Joseph Schwantner

Joseph Schwantner originally wrote Black Anemones as one of the songs in his Two Poems of Agueda Pizzaro for voice and piano; he also transcribed it for flute and piano. Upon hearing this stunningly b...

Written for marimbist Leigh Howard Stevens, Velocities is characterized by a continuously unfolding texture of rapid gestures within a framework of continually shifting meters. The first major divisio...

I was immediately drawn to the quartet's poignant, intimate and expressive sound world, the evocative and hauntingly beautiful voice of contralto Karen Clark and the poetry of Henry David Thoreau whos...

For two pianos and percussion.

One of the most performed works by a living American composer in the classical music repertoire, Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra was written for the New York Philharmonic’s p...

When I was young, I had the propensity to Daydream- not a particularly unusual circumstance, I suppose, for a boy with a clear temperament fiercely drawn to art, poetry and most especially to music. F...

Joseph Schwantner originally wrote Black Anemones as one of the songs in his Two Poems of Agueda Pizzaro for voice and piano he also transcribed it for flute and piano. Upon hearing this stunningly be...

Written for marimbist Leigh Howard Stevens, Velocities is characterized by a continuously unfolding texture of rapid gestures within a framework of continually shifting meters. The first major divisio...

For two pianos and percussion.

Flöte, Klarinette, Violine, Viola, Cello