Sandra Clark of RiverViewRecords.com writes to announce a new recording featuring the horn music of Alec Wilder.
Alec Wilder is often a favorite of horn players. 'Suite' - Music by Alec Wilder - offers six works for solo wind and strings - suites for Horn and Strings, Tenor Sax and Strings, Flute and Strings, and Clarinet and Strings (all in world premier recordings), as well as recordings of an additional suite for Tenor sax and strings and the beautiful suite for horn and piano. Please visit www.riverviewrecords.com to hear samples of these works, read liner notes, soloist bios, and of course - to buy should you desire. Paypal is used, so the site is secure.
The recording features Ms. Clark of the Toledo Symphony on Horn.
How is it that these pieces have never been recorded before? Were they unpublished? Lost? Obscure? I thought between Barrows and his students that Wilder's works were pretty well represented in the discography?
Thanks Sandra.
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UPDATE:
Sandra writes:
G. Schirmer owns distribution rights to all Wilder works.
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While Barrows may very well have recorded the Suite for Horn and Strings, it's not currently available in any format, legal or otherwise. The other 3 'world premiers' were all performed, but according to my sources (Wilder's biography, Judy Bell - longtime Wilder associate, Thomas Hampson - Wilder's attorney, CFG Publishing - Clark Galehouse's daughter - Clark recorded most of the Wilder stuff on his record label) most all of Wilder's output has never been recorded.
