A continuous supply of…

New CDs!!!

Henryk Górecki - Symphony No. 1 and Chorus No. 1 -Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Roland Bader (CD 5781)

Julian Bream, guitar with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle (CD 5786)

Mozart - Requiem - Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado (CD 5782)

Boulez – Pli Selon Pli - Christine Schäfer with the Ensemble Intercontemporain (CD 5783)

Penderecki – Orchestra Works Vol. 1 - National Polish Radio Symphony Orhcestra conducted by Antoni Wit (CD 5784)

Joseph Haydn – 12 “London” Symphonies - London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eugen Jochum (CD 5785)

The Mravinsky Collection – Brahms, Sibelius and Weber - Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Evgeni Mravinsky (CD 5787)

Prokofiev – Symphonies No. 6 and No. 1 - Orchestre National de France conducted by Mstislav Rostropovitch (CD 5788)

Prokofiev – Symphonies No. 4 - Orchestre National de France conducted by Mstislav Rostropovitch (CD 5789)

Rautavaara - Symphony No. 8 “The Journey” - New Zealand Symphony Orhcestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen (CD 5790)

Nielsen - Symphony No. 2 and No. 3 - Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Schonwandt (CD 5791)

Shostakovich – Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 – Ilya Kaler, violin with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit (CD 5792)

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 8 - Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin (CD 5793)

New Scores

Victor Ewald – Quintet No. 2 for Brass Quintet M557.4 .E92 op.6 1983

Victor Ewald – Quintet No. 3 for Brass Quintet M557.4 .E92 op.7 1978

Franz Danzi - Bläserquintett g-moll - Quintet for Wind Instruments g-minor M557 .D25 op.56 no.2 1990

Franz Danzi – Bläserquintett B-dur - Quintet for Wind Instruments Bb-major M557 .D25 op.56 no.1 1990

Franz Danzi – Bläserquintett F-dur - Quintet for Wind Instruments F-major M557 .D25 op.56 no.3 1990

Borodin – Quartet No. 2 in D major for two violins, viola and cello M452 .B8 no.2 1941

J.S. Bach – Air on the G string - for Brass Quintet arranged by Arthur Frackenpohl M559 .B1186 A47 1982

American Song database updates

The American Song database just updated with an additional 41 albums, bringing the total number of albums available to 6,875!

This latest update adds releases from Amherst Records, Rebel Records, Southern Records, Tompkins Square Records and Yellow Dog Records; focusing mostly on country, bluegrass, folk, and blues music.

Highlights include records by Charlie Louvin, Ralph Stanley, and Roland White, a fiddle album by longtime West Virginia Senator, Robert Byrd, a collection of recordings by NYC subway musicians, and one of Charles Manson’s oddities.

More New Things

Scores

Messiaen – Oiseaux Exotiques (M101 .M608 04 2009)

Mozart – Titus (M1503 .M93 C55 1970)

Wagner – Tristan und Isolde (M1503 .W14 T8 1990)

Mozart – Trios (M312 .M84 H4 1960)

CDs

Requiem - the Clerk’s Group – Edward Wickham (CD 9123)

Lutoslawski – Symphony No. 2 – Los Angeles Philharmonic (CD 9124)

Lutoslawski – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 - Los Angeles Philharmonic (CD 9125)

Brahms & Dvorak - Concertos for Violin and Orchestra - the USSR Radio Symphony Orhcestra conducted by Kirill Kondrashin with David Oistrakh, violin (CD 9126)

Schubert – The Improptus Moments Musicaux - András Schiff (CD 9127)

Dvorák – The Golden Spinning-Wheel Symphony No. 8 - BBC Philharmonic conducted Gianadrea Noseda (CD 9128)

The Music of Karl Jenkins - a CD sampler (CD 9129)

John Dowland – Complete Lute Works Vols. 1, 2, 3, 5 and booklet (CD 9130, 9131, 9132, 9133)

Liszt – Fantasie und Fuge and Sonata in b minor – Garrick Ohlsson, piano (CD 5780)

Ethan Wickman – Portals and Passages - Nocholas Phillips, piano (CD 5779)

Gernot Wolfgang – Short Stories - More Groove-oriented Chamber Music (CD 5778)

The Esterhazy Quartet – James Willey - String Quartets Nos. 3, 7, 8 (CD 5777)

David S. Lefkowitz – Music of Contradictions (CD 5776)

Scott Joplin - The Red Back Book - New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble (CD 9107)

Ottmar Lieber – Nouveau Flamenco (CD 9108)

Narcisco Yepes – Guitarra Española (CD 9110)

Nomades Du Désert (CD 9111)

Van Cliburn - My Favorite Encores (CD 9112)

Mark O’Connor – The Fiddle Concerto - The Concordia Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop (CD 9114)

Paata Burchuladze – Arias from Operas and Russian Folk Music (CD 9115)

Rachmaninov – Suite Nos. 1 and 2 & Symphonic Dances - Howard Shelley and Hilary Macnamara, pianos (CD 9116)

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 11 “The Year 1905″ – Jena Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Montgomery (CD 9117)

International Tchaikovsky Competition - The Rostov Philharmonic Society Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Kogan (CD 9118 piano and CD 9119 cello)

Scriabin – The Poem of Ecstasy – Chitose Okashiro, piano (CD 9120)

Samuel Barber - Piano Concerto - Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop with Stephen Prutsman, piano (CD 9121)

Schnittke and Denisov - Chamber Symphony conducted by A. Lazarev (CD 9122)

Zhou Long wins Pultizer Prize for Music

Chinese born American composer, Zhou Long, won the 2011 Pultizer Prize for Music for his opera Madame White Snake. 

Based on a Chinese folk tale, Madame White Snake follows a female snake demon (and remember, “demons” aren’t necessarily evil or bad) who transforms herself into a beautiful woman to experience love (sounds pretty good to me…) Madame White Snake falls deeply in love with a scholar, Xu Xian, and marries him. Their love is “widely celebrated,” motivating a curious Abbot to investigates the truth of Madame White Snake. The Abbot discovers Madame White Snake’s false identity.  Realizing Madame White Snake is also pregnant, the Abbot is horrified by what he considers “a violation of all of the traditional taboos of race and religion, the divine and the profane.” The Abbot reveals Madame White Snake’s true identity to her husband and Xu Xian betrays her. Tragically Madame White Snake transforms back into a snake. (For a further synopsis and history of the folk tale Wikipedia is always a good source!)

Sounds a bit like Madame Butterfly doesn’t it? Well, if it is anything like Puccini’s famous opera, then this is going to be incredible! Just read what the Pulitzer jury described the opera as: “a deeply expressive opera that draws on a Chinese folk tale to blend the musical traditions of the East and the West.”

First premiered by the Boston Opera in February 2010, Long will be awarded $10,000 for his Pulitzer Price. Each year the Pulitzer goes to a “distinguished musical composition (not necessarily an opera or symphony…just composition) by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States.”

Although we don’t have a copy of Madame White Snake here at the Music Library (I don’t know if a recording even exists for sale) you can listen to compositions by Zhou Long on CD 5007 and CD 4549, and we’ll let you know if we find a recording!

To learn more go to the articles at:

MusicalAmerica.com

NewMusicBox.com

Weekend Events

AU Symphony Orchestra Concert

with guest artist, senior vocal major Guiliana Concha-Pedraza

Friday and Saturday at 8 P.M.

Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center

$10 AU Community, $15 general admission

 

See Something/Say Something

Senior Docudrama

Thursday – Saturday at 8 P.M. and Saturday at 2 P.M.

Studio Theater, Katzen Arts Center

 

Johanna’s Junior Recital

Sunday at 8 P.M.

Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katze n Arts Center

 

Spring Dance Informal

Monday, April 18th at 7 P.M.

Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center

$5 general admission

New Stuff

There is LOTs of new CDs at the music library!!!!

CDs

Arnold – The Complete Symphonies – National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland conducted by Andrew Penny (CD 5769)

Britten – War Requiem (CD 5750)

Leif Segerstam – Kontra Quartet and the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam (CD 5751)

Domenico Scarlatti - Complete Keyboards Sonatas Vol. 7 – Konstantin Scherbakov, piano (CD 5760)

JS Bach – Piano Concertos Vol. 1 – Hae-Won Chang, piano with Camerata Casssovia  conducted by Robert Stankovsky (CD 5761)

Mikhail Nosyrev - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 – St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Verbitsky (CD 5753)

Mozart – The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir (CD 5754)

Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Ravel – Maxim Vergerov, violin with the Philharmonia Orchestra condcuted by Antonio Pappano (CD 5748)

Rossini Overtures – National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly (CD 5762)

Bruckner – 3rd Symphony – Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Daniel Barenboim (CD 5763)

Peter Tschaikowsky – Eugen Onegin (CD 5770)

Sibelius - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons (CD 5764)

George Whitefield Chadwick – Orchestral Works – Nashville Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn (CD 5771)

Bruckner – Symphony No. 5 – Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Gunter Wand (CD 5772)

Rodion Shchedrin – Piano Concertos Nos. 1 -3 (CD 5773)

Bruckner – Symphony No. 5 – London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Franz Wleser-Möst (CD 5774)

Paul Hindemith – The 5 Sonatas for Brass and Piano (CD 5752)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 9 – Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester conducted Gunter Wand (CD 5749)

Bruckner – Symphony No. 9 – Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Evgeni Mravinsky (CD 5757)

Bruckner – Symphony No. 6 – North German Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gunter Wand (CD 5758)

Weekend Serenade – Brahms: Serenades 1 & 2 (CD 5759)

Firebird – City Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle (CD 5755)

Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra – London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein (CD 5765)

Robert Schumann re-orchestrated by Gustav Mahler – The Four Symphonies – Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Aldo Ceccato (CD 5756)

Sibelius (CD 5767)

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 – Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Semyon Bychkov (CD 5766)

Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 - Sinfonieorchester Des Norddeutschen Rundfunks conducted by Gunter Wand (CD 5678)

Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Maurizio Pollini, piano with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado (CD 5736)

Bruckner – Symphony No. 9 – Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado (CD 5737)

Bernstein – the Final Concert – Beethoven Symphony No. 7 and Britten Four Sea Interludes - Boston Symphony Orchestra (CD 5738)

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 15 – Gothenburg Symphony Orhcestra conducted by Neeme Järvi (CD 5739)

Arvo Pärt – Kanon Pokajanen (CD 5740)

Glazunov – Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 – Oxana Yablonskaya, piano with Moscow Symphony Orhcestra conducted by Dmitry Yablonsky (CD 5741)

Brahms – Variations by Schumann, Handel and Paganini – Idil Biret, piano (CD 5743)

Walter Piston – Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 – James Buswell, violin with the National Symphony of Ukraine conducted by Theodore Kuchar (CD 5745)

Arvo Pärt - Elora Festival Singers conductedby Noel Edison

Beethoven – Maurizio Pollini (CD 5746)

Vladimir Horowitz – The Studio Recordings, New York 1985 (CD 5747)

Gravity marimba

Okay, it’s for a commercial, but this is still pretty dang neat.

 

CD Sheet Music

If you aren’t already aware, the AU Music Library has a collection of Sheet Music on CD. Basically this means you can download sheet music from said CD to your computer and print it! Obviously, because of copyright laws the only music avaible on CD is pre-20th century. However we have a large collection of:

French Piano Music (CD-Rom 31 & 32)

Clarinet Methods, Studies & Ensembles (CD – Rom 33)

Spanish and Latin American Piano Music (CD-Rom 34)

Haydn & Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas (CD-Rom 35)

Sacred Songs & Arias for Soprano (CD-Rom 36)

Sacred Songs & Arias for Baritone/Bass (CD-Rom 37)

Sacred Songs & Arias for Mezz-Sopran/Alto (CD-Rom 38)

Sacred Songs & Arias for Tenor (CD-Rom 39)

Clarinet Solos & Duos (CD-Rom 24)

Grieg & Mendelssohn: Works for Piano (CD-Rom 25)

American Concert Piano Music (CD-Rom 26)

WA Mozart: the Piano Concertos (CD-Rom 27)

Piano Sonatinas & Standard Study Works (CD-Rom 28)

Sacred Duets, Trios & Quartets (CD-Rom 29)

American Ragtime Music Hall Piano Music (CD-Rom 30)

Some more NEW CDs!

Schoenberg - Pelleas Und Melisande, Variations for Orchestra, Violin Concerto and Piano Concerto (CD 5723)

Classic Brass – Works by Mlada, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Copland, Smetana, Grieg, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Bizet, Dvorak, Brahms, Ginastera, Ravel, Mussorgsky (CD 5705)

Sibelius – Symphony No. 3 & No. 6 conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (CD 5708)

Khachaturian – Gayane, A Ballet in 3 Acts, conducted by Djansug Kakhidze (CD 5725)

Tchaikovsky – Complete Symphonies performed by the Russian National Orchestra with Mikhail Pletnev (CD 5726)

Schubert – Symphony No. 9 and Overture in C, conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (CD 5706)

Mendelssohn – Symphonies 3 ‘Scottish’ & 4 ‘Italian’ conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (CD 5707)

Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring, Caticum Sacrum, Choral Variations and Requiem Canticles (CD 5727)

Beethoven – Piano Concert No. 5 and Grosse Fugue performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra (CD 5728)

Melartin – Symphonies 5 & 6 (CD 5729)

Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 3 and No. 1, Szell – Piano Sonata No. 2 & No. 3 performed by Gary Graffman (CD 5730)

Respighi – Pines of Rome, The Birds and Fountains of Rome performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (CD 5731)

Part – De Profundis, Solfeggio, ‘And one of the Pharisees’, Cantate Domino, Summa, The Beatitudes and Magnificant (CD 5712)

Charles Schlueter – Trumpet Concertos of Neruda, Haydn, Tartini and Hummel (CD 5713)

Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (CD 5714)

Sibelius – Symphonies 4 & 5 conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (CD 5715)

Brahms – Concerto No. 1 performed by Helene Grimaud (CD 5716)

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 7, ‘Leningrad’ performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (CD 5724)

Gade – Complete Symphonies, Conducted by Neeme Jarvi, No. 1 & No. 8 (CD 5717), No. 2 & No. 7 (CD 5718)

Part – Arbos, An den Wassern zu Babel, Pari Intervallo, De Profundis, Es sang vor langen Jahren, Summa, Arbos, Stabat Mater (CD 5722)

Prokofiev – Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 3, 5 & 9 performed by Yefim Bronfman (CD 5721)

Gade – Symphonies 7 & 8 (CD 5720), Symphonies 3 & 5 (CD 5719)

Sibelius – Symphonies 4 & 5 conducted by Lorin Maazel (CD 5733)

R. Strauss – Eine Alpensinfonie, Festliches Praluduim, conducted by Dave Zinman (CD 5734)

Glass – Symphony No. 3, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies (CD 5732)

Bruckner – Symphony No. 7 performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker with Nikolaus Harnoncourt (CD 5735)

Prokofiev – Sonatas Nos. 1, 4 & 6 performed by Yefim Bronfman (CD 5709)

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 8 performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Sir Georg Solti (CD 5710)

Orff – Carmina Burana conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (CD 5711)

Shostakovich – Symphony 8 conducted by Valery Gergiev (CD 5695)

 

Our “CD by Subject” guides make browsing easy

The ALADIN catalog makes it a relatively simple affair to track down a recording you’re looking for, but what if you’re not quite sure what you want? You could certainly browse around in our CD cabinets, but anyone who has spent time doing that knows that they are organized to make the most efficient use of the space available and for easy retrieval, but not at all with browsing in mind.

Musical theater fans have long had our guide to Musical Theater CDs (in print and now online), but did you notice that we’ve added quite a few more over the past year or so?

From our music subject guide page, find the tab labeled “CDs by Subject.” When you hover over it, a menu will drop down with all our current guides.

Choose one, and you’ll get a spreadsheet of all of our holdings in that particular genre. Most are current up to a few months ago, though they are not continuously updated.

The call numbers are all linked to the appropriate ALADIN record, so you can easily check the availability of an item you’re interested in. Helpful, right?

If you have any suggestions about what we should do next, let us know in the comments on in person.