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Compact Disc Releases
The following sites have information, some with soundclips, of Hovhaness CDs and mail-order facilities
Crystal Records is the best source for Hovhaness recordings.
These can be regarded as 'definitive' performances in that most releases are either conducted or supervised by the composer.
Many of these recordings were originally released by Hovhaness for his own label, Poseidon, and the British label Unicorn.
They were subsequently licensed to Crystal. Dating from the early 1970s, when Hovhaness sought to make more of his work available in recorded form,
the orchestral recordings were made with British orchestras as these were (and still are) cheaper to hire than American orchestras.
Delos championed Hovhaness's
music in the 1990s with about half a dozen CD releases. The orchestral CDs feature conductor Gerard Schwarz, an advocate of Hovhaness since the 1960s.
Telarc has released 2 good all-Hovhaness CDs, one with Harp music and the other orchestral works, with a fine recording of Concerto No.7 for Orchestra, one of his best works. A third CD includes Mysterious Mountain along with evocative works by other composers.
MusicWeb
(an excellent Web site about classical music) contains the most comprehensive available listing of Hovhaness's
huge catalogue of published works (compiled by Richard Howard), with both classified and opus number listings. Not entirely definitive, as more
unpublished scores have surfaced since his death.
Hovhaness-related Web Pages
Alan Hovhaness Society
is an online Hovhaness discussion forum at Yahoo. If you're a fan or have questions, join this group!
obituary in UK online newspaper by Bret Johnson (28/06/2000)
Non-Hovhaness Selected Modern Music Links
Otherminds Home Page
Otherminds is a global New Music community where composers/students/listeners discover & learn about innovative music by composers from all over the world.
Walter-Simmons.com
Musicologist and critic Walter Simmons' site contains a growing database of full-text CD reviews, program notes, and other writings.
Learn about great neglected 20th- and 21st-century composers (including Hovhaness!). Hear selections of their work. Simmons'
new book
(on American neo-Romantics Barber, Bloch, Hanson, Giannini, Creston, Flagello) is now available from this site.
Classical Discoveries
is Marvin Rosen's "unique radio program of little-known repertoire with an emphasis on the old (Baroque and before) and the new" including Alan Hovhaness,
whom Marvin knew personally.
Christina Fong
is a young American violinist whose enterprising CD releases and concert performances tirelessly champion the cause of many modern composers, including American pioneers
such as Hovhaness, Lou Harrison and John Cage.