Elizabeth Bell (1928-2016)
Elizabeth Bell (1928-2016)
For information about Elizabeth Bell's catalog of music, please contact the American Composers Alliance.
Wellesley College (Music), 1950; Juilliard (composition: Mennin, Giannini), 1953. Music Critic Ithaca Journal, 1971-1975. Commissions: New York State Council on the Arts, David Bradshaw/Cosmo Buono, Inoue Chamber Ensemble, North/South Consonance, Putnam Valley Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Vienna Modern Masters. Awards: Delius Prize for Keyboard, 1994; First Prize (1986) and Grand Prize (1996), Utah Composers Competition; numerous Meet-the-Composer grants. Recorded on CRS, Classic Masters, VMM, North/South, and MMC labels (the latter an all-Bell CD). performed world-wide. One of the founders, a former officer, and currently a director of New York Women Composers. Former member of the Board of Governors of American Composers Alliance. A member of BMI and numerous professional organizations.
Les Neiges d'Antan
Year: 1998
Duration (in minutes): 0'39
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, violin
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: The four movements (Sno-Dreams, Elegy, Shadow-Dance, The Furies) touch on different qualities of nostalgia, inspired by a poem by the 15th century French poet, Francois Villon. Written for North/South Consonance, it was premiered by Renee Jolles and Max Lifchitz in May of 1999 in New York City. Lyrical yet challenging. Professional difficulty.
Andromeda
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Energetic small concerto; prof diff. 3 sections: 1 & 3 have ostinato & increase in tempo to very fast at end. 2nd section Andante Cantabile. Title based on myth of Andromeda, beloved of Perseus, and of the spiral galaxy named for her. Written for Vienna Modern Masters for a CD, recorded by the Koszalin State Philharmonic Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla conducting, Ruth Spindler, piano; VMM CD#3029. Also recorded by the Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, conductor, Eleanor Elkins, piano; MMC CD#2082
River Fantasy
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 14'30"
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Publisher website: https://www.composers.com
Description: 6 songs to poems by composer. Premiered Cornell Univ 1973. "Interesting and beautiful" - Ithaca Journal. Professional level. Tape avail (composer).
Night Music
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Summer Suite
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Instruments: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Publisher website: https://www.composers.com
Description: short impressionistic pieces describing scenes from summer. "Temple of Apollo," "Housatonic,""Sangre de Cristo," "Tappan Zee." Lyrical, rhythmically fresh. Professional difficulty or challenging for advanced students. Tape avail.
Spectra
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble
Instruments: alto, alto flute, any brass, any female voice, any low voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, bassoon, celesta, cello, clarinet, Eb clarinet, English horn, flute, horn, oboe, percussion, piano, piccolo, viola
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: 5 short movements; "Explored delicate, translucent colors...fresh and well executed...ominous and dramatic storm movement." - ILWC Journal. Written for N/S Consonance; Premiered 1/22/90. Tape avail. ACA - American Composers Alliance
Millennium
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, soprano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Text by Lewis Thomas. Commissioned by (assistance of NY State Arts Council), prem, Inoue Chamber Ensemble, Weill Recital Hall NYC, 10/88. "Incisive, apocalyptic" - Kozinn, NY Times. Rec for North/South Recordings CD#1006 P. Schenk, sop, R. Goldsmith, cl, Max Lifchitz, pn. Professional difficulty. Tape avail.
Rituals for Orchestra
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Commissioned and Premiered by the Putnam Valley (NY) Symphony Orchestra, L. Bouchard, Conductor. (1st movement of Symphony #1)
Symphony No. 1
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 20'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Three movements. Recorded by the Seattle Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor.
Duovarios
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: commissioned/Premiered 1/1988 by David Bradshaw & Cosmo Buono, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center NYC. Winner of 1993 Delius Prize, Keyboard Division. 2 sets of variations for 2 pianos, different but complementary. Professional level of difficulty. Tape available.
Perne In A Gyre
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, piano, violin
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Perf/recorded N/S Consonance (Lifchitz) on Classic Masters CMCD1011; Also recorded by the Slovak Chamber Players for CMM CD#2802.1st Prize 1986 Composers Compet, Farmington UT. "Excellent control of color, texture, & sonority" - Washington Post; inspired by W.B. Yeats poem. CDs available
Loss-Songs
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 25'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: 8 songs about various facets of loss, to texts by living and recent poets: Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, Hilda Morley, and composer. Premiered at Cincinnati Composers Guild concert, 4/85. Professional level. Tape avail.
Soliloquy For Solo Cello
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: cello
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Collection of Reflections. 8 brief movements, based on a scalar tone-row, in mood of overall sadness. Written for, and premiered by by composer's son, cellist Stephen Drake. Many performances by S. Drake and others. Virtuosic. Tape avail.
Soliloquy For Solo Violin
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Transcribed from cello Soliloquy. "Collection of Reflections." 8 brief movements, based on a scalar tone-row; mood of overall sadness. Written for composer's son, cellist Stephen Drake. Violin version premiered by Juilliard, 1981. Tape available.
Concerto for Orchestra
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)
Category: youth orchestra
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Written for the Ithaca (NY) High School Orchestra, Robert Spear, conductor.
Movements: 1) Ampolloso, 2) Lacrimoso, 3) Scorrevole
Premiered: Music Educators National Conference, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, DC.
Second Sonata
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Four movements in classical forms, but in a very contemporary idiom. Written for, and premiered by, Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1973. "A solid, well-constructed, and affecting small sonata...the high point of the concert."(The Cornell Daily Sun). Frequently performed. Recorded by Camille A. Budarz on a CRS LP.
Fantasy-Sonata
Year: 1971
Duration (in minutes): 11'39
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Premiered Ann Silsbee, Einar Holm, Cornell U, 1973. "Written in a wonderfully angular contemporary idiom drawing on the full resonance of the instruments." - Brancaleone, Gannett. "Exciting rhythmic dialogue." - Cornell Daily Sun. Tape avail.
Songs Of Here And Forever
Year: 1970
Duration (in minutes): 20'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: 6 songs to poems by composer. Premiered Cornell Univ 1973. "Interesting and beautiful" - Ithaca Journal. Professional level. Tape avail (composer).
Kaleidoscope - Suite for flute and piano
Year: 1969
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument with piano
Description: Five movements:
Presto con spirito
Cantabile
Alla Marcia
Andante con Moto
Presto
Kaleidoscope - for woodwind quintet
Year: 1969
Duration (in minutes): 8'39
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: woodwind quintet
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Arecibo Sonata
Year: 1968
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: 3 movements: Allegro Con Spirito, Allegro Appassionata, Allegretto. Named for city in Puerto Rico where composer was living. Advanced student or moderate professional level. Tape avail.
First String Quartet
Year: 1957
Duration (in minutes): 25'39
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string trio
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Description: 4 movements: Sostenuto, Scherzando, Religioso, Con Fuoco.
Premiered Lydian Quartet, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, 11/86. Recorded by the Moyzes Quartet for MMC CD#2082. 1st & 2nd movements Premiered at Eastman School, Rochester, NY 3/53. Tape avail (composer).
Variations And Interludes
Year: 1952
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: "Begins quietly, then grows in intensity sustained through to the end" (Women's News). "Smooth flow of rich sounds" (Ithaca Journal). Many performances over the years, including in Canada and Bulgaria, and twice in Weill Hall (then Carnegie Recital Hall) in New York City. Recorded by Max Lifchitz on North/South CD#1014
I Am An American Woman
Andromeda by Elizabeth Bell. Performed by the Koszalin State Philharmonic Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla conducting, Ruth Spindler, piano.
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: Vienna Modern Masters
Product ID: VMM3029
Buy URL: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=70749
Clarinet Fantasy
Millennium by Elizabeth Bell
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: NS-1006
Buy URL: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=23080
American Collection
Variations and Interludes for Piano by Elizabeth Bell
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: NS-1014
Buy URL: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=22265
American Piano Music
Night Music by Elizabeth Bell, performed by Max Lifchitz, piano.
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: Vienna Modern Masters
Product ID: VMM2002
Buy URL: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=213721
American Music for Chamber Ensemble
North/South Consonance Ensemble
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: NS American Music
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1000
Snows of Yesteryear
Vocal and instrumental music by Elizabeth Bell. Compositions included are Spectra, Duovarios, Songs of Here and Forever, and Les Neiges d'Antan
Composers: Elizabeth Bell
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1029
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1029
Buy URL 2: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=779023
Collection of Reflections
Music by Elizabeth Bell featuring Loss-Songs, Fantasy-Sonata, Second Sonata for Piano, and Soliloquy for Solo Cello.
Composers: Elizabeth Bell.
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1042
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1042
Buy URL 2: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=777540
Music of Elizabeth Bell
This "all-Bell" CD features Andromeda (Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Strings), First String Quartet, Perne in a Gyre, and Symphony #1
Composers: Elizabeth Bell.
Label: Master Musicians Collective (MMC) Recordings
Product ID: MMC2082
Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers
Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers.
This CD features pianist, Max Lifchitz performing music by Marilyn J. Ziffrin, Elizabeth Bell, Rami Levin, and Rain Worthington.
Composers: Marilyn J. Ziffrin, Elizabeth Bell, Rami Levin, and Rain Worthington.
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S-1049
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1049
Buy URL 2: https://rainworthington.com/discography/moods-piano-music-by-american-women-composers/
Wellesley College (Music), 1950; Juilliard (composition: Mennin, Giannini), 1953. Music Critic Ithaca Journal, 1971-1975. Commissions: New York State Council on the Arts, David Bradshaw/Cosmo Buono, Inoue Chamber Ensemble, North/South Consonance, Putnam Valley Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Vienna Modern Masters. Awards: Delius Prize for Keyboard, 1994; First Prize (1986) and Grand Prize (1996), Utah Composers Competition; numerous Meet-the-Composer grants. Recorded on CRS, Classic Masters, VMM, North/South, and MMC labels (the latter an all-Bell CD). performed world-wide. One of the founders, a former officer, and currently a director of New York Women Composers. Former member of the Board of Governors of American Composers Alliance. A member of BMI and numerous professional organizations.
Les Neiges d'Antan
Year: 1998
Duration (in minutes): 0'39
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, piano, violin
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: The four movements (Sno-Dreams, Elegy, Shadow-Dance, The Furies) touch on different qualities of nostalgia, inspired by a poem by the 15th century French poet, Francois Villon. Written for North/South Consonance, it was premiered by Renee Jolles and Max Lifchitz in May of 1999 in New York City. Lyrical yet challenging. Professional difficulty.
Andromeda
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos, orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Energetic small concerto; prof diff. 3 sections: 1 & 3 have ostinato & increase in tempo to very fast at end. 2nd section Andante Cantabile. Title based on myth of Andromeda, beloved of Perseus, and of the spiral galaxy named for her. Written for Vienna Modern Masters for a CD, recorded by the Koszalin State Philharmonic Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla conducting, Ruth Spindler, piano; VMM CD#3029. Also recorded by the Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, conductor, Eleanor Elkins, piano; MMC CD#2082
River Fantasy
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 14'30"
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Publisher website: https://www.composers.com
Description: 6 songs to poems by composer. Premiered Cornell Univ 1973. "Interesting and beautiful" - Ithaca Journal. Professional level. Tape avail (composer).
Night Music
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Summer Suite
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Instruments: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Publisher website: https://www.composers.com
Description: short impressionistic pieces describing scenes from summer. "Temple of Apollo," "Housatonic,""Sangre de Cristo," "Tappan Zee." Lyrical, rhythmically fresh. Professional difficulty or challenging for advanced students. Tape avail.
Spectra
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble
Instruments: alto, alto flute, any brass, any female voice, any low voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, bassoon, celesta, cello, clarinet, Eb clarinet, English horn, flute, horn, oboe, percussion, piano, piccolo, viola
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: 5 short movements; "Explored delicate, translucent colors...fresh and well executed...ominous and dramatic storm movement." - ILWC Journal. Written for N/S Consonance; Premiered 1/22/90. Tape avail. ACA - American Composers Alliance
Millennium
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, any woodwind, clarinet, piano, soprano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Text by Lewis Thomas. Commissioned by (assistance of NY State Arts Council), prem, Inoue Chamber Ensemble, Weill Recital Hall NYC, 10/88. "Incisive, apocalyptic" - Kozinn, NY Times. Rec for North/South Recordings CD#1006 P. Schenk, sop, R. Goldsmith, cl, Max Lifchitz, pn. Professional difficulty. Tape avail.
Rituals for Orchestra
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Commissioned and Premiered by the Putnam Valley (NY) Symphony Orchestra, L. Bouchard, Conductor. (1st movement of Symphony #1)
Symphony No. 1
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 20'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Three movements. Recorded by the Seattle Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor.
Duovarios
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: commissioned/Premiered 1/1988 by David Bradshaw & Cosmo Buono, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center NYC. Winner of 1993 Delius Prize, Keyboard Division. 2 sets of variations for 2 pianos, different but complementary. Professional level of difficulty. Tape available.
Perne In A Gyre
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 13'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, piano, violin
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Perf/recorded N/S Consonance (Lifchitz) on Classic Masters CMCD1011; Also recorded by the Slovak Chamber Players for CMM CD#2802.1st Prize 1986 Composers Compet, Farmington UT. "Excellent control of color, texture, & sonority" - Washington Post; inspired by W.B. Yeats poem. CDs available
Loss-Songs
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 25'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: 8 songs about various facets of loss, to texts by living and recent poets: Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, Hilda Morley, and composer. Premiered at Cincinnati Composers Guild concert, 4/85. Professional level. Tape avail.
Soliloquy For Solo Cello
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: cello
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Collection of Reflections. 8 brief movements, based on a scalar tone-row, in mood of overall sadness. Written for, and premiered by by composer's son, cellist Stephen Drake. Many performances by S. Drake and others. Virtuosic. Tape avail.
Soliloquy For Solo Violin
Year: 1980
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Transcribed from cello Soliloquy. "Collection of Reflections." 8 brief movements, based on a scalar tone-row; mood of overall sadness. Written for composer's son, cellist Stephen Drake. Violin version premiered by Juilliard, 1981. Tape available.
Concerto for Orchestra
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)
Category: youth orchestra
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Written for the Ithaca (NY) High School Orchestra, Robert Spear, conductor.
Movements: 1) Ampolloso, 2) Lacrimoso, 3) Scorrevole
Premiered: Music Educators National Conference, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, DC.
Second Sonata
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Four movements in classical forms, but in a very contemporary idiom. Written for, and premiered by, Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1973. "A solid, well-constructed, and affecting small sonata...the high point of the concert."(The Cornell Daily Sun). Frequently performed. Recorded by Camille A. Budarz on a CRS LP.
Fantasy-Sonata
Year: 1971
Duration (in minutes): 11'39
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: Premiered Ann Silsbee, Einar Holm, Cornell U, 1973. "Written in a wonderfully angular contemporary idiom drawing on the full resonance of the instruments." - Brancaleone, Gannett. "Exciting rhythmic dialogue." - Cornell Daily Sun. Tape avail.
Songs Of Here And Forever
Year: 1970
Duration (in minutes): 20'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: piano, soprano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: 6 songs to poems by composer. Premiered Cornell Univ 1973. "Interesting and beautiful" - Ithaca Journal. Professional level. Tape avail (composer).
Kaleidoscope - Suite for flute and piano
Year: 1969
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument with piano
Description: Five movements:
Presto con spirito
Cantabile
Alla Marcia
Andante con Moto
Presto
Kaleidoscope - for woodwind quintet
Year: 1969
Duration (in minutes): 8'39
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: woodwind quintet
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Arecibo Sonata
Year: 1968
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: 3 movements: Allegro Con Spirito, Allegro Appassionata, Allegretto. Named for city in Puerto Rico where composer was living. Advanced student or moderate professional level. Tape avail.
First String Quartet
Year: 1957
Duration (in minutes): 25'39
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string trio
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Description: 4 movements: Sostenuto, Scherzando, Religioso, Con Fuoco.
Premiered Lydian Quartet, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, 11/86. Recorded by the Moyzes Quartet for MMC CD#2082. 1st & 2nd movements Premiered at Eastman School, Rochester, NY 3/53. Tape avail (composer).
Variations And Interludes
Year: 1952
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Publisher: American Composers Alliance
Description: "Begins quietly, then grows in intensity sustained through to the end" (Women's News). "Smooth flow of rich sounds" (Ithaca Journal). Many performances over the years, including in Canada and Bulgaria, and twice in Weill Hall (then Carnegie Recital Hall) in New York City. Recorded by Max Lifchitz on North/South CD#1014
I Am An American Woman
Andromeda by Elizabeth Bell. Performed by the Koszalin State Philharmonic Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla conducting, Ruth Spindler, piano.
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: Vienna Modern Masters
Product ID: VMM3029
Clarinet Fantasy
Millennium by Elizabeth Bell
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: NS-1006
American Collection
Variations and Interludes for Piano by Elizabeth Bell
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: NS-1014
American Piano Music
Night Music by Elizabeth Bell, performed by Max Lifchitz, piano.
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: Vienna Modern Masters
Product ID: VMM2002
American Music for Chamber Ensemble
North/South Consonance Ensemble
Composers: Elizabeth Bell, and others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: NS American Music
Snows of Yesteryear
Vocal and instrumental music by Elizabeth Bell. Compositions included are Spectra, Duovarios, Songs of Here and Forever, and Les Neiges d'Antan
Composers: Elizabeth Bell
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1029
Buy URL 2: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=779023
Collection of Reflections
Music by Elizabeth Bell featuring Loss-Songs, Fantasy-Sonata, Second Sonata for Piano, and Soliloquy for Solo Cello.
Composers: Elizabeth Bell.
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1042
Buy URL 2: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=777540
Music of Elizabeth Bell
This "all-Bell" CD features Andromeda (Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Strings), First String Quartet, Perne in a Gyre, and Symphony #1
Composers: Elizabeth Bell.
Label: Master Musicians Collective (MMC) Recordings
Product ID: MMC2082
Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers
Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers.
This CD features pianist, Max Lifchitz performing music by Marilyn J. Ziffrin, Elizabeth Bell, Rami Levin, and Rain Worthington.
Composers: Marilyn J. Ziffrin, Elizabeth Bell, Rami Levin, and Rain Worthington.
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S-1049
Buy URL 2: https://rainworthington.com/discography/moods-piano-music-by-american-women-composers/
