Discography

Ned Rorem is one of the most widely-recorded living American composers. The CDs and LPs on this page are all currently available commercially in the USA as well as online everywhere else in the world. It is important to note that this list is always under construction because of new-issues, as well as CD's going in and out of print.



(12/20/05) Nine Episodes for Four Players was nominated for a 2005 Grammy in the 'Best Classical Contemporary Composition' category (105). The recording by the Contrasts Quartet, which also includes recordings of Dances and Spring Music, is on the Phoenix USA label (PHCD 163). Click here or on the picture to the left to order a copy online.

Three Symphonies; nominated for three Grammys 2003; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Jose Serebrier conductor; Naxos

'Songs & Sonnets', Shakespeare Set to Music; Cambridge Chorale, UK TOCCATAS - Modern American Music for Harpsichord (Jory Vinikour, harpsichord; Sono Luminus DSL-92174)
Ned Rorem / Piano Album I / Six Friends ; Carolyn Enger, piano
Ned Rorem: Piano Works Vol 2 - Thomas Lanners, Centaur Records
Double concerto for Violin and Cello; After Reading Shakespeare; Jamie Laredo, violin; Sharon Robinson, cello; IRIS Orchestra, Michael Stern, conductor
Rorem: The Three Piano Sonatas; Thomas Lanners, piano; Centaur Records
Ned Rorem: Selected Songs; Carole Farley, Soprano; Ned Rorem, Piano
Rorem, Persichetti, Dodkinson: Three Concerti / Thomas Stacy
Rorem: A Childhood Miracle, Three Sisters / Magic Circle
Rorem: Day Music, Night Music / Laredo, Carlyss, Schein
Rorem: Eagles, Air Music, Piano Concerto / Louisville
Rorem: Evidence Of Things Not Seen / McDonald, Ziegler, Muller, Ollman, et al
Rorem: Miss Julie / Gilbert, Manhattan School of Music Opera
Rorem: Piano Concerto for Left Hand, etc / Graffman, Previn
Rorem: Poems of Love and the Rain, etc / Modern Madrigal
Rorem: Romeo & Juliet, Book of Hours, Mountain Song, Trio
Rorem: String Symphony, Sunday Morning, Eagles / Shaw
Rorem: Sun, String Quartet no 3 / Flanigan, Cortese, et al
Rorem: War Scenes, Songs, Dialogues / Gramm, Istomin
Rorem: Winter Pages, Bright Music
Rorem: Women's Voices / Heidi Skok, Martin Hennessy
Glass, Rorem, Bernstein Violin Concertos/ Kremer, Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
20th Century American Piano Works - Rorem, et al / Cosand
20th Century Etudes - Rorem, Perle, Persichetti / F. Renzi, Ned Rorem, et al
Always It's Spring / Erie Mills, Jeffry Peterson, Ned Rorem, Lee Hoiby, et al
An American Cellobration / Ned Rorem, Richard Slavich, Alice Rybak, William Bolcom, et al
The American Composers Series - American Orchestral Music, Ned Rorem, Howard Hanson, et al
The American Composers Series - Love's Secret & Other Songs - Ned Rorem, David Diamond, et al
American Masters - Rorem: Women's Voices, Some Trees, etc.
The American Record / Stephen Robinson - Ned Rorem, Frederic Hand, et al
Conversations / Atlanta Chamber Players - Ned Rorem, David Amram, et al
CRI 40th Anniversary - The Composer-Performer - Ned Rorem, Henry Cowell, et al
Debut - American Anthem - From Ragtime to Art Song - Ned Rorem, et al
Engineer's Choice - Rorem, Shostakovich, et al
Fast Cats and Mysterious Cows - Songs from America - American Boychoir, Rorem, et al
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Julius Katchen, Ned Rorem, Mily Balakirev, et al
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Leon Fleisher / Rorem, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, et al
King of Instruments - Ned Rorem, Johann Sebastian Bach, et al
The Listeners / William Parker - Ned Rorem, et al
Masques / The Huntington Trio - Ned Rorem, David Loeb, et al
Meyer: Quintet; Rorem: Quartet no 4 /Emerson String Quartet
A Nantucket Organ Tour / Peter Sykes - Ned Rorem, John Stanley, et al
Nativitas - American Carols / The Kansas City Chorale - Ned Rorem, Conrad Susa, et al
New American Classics Written for Brass Ring - Ned Rorem, David Del Tredici, et al
Organ Works of Ned Rorem / Catharine Crozier
Organ Works of Rorem and Pinkham / Delbert Disselhorst
Piston: Divertimento; Rorem, Griffes, et al / Radcliffe, New York
Sing My Soul - Rorem: Choral Music / Coffey, Concora
Sing We Hallelujah / The Choirs of St. John's Cathedral - Rorem, et al
Songs of America / Jan Degaetani, Gilbert Kalish - Rorem, Stephen Foster, et al
Sure on This Shining Night / Robert White, Samuel Sanders - Rorem, Theodore Chanler, et al
To The Soul - Poetry of Walt Whitman / Thomas Hampson - Rorem, et al
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival - March 1995 - Rorem, Johannes Brahms, et al
Yolanda Kondonassis - Sky Music - Rorem, Salzedo, et al
The American Composers Series - I Hear America Singing - Rorem, William Schuman, et al
An American Sampler / Paul Sperry - Rorem, Louise Talma, et al
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, etc; Rorem, et al / Rorem, Calabrese, Britten, et al
Gay American Composers - Ned Rorem, Robert Helps, et al
The Making of a Medium Vol 2 / Verdehr Trio - Ned Rorem, et al
Rorem: 6 Variations, etc; Corigliano / Goldina, Loumbrozo, Rorem, et al
With a Poet's Eye - New American Choral Music / Chanticleer - Rorem, Cary John Franklin, et al