I grew up with the LP format, so I still listen far more frequently to “albums” than anything – which should be no surprise, since most substantial classical works are “album”-length. So you won’t be entirely shocked to learn that since playlists are the new albums, my playlist will again consist of playlists.
“Vous avez dit brunettes?” – Les Kapsber’girls (alpha)
Ives: Symphony No. 4 – Dudamel, LAPO (DG)
“Hans Swarowsky dirigiert Johann Strauß II” (Profil)
Jolivet: Suite delphique / Epithaleme – Jolivet, ensemble (EMI)
“Gurdy Hurding” – Renaldo & The Loaf (Klanggalerie)
Falla: Harpsichord Concerto – Puyana, Mackerras, ensemble (Philips)
“Out to Lunch!” – Eric Dolphy (Blue Note)
Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 3 – Wendeberg (bastille musique)
Martinů: Piano Concerto No. 4 – Leichner, Bělohlávek (Supraphon)
“Söm Sâptâlahn” – Itchy-O (Mettle Institute)
Ferneyhough: Sonatas for String Quartet- Arditti Qt (æon)
“Draw Bridge” – Sophie Agnel, Michael Zebang (Relative Pitch)
Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria – Boston Baroque (Linn)
Brown: Synergy – Brown, Ens Avantgarde (hat Art)
“Horowitz Plays Scriabin” (Columbia Masterworks ~ Sony)
Scelsi: Chamber Works – ad hoc ensemble, Ensemble 2e2m… (Editions RZ)
“Just” – Billy Hart Quartet (ECM)
Smetana: Symphonic Poems – Popelka, Prague RSO (Supraphon)
Füting: distant: violin. Sound – various artists including Miranda Cuckson (New Focus)
Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Rhyme – Pennario, Felix Slatkin (Capitol – Scribendum)
“Three of a Perfect Pair” – King Crimson (Editions EG)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (1887 version) – Poschner, RSO Wien (Capriccio)
Verdi: Rigoletto – Scotto, Bergonzi, Kubelík (DG)
Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 2 [plys Berg, Milhaud] – Claude Helffer (DG)
“Crystal Sky” – Julie Lyon with Jack DeSalvo, Chris Forbes, Larry Hutter, Tom Cabrera (Unseen Rain, via BandCamp)
Weinberg: Quartets Nos. 1, 7 & 8 – Arcadia Qt (Chandos)
Crahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 arranged for piano four-hands – Matthies & Cohn (Naxos)
“The Mistress” [Abraham Cowley’s Poems Set by Blow, Purcell & Others] – The Consort of Musicke (Columns)
“Donaueschiger Musiktage 1990” (col legno)
“Black Myth” – San Ra and His Intergalactic Research Orchestra (MPS)
Cardew: The Great Learning – Scratch Orchestra (DG avant garde)
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust – Margiano, Quasthoff, Cole, Haitink, Netherlands RPO (Challenge)
“Chewing Hides the Sound” – Snakefinger (Ralph)
Hindemith: Pittsburgh Symphony – Kegel, Berlin Symphony (Berlin)
Rossini: Semiramide – Studer, Ramey, Marin, LSO (DG)
“The Countryside is Great” – Emerson Kitamaru (EM Records)
Jolivet: Suite Française – Jolivet, ens (EMI)
Koenig, Pongrácz, Riehm: Electronic Music (DG avant garde)
“Ricci Plays Sarasate” (Decca US)
Wagner: Rienzi – Studer, Kollo, Sawallisch (Orfeo)
Scelsi: Bot-Ba – Marianne Schröder (hat ART)
Bertoia: Swinging Bars & Vulcans Play – Bertoia (Somnmbient)
Piston: Symphony No. 4, Schuman: Symphony No. 6 – Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra (Columbia)
“Today and Now” – Coleman Hawkins Quartet (Impulse!)
“Red Exposure” – Chrome (Dossier)
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume 7 – Belder (Brilliant)
Respighi: Lauda per la Natività del Signore – von Otter, Ely, Mikaela Choir (Proprius)
“English Music for Strings” – Collins, New Symphony Orchestra (Decca)
“Glass World of Annea Lockwood” (Room40, digital reissue)
Elgar: Violin Concerto – Frang (Warner)
“Beat” – King Crimson (EG)
Nono: Seguente (edition RZ)
Monk: Atlas (ECM)
Poulenc: Aubade, Les Biches (Tacchino, Prêtre) – EMI
“Liberation Music Orchestra” – Chalie Haden (Impulse!)
Johann Michael Bach, Johann Christoph Bach: Choral and Keyboard Works (Ricercar, from the “Masters of the German Baroque” big box)
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Schoenberg: Serenade Op. 24, Variations Op. 31, Bach Transcriptions – Robert Craft, 20th Century Chamber Ensemble, Philharmonia Orchestra (Naxos)
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‘Masters of Chopin’ – Ignaz Friedman, Ignace Tigerman, Severin Eisenberger (arbiter)
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Telemann: ‘The Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments, Volume 2’ – Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt (cpo)
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‘God’s Favorite Dog’ (Touch and Go, ripped and restored from vinyl!)
Louis Andriessen: Il Principe, Il Duce (Donemus Composers’ Voice, ripped and restored from vinyl!)
‘Xenakis in het Orgelpark’ (Orgelparkrecords)
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