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Music by Christopher Kies with Poems and Stories

Studio recording

Tracks

  1. Le tombeau de Saint-Saens for brass quintet and narrator (18:15)
  2. Little Red Riding Hood for oboe, bassoon, piano, and narrator (12:16)
  3. Amos and Boris for flute, bass-trombone, piano and narrator (30:03)
  4. Three piano rags (15:23)

Old Business, New Business and Notes from the Chair

Studio recording

Tracks

  • 1) Taylor Fanfare for Piano Four-Hands 2013 (4:33)
  • 2-6) Old Business for Piano, Contrabass, Drum Set and Narrator (in five movements) 2012 (10:49) Poetry by Charles Simic
  • 7-9) Sonata for Bassoon and Piano 2003/2007 (13:07) I. Tristamente II. Arietta III. Finale
  • 10) Nobody Knows for Oboe and Piano 2013 (6:39)
  • 11) Academic Festival Rag for Piano and Wind Ensemble 2012 (10:52)
  • 12-14) In-Two-itive Dances for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano 2002 (11:42) I. Introduction and Can-Can II. Octatangos III. Ragtime Reflections
  • 15-20) Six Pieces from Children’s Games, Op. 22 by Georges Bizet, arranged for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano 2016 (11:43)

Total duration: 69:25

Copyright 2019 Christopher Kies.

Eccentricities

Music by Percy Grainger, William Kempster, and Christopher Kies

Studio recording

Tracks

  • 1) Shallow Brown by Percy Aldridge Grainger
  • 2) The Lonely Desert-Man Sees the Tents of the Happy Tribes by Percy Aldridge Grainger
  • 3) Fantasia on a Finzi ‘Amen’ by William Kempster
  • 4-17) The Poets’ Guide to New Hampshire by Christopher Kies