CD Releases
New
from Casa Rustica Recordings!
Larry
Bell
plays
his piano music
Music
of the Spheres (1-9)
Piano
Sonata No. 3, Sonata Macabre (10-13)
Fifteen
Two-Part Inventions (14-28)
more
info and listening
Available
on www.CDBaby.com
and
downloads on ITunes and most classical music websites
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"Holy
Ghosts" an opera in two acts
Music
by Larry Bell
Libretto
by Andrea Olmstead
based
on the play by
Romulus Linney
Live performance
Sept. 15, 2009
Berklee Performance
Center
Boston, MA
Audio (only) Overture
and Act I: listen
Audio (only) Act II:
listen
Complete
video with libretto online: www.HolyGhoststheopera.com
Program, synopsis,
bios of cast and band:
Complete
libretto:
Photo
gallery of production: |
Unchanging
Love:
Brass and Organ Music
(Albany Records:
Troy 1068)
more info
and listening
Poems for
Trumpet and Piano
Liturgical
Suite
Four Lyrics
for Trumpet and Piano
Unchanging
Love
Remembering
Al: Idumea Variations
Chris
Gekker-Trumpet
Richard
Bunbury-Organ
Cambridge
Symphonic Brass Ensemble
Harrylyn
Huff-Organ
Larry Bell-Piano
more info:
www.albanyrecords.com
"Bell's
is an unabashedly tonal, lyrical, and unproblematic approach
to music."
-William
Zagorski, Fanfare |
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Larry Bell:
Music for Strings
(release date
November 2007)
(Albany
Records: Troy 986)
Borromeo String
Quartet: String Quartet No. 3 (Homage to Beethoven)
John Muratore:
Celestial Refrain
Tarab Cello
Ensemble: Tarab
more
info and listening
more info:
www.albanyrecords.com
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Bronze Music:
New England Conservatory's
Jordan Winds,
William Drury-conductor
(Troy 913)
Larry Bell:
Short Symphony for Band
also on this
CD:
Gerald Levison: Mountain
Light and Bronze Music
Linda Dunsman: Solstice
Joshua Feltman: Kubla
Khan
Malcolm Peyton:
Two Fantasies for Winds, Brass, and Percussion
David Macbride: River
Dance
Peter Child:
Fanfare |
more
info:
www.albanyrecords.com
also
available at:
www.amazon.com |
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"Chorale preludes
composed in 2002; what's going on here? If anyone tells you
they know what 21st-century music is, don't listen. Instead,
listen to these evocative and poignant neo-Ivesian ruminations
for solo piano that is my favorite recording to date among Larry
Bell's numerous recordings.
Frank J. Oteri- NewMusicBox.org |
Larry
Bell: "Going Home"
Solo
Piano Music
(Troy 828)
Four
Chorale Preludes
Miniature
Diversions
Piano Sonata
No. 2, "TALA"
Revivals
Elegy
more
info and listening
Larry Bell-Piano
more
info:
www.albanyrecords.com
also
available at:
www.amazon.com
the
ITunes music store
www.itunes.com
under the genre: inspirational
and www.emusic.com
under classical music |
"Larry
Bell Vocal Music"
(Troy741)
The
Immortal Beloved
Four Sacred Songs
Songs of Time and Eternity
Songs of Innocence and Experience
D'Anna Fortunato,
mezzo-soprano
Larry Bell, piano
Benjamin Zander, conductor
New England
Conservatory Youth Philharmonic and Children's Chorus
more
info and listening
more
info:
www.albanyrecords.com
also
available at:
www.amazon.com
and for www.emusic.com |
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"Shadow
Box"
Pont
Neuf Recordings (PN 00713)
Five
Comtemporary Classics for Solo Guitar
by
Walton, Wheeler, Hand, Piazzolla, and
Larry
Bell's Celestial Refrain
more
info and listening
John Muratore-guitar
available
through:
www.Cdbaby.com/cd/Muratore
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"The
Sentimental Muse"
(N/S R 1031)
Idumea
Symphony
Song and Dance
Short Symphony for Band
The Sentimental Muse
Joel
Suben, conductor
William Drury, conductor
Kathryn Sleeper, bassoonist
Moravian
Philharmonic
Jordan
Winds
more
info and listening
Purchase online:
www.northsouthmusic.org
www.amazon.com
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"The
Book of Moonlight"
(N/S R 1033)
The
Book of Moonlight
In Memory of Roger Sessions
Just As I Am
Four Pieces in Familiar Style
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to
Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Sleep Song
Ayano
Ninomiya, violin
Larry Bell, piano
Steve McConnell, narrator
more
info and listening
Purchase online:
www.northsouthmusic.org
www.amazon.com
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"American
Breath - Music For Saxophone"
(BDR 2181)
Mahler
In Blue Light
Russell
Peterson, saxophone
Douglas Schneider, piano
Diane Tremaine, cello
more
info and listening
purchase
online:
www.amazon.com
(under classical music:Larry Bell)
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"River
of Ponds"
(N/S R 1018)
The Black Cat
Caprice
Fantasia on an Imaginary Hymn
River of Ponds
Featuring
Eric Bartlett, cello
with Robert J. Lurtsema, narrator
Sarah Clarke, viola
Larry Bell, piano
more
info
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"Music
from Six Continents 1996 Series"
(VMM 3037)
Larry Bell - Piano Concerto
Ruse
Philharmonic
Tsanko Delibozov, conductor
Larry Bell, piano
more
info and listening
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"Music
from Six Continents 1992 Series"
(VMM 3016)
Larry
Bell - Sacred Symphonies
Slovak
Radio Symphony Orchestra of Bratislava
Szymon Kawalla, conductor
more
info and listening
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Picture
Credits:
Going
Home: Larry Bell Piano Music-Casa Rustica at the American Academy
in Rome, used by permission of Mercedes T. Bass
Larry
Bell Vocal Music–Infant Joy, used courtesy of the William
Blake Archive
The Sentimental Muse - Maddy Rosenberg, "Heaven Sent"
Reminiscences and Reflections - Maddy Rosenberg, "Yellow"
The Book of Moonlight - Maddy Rosenberg, "Room with a View
(for more information contact (maddrose@hotmail.com)
Music From Six Continents 1996 Series - Max Gangl (1946) Austria,
"New York," 1993
New American Romantics - Maria Adair (from the collection
of Dr. and Mrs. Fima Lifshitz)
Music From Six Continents 1992 Series - Lane Smith
River of Ponds - "River of Ponds," Frank
Stella, used by permission of Frank Stella and Gemini G.E.L., Los
Angeles)
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