Recordings & Albums

Songs for Murdered Sisters - Heggie/Atwood

Baritone Joshua Hopkins sings the world premiere of a dramatic new song cycle featuring poetry by Margaret Atwood and music [More]

Baritone Joshua Hopkins sings the world premiere of a dramatic new song cycle featuring poetry by Margaret Atwood and music by Jake Heggie. Inspired by the tragic murder of Hopkins’ sister in 2015, the eight songs in this 30-minute cycle trace a powerful journey of grief, connection and transformation. Released March 5, 2021 for digital [more]

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A live recording of the Violins of Hope at Kohl Mansion

The World Premiere recording of Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer’s acclaimed new song cycle INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of [More]

The World Premiere recording of Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer’s acclaimed new song cycle INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope features mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and violinist Daniel Hope with a quartet of string players from the San Francisco Opera Orchestra: Kay Stern & Dawn Harms, violins; Patricia Heller, viola; Emil Miland, cello. The final [more]

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Jamie Barton: Unexpected Shadows (Pentatone)

The beloved, award-winning American mezzo Jamie Barton joins composer/pianist Jake Heggie and cellist Matt Haimovitz in a celebration of powerful, [More]

The beloved, award-winning American mezzo Jamie Barton joins composer/pianist Jake Heggie and cellist Matt Haimovitz in a celebration of powerful, exceptional women through Jake’s songs to texts by Sister Helen Prejean, Laura Morefield, Gene Scheer and Gavin Dillard. UNEXPECTED SHADOWS includes the complete song cycles The Work at Hand (Morefield), Statuesque (Scheer), Iconic Legacies: First [more]

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Joyce DiDonato: Into The Fire (Erato)

Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano String Quartet perform Camille Claudel: Into the Fire as part of a concert at London’s [More]

Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano String Quartet perform Camille Claudel: Into the Fire as part of a concert at London’s Wigmore Hall, recorded live in December 2017. The program also features songs by Strauss and Debussy’s Trois Chansons de Bilitis (arranged by Heggie)

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MELODY MOORE: An American Song Album (Pentatone)

The great American dramatic soprano’s debut recital disc with pianist Bradley Moore features Barber’s iconic “Hermit Songs” as well as [More]

The great American dramatic soprano’s debut recital disc with pianist Bradley Moore features Barber’s iconic “Hermit Songs” as well as Heggie’s song cycles “These Strangers” and “How Well I Knew the Light” with works by Gordon Getty and Carlisle Floyd.

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Woman the making of... (Zerif Records)

Soprano Lilian Farahani and pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren perform the complete Eve-Song (texts by Philip LIttell) and the opera [More]

Soprano Lilian Farahani and pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren perform the complete Eve-Song (texts by Philip LIttell) and the opera scene At The Statue of Venus (libretto by Terrence McNally) on this acclaimed new all-Heggie recording from Zefir Records in Amsterdam. CD available on Amazon.com. See the recording’s trailer:

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Great Scott - 2019 Grammy Nomiated

A live recording of the new comedy by Jake Heggie & Terrence McNally. The all-star cast features Joyce DiDonato, Frederica [More]

A live recording of the new comedy by Jake Heggie & Terrence McNally. The all-star cast features Joyce DiDonato, Frederica von Stade, Ailyn Pérez, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Nathan Gunn, Michael Mayes, Rodell Rosell and Kevin Burdette with the Dallas Opera Orchestra & Chorus led by conductor Patrick Summers. “… a piece that revels in the [more]

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It's A Wonderful Life by Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer

Complete live recording of the world premiere at Houston Grand Opera, featuring William Burden (George Bailey), Talise Trevigne (Clara the [More]

Complete live recording of the world premiere at Houston Grand Opera, featuring William Burden (George Bailey), Talise Trevigne (Clara the Angel) and Andrea Carroll (Mary Bailey). Patrick Summers leads the Houston Grand Opera orchestra and chorus.

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here/after: Songs of Lost Voices - Jake Heggie

A double-CD of recent music and songs performed by tenor Stephen Costello, mezzo Joyce DiDonato, baritone Nathan Gunn, soprano Talise [More]

A double-CD of recent music and songs performed by tenor Stephen Costello, mezzo Joyce DiDonato, baritone Nathan Gunn, soprano Talise Trevigne, with flutist Carol Wincenc, The Alexander String Quartet, and many others. More than two hours of music, including Camille Claudel, Pieces of 9/11, Friendly Persuasions, Rise & Fall, A Question of Light, Fury of [more]

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The opera Moby-Dick by Jake Heggie - DVD PBS Telecast

Available in both DVD and BlueRay on Amazon. San Francisco Opera’s highly acclaimed production features Jay Hunter Morris (Ahab), Stephen [More]

Available in both DVD and BlueRay on Amazon. San Francisco Opera’s highly acclaimed production features Jay Hunter Morris (Ahab), Stephen Costello (Greenhorn), Morgan Smith (Starbuck), Talise Trevigne (Pip), Jonathan Lemalu (Queequeg), Robert Orth (Stubb), Matthew O’Neill (Flask); conducted by Patrick Summers and directed by Leonard Foglia. In addition to the cast, chorus, and crew, stellar [more]

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Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie (Avie)

An international cast of celebrated singers and string players perform recent songs and duets by Jake Heggie. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian [More]

An international cast of celebrated singers and string players perform recent songs and duets by Jake Heggie. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian Mezzos Zheng Cao, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade Tenor Paul Groves; Baritone Keith Phares Dawn Harms, violin; CarlaMaria Rodrigues, viola; Emil Miland, cello; Jake Heggie, piano Texts by Charlene Baldridge, Raymond Carver, Heggie, [more]

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Lisa Delan: A Certain Slant of Light (Pentatone)

Soprano Lisa Delan sings Emily Dickinson’s poems as set by composers Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Michael Tilson Thomas and Jake [More]

Soprano Lisa Delan sings Emily Dickinson’s poems as set by composers Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Michael Tilson Thomas and Jake Heggie (“Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri”). Recorded with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, conducted by Lawrence Foster.

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The Radio Hour (Delos)

The first recording of Jake’s choral music is performed by the spectacular John Alexander Singers and the great American mezzo-soprano, [More]

The first recording of Jake’s choral music is performed by the spectacular John Alexander Singers and the great American mezzo-soprano, Susan Graham. It features the premiere recordings of Heggie & Scheer’s choral opera, The Radio Hour, as well as settings of texts by Dickinson, Amy Lowell, and the hymn from the opera Dead Man Walking. [more]

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The Moon's A Gong, Hung in the Wild (Avie)

Angelika Kirchschlager, the great and beloved Austrian mezzo-soprano, joins the superb Dutch pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren for an entire [More]

Angelika Kirchschlager, the great and beloved Austrian mezzo-soprano, joins the superb Dutch pianist Maurice Lammerts van Bueren for an entire CD of Jake’s songs. Selections include first-time recordings of songs from The Breaking Waves (2011), as well as the complete Songs to the Moon, selections from Statuesque, Winter Roses, and Folk Song arrangements. Released by [more]

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Out of Darkness (Naxos)

A CD of three of Jake’s works for Seattle’s Music Of Remembrance. (Mina Miller, artistic director). Librettist Gene Scheer. Soprano [More]

A CD of three of Jake’s works for Seattle’s Music Of Remembrance. (Mina Miller, artistic director). Librettist Gene Scheer. Soprano Caitlin Lynch, Mezzo-Soprano Sarah Larsen and Baritone Morgan Smith are joined by instrumentalists from the Seattle Symphony for three one-act operas. Zart Domburian-Eby (flute), Laura DeLuca (clarinet), Mikhail Shmidt (violin), Walter Gray (cello), Jonathan Green [more]

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Love Life by Ann Moss

The remarkable soprano Ann Moss sings an adventurous program of music by Jake Heggie, Liam Wade, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan [More]

The remarkable soprano Ann Moss sings an adventurous program of music by Jake Heggie, Liam Wade, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Lennon/McCartney in her second solo CD. She is joined by violinist Isaac Allen, cellist Emil Miland, the all-male a cappella ensemble Chanticleer, and pianists Steven Bailey and Jake Heggie. The disc includes Heggie’s song [more]

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LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim (ECM Records)

Pianist Anthony De Mare commissioned 36 composers, including Jake Heggie, to re-imagine beloved Sondheim tunes for the piano. Jake’s contribution [More]

Pianist Anthony De Mare commissioned 36 composers, including Jake Heggie, to re-imagine beloved Sondheim tunes for the piano. Jake’s contribution is a virtuosic, Lisztian take on “A Weekend in the Country” (from A Little Night Music) titled “I’m Excited. No, You’re Not.” The collection features arrangements by a wide range of composers that includes William [more]

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December Celebration: New Carols by Seven American Composers

The first recording of Jake’s “On the Road to Christmas” (1996) with poetry by Housman, Dickinson, von Stade, and arrangements [More]

The first recording of Jake’s “On the Road to Christmas” (1996) with poetry by Housman, Dickinson, von Stade, and arrangements of three traditional carols: Good King Wenceslas, Ding Dong Merrily on High, and I Wonder as I Wander. Soprano Lisa Delan, baritone Lester Lynch, and the Volti Chorus join the New Century Chamber Orchestra for [more]

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ReJoyce - Joyce DiDonato

A spectacular double-CD celebrating Joyce DiDonato’s first 10 years with Erato/Warner Classics and featuring tracks from some of her most [More]

A spectacular double-CD celebrating Joyce DiDonato’s first 10 years with Erato/Warner Classics and featuring tracks from some of her most popular recordings, from Baroque and bel canto to Strauss, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and even two tracks from her landmark recording of Dead Man Walking (Virgin Classics). It’s time to ReJoyce! See on on EMI Classics.

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Lisa Delan: The Hours Begin to Sing (PentaTone Classics)

Soprano Lisa Delan, cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Kristin Pankonin perform Jake’s new song cycle From the Book of Nightmares [More]

Soprano Lisa Delan, cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Kristin Pankonin perform Jake’s new song cycle From the Book of Nightmares (poetry by Galway Kinnell). Also featured are recent works by John Corigliano, Luna Pearl Woolf, David Garner, Gordon Getty and Wiliam Bolcom.

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The 2nd complete live recording of Dead Man Walking, 2011 ( Virgin Classics)

Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen), Philip Cutlip (Joseph DeRocher) and Frederica von Stade (Joseph’s Mother) star in this live recording from [More]

Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen), Philip Cutlip (Joseph DeRocher) and Frederica von Stade (Joseph’s Mother) star in this live recording from the Houston Grand Opera, conducted by Patrick Summers. Upcoming and Past Performances (since 2011):

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THREE DECEMBERS - World Premiere Recording at Houston Grand Opera (Albany)

THREE DECEMBERS, an opera in two acts by Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer, based on an original play by Terrence [More]

THREE DECEMBERS, an opera in two acts by Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer, based on an original play by Terrence McNally. Live recording from Houston Grand Opera (2008). Frederica von Stade (Madeline), Kristin Clayton (Bea), Keith Phares (Charlie). Patrick Summers conducts members of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra. The great Frederica von Stade sings “the [more]

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The complete live recording of Dead Man Walking, 2000 ( ERATO)

The complete live recording of the world premiere production at San Francisco Opera in October 2000. Patrick Summers conducts the [More]

The complete live recording of the world premiere production at San Francisco Opera in October 2000. Patrick Summers conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Susan Graham (Sister Helen), John Packard (Joseph de Rocher), Frederica von Stade (Joseph’s Mother), along with Theresa Hamm-Smith, Jay Hunter Morris, Gary Rideout, Catherine Cook, Robert Orth, [more]

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Holy The Firm by Jake Heggie. Oakland East Bay Symphony, Emil Miland, cello.

World Premiere recorded live at Oakland’s Paramount Theater on November 18th, 2002. Emil Miland, cellist and the Oakland East Bay [More]

World Premiere recorded live at Oakland’s Paramount Theater on November 18th, 2002. Emil Miland, cellist and the Oakland East Bay Symphony; Michael Morgan conducting. This recording is no longer available.

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MY NATIVE LAND - Jennifer Larmore, Antoine Palloc (WEA/Atlantic/Teldec)

Jennifer Larmore sings works of Lora Aborn, Robert Abramson, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, John Woods Duke, Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, [More]

Jennifer Larmore sings works of Lora Aborn, Robert Abramson, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, John Woods Duke, Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, and Charles Ives. 1. He’s Gone Away (1995) 11. To Say Before Going To Sleep (1988) 12. White in the Moon (1990) 13. The Leather-Winged Bat (1995) 14. Barb’ry Allen (1995)

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The Faces of Love - The Songs of Jake Heggie (BMG/RCA Victor)

The Faces of Love – The Songs of Jake Heggie; Renee Fleming, Frederica Von Stade, Sylvia McNair, Carol Vaness, Nicolle [More]

The Faces of Love – The Songs of Jake Heggie; Renee Fleming, Frederica Von Stade, Sylvia McNair, Carol Vaness, Nicolle Foland, Kristin Clayton, Zheng Cao, Brian Asawa (BMG/RCA Victor 63484) The Faces of Love has Sheet Music and Scores available from G. Schirmer/Hal Leonard in three songbooks. Tracks: 1. The Faces of Love: I shall [more]

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The Deepest Desire - Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato’s first recital CD was released in Europe in November 2005 and received France’s prestigious Diapason d’Or. The disc [More]

Joyce DiDonato’s first recital CD was released in Europe in November 2005 and received France’s prestigious Diapason d’Or. The disc features music by Bernstein, Copland and Jake Heggie. The title track is Heggie’s cycle The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love (texts by Sister Helen Prejean). DiDonato is joined by flutist Frances Shelly and pianist [more]

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The Faces Of Love Collection by Jake Heggie

Note: The Faces of Love song books can be ordered directly from G. Schirmer. (The pictures above are also links.) [More]

Note: The Faces of Love song books can be ordered directly from G. Schirmer. (The pictures above are also links.) A recording of the same name is available. These books feature songs for soprano, mezzo-soprano, countertenor and baritone. THE FACES OF LOVE Song Collections (1999) Book One (Soprano) HL #50483634 The Faces of Love (Emily [more]

Collections are published Songbooks or books of compositions. The songs and arias are often found individually in Recordings as well as Compositions.   One or more recordings have been made.   Score(s) available from G. Schirmer/Hal Leonard.

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Flesh & Stone: The Songs Of Jake Heggie (Americus Records)

Mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade, Joyce Castle, Zheng Cao and Mary Phillips perform some of Jake’s recent works, including the complete [More]

Mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade, Joyce Castle, Zheng Cao and Mary Phillips perform some of Jake’s recent works, including the complete cycles Statuesque and The Deepest Desire, plus selections from Winter Roses and The Starry Night. Also featured are performances by Eugenia Zukerman, flute; Carey Bell, clarinet; David Henderson, saxophone; Dawn Harms, violin; Emil Miland, cello; [more]

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The Passing By Collection - Songs by Jake Heggie

Companion book to the CD of the same name plus bonus material, featuring songs for soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone. PASSING [More]

Companion book to the CD of the same name plus bonus material, featuring songs for soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone. PASSING BY Song Collection (2008) A Lucky Child, from At The Statue of Venus (McNally) Facing Forward/Looking Back (2007) for two women 1. Motherwit (Charlene Baldridge) 2. Grounded (Eugenia Zukerman) 3. Hummingbird – for Tess (Raymond [more]

Collections are published Songbooks or books of compositions. The songs and arias are often found individually in Recordings as well as Compositions.   One or more recordings have been made.   Sheet Music, Scores, Parts and Performance Materials are available from billholabmusic.com.

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For A Look Or A Touch (Naxos)

A recording featuring music of Jake Heggie, Gerard Schwarz and Lori Laitman. Baritone Morgan Smith (Manfred) and veteran baritone Julian [More]

A recording featuring music of Jake Heggie, Gerard Schwarz and Lori Laitman. Baritone Morgan Smith (Manfred) and veteran baritone Julian Patrick (Gad) are joined by a quintet of extraordinary instrumentalists for this theatrical song cycle commissioned by Seattle’s Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director). Librettist Gene Scheer based his text on true stories told [more]

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The here/after Collection - Songs by Jake Heggie

Companion books to the CD of the same name plus bonus material, featuring songs and arias for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor [More]

Companion books to the CD of the same name plus bonus material, featuring songs and arias for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone. Book 1 Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano. Book 2 Tenor and Baritone. HERE/AFTER Song Collections (2013) Book One: Soprano / Mezzo-Soprano Rise and Fall (2007) 1. Water Stone (Noguchi) 2. Incantation Bowl 3. Angels’ Wings [more]

Collections are published Songbooks or books of compositions. The songs and arias are often found individually in Recordings as well as Compositions.   One or more recordings have been made.   Sheet Music, Scores, Parts and Performance Materials are available from billholabmusic.com.

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Daniel Okulitch: The New American Art Song (GPR)

The acclaimed Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch sings an impressive range of songs by American composers that includes Jake Heggie’s Of [More]

The acclaimed Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch sings an impressive range of songs by American composers that includes Jake Heggie’s Of Gods and Cats and Grow Old Along With Me!, with cycles by Ricky Ian Gordon, Glen Roven, and Lowell Lieberman.

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Leah Partridge: Finding Home

Acclaimed soprano Leah Partridge sings a beautiful range of American art song featuring works by Jake, Ricky Ian Gordon, Ernst [More]

Acclaimed soprano Leah Partridge sings a beautiful range of American art song featuring works by Jake, Ricky Ian Gordon, Ernst Bacon, Lee Hoiby, Libby Larson and more.

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Talise Trevigne: At the Statue of Venus

Talise Trevigne: At the Statue of Venus Featuring Music by Jake Heggie and Glen Roven (GPR) The dazzling soprano Talise [More]

Talise Trevigne: At the Statue of Venus Featuring Music by Jake Heggie and Glen Roven (GPR) The dazzling soprano Talise Trevigne in her first solo CD. Music includes the first complete recording of Jake’s At The Statue of Venus with libretto by Terrence McNally. The recording also features Glen Roven’s “Santa Fe Songs,” and Jake’s [more]

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Connection: Three Song Cycles (Naxos)

Soprano Regina Zona and pianist Kathleen Tagg perform three of Jake Heggie’s song cycles, including the first complete recording of [More]

Soprano Regina Zona and pianist Kathleen Tagg perform three of Jake Heggie’s song cycles, including the first complete recording of Eve-Song. Natural Selection (1997) poetry by Gini Savage 1. Creation 2. Animal Passion 3. Alas! Alack! 4. Indian Summer – Blue 5. Joy Alone (Connection) Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia (1999) poetry by Edna St. [more]

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The Ahab Symphony by Jake Heggie - UNT School of Music.

Tenor Richard Croft and the University of North Texas Grand Chorus join the UNT Symphony Orchestra in this live recording [More]

Tenor Richard Croft and the University of North Texas Grand Chorus join the UNT Symphony Orchestra in this live recording of the 2013 world premiere of the Ahab Symphony, conducted by David Itkin. Texts by Melville (from Moby-Dick) and W.H. Auden (from his poem “Herman Melville”). See, hear and download on CDBaby.com.   TRACKS I. [more]

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Heggie and Sheer's Moby-Dick by Robert K. Wallace

Robert K. Wallace has written this book so readers can experience the process by which Moby-Dick, the opera, was created [More]

Robert K. Wallace has written this book so readers can experience the process by which Moby-Dick, the opera, was created and performed on stage. Interviews with the creative team and draft revisions of the libretto and score show the opera in the process of being born. Interviews with the principal singers and the production staff [more]

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Jake Heggie's chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Opera by Helen Greenwald.

Oxford University Press, Edited by Helen M Greenwald.   Jake writes about Composing Opera Today in the Epilogue to this [More]

Oxford University Press, Edited by Helen M Greenwald.   Jake writes about Composing Opera Today in the Epilogue to this massive, 1200-page volume of essays by leading opera scholars from around the world. Available with preview as hardback or ebook at The Oxford University Press. You can also preview it here:

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French Connections - John Mark Ainsley

British tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform Friendly Persuasions on their 2016 album French Connections. The cycle [More]

British tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform Friendly Persuasions on their 2016 album French Connections. The cycle was premiered by Mr Ainsley and Mr Martineau at Wigmore Hall. The cycle is dedicated to Malcom Martineau. Friendly Persuasions: Songs in Homage to Poulenc (Texts by Gene Scheer) 1. Wanda Landowska 2. Pierre Bernac [more]

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Angel Blue - Joy Alone

The acclaimed American soprano Angel Joy Blue and pianist Iain Burnside featured three of Jake’s songs on their 2016 recording [More]

The acclaimed American soprano Angel Joy Blue and pianist Iain Burnside featured three of Jake’s songs on their 2016 recording Joy Alone. Animal Passion, Joy Alone, A Route to the Sky.

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