African-American
Composers and Performers
on the Leonarda Label
Shown as links or highlighted text.
Click on links for more information. Audio samples are
on CD main pages and composer bio pages.
Harold
Jones, Flutist
Lil' Light O' Mine
#LE355 CD (flute and piano;
solo flute) Duration 77:00
Harold Jones, flute; Colette Valentine,
piano
Composers: Gabriel Fauré, Cécile Chaminade,
W.A. Mozart, Henri Busser, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin,
Pierre Sancan, Erik Satie, Franz Schubert/Gounod, Adolphus
C. Hailstork, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and William Foster McDaniel.
The Perkinson and McDaniel
works are arrangements of Negro spirituals.
Souvenirs
#LE344 CD Duration 71:07
Roger Rundle, piano
Composers: Domenico Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert
Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Debussy, Poulenc, de Falla, Granados,
Albéniz, R. Nathaniel Dett,
Gershwin.
The
Vocal-Chamber ART
Music by Judith Lang Zaimont
#LE343 CD Duration 71:52.
Singers: Elena Tyminski, Charles Bressler, Price Browne, Berenice Bramson,
David Arnold. Conductor (Songs
of Innocence): Roger Nierenberg. Instrumentalists:Judith Lang Zaimont,
piano; Patricia Spencer, flute; Barbara Bogatin, cello; Nancy Allen,
harp; Sara Cutler, harp; Zita Zohar, piano; Jonathan Haas, percussion
Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont
Kaleidoscope
Music by African-American Women
#LE339 CD (click here for composer
bios for this CD)
(solo piano; violin and piano; solo violin) Duration 72:27
Helen Walker-Hill, piano; Gregory
Walker, violin
Composers:
Irene Britton Smith, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Julia Perry, Betty Jackson
King, Margaret Bonds, Lettie Beckon Alston, Undine Smith Moore, Rachel
Eubanks, Valerie Capers, Lena Johnson McLin, Regina Harris Baiocchi,
Dolores White, Nora Douglas Holt, Florence Price.
Women's
Voices
Five Centuries of Song
#LE338 CD (soprano and harpsichord;
soprano and piano) Duration 58:15
Neva Pilgrim, soprano; Edward Smith, harpsichord (Boleyn-Paradis); Steven
Heyman, piano (Lang-Vercoe)
Composers: Anne Boleyn, Caterina Assandra, Francesca Caccini,
Barbara Strozzi, Anna Amalia (Duchess of Saxe-Weimar), Josephine Lang,
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Wieck Schumann, Maria Theresia von Paradis,
Alma Schindler Mahler, Poldowski (Irene Wieniawska Paul), Pauline Viardot-Garcia,
Lili Boulanger, Germaine Tailleferre, Cécile Chaminade, Agathe
Backer Grøndahl, Margaret
Bonds, Rebecca Clarke, Miriam Gideon, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Marion
Bauer, Judith Lang Zaimont, Ann Silsbee, Libby Larsen, Gwyneth Walker,
Elizabeth Vercoe.
Character
Sketches
Solo Piano Works by 7 American Women
#LE334 CD (solo piano) Duration
73:15
Nanette Kaplan Solomon, pianist
Composers: Victoria Bond, Tania
León, Jane Brockman, Ruth Schonthal, Gwyneth Walker, Marga
Richter, Judith Lang Zaimont.
Harold
Jones, Flutist
Let Us Break Bread Together
#LE333 CD (flute and piano;
solo flute) Duration 59:43
Harold Jones, flute; Colette Valentine,
piano
Composers: J. S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Camille Saint-Saëns,
Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel,
Michel Colombier, Negro Spirituals,
Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson, Coleridge-Taylor
Perkinson, Lloyd G. McNeill, arranger Richard
Donald Smith, Daniel Paget
The
Romantic Handel
Love Duets & Cantatas Composed in Italy
LP (vinyl) #LPI 124
(chamber ensemble with soprano and/or bass-baritone solo) Duration 45:34
Faye Robinson, soprano; John Ostendorf,
bass-baritone; Brewer Chamber Ensemble; Rudolph Palmer, conductor
Composer: Georg F. Handel