Our Newest New Arrivals!

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CDs

• Accentus ; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin — Les sept derniere paroles du Christ en croix — CD 9732
• The Wayne Shorter Quartet — Without a Net — CD 9733
• Christian Wolff — 8 Duos — CD 9734
• Jennifer Higdon — An Exaltation of Larks — CD 9735
• Joseph Byrd — NYC 1960-1963 — CD 9736
• Jennifer Higdon — Chamber Music of Jennifer Higdon — CD 9737

DVDs

• Whole Notes: Johannes Brahms, Keeper of the Classical Flame  – DVD 351

Scores

• Steve Reich — Six Marimbas
• Steve Reich — Electric Counterpoint
• Kurtag – …concertante…

Happy listening/viewing!

Carley’s Staff Picks!

In recent months I have been fueled by Beethoven. Piano sonatas, string quartets, symphonies, concertos, everything. So, my first staff pick is the excellent documentary In Search of Beethoven. There are too many prominent ensembles, conductors and pianists featured in the film to count. The documentary truly takes the viewer on a journey. It catalogs his works and gives us some insight into Beethoven’s remarkable personality and his empathy for humanity.

In Search of Beethoven: A film by Phil Grabsky  ~  DVD 202

Chamber music. There’s so much of it! I think Mendelssohn is a good place to start. His piano trios are remarkable (the man DID write “Songs without Words”).

Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor was written in 1839, the year before Schumann experienced his most prolific year of songwriting. I love that Schumann viewed Mendelssohn as the Mozart of the 19th century, saying that he was the “most of illuminating of musicians”. High praise.

The Piano Trios of Felix Mendelssohn  ~  CD 9069

2013 is the bicentennial of Verdi and Wagner! Orchestras and Opera companies all over the world are celebrating with seasons dedicated to performing great works, from the most famous to the lesser-known. The AUSO began the celebration in March with the overture from  Die Meistersinger von Nurmberg and they will be joined by the AU Chorus in a couple of weeks to keep the party going with Verdi’s Four Sacre Pezzi.

Simon Boccanegra  ~  CD 8802

Birgit Nilsson Sings Wagner Arias with Hans Hotter and Leopold Ludwig  ~  CD 8173

This one’s for Robert:

Meredith Monk: Turtle Dreams  ~  CD 9697

More New Stuff!

These scores have just arrived from the bindery!

Brahms  -  Quintet and Quartets for Piano and Strings  -  M178.B73 G35 1985

Schubert  -  Lieder, Volume II for High Voice  -  M1620.S38 L54 1974 v.2

Tchaikovsky  -  Eugene Onegin (full score)  -  M1500.T34 E94 1997

Also, some new CDs and a DVD for your use:

Ruckblick Moderne: 20th Century Orchestral Music  -  CD10064

Michael Daugherty/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: Route 66, Ghost Ranch, Sunset Strip, Time Machine  -  CD 10065

Mahler: Autopsy of a Genius  -  DVD 352

New Arrivals:

We have two new CDs and a new DVD here in the Music Library.

DVD 350 – The Ladies Sing the Blues – with Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith, Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Peggy Lee, & Sarah Vaughan

CD 10063 – Preservation Hall Jazz Band 50th Anniversary Collection (a 4 disc set!)

CD 10070 – La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast) complete film score from 1946, by Georges Auric – Axios Chorus, Moscow Symphony Orchestra

 

Ringing in the New Year with New Arrivals!

As 2013 picks up pace, it’s the perfect time to for new resolutions, new goals, and new arrivals at the music library! Pop by to check out some of our great new CD and DVD additions:

1. Matthias Pintscher — Funf Orchesterstucke; Musik au Thomas Chatterton; Choc — CD 10023
2. Mark Stewart — Exorcism of Envy — CD 10020
3. Blood, Sweat, and Tears — Greatest hits – CD 10021
4. Various Artists — Now. Here. This.: Original Cast Recording — CD 10024
5. Various Artists — Bring It On The Musical: Original Broadway Cast Recording — CD 10025
6. King Crimson — In the Court of the Crimson King — CD 10022
7. Various Artists — Leap of Faith The Musical: Original Broadway Cast Recording – CD 10025
8. Various Artists — Call Me Madam — CD 10018
9. Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition; Concerto for Orchestra — CD 10019
10. Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap — DVD 349

 

Intersession additions (say that five times fast)

Just because finals have wrapped up doesn’t mean we’re not still hard at work adding fresh materials for you. This week, we have one computer music classic, lots of jazz, funk, and soul, and a few DVDs to round it out.

CDs

Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon / the Wild Bull (CD 10011)

Herbie Hancock – Thrust (CD 10010)

Ella Fitzgerald – First Lady of Song (CD 10014)

Bix Beiderbecke – The Art of Bix Beiderbecke (CD 10013)

Anita O’Day – Sings for Oscar (Peterson) / Pick Yourself Up (CD 10012)

Various – Hitsville USA: the Motown Singles Collection 1959 – 1971 (CD 10015)

DVDs

Backbeat (MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 344)

The Buddy Holly Story (MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 346)

Wattstax – 30th Anniversary Special Edition (MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 347) *note – you should watch this one*

New DVDs, CDs, and Scores!

DVDs

The Runaways starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning (DVD 341)

It Might Get Loud ft. The Edge, Jimmy Page, Jack White (DVD 343)

Sing Faster; The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle by Jon Else (DVD 345)

Absolute Beginners starring David Bowie (DVD 336)

La Bamba starring Esai Morales and Lou Diamond Phillips (DVD 339)

Great Balls of Fire starring Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin (DVD 340)

CDs

The Essential Elvis Presley (CD 10001)

Atlantic R&B 1967-1969; Volume 7 (CD 9996)

Atlantic R&B 1970-1974; Volume 8 (CD 9997)

The Best Of Alice Cooper; Mascara and Monsters (CD 10000)

Voicelessness. The snow has no voice (CD 9999)

Master of Reality, Black Sabbath (CD 9998)

Threads; Molly Morkoski, piano (CD 10002)

Scores

Romeo et Juliette, Berlioz (M 1001 .B51 R76 1990)

Piano Concert No. 4; A Hero’s Journey, Danielpour (M 1011 .D36 no. 4 2012)

Brass Quintet No. 1, Wagner (M 557.4 .W25 no. 1 2004)

Holiday Overture, Carter (M 1004 .C37 HC 1990)

String Quartets 1-4, Shostakovich (M 452 .S556 1978 v.1)

String Quartets 11-12, Shostakovich (M 452 .S556 1978 v.4)

String Quartets 13-15, Shostakovich (M 452 .S556 1978 v.5)

Robert’s Staff Picks!

 

My staff picks are all over the place this week.

DVD 327 - The Audition:  This is a great DVD for those who enjoy opera or are training to be opera singers.  The documentary offers a look at the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions, where each year thousands of hopefuls face their fears and compete for a cash prize, the chance to sing on the Met stage–and the opportunity to launch a major operatic career.

CD 9808- Intuitivo:  The music on this CD was composed by AU’s own Fernando Benadon.  Professor Benadon describes this CD as “A collage of free improvisations.  My goal was to shape the players’ raw individual ideas into a spontaneously ‘coherent’ whole, all the while preserving and highlighting their unique subtleties of time and timbre.”

DVD 166 – Def Leppard/Hysteria – I really enjoy listening to Def Leppard when I’m not listening to classical music.  This is a really great track-by-track review of Def Leppard’s Hysteria album.

CD 5138 – Elvis at Sun (Studios) -  I’m pretty sure this has been on my staff picks before, but I can’t get enough Elvis. Take this CD home and listen to it over the weekend!

I also encourage everyone to check out Medici TV so you can watch Dr. Atomic!!! Use our databases!!!

 

 

A few more new things (including Trombones!!!)

CDs

Mathew Rosemblum ~ Circadian Rythms ~ CD 9947

Joshua Bell ~ The Red Violin Concerto ~ CD 9948

Lo, in the time appointed ~ CD 9949

Ryan Scott Oliver ~ 35MM ~ CD 9955

Harold Brown ~ Music For Strings ~ CD 9952

Bernard Hoffer ~ CD 9953

Animal Songs ~ Bestiaries in English, French & German ~ CD 9954

Washington Trombone Ensemble ~ The Road Not Taken ~ CD 9951

DVDs

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers ~ DVD 319

Ivory  ~ DVD 329

NEW DVDs in the Music Library!!!

We have a lot of new DVDs in the Music Library!

DVD 297 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

DVD 298 Vaudeville

DVD 299 Naughty Marietta

DVD 300 The Gang’s  All Here

DVD 301 Greenwich Village

DVD 302 Something for the Boys

DVD 303 Doll Face

DVD 304 If I’m Lucky

DVD 305 The Pirate

DVD 306 Words And Music

DVD 307 That’s Dancing

DVD 308 That Midnight Kiss & The Toast of New Orleans

DVD 309 Royal Wedding & The Belle of New York

DVD 310 High Society

DVD 311 Silk Stockings

DVD 312 Les Girls

DVD 313 Broadway melody of 1940

DVD 314 It’s Always Fair Weather

DVD 315 Till the Clouds Roll By

DVD 316 Ziegfeld Follies

DVD 317 Three Little Words

DVD 318 Summer Stock

We also have acquired two CDs recorded by The Bach Sinfonia and conducted by AU’s own Dan Abraham!

CD 9806 Passion and Lament–Choral Masterworks of the 17th Century

CD 9807 The Art of Vivaldi’s Lute