Roger Briggs - Discography

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LARGE ENSEMBLES

back to top	GATHERING TOGETHER for Full Orchestra Orchestra: The Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra Title: MMC New Century, Volume XV Label: MMC Format: CD Catalog #: MMC2099
"...An excellent rendition...the music has an intrinsic appeal to the senses...." PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE "A rhythmic complexity that is partly masked by the soothing, timeless quality of the music. Repeated patterns alter subtly, in a rich instrumental texture that flows like a stream with different currents converging and diverging. Briggs' work, Gathering Together, derives from the minimalist school and is interesting for its rhythmic complexity and timbral and textural juxtapositions." SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
back to top	TAROT for full orchestra I. Magician Instrumentation: Full Orchestra: The London Symphony Orchestra (Roger Briggs, conducting) Title: London Symphony Orchestra Label: MMC Format: CD Catalog #: MMC2111
	TAROT II. Moon
	TAROT III. Chariot
back to top	TRACER For full orchestra Artist: Jeffrey Jacob, pianist; The Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra (Jerzey Swoboda, conductor) Title: MMC New Century, Volume VI Label: MMC Format: CD Catalog #: MMC2028
"[A]n immersion in atmosphere and color permeates just about every bar of this 'crazed, maniacal tango'" (in the words of pianist Jeffrey Jacob) of Roger Briggs's Tracer."

SMALL CHAMBER WORKS

back to top	TRAILBLAZERS for solo flute Artist: Paul Taub, flutist Title: Oo-ee Label: Periplum Format: CD Catalog #: P0070
Briggs' varied changes on a few notes in Trailblazers, creates a fascinating, articulated collage for solo flute. SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

KEYBOARD WORKS

back to top	SPIRALS. . . images in crystal for solo piano Artist: Jeffrey Jacob Title: Contemporary American Eclectic Music for the Piano, Volume 1 Label: New Ariel Format: CD Catalog #: AE001
"brilliant and expansive, Briggs seams the many diverse textural segments into a fluid musical logic, culminating with an extended and beautifully melting chordal trill in the upper register." AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
back to top	TWO POEMS for solo piano Artist: Jeffrey Jacob Title: Contemporary American Eclectic Music for the Piano, Volume 2 Label: New Ariel Format: CD Catalog #: AE002
"delicate, haunting, trance-inducing....among the best offerings of the entire conference". PERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC Pianist Jeffrey Jacob brings these two beautiful and compelling lyric works to life with a lean, subtle, classic approach to line and interpretation.