Release date: Projected Fall 2005
NAXOS CD (part of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)

Release date: Projected Fall 2005
Albany Records CD

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

Release date: December 2003
Albany Records CD, Troy 617

"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

Also see Kilstoft's interview with Zaimont on the 2001 Cliburn Competition in "Bibliography"

Score excerpts:
1. Ricerca

Release date: October 2001
Harmonia Munda CD 907289

"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

Score excerpts:
Movement 1
Movement 2

Release date: August 2001
Jeanne Inc. CD

Release date: 2001
Cavalli CCD 308

"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)

"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)

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

Release date: August 2000
Arabesque CD Z6742

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

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

Audio clips:
"Thou Shalt Love the Lord"

Release date: February 2000
4-Tay CD 4015

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)

The Vocal-Chamber Art in Pan Pipes Fall 2000, Volume 93, Number 1

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

Release date: June 1999
Leonarda CD 343

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


(originally released on Northeastern Records, March 1993)

Release date: May 1999
KOCH: Classical Arts NR 246-CD

Score excerpts:
"'Hesitation' Rag," page 1

Release date: June 1998
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS CD 3-7440-2H1

Score excerpts:
m. 19-27
Cadenzas

Release date: Summer 1998
ALBANY RECORDS CD Troy 246

Release date: November 1997
LEONARDA CD LE 338

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

Alla Breve in Classical Pulse! August/September 1997 No. 23

Audio clips:
Russian Summer Romp
February

Release date: February 1997
ARABESQUE CD Z6683

"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

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: February 1996
Arabesque CD Z6667

"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

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

Release date: October 1996
4-Tay CD 4001

"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

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

Album reviews:
"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.

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

Release date: March 1991
LEONARDA CD: LE 328