The Gregg Smith Singers: Elliott Carter: Choral Music

GSS Recordings GSS 103 (1984)

The Defense of Corinth (1941) Emblems (1947) The Harmony of Morning (1944) Heart Not So Heavy As Mine (1938) Musicians Wrestle Everywhere (1945) Tarantella (1936) To Music (1937)

Track Listing

[A1] Tarantella (1936)
Gregg Smith Singers, Gregg Smith, conductor | Paul Suits, piano (four hands) | Jerald Stone, piano (four hands)
*Reissued on Elliott Carter: Orchestral Songs; Complete Choral Music
[A2] Emblems (1947)
Long Island Symphonic Choral Association | Gregg Smith Singers, Gregg Smith, conductor | Paul Suits, piano
*Reissued on Elliott Carter: Orchestral Songs; Complete Choral Music
[A3] The Harmony of Morning (1944)
Gregg Smith Singers, Gregg Smith, conductor
*Reissue from America Sings, Vol. V: American Choral Music after 1950
[B1] Heart Not So Heavy As Mine (1938)
Rosalind Rees, soprano | Gregg Smith Singers, Gregg Smith, conductor
*Reissued on Elliott Carter: Orchestral Songs; Complete Choral Music
[B2] Musicians Wrestle Everywhere (1945)
Rosalind Rees, soprano | Gregg Smith Singers, Gregg Smith, conductor
*Reissue from The Gregg Smith Singers: America Sings (1920-1950)
[B3] To Music (1937)
Rosalind Rees, soprano | Gregg Smith Singers, Gregg Smith, conductor
*Reissued on Elliott Carter: Orchestral Songs; Complete Choral Music
[B4] The Defense of Corinth (1941)
Jan Opalach, narrator | Columbia University Men's Glee Club | Gregg Smith, conductor | Edward Green, piano (four hands) | Mark Suttonsmith, piano (four hands)
*Reissue from The Gregg Smith Singers: America Sings (1920-1950)

Details

The Defense of Corinth (14:12): Recorded Spring 1975, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Emblems (14:50): Recorded May 1982, Central Islip High School Auditorium, Islip, NY
The Harmony of Morning (9:24): Recorded April 1976, Walt Whitman Auditorium, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Heart Not So Heavy As Mine (4:28), Musicians Wrestle Everywhere (3:13) and To Music (7:17): Recorded 1983, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, New York, NY
Tarantella (5:19): Recorded May 1982, Central Islip High School Auditorium, Islip, NY

Producer: Raymond Marunas
Engineer: David Hancock

Discography