A Fistful of Music Music Newsletter for the Hiram College Library Community September 2012 Welcome to the new Fistful, with a new format, slightly new look, and as ever, new music. As usual, the first issue of the new academic year brings a lot of new items. This time around we have Akron punk, Canton metal, jazz vocalists, fiddle wizards, and a wide assortment of classical music. We continue building the Northeast Ohio music collection, and so look for those little green stickers that tell you we’re keeping it local. Any comments, questions or demands can be sent to Jeff Wanser, [email protected]. We'll make more. Pop/Rock: Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords will Serve You… Pop Ap52 Id4 Fifty shades of Fiona! The lengthy and odd title belies the apparent quality of her latest album. Links: Apple | AM | YouTube Bizarros Can’t Fight Your Way Up Town from Here Pop B551 C166 Some of the best punk music (if one can conceive of such a category) came out of Akron. Links: Bizarros | AM | YouTube Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Steve Stills Super Session Pop B623 Su76 Classic blues rock from the 1960s. Links: Bloomfield | YouTube | Kooper | AM | YouTube | Stills | AM | YouTube Kate Bush The Whole Story Pop B963 W620 Her first best-of collection, from 1986. Links: Bush | AM | YouTube Cats on Holiday Workin’ Man Pop C294 W892 2007 release by this Cleveland roots band. Links: Cats | YouTube Alex Cortiz Mesmerising Pop C818 M561 A little ambient/electronic/triphop music from 2003. Links: Cortiz | YouTube Susan Cowsill Lighthouse Pop C839 L626 Before they moved away and became famous, the Cowsills lived in Canton. Susan has since gone Americana. Links: Cowsill | AM | YouTube Vic Damone 16 Most Requested Songs Pop D187 How they got up to 16 we’ll never know. Classic Italian-American
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A Fistful of Music
Music Newsletter for the Hiram College Library Community
September 2012
Welcome to the new Fistful, with a new format, slightly new look, and as ever, new music.
As usual, the first issue of the new academic year brings a lot of new items. This time
around we have Akron punk, Canton metal, jazz vocalists, fiddle wizards, and a wide
assortment of classical music. We continue building the Northeast Ohio music collection,
and so look for those little green stickers that tell you we’re keeping it local. Any
comments, questions or demands can be sent to Jeff Wanser, [email protected]. We'll
Spalding | AM | YouTube Frank Vignola Quintet Kong Man Jazz
V686 K836
Jazz guitarist puts out some nice
post-bop with his group. Links:
Vignola | AM | YouTube
Ben Webster See You at the Fair Jazz W391 Se31
The fair in question is the 1964-65 World’s Fair in New York, although it wasn’t recorded there, but in New Jersey. Links: Webster | AM | YouTube
Classical: Composer Title Call # Comments
Eugene D’Albert Piano Works Clas Al14 P573
Three pieces, performed by Alexandra Oehler. Links: D’Albert | Oehler
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
String Quartets Clas Ar69 St86q
Early 19th century works performed by the Guarneri Quartet. Links: Arriaga | Guarneri Q
Matthew Barber/ Christopher Bailey
Interface Chapel; Balladei
Clas B233m In8
New music. The first is performed by members of the Ossia New Music Ensemble, the second by Shiau-uen Ding, piano. Links: Barber | Bailey | Ossia | Ding
Béla Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin; Two Portraits; Two Pictures
Clas B285 M672
The Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra performs, conducted by either János Sándor or Miklós Erdélyi (but not at the same time). Links: Bartók | Sándor | Erdélyi
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio Clas B393 F448
Opera, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Karl Böhm. Links: Beethoven | Böhm
Ludwig van Beethoven/ Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2
Clas B393 P573c-1
Géza Anda is at the piano, with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Rafael Kubelik. Links: Beethoven | Brahms | Anda | Kubelik
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 7, and 12
Clas B393 P573s-3
Performed by Sviatoslav Richter, the first recorded in 1975, the others in 1959, all in Prague. Links: Beethoven | Richter
Georges Bizet L’Arlesienne; Jeux d’Enfants
Clas B552 Ar51
The BRTN Philharmonic is working here, with Alexander Rahbari, conductor. Links: Bizet | Rahbari
Anton Bruckner Mass in F Minor Clas B831 M381
The Rundfunkchor Berlin is at work here, directed by Michael Gläzer, with the Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Heinz Rögner. Links:
Daniell Revenaugh and Lawrence Leighton Smith double team on this Busoni works, with some added Mozart transcriptions by Busoni. Links: Busoni | Revenaugh | Leighton Smith
John Cage Four Walls Clas C117 F825
Music for a dance-play, with Richard Bunger on piano, and vocals by Jay Clayton. Links: Cage | Bunger | Clayton
John Cage In a Landscape Clas C117 In10
Prepared piano music, performed by Stephen Drury. Links: Cage | Drury
Muzio Clementi The Complete Sonatas, Vol. 2: The Earliest Sonatas
Clas C591 P573s/2
Costantino Mastroprimiano sits at the piano for three discs-worth of music. Links: Clementi | Mastroprimiano
Edward Joseph Collins
Music of Edward Joseph Collins, Vol. 1
Clas C693 M973/1
A variety of works, played by Earl Wild or Gunnar Johansen, piano, or the Manhattan String Quartet. Links: Collins | Wild | Johansen | MSQ
David Congo Fusions—Electrocoustic Music
Clas C760 F986
Layered piano and electronic processing, all done by the composer. Links: Congo
Franz Danzi Complete Symphonies Clas D238 Sy68
Six of them, to be exact, performed by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, conducted by Howard Griffiths. Links: Danzi | Griffiths
Antonín Dvořák Violin Concerto; Legends
Clas D959 V813c
Richard Tognetti is the violinist, with the Northdic Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Christian Lindberg. Links: Dvořák | Lindberg
Gabriel Fauré Requiem Clas F274 R299
The Cambridge Singers join members of the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by John Rutter. Links: Fauré | Rutter
Zdeněk Fibich Šárka Clas F443 Sa73
19th century opera, performed by Prague National Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Zdeněk Chalabala. Links: Fibich | Chalabala
Paul Gilson/August De Boeck
De Zee; Symphony in G Clas G428 M531
Works by two early 20th century Belgian composers, performed by the BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels, conducted by Karl-Anton Rickenbacher. Links: Gilson | De Boeck | Rickenbacher
Hermann Goetz/ Jósef Wieniawski
Piano Concertos Clas G555 P573c-2
Hamish Milne is at the keys for this pairing, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michał Dworzyński. Links: Goetz | Wieniawski | Milne | Dworzyński
The Hanover Band, conducted by Roy Goodman, does all the work. Links: Haydn | Goodman
Gustav Holst First Choral Symphony; A Choral Fantasia
Clas H741 C456s-1
Different performers on these two pieces. The first includes the BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. The second has the London Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, with the John Alldis Choir. Links: Holst | Sargent | Boult
Hyacinthe Jadin Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Clas J174 P573s
Late 18th century works, with Cécile Wang at the piano. Links: Jadin | Wang
Leos Janácek Lachian Dances; The Fiddler’s Child; The Ballad of the Blanik Hill; & other works
Clas J251 L117
Performances from 1949-1954, by the Brno Radio Symphony Orchestra & the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bretislav Bakala. Links: Janácek | Bakala
Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda
Concerto Overture No. 17; Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
Clas K126 Or1
19th century works performed by Die Kölner Akademie, conducted by Michael Alexander Willens. Links: Kalliwoda | Willens
Axel Strauss is the violinist, with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Mogrelia. Links: Kreutzer | Strauss | Mogrelia
Franz Lehár Wo die Lerche Singt (Where the Lark Sings)
Clas L527 W810
Operetta, performed by the Chor und Grosses Wiener Rundfunkorchester, conducted by the composer in Vienna, 1942. Links: Lehár
Rolf Liebermann Die Schule der Frauen (The School for Women)
Clas L621 Sch81
The Vienna Philharmonic is at it again, with this 1957 performance conducted by George Szell. Links: Liebermann | Szell
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9; Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Clas M278 Sy68-9
Brigitte Fassbaender & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sing the lieder, with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, conducted by Hans Zender. Links: Mahler | Fassbaender | Fischer-Dieskau | Zender
Songs based on Japanese and Chinese themes, with Dagmar Pecková & Ĺubica Rybárska, sopranos, Ivan Kusnjer, baritone, a choir, & the Prague Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek. Links: Martinů | Bělohlávek
W. A. Mozart Betulia Liberata Clas M877 B466
Oratorio, performed by the Coro Polifonico di Milano, & the Orchestra dell Angelicum di Milano, conducted by Carlo
W. A. Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail/ The Abduction from the Seraglio
Clas M877 En82
Ernst Haefliger & Maria Stader starred in this 1954 production, performed by the RIAS Symphonie Orchester Berlin, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay. Links: Mozart | Haefliger | Stader | Fricsay
W. A. Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 9, 11, and 12
Clas M877 P573c-9
Michael Studer plays piano here, with a couple of different orchestras and conductors. Links: Mozart | Studer
Vítězslav Novák/ Klement Slavický
In the Tatra Mountains; Moravian Dance Fantasias; Rhapsodic Variations
Clas N856 T188
All performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karel Ančerl. Links: Novák | Slavický | Ančerl
George Onslow Complete Piano Trios, Vols. 3 & 4
Clas On7 P573t/3-4
A 2-disc set, with six trios, all with the Trio Cascades. Links: Onslow | Trio Cascades
Ignaz Pleyel Piano Trios Clas P717 P573t
Only four trios here, with Trio 1790 in charge. Links: Pleyel | Trio 1790
Hieronymus Praetorius
Vesper for St. Michael’s Day
Clas P883 V636m
Weser-Renaissance Bremen is responsible, with Manfred Cordes conducting. Links: Praetorius
Sergei Prokofiev Cinderella Clas P943 C490
The complete ballet, performed by the USSR Radio and TV Large Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Links: Prokofiev | GR
Sergei Prokofiev/ Dmitri Shostakovich
Ivan the Terrible; The Execution of Stepan Razin
Clas P943 Iv1
The first is an oratorio, performed by the Russian State Yurlov Choir & the London Philharmonic, conducted by Maxim Shostakovich. The second has the BBC Chorus working with the Moscow Radio Orchestra, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. Links: Prokofiev | D. Shostakovich | M. Shostakovich | GR
You might discern from the composer’s name that he’s Finnish. 20th century works, performed by the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Max Pommer, and the Sirius String Quartet. Links: Rautavaara | Pommer | Sirius SQ
Maurice Ravel/ Claude Debussy
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales; La Valse; La Damoiselle Élue; Boléro
Clas R196 V248
The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst presents three pieces by Ravel, one by Debussy. Links: Ravel | Debussy | Franz
The Cracow Concert Choir is joined by the New Polish Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Winston Dan Vogel. Links: Rossini | Vogel
J. Mark Scearce The 99 Beautiful Names of God
Clas Sce13 N622
Contemporary piano works, performed by John Cheek. Links: Scearce | Cheek
Arnold Schoenberg/ Anthony Suter
Hymns to Forgotten Moons
Clas Sch63 P615
Performed by Marco Schindelmann, Sprechstimme, and the University of Redlands Faculty chamber Ensemble. The major work on here is Pierrot Lunaire. Links: Schoenberg | Suter | Schindelmann
Franz Schubert Fierrabras Clas Sch78 F463
A short opera, with Fritz Wunderlich in the lead role, and the Berner Stadtorchester, conducted by Hans Müller-Kray. Links: Schubert | Wunderlich | Müller-Kray
Robert Schumann Piano Quintets Clas Sch86 P573q
Two of them, both featuring Peter Rösel on piano, and the Gewandhaus-Quartett. Links: Schumann | Rösel | Gewandhaus
Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Clas Sh82 C331c
Mstislav Rostropovich is on the cello in these performances from the 1960s with the USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeni Svetlanov. Links: Shostakovich | Rostropovich | Svetlanov
Christian Sinding Violin Concertos Nos. 1-3
Clas Si63 V813c-1
Andrej Bielow takes the violin, with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, conducted by Frank Beermann. Links: Sinding | Bielow | Beermann
Wilhelm Stenhammar
String Quartets Nos. 3-6
Clas St425 St86q-3
Romantic pieces from Norway, performed by the Oslo String Quartet. Links: Stenhammar | Oslo SQ
Igor Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements; Le Baiser de la Fee
Clas St82 Sy68t
Historic performances, with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, both conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. Links: Stravinsky | Furtwängler
Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge; Job Clas V465 On10
The first features Richard Lewis, tenor. London Philharmonic, Sir Adrian Boult conducting. Links: RVW | Lewis | Boult
Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore Clas V584 T758
1956 performance, with Marial Callas, and the La Scala Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. Links: Verdi | Callas | Karajan
Ladislav Vycpálek/ Otakar Ostrčil
Cantata of the Last Things of Man; Suite for Large Orchestra
Clas V990 C166
The first is based on Moravian folk songs. Performed by the Prague Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, with Karel Ančerl at
Richard Wagner Symphony in C Major; Siegfried Idyll
Clas W125 Sy68
Heinz Rögner conducts the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin in these orchestral works. Links: Wagner | Rögner
More Classical: Artist Title Call # Comments
Ames Piano Quartet Ames Piano Quartet Clas Am36q Am36p
Great title aside, they perform quartets by Mozart, Hummel, and Beethoven. Links: Ames PQ | YouTube
Jean-François Antonioli Works for Piano & Orchestra
Clas An88 P573
Works by Busoni and Raff, with Antonioli at the piano, and the orchestra de Chambre de Lausanne, conducted by Lawrence Foster. Links: Antonioli | Foster
Chicago Symphony Chorus
A Fortieth Anniversary Celebration
Clas C432c F776
Another 2-disc set from the CSO, with works by Mozart, Bach, Handel, & lots of other folks, conducted by everybody. Links: CSO
Peter Damm Französische Musik für Horn und Klavier/French Music for Horn and Piano
Clas D185 F859
Damm is the horn player, accompanied by Peter Rösel, piano, on works by Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Dukas, and others. Links: Damm | Rösel
Annie Birgit Garde Jeg Vil Taende en Stjerne for Dig.
Clas G166 J388
Romantic Danish songs by Weyse, Heise, and others. Links: YouTube
Beniamino Gigli Historical Recordings (1927-1951)
Clas G367 H629
A varied selection of arias from operas by Verdi, Bizet, Handel, and others. Links: Gigli | AM | YouTube
Jeanne Golan American Handstands: Works by Composer-Pianists
Clas G562 Am35
Works by Del Tredici, Moe, Cipullo, & Ornstein. Links: Golan
Christopher Herrick Organ Fireworks IV Clas H434 Or3/4
A varied program, with works by Buck, Bourgeois, Batiste, & others, played on the Organ of St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York City. Links: Herrick | YouTube
Greg McCallum Southern Quilt Clas M124 So88
A selection of piano works by Gottschalk, Frazelle, Harris, Still, and the performer. Links: McCallum
José Miguel Moreno Canto del Cavallero Clas M815 C168
Mr. Moreno plays a variety of 16th century music on the vihuela. Links: Moreno | YouTube | Vihuela
North Texas Wind Symphony
Hemispheres Clas N811t H373
The title work, by Joseph Turrin, and several other pieces by several other composers. Links: NTWS | Turrin
Varied program, with choral works by Górecki, Pärt, Martin, Barber, & Schoenberg. Directed by who else? Links: Shaw
Mary Springfels “Bass”ically French: Music of Marais, Corrette, and Philidor
Clas Sp84 B294
Springfels plays viola da gamba, with Michael McCraw on baroque bassoon. Links: Springfels
Hans-Peter & Volker Stenzl
Brahms/Liszt/Reger Clas St42 B730
Works for two pianos. Links: Stenzl
Eileen Strempel (In) Habitation: Musical Settings of Margaret Atwood Poetry by American Women Composers
Clas St83 In1
Strempel sings, accompanied by Sylvie Baudette, piano, songs by Cloud, Fabregas, Laitman, and others. Links: Strempel
Rachel Talitman The Golden Age of Harp and French Bassoon
Clas T144 G565
The harpist gets first billing here, with Luc Loubry on bassoon. Works by Dauprat, Labarre, & others.
Flemish Rhapsodies Clas F629r
Okay, you may not think much of the title. However, we were playing this at home, and a spouse entered the room and said, “What is that? It’s beautiful!” Pieces by Brusselmans, Roussel, & other Flems, performed by the BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels, conducted by Alexander Rahbari. Links: Rahbari
Konzertante Russische Musik/Concertante Russian Music
Clas K837r
Works by Bortnyansky, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, and others, performed by the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra, Pforzheim, conducted by Paul Angerer. Links: Angerer
Russian Futurism, Vol. 2 Clas R920f/2
This volume is devoted to orchestral works by Alexander Goedicke. Performed by the Russian Philharmonic, conducted by Konstantin Krimets. Links: Goedicke | Krimets
Miscellaneous: Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments
Stephen Foster American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster
Misc F817 Am35
Thomas Hampson does the singing here, with musical help from Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, & David Alpher, making this an odd mix of styles. Links: Foster | Hampson | AM | YouTube
Steve Howe Time Misc As much as we wanted to put the latest
release by the guitarist for Yes in the Rock section, we just can’t. This is New Age, with a bit of classical. Great guitar, but different genre. Links: Howe | AM | YouTube
Paul Winter Prayer for the Wild Things
Misc W734 P898
“An Earth music celebration of the Northern Rockies…” Enjoy. Links: Winter | AM | YouTube
The Vinyl Corner: Life at 33 1/3 rpm Composer/Artist Title Call # Comments
Herb Alpert Rise LP Al1744 R492
1979 release by the sometime jazz, sometime pop trumpeter and crew. This one is jazz. Links: Alpert | AM | YouTube
J. S. Bach 6 Suites/Sonatas for Solo Cello
BauLP B1224 Su39c
Performed by Miloš Sádlo. Links: Bach | Sádlo
Bethany Beardslee An 18th Century Vocal Recital
BauLP B3803 Ei44
The soprano performs songs by Haydn, Pergolesi, and Storace. Links: Beardslee
John Alden Carpenter/ Edward Burlingame Hill
Sea-Drift; Stevensoniana
BauLP C226 Se111
Two American composers’ works, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Krueger. Links: Carpenter | Hill | Krueger
Aleksandr Dargomyzhski
Songs BauLP D2481 So58
19th century pieces, with Alexander Vedernikov, bass. Links: Dargomyzhski | Vedernikov
David Frost The Frost Report on Britain
BauLP F9292 F9292
Comedy pieces from the mid-1960s, with John Cleese (before Monty Python). Links: Frost | Cleese
Reinhold Glière Shakh-Senem: Fragments from the Opera; Concerto for Voice and Orchestra
BauLP G498 Sh157
Grigori Stolyarov & the composer conduct the first work, with the Moscow Radio Orchestra. The second is performed by the Kiev State Philharmonic, conducted by Stepan Turchak. Links: Glière
Mikhail Glinka Ivan Susanin BauLP G499 Z616
Opera, performed by the Chorus & Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, conducted by Mark Ermler. Links: Glinka | Ermler
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
Concerto for Harpsichord & Strings; Sonata for 2 Violins & Continuo, No. 4
BauLP G5644 C7449h
Eliza Hansen plays harpsichord, with the Strings of the Pfalz Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Stepp. The 2nd piece is performed by the Camerata Instrumentale of the Hamburg Telemann