Discography

Recordings of Deborah Kavasch Compositions

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Symphonic Chronicles, Vol. 1 Navona Records NV6519 (2023)

  • Desert Storm

Deborah Kavasch's Desert Storm, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, opens this album released in 2023 by Navona Records.  Written to celebrate the American victory in the Persian Gulf War, Desert Storm begins with a trumpet fanfare, a signal calling the troops to battle.  Trombones and horns introduce the 5-bar motive in 5/4 upon which the rest of the piece is based, representing the playing out of changing events in the war followed by an underlying chorale of freedom in the concluding sections.

Click here for the session promotional narrated by the LSO conductor.

For more information and to hear the recording, visit Navona Records.

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Legends and Light, Vol. 2 Navona Records NV6399 (2022)

  • Lost Voices

In this 2022 release by Navona Records, Deborah Kavasch is one of seven composers whose works highlight cultures, locations, forces of nature, and human life. Her Lost Voices, recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, honors all victims, those who have survived natural or man-made acts of violence, and those victims who are survived. The work has a programmatic progression through several phases: acts of violence involving attack, escape (flute solo) and capture are followed by grieving and acceptance (horn solo), support and recovery, and finally comfort and hope.  For more information and to hear the recording, visit Navona Records.

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Jazz and Meditation, Vol. 16, Jeffrey Jacob, pianist, New Ariel Recording (2020)

  • Nocturne

​This recording of recent piano works includes Nocturnes by both Deborah Kavasch and her late husband, John Marvin.  New Ariel Recordings specializes in recordings of music by living composers. Most of the works on the New Ariel Albums are relatively recent works previously unrecorded. Many Albums and individual works are available through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, CD Baby, Gracenote, and UTube or by contacting Mr. Jacob directly. Visit the New Ariel Recordings website.

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Journey on a Comet's Tail Soundset Recordings SR 1092 (2017)

  •  Five Miniatures for Reed Quintet

Deborah Kavasch's Five Miniatures for Reed Quintet was commissioned by Paradise Winds and is featured on this album released in 2017 by Soundset Recordings.  The opening work by her late husband, John Marvin, Three Pieces for Reed Quintet was also commissioned by Paradise Winds. Members of the quintet include oboist Tiffany Pan, clarinetist Joshua Gardner, bass clarinetist Stefanie Gardner,  bassoonist Joey Kluesener, and saxophonist Patrick Murphy.

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Celestial Dreamscape: A Century of Music for Clarinet, Scott Locke, clarinetist, everglade records (2008)

  • Celestial Dreamscape

Featured first on this recording of 20th- and 21st-century music for the clarinet is Deborah Kavasch’s two-movement Celestial Dreamscape for unaccompanied B-flat clarinet.  The first movement, a stillness of moondrift, uses sustained tones and multiphonics to suggest the vast space and silence of a moonscape. By contrast, a sparkle of starlight, emulates through changing meters and articulations, hocket figures, and constant eighth notes the dancing, whirling, sparkling vistas of streams of stars.

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Legends and Light, Vol. 2 Navona Records NV6399 (2022)

  • Lost Voices

In this 2022 release by Navona Records, Deborah Kavasch is one of seven composers whose works highlight cultures, locations, forces of nature, and human life. Her Lost Voices, recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, honors all victims, those who have survived natural or man-made acts of violence, and those victims who are survived. The work has a programmatic progression through several phases: acts of violence involving attack, escape (flute solo) and capture are followed by grieving and acceptance (horn solo), support and recovery, and finally comfort and hope.  For more information and to hear the recording, visit Navona Records.

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The Dark Side of the Muse,  Troppe Note/Cambria Recordings CD-1429 (1999) [cambriamus.com]

  • Annabel Lee
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Double, Double
  • The Crow and the Pitcher
  • Abelard
  • Miserere
  • Aviary Suite
  • Medea
  • Solloquy
  • Metamorphosis

Deborah Kavasch's first album of vocal chamber music, featuring her own compositions and her performances with guest artists, was a 1999 Troppe Note/Cambria Release (www.tncmusic.net). Guest artists include: bass-baritone Philip Larson, soprano Helen Axelson Roddy, clarinetist Berkeley Price, violist Cynthia Fogg, and cellist Tom Flaherty.

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Fables and Fantasies, A Troppe Note/Cambria Release CD-1506 (2002) [cambriamus.com]

  • The Owl and the Pussycat
  • Bee! I'm expecting you!
  • The Tortoise and the Hare
  • Celestial Dreamscape:
  • The Ant and the Grasshopper
  • Kaleidoscope
  • The Ravens, the Sexton and the Earthworm
  • The Crow and the Pitcher
  • The Lion and the Mouse

Deborah Kavasch's second album of vocal chamber music, featuring her own compositions and her performances with guest artists, was a 2002 Troppe Note/Cambria Release (www.tncmusic.net). Guest artists include: bass-baritone Philip Larson, narrator-vocalist Edwin Harkins, vocalist Linda Vickerman, clarinetist Scott Locke, trombonist James Klein, tubist Craig Knox, saxophonist Doug Masek, violinist Cynthia Fogg, and cellist Tom Flaherty.

Deborah Kavasch also appears on:

Music of Beverly Grigsby, The Mask of Eleanor; The Vision of St. Joan; Shakti II, Cambria Master Recordings CD-1114 (2009) soprano soloist

Sun Rays II: City Views, Music of Deon Nielsen Price, Blown, Cambria Master Recordings, CD-1122  (2000) soprano soloist

Roger Reynolds-Voicespace: Voicespace I: Still; Voicespace II: A Merciful Coincidence, Lovely Music Ltd, VR1801-2 (1982) as a member of the Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble

American Masters-Edwin London, Psalm of These Days II, Composers Recordings Inc. SD 470 (1981) as a member of the Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble