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Post by erik on Jul 11, 2014 10:20:50 GMT -8
The late Barry White, a grandmaster of 70s soul, went instrumental on this 1974 album, on which he arranged and conducted his own Love Unlimited Orchestra. The title track was a minor hit (#47); but the closing track, the neo-classical "Love's Theme", was one of the biggest instrumental hits of the 1970s, hitting #1 on the Hot 100 in February 1974 and selling 1.2 million copies.
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Post by erik on Jul 15, 2014 5:45:23 GMT -8
This 2002 compilation is getting played because it is the dear lady's 68th birthday; she was born in Tucson, Arizona on this day...during, according to her memoir, a heavy desert monsoon.
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Post by erik on Sept 16, 2014 14:32:50 GMT -8
With an inclusion of the overture for the same composer's 1845 opera "Tannhauser", this collection of excerpts from Richard Wagner's monstrous Teutonic Ring cycle gets excellent performances from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Klaus Tennstedt's direction. And yes, the infamous "Ride Of The Valkyries" is included (can't you just imagine our gunships attacking a Vietnamese village to this music in APOCALYPSE NOW?)
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Post by Bingo on Sept 16, 2014 18:22:24 GMT -8
The AMAs are almost upon us again - and I've just been thinking about the four nominees for "Song of the Year". Isbell sings with great intensity and passion - the song reflects his own fight to overcome his alcohol problem, and his finding of new life in his marriage to Amanda Shires (who plays fiddle on the recording) Rosanne beautifully captures a spirit of joy in her song, with its wry comment on the money being in Nashville, while she opts for Florence and the Shoals. But I think my vote would go to Patty Griffin's "Ohio" (featuring Robert Plant), which has, for me, the most striking music, with its Asian influence. For anyone who'd like to check out the songs, these are the YouTube addresses "Cover Me Up", Jason Isbell link"A Feather's Not A Bird", Rosanne Cash link"Ohio", Patty Griffin link"Only Lies", Robert Ellis link
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Post by erik on Sept 19, 2014 14:40:45 GMT -8
Hungarian-born pianist Zoltan Kocsis does solid work with Rachmaninoff in this recording of three of the composer's most famous works: "Vocalise" (here arranged for solo piano); the Second Piano Concerto; and the famous Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini. This was recorded with conductor Edo de Waart and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1984.
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Post by ks4rs on Sept 19, 2014 15:51:47 GMT -8
Youtube video playing in the background while I play Aion.
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Post by erik on Oct 8, 2014 16:09:52 GMT -8
Dating from 1977-78, this box set of Robert Schumann's four symphonies, made by the Philadelphia Orchestra under James Levine, is one of the most impressive such sets of this terribly underrated composer's symphonic output. The sound of the orchestra is energetic and robust for Levine, and maintains the quality established under Leopold Stokowski, and continued under Eugene Ormandy. Recorded in 1989, this is Zubin Mehta's second go-around with Holst's interstellar extravaganza (his first being his classic 1971 London recording with his Los Angeles Philharmonic); and while it may not match what Mehta did in the City of Angels, the Big Apple's big band under his direction nevertheless impresses.
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Post by DCXMMXVI on Oct 21, 2014 9:02:12 GMT -8
Phillip Phillips - Behind the Light
The first single he released is good, but there are better songs on the album.
IMO, Trigger and Fool for You are the best songs on the album.
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Post by erik on Oct 30, 2014 15:33:03 GMT -8
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti takes on various works by John Tavener, as well as the highly popular fantasy for violin and orchestra "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, on this recording from Deutsche Grammophon. She is featured along with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Litton (Conductor Laureate of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra).
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Post by Ross on Oct 31, 2014 13:11:21 GMT -8
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti takes on various works by John Tavener, as well as the highly popular fantasy for violin and orchestra "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, on this recording from Deutsche Grammophon. She is featured along with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Litton (Conductor Laureate of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra). I'm going to see her in January.
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Post by erik on Nov 8, 2014 19:29:21 GMT -8
The Eagles' final album of totally brand-new material for 28 years, this late 1979 album has such Top Ten hits as the title track, "Heartache Tonight", and "I Can't Tell You Why", as well as tracks like "In The City" and "King Of Hollywood." It is clearly a dark album about the underside of the City of Angels.
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Post by ks4rs on Dec 2, 2014 18:32:43 GMT -8
Listening to some Eva Cassidy songs. Couldn't find an mp3 to link to so here's a youtube vid.
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Post by ks4rs on Dec 2, 2014 18:58:13 GMT -8
On the off chance folks don't know about Eva Cassidy, here's video from ABC's Nightline from a few years back.
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Post by cescpa on Dec 9, 2014 18:34:43 GMT -8
on the topic of Eva Cassidy, and this being the holiday season, two of my favorite Christmas songs are her duet with Charles Brown doing
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting ...)
and a song that I had never heard prior to finding the track on a Christmas compilation (while seeking out any music that I could find of hers)
It's Not The Presents Under My Tree
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Post by erik on Apr 29, 2015 17:52:22 GMT -8
Beethoven's final symphony, the gigantic "Choral" Symphony (#9), with Sir Simon Rattle conducting a distinguished cast of vocal soloists (Barbara Bonney; Birgit Remmert; Kurt Streit; Thomas Hampson); the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus; and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, in this 2002 recording.
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Post by erik on May 9, 2015 18:53:40 GMT -8
A live recording made in May 2011 of works that celebrate America, and of our 35th president John F. Kennedy in particular: Leonard Bernstein's short but dramatic "Fanfare Fir The Inauguration Of John F. Kennedy"; Peter Liberson's "Remembering JFK" (with Richard Dreyfuss narrating); Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"; and George Gershwin's Piano Concerto In F Major, with Tzimon Barto at the piano. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C. on this recording.
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Post by erik on Jun 1, 2015 6:13:00 GMT -8
Beethoven's 7th and 8th symphonies, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti, as part of their complete survey of LvB's symphonies for EMI in the mid/late 1980s.
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Post by erik on Jun 3, 2015 15:34:37 GMT -8
A 2-CD recording of the first two symphonies of Johannes Brahms, plus his Academic Festival Overture and the Variations On A Theme Of Haydn, as recorded by the Houston Symphony Orchestra and their Conductor Laureate, Christoph Eschenbach, in the early 1990s.
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Post by erik on Aug 7, 2015 15:31:03 GMT -8
A live recording by the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Wolfgang Sawallisch, of Felix Mendelssohn's Goethe-inspired "Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage":
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Post by erik on Aug 16, 2015 16:39:55 GMT -8
Faded Gloryville--Lindi Ortega: We've talked about Lindi Ortega a couple of times before, the Canadian-born alt-country singer with Mexican ancestry. This, her latest album, is one of those perfect tonics to the junk that is "Bro-Country", with a lot of great songs that really reflect her own musical ideas, which run from Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard to Dolly, Emmylou, and Linda, plus a bluesy cover of the Bee Gees' classic 1967 hit "To Love Somebody." There may still be four and a half months left in 2015, but I am willing to put this up as one of the best releases this year.
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Post by erik on Sept 11, 2015 6:34:01 GMT -8
For this day, September 11th, in memory of the nearly three thousand who lost their lives fourteen years ago: Mozart: REQUIEM IN D MINOR, K. 626
Soprano: DAME MARGARET PRICE Mezzo: TRUDELIESE SCHMIDT Tenor: FRANCISCO ARAIZA Bass-Baritone: THEO ADAM
Leipzig Radio Choir
Dresden State Orchestra/PETER SCHREIER
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2015 13:54:15 GMT -8
This girl caught my attention on a Spotify playlist the other day. I'm obsessed with this song and her whole album is amazing. She's based in Nashville so anyone who can get a chance to see her before she explodes go do it!
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Post by eaglemaster on Sept 18, 2015 5:42:51 GMT -8
^^ Beautiful Song!
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Post by erik on Oct 2, 2015 19:20:08 GMT -8
The imposing opening movement of the Symphony No. 5 of Felix Mendelssohn, the "Reformation" Symphony, in a 1978 performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Bernard Haitink:
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Post by erik on Nov 15, 2015 10:32:44 GMT -8
Two great film scores (the film music genre, I am crazy about), both recent: Thomas Newman's score to Spielberg's BRIDGE OF SPIES; and the late James Horner's score to THE 33 (released just this past Friday).
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