Monica Houghton’s works have been included on several recordings. Her discography is found below. Stream her music via the Spotify player shown here.

A Breath of Air

2024 compilation album ‘A Breath of Air: American Art Song’ is available on the Navona Label featuring 6 works for voice and piano, which are (in order of composition) :

  • In Singing Weather (1996) on poems of Maggie Anderson
  • Three Songs on Poems of Walt Whitman (2002/2010)
  • Whalefall (2006)  poem by Elizabeth Bradfield
  • Five Songs on Poems of James Wright (2009)
  • Three Gems from Emily Dickinson (2011/2022)
  • Six Songs on Poems of Langston Hughes (2016)

The Anderson, Hughes and Wright Songs were conceived as song cycles, the Dickinson and Whitman as sets of three, and the Bradfield is a single stand-alone song.

Soprano Andrea Chenoweth Wells, baritone Andrew White, and tenor Albert Rudolph Lee, together with collaborative pianists Eric Charnofsky, John Benjamin, and John Etsell perform the music.

‘I, Too’ from the Hughes cycle, recorded by Albert R. Lee and John Etsell, was selected by Apple Music for “The Classical Voice” playlist following the album’s release on March 15, 2024 .

The works on A BREATH OF AIR by Monica Houghton are “a clear reflection of true nobility and musicality,” said Sonograma Magazine.

Listen or purchase all or some of the selections on various platforms at Navona Records.

Consolations CD Cover

This is a compilation of six short pieces for solo piano composed during the period beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic lock-down in the spring of 2020 and continuing into the summer of 2022.

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Of TIme and Place

Released in June 2018 on Navona Records, Of Time & Place features eight of Monica Houghton’s chamber works: Andean Suite, The Twelve Causes from the Circle of Becoming, Wilderness Portraits, Stay, Shadow, 3 Songs Without Words, Epigram, Corpo Sonoro, and Sky Signs.

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American Lyricsm

Pianist Christopher Atzinger included Monica Houghton’s Sonata for Piano on his MSR Classics release American Lyricism.

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An American Menagerie

Violist Michelle LaCourse and pianist Martin Amlin included Monica Houghton’s Whalefall on their album American Menagerie.

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Aubade

Organist Karel Paukert performs Monica Houghton’s Erebus on the Azica Records release Aubade : Organ music by Ohio composers

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