Carol Rosenberger
Encyclopedia
Carol Rosenberger - is a classical
pianist
. Born in Detroit, Michigan
, Carol studied in the U.S.
with Webster Aitken
and Katja Andy; in Paris
with Nadia Boulanger
; and in Vienna
with harpsichordist/ Baroque scholar Eta Harich-Schneider and Schenker theorist Franz Eibner. In 1976, Carol was chosen to represent America’s women concert artists by the President’s National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year. She has been on the faculties of the University of Southern California
, California State University, Northridge
and Immaculate Heart College
. She has given performance workshops for young musicians on campuses nationwide. Carol recorded over 30 albums on the Delos Productions, Inc. recording label.
; and in Vienna with harpsichordist/ Baroque scholar Eta Harich-Schneider and Schenker theorist Franz Eibner. She has been the subject of articles in many of the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines, and in 1976 was chosen to represent America’s women concert artists by the President’s National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year. She has been on the faculties of the University of Southern California, California State University Northridge and Immaculate Heart College. She has given performance workshops for young musicians on campuses nationwide.
Carol has given numerous benefit performance
s for physical rehabilitation programs, an effort motivated by her own experience. Her official debut was delayed ten years by an attack of paralytic polio at the outset of her career. The disease damaged most severely the very muscles needed for piano playing. Carol spent those ten years of seclusion and rehabilitation partly in Vienna, studying Baroque
style and theory at the Academy, and absorbing German lieder, opera
, instrumental music and literature
. Carol is currently working on a book about her experiences.
Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, Carol was a member of the piano
faculties of the University of Southern California, Immaculate Heart College, and California State University, Northridge. At USC she taught a workshop for instrumentalists and vocalists entitled "Preparation for Performance," which drew upon the techniques she had developed to rehabilitate her own playing from the after-effects of paralytic polio. On her concert tours throughout the U.S., she often included piano workshops while performing at universities.
After making a number of recordings for Delos, Carol became interested in classical recording production, and began co-producing recordings with Delos founder Amelia Haygood. The Delos Recordings for Young People series was a result of this partnership.
Since the death of Delos founder Amelia Haygood in 2007, Carol has taken on a larger responsibility for the label, and is now its Director.
, Boston
, London
, Paris, Vienna, Berlin
and other capitals. Carol's recital programs and guest appearances with orchestras have carried her to most major Europe
an and American cities. She has been guest soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
, London Symphony Orchestra
, English Chamber Orchestra
, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony
, National Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
, Seattle Symphony
, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
; performing with conductors Gerard Schwarz
, James DePreist
, Constantine Orbelian, Neville Marriner
, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
, Izler Solomon
, among others
’s Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth, with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony brought her a 1991 Grammy
Nomination for Best Performance, Soloist with Orchestra. Rosenberger and Schwarz followed this recording with the rarely-heard Hanson Piano Concerto with the Seattle Symphony. Together with Constantine Orbelian and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Carol has recorded the premiere of Frank Bridge
’s Chamber Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (arr. C. Orbelian), an arrangement of the Quintet (1912).
Carol’s celebrated series of concept-recordings began with Water Music of the Impressionists, which was selected by Stereo Review
as one of the 25 Best Classical Compact Discs of all time, by Gramophone as a Recording of the Year, and by Billboard
as an All-time Great Recording. The Impressionistic Night Moods was the successful sequel, and a second water-music disc, Singing on the Water, included Barcarolle
s written especially for the album by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and American composer David Diamond
.
Together with label founder and co-producer Amelia Haygood, Carol led the way into another area of concept recordings with the 1989 release of her Perchance to Dream, Lullabys for Children and Adults, which was one of the first classical
CDs designed primarily for young people.
Together with Amelia, Carol co-produced the Music for Young People Series. As producer of special recording projects combining music and narration, Carol has worked with such narrators as James Earl Jones
, Michael York
and Natalia Makarova
. She also wrote the script for Makarova's narrated version of Stravinsky’s
The Firebird
, a recording that won the American Library Association
’s “Notable Recording” award.
Concerto Solo with Orchestra
Strauss: Burlesk; Hanson: Piano Concerto; Hanson: Variations on a Theme of Youth; others ("Carol's Concerto Collection") • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Seattle Symphony/New York Chamber Symphony • Delos DE 3306
Bridge: Chamber Concerto arr. Orbelian • Constantine Orbelian, conductor; Moscow Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3263
Hindemith: Four Temperaments • James DePreist, conductor; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra • Delos DE 1006
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra • Delos DE 3060
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto #1 • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3021
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra • Delos DE 3027
Haydn: Piano Concerto #2 • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Scottish Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3061
Haydn: Piano Concerto #5 • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Scottish Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3064
Ravel: Piano Concerto, Adagio ("A French Romance") James DePreist, conductor; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo • Delos DE 3202
Mozart Adagios (from Piano Concertos K. 595, K. 488, K. 491) • Constantine Orbelian, conductor; Moscow Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3243
Piano Solo
Water Music of the Impressionists (Debussy, Ravel, Liszt) • Delos DE 3006
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: Op. 57; Op. 111 • Delos DE 3009
Schubert: Sonata in B-Flat; Impromptus • Delos DE 3018
Szymanowski: Masques; Etudes; Mazurkas • Delos DE 1002
Night Moods (Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Griffes, Granados) • Delos DE 3030
Reverie (Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Griffes, Liszt, Ravel) • Delos DE 3113
Singing on the Water: Piano Barcarolles (Bennett, Chopin, Debussy, Diamond, Faure, Griffes, Rachmaninoff, Ravel) • Delos DE 3172
Chamber Music Recordings
Chopin: Polonaise Brillante, Sonata Op. 65; Barber: Sonata Op. 6, Songs; Schumann: Adagio and Allegro Op. 70 ("Presenting Jian Wang")• with Jian Wang, cello • Delos DE 3097
Bennett: Suite for Skip and Sadie • Walton: Duets for Children ("My Keyboard Friends") • with Richard Rodney Bennett, piano • Delos DE 6002
Mozart • Beethoven: Quintets for Piano and Winds • with David Shifrin, clarinet; Allan Vogel, oboe; others • DE 3024
Brahms • Schumann: Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano • with David Shifrin, clarinet • Delos DE 3025
Recordings for Young People
Perchance to Dream: A Lullaby Album for Children and Adults (Kabalevsky, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Haydn, Brahms) • Delos DE 3079
Such Stuff as Dreams: A Lullaby Album for Children and Adults (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Kabalevsky, Schumann, Beethoven, Grieg, Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Mendelssohn)• Delos DE 3230
Baby Needs Lullabys (Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Bach, Brahms) • Delos DE 1619
Prokofiev: Music for Children, Op. 65 ("Prince Ivan and the Frog Princess") • with Natalia Makarova, narrator • Delos DE 6003
Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, Op. 39 ("The Snow Queen") • with Natalia Makarova, narrator • Delos DE 6004
"Beauty and the Beast" in the style of Rachmaninoff; "With a Smile and a Song" in the style of Chopin ("Heigh-Ho! Mozart: Favorite Disney tunes in Classical Style") • Donald Fraser, conductor and arranger; English Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3186
"A Whole New World" in the style of Chopin; "So This is Love" in the style of Debussy ("Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach: Favorite Disney Tunes in Classical Style") • Donald Fraser, conductor and arranger; English Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3195
Fraser: "I'm Flying," "Nocturne," "Distant Melody" ("The Best of Peter Pan") • Los Angeles Opera Orchestra; Grant Gershon, conductor; arrangements by Donald Fraser • Delos DE 3201
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
. Born in Detroit, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, Carol studied in the U.S.
United States
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with Webster Aitken
Webster Aitken
Webster Aitken was an American pianist. He studied piano in Europe with Artur Schnabel and Emil von Sauer. In 1929, he made his professional debut in Vienna, Austria. Upon returning to America, he gave a concert in New York City on November 17, 1935...
and Katja Andy; in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
with Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
; and in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
with harpsichordist/ Baroque scholar Eta Harich-Schneider and Schenker theorist Franz Eibner. In 1976, Carol was chosen to represent America’s women concert artists by the President’s National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year. She has been on the faculties of the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
, California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge is a public university in Northridge, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, United States....
and Immaculate Heart College
Immaculate Heart College
Immaculate Heart College was a private, Catholic college located in Los Angeles, California.The college was established in 1916 by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ten years after they had founded Immaculate Heart High School on the property....
. She has given performance workshops for young musicians on campuses nationwide. Carol recorded over 30 albums on the Delos Productions, Inc. recording label.
Biography
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Carol studied in the U.S. with Webster Aitken and Katja Andy; in Paris with the legendary Nadia BoulangerNadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
; and in Vienna with harpsichordist/ Baroque scholar Eta Harich-Schneider and Schenker theorist Franz Eibner. She has been the subject of articles in many of the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines, and in 1976 was chosen to represent America’s women concert artists by the President’s National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year. She has been on the faculties of the University of Southern California, California State University Northridge and Immaculate Heart College. She has given performance workshops for young musicians on campuses nationwide.
Carol has given numerous benefit performance
Benefit performance
In a benefit performance the performers usually do not earn any money.Instead, the takings will go to raise money for some mutually agreed upon cause: e.g. the Actors Benevolent Fund; a hospital; a foundation...
s for physical rehabilitation programs, an effort motivated by her own experience. Her official debut was delayed ten years by an attack of paralytic polio at the outset of her career. The disease damaged most severely the very muscles needed for piano playing. Carol spent those ten years of seclusion and rehabilitation partly in Vienna, studying Baroque
Baroque music
Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...
style and theory at the Academy, and absorbing German lieder, opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
, instrumental music and literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
. Carol is currently working on a book about her experiences.
Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, Carol was a member of the piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
faculties of the University of Southern California, Immaculate Heart College, and California State University, Northridge. At USC she taught a workshop for instrumentalists and vocalists entitled "Preparation for Performance," which drew upon the techniques she had developed to rehabilitate her own playing from the after-effects of paralytic polio. On her concert tours throughout the U.S., she often included piano workshops while performing at universities.
After making a number of recordings for Delos, Carol became interested in classical recording production, and began co-producing recordings with Delos founder Amelia Haygood. The Delos Recordings for Young People series was a result of this partnership.
Since the death of Delos founder Amelia Haygood in 2007, Carol has taken on a larger responsibility for the label, and is now its Director.
Concert History
Carol Rosenberger's debut tour in 1970 received enthusiastic reviews from cities like New YorkNew York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, Paris, Vienna, Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
and other capitals. Carol's recital programs and guest appearances with orchestras have carried her to most major Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an and American cities. She has been guest soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"...
, London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
, English Chamber Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra
The English Chamber Orchestra is a British chamber orchestra based in London. The full orchestra regularly plays concerts at Cadogan Hall, and the ECO Ensemble performs at Wigmore Hall...
, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is Scotland's national chamber orchestra, based in Edinburgh. One of Scotland’s five National Performing Arts Companies, the SCO performs throughout Scotland, including annual tours of the Scottish Highlands and Islands and South of Scotland. The SCO appears...
, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony
New York Chamber Symphony
The New York Chamber Symphony was an American chamber orchestra based in New York City. It was active from 1977 to 2002.It was founded in 1977 by its founding music director Gerard Schwarz, and Omus Hirshbein. Its original name was the Y Chamber Symphony, and it was the resident ensemble at the...
, National Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is a 40-member American chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, considered by music critic Jim Svejda as "America's finest chamber orchestra".-History:...
, Seattle Symphony
Seattle Symphony
The Seattle Symphony is an American orchestra based in Seattle, Washington. Since 1998, the orchestra is resident at Benaroya Hall. The orchestra's season runs from September through July, and serves as the pit orchestra for most productions of the Seattle Opera in addition to its own concerts...
, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Detroit, Michigan. Its main performance center is Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood...
, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is a major American orchestra based in Indianapolis, Indiana.Annually, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performs 200 concerts for over 350,000 people. It is the largest performing arts organization in Indiana. The ISO is currently one of only 18 American...
; performing with conductors Gerard Schwarz
Gerard Schwarz
Gerard Schwarz is an American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011.In 2007 Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, having served as principal conductor since 2005...
, James DePreist
James DePreist
James Anderson DePreist is an American conductor. One of the few African American conductors on the world stage, he is currently the director of conducting and orchestral studies at the Juilliard School and laureate music director of the Oregon Symphony.-Biography:DePreist was born in Philadelphia...
, Constantine Orbelian, Neville Marriner
Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner is an English conductor and violinist.-Biography:Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Martin String Quartet and London Symphony Orchestra, playing with the...
, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos is a Spanish conductor and composer.Frühbeck studied violin, piano, and composition at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid...
, Izler Solomon
Izler Solomon
Izler Solomon was an American orchestra conductor, active mostly in the Midwest....
, among others
Recording History
Over 30 recordings on the Delos label encompassed a wide range of piano repertoire. Her recording of Howard HansonHoward Hanson
Howard Harold Hanson 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...
’s Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth, with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony brought her a 1991 Grammy
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
Nomination for Best Performance, Soloist with Orchestra. Rosenberger and Schwarz followed this recording with the rarely-heard Hanson Piano Concerto with the Seattle Symphony. Together with Constantine Orbelian and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Carol has recorded the premiere of Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...
’s Chamber Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (arr. C. Orbelian), an arrangement of the Quintet (1912).
Carol’s celebrated series of concept-recordings began with Water Music of the Impressionists, which was selected by Stereo Review
Stereo Review
Stereo Review was an American magazine first published in 1958 by Ziff-Davis with the title HiFi and Music Review. It was one of a handful of magazines then available for the individual interested in high fidelity. Throughout its life it published a blend of record and equipment reviews, articles...
as one of the 25 Best Classical Compact Discs of all time, by Gramophone as a Recording of the Year, and by Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
as an All-time Great Recording. The Impressionistic Night Moods was the successful sequel, and a second water-music disc, Singing on the Water, included Barcarolle
Barcarolle
A barcarole is a folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers, or a piece of music composed in that style...
s written especially for the album by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and American composer David Diamond
David Diamond (composer)
David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...
.
Together with label founder and co-producer Amelia Haygood, Carol led the way into another area of concept recordings with the 1989 release of her Perchance to Dream, Lullabys for Children and Adults, which was one of the first classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
CDs designed primarily for young people.
Together with Amelia, Carol co-produced the Music for Young People Series. As producer of special recording projects combining music and narration, Carol has worked with such narrators as James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones is an American actor. He is well-known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership...
, Michael York
Michael York (actor)
Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...
and Natalia Makarova
Natalia Makarova
Nataliya Romanovna Makarova is the legendary Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that “Her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation.” She has also won awards as an...
. She also wrote the script for Makarova's narrated version of Stravinsky’s
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
The Firebird
The Firebird
The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....
, a recording that won the American Library Association
American Library Association
The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....
’s “Notable Recording” award.
Discography
Carol Rosenberger's recordings (All on Delos)Concerto Solo with Orchestra
Strauss: Burlesk; Hanson: Piano Concerto; Hanson: Variations on a Theme of Youth; others ("Carol's Concerto Collection") • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Seattle Symphony/New York Chamber Symphony • Delos DE 3306
Bridge: Chamber Concerto arr. Orbelian • Constantine Orbelian, conductor; Moscow Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3263
Hindemith: Four Temperaments • James DePreist, conductor; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra • Delos DE 1006
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra • Delos DE 3060
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto #1 • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3021
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; London Symphony Orchestra • Delos DE 3027
Haydn: Piano Concerto #2 • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Scottish Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3061
Haydn: Piano Concerto #5 • Gerard Schwarz, conductor; Scottish Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3064
Ravel: Piano Concerto, Adagio ("A French Romance") James DePreist, conductor; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo • Delos DE 3202
Mozart Adagios (from Piano Concertos K. 595, K. 488, K. 491) • Constantine Orbelian, conductor; Moscow Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3243
Piano Solo
Water Music of the Impressionists (Debussy, Ravel, Liszt) • Delos DE 3006
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: Op. 57; Op. 111 • Delos DE 3009
Schubert: Sonata in B-Flat; Impromptus • Delos DE 3018
Szymanowski: Masques; Etudes; Mazurkas • Delos DE 1002
Night Moods (Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Griffes, Granados) • Delos DE 3030
Reverie (Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Griffes, Liszt, Ravel) • Delos DE 3113
Singing on the Water: Piano Barcarolles (Bennett, Chopin, Debussy, Diamond, Faure, Griffes, Rachmaninoff, Ravel) • Delos DE 3172
Chamber Music Recordings
Chopin: Polonaise Brillante, Sonata Op. 65; Barber: Sonata Op. 6, Songs; Schumann: Adagio and Allegro Op. 70 ("Presenting Jian Wang")• with Jian Wang, cello • Delos DE 3097
Bennett: Suite for Skip and Sadie • Walton: Duets for Children ("My Keyboard Friends") • with Richard Rodney Bennett, piano • Delos DE 6002
Mozart • Beethoven: Quintets for Piano and Winds • with David Shifrin, clarinet; Allan Vogel, oboe; others • DE 3024
Brahms • Schumann: Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano • with David Shifrin, clarinet • Delos DE 3025
Recordings for Young People
Perchance to Dream: A Lullaby Album for Children and Adults (Kabalevsky, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Haydn, Brahms) • Delos DE 3079
Such Stuff as Dreams: A Lullaby Album for Children and Adults (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Kabalevsky, Schumann, Beethoven, Grieg, Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Mendelssohn)• Delos DE 3230
Baby Needs Lullabys (Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Bach, Brahms) • Delos DE 1619
Prokofiev: Music for Children, Op. 65 ("Prince Ivan and the Frog Princess") • with Natalia Makarova, narrator • Delos DE 6003
Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, Op. 39 ("The Snow Queen") • with Natalia Makarova, narrator • Delos DE 6004
"Beauty and the Beast" in the style of Rachmaninoff; "With a Smile and a Song" in the style of Chopin ("Heigh-Ho! Mozart: Favorite Disney tunes in Classical Style") • Donald Fraser, conductor and arranger; English Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3186
"A Whole New World" in the style of Chopin; "So This is Love" in the style of Debussy ("Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach: Favorite Disney Tunes in Classical Style") • Donald Fraser, conductor and arranger; English Chamber Orchestra • Delos DE 3195
Fraser: "I'm Flying," "Nocturne," "Distant Melody" ("The Best of Peter Pan") • Los Angeles Opera Orchestra; Grant Gershon, conductor; arrangements by Donald Fraser • Delos DE 3201