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Post by arjan on Mar 13, 2010 13:21:40 GMT -5
A while ago I was reading an old music magazine (1999) and noticed a review of the debut album of then 15(!) year old talent Shelby Starner. The review sounded interesting so I started looking if Rate Your Music knew her, if she did more then this album, if she was still alive... well, unfortunately, the answer to the last 2 questions is 'no'. She died in 2003, about 3 months before her 20th birthday, from bolumia. I did find a song from her on youtube and after hearing it I ordered the cd.
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Post by erik on Mar 13, 2010 18:53:46 GMT -5
One of the most popular operas of all time is given a great performance by a cast of seasoned professionals, helped out by one of the great Mozart conductors of all time, Sir Charles Mackerras, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus.
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Post by jhar26 on Mar 13, 2010 20:51:50 GMT -5
One of the most popular operas of all time is given a great performance by a cast of seasoned professionals, helped out by one of the great Mozart conductors of all time, Sir Charles Mackerras, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus. Excellent choice, Erik. I'm happy to see you get into opera a bit lately.
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Post by erik on Mar 14, 2010 0:42:06 GMT -5
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Well, after all "Figaro" is indisputably among the most popular of its type; and a solid cast like this, with a conductor like Mackerras who knows his way around Mozart, helps out. Opera can be a very hard nut for even the most die-hard classical music fan to crack; but with something like "Figaro", which is so universally accessible, the results are a lifetime worth of rewards.
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Post by jhar26 on Mar 19, 2010 12:49:18 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Mar 19, 2010 17:39:07 GMT -5
This very recording was what may have put both Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra on the world music map forever back in 1968--an imposing interpretation of Richard Strauss' immortal "Also Sprach Zarathustra", made in the same year that the work achieved cinematic immortality when its opening passage was used with extreme caginess by director Stanley Kubrick in his sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
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Post by Andrew on Mar 27, 2010 11:00:36 GMT -5
Was able to make a couple purchases. One, an inexpensive EP by Acrassicauda, the "only" Iraqi metal band. The film "Heavy Metal in Baghdad," which is MUCH better than the title, was about them. Now they have finally released some music and are touring. Also, the US Muslim punk band The Kominas' album, downloaded that one a couple nights ago. Probably no more purchases for awhile, but happy I did get these. www.myspace.com/wwwacrassicaudas5comthe.komin.as/
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Post by erik on Mar 27, 2010 17:49:43 GMT -5
Two wildly different classical recordings: Violinist Pinchas Zukerman doubles as conductor with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in this elegant collection of short works for violin and orchestra, from composers such as Dvorak, Schubert, and Beethoven. Fine collection of extremely rare Shostakovich (music he composed for the Soviet cinema), full of his trademark irony, rendered so well by the Concertgeouw Orchestra of Amsterdam under Riccardo Chailly's astute direction.
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Post by arjan on Mar 30, 2010 13:29:56 GMT -5
Young folk-pop singer Laura Marling and her 2nd album, turns more folk and less pop.
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Post by erik on Mar 30, 2010 21:31:47 GMT -5
Wall-to-wall Mozart from a conductor/orchestra combine that knew a thing or two about the young man from Salzburg--to wit, the Cleveland Orchestra and its music director from 1946 to 1970, George Szell. The works on here are the composer's 28th, 33rd, and 35th symphonies; the beloved "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (Serenade No. 13); and the overture for "The Marriage Of Figaro"--all recorded between 1957 and 1968.
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Post by jhar26 on Apr 2, 2010 15:08:20 GMT -5
Rimsky-Korsakov opera on DVD Sondheim musical
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Post by erik on Apr 2, 2010 18:16:31 GMT -5
For this Easter weekend, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus: John Shirley-Quirk, Ryland Davies, Felicity Palmer, and Helen Watts are the featured vocal soloists in this 1985 recording of George Frideric Handel's beloved oratorio "Messiah", arguably the single most popular and important choral work ever created. And although scaled back to an extent, the work loses none of its grandeur in the hands of the often-underrated conductor Raymond Leppard and the English Chamber Orchestra & Choir.
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Post by jhar26 on May 11, 2010 14:28:24 GMT -5
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Post by erik on May 11, 2010 20:20:09 GMT -5
Eclecticism being what I somehow end up going for... I know, I know. It looks familiar, but isn't someone missing here? Seriously, this is a side project that sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire have come up with while their fellow Chick Natalie Maines takes time off. It's not too terribly different from Taking The Long Way in its musical content. Save for one track ("Gracefully", which Martie wrote and sang lead on), the lead vocals are by Emily, who, as more than a few people have noted, sounds a heck of a lot like Sheryl Crow, though this is really just a coincidence. One of the best tracks on this album is "Ain't No Son", a rather scathing attack against nasty redneck attitudes towards gays. This will probably end up on my "Ten Best" list of recordings for this year. Handel at his most royal, with the "Dettingen Te Deum", "Zadok The Priest" (the first of his four Coronation Anthems), and the more subdued Organ Concerto No. 14. This recording was spotlighted in a Classical Music Spotlight a few months back, and is one of the few recordings I have of any work or works done on instruments of the period. Stephen Layton leads the Academy of Ancient Music in this recording from 2007.
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Post by arjan on May 12, 2010 1:51:48 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Jun 21, 2010 9:14:41 GMT -5
Tift's fifth album is another good one. 'Nuff said (LOL).
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Post by erik on Sept 15, 2010 21:37:32 GMT -5
Her mother co-wrote last year's Grammy-winning Song Of The Year with Taylor Swift. Caitlin Rose, however, despite being only two and a half years older than T.S., displays a wisdom beyond her 23 years, and a reverence for some pretty big names (Patsy; Loretta; Stevie; Emmylou; and especially Linda), on this, her official debut album. It features a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "That's Alright", and an original song, "Sinful Wishing Well", that she still hopes Linda might cover.
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Post by dawnstar on Oct 3, 2010 8:02:06 GMT -5
My latest are: Blackmore's Night: Autumn Sky Liriel: Paranoid Circus Epica: Design Your Universe Faun: Acoustic: Buch der Balladen Idan Raichel Project: Within These Walls Nightwish: Made in Hong Kong Sarek: Genom eld und Vatten Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad: There Must Be Another Way Yael Dekelbaum: Ground Zero Katra: Beast Within
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Post by erik on Oct 3, 2010 11:17:43 GMT -5
Hilary Hahn brilliantly performs two violin concertos separated by 130 years, to wit, Jennifer Higdon's 2008 concerto, and Tchaikovsky's of 1878. Vasily Petrenko leads the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on this Deutsche Grammphon recording.
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Post by erik on Dec 19, 2010 20:26:54 GMT -5
The debut album from last season's American Idol runner-up, this is a rootsy mix of blues, rock, folk, and country, with all but one of the songs either having been written or co-written by Crystal herself. The one cover is a feisty updating of Buffalo Springfield's 1967 protest classic "For What It's Worth." Linda's self-titled 1972 album and her breakthrough 1974 album Heart Like A Wheel are combined on this compilation from Australian import label Raven. This CD also includes bonus tracks: "Can It Be True?" (from the 1971 film MARRIAGE OF A YOUNG STOCKBROKER); and "Living Like A Fool" and "He Dark The Sun", two songs she recorded with her band the Corvettes for the all-star Free Creek "jam album in New York in the summer of 1969.
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Post by erik on Feb 27, 2011 18:15:17 GMT -5
Impressive second album from Adele, with standout tracks like "Rolling In The Deep" and "Rumour Has It" John Williams' scores for Spielberg's two dinosaur sci-fi/suspense thrillers. The collaborative synergy between the two has rarely ever faltered, and these are not those occasions (IMHO).
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 1, 2011 12:22:57 GMT -5
I like some of that Adele album-- besides ones you mention, 'Take It All' & 'Someone Like You' impressed me (I heard a young friend's album recently- he's a big Adele fan). Recently enjoying: new one from the amazingly prolific jazz singer Rebecca Kilgore-- another live one this time w. fine Harry Allen Quartet; www.arborsrecords.com/recordtemplate.html?ProductID=19433and very much new recording of early Brahms piano sonatas (op. 1 & 2) & the op. 4 Scherzo, played by Alexander Melnikov: www.harmoniamundi.com/#/albums?id=1621
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Post by arjan on Mar 2, 2011 12:23:51 GMT -5
New album of That Dog. singer Anna Waronker, many years after her debut. It's a bit less rock, more midtempo. Sort of Susanna Hoffs meets Juliana Hatfield. Only available on mp3 and vinyl (I have the lp).
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 2, 2011 21:16:43 GMT -5
Thanks for heads up on Anna Waronker-- cool she's still 'out there' w. a new one!!
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Post by erik on Apr 8, 2011 9:19:21 GMT -5
Alondra De La Parra and her Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas both made an exquisite debut last year with this 2-CD collection of great classical works from Mexico, in celebration of that nation's bicentennial. Works from the album include Manuel Ponce's famous guitar concerto "Concierto Del Sur"; Silvestre Revueltas' "Sensemaya"; and Juventino Rosas' "Sobe Las Olas" (a waltz that can easily be mistaken for one of the hundreds by the Austrian waltz king Johann Strauss II).
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