A Fistful of Music

Music Newsletter for the Hiram College Library Community

February 2007

February may be the shortest month, but this is far from the shortest newsletter we've had. We've got more music than you would ever think of listening to, including Beethoven, Brahms, and Boris, Akron folks, throat music, big bands, small bands, and blues and more blues. This month, we have started linking to YouTube videos, so tell us if you like the new feature (or if you don't). We've also set things up so that you can peruse the local music we've been buying. All you have to do is search Northeast Ohio Music Initiative in the catalog, and more than 100 items will show up. The Bauman CD Collection continues to grow, with more than 160 items as of this issue. We'll catalog more of both for next time. We will try to fill requests, but we're starting to run out of budget for the moment. Any comments, questions or demands can be sent to Jeff Wanser, wanserjc@hiram.edu.

Pop/Rock:

Composer/Artist	Title	Call #	Comments
Joseph Arthur	Nuclear Daydream	Pop Ar77 N883	The latest release from this Akron native alternative singer/songwriter. Links: Arthur on YouTube
Joseph Arthur	Our Shadows Will Remain	Pop Ar77 Ou7	This one's from 2004. Links: Arthur \| AllMusicGuide
Boris	Pink	Pop B644 P655	Every library needs a CD by a Japanese metal group, and this is ours. Links: Boris \| AllMusicGuide
Billy Burnette	Are You With Me Baby	Pop B394 Ar31	The son of rockabilly great Dorsey Burnette, Billy is in the same ballpark in terms of style, but closer to country. This was release in 2000. Links: Burnette \| AllMusicGuide
Cat Power	The Greatest	Pop C280 G798	Still too early for a greatest hits package, this is Chan Marshall's 7th and latest release. Links: Cat Power \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Devo	Freedom of Choice	Pop D497 F875	More Devo? How much do we need? Maybe all of it. This is their 3rd album, from 1980. Links: Devo \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Tim Easton	Break You Mother's Heart	Pop Ea79 B740	More Tim Easton? Well, we only have one other. Another Akron boy, but bluesier than Arthur. Links: Easton \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Joe Jackson	Greatest Hits	Pop J135 G798	This one really is a greatest hits package. It says so right on the cover. Links: Jackson \| AMG \| YT
Jaded Era	Laugh at the World	Pop J173 L368	Another Akron band? How many are there? This one sounds vaguely Pretenders-like, with a little Joan Jett thrown in. Links: Jaded Era
Freedy Johnston	This Perfect World	Pop J643 T349	Another singer/songwriter, but at least this one's not from Akron (Kansas, actually). His 1994 release. Links: Johnston \| AllMusicGuide
Chuck Keiper	Heart on a String	Pop K268 H351	So how many County Commissioners do you know with their own rock band? Now you know one, specifically, Portage County's own. Links: Keiper
Marilyn Manson	Antichrist Superstar	Pop M338 An87	Now, we're just getting weird. But, Brian Warner is from Canton, so there's a reason. Besides we needed to keep Mushroomhead company. Links: Manson \| AllMusicGuide
Vaughn Monroe	Racing with the Moon	Pop M757 R115	We wonder what old Vaughn would have thought of following Marilyn Manson? The name seems to fit, and he's from Akron. Pop crooner's songs from the 1940s. Links: Monroe \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Nine Inch Nails	Pretty Hate Machine	Pop N622 P927	Finally, we hear from Cleveland! Trent Reznor at his industrial finest. Poor Vaughn. Links: NIN \| AllMusicGuide \|YouTube
Jeffrey Osborne	That's for Sure	Pop Os1 T329	R&B singer's 2000 release. No, he's not from around here, and he's not related to Ozzie. Links: Osborne \| AllMusicGuide \|YouTube
Joe Rohan	Walk Along	Pop R636 W150	Cleveland singer/songwriter's 2003 release. We'll get his latest soon. Links: Rohan \| More Rohan
Siouxsie & the Banshees	Twice Upon a Time: The Singles	Pop Si73 T921	Best of set by this band from the British punk scene. Links: Siouxsie \| AllMusicGuide \|YouTube
Michael Stanley Band	Heartland	Pop St25 H351	1980 release by Hiram's own (Class of 1970). We'll eventually get everything available. Links: YouTube
Michael Stanley Band	Stagepass	Pop St25 St13	Recorded at the Agora in 1976. Links: Stanley \| AllMusicGuide

Folk/Country:

Composer/Artist	Title	Call #	Comments
Apollo's Fire	Scarborough Fayre: Traditional Tunes from the British Isles & the New World	Folk Ap43 Sca72	Cleveland's Baroque group goes folky on us, with some help from Tina Bergmann. Links: Apollo's Fire
Blackfoot Confederacy	Setting the Record Straight	Folk B564 Se78	Powwow music from Montana, recorded at the powwow. Sorry, no links.
Fare Passage	Celtic Fare: All-Instrumental Dance Music from the Celtic Lands	Folk F223 C332	Two CDs from a fine area band that has played contra dances and other venues for a number of years.
Fare Passage	The Long Voyage: A Fare Passage Anthology	Folk F223 L854	Sorry, no links.
Red Foley	Red Foley	Country F699 R245	Best of set from this popular post-war country/honky tonk singer. Links: Foley \| AllMusicGuide
Hank Haller Ensemble	The Polka Variety Show	Folk H153 P759	We can't tell from the booklet whether these songs were actually played on the Polka Variety Show in Cleveland, but they probably were. Haller mixes Slovenian and German style polkas. Links: Haller
Grandpa Jones	Grandpa Jones	Country J716 G764	You may remember him from the TV shor Hee Haw, as the old geezer with the banjo. But he was a great banjo player, and had lots of hits. Here are some of them. Links: Jones \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Fred Kuhar Orchestra	Vintage Cleveland: The Kuhar Style	Folk K954 V790	Classic Cleveland-style polkas.
Michael Searching Bear	Un Earthed	Folk Se17 Un2	A couple of CDs from this local musician and flute maker. This one was nominated for a Nammy Award (Native American music).
Michael Searching Bear	Voice from Within	Folk Se17 V870	This one won a Just Plain Folks Award. Links: Searching Bear \| Nammy Awards \| Just Plain Folks
Kitty Wells	Kitty Wells	Country W462 K658	One of the queens of country music, she had hits from the 1950s into the 1970s. Links: Wells \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube

International:

Composer/Artist	Title	Call #	Comments
Tashi Dhondup	Songs from Tibet	Int D538 So58	But everyone knows him as Techung. Traditional Tibetan songs (with a curious emphasis on drinking songs). Links: Techung
Huun-Huur-Tu	The Orphan's Lament	Int H979 Or7	Throat singing from Tuva. Come on, everybody, sing along! Links: Huun \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Yungchen Lhamo	Ama	Int L610 Am11	Popular female Tibetan singer. Links: Lhamo \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Thomas Mapfumo	Corruption	Int M321 C817	Popular Zimbabwean musician and activist. This release is from the late 1980s. Links: Mapfumo \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Orquesta Nova	Salon New York	Int Or7 Sa36	Latin American music, especially tango, that doesn't seem to be for dancing. We'd describe it as "upscale."
Wong Ching	White Snow in Early Spring	Int W846 W585	Arranged folk songs and other pieces for the pipa, or Chinese lute. Links: Pipa
	Musique Traditionnelle de Corée / Traditional Korean Music	Int T674	2-CD set displaying various styles of music from Korea. Links: Traditional Korean Music

Blues/Gospel:

Composer/Artist	Title	Call #	Comments
Johnny Copeland	Catch Up with the Blues	Blues C692 C281	Mid-1990s release by this Texas guitarist. Links: Copeland \| AMG
Kid Ramos	Greasy Kid Stuff	Blues K537 G798	Some blues guitar from California for a change. Links: Ramos \| AllMusicGuide
Albert King	King of the Blues Guitar	Blues K580 K580	Late 1960s recordings by this influential Mississippi guitarist. Links: King \| AllMusicGuide \| YT
Robert Lockwood, Jr.	The Complete Trix Recordings	Blues L814 C738	Early 1970s recordings by this guitarist who made Cleveland his home. Links: Lockwood \| AMG \| YouTube
Del McCoury Band	The Promised Land	Gospel M137 P944	Many bluegrass albums have a gospel tune or two, but this one is all gospel, so we put it here. Links: McCoury \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Memphis Slim	Raining the Blues	Blues M519 R135	Blues piano, recorded in 1960. Guess where he was from? Links: Slim \| AllMusicGuide \|YouTube
Otis Spann	The Blues Never Die!	Blues Sp24 B625	Reissue of a 1965 album by another blues pianist and member of Muddy Waters' band. Links: Spann \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Candi Staton	Cover Me	Gospel St29 C838	One of this R&B/gospel singer's best, from the late 1990s. Links: Staton \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Jesse Taylor	Texas Tattoo	Blues T215 T312	This Austin guitarist did, indeed, have tattoos. He died last year, but there's a web site all about him. Links: Taylor \| AMG \| YouTube

Musicals/Film Music:

Composer/Artist	Title	Call #	Comments
Anne Dudley	A Different Light	FilmMus D865 D568	Film and TV music written by Dudley, with her on piano with various other musicians. Links: Dudley \| AllMusicGuide
Ennio Morricone	Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone	FilmMus M830 Y70	A selection of Morricone's film music, organized mostly by film director (Leone, De Palma, etc.), performed by Ma on cello, with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra, conducted by Morricone. Links: Morricone \| AMG \| YouTube \| Ma \| YouTube

Jazz:

Composer/Artist	Title	Call #	Comments
Albert Ayler	Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings	Jazz Ay43 L744	Free jazz great from Cleveland. These were recorded in 1965-67.
Albert Ayler Trio	Spiritual Unity	Jazz Ay43 Sp48	Perhaps his finest recording, from 1965. Links: Ayler \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Art Blakey	Holiday for Skins	Jazz B587 H717	Percussion everywhere from Mr. Blakey and friends, from 1958. Links: Blakey \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Thomas Chapin	You Don't Know Me	Jazz C365 Y83	The title is probably true. A fine release from a sax player who died young, in 1998. Links: Chapin \| AllMusicGuide
Ray Drummond	Vignettes	Jazz D844 V685	1995 release by this post-bop bassist. Links: Drummond \| AllMusicGuide
John McLean	Easy Go	Jazz M223 Ea79	In-demand session and backup guitarist puts out his own stuff. Links: McLean \| AllMusicGuide
Brad Mehldau Trio	Day is Done	Jazz M473 D330	Pianist and friends do Beatles tunes and other stuff in progressive fashion. Links: Mehldau \| AllMusicGuide \| YouTube
Mingus Big Band	Mingus Big Band 93	Jazz M663 M663	Guess when this came out? All the compositions are by the late Charles Mingus, of course. Links: Mingus Big Band \| AMG \|YouTube
Paul Motian Band	Garden of Eden	Jazz M857 G167	Highly acclaimed recent release by this drummer and his friends. Links: Motian \| AllMusicGuide
Sammy Nestico & the SWR Big Band	No Time Like the Present	Jazz N376 N659	Arranger for Count Basie fronts his own big band here, from Germany. This is from 2003. Links: Nestico \| AllMusicGuide
Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away	Jazz Si39 B623	Classic hard bop from 1959 by this pianist. Links: Silver \| AMG \| YouTube
Nina Simone	Nina Simone Sings the Blues	Jazz Si53 N620	1966-67 recordings by this amazing vocalist. Links: Simone \| AMG \| YouTube

Classical:

Composer	Title	Call #	Comments
Ludwig van Beethoven	Chamber Music	Clas B393 C355	Includes two duets for clarinet & bassoon, and a trio for oboes and english horn, performed by various instrumentalists with lots of accents in their names.
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6	Clas B393 Sy68	Performed by the Hungarian State Orchestra, conducted by János Ferencsik.
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8	Clas B393 Sy68	Same folks.
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 9	Clas B393 Sy68-9	Same folks again, but accompanied by the Budapest Chorus. Links: Beethoven \| Ferencsik \|YouTube
Johannes Brahms	21 Hungarian Dances; 16 Waltzes	Clas B393 Un3	And that's not all! For a limited time only, you get Dvořák's Slavonic Dances on a second disc, all performed by piano four hands! The perpetrators are Alfred Brendel, Walter Klien, and Beatriz Klien (wait, that's six hands...). Links: Brendel \| Brendel on YouTube \| W. Klien
Johannes Brahms	String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2	Clas B730 Se91	Performed by the Lindsays and some other folks. Links: Brahms \| The Lindsays
Emmanuel Chabrier	Piano Music by Emmanuel Chabrier	Clas C343 P573	Performed by Anglea Hewitt. Links: Chabrier \| Hewitt \| Hewitt on YT
Joseph Haydn	Harpsichord Concerto; Violin-Harpsichord Concerto; Symphony No. 31	Clas H324 C744	Performed by Zsuzsa Pertis, harpsichord, János Rolla, violin, and the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, conducted by Mr. Rolla. Links: Liszt Ferenc CO \| Pertis
Joseph Haydn	Divertimentos for Harpsichord, Two Violins, and Cello	Clas H324 D641	Performed by János Sebestyén, harpsichord, Vilmos Tátrai & György Konrád, violins, and Ede Banda, cello. Links: Haydn \| Sebestyén
Tikhon Khrennikov	Symphony No. 2; Violin Concerto No. 1	Clas K528 Sy68-2	Performed by the USSR State Academy Orchestra, conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov, with Leonid Kogan on violin. Links: Khrennikov \| Svetlanov \| Kogan
Fritz Kreisler	Altwiener Tanzweisen	Clas K876 Al79	A bunch of short works, with some Tchaikovsky and Dvořák pieces at the end. Performed by Miklós Szenthelyi & Péter Csaba, violin, and Judit Szenthelyi & Zoltán Kocsis, piano. Links: Szenthelyi \| Csaba \| Kocsis \| Dvořák
Fritz Kreisler	The Kreisler Collection: The Victor Recordings (1921-25)	Clas K876 K876/1	2-CD set of short works by lots of folks, including Kreisler, himself. These are violin works with piano accompaniment. Links: Kreisler on YouTube
Fritz Kreisler	The Kreisler Collection: The Early Victor Recordings (Vol. II)	Clas K876 K876/2	Another 2-CD set, mostly with works for violin with orchestra. Links: Kreisler \| Victor Talking Machine Co.
Franz Liszt	Les Préludes; Mazeppa; Mephisto Waltz; Hungaria	Clas L699 P915	Four pieces by Franz, aka Ferenc, performed by the Hungarian State Orchestra, conducted by Gyula Németh & János Ferencsik, but not at the same time. Links: Liszt \| Ferencsik \| Mephisto Waltz on YT
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; & other works	Clas M877 K673	Performed by the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra. Links: Mozart \| A strange ensemble on YouTube
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Symphonies Nos. 39 & 41.	Clas M877 Sy68	Also performed by the Hungarian State Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Ferencsik. Don't these people have a home to go to?
Niccolò Paganini / Karl Goldmark	Violin Concertos	Clas P140 V813	Performed by Albert Kocsis, with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, conducted by János Petró. Links: Paganini \| Goldmark \| Savaria S.O.
Ottorino Respighi	Il Tramonto; Deita Silvane; Five Songs; Quartetto Dorico	Clas R312 So58	Mostly songs, featuring Renata Scotto with the Tokyo String Quartet and the Arcata String Quartet. Links: Respighi \| Scotto \| Tokyo SQ \| Scotto on YouTube
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov	Scheherazade	Clas R469 Sch24	With a short Mussorgsky piece thrown in at the end. Performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. Links: Rimksy-Korsakov \| Saint Louis S.O. \| Slatkin \| Slatkin conducting on YouTube
Camille Saint-Saëns	Danse Macabre, & other works	Clas Sa25 D234	Performed by the Orchestre Symphonique Français, conducted by Laurent Petitgirard. Links: Saint-Saëns \| Petitgirard
Franz Schubert	Octet, in F major, D.803	Clas Sch78 Oc7	Performed by the Camerata de Lucerne. Links: Schubert
Franz Schubert	String Quartets Nos. 12 & 14	Clas Sch78 St86	Performed by the Tokyo String Quartet. Links: Another Schubert \| Tokyo SQ
Johann Strauss	Waltzes & Polkas	Clas St81 W179	Now we're dancing, with the Györ Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by János Sándor. Links: Strauss \| Sándor \| "Blue Danube" on YouTube
Richard Strauss / Withold Lutoslawski	Oboe Concertos	Clas St81 C744o	Performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Gielen, with Heinz Holliger on the oboe. Links: Strauss \| Holliger \| Lutoslawski \| Cincy SO \| Gielen
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky / Sergei Rachmaninoff	The Seasons (excerpts); Etudes-Tableaux (excerpts)	Clas T219 Se17	Every bit of them played on the piano by Sviatoslav Richter. Links: Tchaikovsky \| Rachmaninoff \| Richter \|Monty Python skit of SV
Georg Philipp Telemann	Heilig, Heilig, Heilig ist Gott	Clas T236 H363	Oratorio performed by the Collegium Vocale Siegen, the Trompeten Consort Friedemann Immer, & the Hannoversche Hofkapelle, conducted by Ulrich Stötzel. Links: Telemann \| Hannoversche Hofkapelle
Carl Maria von Weber	Complete Clarinet Music, Vol. 1: Chamber Music	Clas W388 C738/1	Four works, performed by Jon Manasse, clarinet, Samuel Sanders, piano, & the Manhattan String Quartet. Links: Weber \| Manasse \| Sanders \| Manhattan SQ
Carl Maria von Weber	Complete Clarinet Music, Vol. 2: Clarinet & Orchestra	Clas W388 C738/2`	Four more works, played by Jon Manasse, with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, conducted by Lukas Foss. Links: Brooklyn Phil. \| Foss
Artist	Title	Call #	Comments
Beaux Arts Trio	Piano Trios	Clas B381 P573	Here, they pair Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 with Dvořák's Dumky Trio. Links: Beaux Arts \| Mendelssohn \| Dvořák \|YouTube
Emerson String Quartet	Intimate Voices	Clas Em35 In8	Works by Grieg, Sibelius, and Nielsen. Links: Emerson SQ \| Grieg \| Sibelius \| Nielsen \| Emerson SQ on YouTube
Lynn Harting-Ware	The Many Moods of the Guitar	Clas H254 M319	An hour of guitar works by various composers. Links: Harting-Ware
Helsinki Philharmonic	Scandinavian Rhapsody	Clas C369 Sca63	A variety of orchestral works by Scandinavian composers. Links: Helsinki Phil.
Jascha Horenstein	Jascha Horenstein Conducts Liszt/Wagner/Brucker	Clas H781 J310	Orchestral works recorded in the 1950s, featuring Horenstein fronting a couple of orchestras. Links: Horenstein
Leonardo Trio	A Concert of Piano Trios by Smetana, Martinu, Shostakovich	Clas L553 C744	Recorded in 1987. Links: Smetana \| Martinu \| Shostakovich
Karlheinz Stockhausen	Karlheinz Stockhausen Conducts	Clas St62 K146	Works by Haydn and Mozart, with the Radio Symphonie Orchester Berlin. Links: Stockhausen
Zbigniew Żuk	Horn Romantics	Clas Z84 H783	Works by Weber, Kiel, Schumann, & R. Strauss, performed with the help of the Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Kraków, conducted by Michael Höltzel. Links: Żuk
	Ballet Spectaculars from Operas	Clas B212	Includes excerpts from 7 works, performed by the Hungarian States Opera Orchestra & Chorus, and the Hungarian State Orchestra, conducted by Sándor, Fischer, and Ferencsik, depending on their mood.
	Elegy	Clas Cl25	A selection of choral pieces performed by the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. Links: Shaw