Recordings

MSR Classics (MS1709)

​Critics have all given the disk
​5-star reviews

A to Z - Amernet String Quartet Plays Judith Lang Zaimont, including World Premiere recordings of her String Quartet, "The Figure", A Strange Magic - String Quartet No. 2, Verse for solo violin, Sestina for solo cello (from Tanya Poems) and Sonata Rhapsody for Violin and Piano (with pianist John Wilson). All of these works are published by Subito Music.

The music of Judith Lang Zaimont is dramatic and color-forward, expressing a wide range of distilled emotion with immediate impact.

Masterful chamber music masterfully performed - David DeBoor Canfield ​

 A superb disc, excellently recorded; yet another acknowledgement of  Zaimont's status - Colin Clarke 

 A fine collection highlighted by two riveting string quartets -  Huntley Dent 

Released 2018

The premiere recording of Judith Lang Zaimont’s Attars, in which she proves that “bracing” and “impressionistic” aren’t necessarily a contradiction in terms. - CD  Hotlist

We come to the present day with Judith Lang Zaimont’s suite Attars, written just last year and translating five flower scents into miniatures of great sensuality … as if Zaimont had absorbed and updated Impressionism in ‘Pink Lotus’ and sinew in ‘Jasmine’. - GRAMOPHONE

ATTARS recorded on the Steinway label by Drew Petersen. Drew is the winner of the 2017 APA competition and a brilliant pianist who gave a commanding performance of the work, which was commissioned from Zaimont to be the required competition piece.

For last year’s American Pianists Awards, she wrote a piece—a suite, really—called Attars. “Attar”: “a perfume or essential oil obtained from flowers or petals.” In her suite, Zaimont has five attars, or five movements, in any case: “Roses,” “Musk,” “Pink Lotus,” “Jasmine,” and “Frangipani” (what a wonderful name).

“Roses” is pleasantly sweeping, or nicely rippling. Perhaps the fragrance is moving through the air. The next movement, “Musk,” is bluesy. How about “Frangipani”? A bold and delightful waltz, possibly tipsy.

I will say about Attars: they ought to be programmed.
  - Jay Nordlinger, THE NEW CRITERION 

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Zaimont's fourth symphony, Pure, Cool (Water),
has just been awarded a top prize in 2016-2017
The American Prize in Orchestral Composition

Release date  December 2015
The Sorel Organizations

A symphony that is evocative, full of  variety, power, subtlety and forward movement …[ and] a terrific Trio brilliantly played. This is an impressive and worthwhile release. 
-  THE CLASSICAL REVIEWER

Judith Lang Zaimont is one of the leading compositional voices that America has produced in our own era, and her skillfully constructed music has real substance. Her Fourth Symphony resonated with me in a particularly deep way, but everything she writes is gold."  - David DeBoor Canfield's 2016 Want List; FANFARE magazine

Zaimont's musical language is contemporary yet tonal, and while it doesn't grovel in front of listeners in a desire to be liked, it gives the reasonably attentive listener plenty of toeholds. It is recognizably American… [and]  the music creates a sense of organic growth.  

            Zaimont's Symphony No. 4 works well as absolute music, and I think that tends to be a more difficult challenge. In fact, I wouldn't have known that this music was inspired by water if I hadn't read it. However, one can't miss a feeling of emotional lift as the symphony comes to a close. So, if one chooses to hear this as a message symphony, the message is one of positivity.   - Raymond Tuttle,  FANFARE

Two masterworks. 
Throughout, the Symphony splendidly demonstrates her compositional craft, and her gift for melody and exquisite harmony.  -  David DeBoor Canfield,  Feature Review -  FANFARE                   

Zaimont knows what she’s doing here.  Indeed, Zaimont works with an orchestral canvas in a painterly way, responding to the specific colors of each orchestral section to suit her particular sense of her subject matter, thus, the five movement  [symphony] is divided into musical depictions of a river, ice, a rain shower, a tarn and the ocean.   A winsome piece….  Full-bodied,…. impressively robust and expressive music.  -  Peter Burwasser, FANFARE

Art Fire Soul: Piano Works of Judith Lang Zaimont (2-disc box set)

        Elizabeth Moak, piano (solo début recording)

 Release date:  March 2012
MSR Classics 1366

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Zaimont has a rare capacity for crafting wide-ranging, stylistically accessible and heartfelt piano music that's both challenging and audience-friendly. …  [An] encyclopedic recital (with a number of its items world premiere recordings),… [a] stature of compelling merit. A release that seems bound to attract listeners and musicians alike. - Howard Smith,  MUSIC & VISION DAILY

Zaimont has a knack for creating well-crafter, wide-ranging, stylistically accessible and passionate keyboard music that can be challenging and audience-friendly at the same time...  -   Jed Distler, GRAMOPHONE

What distinguishes Zaimont’s catalog from that of many composers is the sustained excellence of her pieces.
 - Carson Cooman, FANFARE Want List 2012

Judith Lang Zaimont [has] done very well for herself without any special advocacy except her talent, which has ensured that her music is widely played and listened to today… All of Zaimont’s piano music…is beautifully, idiomatically written for the instrument.
- Lee Passarella,  AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

Beautifully textured piano writing mixes with whimsical and unusual ideas. The really serious pieces respond to repeated listening. With the large number of shorter pieces on the disc, this is a recital to dip into.   - Robert Hugill, MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL

Audio Clips:
Io
Callisto
Central Park
Garment Factory

 Disc 1:
Sonata
Calendar Collection  (excerpts)
Jupiter's Moons
Wizards - Three Magic Masters
Nocturne: La Fin de Siècle

 Disc 2:
A Calendar Set - 12 Virtuosic Preludes
Cortège for Jack -  premiere recording
"Jazz Waltz" (from Suite Impressions)
American City: Portrait of New York - premiere recording
Hesitation Rag
Reflective Rag
Judy's Rag
Serenade

Release date:  March 2012
Naxos 8.559665 

Sonata
Nocturne 'La Fin de Siècle'
A Calendar Set - 12 Virtuosic Preludes

JUDITH LANG ZAIMONT Piano Music

        Christopher Atzinger, piano

American composer Judith Lang Zaimont writes for the piano with a keen sense of the instrument's physical qualities (you can tell just by listening that she's a pianist herself) and a wonderful tonal range, from the sweetly lyrical to the aggressively dissonant. The two large pieces on this disc provide a glimpse of both her monumental vein and her more intimate voice - and both are compelling. - SFGate.com, Joshua Kosman,  SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Three attractive works, highly idiomatic to the piano.  - BARNES & NOBLE

The sonata…is quite the ferocious, fascinating beast. What an excellent set.
- AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Release date: April 2011
Navona Records (PARMA)

 ETERNAL EVOLUTION Music of Judith Lang Zaimont

The Harlem Quartet, string quartet
Awadagin Pratt, piano
( Enhanced CD includes scores and score excerpts)

String Quartet 'The Figure' premiere recording
ZONES - Piano Trio No. 2
ASTRAL ...a mirror life on the astral plain... viola solo, 
          premiere recording
Serenade violin, cello, piano, premiere recording

 Audio Clips:
Serenade
ZONES (mvt.3 "Temperate")

“The String Quartet, “The Figure,” is a strong, powerful post-Bartók sort of work, and the Trio No. 2, called Zones, appeals to me even more. In fact, the latter may be my favorite of Zaimont’s compositions.

These are solidly constructed works—ruggedly expressive, if consistently austere, rewarding close, concentrated attention. They compel the attention of the listener, while making clear musical—if non-verbal—sense through contrapuntal rhythmic energy.

The performances of both these major chamber works convey stunning conviction, captured beautifully on the recording.” - Simmons, - FANFARE

“Immediately immerses the auditor in Zaimont’s own soundscape…. The musical language of the works on these two CDs is unmistakably Zaimont’s” – Canfield,  - FANFARE 

“In these chamber works the composer seeks above all that very intimate form of ensemble music-making that results from a tightly-knit ensemble of equals, each with a distinct identity and separate part to play. Thus the String Quartet, deriving its imagery from the idea of visual figuration illuminated in different ways, is a collaboration between partners, at times passionate, mysterious or easy-going and emotionally open.” - RECORDS INTERNATIONAL

Release date:  April 2010
NAXOS:  American Classics B0037TTQ92

 Zaimont :: Chroma - Northern Lights; Ghosts; Elegy; Stillness

Music for Orchestra
CHROMA -- Northern Lights  chamber orchestra
GHOSTS  symphonic strings
ELEGY  symphonic strings
STILLNESS - Poem for Orchestra

Slovak National Symphony Orchestra - Kirk Trevor, conductor

 Album Revirews:
"Shot through with colorful orchestral writing, melodic inventiveness, and Zaimont-ian textural shifting”  - Canfield, FANFARE

“These works are boldly painted in vivid orchestral colors, with a sense of direct emotional appeal.”   - RECORDS INTERNATIONAL

“* * * * A superb release of contemporary music.”  - CINEMUSICAL

CHROMA -- Northern Lights: “Dynamism and shifting images that transfix the listener” - Canfield, FANFARE

“A fascinating study in orchestral textures and rhythm”  - CINEMUSICAL

GHOSTS: “Creates a kaleidoscope of sound. It’s quite a thrilling piece”
- Bob Briggs, MusicWeb International

ELEGY: “An impassioned work composed in long arch-like segments that spin out continuously… the effect is mesmerizing.”
- Simmons, FANFARE

STILLNESS: “Fascinating and brilliantly-colored … consistently engrossing.” - Simmons, -  FANFARE

Zaimont Suite

Four movement art/music video suite based upon the works of husband and wife -- artist Gary Zaimont and composer Judith Lang Zaimont; videography by Michael Bregman. Posted widely on the internet, Fall 2009.  Shown at Festival of Women Composers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 2010.

• Mvt. 1 “The Joy of Dance” Sets Verlaine’s ‘Clair de lune’.


• Mvt. 2 “Borealis” Mysterious night visions.


• Mvt. 3 “Beasts” Menacing growlers and howlers.


• Mvt. 4 “Serenade” Slow shifting colorfield artworks, with troubled currents hinted at beneath.

America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Series 2, Vol. 14

 Parallel Play
I: Fanfare 
II: Folksong  
III: Folderol

Presidio Saxophone Quartet

 Release date:  September 2008
AUR Recordings AUR CD 3131

Melville's Dozen music for solo piano commissioned & performed by Nicola Melville

 Hitchin' - a travellin' groove

Release date:  September 2008
Innova Records B001E5PPE6

Release date:  March 2007
MSR Classics   MS 1238 

Prestidigitations - Contemporary Concert Rags by J. L. Zaimont

'Bubble-Up' Rag  - Concertpiece for Flute and Piano    
Reflective Rag  piano // ensemble // flute and piano
Judy's Rag
Lazy Beguine ensemble
'Hesitation' Rag
Snazzy Sonata
An Entertainment for Two Serenade

 The American Ragtime Ensemble, directed by David Reffkin
Doris L. Kosloff,  Joanne Polk, Nanette K. Solomon & Judith L. Zaimont piano
Elizabeth Ann Owens & Immanuel Davis flute

** On CD Hotlist for February 2008 (MLA Association)
Read review here. http://cdhotlist.btol.com

“An irresistible program of original rags and other pieces of popular Americana that the composer tweaks to loving, rollicking and poignant effect... The performances are captivating across the board, including those featuring Zaimont herself as pianist.... The music enchants. ”
- GRAMOPHONE ~ October-November 2007

“An elegant, gorgeous, and revelatory demonstration of the possibilities latent in one of America’s most venerated but stylistically underdeveloped forms. ”
- WORLD Magazine ~ July 2007 

 “Lyricism, variety - delightful contemporary music. Zaimont brings ragtime solidly forward to the 21st century, yet honors its century-old origins. She gets us to view ragtime as music.”
- Max Morath

Additional reviews from American Record Guide (Nov./Dec. 2007), All-Music Guide (Sept. 2007), Ragtimers.org (June 2007), and Classical Music Guide (June 2007). Read reviews here.

 Audio Clips:
Lazy Beguine
Judy's Rag
Serenade

 American Women: Modern Voices in Piano Music

          Nancy Boston, piano

Suite Impressions  
1. Folk Song
2:  Jazz Waltz
3: In Pop Style  

Beautiful and very accessible contemporary piano music…. , a great listening experience.
- Amazon.com

 Release date:: January 2006 / NAXOS CD Naxos 8.55944 (part of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)

Zaimont -  for Large Forces

SACRED SERVICE for the Sabbath Evening
          (6 movements) James Maddalena,
          baritone, Ernst Senfft Chor, Berlin Radio
          Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor
PARABLE: A Tale of Abram and Isaac
          John Aler, Frances Lucy, soli,
          Laudebus, members
          of the London Symphony Orchestra
MEDITATIONS At the Time of the New Year
          Choral Society of Southern California,
          Nick Strimple, conductor
A Woman of Valor - mezzo and string
          quartet, Samuel Adler, conductor

 Album Review:
Wonderful...affecting.   Zaimont strikes her own epic note --the choral writing throughout cannily mixes declamatory, homophonic passages with simple, clear contrapuntal ones. A  superb entry in Naxos's American Jewish Music series – one of the glories of this series.
– Steve Schwartz at Classical Net (full review)

Beautifully lyrical …. Distinctive and persuasive.  Much fine music here.   The choral writing is sophisticated and quite demanding, though complexity is never allowed to obscure the texts….  This is one of the most consistently rewarding of the fascinating Milken Archive series.  -  Glyn Pursglove at MusicWeb International

November 29, 2005 

 PURE COLORS - Music of Judith Lang Zaimont

Solo music and other works for small forces

WIZARDS - Three Magic Masters
          Young-Ah Tak, piano
ASTRAL... a mirror life on the astral plane...
           John Anderson, clarinet
Virgie Rainey - Two Narratives for Soprano, Mezzo and Piano
          Wendy Zaro-Mullins, soprano; Jean del Santo, mezzo-soprano; Timothy Lovelace, piano
Valse Romantique
          Immanuel Davis, flute
'Tanya' Poems
          Tanya Remenikova, cello
'Bubble-Up' Rag - Concertpiece for Flute and Piano
          Immanuel Davis, flute; Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano

 A rewarding collection of well-made music, consistently inventive and accomplished,  rhythmically and harmonically subtle.   In its use of a variety of forces, never in danger of wearying the listener … Her music is various and undogmatic, inventive and readily approachable, the work of a composer who should  be more widely known. -Glyn Pursglove MusicWeb International

Cogent and completely expressed….  pleasurable listening experience.   -  All Music Guide

Release date: December 2003
Albany Records CD, Troy 617 

Callisto: Music for Piano

          Joanne Polk, piano

 Sonata for Piano Solo
I. Ricerca (10:10)
II. Canto (11:46)
III. Impronta digitale (7:55)

Nocturne - La Fin de Siècle (7:04)

 Jupiter's Moons
I. The Moons Swim in Orbit (1:14)
II. Europa (3:06)
III. Leda (4:56)
IV. Io (3:17)
V. Ganymede (2:48)
VI. Callisto (4:50)

"Hesitation" Rag (5:45)

"...full of rapturous melodies… harmonically fascinating"
- Frank J. Oteri, NewMusicBox (full review here) 

 Release date: October 2001
Harmonia Munda CD 907289

 2001 Cliburn Competition Gold Medal Recital: Olga Kern

"Impronta Digitale" -- Cliburn competition selected work

Album Reviews: "The impromptu spirit not only lives but thrives in Judith Lang Zaimont's Impronta Digitale, one of the four works by living composers chosen for the [Cliburn] competition's semifinal round. A long, jazzy single line darts around the keyboard's lower register and materializes into toccata-like sequences and spiky arpeggios. As the piece progresses, textures grow more varied in terms of register and articulation, with generous portions of stabbing, motoric chords. A professor composition at the University of Minnesota School of Music, Zaimont has composed more than one hundred works in virtually every medium: opera, orchestra, chamber, vocal, choral, dance, film, and solo instrumental. One suspects that Impronta Digitale's ingenious and idiomatic keyboard writing has more than a little to do with the fact that Zaimont is an accomplished pianist in her own rights, who plays her own music with tremendous authority and verve."  - Jed Distler, CD program notes

Release date: August 2001
Jeanne Inc. CD 

Blend

 Score excerpts:
Movement 1
Movement 2

 " ... 3: 4, 5 ... " (3-movement quintet for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, contrabass)
Members of Minnesota Orchestra

Album review: "A major contribution to chamber music for winds and strings which hopefully will be heard frequently in concert halls worldwide. A remarkably effective 21+ minute work by a major American composer perhaps just reaching the height of her powers…. Skillfully constructed, listener accessible, and yet retains a sense of fresh newness about it throughout…. Strong timbral imagination… tour de force of technical display for the ensemble … clos[ing] with a moving and at times tender "Elegy" which conveys an unmistakable American character." - William Nichols, The Clarinet, September 2002

 Vitality Begun

"Let it be Forgotten" and "Entreaty"
          Patricia Stiles, mezzo; Graham Cox, piano

Release date: 2001
Cavalli CCD 308

Available through ArkivMusic (original release in 2000 on Arabesque CD Z6742)

 reSOUNDings -- Orchestral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont

 SYMPHONY No. 1 / ELEGY for Strings / MONARCHS - Movement for Orchestra
          Czech Radio Symphony
          Leos Svarovsky and Doris Kosloff, conductors

Audio clips:
Monarchs, second theme
Monarchs, brass
Monarchs, close
Symphony No. 1, movement 1
Symphony No. 1, beginning of movement 3
Symphony No. 1, melody of movement 3 

 Album Reviews:
"Judith Lang Zaimont is, along with Christopher Rouse, Arnold Rosner, and Joseph Schwantner, one of the most interesting compositional voices of her generation. … Most of the works of hers I know reveal a convincing sense of authenticity and expressive purpose."
-  Walter Simmons, Fanfare, May/June 2001 Vol. 24 No. 5 (full review here)

* Symphony No. 1 cited in Summer2007 American Record Guide as one of the most significant American symphonies" written to date.

"Zaimont writes in an au courant but very appealing idiom that blends bright, wide-spaced harmonies (both triadic and iridescent) and sumptuous, imaginative textures with invigorating freshness, energy, and warmth. At her best -- certainly in Symphony No. 1 and the Elegy -- Zaimont shows herself to be an impressive symphonic composer." -  American Record Guide, November/December 2000  (full review here)

Radiance -- Choral Music by Judith Lang Zaimont  

MEDITATIONS at the Time of the New Year
The Chase
Sunny Airs and Sober

Excerpts from SACRED SERVICE for Sabbath Evening
          Choral Society of Southern California - Nick Strimple, conductor

Album Review:
Radiant Zaimont in 21st Century Music August 2001 Vol. 8 No. 8 

Release date: February 2000
4-Tay CD 4015 

 Score excerpts:
"Dawn," page 1
"Hope," page 2

Audio clips:
"Thou Shalt Love the Lord" 

Release date: June 1999 Leonarda CD 343 

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 The Vocal-Chamber Art - Music by Judith Lang Zaimont

Chanson Noble et Sentimentales
          Charles Bressler, tenor; JL Zaimont, piano
Greyed Sonnets
          Elena Tyminski, soprano;
          JL Zaimont, piano
TWO SONGS for Soprano and Harp
          Berenice Bramson, soprano;
          Sara Cutler, harp

Songs of Innocence
          Elena Tyminski, soprano; Pierce Brown,
          tenor; Nancy Allen, harp; Barbara
          Bogatin, cello; Patricia Spencer, flute;
          Roger Nierenberg, conductor
THE MAGIC WORLD: Ritual Music for Three
          David Arnold, baritone; Jonathan Haas,
          percussion; Zita Zohar, piano 

Audio clips:
Greyed Sonnet 1
Greyed Sonnet 2
Songs of Innocence 3
Songs of Innocence 4
Magic World 3
Chanson Nobles Song 3

Album Reviews:
Music by "a mid-career master"
"The pieces on this CD are terrifically good in many ways…. Zaimont clearly possesses a keen sense of characterization, pacing, and drama. Best of all, each cycle inhabits its own distinct emotional world." -  New Music Connoisseur, Summer 2000 Vol. 8 No. 2 (full review here)

Interesting and distinctive…. Enjoyable, intelligent music; word-setting which demonstrates a consistent perceptiveness as regards the meaning and shape of the words, without ever forfeiting the proper liberties of the composer.   A  CD well worth hearing. - Glyn Pursglove   in MusicWeb International

Greyed Sonnets is, appropriately, more powerful, more adventurous in sound, while the Chansons Nobles are more closely related to the French tradition of understatement. Zaimont keeps the accompaniaments rather independent, does not always follow the structure of the poem in the music, but succeeds in presenting the text in a clear setting, with a fine balance of words and music. These songs are far from easy to sing, but are an impressive contribution to the song cycle repertoire....

I am especially impressed with the broad range of styles and sounds that Zaimont brings to such widely divergent poems. - Jocelyn Mackey, in Pan Pipes Fall 2000, Volume 93, Number 1

 Release date: May 1999
KOCH: Classical Arts NR 246-CD
(originally released on Northeastern Records, March 1993)

 Fluffy Ruffle Girls: Women in Ragtime

          Virginia Eskin, piano 

Two Piano Rags: Reflective Rag and Judy's Rag

Album reviews:
"An anthology that will stick in your memory for its collective impact more than for any single piece -- except, perhaps, for the two contemporary rags by Judith Lang Zaimont, who combines classic style with more contemporary harmonies to extremely good effect." - Leslie Gerber

"Elegiac [Zaimont]" - TIME Magazine

Spring Beauties - The Ragtime Project

 Hesitation' Rag
          Virginia Eskin, piano

Score excerpts:
"Hesitation' Rag," page 1

Release date: June 1998
Koch International Classics CD 3-7440-2H1

When Angels Speak  

When Angels Speak - Fantasy for Wind Quartet
Manhattan Wind Quartet

Score excerpts:
m. 19-27
Cadenzas

Release date: Summer 1998
Albany Records CD Troy 246 

Women's Voices: Five Centuries of Song

Let it Be Forgotten from Greyed Sonnets
          Neva Pilgrim, soprano

Release date: November 1997
Leonarda CD LE 338

 Available through ArkivMusic.
(original release in 1997 on Arabesque CD Z6683)

ZONES - Chamber Music by Judith Lang Zaimont

ZONES - Piano Trio #2
          Peter Winograd, violin; Peter Wyrick, 'cello;
          Joanne Polk, piano
"Russian Summer" - Piano Trio #1
          Peter Winograd, violin; Peter Wyrick, 'cello;
          Joanne Polk, piano
Calendar Set: 12 Preludes
          Joanne Polk, piano

Audio clips:
Russian Summer Romp
February 

 Album Reviews:
"Beautiful music ... enthusiastically recommended"  - Fanfare, May/June 1997 Vol. 20 No. 5 (full review here)

 Judith Lang Zaimont's Zones (Arabesque Z6683, ****) contains two excellent piano trios; the first, called Zones, is an energetic, strongly tonal affair, the latter, called Russian Summer, a more meditative piece. These are adroitly balanced pieces, a powerful indication of Zaimont's compositional abilities.  -  Classical Pulse! Number 23, Tower Records / Video, August / September 1997

Available through ArkivMusio
(original release date in 1996 Arabesque CD Z6667) 

Album Reviews: 
"Entirely impressive music"
- Classical Compact Disc Guide , Fall 1996 Vol. 9 No. 1  (full review here)

Review: Neon Rhythm in Fanfare
May/June 1996 Vol. 19 No. 5 

Neon Rhythm - Chamber Music of Judith Lang Zaimont

Hidden Heritage: A Dance Symphony
          Karen Moratz, flute; David Krakauer,
          clarinets/tenor sax; Clinton Adams,
          piano; David Finckel, cello; Barry Dove,
          percussion; Doris Kosloff, conductor

Sky Curtains: Borealis, Australis
          Kathleen Nester, flute; Daniel Gilbert,
          clarinet; Robert Wagner, bassoon; Lois
          Martin, viola; Christopher Finckel, cello;
          Doris Kosloff, conductor 

Doubles
          Lisa Kozenko, oboe; Dana Burnett, piano

Dance / Inner Dance
          Kathleen Nester, flute; Rheta Smith,
          oboe; Theodore Mook, cello 

Score excerpts:
Hidden Heritage, "At Home: 'Jennie' Fantasia," tenor sax theme
Hidden Heritage, "At Home: 'Jennie' Fantasia," flute and clarinet
Hidden Heritage, "Street Scene -  Black Belt"
Sky Curtains - Australis, fugato entrances.

Audio clips:
Hidden Heritage, movement 1
Hidden Heritage, movement 2
Hidden Heritage, movement 2 (saxophone theme)
Hidden Heritage, movement 3
Hidden Heritage, movement 4
Sky Curtains - Australis 

Release date: October 1996
4-Tay CD 4001 

Summer Melodies - A Piano Album

Suite Impressions: Folk Song, Jazz Waltz, In Pop Style
"Evening"
Excerpts from Calendar Collection: June, July,
          August, September
Two Piano Rags - 'Reflective' Rag, Judy's Rag
Nocturne - "La Fin de Siècle"
          Judith Zaimont, piano

Snazzy Sonata - [one piano, four hands]
          Moderate Two-Step // Lazy Beguine // Be-Bop Scherzo
           // Grand Valse Brilliante
          Judith Zaimont and Doris Kosloff, piano 

Score excerpts:
Folk Song
Nocturne
'Reflective' Rag 

 Audio clips:
Snazzy Sonata, movement 3
Suite Impressions (folk song)
Suite Impressions (in pop style)
Suite Impressions (jazz waltz)
Nocturne

 Album Reviews:
"Zaimont expresses an innate musicality that is made especially appealing by a sincere and joyous spirit. This is refreshingly uncomplicated, easy to enjoy music..." - Fanfare

"The piano music of Judith Zaimont is distinctly American and unapologetically nostalgic... the title is warmly apt..."
- American Record Guide

Character Sketches: Solo Piano Works by 7 American Women

Calendar Collection (16:00)
Nanette Kaplan Solomon, piano

Album review:
"Zaimont's suite is replete with dandy tunes, poetically rendered moods, and more than enough sumptuous pianistic color and variety to make them great favorites with performers and audiences alike."  - Lehman, American Record Guide

Release date: August 1994
Leonarda CD LE 334 

The American Chamber Ensemble

 From the Great Land (22:00)

Album review:
"Judith Lang Zaimont's cycle is a touching and sensitive treatment of poems from Frank Buske's Woman's Songs. Mezzo Deirdre Kingsbury gives a dramatic performance, and the instrumental work of Blanche Abram and Naomi Drucker is exemplary." - Journal of Singing

Release date: February 1992
Leonarda CD LE 329

Release date: March 1991
Leonarda CD: LE 328 

Florilegium Chamber Choir

Parable: A Tale of Abram and Isaac (16:23)
          Soli - Cheryl Bensman, soprano; Paul Kelly, tenor; William Sharp, baritone;
          Walter Hilse, organist; JoAnn Rice, director
Serenade: To Music (8:47)
          JoAnn Rice, director 

"A great work!" - Gregg Smith, conductor. 

"Zaimont has fashioned a powerfully theatrical work ... Solo voices are combined with the ensemble in varying textures, evoking vivid images which complement the strongly emotional story." - Journal of Singing.

 LP Recordings (prior to 1990)

Poems and Magic
THE MAGIC WORLD: Ritual Music for Three
David Arnold, baritone; Jonathan Haas, percussion; Zita Zohar, piano

Label: Leonarda LPI 112

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Song Cycles for Soprano Plus …
TWO SONGS for Soprano and Harp
 Berenice Bramson, soprano; Sara Cutler, harp
 
Leonarda LPI 106 

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Judith Lang Zaimont
A Calendar Set
Nocturne: La Fin de Siècle
Chansons Nobles et Sentimentales

​Gary Steigerwalt - Pno. / Charles Bressler - Tenor

date: Early recordings (LP)
Label: Leonarda 101 ​

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The Authenticated Composer - JUDITH  LANG  ZAIMONT
Sunny Airs and Sober
Three Aryes
Songs of Innocence
Greyed Sonnets

Gregg Smith Singers - Gregg Smith, conductor; Elaine Olbrycht, soprano; Pierce Brown, tenor; Roger Nierenberg, conductor; Nancy Allen, harp; Patricia Spencer, flute; Judith Zaimont, piano

Release date: Early recordings (LP)
Label: Golden Crest ATH #5051 

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 “Concert for Two Pianos”
Judith and Doris Lang debut album with first US recordings  of:

Poulenc  Sonate
L. Thompson Two Masques
R.Casadesus Six Pièces pour Deux Pianos
-  and other works by Milhaud, de Falla, Arensky, Vaughan Williams, R. Benjamin
 
 Golden Crest   CR4070

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