Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait (1997)

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)

1-2 Music for Small Orchestra (1926)
3-5 Three Chants (1930)
for women´s chorus
New London Chamber Choir
James Wood, conductor

6. Piano Study in Mixed Accents (1930)
Reinbert de Leeuw, piano

7-9 Three Songs (1930-32)
for contralto, oboe, percussion and piano, with [or without] an orchestral ostinato
Texts: Carl Sandburg
Lucy Shelton, soprano

10-13 String Quartet 1931
14-15 2 Ricercare (1932)
for voice and piano
Texts: H. T. Tsiang
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Reinbert de Leeuw, piano
16 Andante for Strings (1938)
(arr. Andante from String Quartet 1931)
17 Rissolty Rossolty (1939)

Charles Seeger (1886-1979)

18 John Hardy (1940)

Ruth Crawford Seeger

19-21 Suite (1952)
for wind quintet