Trasumanar
for twelve percussionists and piano (1980)
by Chester Biscardi

Live Performance
The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble
Raymond Des Roches, conductor
Symphony Space
New York City
March 15, 1983; presented and recorded by
The Group for Contemporary Music

Trasumanar (Raymond Des Roches)

Chester Biscardi and Bennett Lerner, piano

Nel giardinetto della villa: V. Bruno, il giardiniere, in bicicletta

Nel giardinetto della villa: IV. La gatta Biancaneve e la rana

Nel giardinetto della villa: III. Lo stagno e le ninfee

Nel giardinetto della villa: II. Le tre anitre e le lucertole nel labirinto

Nel giardinetto della villa: I. L'alba: Un cinguettio d'uccelli

Judith Bettina, soprano; James Goldsworthy, piano

Baby Song of the Four Winds

New Millennium Ensemble: Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Daniel Graboy, horn; John Ferrari, glockenspiel, vibraphone and timpani; Margaret Kampmeier, piano; Sunghae Anna Lim, violin; and Gregory Hesselink, violoncello

Chamber Fanfare

Mark Helias, contrabass; Marc Peloquin, piano

Companion Piece (for Morton Feldman)

Di Vivere

Cygnus Ensemble: Tara Helen O’Connor, Flute; James Austin Smith, Oboe; William Anderson, Music Director, Guitar & Tingsha; Oren Fader, Guitar; Pauline Kim Harris, Violin; Chris Gross, Violoncello; in collaboration with The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC: Kathleen Chalfant & Holly Twyford, Actors; Joy Zinoman, Founding Artistic Director

Footfalls (after Beckett)

Paul Neubauer, viola; James Goldsworthy, piano

The Viola Had Suddenly Become a Voice

The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble; Gary Van Dyke, conductor

Trasumanar

Goran Marcusson, flute; Joakim Kallhed, piano

Traverso

Curtis Macomber, violin; Blair McMillan, piano

Tartini

Piano Sonata

Curtis Macomber & Yonah Zur, violin; Daniel Panner, viola; Greg Hesselink, cello; Blair McMiller, piano

Piano Quintet

Recovering

Guru

Incitation to Desire (Tango)

Anderson/Fader Duo
William Anderson and Oren Fader, guitars

Resisting Stillness

Mestiere

William Ferguson, voice; Sequitur [Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Jo-Ann Sternberg, clarinet; Matthew Gold and Eduardo Leandro, percussion; Sara Laimon, piano; Miranda Cuckson and Andrea Schultz, violin; Daniel Panner, viola; Gregory Hesselink, cello; Jeremy McCoy, double bass]; Paul Hostetter, conductor 


World Premiere Performance - Live
September 19, 2011 
Merkin Concert Hall
New York City

Sailors & Dreamers: 6. Falling Fast; Slow Wings

Sailors & Dreamers: 5. I Dance the Tango

Sailors & Dreamers: 3. Seven O'Clock at the Cedar (Ode to Kline/de Kooning)

Judith Bettina, soprano
James Goldsworthy, piano

The Gift of Life

Robert Dick and Keith Underwood, flutes
Robert Weirich, piano

Tenzone

Trio: Jeanne Ingraham, violin 
Susan Palma, flute
Gilbert Kalish, piano

American Composers Orchestra 
Paul Lustig Dunkel, conductor

At The Still Point

from Modern Love Songs

Thomas Young, tenor
Susan Caldwell Nelson, piano

Someone New

In Time's Unfolding

Photo | Pier |  Moonlight

Tara Helen O‘Connor, flute, and Edmund Niemann, piano
NWCR686 (New York, 2007) / CRI CD 686 (New York, 1995)

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CRI CD 686

First American Performance - Live
Houston Symphony Chamber Orchestra - Stokowski Legacy Players
C. William Harwood, conductor
St. Luke Methodist Church
Houston, TX
November 15, 1980; recorded by KLEF

At the Still Point (HSCO)

MUSICA NOVA - Live
Jim Clanton and Bill Solomon, percussionists
White Hall
University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music
December 2, 2004

Music For Witch Dance

Chester Biscardi, piano
4 October 2007
Reisinger Concert Hall
Sarah Lawrence College

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