Ned Rorem(1923-): a Catalogue of the Orchestral and Choral Music

[Dundonnell]

Ned Rorem will be 89 years old in October. I suppose only Elliott Carter (104 in December ) and Robert Ward(95 in September) outrank him in age seniority among living American composers. Rorem's music is more accessible to my ears at least than is Carter's.

NED ROREM: A CATALOGUE OF THE ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL MUSIC

1947:     "A Sermon on Miracles" for solo voice, chorus and strings: 6 minutes        + (Black Box cd)
1948:     Piano Concerto No.1  (withdrawn)
1948-50: Symphony No.1: 22 minutes   +  (Naxos cd)
1950:     "From an Unknown Past" for voice and orchestra: 9 minutes
1951:     Piano Concerto No.2: 34 minutes   +  (Naxos cd)
1953:     "Design" for orchestra: 18 minutes
1953/56: "Poems Pour La Paix" for medium voice and strings: 13 minutes
1954-55:"The Poet's Requiem" for soprano, chorus and orchestra: 22 minutes
1956:     Symphony No.2: 18 minutes   + (Naxos cd)
1957:     Sinfonia for orchestral winds   + (Albany cd)
1958:     Symphony No.3: 24 minutes   +  (Vox and Naxos cds)
              "Pilgrims" for string orchestra: 7 minutes   + (Naxos cd)
              "Eagles" for orchestra: 9 minutes   + (New World cd)
1959-60:Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: 26 minutes   +  (First Edition cd)
1961:     "Ideas" for small orchestra: 13 minutes
1963:     "Lions(A Dream)" for orchestra: 14 minutes  + (BIS cd)
1964:     "Laudemus Tempus Actum" for chorus and orchestra: 3 minutes
1966:     "Water Music" for Clarinet, Violin and Orchestra: 17 minutes
               "Letters from Paris" for chorus and small orchestra: 25 minutes
               "Sun"-eight poems for voice and orchestra: 26 minutes            + (Newport Classic cd)
1969:     Piano Concerto in Six Movements: 24 minutes              +  (First Edition cd)
1973:     "Little Prayers" for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra: 31 minutes
1974:     "Air Music: Ten Variations for Orchestra": 30 minutes
1975:     "Assembly and Fall" for orchestra: 25 minutes
1977:     "Sunday Morning"-Poem in eight parts for orchestra: 21 minutes              +  (New World cd)
1979:     "Remembering Tommy"-Suite in ten movements for cello, piano and orchestra: 22 minutes
1982:     "After Long Silence"-Ten Poems for voice, oboe and strings: 24 minutes
1983:     Whitman Cantata for men's chorus, twelve brass and timpani: 21 minutes
1984:     Violin Concerto: 24 minutes   +  (DGG and Naxos cds)
               An American Oratorio for tenor, chorus and orchestra: 44 minutes
1985:     String Symphony: 23 minutes   +  (New World cd)
               Organ Concerto: 25 minutes
1986:    "Frolic"-Fanfare for Orchestra: 2 minutes
1987:    "The Schuyler Songs"-eight poems for voice and orchestra: 25 minutes
1988:     Oratorio "Goodbye My Fancy" for contralto, baritone, chorus and orchestra: 48 minutes
               Fantasy and Polka for orchestra
               "A Quaker Reader-Eight Movements for small orchestra": 20 minutes
1990:     "Swords and Ploughshares" for four solo voices and orchestra: 30 minutes
1991:     Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Orchestra: 34 minutes          +  (New World cd)
1991-93: Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra: 22 minutes  +  (New World cd)
1992:     Triptych-Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra: 10 minutes
1995:     "More Than A Day" for soprano or counter-tenor and chamber orchestra: 25 minutes
1996:     "Waiting" for orchestra: 2 minutes
1997-98:Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra: 32 minutes   +  (Naxos cd)
2002:     Cello Concerto: 25 minutes    +  (Naxos cd)
               Flute Concerto: 31 minutes    +  (Naxos cd)
2003:     Mallet Concerto for three mallet instruments and orchestra: 24 minutes
2007:    "11 Songs for Susan" for mezzo-soprano and orchestra: 20 minutes
2008:    "Songs Old and New" for soprano and chamber orchestra: 20 minutes