A Fistful of Music
Music Newsletter for the Hiram College
Library Community
October 2004
CONTENTS: NEW
CDs: Pop/Rock | Country/Folk
| International | Blues/Gospel
| Musicals/Film Music |
Jazz | Classical
| Miscellaneous |
WEB SITES TO WATCH | THE
OBITS
It's October, so it must be time for another issue of A Fistful of
Music. We have new CDs in every category, local rock bands,
Swedish big bands Himalayan folk bands, new blues, old blues, and
Flemish composers, so nobody should go away disappointed. As
usual, if you have suggestions, recommendations, complaints, or demands,
please e-mail Jeff Wanser, at wanserjc@hiram.edu
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NEW CDs NEW
CDs NEW CDs NEW CDs NEW CDs NEW CDs
NEW CDs |
| POP/ROCK: |
Daft Punk.
Discovery. Pop D131 D631 The name
is misleading. These guys
are a techno/club music duo from
France. A request from someone who needs
a beat.
Links: Daft
| AllMusicGuide |
Fountains of
Wayne. Welcome Interstate Managers. Pop F825 W449 New
York indie pop band reminiscent of They
Might Be Giants. Links: Wayne |
Hot Tuna.
Hot Tuna. Pop H797 H797 Their very
first album recorded in 1969,
featuring Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady,
fresh from Jefferson Airplane.
Links: Hot
Tuna | AllMusicGuide |
Pere Ubu.
Dub Housing. Pop P413 D851 Art punk
from Cleveland, this
release is from 1979.
Links: Pere
Ubu | AllMusicGuide |
Pink Floyd.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Pop P655
P661 Yes, they made
albums other than Dark Side of the
Moon and The Wall. This is their first,
from 1967. Links:
Floyd | AllMusicGuide |
Pretenders.
Learning to Crawl. Pop P926 L479
Akron's own Chrissie Hynde
fronts the band on this 1984
release. Links: Pretenders
| AllMusicGuide |
Patrice Rushen.
Straight from the Heart. Pop R895
St81 Mostly known as a
1970s R&B diva, this offering from
1982 is more jazz flavored.
Links: Rushen
| AllMusicGuide |
String Cheese
Incident. Untying the Not. Pop St86
Un8 2003 studio release
by this jam band.
Links: String
| AllMusicGuide |
Traffic.
Heaven is in Your Mind. Pop T676
H352 Headed by Steve Winwood,
the group personified psychedelic art
rock circa 1969.
Links: Winwood
| AllMusicGuide |
| INTERNATIONAL: |
Bharat Nepali
Party. Himalayan Trekking Songs. Int
B469 H570 Recorded
in Kathmandu. |
Alexander
Fedoriouk. The Art of the Cimbalom. Int
F319 Ar75 You may
have seen him when Harmonia was
playing. Here he is the featured performer.
Links: Harmonia |
Grupo Atrapado.
¡Oh! Que Gusto. Int G927 Oh1 1999
CD by this Mexican
band.
Links: AllMusicGuide |
Cheb Mimoun.
Moroccan Rai. Int M654 M834 Pop
music, North African .
style.
Links: AllMusicGuide |
Umm Kulthum.
Oum Kalthoum: El Sett (La Dame/The Lady). Int
Um5 Ou5
However her name might be spelled, she
was one of the most important singers
in the Middle East in the 20th
century. Links: Umm
| AllMusicGuide |
Style of Five.
Style of Five. Int St99 St99 If you
didn't get their CD or hear
them when they were on campus last year,
here they are. Great stuff.
Links: Style
of Five |
Lebanon.
Int L490 Part of the Anthology of World Music series
being issued by
Rounder Records, this compilation
features vocal music from several traditions. |
Mahagitá: Harp
and Vocal Music of Burma. Int
M277 Performed by Myint
Maung and Yi Yi Thant.
Classical music developed in the royal courts. |
| CLASSICAL: |
Arno Babadjanian.
Violin Sonata; Piano Trio. Performed by Ani Kavafian,
violin, Suren Bagratuni, cello, Avo
Kuyumjian, piano. Clas B112 V813
20th century chamber works with an
Armenian flair. Links: Babadjanian |
Arnold Bax.
Sinfonietta; Overture, Elegy and Rondo. Performed by
the Slovak
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by
Barry Wordsworth. Clas B330 Si63
English post-Romantic
composer. Links: Bax
| Slovak P.O. |
August De Boeck. Symphony in G; Violin Concerto; Dahomeyan Rhapsody.
Performed by the Royal Flanders
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by
Frédéric Devreese.
Igou
B633 Sy68 Links: Boeck
| Royal
Flanders |
Eric
Coates. Eric Coates. Works performed by the
Slovak Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Andrew
Penny. Clas C632 Er42 British
"light"
music, which is to say that it's very
nice listening. Links: Coates
| Penny |
Godfried Devreese. Symphony No. 1; Poème Héroique; In Memoriam.
Performed by the Moscow Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Frédéric
Devreese.
Igou
D499 Sy68 Links: G.
Devreese | F.
Devreese |
Godfried Devreese. Tombelène; Violin Concerto No. 1; Cello Concertino.
Performed by the BRT Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Frédéric
Devreese.
Igou
D499 T592 |
Marcel
Dupré. Works for Organ, Vol. 6.
Performed by Stefan Engels.
Clas D928 W892 20th century
pieces. Links: Dupré
| Engels |
Donald
Erb. Sunlit Peaks and Dark Valleys.
Performed by the Verdehr Trio
& various other
musicians. Clas Er19 Su73 The title sounds
like New Age
music, but Erb is a modernist
composer. Links: Erb
| Verdehr Trio |
Camargo
Guarnieri. Violin Sonatas Nos. 2, 3 & 7.
Violin Sonatas 4-6.
Both CDs performed by Lavard Skou Larsen,
violin, accompanied by
Alexander Müllenbach on
piano. Clas G932 V813 and
Clas G932 V813
20th century works from this Brazilian
composer. Links: Guarnieri |
Sorrel Hays.
Dreaming the World.
Clas
H334 D810 Mostly electronic music,
but there's a string quartet in there
somewhere. Links: Hays |
Eric
Wolfgang Korngold. Piano Works, Vol. 1.
Performed by Ilona Prunyi.
Clas K842 P573 Romantic
sonatas and other pieces by this composer who
is probably better known for his
film scores, such as Captain Blood.
Links: Korngold |
Prunyi |
Igor
Markevitch. Complete Orchestral Music, Vol. 1.
Performed by the
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted
by Christopher Lyndon-Gee.
Clas M341 C738 20th century
composer. Links: Markevitch
| L-G |
Frederick May.
String Quartet.
& Aloys Fleischmann.
Piano Quintet.
Performed by Hugh Tinney, piano, and the
Vanbrugh Quartet. Igou M451 St86
Links: Tinney
| Vanbrugh Q |
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 25.
Performed by
Alfred Brendel, piano, and the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Sir
Charles Mackerras. Clas M877
P573 Links: Mozart
| Mackerras
|
Brendel
| Scottish C.O. |
Arvo
Pärt. Triodion. Performed by Polyphony,
conducted by Stephen Layton.
Clas P210 T737 Contemporary
choral music by this Estonian composer.
Links: Pärt
| Polyphony |
Jean-Phillipe
Rameau. Six Concerts en Sextuor. Performed
by Les Talens
Lyriques. Clas R144
Si97 Fans of Baroque music were probably ready
to
give up by now, but here are some
delightful pieces. Links: Rameau
|
Les
Talens Lyriques |
Steve
Reich. Tehillim; The Desert Music.
Performed by Alarm Will Sound and
Ossia, conducted by Alan
Pierson. Clas R271 T233 Two works from
the
1980s by this pioneer of
minimalism. Links: Reich
| Alarm Will Sound |
Joseph-Guy
Ropartz. Choral Works. Performed by the
Choeur Régional
d'lle de France, and the Orchestre
Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy,
directed by Michel Piquemal. Clas R680 C456 Early 20th century works.
Links: Ropartz
| More Ropartz |
Manuel Rosenthal. Orchestral Works.
Performed by the Orchestre
Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy,
conducted by Jérôme Kaltenbach.
Igou R727 Or1
Links: Rosenthal |
Franz
Schreker. Flammen. Performed by the
Instrumental Ensemble and Chorus
of the PPP Music Theatre (Munich),
conducted by Frank Strobel.
Clas Sch71 F612 A one-act
opera first performed in 1901.
Links: Schreker
| Strobel |
Morton Subotnick. And the Butterflies Begin to Sing. Performed by the Amernet
String Quartet & the California E.A.R.
Unit. Clas Su16
An22 A mixture of
music made by humans and
computers. Links: Subotnick
| Amernet SQ |
Karol
Szymanowski. Harnasie; Mandragora; Étude for
Orchestra. Performed
by the Polish State Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Karol Stryja.
Clas Sz93 H229 Three
late Romantic works, the first for ballet.
Links: Szymanowski
| Polish
State P.O. |
Karol
Szymanowski. Songs with Orchestra.
Performed by the same folks
listed above, with some
singers. Clas Sz93 So58 |
Alexander
Sergeievich Taneyev. Symphony No. 2; Suite No. 2.
Performed
by Philharmonia Hungarica, conducted by
Werner Andreas Albert.
Clas T153 Sy68 Very nice
Russian romanticism. Links: Taneyev |
James Tenney.
Selected Works 1961-1969. Clas T257
Se48 Modern music,
mostly created at Bell
Laboratories. Links: Tenney |
Matthias
Weckmann. Organ Works, Vol. 1.
Performed by Wolfgang Zerer.
Clas W411 Or3 Toe-tapping
tunes from the 1600s. Links: Weckmann |
Yehudi Wyner.
On This Most Voluptuous Night. Performed by Wyner on
piano,
with the Lydian String Quartet and
others. Clas W991 Or1 The title of
the
CD sounds romantic, but the music is
considerably more modernist.
Links: Wyner
| Lydian
SQ |
Frank Zappa.
Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa: Greggery Peccary
&
Other Persuasions.
Clas Z18 En77 Zappa was a man for all seasons, and he
wrote contemporary classical compositions
as well as rock and jazz. For the
bizarrely inclined.
Links: Zappa
| AllMusicGuide |
Sharon Bezaly.
From A to Z.
Igou B469 F925
Flute
works by Aho, C.P.E.
Bach, J.S. Bach, and others.
Links: Bezaly |
Nancy Cooper.
The Road Less Traveled.
Organ works by Albright, Desportes,
Hindemith, and others, played on the Bond
organ at Holy Spririt Episcopal
Church, Missoula, Montana. Igou C786 R531
Links: Cooper |
| MISCELLANEOUS:
Where would we be without a place to put everything else? |
William Ackerman.
Hearing Voices. Misc Ac57 H351
Acoustic guitar work
by a long-standing icon of New Age
music. Links: Ackerman
| AMG |
William Ackerman.
In Search of the Turtle's Navel. Misc Ac57
In1 Biologists
will clue him in that turtles have no
navels, but the guitar music is nice anyway. |
Mandy Patinkin.
Mamaloshen. Misc P273 M310 Star of
stage, screen and
Chicago Hope celebrates his heritage with
a selection of Yiddish songs.
Links: Patinkin
| AllMusicGuide |
Bert Williams.
Bert Williams: The Middle Years, 1910-1918. Misc W670
B461 Vaudeville and Broadway
performer, Williams was also the first big
African-American recording artist.
Fascinating historical material, and excellent
remastering.
Links: Williams
| AllMusicGuide |
Windows: Windham
Hill 25 Years of Piano. Misc W724 A
selection of New
Age style pieces by George Winston, Liz
Story, Jim Brickman, and other artists
on the Windham Hill label.
Links: Windham
Hill |
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WEB
SITES TO WATCH WEB SITES TO WATCH WEB SITES TO
WATCH |
Hardanger
Fiddle Association of America: If you want to know
about
Norwegian fiddle music, this is the place
to be. News, audio clips, events. |
InfoChopin:
Anything and everything related to the composer, from the
International Chopin Information Centre. |
Omaha
Indian Music: Music, text and photos, including
material from as early
as the 1890s. From the Library of
Congress American Folklife Center. |
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THE
OBITS THE OBITS THE OBITS
THE OBITS THE OBITS THE OBITS |
Skeeter
Davis (1931-2004): Country singer, popular in the
1950s and 1960s,
who crossed over to the Pop charts in
1963, with "End of the World." |
Fred
Ebb (1933-2004): Broadway lyricist, whose credits
include Cabaret and
Chicago, as well as the song,
"New York, New York." |
Johnny
Ramone (1948-2004): Guitarist of the Ramones,
America's first, and
perhaps most famous, punk band. |
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