A Fistful of Music

Music Newsletter for the Hiram College Library Community

December 2006

    

     Tis the season to be jolly, so we'll do our best.  At least the stocking is stuffed this time, by over 100 new CDs, our largest Fistful issue yet!  There's a lot of almost everything, especially classical music, but we have holiday delights, local artists, and some folks with questionable taste (never us).  We hope you enjoy this month's selections, and we'll be hard at work making more for January. 
     Another large move is going to take place, sometime in the next six weeks or so.  The CD collection will be moved (again!) out of their dingy cabinets and into nice new display cases that are currently on order.  These will be located in the area to the left of the main entrance, where we currently have the video/DVD collection, and part of the Reference collection.  Reference will be moved across the way to make room.  Our backs are already hurting.

     If you have any suggestions about what we should add to the collection, please don't hesitate to e-mail us, or write down your comments in the notebook that sits on top of the CD cabinets in the Schneider Room.  We can't promise we'll buy everything, but we'll consider even the most outrageous requests.  Any comments, questions or demands can be sent to Jeff Wanser, wanserjc@hiram.edu.

 

Pop/Rock:

Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments Herb Alpert Definitive Hits Pop Al74 D361 Some may think of him as the great purveyor of TV game show themes, but in the 1960s the trumpeter/bandleader had a string of hits that are hard to beat.  Links:  Alpert | AllMusicGuide Ass Ponys Electric Rock Music Pop As71 El25 Thank goodness these guys weren't first on the list.  Cleveland Americana/alt.country/rock.  Links:  Ponys | AllMusicGuide Big Audio Dynamite Planet Bad: Greatest Hits Pop B480 P693 Postpunk club music descended from the Clash via Mick Jones.  Links:  BAD | AllMusicGuide Chantilly Lace A Geauga County Song (In Nature's Way) & Other Country Classics Pop C364 G262 The subtitle implies another genre, but these folks are sort of a rock band, from Chagrin Falls.  Links:  CDBaby Maureen McGovern Maureen McGovern: The Millennium Collection Pop M177 M446 A best of set from this pop vocalist born in Youngstown.  Links: McGovern | AllMusicGuide Alison Moyet Singles Pop M874 Si64 Also a best of set, from this British pop singer.  Links:  Moyet | AllMusicGuide Mushroomhead XX Pop M973 X89 Don't we have the most curious bunch of stuff?  Bizarro metal band from Cleveland. Curiously, it's not their 20th CD.  Links: Mush | AMG The Prodigals Go On Pop P942 G533 Irish American rock band's 1999 release.  Links: Prodigals | AMG The Raspberries The Very Best of the Raspberries: Overnight Sensation Pop R184 V620 It's curious that Eric Carmen & Co. should still have a Raspberries web site up, but I'm sure there are fans out there somewhere.  Links:  Raspberries | AllMusicGuide David Ruffin Ultimate Collection Pop R838 Ul8 Solo material by former member of the Temptations.  Links:  Ruffin | AllMusicGuide Boz Scaggs Slow Dancer Pop Sca32 Sl59 That's William Royce Scaggs, of Canton, Ohio.  Lots of major 70s hits.  Here are some.  Links:  Scaggs | AllMusicGuide Six Parts Seven Everywhere and Right Here Pop Si97 Ev27 2004 release by this Indie band from Kent.  Links:  Six | AMG Six Parts Seven Lost Notes from Forgotten Songs Pop Si97 L899 From one year earlier.  Another link:  Six Rachel Sweet B.A.B.Y.:The Best of Rachel Sweet Pop Sw36 B119 New Wave (and country?) singer from Akron, with hits in the late 70s.  Links:  Sweet | AMG Tin Huey Contents Dislodged During Shipment Pop T490 C767 More postpunk from Akron, this one from 1979.  Links:  Huey | AllMusicGuide The Volta Sound Dandelion Wine Pop V889 D197 Not to be confused with Mars Volta or Son Volt.  Wackos from Cleveland who have clearly studied T-Rex in depth. Links: Volta | AMG Tuts Washington New Orleans Piano Professor Pop W279 N420 New Orleans R&B/boogie woogie piano player.  Links: AllMusicGuide

Folk/Country:

Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments Bob Bellamy American Architecture Folk B414 Am35 Hammered dulcimer music from Bucyrus, Ohio.  The trouble with folkies is that they often don't have web sites. The Casuals Let's Get Casual Folk C279 L569 It's polka time here in Northeast Ohio, and this is only the first of many you'll see added to the collection.          Links:  The Casuals Radney Foster Labor of Love Country F816 L113 Second solo effort by member of Foster & Lloyd.  Links:  Foster | AMG Loretta Lynn Blue Eyed Kentucky Girl Country L993 B625 An early compilation CD by Ms. Lynn.  Links: Lynn | AMG Lee Moore 20 Early Favorites Country M784 T918 West Virginia DJ turned country singer, backed by Reno & Smiley's band, so he sounds part country, part bluegrass. Oak Ridge Boys You're the One Country Oa4 Y88 One of their many 90s releases, this one as good as another.  Links:  Oak | AllMusicGuide Alex E. Smith & Cheevers Toppah Intonation: Harmonized Songs from the Southern Plains Folk Sm51 In8 Native American music combined with choral hymn styling.  Sorry, no web sites. Darden Smith Sunflower Country Sm54 Su72 2002 release by this Texas country/Americana artist.  Links: Smith | AllMusicGuide Don Walser Dare to Dream: The Best of Don Walser Country W168 D246 Western swing guitarist and yodeler who recently passed away.  Links:  Walser | AMG

International:

Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments Arturo Jaimes y Los Cantantes Tumbando Caña Int C166 T830 1999 release by this popular Mexican group.  Links: Jaimes Celia Cruz A Proper Introduction to Celia Cruz Int C889 P945 A compilation of songs by this Cuban salsa artist.  Links:  Cruz | AllMusicGuide Jánosi Ensemble Rhapsody: Liszt & Bartók Sources Int J264 R341 Folk ensemble performs traditional music that influenced the works of the composers.  Links:  Hungarian Folk Music Tania Libertad Costa Negra Int L615 C823 Successful Latin singer of Bolero and Tropical.  Links: Libertad | AllMusicGuide Orquesta de Cuatros de Puerto Rico La Música Folklórica de Puerto Rico Int Or7 M973 Folk music from Puerto Rico, but you probably already guessed that.  Links: Music of Puerto Rico Ot Azoj Klezmerband Channukah Int Ot1 C362 Holiday CD from this Dutch Klezmer band.  Links:  Ot Azoj | AllMusicGuide Rajery Fanamby Int R137 F212 Harp player and bandleader from Madagascar.  Links: Rajery | AllMusicGuide   Hard to Say Goodbye: Duets with Qin and Xiao Int H216 Folk music played on traditional instruments.  Links:  Chinese Musical Instruments   Yogyakarta: Gamelan of the Kraton Int Y75 Gamelan music from South Central Java, performed by the Gamelan Orchestra of the Yogyakarta Royal Palace.  Links: Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival

Blues/Gospel:

Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments Big Joe & the Dynaflows I'm Still Swingin' Blues B480 Im1 1998 CD from this D.C. area blues band.  Links: Big Joe | AMG Big Joe & the Dynaflows Layin' in the Alley Blues B480 L453 Another release, this one from 1994. Clarence Gatemouth Brown San Antonio Ballbuster Blues B812 Sa51 The title is not our fault.  Early recordings from this Texas guitar slinger.  Links: Brown | AMG B.B. King Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan Blues K580 L567 The blues guitar king pays tribute to an old friend.  Links: King | AMG | Jordan | AMG Magic Sam West Side Soul Blues M272 W520 Sorry, that's West Side of Chicago, not Cleveland.  Lots of guitar here.  Links:  Sam | AMG

Musicals/Film Music:

Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments Dimitri Tiomkin Red River FilmMus T498 R245 Score for the 1948 western, performed by the Moscow Symphony, conducted by William Stromberg.  Links: Tiomkin

Jazz:

Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments Citrus Sun Another Time Another Space Jazz C498 An78 2001 release by this smooth jazz group.  Links: AllMusicGuide Sefano di Battista Parker's Mood Jazz D544 P229 Italian post-bop saxophonist, with an interest in Charlie Parker.  Links: di Battista | AMG Drumplay Dayshine to Stars-End Jazz D845 D336 The latest from this Northeast Ohio jazz/world fusion group.  Links: Drumplay Duke Ellington Money Jungle Jazz El56 M746 Ellington does some modern work here with Max Roach and Charlie Mingus.  Links: Ellington | AMG Coleman Hawkins Ultimate Coleman Hawkins Jazz H314 Ul8 A retrospective of the sax player's music, selected by Sonny Rollins.  Links: Hawkins | AllMusicGuide Roy Haynes Te-vous! Jazz H333 T299 1994 release by this jazz drummer. Links: Haynes | AMG Joseph Lamb American Beauties: The Rags of Joseph Lamb Jazz L167 Am35 Early ragtime compositions, performed by Virginia Eskin, piano.  Links: Lamb | Eskin Liquid Soul Make Some Noise Jazz L669 M289 2nd CD by this acid jazz group from Chicago.  Links: Liquid | AMG Hank Mobley Workout Jazz M713 W892 1961 recording session, featuring the tenor sax player, with Grant Green, guitar, Wynton Kelly, piano, Paul Chambers, bass, and Philly Joe Jones, drums.  Links: Mobley | AllMusicGuide Bobby Selvaggio Quartet Visions Transitions Jazz Se49 V825 Recent release by this Cleveland sax player and his friends.  Links: Selvaggio Mamie Smith Crazy Blues: The Best of Mamie Smith Jazz Sm62 C859 Is she blues or jazz?  The answer may not be important, but she was backed by a jazz band, and her other CDs are the in Jazz section.  Links: Smith | AMG Dave Sterner Quintet What's What Jazz St45 W558 Another stylistically eclectic Northeast Ohio sax master, with four other guys. Links: Sterner Andrienne Wilson She's Dangerous Jazz W691 Sh59 1998 release by this flute player and singer.  Links: Wilson

Classical:

Composer Title Call # Comments Ethel Barns Swing Song and Other Forgotten Treasures by Ethel Barns Clas B267 Sw64 Late Romantic chamber pieces performed by Nancy Schechter, violin, and Cary Lewis, piano.  Béla Bartók Centenaire de Béla Bartók Clas B285 C333 Features sonatas for violin, and for two pianos and percussion, performed by Hansheinz Scheeberger, violin, Janka & Jürg Wyttenbach, piano, and Siegfried Schmid & Gerhard Huber, percussion.  Links:  Bartók Mrs. H.H.A. Beach Concerto for Piano & Orchestra; Piano Quintet Clas B352 C744 More late Romantic works, performed by Mary-Louise Boehm, piano, and the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Siegfried Landau.  Links:  Beach | Boehm Eugene Goossens Symphonic Works Clas G644 Sy68 His Symphony No. 2, and two other pieces, performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley.  Links:  Goossens | SSO | Handley François-Joseph Gossec Te Deum a Grand Orchestre Clas G695 T220 1779 work performed by Choeur National, and the Choeur et Orchestre de Paris-Sorbonne, conducted by Jacques Grimbert.  Links:  Gossec | Grimbert Edvard Grieg The 3 Violin & Piano Sonatas Clas G870 V813 Performed by Rodrigue Milosi, violin, and Noël Lee, piano.  Links:  Grieg | Lee  Joseph Haydn Die Schöpfung / The Creation Clas H324 Sch65 Performed by Collegium Vocale-Gent, and La Petite Bande, conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken.  Links: Haydn | CV-G | Petite | Kuijken Magne Hegdal Pour Ensemble; For 3; Bona Nox-Wolfgang in Memoriam Clas H361 P866 Recent works by this Norwegian composer, performed by Ricardo Odriozola, violin, Sally Guenther, cello & double bass, and others.  Links: Hegdal | Odriozola Franz Liszt The Three Piano Concertos Clas L699 P573 Also Totentanz.  Performed by Jeffrey Swann, piano, and Orhcestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, conducted by Karl Martin.  Links: Liszt | Swann Franz Liszt Requiem; Psaume 129 Clas L699 R299 Performed by the Choeur de L'Armée Française, directed by Yves Parmentier.  Links: Choeur Carl Loewe Balladen von Carl Loewe Clas L825 B210 Ballads sung by Eberhard Wächter, baritone, accompanied by Hans Dokoupil, piano.  Links: Loewe | Wächter Carl Loewe Balladen Clas L825 B210 Mostly different ballads, sung by Hermann Prey, accompanied by Helmut Deutsch, piano.  Links: Prey | Deutsch Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Clas M278 L623 Performed by Lili Chookasian, contralto, Richard Cassilly, tenor, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind.  Links: Mahler | Susskind | Chookasian | CSO  Jeffrey Mumford The Promise of the Far Horizon Clas M919 P944 Instrumental works by this faculty member at Oberlin College, performed by Wendy Richman, viola, the Corigliano Quartet, Margaret Kampmeier, piano, the CORE Ensemble, and Rhonda Taylor, alto sax.  Links: Mumford | Richman | Corigliano Q | CORE | Taylor Carl Orff Kleines Konzert; other works Clas Or3 K673 Title work, along with scenes and dances from Carmina Burana, Der Mond, and Die Kluge.  Performed by the Mainz Wind Ensemble, conducted by Klaus Rainer Schöll.  Links: Orff Carl Orff Veni Creator Spiritus: Cantaten und Chorsätze Clas Or3 v557 Cantatas and choral works performed by the Carl Orff Choir, directed by Arthur Gross. Nicolo Paganini Caprices Pour Violon Seul, op.1 Clas P140 C229 19 of the 24 caprices (we guess the others wouldn't fit), performed by Devy Erlih, violin.  Links: Paganini Nicolo Paganini Works for Violin and Guitar Clas P140 W892 Mostly sonatas, performed by Maryvonne Le Dizès, violin, and Marie-Thérèse Ghirardi, guitar.  Links: Le Dizès (in French) Qian Zhao-xi Primitive Safari: Chinese Orchestral Works Clas Q16 P935 Recent compositions based on traditional themes, performed by the Shanghai Film Chinese Orchestra, conducted by Wang Yong-ji.  Links: Wang Franz Xaver Richter Kammermusik / Chamber Music Clas R418 K129 18th century sonatas and a quartet, performed by Le Parlement de Misique-Strasbourg, and the Apponyi Quartett.  Links: Richter Joaquín Rodrigo Five Orchestral Pieces Clas R618 Or1 Plus some other works, performed by the Rundfunkorchester Berlin, conducted by Hans-Dieter Baum.  Links:  Rodrigo Jakub Jan Ryba Missa in B; Litaniea Lauretanae Clas R960 M691 Early 19th century works, performed by the Corus Cameralis Pragense, and the Orchestra Puellarum Pragensis, conducted by Leoš Svárovský.  Links: Ryba | Svárovský Camille Saint-Saens Le Dèluge; etc. Clas Sa25 D388 Title work and two others, performed by the Choeur Régional Vittoria d'Ile de France, and the Orchestre National d'Ile de France, conducted by Jacques Mercier.  Links: Saint-Saens Florent Schmitt Quintette pour Cordes et Piano / Quintet for Piano and Strings Clas Sch56 Q45 Early 20th century work, performed by Quatuor à Cordes de Berne, and Werner Bartschi, piano.  Links:  Schmitt Franz Schubert An Die Musik: Favorite Schubert Songs Clas Sch78 An10 Performed by Bryn Terfel, with Malcolm Martineau on piano.  Links: Schubert | Terfel | Martineau Karol Szymanowski Concert Overture; Violin Concertos 1 & 2 Clas Sz93 C744 Performed by Kaja Danczowska, violin, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw, conducted by Kazimierz Kord.  Links:  KS | Kord Joseph Woelfl 3 Sonatas, Op. 28 Clas W820 So57 Didn't we see this last month?  No, these are a different set of sonatas, performed by Laure Colladant, piano-forte.  Links: Woelfl Jan Dismas Zelenka 6 Sonate a due Hautbois et Basson (Trio Sonatas) Clas Z37 So57 Works from the early 1700s, performed by various artists, for combinations of oboe, bassoon, violin, cello, and harpsichord.  Links: Zelenka Artist Title Call # Comments All Star Percussion Ensemble The All Star Percussion Ensemble Clas Al51 Al51 Works by Bizet, Beethoven, Berlioz, and Pachelbel, arranged & conducted by Harold Farberman.  Links: Harold Apollo's Fire Noëls & Carols from the Olde World Clas Ap43 N682 Seasonal program by this Cleveland group.  We wish they hadn't used "Olde."  Links: Apollo's Fire Maria Bayo Arie Antiche Clas B345 Ar42 23 Baroque arias sung by this soprano, accompanied by Ursula Duetschler, harpsichord.  Links: Bayo Blagovest Choral Ensemble The Lord is My Light: Russian Sacred Music Clas B572 L884 Variety of choral pieces, directed by Galina Koltsova.  Links:  Blagovest Oscar Caceres  Antologia de la Guitarra Expañola / Anthology of the Spanish Guitar Clas C268 An88 4-CD set of works featuring a variety of styles and periods. Chamber Choir of Gostelradio of Armenia Armenian Choral Music Clas C355 Ar54 Works by five composers, directed by Tigran Ekekian. Sally Dibblee Le Souvenir: Canadian Songs for Parlour and Stage Clas D544 So89 French and English songs performed by this soprano, with Russell Braun, baritone, and Carolyn Maule, piano.  Links:  Dibblee | Braun Linda Finnie Songs of the British Isles Clas F497 So58 Songs by Quilter, Hughes, Stanford, Britten, and others, by this mezzo-soprano, accompanied by Anthony Legge, piano.  Links: Finnie  | Legge Kammerchor Lienz Musica Sacra: Festliche Chormusik im Jahreskreis Clas K129 M973 Festive works by this chamber choir, directed by Artur Gutwenger.  Frances Kelly Harp Collection: The Development of the Harp from Medieval to Modern Times Clas K296 H230 Demonstrates pieces from various eras on different kinds of harps.  Links: Kelly Lauralyn Kolb Songs by Clara Schumann, Poldowski, and Amy Beach Clas K830 So58 28 pieces, sung by this soprano, with Don McMahon on piano.  Links:  Schumann | Beach Jennifer Larmore Call Me Mister Clas L326 C130 A selection of castrati songs and other gender-benders from various operas, with the Welsh National Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.  Links: Larmore | Rizzi Franz Lehrndorfer Celestial Christmas 5 Clas L529 C330 Seasonal works played on the organ in the Dome at Munich.  Links: Lehrndorfer Felicity Lott Felicity Lott Sings Favorite English Songs Clas L916 F334 22 songs by this soprano by various composers, with Graham Johnson on piano.  Links: Lott Felicity Lott Mélodies sur des Poemes de Victor Hugo Clas L916 M491 Pieces by various composers, accompanied by Graham Johnson, piano.  Links: Johnson Stig Nilsson Music in a Nordic Summer Night Clas N599 M973 Violin pieces by Nielsen, Sinding, and others, with Håvard Gimse accompanying on the piano.  Karel Paukert Aubade: Organ Music by Ohio Composers Clas P281 Au12 Works by eight composers, performed by the Director of Musical Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art.  Links:  Paukert St. John's College Choir, Cambridge Ave Verum: Popular Choral Music Clas Sa23 Av31 Varied program, directed by Christopher Robinson.  Links: