, Robert Helps, Roger Sessions / James Agee, Jane Bowles, E. E. Cummings, Leonard Feeney, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Walter De La Mare, James Purdy, Edwin Arlington Robinson / Bethany Beardslee / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard1996Album
Symphonies 6, 7 & 9Roger Sessions - American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies1995Album
Piano Sonata No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 3 /Fantasies And ImpromptusRandall Hodgkinson, Robert Helps - Roger Sessions / Donald Martino1995Album
Piano Concerto No. 3 / Concerto For Piano And OrchestraFrancis Thorne / Roger Sessions - Ursula Oppens, Robert Taub, Westchester Philharmonic, Paul Dunkel1994Album
Violin Concerto / SymphonyRoger Sessions / Stefan Wolpe1994Compil.
Symphony No. 2 / Symphony No. 2 / Oboe ConcertoRoger Sessions, John Harbison, William Bennett, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt1994Album
Duo For Violin And Violoncello – Six Pieces For Violoncello – Duo For Violin And Piano – Sonata For ViolinRoger Sessions / Curtis Macomber, Joel Krosnick, Barry Salwen1994Album
String Quintet · Canons · Six Pieces For Violoncello · First String QuartetRoger Sessions, The Group For Contemporary Music1993Album
American Piano Sonatas Volume 2Peter Lawson - Charles Griffes, Roger Sessions, Charles Ives1993Album
Complete Works For Solo PianoRoger Sessions, Barry Salwen1992Album
Symphony No. 1 / Symphony No.2Darius Milhaud / Roger Sessions1992Album
Hanson Conducts McPhee, Sessions, ThomsonColin McPhee, Roger Sessions, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1992Compil.
Symphonies Nos. 1 2 3Roger Sessions1990Compil.
Helps/Adams/Brief/SessionsChristopher O'Riley - Robert Helps, John Adams, Todd Brief, Roger Sessions1990Album
In Praise Of Shahn · Connotations · Black Maskers SuiteWilliam Schuman, Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions - The Juilliard Orchestra, Otto-Werner Mueller, Sixten Ehrling, Paul Zukofsky1988Album
Symphony No. 4 · Symphony No. 5 · Rhapsody For OrchestraRoger Sessions - Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Christian Badea1987Album
Fantasies And Impromptus / Piano Sonata No. 2Randall Hodgkinson - Donald Martino / Roger Sessions1984Album
Concerto For Orchestra / Sinfonia Votiva (Symphony No. 8)Roger Sessions / Andrzej Panufnik - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa1982Album
American Piano Music Of The 20th CenturyWilliam Grant Naboré - Charles Ives / John Cage / Roger Sessions1981Album
Symphony No. 7 / Divertimento For OrchestraRoger Sessions - The Louisville Orchestra, Peter Leonard1981Album
Philomel / Piano Sonata No.3Milton Babbitt / Roger Sessions1980Album
Alan Marks Plays Modern ClassicsAlan Marks, Pierre Boulez, Roger Sessions, Carlos Chávez1978Album
When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'dRoger Sessions - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa1977Album
But Yesterday Is Not TodaySamuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Theodore Chanler, Israel Citkowitz, John Duke, Robert Helps, Roger Sessions / James Agee, Jane Bowles, E. E. Cummings, Leonard Feeney, James Joyce, Archibald MacLeish, Walter De La Mare, James Purdy, Edwin Arlington Robinson / Bethany Beardslee / Donald Gramm & Donald Hassard1977Album
Sonata For Violin / Second SonataRoger Sessions / Easley Blackwood1976Album
Capriccio Per Siegfried Palm / Six Pieces For Violoncello / Suite No. 1 In G MajorKrzysztof Penderecki / Roger Sessions / Johann Sebastian Bach - Roy Christensen1976Album
Solo Sonata / Five Pieces / SegmentosRobert Gross, Richard Grayson - Roger Sessions / Jerome Rosen / Aurelio De La Vega1973Album
Rhapsody For Orchestra, Symphony VIII / Night Music / DichotomyRoger Sessions / Thea Musgrave / Wallingford Riegger1973Album
Concertino For Chamber Orchestra / Songs, Drones And Refrains Of DeathRoger Sessions / George Crumb1973Album
String Quartet No. 1 In E Minor / String Quartet In One Movement, Opus 23Roger Sessions / William Frabizio - The Amado String Quartet1972Album
Piano Sonata No. 3 / Duo For Violin And PianoRoger Sessions / Charles Wuorinen1971Album
Session; Cowell; Lybbert; TalmaHenry Cowell / Donald Lybbert / Roger Sessions / Louise Talma, Herbert Rogers1970Album
Violin ConcertoRoger Sessions1968Album
Symphony No. 3 / Concerto For String Quartet And OrchestraRoger Sessions / Benjamin Lees - Igor Buketoff, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra1968Album
Modern American Piano MusicAaron Copland / Roger Sessions / Elliott Carter - Beveridge Webster1966Album
The Incredible Flutist / Suite From "The Black Maskers" / Merry Mount Suite / Prelude & Quadruple FugueWalter Piston, Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra1965Album
The Violin Vol. 5Hyman Bress / Charles Reiner / Roger Sessions / Anton Webern / Alois Hába1963Album
Sessions : Piano Sonata No. 1 / Mayer : Piano SonataRoger Sessions / William Mayer1961Album
Second String Quartet / Concerto For Piano With Wind Octette AccompanimentRoger Sessions / Colin McPhee1956Album
Variations On Sunday School Tunes / Four Chorale PreludesVirgil Thomson / Roger Sessions - Marilyn Mason1954Album
The Black MaskersRoger Sessions1952Album
Ives: Sonata No. 2, Sesssions: Duo For Violin And PianoCharles Ives, Roger Sessions - Patricia Travers With Otto Herz1951Album
Symphony No. 2Roger Sessions - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos1950Album
Sessions: The Black Maskers / Harris: Symphony No. 3 / Schuman: American Festival OvertureRoger Sessions / Roy Harris / William Schuman - American Recording Society Orchestra : Walter HendlAlbum
Barber Sessions GinasteraSamuel Barber, Roger Sessions, Alberto Ginastera, Howard HansonAlbum
Symphony No. 1 / Music On A Quiet Theme / TetrameronRoger Sessions / William Bergsma / Russell SmithAlbum
Roger Sessions: Symphony No. 2 (1946), Peter Mennin: Symphony No. 3 (1946)Roger Sessions, Peter MenninAlbum
The Three Piano SonatasRoger Sessions, Rebecca La BrecqueAlbum
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