Ernst Krenek
What Price Confidence?


Phoenix Edition (Germany); Naxos (worldwide)
Release Date: 2008 TBA
News! Winner of four Grammy Awards:
Best Classical Album
Best Choral Performance
Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Producer of the Year, Classical

William Bolcom
Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Naxos
Release Date:  October 19, 2004

Ilana Davidson for a glittering angelic evocation at suitably lofty pitch
Opera News Magazine —Jon Alan Conrad

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Lieder
Ernst Krenek

Ilana Davidson, soprano
Debra Ayers, piano

Capriccio 67 133 Released May 1, 2005

The stylistic range required is almost too much for one singer, and the disc is consequently a tour de force for American soprano Ilana Davidson: she manages everything with extraordinary ease...
Guardian Unlimited—Tim Ashley


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Chimeras
John Zorn

Tsadik
Release Date:  April 22, 2003

The voice is truly revelatory here. At first, Ilana Davidson is indistinguishable from a violin in a higher register-- and then you realize, thirty seconds later, that that's a human being mourning and moaning away. She assiduously cripples the "speech-singing" on Pierrot Lunaire, and adds some philosophical tension to the entire piece.
 -Alexander Lloyd Linhardt, September 9th, 2003 Pitchfork Media Reviews

Kurt Weill
Der Jasager, Down in the Valley

Conducted by Willi Gundlach

Capriccio
Release Date:  March 17, 1993

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Benjamin Britten
with San-ky Kim, tenor; Katerina Englichova, harp

A Birthday Hansel Opus 92
Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus Opus 89
Folk Song Arrangements

Bonton Classics 71 0086-2