AdlerOaks Music Library

Recordings by James Adler

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2
	Sergei Rachmaninoff; transcribed for Concert Band by Scott Oaks Performed by James Adler and The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band, Brian P. Worsdale, Artistic Director Pianists have called Concerto Number 2 most daunting for the soloist and Adler offered a bravura account of it. -- Bruce-Michael Gelbert, [Q]onStage.com
Reverie, Interrupted for Tenor Saxophone and Piano
	Performed by Jordan P. Smith and James Adler, Manhattan School of Music, February 25, 2010 Free MP3 download: Standard Quality High Quality
Allegro Scherzando: A Celebration
	Composed by James Adler For Piano and Concert Band Composed for the 30th anniversary celebration of The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band.
James Adler Plays Syncopated Rhythms
	Music by Adler, Antheil, Copland, Gershwin, Gottschalk, Joplin, Menotti, and Ornstein. Released April 2008, Albany Records We enjoyed it a great deal; you're clearly a fine pianist and your treatment of Dad's pieces is lovely and sensitive. -- Severo Ornstein, May 2008 This CD is a find for those who are fascinated by obscure byways of American piano music; much heard here is not, as far as I know, available elsewhere -- Scott Morrison, amazon.com See Mr. Adler perform music from the CD at YouTube: James Adler's Two Dances in One; Aaron Copland's Hoedown from Rodeo; Leo Ornstein's Nine Miniatures for Piano.
Light and Sirius
	Solo Piano Pieces performed by Nicholas Underhill Music by Adler, Philo, Underhill, and Viens Released Summer 2007, Capstone Records James Adler's [3] Piano Transitions spins appealing variations on the venerable forms of passacaglia, prelude and toccata before immersing itself in spicy and ebullient Caribbean-influenced dances. -- Gramophone, January 2008
Memento mori: An AIDS Requiem
	Composed by James Adler Performed by the AmorArtis Chorale & Orchestra, Victoria Livengood, mezzo, Jane Dutton, soprano, Maire O'Brien, soprano, Steve Huffines, baritone, Neil Farrell, tenor, Johannes Somary, conductor Released Fall 2001, Albany Records Adler writes for both chorus and orchestra with uncommon imagination. -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Affecting, even harrowing, this is one of the most successful large-scale musical works to consider those who have died of AIDS. -- Musicmatch

ISO Memorial Day Concert

James Adler addressing the crowd at the annual Memorial Day Concert of The ISO Concert Band in Brooklyn, NY. Mr. Adler joined the band for Gottschalk's Célèbre Tarentelle and the Gottschalk Pasquinade.