New CDs for April 2021
Orchestral, Concertos and Chamber Music
Imani Winds – Imani Winds
Nikolai Kapustin – Piano Music Marc-Andre Hamelin
Felix Mendelsson – Mendelssohn – Piano Works Vol. 5 Benjamin Frith
Robert Schumann – Kinderszenen : op. 15 ; Davidsbündlertänze : op. 6 ; Piano sonata no. 2 in G minor, op. 22 Angela Hewitt
Musical Theatre Cast Recordings
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss – SIX The Musical: Studio Cast Recording
Anaïs Mitchell – Hadestown: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Alanis Morrisette and Glen Ballard – Jagged Little Pill: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Stephen Sondheim – Company – 2018 London Cast Recording
Popular Music
Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Miranda Lambert – Wildcard
John Legend – Bigger Love
Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Fito Paez – La Conquista del Espacio
Bobby Rush – Rawer Than Raw
Billy Strings – Home
The Strokes – The New Abnormal
James Taylor – American Standard
Thundercat – It Is What It Is
Toots and the Maytals – Got To Be Tough
Various Artists – Harmony In My Head: UK Power Pop & New Wave 1977-81
Opera, Opera Excerpts, Choral Music and Art Songs
Metropolitan Opera – The Gershwins’ Porgy And Bess
Gospel Music
P.J. Morton – Gospel According to PJ: From the Songbook of PJ Morton
Kanye West – Jesus Is King
Spider Sounds: Holiday Music Special Edition — Part 1
Editor’s Note: Spider Sounds presents a special holiday edition today (it’s so special we’ve broken it into two parts!). We asked various folks who work in the Parsons Music Library, Boatwright Library and the Music Department to share some of their favorite music to listen to during the holiday season. Any holiday and all genres of music were fair game and we got quite a fun selection. Links will take you to either the library catalog or to other relevant information. Do you see any of your favorites on this list? If there are favorites or overlooked classics you’d like to add, please share them in the comments to this post! Tune in this Friday for part 2 of our Holiday Music Special!
A list holiday favorites (familiar and otherwise):
Emily Music Library Student Worker, Class of 2017:
Claire Music Library Student Worker, Class of 2020
Mary Music Library Student Worker, Class of 2018
Stevie Wonder – “I Just Called To Say I Love You”
Linda Fairtile Head, Parsons Music Library
John Rutter – “What Sweeter Music”
Any arrangement of “In The Bleak Midwinter”
“The Little Drummer Boy”
“O Holy Night”
Gabriela Music Library Student Worker, Class of 2020
Julian Casablancas – “I Wish It Was Christmas Today”
Liza Music Library Student Worker, Class of 2017
The soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas
Kim Wolfe Resource Sharing Specialist, Boatwright Memorial Library
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – “Big Bulbs” from their It’s A Holiday Soul Party album.
Also “8 Days (Of Hanukah)” from the same album!
Zach Music Library Student Worker, Class of 2017
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings) (the choral version)
Melanie Armstrong Music Library Associate (and blog editor!)
Duke Ellington‘s version of The Nutcracker Suite
Benjamin Britten‘s A Ceremony of Carols
Darlene Love – “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
Singer Darlene Love performs her classic, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Thursday, Dec. 23 2010 on the CBS Television Network.
Photo: John Paul Filo/CBS
©2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved
All of the music (written by Paul Williams) from the Muppets special Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas
Don’t forget the second part of this holiday music extravaganza will be out on Friday and feel free to share your own holiday favorites in the comments!
