Sneakeater Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Schubert: String Quintet/Rondo in A (Beths/Rautenberg/Gatwood/Dann/Slowik/Bylsma) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Webber/Morris Big Band: Both Are True Pendercki: A Polish Requiem (Klosińska/Rappé/Minkiewicz/Nowacki//Wit/Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir) Peter Ivers: Terminal Love Peter Ivers: Peter Ivers Dvorák: String Quartet No. 3 (Stamitz Quartet) Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Dvorák: String Quartet No. 2/Andante Appassionato (Stamitz Quartet) Kammel: String Quartet No. 2//Gassmann: String Quartet No. 8//Koczwara: Sonata for Two Violins & Cello//Zimmermann: String Quartet No. 3 (Sojka Quartet) Ockeghem: Requiem/Missa "Mi-mi" (Hilliard Ensemble) (I can listen to Ockeghem while looking at a contemporary illustration of him leading his choir in the new Huizinga!) Merulo: Organ-Alternatim Masses (Del Sordo//Turco/Nova Schola Gregoriana/In Dulci Jubilo) Ingrid Laubrock: ubatuba Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 Various: A Slight Disturbance in My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of 1965 (Disc 3) Dvorák: Requiem/Wind Serenade/Scherzo Capriccioso/Symphonic Variations (Lorengar/Komlóssy/Ilosfalvy/Krause//Kertész/London Symphony Orchestra/Ambrosian Singers) (you often hear how amazing this Requiem is, but I don't recall hearing people go sufficiently apeshit over this Wind Serenade) Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here to Stay (I much prefer the Lady Gaga collab) (he, at last, sounds really old; she sounds really dull) Moon Duo: Occult Architecture Vol. 2 Lee Ranaldo/Jim Jarmusch/Marc Urselli/Balazs Pandi: Ranaldo/Jarmusch/Urselli/Pandi Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum/Marian Motets (Hilliard Ensemble) The Ensemble Al-Salaam: The Sojourner (fucking FANTASTIC) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Haydn: Folksong Arrangements: Scottish Songs for William Napier (Lorna Anderson/Jamie MacDonald/Haydn Trio Eisenstadt) (Disc 3) (you could listen to this stuff forever -- and there's so much of it, you probably will) Dvorák: String Quartet No. 8/Echo of Song ("Cypresses") (Stamitz Quartet) (every time I think I don't much like Dvorák I listen to him, and remember that in fact I adore him) Neil Young & Promise of the Real: Paradox Mahan Esfahani: Musique? (music for harpsichord by Takemitsu/Cowell/Kaija Saariaho/Gavin Bryars/Anahita Abbasi/Ferrari) Various: Black Fire: Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993 Nat King Cole: Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) (Disc 3) Kapsberger: Che Fai Tù?: Villanelles (The Kapsber'girls) (one of those recordings where everything went right: I couldn't imagine this being better -- or more purely enjoyable) Ruthann Friedman: Windy: A Ruthann Friedman Songbook Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground Pfitzner: Orchestral Songs (Begemann//Tausk/Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie) Cory Smythe: Accelerate Every Voice (great!) Derrick Hodge: Live Today Tropical Fuck Storm: Legal Ghost Philip Glass: Solo Piano Spirit: The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (this has NOT aged well) Villa-Lobos: String Quartets Nos. 4, 9 & 11 (Cuarteto Latinoamericano) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 John Fahey: The "Yellow Princess" Dvorák: String Quartet No. 4/Quartet Movement (Stamitz Quartet) Lori McKenna: The Balladeer (meh) Schubert: "Trout" Quintet/Arpeggione Sonata/Adagio for Piano Trio "Notturno" (Imerseel/L'Archibudelli) (I wasn't expecting this to be quite as good as it was) Josquin Desprez: Motets & Chansons (Hillier/Hilliard Ensemble) (this was one of the best, if not the best, Josquin records in the catalogue when it came out some 30+ years ago -- and damned if it isn't still, despite all the stylistic advances that have been made in performance practice) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Fleetwood Mac: English Rose Dvorák: My Home/Huistiská/In Nature's Realm/Carnival/Othello (Kertész/London Symphony Orchestra) Ellen Ried: prism (Schubert/Loeb//Wachner/NOVUS NY/Choir of Trinity Wall Street) (since I loved the music of this opera but thought the libretto kind of weak, a recording may be the best way for me to listen to it) Schmelzer/Graindelavoix: Confréries: Devotional Songs by Jaikes de Cambrai Shelby Lynne: Shelby Lynne Takemitsu/Toshio Hosokawa: Works for Solo Guitar (Del Greco) Haydn: Folksong Arrangements: Scottish Songs for William Napier (Lorna Anderson/Jamie MacDougal/Haydn Trio Eisenstadt) (Disc 4) Emma Kirkby/Chelys Consort of Viols feat. James Akers: A Pleasing Melancholy (pleasing indeed) (Kirkby's voice doesn't age) ( The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground ("Closet" Mix) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Dvorák: The Water Goblin/The Noonday Witch/The Golden Spinning Wheel (Kertész/London Symphony Orchestra) (even Dvorák's Stupid 19th Century Tone Poems are enjoyable!) Evelyn Glennie//Shui/Singapore Symphony Orchestra: Oriental Landscapes (concertante works for percussion, assembled with questionable taste, by Chen Yi/Thea Musgrave/Zhou Long/Hovhaness) Amandita: La Reina de la Anarcumbia oui ennui: Understanding clipping.: Chapter 319 Dawn Oberg: 2020 Revision Lisel: "Night and Day" Josquin Dezprez: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae/Pater Noster/Ava Maria//Gombert?: Lugebat David Absalom/Miserere Mei Deus/Tu Solus qui Facis Mirabilla (Hilliard Ensemble) Michael Harrison: Just Constellations (Roomful of Teeth) Stravinsky: Greeting Prelude/Dumbarton Oaks Concerto/Eight Instrumental Miniatures/Four Etudes for Orchestra/Suites for Small Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2 (Stravinsky/CBC Orchestra/Columbia Symphony) (another big personal fave from the days when I was first getting into classical music) (and boy does triode mode do a lot to tame this fierce 1960s Columbia orchestral recording!) The Beach Boys: Smiley Smile (God do I love this album) Poulenc: La Voix Humane (Barbara Hannigan//Salonen/Paris Opera Orchestra) (how can Barbara Hannigan have taken up with some Bond villain when she was so clearly meant to be with me?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mitchells Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Shemekia Copeland : Uncivil War Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Gade: Erlkönigs Tochter/Fünf Gesange (Junker/Fuchs/Weisser//Mortensen/Concerto Cophenhagen/Danish National Vocal Ensemble) (maybe if you're Danish . . . .) No Age: Goons Be Gone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5/Rondo a Capriccio "Rage over a Lost Penny" (Kempff//Kempen/Raabe/German Opera House Orchestra/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) Spirit: Feedback Stravinsky: Bluebird -- Pas de Deux/Jeu de Cartes/Scenes de Ballet (Stravinsky/Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Cleveland Orchestra/CBC Symphony Orchestra) Liza Lim: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus/Avis Mundi/Songs Found in Dream (Schafleitner/Dowling//Rundel/Asbury/Klangforum Wien) (what a good composer) Matthew Schipp Trio: The Conduct of Jazz Deap Lips: Deap Lips (I love this -- but then I would) Couperin: Troisième Livre de Pièces de Clavecin: Dix-Huitèmme, & Dix-Neuvième Ordres/Quatrième Livre de Pièces de Clavin: Vingtième Ordre (Cerasi) Amanda Gookin: Forward Music Project 1.0 (pieces for cello by Nathalie Joachim/Allison Loggins-Hall/Angélica Negrón/Morgan Krauss/Amanda Ferry/Leila Adu-Gilmore/Jessica Meyer) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 Ornette Coleman: Town Hall 1962 Tournier/Schmitt/Pierné/Françaix/Roussel: French Flute Chamber Music (Mirage Quartet) Dream Wife: So When You Gonna . . . J.P. & J. Pla: Oboe Trios (Rossi PIceno) Soundgarden: Superunknown Haydn: Folksong Arrangements: Scottish Songs for William Napier (Lorna Anderson/Jamie MacDougall/Haydn Trio Eisenstadt) (Disc 5) Empyrean Atlas: Inner Circle Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 Stravinsky: Babel/Zvezdoliki ("Le Roi des Étoiles")/Chorale-Variations on Bach's "Von Himmel Hoch"/The Dove Descending Breaks the Air/A Sermon (Verrett/Discoll/Colicos/Horton//Stravinsky/CBC Symphony Orchestra/The Festival Singers of Toronto) Arbor Labor Union: New Petal Instants Son Lux: Tomorrows 1 Haydn: Folksong Arrangements: Scottish Songs for George Thomson (Lorna Anderson/Jamie MacDougall/Haydn Trio Eisenstadt) (Disc 6) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Gassmann: String Quartets in G Major, E Major, B Flat Major, D Major, B Flat Major again & A Major (de Lorenzo/Ensemble Vox Aurae) Karyn Levitt/Eric Ostling: Eric Bentley's Brecht-Eisler Song Book The Flaming Lips: American Head (this is supposed to be some fantasy about what Tom Petty's early band Mudcrutch sounded like -- but I've heard Mudcrutch, and they weren't anywhere near this good) Luke Stewart: Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier Charles Tolliver: Connect Cavalli: L'Amore Innamorato (Rial/Blažiková//Pluhar/L'Arpeggiata) Elliot Cole: Nightflower (really really good) Parlor Walls: Heavy Tongue Rachmaninov: 10 Preludes Nos. 4 & 8/13 Preludes Nos. 7, 9 & 10 /12 Songs No. 5 "Lilacs"/Études-Tableaux Op. 33 No. 3/Études Tableaux Op. 39 Nos. 1, 2, 5/Morceau de Fantasie in G Minor "Delmo"/6 Moments Musicaux Nos. 2 & 4/12 Songs No. 5 "Melodie" (trans. Volodos)/Cello Sonata Movement III (trans. Volodos) (Babayan) Eduardo Morales-Caso: Yemanja Sonata//Antón García y Abril: Timountain//Leonardo Balada: Caprichos No. 12 (Abstractions of "El Amor Bruja" of Falla)//Laura Vega: El Hombre que Plantaba Árboles . . .//Cristóbal Halffter: Espacio de Guitarra//José Luis Greco: Sweet as Candy: 7 Flavors for Guitar (Adam Levin) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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