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Elizabeth Anker, Contralto

Recordings

Poet Power!

Live recording. 12 songs on American poetry written for Liz. Also, Buxtehude’s Jubilate Domino, pop songs, and improvisation. Available exclusively through the artist.

$15 plus $5 shipping.

  Liz Anker during her Poet Power tour
Photo credit: Sara Piazza

Elizabeth Anker, Contralto: Half and Half

Half classical, half pop music. Live recording at Longy School of Music, 2002. Music of Faure, Debussy, Johnson (world premiere), Carole King, Joni Mitchell and others. Available exclusively through the artist.

$15 plus $5 shipping.

  Cover of the Half and Half CD

Territory of the Heart

Music of Douglas Bruce Johnson, including Songs of Time, of Love, of Wonder (1994) for voice and piano, a song cycle with words by May Sarton, Emily Dickinson, and others.
Zimbel Records, 2004 release (#ZR105)
$12 direct from Zimbel Records
Also available on Amazon.com and CDBaby.com.

  CD Cover for Territory of the Heart

Christmas Oratorio

J.S. Bach
Boston Bach Ensemble
Julian Wachner and Peter Watchorn, Artistic Directors
with Max van Egmond as baritone soloist

Available through Musica Omnia

Also of interest to Bach aficionados: Bach Cantatas Website

  CD Cover of Christmas Oratorio

Vespro della Beata Vergine

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
Gorgeous music from a 17th-century cloistered nun in Milan. On this beautiful two-disk set (with a third disk of spoken information about the music and its composer), Liz sings “bass” to an ensemble of eight virtuoso women singers.

Available through Musica Omnia

  CD Cover for Cozzolani's Vespro della Beata Vergine

Recordings with the Boston Camerata

On Erato Records

The American Vocalist (1992)

Liz's solos:

  • John Anderson, My Jo
  • Judgment Day
  • Shall We Gather at the River
  CD Cover for The American Vocalist

An American Christmas (1993)

Liz's favorite Camerata recording. Liz's solos:

  • Pretty Home
  • Bozrah
 

Simple Gifts (1994)

This recording with the Shakers was a chart-topping success. Liz's solos:

  • Mother's Cup of Tribulation
  • Pinch'd up, Nip'd up
  • Solemn Song
 

Angels: Voices from Eternity (1997)

Featured as the "Voice of God" in Ecce ego mittam Angelum meum

 

Liberty Tree (1997)

Liz's solo: Mary's Dream