First Recordings - Leon Kirchner - Lilly / String Quartet No. 2

 

First Recordings

First Recordings

Leon Kirchner

Lily / String Quartet No. 2

Modern American Music Series 

Produced by Jay David Saks

Engineering: Edward T. Graham, Stanley Tonkel, Raymond Moore, Arthur Kendy

Cover Art and Design: Teresa Alfieri

Photography: Norman Myers from Bruce Coleman Inc.

Columbia M 32740

1974

Lilly (1973)

Conducted by the Composer

Diana Hoagland - Soprano

Columbia Chamber Soloists

Leon Kirchner - Piano

James Buswell - Violin

Nobuko Imai - Viola

Laurence Lesse - Cello

Paul Dunkel - Flute

Allan Vogel - Oboe

Richard Stalzman - Clarinet

Robert Routch - Horn

Alexander Heller - Bassoon

Lorin Hollander - Celesta

Allen Beard - Percussion

String Quartet No. 2 (1958)

Lenox String Quartet

Peter Marsh - Violin I

Delmar Petty's, Colin II

Toby Appel - Viola

Donald McCall - Cello

I–Moderato

II–Adagio

III–Allegro molto

From the back cover: The Modern American Music Series celebrates the phenomenon of contemporary music that it exists, is continuous and continuously surprising.

No oracle, happily, has ever been able to foresee what art – in the long run – will survive. On the basis of criticism at the moment of birth, most of our great music would have been quietly allowed to die. Performers and audiences have served to nurture new music past its newborn – and in some cases incubator – stages.

Today, when new music is invented more and more for a record-listening as opposed to a concert audience, it falls to the record companies to keep new works alive long enough for them to win a proper judgement. The emblem of the Modern American Music Series on this album signifies the continuing commitment to this purpose by the Masterworks Department of CBS Records. – Thomas Frost and Thomas Z. Shepard, Directors of Masterworks, CBS Records