Next week, 9/7: the Music Library Open House!

That’s right, it’s Party Time at the Music Library again.

Next Wednesday, September 7th from 3pm-6pm, we will be hosting our second open house! Stop by for a few minutes to snack on some refreshments, chat with our friendly staff, and learn more about the Music Library’s holdings and services.

If you’re a new student at AU, or if you’re a returning student that’s never made it over here, this is the perfect opportunity to check out what we can do for you, and to enjoy some cookies while you’re at it.

If you’re a regular at the Music Library, consider bringing some friends to introduce them to this valuable campus resource.

We are located in the Katzen Arts Center, Room 150. Hope to see you there!

New Arrivals, CD Edition

Big Brother & Holding Company – Cheap Thrills (CD 9426)

Santana – Abraxas (CD 9433)

The Band – s/t (CD 9424)

Bob Dylan – The Collection (Nashville Skyline/New Morning/John Wesley Harding) (CD 9434)

Black Sabbath – Paranoid (CD 9427)

The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (CD 9423)

Genesis – Foxtrot (CD 9428)

Richard Hell & the Voidoids – Blank Generation (CD 9429)

Parliament – Mothership Connection (CD 9430)

Arvo Pärt – Symphony No. 4 (CD 9431)

Arvo Pärt – Alina (CD 9432)

Boris Papandopulo – Piano Music (CD 9419)

Agevolmente: Chamber Music of David Dies (CD 9420)

Leon Kirchner – Orchestral Works (CD 9421)

Jeremy Gill - Book of Hours / Helian (CD 9422)

Béla Bartók – 44 Duos for Two Violins; András Keller, János Pilz violins (CD 9425)

Naxos Music Library to add the catalogs of EMI, Blue Note, Virgin Classics

Some really existing news from our friends at Naxos Music Library: beginning last week, they’ve started adding the catalogs of EMI Classics, Blue Note Records, and Virgin Classics to their already expansive collection of 800,000+ streaming tracks. All 7,200 or so albums should be available by the end of the year.

From their press release:

The legacy of the catalogs of these labels is made apparent by the ensembles, instrumentalists, vocalists and conductors that appear on their decades of recordings, including the likes of Art Blakey, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Evgeny Kissin, Sir Simon Rattle, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Maria Callas, Wilhelm Furtwängler, the Berliner Philharmoniker, Bill Charlap, Lionel Loueke, Joe Lovano, Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Ambrose Akinmusire, and countless others. The documentation of great past performers as well as new releases on all three labels will serve as an invaluable educational tool to Naxos Music Library subscribers.

Naxos Music Library can be accessed by members of the AU community either on-campus or off (with your myAladin login).

New arrivals: Welcome Week edition

CDs

Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power (CD 9410)

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (CD 9414)

Bob Dylan -  The Times They Are A-Changin’ (CD 9415)

Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan (CD 9416)

Gene Vincent – The Capitol Collector’s Series (CD 9413)

Various Artists – The Birth of Surf (CD 9412)

Various Artists – The Stax Story (4CD box set) (CD 9417)

Various Artists – Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (CD 9418)

Lee Hoiby – Summer and Smoke (CD 9411)

Scores

Jean-Marie Londeix – Hello! Mr. Sax (method book) (MT500.L65 H4 1989)

DVD

Beethoven – Symphonies 2 & 5, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, cond. (ML DVD 185)

When life gives you lemons….come to the Music Library for NEW stuff!!!!

CDs

• Beethoven — Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leinsdorf (CD 9384)
• Beethoven – Complete Chamber Music for Flute (CD 9385)
• Beethoven — The Five Piano Concertos; Serkin, Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra (CD 9386)
• Beethoven — String quartets op. 59, Rasoumovsky; Guarneri Quartet (CD 9387)
• Wynton Marsalis — Baroque Music for Trumpets; English Chamber Orchestra, Leppard (CD 9404)
• Mozart — The 4 flute quartets; Rampal (CD 9403)
• Yo-Yo Ma – Simply Baroque; The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (CD 9405)
• Yo-Yo Ma — Simply Baroque II; The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (CD 9406)
• Brahms — Violin concerto in D major, op. 77 Double Concerto; the Philidelphia Orchestra, Ormandy (CD 9364)
• Brahms — Piano Sonatas 1 & 2; Richter (CD 9365)
• Beethoven — Sonata no. 5 for piano & violin in F major, op. 24, Spring, Sonata no. 9 for piano & violin in A major, op. 47 Kreutzer ; Sonata no. 10 for piano & violin in G major, op 96; Casadesus, Francescatti (CD 9389)
• Beethoven — Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61; New York Philharmonic, Stern, Barenboim (CD 9390)
• Mozart — The Piano Quartets; Ax, Stern, Laredo, Ma (CD 9391)
• Brahms — Trio no. 1 in B major, op. 8 ; Trio no. 3 in C minor, op. 101 (CD 9366)
• Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin – Last recital = Letzter Auftritt (CD 9352)
• Mozart – Clarinet quintet in A Major, K. 581 / Brahms — Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115; members of the Melos Ensemble of London (CD  9353)
• Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart — Trios for piano, clarinet, & cello (CD 9354)
• Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on Greensleeves, English folk song suite, Concerto grosso, Oboe concerto (CD 9355)
• Vaughn Williams — Orchestral favourites volume III; English String Orchestra, Boughton (CD 9356)
• Vivaldi — Flute, Oboe, Basson Conceti; Rampal (CD 9357)
• Haydn — The London symphonies nos. 93, 94, 97, 99, 100, 101 (CD 9358)
• Haydn – Piano sonatas 33, 60 & 62 (CD 9359)
• Haydn — String Quartets Op. 76, No. 4 “Sunrise”, No. 5, No. 6 (CD 9360)
• Haydn — String Quartets Op. 20, No. 1, 3 & 4 (CD 9361)
• Telemann – Suiten; The English Concert, Pinnock (CD 9362)
• Telemann — Oboe Sonatas; Goodwin (CD 9363)

Scores

• Barber — 65 Songs (M 1620 .B27 S59 2010)
• Gilbert and Sullivan Choruses (M 1507 .G56 G56 2010)
• Across the Universe (M 1527.2 .A37 2008)

Summer is almost over…BUT WAIT! New CDs!

• Mozart — Konzert für Klavier und Orchester No. 21 KV 467 & No. 23 KV 48; London Symphony Orchestra, Serkin, Abbado (CD 9393)
• Mozart – Quartet in F, K. 370, for oboe, violin, viola, and cello. Adagio in C, K. 580a, for cor anglais, violin, viola, and cello. Divertimento no. 11 in D, K. 251, “Nannerl-Septett” (CD 9394)
• Mozart — Serenade K. 361, Winds, Hogwood (CD 9395)
• Mozart — Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364, Sinfonia concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra in E-flat major, K. 297b, Rondo for violin and orchestra in B-flat major, K. 269 (CD 9396)
• Mozart — Piano concerto no. 20, in D minor, K. 466 ; Piano concerto no. 27 in B-flat major; Columbia Symphony Orchestra (CD 9397)
• Mozart — Horn Concertos, Brain Philharmonic Orchestra, Von Karajan (CD 9398)
• Mozart — Konzert für Klavier und Orchester No. 18, Konzert für Klavier und Orchester No. 24 (CD 9399)
• Mozart — Konzert für Klavier und Orchester No. 25 , für Klavier und Orchester No. 19 (CD 9400)
• Mozart — String quartets G major & D minor, Emerson String Quartet (CD 9401)
• Mozart — Clarinet and Sinfonia concerto, K. 364, K. 622 (CD 9402)
• Mozart — Concertos for two & three pianos, Andante and variations for four hands in G major, K. 501, Fantasia in F minor K. 608, English Chamber Orchestra (CD 9392)
• Beethoven — Triple Concerto, Piano Trio Op. 121a “Kakadu” variations; Beaux Arts Trio, London Philharmonis Orchestra, Haitnk (CD 9388)
• Beethoven — Piano Sonatas, Rubinstein (CD 9383)
• Beethoven — Piano trio in D, op. 70 no. 1, “Geister-Trio” ; Piano trio in B flat, op. 97 : “Archduke” (CD 9382)
• Beethoven — Symphony no. 7, Boston Symphony Orchestra (CD 9381)
• Beethoven — Trio for piano, clarinet & cello, op. 11, Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn & bassoon, op. 16, Variations for piano, violin & cello on Wenzel Muller’s Lied “I am the tailor Kakadu” : op. 121a (CD 9380)
• Bach — Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Well-tempered piano. Vol. 1/II, Joccottet (CD 9379)
• Bach — Konzert für 2 violinen und Streichorchester, BWV 1043, Konzert für violine und streichorchester, BWV 1042 – BWV 1041 (CD 9378)
• Bach — Goldberg variations; Perahia (CD 9376)
• Schumann — Vladimir Horowitz (CD 9375)
• Schubert — Piano Trio, Trio in E flat, op. 100, D. 929, Trio in one movement in B flat, D. 28 (CD 9374)
• Schubert — Piano sonatas D. 958 & D. 959; Uchida (CD 9373)
• Mozart & Schubert — Amadeus Quartet/Pleeth, String quintet D 956 (CD 9372)
• Schubert — Piano sonatas D960 & D664 (CD 9371)
• Schubert — Impromptus D 899 & 935; Perahia (CD 9370)
• Schubert — String Quartets No. 8 & 13; The Lindsays (CD 9369)
• Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti — (CD 9368)
• Handel — Recorder Sonatas; Petri & Jarrett (CD 9367)

Tap, tap, tap those feet! To new music!

CDs

• Haydn – Herman Scherchen, Symphonies No. 45, 48, 92, 94, 100, & 101 (CD 9409)
• Something to sing about – Lisa Kirchner (CD 8763)
• The piano trios of Felix Mendelssohn – Argenta Trio (CD 9069)
• Jan DeGaetani & Gilbert Kalish in concert (CD 9048)
• Darwin’s dream — the music of Elliott Schwartz (CD 8858)
• Solid state survivor (CD 9408)
• Ha-Meṭav – The Best of Arik Einstein (CD 9407)

 

Musical Theatre

• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (CD 9087)
• Baby it’s You (CD 9030)
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (CD 9079)
• Catch Me if You Can (CD 8987)
• The Wizard of Oz – Andrew Lloyd Webber (CD 8980)

 

That void you’ve been feeling lately?…Fill it with the library’s new scores!

Bozza, Eugene– Sonatine pour 2 Trompettes Ut, 1 Cor, 1 Trombonne et 1 Tuba, (M 557.4 .B7 S6 1951)

Bloch, Ernest– Music for Violin and Piano, (M218. B66 V5 2001)

Schuller, Gunther– Music for Brass Quintet, (M557.4 .S38 M9 1962)

Cage, John–Sonatas and Interludes, Prepared Piano (M23 .C118 S6 1960)

Williams, John–Duo Concertante, for Violin and Viola (M 287 .W55 D86 2007)

Faber, Johann Christoph–Suite for 2 violins and violoncello (viola) or 3 violins, G major (M 353 .F3 P3 2009)

Schubert, Franz–Trio Es-Dur (Notturno) für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier, op. post. 148, D 897 (M 312 .S38 D.897 1999)

Gershwin, George–Rhapsody in blue: for Trumpet and Piano (M 261 .G47 R4 1993)

Bach, J.S.–The art of the fugue: Transcribed For Brass Quintet (M 559 .B1186 K8 1989)

Davy, Richard–St. Matthew Passion, for SATB chorus (M 2 .C64362 v.17)

Kenny Baker (1926-2011)

Legendary bluegrass fiddler, Kenny Baker, died last month at the age of 85. He was the longest-tenured member of Bill Monroe‘s Bluegrass Boys, joining the group in 1957, and playing with them off-and-on for the next thirty years.

He brought a sensitive and smooth style to bluegrass fiddling, showing his influences from Western swing string bands and continental jazz violinists like Stéphane Grappelli, and influencing generations of country fiddlers to follow.

In addition to his innumerable recordings with the Bluegrass Boys, he recorded many popular albums as a leader, most of which are available on the Alexander Street Press American Song database (Aladin login required off-campus). Be sure to check out some (or all) of the following to see why he’s so revered.

 

Kenny Baker – A Baker’s Dozen

Like the title says, a dozen traditional and Baker-composed fiddle tunes. The crack band has typical bluegrass instrumentation, and features an 18-year old Sam Bush on mandolin.

“Johnny the Blacksmith“

 

Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe

Kenny Baker plays Bill Monroe, and Bill Monroe does too. The father of bluegrass was allegedly supposed to sit in on a tune or two for this album of Monroe compositions, but ended up playing on the whole thing. First rate stuff.

“Monroe’s Hornpipe“

Kenny Baker & Bobby Hicks – Darkness on the Delta

Baker teams with fellow Monroe veteran, Bobby Hicks, on this 1980 album, which features some beautiful unison playing.

“McHattie’s Waltz“

Kenny Baker & Josh Graves – The Puritan Sessions

This is an unusual one. Baker hardly touches the fiddle on this 1974 record with Flatt & Scruggs dobro player, Josh Graves, instead featuring his considerable finger-picking chops. This is comfortable, front porch music, perfect for these hot late-summer nights.

“Sands of Monterey“

A dispatch from the fringes of musical perception

This week’s Radiolab podcast deals with ragtime pianist, Bob Milne, and his unique and unusual abilities of musical perception, recall, and imagination. Take my word for it, it’s astounding.

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