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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)



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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



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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



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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

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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



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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
Reviews:      Leonard Link     allmusic     gramophone pdf



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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





David Gompper
rehearsing the CNM Ensemble
at Clapp Recital Hall



David Gompper at recording studio with Kondrashin