Discography  

Shades of Love Four Cycles to the Poetry of Constantin Cavafy     John Muriello, baritone     David Gompper, piano Gompper:  Shades of Love: Three Songs on the Poetry of Constantin Cavafy Roberts:  In the Same Space: Nine Poems of Constantin Cavafy Stamatelos:  Love and Terror: Five Poems of Konstantinos Kavafis Thomas:  Far Off: A Song Cycle of Poems by Cavafy for baritone & piano 2011 (TROY1256) CD REVIEW: Carson Cooman, Fanfare Magazine, Sept/Oct 2011

David Gompper Violin Concerto - Ikon - Flip - Spirals     Wolfgand Dávid, violin     Peter Zazofsky, violin     Royal Philharmonic Orchestra     Emmanuel Siffert, conductor Violin Concerto (2009)   I. Vivace, fuoco   II. Andante, cadenza   III. Presto Ikon (2008) Flip (1993) Spirals (2007) 2011 (Naxos 8.559637) INTERVIEW & CD REVIEWS: Carson Cooman, Fanfare Magazine, David Gompper Interview, Sept/Oct 2011  Carson Cooman, Fanfare Magazine, Review, Sept/Oct 2011  Jerry Dubins, Fanfare Magazine, Sept/Oct 2011  David DeBoor Canfield, Fanfare Magazine, Sept/Oct 2011  Laurence Vittes, Gramophone, August 2011 Byzantion, MusicWeb International, July 2011 James Manheim, Allmusic.com, June 2011 Bob McQuiston, Classical Lost and Found, May 2011 MaestroSteve on Xanga, April 2011 Infodad.com, April 2011 Dallas News transcript, publ. July 11, 2011  Jacobsen, American Record Guide, Sept/Oct 2011

Organ Music by Moscow Composers Pedagogues of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire     Konstantin Volostnov, organ Nikolay Klessa   Prelude and Fugue Roman Ledenyov   Fantasia on a theme of Paul Dvoyrin Alexander Priumov   Four Preludes Yuri Vorontzov   Three Pieces for Organ David Gompper   Three Preludes Irina Dubkova   "Stained-Glass Windows" Dmitry Dianov   Perpetuum mobile 2009 (SMC CD 0103)

The New Canon modernity and music for violin and piano     Wolfgang Dávid, violin     David Gompper, piano Claude Debussy   Sonate pour violon et piano (1917) Béla Bartók   Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin and Piano (1928) Erich Korngold   Much Ado About Nothing (originally Op. 11, 1918 - 1919) Arnold Schoenberg   Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment (1949) Olivier Messiaen   Thème et variations (1932) Fall 2009 CD REVIEW: Robert Maxham, Fanfare Magazine, Sept/Oct 2010

Viva Concertante 2 CD set of soloistic works for chamber orchestra     Performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra,     Moscow Conservatory Studio for New Music, and     University of Iowa's Center for New Music Ensemble. David Gompper   Spirals Joseph Dangerfield   Winter Rites Ketty Nez   beyond release Ching-Chu Hu   A Tempered Wish Jeremy Dale Roberts   Lines of Life II Anton Webern/Cain   Two Songs Noel Zahler   Concerto for Clarinet & Chamber Orchestra Franco Donatoni   Lem II Spring 2009 CD REVIEW: Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine, Sept/Oct 2009

The MAPP Midwest American Piano Project     Stacey Barelos, piano David Gompper   Homage á W. A. (2001) Luke Dahn   Downward Courses (2006) David Maki   Lake Sonata (2007) John Allemeier   Quiet Music (2006) Stacey Barelos   Free and Unticketed (2007) Joseph Dangerfield   Two Geometric Etudes (2003 & 2007) January 2009 CD REVIEW: Robert Carl, Fanfare Magazine, May/June 2009

Spirals: American Music in Moscow Six chamber works written between 2003 and 2008 A joint effort between Midwestern American composers and Russian performers associated with the Moscow Conservatory Studio for New Music. Recorded in Moscow in May 2008. Ching-Chu Hu (b. 1969)   The Swash of Water and Red (2008) Luke Dahn (b.1976)   Penumbrae (2008) David K. Gompper (b. 1954)   Spirals (2007) David K. Gompper (b. 1954)   Crossed (2003; revised 2007) Joseph Dangerfield (b. 1977)   Piano Quintet (2007) Mark Kilstofte (b. 1958)   Ballistic Etude 3.1 (2008) January 2009 CD REVIEW: Peter Burwasser, Fanfare Magazine, July/Aug 2009

Was My Brother in the Battle? Songs and Song Cycles Performed by Stephen Swanson (baritone) and David Gompper (piano) Repertoire include: William Steffe's Battle Hymn of the Republic; Stephen Foster's We are coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 more and Was My Brother in the Battle?; Charles Ives' Three Songs of the War; Gene Scheer's Voices from World War II; Tom Lehrer's So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) and The Wild West is Where I Want to Be; Michael Flanders/Donald Swann's The Ostrich; Sheldon Harnick's Merry Little Minuet; David Gompper's Mrs. Bixby's Sons and his arrangements of Eric Bogle's And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda; Bob Dylan's Masters of War and Tom Paxton's Jimmy Newman. Late 2008 CD REVIEWS: Leonard Link, Dec 2008  James Manheim, allmusic  gramophone review transcript, Feb. 2009  Michael Cameron, Fanfare Magazine, Mar/Apr 2009

Into the Future The Center for New Music at 40     Performed by faculty and student ensembles     at the University of Iowa, School of Music David Gompper   Musica segreta John Berners   Piccolos and Plungers Luke Dahn   Edges Michael Eckert   Wind Quintet Lawrence Fritts   4 Mod 4 Joseph Dangerfield   The Waves Roll on, Thundering and Shimmering Mid 2007

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D. Martin Jenni Tribute The University of Iowa Center for New Music     Produced by David Gompper     Director, Center for New Music In Memoriam H.S. (Humphrey Searle) Musique Printanière Jusqu'a la Liesse Canto Tympanorum Musices Tio's Foursome Sam mbira Per Elysios Verbum supernum Figura Circulorum June 2007

Star of the County Down New Music for Violin and Piano     Wolfgang Dávid, violin (see his website)     David Gompper, piano David Gompper   Star of the County Down David Gompper   Music in the Glen Joseph Dangerfield   Dreams of Fin Ching-chu Hu   Ice Fields in August Noel Zahler   for violin and piano John Allemeier   King's Cross June 2007

Monsterology New Music from Iowa     Performed by faculty and student ensembles     at the University of Iowa, School of Music Lawrence Fritts         Monsterology         Musicometry Michael Eckert         Echo's Song         Point of No Return David Gompper         Kuta Muela         An Elm We Lost January 2007 CD REVIEW: Carson Cooman, Fanfare Magazine, Sept/Oct 2011

Butterfly Dance Music by Americans     Studio New Music     Moscow Conservatory     Igor Dronov, conductor David Gompper   Butterfly Dance Noel Zahler   Trio Marilyn Shrude   Secrets Joseph Dangerfield   The Waves Roll on... George Crumb   Vox Balaenae September 2006

The University of Iowa Center for New Music Twentieth-Century American Music     CNM Ensemble     David Gompper, director/conductor William Albright   Abiding Passions Mario Davidovsky   Flashbacks* Bernard Rands   Concertino* Noel Zahler   Agarttha* Michael Daugherty   Sinatra Shag* David K. Gompper   Don't Go There!* David K. Gompper   Finnegan's Wake *indicates works conducted by David K. Gompper March 2006

Finnegan's Wake New Music for violin and piano     Wolfgang David, violin (see his website)     David Gompper, piano David Gompper   Finnegan's Wake Ching-chu Hu   Passions Jeremy Dale Roberts   Capriccio Elliott Carter   Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi Aaron Copland   Sonata for violin and piano Morton Feldman   Spring of Chosroes Recorded at the Gnessin Academy, Moscow Peter Kondrashin, recording engineer April 19-23, 2003

Oboe on the Road     Mark Weiger, oboe     Rob Conway, piano Miguel del Aguila   Sommergesang, for oboe & piano Robert Sibbing   Ballad, Blues & Rag, for oboe & piano David Karl Gompper   Anon, for oboe & piano Walter Piston   Suite for oboe & piano Michael T. Angell   Noon Song, for oboe & piano Arnold Rosner   Sonata for oboe (or violin) & piano, Op. 54 2000

The University of Iowa Center for New Music 25th Anniversary (1966-1991)     CNM Ensemble     David Gompper, director Richard Hervig Off Center William Alden Hibbard Handwork for piano Eric Ziolek Nocturnes for trumpet and piano Robert Paredes #16 Hans-Michael Eckert Movement for Five Instruments Joan La Barbara Awakenings 1994