DISCOGRAPHY
Artist: Ben Pila
Album: Commemoration Music of 9/11
Released: September 4, 2012
Contains: Air (for solo guitar)
This album was recorded and released a decade after the tragedy on September 11th 2001. Ian Krouse's "Air" was played at the official 9/11 memorial service that year, in between the speeches of President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.
Da Chara
Ai Hanazumi (flute) and Shinpei Hashizume (guitar)
Released: 2012
"A debut album of a new generation Duo, flower ayô (flute) and Hashizume Shinpei (guitar) pursuing music joy naturally. In the Gaelic language, the contemporary powerful duo plays music full of life-sized joy, including the title song "Da Hara" that means "two friends", guitarists and composers living in modern times, One piece of convocation full of joy of music." (C) RS
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Album: Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble – Vol. 16
Released: March, 2011
Contains: CRÓNICA DEL ÚLTIMO AÑO EN LA VIDA DE UN
MEXICANO
BOCD-7329
"When viewed from a holistic perspective, Krouse's music hearkens to a distant and a recent past from the Old World and New World, respectively, melding music of the vernacular and cultivated traditions. Furthermore, he uses gripping program to create music of immediate communication to the listener - one that also prompts long-term contemplation. Krouse's idealization of the life and death experience is the epitome of a 'totalistic' approach to composition; it bespeaks the essence of humanity."
- Richard K. Hansen, The American Wind Band: A cultural history, GIA Publications Inc., Chicago, IL
Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble”
Live concert Houzan-hall, Kyu-shu,
Kagoshima Prefecture
Tokyo, Japan
July 16, 2010
DVD, Plarm Yokohama Inc., Japan, PYD 10020, released 2010
Contains: CRÓNICA DEL ÚLTIMO AÑO EN LA VIDA DE UN
MEXICANO
"When viewed from a holistic perspective, Krouse's music hearkens to a distant and a recent past from the Old World and New World, respectively, melding music of the vernacular and cultivated traditions. Furthermore, he uses gripping program to create music of immediate communication to the listener - one that also prompts long-term contemplation. Krouse's idealization of the life and death experience is the epitome of a 'totalistic' approach to composition; it bespeaks the essence of humanity."
- Richard K. Hansen, The American Wind Band: A cultural history, GIA Publications Inc., Chicago, IL
Shirei Shalom – Songs of Peace
Live in the Synagogue of Enschede
Alberto Mesirca & Duo NIHZ
Alberto partecipates with:-Golondrinas (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco) -Studio no. 27 “Elogio di un albatro” (Angelo Gilardino) -Sefer Torah (Gianmartino Maria Durighello) -Variations on a Moldavian Hora (Ian Krouse) -Ricercare (Francesco Canova da Milano) -Erev Ba (with Duo NIHZ)
℗ & © 2009
Samsong productions Catalogue number: SAMDVD005
Album: “Jessica Rivera Sings Romantic Music”
Artist: Jessica Rivera (soprano) L. Mark Carver (piano) Eleanor Weingartner (clarinet)
Released: Mexico, October, 2008; USA, February, 2009
Label: UREXT DIGITAL CLASSICS JBCC 158 Contains: CANTAR DE LOS CANTARES (for soprano, clarinet and piano)
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“On this stunning disc,…soprano Jessica Rivera is most impressive in extended, very beautiful Spanish adaptations of "The Song of Songs" by Maryland born Ian Krouse.” ~Robert Croan PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, February 5, 2009.
"...the performers leap into the two sections of Cantar de los Cantares (a setting of a Spanish translation of the “Song of Songs”) by the American composer Ian Krouse…He wrote this 24-minute piece expressly for this recording and (the liner notes tell us) he advises “the clarinetist to think of herself as a singer in a duet with the soprano,” manifesting the chamber music ideal at the heart of his piece…great arcs of melody…and that’s always a way into my heart…I listened to this one repeatedly with rapt attention.” ~James M. Keller, CHAMBER MUSIC, Vol. 26, No. 3, May/June 2009
“…the Krouse stands out as a magnificent contribution to the repertoire; while its neo-romanticism has immediacy and appeal, it also has profundity and depth of expression that rivals and probably surpasses the more renowned pieces on the program.” ~Hanudel, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, May/June 2009
“Ian Krouse’s Cantar de los Cantares is a multi-layered work that constantly engages the ear and challenges the players. Part I features some jazzy wind, rollicking-kisses and the clarinet as dove. The closing introspective moment is memorable. Flashes of passion form much of Part II as the clarinet easily slinks about the garden, the voice finds some compelling darkness and the piano takes us gently away. If only love was always this fulfilling and uncomplicated.” ~S. James Wegg, JWR ARTICLES, July, 2009
“Only Time Will Tell,” Valarie King, flute, Anisa Angarola, guitar, Robert Russel, bass, Quentin Dennard, drums, KANGU, released May 2, 2006. Contains: DA CHARA (in a new jazz version for flute, guitar, bass and drums)
Album: "Three Friends”
Artist: Debussy Trio; Suzanna Guzman (mezzo-soprano)
Label: RUBEDO CANIS MUSICA (RCM), RCM 12003
Released: September, 2001. Contains: TRI CHAİRDE (for flute, viola and harp) TRES CANCIONES SOBRE LORCA (for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola, and harp) CINCO CANCIONES INSÓLITAS (for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola, and harp) LULLABY (for flute, viola and harp)
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"The 'Tres Canciones sobre Lorca' were originally written for a series of bilingual productions of Lorca’s plays in Los Angeles. ‘Mariposa del aire’ is a vibrant setting, inhabiting a style somewhere between Canteloube and de Falla’s “Seven Popular Spanish Songs….all are undeniably attractive and penned with assurance.
"The 'Cinco Canciones Insólitas (Five Peculiar Songs)' is an exercise in using the voice not as a spotlight soloist but rather as an equal partner with the three instrumentalists. Krouse’s gift for striking and memorable melody is displayed in the second song, ‘Giraba la rueda’ (Song of the Housemaid). Suffused with gentle regret, and with sustained piquant scoring for harp and flute, the setting distils a quite extraordinary atmosphere of ruminative sadness. Conttrast is supplied with the ensuing flamenco-flavored ‘Zorongo,’ which material stems from Lorca’s own melodies. All five songs are crafted with the finest polish and a genuine flair for vocal writing.
“Krouse’s concluding 'Lullaby' brings us nicely full circle with another Irish melody arranged with a subtle flair…”
Lawrence A. Johnson, GRAMOPHONE, Awards Issue 2001
“Thamar y Amnón” is a chamber tone poem based on a García Lorca ballad, which is in turn based on II Samuel in the Bible. It’s largely gentle and certainly listenable. It was written for the Debussy Trio, and naturally they play it beautifully.” ~Donald R. Vroon, Editor in Chief, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, July/August, 2000
“Thamar y Amnón, written for the present performers (Marcia Dickstein, harp, Angela Weigand, flute, and Keith Greene, viola), is a chamber tone poem based on one of García Lorca’s Historical Ballads and is both evocative and erotic, with Thamar’s seductive role portrayed on the viola.”
John Story, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, July/August, 2000
[In]“Thamar y Amnón,” inspired by Lorca’s retelling of the biblical story of the incestuous rape of King David’s daughter by her half-brother, scored for the same instruments as Debussy’s trio sonata, Krouse assigns the tortured Amnón to the flute, and the seductive Thamár to the viola, with the harp essentially given over to the horrified father of the pair, the famous harpist Kind David himself. The Spanish ties are more integrated into the whole for what is a fully viable concert work.”
Ivan March and Edward Greenfield, THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO COMPACT DISCS