Recordings
- Reflections: Four Contemporary American Composers Look Back (1999)
Paul Moravec: Songs of Love and War (first recording), David Arnold, baritone
Robert Convery: To the One of Fictive Music (first recording)
Ned Rorem: From an Unknown Past
John Corigliano: Fern Hill, Mary Ann Hart, mezzo-soprano
(first recording of revised orchestration)
Kent Tritle, conductor
Read Joshua Rosenblum's review from the February 2001 issue of Opera News Online.
from OmniTone, Inc. - Turnabout TVS 34437 (1971)
Josquin: Missa de beata Virgine;Psalm 92 [i.e. 93]; Dominus regnavit; Motet: Ave Christe, Immolate; Motet: Tulerunt Dominum meum - Counterpoint/Esoteric CPTS-5602(1964)
Music of Palestrina
Exultate Deo; Hymn: Ave Maris stella (1st, 2nd verses); Exaltabo te; Surge, illuminare Jerusalem; Sicut cervus desiderat; Hymn: Salvete flores martyrum; Magnificat in the fourth mode; Hymn: Veni sponsa Christe; Second lamentation (Holy Friday)
Also issued as Counterpoint/Esoteric Records CPT 602(1964) - Vox DL 600 (1960, 1961)
Josquin: Missa de beata Virgine
In series: Music of five centuries
Also issued as Vox STDL 500,600 (1962) - Vox DL 580 (1960)
Josquin: Choral works
Dominus regnavit; Psalm 92 (4 voices); Ave Christe,immolate, hymn (4 voices); Tulerunt Dominum meum, motet (8 voices); O Jesu, fili David (4 voices, with instruments); La plus de plus, rondeau (3 voices, with instruments); De tous biens plaine (4 voices, with instruments); Parfons regretz, chanson (5 voices, with instruments); Bergerotte savoysienne, ballade (4 voices, with instruments)
Also issued as Vox STDL 500,580 (1963)
Dominus regnavit also issued on Recordings for the History of Western Music, Sony Special Products, W.W. Norton (1988) - Fantasy 5011 (1960)
Spanish Church Music of the 16th Century
Victoria: Gaudent in coelis, motet, 4 voices; O magnum mysterium, motet, 4 voices (Christmas Day); Missa pro defunctis, requiem, 6 voices; Magnificat in the 6th mode, 12 voices
Also issued as Fantasy 8035 (1960) - Fantasy 5006 (1959)
Sacred and Secular Works of Roland de Lassus
Ave regina coelorum; Christe, Dei soboles; Timoret tremor; Pulvis et umbra sumus; De profundis; Christ ist erstanden; Bon jour mon coeur; La nuict froide et sombre; Gallans, qui par terre; O doux parler; Wohl kommt der Mai; Ich waiss mir ein meidlein; Ardo, so; Passan vostri triomphi; Occhi, piangete; O la, O che bon eccho
Also issued as Fantasy 8015 - Vox PL 11.642 (1959)
Handel: Israel in Egypt
Miriam Burton, soprano; Betty Allen, contralto; Leslie Chabay, tenor
Dessoff Choirs; Symphony of the Air, Paul Boepple, conductor
Also issued as Vox STPL 511.642; Vox VUX 2019, 1963;Vox SVUX 52019, 1963; Turnabout TV-S 34557/58, 1974 - Bach Guild BG 582 (1959)
Music of Dufay
Leslie Chabay, tenor
Dessoff Choirs, in part with instrumental ensemble; Paul Boepple, conductor
Hostis herodes; Vostre bruit (tenor solo); Salve Regina; Vergine bella (tenor solo); Gloria ad modem tubae; Bon jour bon mois (tenor solo); Aurea luce; Pange lingua; Je languis en piteux martyre (tenor solo); Iste confessor; Sanctus papale
Also issued as Bach Guild BGS 5007, 1959 on "Vanguard recordings for the connoisseur" - Concert Hall CHS 1112 (1951)
Perotin
Viderunt omnes (organum quadruplum); Salvatoris hodie; Vetus abit littera - Concert Hall Society Rarities Collection 408 (1950)
Palestrina
Mass: Assumpta est maria; Magnificat; Stabat mater - Concert Hall CHS 1107 (1950)
Machaut: Notre Dame Mass for the coronation of Charles V
New York Brass Ensemble, assisting artists - Concert Hall CHC 44 (1950)
Baroque Choral Music
Bach: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf
Schein: Die mit Tranen saen
Palestrina: Asssumpta est Maria
Handl: Mirabile mysterium
Purcell: Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry - Concert Hall CHC 47 (1949)
Lasso: Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah
Josquin: De profundis clamavi ad Te; Ave Maria
Recorded at a performance in the Great Armor Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and at Carnegie Hall, New York City - Archival tape recordings exist of many Dessoff performances. Master tapes of many of these, and of all performances from 1983 to the present, have been donated to the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.