New CDs for Summer 2018
Concertos & Chamber Music
Lou Harrison – Works for Percussion, Violin, and Piano
Steve Reich + SO Percussion – Drumming Live
Various Artists – Kaleidoscopic
Piano Music
William Appling – Scott Joplin: The complete rags, waltzes and marches
Beth Levin – Inward Voice
Jazz
Hector Barez – El Laberinto del Coco
Masayoshi Fujita – Book of Life
Danny Green Trio plus Strings – One Day It Will
Maria Schneider Orchestra – The Thompson Fields
Woody Shaw – Tokyo ’81
Cantatas & Choral Music
Eighth Blackbird – Olagon : A Cantata in doublespeak
Tigran Mansurian – Requiem
Musicals
Sara Bareilles – Waitress: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Stephen Flaherty – Once On This Island: The Musical: New Broadway Cast Recording
Electronic Music
Jaan Raats – Marginalia
Various Artists – Electronic Chamber Music
Popular Music
Art of Time Ensemble with Steven Page – A Singer Must Die
Kendrick Lamar – Damn
New CDs added in March!
New CDs for March 2018
Concertos, Chamber and Orchestral Music
Francois Devienne – Flute Concertos Nos. 9-12
Jennifer Higdon – All Things Majestic / Viola Concerto / Oboe Concerto
Jennifer Higdon – Piano Trio / Voices / Impressions
Sheku Kanneh-Mason – Inspiration
Jeffrey LaDeur – Debussy & Rameau: The Unbroken Line
Alon Sariel – Telemandolin
Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartets 2 & 4 / Gringolts Quartet
Kai Schumacher – Beauty in Simplicity
Jazz
Behn Gillece – Walk of Fire
Aaron Goldberg – The Now
Justin Kauflin – Dedication
Jimmy McGriff – The Best of the Sue Years, 1962-1965
Thelonious Monk – Solo Monk
Mostly Other People Do The Killing – Red Hot
Oneness of Juju – Space Jungle Luv
Gregory Porter – Nat “King” Cole & Me
Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet – Intents and Purposes
Opera, Opera Excerpts and Art Songs
Daron Hagen – After Words : 21st-Century Song Cycles
Choral Music
Benjamin Britten – A Ceremony of Carols / Friday Afternoons / Three Two-Part Songs
Luminos – In Lucem
John Turner – Christmas Card Carols
Folk and World Music
The James Connolly Songs of Freedom Band – Songs of Freedom
Various Artists – Andina, the Sound of the Peruvian Andes : Huyano, Carnaval & Cumbia, 1968 to 1978
Popular Music
Various Artists – Caribbean in America, 1915-1962
Steven Wright-Mark – My Plastic World …
New CDs added in December!
New CDs for December 2017
Concertos and Chamber Music
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Tangere
Danish String Quartet – Thomas Ades, Per Nørgard, Hans Abrahamsen
Danish String Quartet – Last Leaf
Danish String Quartet – Wood Works
Anthony de Mare – Liaisons : Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano
Francois Devienne – Flute Concertos Nos. 1-4
Francois Devienne – Flute Conteros Nos. 5-8
D.C. Hall’s New Concert & Quadrille Band – Grand Concert!: Vocal and Instrumental Music Heard in 19th Century America
Beth Levin – Bright Cirle / Schubert, Brahms, Del Tredici
Beth Levin – Personae / Chopin, Eliasson, Schumann
Jazz
Rez Abbasi – Unfiltered Universe
Miles Davis & Bill Evans – Complete Studio & Live Masters
Kyle Eastwood – In Transit
Opera, Opera Excerpts and Art Songs
Pretty Yende – Dreams
Sacred Vocal Music
St. Hildegard Von Bingen – Hildegard Von Bingen: The Complete Edition – Sequentia
Gospel Music
Various Artists – Feel Good! : 40 Years of Life Changing Music
Pop, Blues, Rap and Rock Music
Talib Kweli- Radio Silence
Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black
World Music
Abelardo Barroso – Cha Cha Cha – Albelardo Barroso with Orquestra Sensacion
Buena Vista Social Club – Lost and Found
Various Artists – Anthology of Classic Cuban Music
Band Music
United States Marine Band – Arioso
New CDs added in October!
New CDs for October 2017
Orchestral Music
Dimitri Shostakovich – Under Stalin’s Shadow : Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, 9
Dimitri Shostakovich – Under Stalin’s Shadow : Symphonie No. 10
Concertos and Chamber Music
J.S. Bach – The Cello Suites According to Anna Magdalena
J.S. Bach – Solo Works for Marimba — Kuniko
Ferio Saxophone Quartet – Flux : Original Works for Saxophone Quartet
Joseph Haydn – Flute Sonatas
Eunmi Ko – She Rose, and Let Me In
Isang Yun – Chamber Music
Isang Yun – Chamber Music : World Premier Recordings
Electronic Music
Various artists – Space, Energy & Light: Experimental Electronic and Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88
Jazz
Bill Evans – Another Time : The Hilversum Concert
Gary Smulyan Quartet – Royalty at Le Duc: Live at Le Duc des Lombards
Harry Allen’s All Star New York Saxophone Band – The Candy Men
Fred Hersch – Open Book
Junior Mance – The Complete Albums Collection, 1959-1962
Jeremy Rose – Within & Without
San Francisco String Trio – May I Introduce To You
Triocity – I Believe In You
Chris Washburne – Rags and Roots
Opera, Opera Excerpts and Art Songs
Jamie Barton – All Who Wander
George Frideric Handel – Rinaldo
Dimitri Hvorostovsky – Dimitri Hvorostovsky sings of war, peace, love and sorrow
Louis Karchin – Romulus
Louis Karchin – To The Sun And Stars
Franz Schubert – Schubert Songs — Thomas Meglioranza & Reiko Uchida
Franz Schubert – Winterreise — Thomas Meglioranza & Reiko Uchida
Pretty Yende – A Journey
Choral Music
Henricus Isaac – Nell tempo di Lorenzo de’Medici & Maximilian I, 1450-1519
ORA – Many Are The Wonders: Renaissance Gems and Their Reflections
World Music
Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet – Ladilikan
Various Artists – Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa
Musicals
Brenda Russell – The Color Purple : New Broadway Cast Recording
Ameriana, Bluegrass, and Country Music
Arthur Alexander – Arthur Alexander
Rhiannon Giddens – Factory Girl
Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway
John Reischman and the Jaybirds – On That Other Green Shore
The Sweetback Sisters – King of Killing Time
Pop and Rock Music
Raspberries – Pop Art Live
Arachnophonia: Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – “Sing Sang Sung”
Editor’s note: Arachnophonia is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about items in 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 is by Music Library student library worker AJ (class of 2018). Thanks, AJ!
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band
“Sing Sang Sung”
Swingin’ For The Fences
One of my favorite jazz groups is Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band.
In high school, my director loved to challenge us, and I still remember one of the hardest songs I’ve ever had to play was “Sing Sang Sung” by the Phat Band off of their album Swinging for the Fences. It’s a newer take on “Sing Sing Sing“, but I believe it to be infinitely harder and more intricate. The piece makes every player have to really know their stuff; there is hardly any unison to hide behind. In high school, we had to learn the second half of the piece by heart, because when the breakdown happens, we walked out into the crowd, off the stage, and played in the audience. Everyone loved it. How could they not? The upbeat tempo of a strikingly familiar melody moves everyone.
New CDs added in September!
New CDs for September 2017
Orchestral Music
George Crumb – George Crumb
William Schuman – Symphonies and Selected Orchestral Works
Roger Sessions – Symphonies 6, 7 & 9
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Complete Symphonies
Isang Yun – Complete Symphonies; My Land, My People; Exemplum
Concertos and Chamber Music
Alberto Ginastera – The Three Piano Concertos (Nissman Plays Ginastera)
Bohuslav Martinu – Chamber Music with Flute
Jean-Pierre Rampal – Les triomphes de Jean-Pierre Rampal
Ransom Wilson – Flute Music By French Composers
Jazz
Tri-Ocity – The Art of the Jazz Organ Trio
Film Music
Dimitri Shostakovich – Hamlet: Music for the Film, op. 116/116a
New CDs added in July!
New CDs for July 2017
Orchestral Music
Ernest Bloch – America (An Epic Rhapsody)
Margaret Brouwer – Orchestral and Percussion Music
Diana Cotoman – Symphonie No. 1
Diana Cotoman – Symphonie No. 2
Diana Cotoman – Tableaux & Poemes
Frederick Delius – Appalachia / The Song of the High Hills
Henri Dutilleux – Metaboles / The Shadows of Time
Henri Dutilleux – Symphony No. 2
G.F. Handel – Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks
Hans Werner Henze – Drei sinfonische eduden / Quattro poemi / Nachstucke und arien / La selva incantata
Hans Wener Henze – Ode to the West Wind / Five Neapolitan Songs / Three Dithyrambs
Vincent D’Indy – Jour d’ete a la montagne, Op. 61 & Symphonie sur un chant montagnard “Chevenole”, Op. 25
King’s Consort – The Coronation of King George II
Olivier Messiaen – Turangali^la symphony
Christopher Rouse – Odna Zhizn / Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Prospero’s Rooms
Bright Sheng – The Phoenix
Chamber Music and Concertos
Martha Argerich – Debut Recital: Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, Ravel, Prokofiev
Ludwig van Beethoven – Bearbeitungen Fur Blaser
Ludwig van Beethoven – Legacy: The Spirit of Beethoven – Gwendolyn Mok
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Ebb & Flow Arts – Explorations
Soovin Kim; Jeremy Denk; Jupiter String Quartet – Concert in D Major; Chausson / Sonata No. 1 in A Major; Faure
Steven Mackey – Banana Dump Truck: Music of Steven Mackey
Sphinx Virtuosi – Live in Concert
Richard Strauss – Violin Concerto / Sonata in Eb
Charles Wuorinen – Ashberyana / Fenton Songs
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich – Violin Concerto / Rituals
Popular Music
The Chainsmokers – Bouquet
Kaia Kater – Nine Pin
Josh Ritter – Sermon on the Rocks
Duncan Sheik – Legerdemain
Various artists – Tamla Motwon : Connoisseurs
Suzanne Vega – Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles
Band Music
Thomas Coates – Thomas Coates : The Father of Band Music in America
Cantatas, Choruses, Operas and Oratorios
J.S. Bach – St. Mark Passion
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Psalmen un Moetetten / Oratorium Christus Op. 97
Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio
Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis
George Frideric Handel – Amor e gelosia : Operatic Arias
George Frideric Handel – Delirio : Italian Cantatas
George Frideric Handel – Rinaldo
Witold Lutoslawski – Twenty Polish Christmas Carols
Musica Ficta – Danske julesalmer og sange
Ariel Ramirez – Missa Criolla / Navidad Nuestra
Paul Schoenfield – Concerto for Violin & Orchestra / Four Motets / The Merchant and the Pauper (excerpts)
John Tavener – Lament for Jerusalem
Kurt Weill – The Seven Deadly Sins
Jazz
Seamus Blake & Chris Cheek with Reeds Ramble – Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
Jane Ira Bloom – Early Americans
Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence
The Cookers – The Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart
Fred Hersch Trio – Alive at the Vanguard
Harold Lopez-Nussa – El Viaje
Joe Mulholland Trio – Runaway Train
Musicals & Film Music
City of Prague Philharmonic – Psycho : The Essential Alfred Hitchcock
Osvaldo Golijov – Youth Without Youth : Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Maury Yeston – Titanic : A New Musical
World / Folk Music
Sheila Chandra – Monsoon
Maarja Nuut – Une meeles = In the hold of a dream
Various Artists – Why The Mountains Are Black : Primeval Greek Village Music : 1907-1960
Various Artists – Women of Africa
New CDs added in April / May!
New CDs for April / May 2017
Classical
Catalyst Quartet – Bach/Gould Project / J.S. Bach
Antal Dorati – Antal Dorati Conducts Satie, Milhaud, Auric, Francaix, and Fetler
Alberto Ginastera / Heitor Villa-Lobos / Jose Evangelista – Concerto for Strings / Suite for Strings / Airs d’Espagnes for String Orchestra
Franz Xaver Mozart / Muzio Clementi – The Classical Piano Concerto
Carl Nielsen – Aladdin Suite / Pan and Syrinx / Saga Dream / Maskarade Overture / Helios Overture
Rachel Barton Pine – Capricho Latino
Rachel Barton Pine – Testament: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin / J.S. Bach
Louis Spohr – Violin Concertos Nos. 6, 8, and 11
Alberto Williams – Musica para piano Volume 1
Jazz
Pat Metheny – The Unity Sessions
Pop / Rock / R&B
Drake – Views
The Killers – Hot Fuss
Miramar – Dedication to Sylvia Rexach
Adriano Viterbini – Film [O] Sound
Various Artists – Boombox 1: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro and Disco Rap, 1979-1982
Vocal/ Choral Music
Ian Bostridge – Shakespeare Songs
Thomas Lloyd – Bonhoeffer: A Choral-Theater Piece
New CDs added in March!
New CDs for March 2017
Classical
Frederic Chopin – Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Jessie Montgomery – Strum: Music for Strings
Carl Nielsen – Symphony No. 1 op. 7/ Little Suite, Op. 1
Louis Spohr – Violin Concertos 7, 9 & 10
Ingolf Turban – Violin Concertos by Bruch, Busoni and Strauss
Jazz
Stefon Harris – Ninety Miles
SF Jazz Collective – Wonder: The Songs of Stevie Wonder
Bluegrass
Nefesh Mountain – Nefesh Mountain
Ballet, Musical Theatre and Motion Picture Music
Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle – Sissle and Blake sing Shuffle Along
Geoffrey Simon – French Ballet Music of the 1920s
Frank Zappa – 200 Motels: The Suites
Vocal Music
Christian Gerhaher – Mahler: Orchestral Songs
Christian Gerhaher – Mozart: Arias
New CDs added in January!
New CDs for January 2017
Blues
Alan Lomax – Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings: 1947-1959
Classical
John Adams – Scheherazade.2
Franz Berwald – 4 Symphonies
Johannes Brahms – Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, Waltzes, Op. 39
Bartolomeo Campagnoli – Six String Quartets
Electronic Music
Mason Bates – Works for Orchestra
Jazz
Andy Gonzalez –Entre Colegas
Bob Mintzer – All L.A. Band
Ted Nash Big Band – Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom
Musical Theatre
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell – Bright Star: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Opera
Jennifer Higdon – Cold Mountain
Vocal Music
Christian Gerhaher – Ferne Geliebte
Christian Gerhaher – Mahler Lieder
Christian Gerhaher – Franz Schubert: Die schone Mullerin
Craig Hella Johnson – Considering Matthew Shepard
Anna Netrebko – Verismo
World Music
Anoushka Shankar – Land of Gold
