Recordings
A startling collection of vocal works…one of those nice surprises that comes along every now and then…and serves to demonstrate that there are still pockets of serious-music health surviving out there. -American Record Guide
Five Rants
for satb choir and solo violin
A Critical Success - Face-to-Face - Life in All - You Can’t Tell Me - You Drive Me Crazy
San Francisco Choral Artists - Megan Solomon, director- Brooke Aird, violin
The Snake and Other Creatures
The Snake - The Frog - The Bee - The Spider - The Rat
Susan Narucki, soprano - Christopher Oldfather, piano
Earth
Lenora Warkentin, flute - Richard Mathias, clarinet - Brooke Aird, violin
Catherine Allen, cello - Eric Howe, bass-baritone - Herbert Bielawa, piano
Dreams
for ssaa chorus, viola, and piano
Dreams Reflect - Translucent Lavender - The Unicorn - The Sky - Counting
San Francisco Girls Chorus - Sharon J. Paul, director
Geraldine Walter, viola - Dwight Nakamura, piano
The music is fine, the organist is fine, the organ is fine, and the technical aspect is fine.
What further could one ask? -American Record Guide
Pipe Organ Adventures
Walls of Sound - Pulsar - Mobile - Swing
Monophonies
Flourish - Canto - Branle - Tenore - Battaglia
Organ Booklet
Ouverture - For Mood - For Touch - For Pedalling - For Arpeggios - For Endurance
Preludes on Lobe den Herren
Canon - Meditation - Scherzo - Toccata
Recorded on the Aeolian-Skinner organ at Alice Millar Chapel Northwestern University
Bielawa's Undertones is the only absolute music on the disc. The title is a vague indication of the composer's compositional technique… but the work is so aggressive and dramatic that one does not worry over how he got there. -American Record Guide
Flights of Fancy: Ballet for Organ - William Albright
Curtain Raiser - Valse triste - Tango fantastico - Pas de deux
Ragtime Lullaby - Shimmy - Hymn - Alla marcia
Chasm - William Albright
Undertones - Herbert Bielawa
Nightsong and Ostinato Dances - Pamela Decker
Recorded on the Flentrop organ at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, Washington
The disc is worth having just for the Quodlibet SF 42569 of Herbert Bielawa.
This is an impressive piece, one which married the electronic sounds
to those of the organ in a remarkable way.
-The Tracker
Suite de 2me Ton - Louis-Nicolas Clerambault
Plein Jeu - Duo - Trio - Basse de Cromorne - Flûtes - Récit de Nazard
Caprice sur les Grands Jeux
Quodlibet SF 42569 - Herbert Bielawa
5me Symphonie - Louis Vierne
Grave - Allegro molto marcato - Tempo di scherzo - Larghetto - Final
Recorded on the Rosales organ at Trinity Cathedral, Portland, Oregon
Stone Settings – Herb Bielawa
Swan Song – Love As a Second Language – Coda for a Lover
The Marraige House – Nightland
Marian Marsh, soprano, Herb Bielawa, piano
Googleegoo – Hayg Boyadjian
The New England Reed Trio
Of Times and Places – Charles Bestor
Paulina Stark, soprano, Estela Olevsky, piano
Variations for Piano – Charles Bestor
John Richey & Micahel Zuraw, piano
Echo - Ling Chao Chen
Paul Tsai, baritone
Louisiana State Univeristy New Music Ensemble