New CDs for Summer 2023
Orchestral, Concertos and Chamber Music
J.S. Bach – Complete Sonatas and Patritas for Solo Violin
Maria Bachmann – Fratres
Sir Granville Bantock – Celtic & Hebridian Symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Violin Sonatas, Volume 1 – Heifetz
Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Violin Sonatas, Volume 2 – Heifetz
Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Violin Sonatas, Volume 3 – Heifetz
Elliott Carter – Dialogues * Boston Concerto * Cello Concerto * ASKO Concerto
Elliott Carter – Orchestral Works
Shura Cherkassky – II
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
Peter Maxwell Davies – The Beltane Fire
Peter Maxwell Davies – Symphony No. 1
Berthold Goldschmidt – Orchestral Works
Berthold Goldschmidt – Three Concertos
Charles Ives – Universe Symphony
Franz Liszt – Emil von Sauer plays Liszt
Witold Lutosławski – Lutosławski – Penderecki- Cage – Mayuzumi: String Quartets
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 8: Symphony of a Thousand
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 9
Bohuslav Martinu – Bohuslav Martinu – The Louisville Orchestra
Bohuslav Martinu – Fantasies Symphoniques * Fresques * Juliette
Midori – Live at Carnegie Hall
Darius Milhaud – Milhaud Conducts Milhaud
Paul Moravec – Tempest Fantasy
Sergeĭ Nakari͡akov – Carmen Fantasie: Virtuoso Music for Trumpet
Einojuhani Rautavaara – Garden of Spaces * Clarinet Concerto * Cantus Arcticus
Arturo Sandoval – The Classical Album
Adolphe Sax – America’s Millinnium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Volume II
Adolphe Sax – America’s Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Volume VII
Franz Schubert – Sonata for arpeggione and piano – Rostropovich
Joseph Schwantner – Angelfire * Beyond Autumn * September Canticle * A Sudden Rainbow
Various Artists – 125 Years of the Leningrad Conservatoire
Jazz
Dave Brubeck Quartet – So What’s New?
Allen Farnham – 5th House
Samara Joy – Linger Awhile
Andy Narell and Calypsociation – The Passage
Opera, Opera Excerpts, Choral Music and Art Songs
Arleen Auger – Love Songs
Johann Sebastian Bach – Epiphany Mass
Kathleen Battle – Live at Carnegie Hall
Alban Berg – Seven Early Songs
Hector Berlioz – La Revoution Grecque
Christoph Willibald Gluck- Orphée et Eurydice
Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov – Songs of Grechaninov
George Frideric Handel – Theodora
Emma Kirkby – The Emma Kirkby Collection
Stefano Landi – Il Sant’Alessio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Exultate Jubilate
Stephen Paulus – To Be Certain of the Dawn
Joaquin Rodrigo – Cantico: Obros para Voces, Coro, y Orquesta
Elena Ruehr – Averno
John Tavener – The Veil of the Temple
Georg Philipp Telemann – Orpheus
Kurt Weill – Street Scene
Folk Music
Zespol Polski – Chopin: Spirit of the Lowlands
Early Music
Carlo Gesualdo – Prince of Madrigalists
Hildegard von Bingen – 11,000 Virgins: Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula
Claudio Monteverdi – Vespiri di S. Giovanni Battista
Orlando Consort – The Saracen and the Dove
Thomas Tomkins- Above the Starrs
Piano and Harpsichord Music
Martha Argerich – I
Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldberg Variations – Keith Jarrett
Harold Bauer – The 1929 Victor and 1939 Schirmer Recordings
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano sonatas opp. 54, 57, 78, 90 – Maurizio Pollini
Ludwig van Beethoven – Klaviersonaten : No. 17 op. 31, no. 2 ; No. 21, op. 53 ; No. 25, op. 79 ; No. 26, op. 81a – Maurizio Pollini
Frédéric Chopin – Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35 ; Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58 – Mitsuko Uchida
Frédéric Chopin – Chopin Recital – Yundi Li
György Ligeti – Works for Piano. Etudes – Musica Ricercata
Jon Nakamatsu – Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Murray Perahia – Murray Perahia Plays Franck & Liszt
Arachnophonia: Carlo Gesualdo “Complete Sacred Music For Five Voices”
Editor’s Note: Our music review column “Spider Sounds” has had a name change and will now be known as “Arachnophonia”. The name has changed, but the idea remains the same — members of the UR community can share their thoughts about items from the Parsons Music Library‘s collection. All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question or to additional relevant information from around the web.
Today’s installment of Arachnophonia comes courtesy of Music Library Student worker Erin (class of 2017), and features some sacred choral music by Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo. Thanks, Erin!
Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices
If you’re looking for some relaxing study music, you should definitely check out Gesualdo’s CD of Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices!
This collection of choral pieces was written by Carlo Gesualdo di Venosa around the year 1600, and is entirely a capella. This specific recording from 1993 is by the Oxford Camerata, a group created for the specific purpose of making music from the medieval and renaissance periods more accessible. This music was written before more recent Western ideas of musical keys and common practice period chordal structure came about, so the way Gesualdo weaves chords and cadences together is very unusual and beautiful to my ears.
If you enjoyed this CD, I’d also recommend another CD of Gesualdo’s music that the music library carries — the Hilliard Ensemble’s 1991 recording of Tenebrae. The polyphonic style (or multiple voices singing different lines at once) of this piece is more on the darker/serious side because of the topic material (the Passion of Christ). The Latin text is translated in the CD’s notes in English, so you can follow along with it as well if you’re wondering what they’re actually saying!
It’s a really long and really gorgeous piece that always helps me find a sense of peace and relaxation amongst the craziness of college life.
Enjoy!
Portrait of Carlo Gesualdo, principe de Venosa (ca. 1560-1613) by an anonymous artist