Parsons Playlists: A Classical Playlist

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student assistant Alexandra (class of 2026) featuring some classical music.

A Classical Playlist!

These are some of my favorite classical pieces!

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2: III. Adagio

Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings

George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue

Maurice Ravel – Une Barque Sur L’océan

Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No 1. Op. 23

Claude Debussy – Arabesques

Franz Liszt – Liebestraum

Franz Schubert – Serenade

Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai

Franz Liszt – Un sospiro

Sergei Rachmaninoff – 13 Preludes, Op.32: No. 5

Antonín Dvorak – Serenade for Strings, Op. 22. No.2

Frédéric Chopin – Adante spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22

George Gershwin – Piano Concerto: I. Allegro moderato

Ralph Vaughn Williams – Overture: The Wasps

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57ZeyqcCKVNgjYdnKujBv5_AcY&si=ZUvB2P79IAty36ia

New CDs added: Summer 2023

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  - 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

bachmann fratres

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

Charles Ives - Universe Symphony

Jazz

Dave Brubeck Quartet – So What’s New?
Allen Farnham – 5th House

Dave Brubeck Quartet - So What's New?

Samara Joy – Linger Awhile
Andy Narell and Calypsociation – The Passage

Samara Joy -  Linger Awhile

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

Hector Berlioz - La Revolution Grecque

Christoph Willibald Gluck- Orphée et Eurydice
Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov – Songs of Grechaninov
George Frideric Handel – Theodora

G. F. 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

Elena Ruehr – Averno
John Tavener – The Veil of the Temple
Georg Philipp Telemann – Orpheus
Kurt Weill – Street Scene

Elliott Carter - Dialogues

Folk Music

Zespol Polski – Chopin: Spirit of the Lowlands

Zespol Polski - Spirit of the Lowlands

Early Music

Carlo Gesualdo – Prince of Madrigalists
Hildegard von Bingen – 11,000 Virgins: Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula

Hildegard von Bingen - 11,000 Virgins

Claudio Monteverdi – Vespiri di S. Giovanni Battista
Orlando Consort – The Saracen and the Dove
Thomas Tomkins- Above the Starrs

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

Yundi Li - Chopin Recital

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

Sir Granville Bantock – Celtic & Hebridian Symphonies

Parsons Playlists: Classical Singing Crossover

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we feature a collection of songs with a bit of new perspective on classical singing curated by student assistant Wonyoung (class of 2024).

Classical Singing Crossover

When we think of “Classical Singing” and “Opera”, it may be hard to approach because it may seem dry and far from modern day music. However, it does not always have to be so. Here is a playlist of Classical Singing Crossover into a more modern day style. It is on the upcoming in South Korea so here is a playlist that brings a new perspective.

Music notation design

“O Isis und Osiris” from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (ft. Franz Josef Selig, Bass)

“Nessun dorma” from Puccinis’s Turandot (ft. Yonghoon Lee, Tenor)

“Erlkönig” D. 328 by Franz Schubert (ft. Byeong-Min Gil, Bass-Baritone)

“Il Mondo” by Carlo Pes et al (ft. You Chae Hoon, Tenor)

“Starai con me” by Ornella D’Urbano (ft. You Chae Hoon, Tenor)

“E lucevan le stelle” from Puccini’s Tosca (ft. Minseok Kim, Tenor)

“La calunnia é un venticello” from Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (ft. Jun In-Ho, Bass)

“Libera” by Renato Zero (ft. Ku Bon Su & Park Ki Hun)

“Nelle tue Mani” (“Now We Are Free” from Gladiator) by Hans Zimmer et al (ft. Choi Sung Hoon, Jeong Min Seong, Park Ki Hun, & You Chae Hoon)

“La tua semplicità” by Jeff Franzel (ft. An Dong Young, Kim Sung-sik, Minseok Kim, & Park Hyun Soo)

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHE2uJabYdvZFXr3Q_OecuKYySaRhBwI8


New CDs added – September 2019

New CDs for September 2019

Concertos and Chamber Music

Johannes Brahms – Violinkonzert Op. 77 / Schumann Fantasie Op. 131 / Anne-Sophie Mutter

Brahms - Anne-Sophie Mutter

Opera, Opera Excerpts and Art Songs

Franz Schubert – Die Schone Mullerin / Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone / Reiko Uchida, Fortepiano

Schubert - Die Schone Mullerin

Cabaret and Theatre Songs

Theo Bleckmann – Berlin: Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile

Treasures of Devotion

Cantatas and Sacred Songs

Mason Bates – Children of Adam
The Boston Camerata – Treasures of Devotion: European Spiritual Song ca. 1500

Bates - Children of Adam

New CDs added in November!

New CDs for November 2015

Classical

Eighth Blackbird – Filament
Antonio Vivaldi – Complete Viola D’Amore Concertos
Franz Schubert – The Unauthorised Piano Duos
Pablo Villegas – Americano
Kontras Quartet – Origins

Eighth Blackbird - Filament

Pablo Villegas - Americano

Vivaldi - Complete Viola D'Amore Concertos

Early Music

Blue Heron Renaissance Choir – Music From The Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 4

Blue Heron Renaissance Choir

Vocal/Opera

Joyce DiDonato & Antonio Pappano – Joyce & Tony: Live At Wigmore Hall

Joyce & Tony:  Live at Wigmore Hall

Musicals

Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording

Hamilton Cast Recording

Pop/Rock/Country/Blues

Juan Diego Florez – Sentimiento Latino
Shemekia Copeland – Talking To Strangers
Shemekia Copeland – Outskirts of Love
Janelle Monae – The Archandroid
Janelle Monae – Metropolis: The Chase Suite

Sentimiento Latino

Metropolis

Outskirts of Love

Jazz

John Scofield – Past Present
Sun Ra – Four Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles
Sun Ra – Soundtrack to the Film Space Is The Place
Kenny Clarke – Kind of Clarke
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra – Dee Dee’s Feathers

Dee Dee's Feathers

Sun Ra - Space Is The Place