"Best of all was the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, the country's pre-eminent
such group of it's kind since it's inception in 1968. This muscular, energetic
band of percussionists plays with a kind of unrestrained virtuosity, worthy of
the best of today's chamber ensembles."
- Newsday - February 29, 1988
New Jersey Percussion Ensemble
Recordings
CDs
Late in the Twentieth Century
An Elektra/Nonesuch New Music Sampler
Catalog # 79171
Ionisation - Edgard Varese, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Quartet
Romantic
New World Record, 1998, 80285-2
The Abongo - John Becker
Anthony DeFalco, Louis Oddo, Ernest Buongiorno, Doreen Holmes, Kenneth Hosley,
Mark Schipper, Tony Cinardo, Edmund Fay, Bruce Tatti, Gary Van Dyke, Vincent
Varcadipane, Charles Descarfino, James Hurst, James Pugliese, Rick Sacks
Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Charles Wuorinen: The Group for
Contemporary Music
Koch International, 1997, #3-7410-2H1
Percussion Quartet - Charles
Wuorinen
Paul Carroll, John Ferrari, Thomas Kolor, Alex Bocchino - Percussion
Peter Jarvis - Conductor
New Sounds From The Village
Capstone Records, 1994, #CPS 8616
Encounters for Percussion Quartet - Ron Mazurek
Michael Frasche, Peter Jarvis, Gary Van Dyke
Charles Wuorinen: Music of
Two Decades, Volume II
Music and Arts, 1994, #CD-801
Ringing Changes - Charles
Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen - Conductor
Jersey Sessions Volume 3
Composers Guild of New Jersey, 1992, #CGNJ 0393
Ballet Mecanique - George Antheil
Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Definite Pitch
Aggregate Music, 1989, #CD001
Flazure - Gregg Bendian
Paul Carroll, Alex Bocchino, Ned Stroh
Percussion Music
Elektra/Nonesuch, 1988, #979150-2
(This recording is a CD compilation of Percussion Music #H-71291 and Percussion Symphony
#H-71353 albums)
Ionisation - Edgard Varese, Raymond
DesRoches - Conductor
Fantasy Variations - Michael Colgrass, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Antiphonies for Percussion - David Saperstein, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Ostinato Pianissimo - Henry Cowell, Kenneth
Hosley - Conductor
Percussion Symphony - Charles Wuorinen,
Charles Wuorinen - Conductor
Music of David Olan and Chester Biscardi
Composer's Recording Inc., 1986, #CRI CD 585
Prism - David Olan, Peter Jarvis - Conductor
Trasumanar - Chester
Biscardi, Gary Van Dyke - Conductor
Cassette Tape
Percussion Music
Electra/Nonesuch #9 71291-4 B
Ionisation - Edgard
Varese, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Fantasy Variations - Michael Colgrass, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Antiphonies for Percussion - David Saperstein, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Amorphosis - Kil Sung Oak, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Ostinato Pianissimo - Henry Cowell, Kenneth
Hosley - Conductor
Recorded for Future Release
Music for Pieces of Wood - Steve Reich
Joseph Bergen, Peter Jarvis, April McCloskey, Michael Sperone, Justin Wolf
Recorded at William Paterson University, May 19 2005
Five Pieces for Percussion Quartet (2004) - Ron Mazurek
with Electronic Sound
April McCloskey, Justin Wolf, Joseph Bergen, Michael Sperone
Peter Jarvis - Conductor
Recorded at William Paterson University, May 19 2005
Pitched Drums - Peter Jarvis
Timpani Solo
Recorded at William Paterson University, June 16, 2004
April McCloskey - Timpani
Cantata V
"Byzantium" (W.B. Yeats) - Peter Westergaard
for Percussion Quartet and Baritone
Recorded at Princeton University
Michael Pratt - Conductor
Synchronisms
Number 5 - Mario
Davidovsky
Recorded at the Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey
Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Chamber Setting Number
2 (Ezra Pound) - Robert Pollock
Recorded at the Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey
Peter Jarvis - Conductor
Out of print LPs
Music for Percussion
Composer's Recording Inc., 1981 #CRI SD 444
Intrusions of the Hunter - Laurie MacGregor, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
The Anthology of American
Music
New World Records, 1978 #285
The Abongo - John Becker, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Percussion Symphony
Nonesuch, 1978 #H-71353
Percussion Symphony - Charles Wuorinen, Charles Wuorinen - Conductor
Percussion Music
Electra/Nonesuch, 1974, #9 71291-4
Ionisation - Edgard Varese, Raymond
DesRoches - Conductor
Fantasy Variations - Michael Colgrass, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Antiphonies for Percussion - David Saperstein, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Amorphosis - Kil Sung Oak, Raymond DesRoches - Conductor
Ostinato Pianissimo - Henry Cowell, Kenneth
Hosley - Conductor
Group for Contemporary Music
Nonesuch, 1971 #H-71263
Ringing Changes - Charles Wuorinen - Conductor
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