Otto Luening: a Compact Discography
Otto Luening was born 15 June 1900, in Milwaukee. He was born into a musical family; his father Eugene directed the Milwaukee Music Society. Otto Luening studied in Europe with Ferruccio Busoni and Philipp Jarnach. He conducted opera in Chicago and later at the Eastman School of Music. He taught at the University of Arizona, Bennington College, and Columbia University. He is known for his compositions for the flute, and electronic music using flute sounds. Luening died on 2 September 1996, in New York City. The discography below supplements that found in Otto Luening: A Bio-Bibliography, by Ralph Hartsock (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991) Additional references to Luening may be found in Vladimir Ussachevsky: A Bio-Bibliography, by Ralph Hartsock and Carl Rahkonen (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000)
ASV, CD DCA 741 (1990)
Legend (10:55); Erik Larsen, oboe; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; José
Serebrier, conductor. Lyric scene (6:12); Per Øien, flute; Oslo
Philharmonic Orchestra; José Serebrier, conductor.
With: Sebastian, by Gian Carlo Menotti.
Composers Recordings CRI CD 600 (1991)
No Jerusalem But This (46:18); Kathleen Sullivan, soprano;Jacqueline
Pierce, mezzo-soprano; Philip Wilder, countertenor; Stephen Rosser,
tenor; Mark Moliterno, baritone; Paul Sperry, narrator; Goodman
Chamber Choir; Music Project Chamber Orchestra; Andrea Goodman,
conductor.
Divertimento for Brass Quintet (12:17); Meridian Arts Ensemble.
Program notes by Emily Good.
Composers Recordings CRI CD 606 (1991)
Coal-Scuttle Blues, by Ernst Bacon and Otto Luening (6:03); Rosi and Toni Grunschlag, pianos.
Album title: Rosi & Toni Grunschlag.
Program notes by Christopher Greenleaf.
With: Sonata for Two Pianos, by Paul Hindemith; Les Songes, by Darius Milhaud; Sonata for Two Pianos, by Esther Williamson Ballou; Aria and Toccata for Two Pianos, by Norman Dello Joio; Sonata for Two Pianos,
by Robert Starer, and La Fantaisie, by Bohuslav Martinu .
Composers Recordings CRI CD 611 (1991)
Fantasy in Space (2:51)
Invention in Twelve Tones (3:42)
Low Speed (3:41)
Moonflight (2:55)
Incantation for Tape Recorder, by Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky (2:32)
Album title: Pioneers of Electronic Music.
Program notes by Alice Shields.
With: Computer Piece No. 1, Piece for Tape Recorder, Sonic Contours, and Two Sketches for a Computer Piece, by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Also includes works by Bülent Arel, Mario Davidovsky, Pril Smiley, Alice Shields.
Composers Recordings CRI CD 670 (1994)
Fantasy in Space (2:51)
Album title: The Composer-Performer: Forty Years of Discovery, 1954-1994.
Program notes by Joseph R. Dalton.
Includes works by Henry Cowell, Harry Partch, Irving Fine, Robert Helps, Virgil Thomson, William Albright, George Walker, Harvey Sollberger, Curtis Curtis-Smith, Ned Rorem, Joan Tower, Guy Klucevsek, Michael Gordon, Victoria Jordanova, Tan Dun, and Alice Shields.
Composers Recordings CRI CD 712 (1996)
Three Fantasias for Solo Baroque Flute (1986) (10:43); John Solum, flute.
Album title: Autumn rhythms.
Also includes flute music by Four Abstractions, by Meyer Kupferman; Cloud Studies, by Leo Kraft; Epigrams and Canons, by Ezra Laderman; Suite for Baroque Flute and Harpsichord, by Lionel Nowak; and Fantasy,
Ditty and Fughettas, by Jack Beeson.
Composers Recordings CRI CD 716 (1996)
String Quartet No. 3 (16:07); Sinnhoffer Quartet.
Sonata for Piano : in Memoriam Ferruccio Busoni (20:54); Ursula Oppens, piano.
String Quartet No. 2 (8:40); Sinnhoffer Quartet.
Trio for Flute, Cello & Piano (10:10); Harvey Sollberger, flute, Fred Sherry, violoncello, Charles Wuorinen, piano.
Sonata III for Solo Violin (13:06); Max Pollikoff, violin.
Third Short Sonata for Flute & Piano (4:04); Sue Ann Kahn, flute, Andrew Willis, piano.
Series: CRI American masters
Program notes by Eric Salzman.
Louisville Orchestra, LS802 (1992) (analog; 12 in. disc)
Kentucky Concerto; Louisville Orchestra; Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor.
Series: Louisville Orchestra First Edition Records
Program notes by Allen J. Share and Nan Harman.
With: Invocation and Dance , by Paul Creston; Seattle Slew Dance Suite, by William Bolcom.
Louisville Orchestra, LCD006 (1991)
Kentucky Concerto (15:54); Louisville Orchestra; Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor.
Series: Louisville Orchestra First Edition Records
Program notes by Nan Harman.
With: Island Rhythms, by Joan Tower; Pro et contra, by Sofia Gubaidulina.
Music & Arts CD-934 (1996)
Trio no. 1 (13:46); Mirecourt Trio.
Originally for piano, flute or violin, and violoncello.
Album title: Trio America. Vol. III
With: Scenario; Wedding Anniversary Music; Duet for Violin and Cello; Andante for Violin and Cello, by Henry Cowell; Elegy, by Paul Chihara; Trio, op. 112, by Paul Creston.
Newport Classic: NPD 85543 (1994)
Three Songs (At Christmas time (1:37); Noon Silence (1:09); Venilia (1:27)); Margaret Astrup, soprano.
Elegy for the Lonesome Ones (3:37)
Prelude: World Without People (2:53)
Potowatomi Legends (22:58)
Sonority Forms II for Orchestra (17:15)
Symphonic Fantasia no. 11 (13:05)
Other performers: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra; Richard Auldon Clark, conductor.
Album title: Elegy for Lonesome Ones
Title on container: Orchestral works, 1917-1992.
Biographical notes by Dave Soldier, commentary on the music by the composer.
Parnassus PACD 96012 (1998)
Album title: She Walks in Beauty: Chamber Music and Songs of Otto Luening.
Danielle Woerner, soprano ; Robert Starer or Sylvia Buccelli, piano ; Patricia Spencer or Marcia Gates, flute ; Jean Kopperud, clarinet ; Susan Seligman, cello ; The Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet.
Includes Luening’s songs: She Walks in Beauty; Venilia; At Christmas Time.
Selections from nine songs to poems of Emily Dickinson: Our Share of Night to Bear ; Hope is The Thing With Feathers ; I Felt a Cleavage in My Mind ; If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking.
Suite for Soprano and Flute: Night Song; Dawn Piece; Morning Song; Evening Song.
Other songs: Love's Secret; Ah! Sun-Flower; The Little Vagabond;The Soundless Song; Moonlight; The Silent Voice; The Soundless Song; Transience .
Also includes music of Robert Starer.
Vox Box, CDX 5129 (1996)
The Divine Image (2:25); Mildred Miller, mezzo-soprano; Edwin Biltcliffe, piano.
Love's Secret (2:42); Eleanor Steber, soprano; Edwin Biltcliffe, piano. Album title: Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers
Series: The American composers series
Program notes prepared by Jack Beeson.
Includes songs by David Diamond, Vincent Persichetti, Irving Fine, William Flanagan, Ned Rorem, Charles Ives, Douglas Moore, Jack Beeson, Paul Bowles, John Edmunds, John Alden Carpenter, Ernst Bacon, Samuel Barber, William Bergsma, Charles T. Griffes, John La Montaine, Virgil Thomson, Edward A. MacDowell, Theodore Chanler, Aaron Copland, Robert Ward, John Gruen, Daniel Pinkham, Ben Weber, Henry Cowell.
This page was last edited by Ralph Hartsock, Music Cataloger,
UNT Libraries, on September 02, 2004.
