Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait

Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait

On this CD:

1. Music for Small Orchestra
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Schoenberg Ensemble

2. Three Chants, for women's chorus
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Schoenberg Ensemble
Conducted by James Wood

3. Piano Study in Mixed Accents, for piano
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Reinbert de Leeuw, Schoenberg Ensemble

4. Three Songs on Poems by Carl Sandburg, for voice, oboe, piano & percussion with optional orchestral ostinati
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Schoenberg Ensemble, Lucy Shelton

5. String Quartet 1931
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Schoenberg Ensemble, Hans Woudenberg, Karin Dolman

6. Two Ricercare, for voice and piano
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Reinbert de Leeuw, Schoenberg Ensemble, Lucy Shelton

7. Andante, for string orchestra (arranged from 3rd movement of String Quartet 1931) (Arranged from String quartet 1931)
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Schoenberg Ensemble

8. Suite, for wind quintet
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Schoenberg Ensemble, Wilma van den Berge, Hans Dullaert

9. Rissolty, Rossolty, an American fantasy for orchestra
Composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Performed by Schoenberg Ensemble

10. John Hardy
Composed by Charles Seeger
Performed by Schoenberg Ensemble

Editorial Reviews
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Crawford is a neglected but significant figure in the development of American music in the 20th century. Perhaps it's that she took 15 years off from composing in the middle of her life to help found the American folk revivalist movement carried on by her children Michael, Peggy, and stepson Pete. But her early works define their own new territory next to contemporaries and friends Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles. With a decidedly proletarian slant, Crawford's earlier works merge folk melodies and forms of meandering clarity and layer them between swirls of chamber dissonance. These include settings of her friend Carl Sandburg's conversational poetry, the political words of Daily Worker writer H.T. Tsiang, the curious and circular patterns in String Quartet No. 1, and the homespun-meets-high-art Rissolty Rossolty. The CD finishes with a song setting by her husband Charles, and her "comeback" work, 1952's Suite for Wind Quartet, which patchworks rolling contemplation, lyrical melody, and forceful irregular rhythms together. --Robin Edgerton

Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait, Music, Jeanette Ager, Wilma van den Berge, Hans Woudenberg, Pierre Woudenberg, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Charles Seeger, James Wood, Schoenberg Ensemble, Govert Jurriaanse, Hans Dullaert, Marieke Schut, Ger de Zeeuw, John Snijders, Reinbert de Leeuw, Amanda Pitt, Lucy Shelton, Karin Dolman, Heleen Hulst, Marijke Van Kooten, 20th/21st Century Music for Voice and Keyboard, 20th/21st Century Orchestral Work with Descriptive Title, Chamber, Choral, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Etude for Keyboard, Keyboard, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Music for Chamber Orchestra, Orchestral, Orchestral Music, Quartet for Four String Instruments, Quintet for Five Woodwind Instruments, Secular Choral Music, Solo Voice(s) and Small Ensemble, Vocal

Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait

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