"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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