JUST IN! New Music Scores! Cage, Bach, and More!

Hello and Happy Monday everyone!

Here are music scores that have just  arrived at the Music Library – come visit and check them out!

1. Elliott Carter – 8 Etudes and a Fantasy for for Woodwind Quartet
2. Janacek – Mladi, Youth, Die Jugend
3. J.S. Bach / F. Bruggen – 11 Movements from the Sonatas and Partias
4. John Cage – Music for Amplified Toy Piano
5. Luening – Fantasia
6. Malcolm Arnold – Quintet for 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, and Tuba
7. Vincent Persichetti – Parable for Solo Trombone
8. Walter Piston – Three Pieces for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon

Enjoy!

 

 

[In] CAGE

[In] CAGE
September 2,  2:00 pm [Studio Theater]
September 7,  4:00 pm – 9:30 pm [Recital Hall]
September 8, 9:00 am [Recital Hall]

Join the AU Music Department in a centennial celebration of John Cage’s birthday!  In partnership with the John Cage Centennial Festival of Washington, DC, American University will be hosting three Cage-ian events!

On September 2nd at 2 pm, come to the Katzen Center Studio Theater to get a taste of Cage’s repertoire with [In] CAGE.  Bonnie Whiting Smith, Dustin Donahue and AU Music Faculty Dr. William Brent, the members of red fish blue fish will be performing.

On September 7th at 4 pm, Tom Delio will give a lecture about John Cage’s percussion work “Amores” [1941].  Following Mr. Delio’s lecture, a series of concerts will cover every decade of Cage’s work from the 1930s to the 1990s.  Steven Schick and the Percussion Group Cincinnati will give rare performances of Cage’s music.  This performance will be located in the Studio Theater at 5:30 pm [free], the Katzen Museum at 6:30 pm [free], and there will  be a feature performance in the Recital Hall at 7:30 pm [$5 with a student ID]. There will be another performance of Cage’s work at 9:30 pm in the Museum [free].

On Saturday September 8th at 9:00 am [Recital Hall], Steven Schick and Percussion group Cincinnati will lead a free masterclass on interpreting Cage and other experimental music that will be performed in the September 7th concert.

For more information about the rest of the John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC, visit http://www.johncage2012.com/index.html.

More New CD’s and DVD’s

CDs!!!

The Great American Trailer Park Musical ~ CD 9828

Angela Lansbury in Prettybelle ~ CD 9830

Modern Jazz Quartet: Dedicated to Connie ~ CD 9831

A Marvelous Love: New Music for Organ ~ CD 9832

Annea Lockwood: In Our Name ~ CD 9833

The Plastic People of the Universe: Jak bude po smrti ~ CD 9829

DVDs!!!

New York Dolls: Lookin’ Fine on Television ~ DVD 271

Thunder Soul ~ DVD 272

American Composers

We recently got a ton of scores in here at the Music Library. So many that we can’t really contain it to one post. Therefore in the interest of globalism and international unity, the scores will be categorized into American and European composers.

So let’s start with the American Composers, shall we?

Among other things, we received some Elliot Carter and Steve Reich. However the majority seem to be works by John Cage. In celebration of this, I thought I would present Mr. Cage himself playing a cactus. Awesome, right?

Anyway, here you go:

Louis Andriessen: De Tijd ~ M 1543 .A53 T5 1995

Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel ~ M 1531 .F45 R65 2008

Steve Reich: City Life ~ M 947 .R45 C58 1998

Steve Reich: Tehillim ~ M 2019.5 .R45 T4 2010

Steve Reich: Different Trains ~ M 452 .R45 D54 1998

John Cage: Rozart Mix ~ M 1470  .C34 R69 1965

John Cage: Speech (1965) ~ M 1470 .C34 S64 1960

John Cage: Cheap Imitation ~ M 25 .C34 C443 1970

John Cage: Music for Wind Instruments ~ M 557 .C34 M8 1997

John Cage and Lou Harrison: Double Music ~ M485 .C34 D68 1961

John Cage: The City Wears a Slouch Hat ~ M 1527.5 .C.24 C58 2010

John Cage: A Book of Music for Two Prepared Pianos ~ M 214 .C3 B6 1960

John Cage: Hymns and Variations for 12 Amplified Voices ~ M 1529.5 .C34 H8 1979

Elliot Carter: Pocahontas ~ M 1003 .C325 P6 1969

Elliot Carter: Night Fantasies ~ M 25 .C73 N5 1995

Elliot Carter: Concerto for Orchestra ~ M 1042 .C37 C6 1990

Elliot Carter: Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei ~ M 1045 .C378  S9 2008

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Tomorrow we’ll have the scores from across the pond.

First New Scores of 2012!

Martin Bresnick – Pan Penseroso: for 2 flutes and piano (M1021 .B73 P36 2011)

Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto in D minor, Op. 3, No. 11, RV 656: for 2 violins and piano (M1113 .V837 E8 no. 11 1964)

Eugène Bozza – Hommage a Bach: for trombone and piano (M263 .B69 H6 1957)

Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel: for cello and piano (M236 .P37 S6 1996)

Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa: double concerto for violin, viola, string orchestra and prepared piano (M1140 .P37 T33 2002)

Arvo Pärt – The Beatitudes: for choir and organ (M2079 .E168 P32 1990)

Morton Feldman – Clarinet and String Quartet (M562 .F44 C5 1995)

Norman Dello Joio – The Norman Dello Joio Vocal Collection (M1620 .D46 D46 2011)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Messe de Minuit (M2010 .C49 M45 2004)

James J. Pellerite – A Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute (MT348 .P45 1988)

William Bay – Building Right Hand Technique: Solo Pieces and Studies for Developing Right Hand Agility and Virtuosity (MT585 .B39 B85 1982)

William Leavitt – Melodic Rhythms for Guitar (MT585 .L43 M4 2000)

Broadway Songs: Easy Piano (M1507 .B8621 2005)

New CDs

New CDs

John Tavener – Eternity’s Sunrise – The Choir and Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music directed by Paul Goodwin (CD 9499)

The Celtic Tenors - Feels Like Home (CD 9496)

Paysages – Debussy, Fauré, Messiaen - Susanna Phillips, soprano and Myra Huang, piano (CD 9494)

Babes in Arms - Mary Martin (CD 9495)

Johann Sebastian Bach – Kolbein Haga at the Gebr. Reil Orgran in the Stavanger Cathedral (CD 9502)

Sonny Rollins – Road Shows vol. 2 (CD 9501)

Camelot – Richard Burton and Julie Andrews - Original Broadway Cast Recording (CD 9500)

 

 

Branca – Symphony No. 5 (CD 9498)

Music of Fred Lerdahl – String Quartets 1, 2, & 3 - Daedalus Quartet (CD 9497)

Drive American – Heidi Louise Williams, piano (CD 9493)

America’s Birthday comes with new stuff!!

CDs

• Works for Cello and Piano – Alisa Weilerstein (violoncello) & Vivian Hornik Weilersterin (piano) (CD 5838)
• Dimitri Mitropoulos in New York – Unissued Live Performances 1951-1953, Bach, Weber, Beethoven, Brhms, Berlioz (CD 5854)
• Hayden – Symphonies No. 82 (Der Bar), 83 (Die Henne), & 85 (La Reine) (CD 5846)
• Die Van Vulpen- Orgel der Pfarrkirche St. Stephan, Andernach, Christoph Anselm Noll (CD 5828)
• Bach – Orgelkonzerte & Orgelfuge, Scheidegger (organ) (CD 2921)
• Bach – Grosse Orgelwerke Vol. II, Bleicher (CD 5810)
• First Impulse – The Creed Taylor Collection, 50th Anniversary (CD 9349)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vassily Primakov (piano) (CD 5862)
• Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (CD 5934)
• Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town (CD 5923)
• Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (CD 5941)
• Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (CD 5950)
• Johannes Brahms – Complete Organ Works (CD 5958)
• The Book of Mormon – Original Broadway Cast Recording (CD 5883)
• Uniko – Kronos Quartet (CD 5887)
• György Ligeti – Keyboard Works (CD 5904)
• Arlene Sierra – Volume 1 (CD 5878)
• Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis (CD 5908)

The CDs You’ve Waited for are Finally Here!

Israeli Music

28 Most Famous Israeli Folk Songs, (CD 9343)

“Kulam Sharim Naomi Shemer” (Everybody Sings Naomi Shemer), (CD 9346)

Anne La Berge– Speak, (CD 9342)

Newton, James– Sacred Works, (CD 9339)

Liang, Lei– Milou, (CD 9340)

Hirsch, Louis A.– Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music of Louis A. Hirsch– The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, (CD 9338)

Sondheim, Stephen– Company– Raul Esparaza, (CD 9345)

Bach, Johann Sebastian– The Leipzig Chorales, (CD 9344)

Restless, Endless, Tactlass: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music– Meehan/Perkins Duo,  Baylor Percussion Group, (CD 9341)

Johnston, Ben– String Quartets Nos. 1, 5, & 10– Kepler Quartet, (CD 9337)

Gringy, Bach, Mozart– Jean Jaquenod (Organ), (CD 9347)

I think you will enjoy this!

DVD

The Mikado (Music Library DVD 184)

CDs

• Brahms – Symphony No. 1, Haydn Variations (Philidelphia Orchestra, Muti) (CD 9294)
• Schumann – Symphony No. 1 [Spring] & No. 4 (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Zinman) (CD 9295)
• Schumann – Symphonies 1 & 2, Julius Caesar (Wiener Philharmoniker, Solti) (CD 9293)
• Bruckner – Symphony No. 5 (Wiener Philharmoniker, Abbado) (CD 9275)
• Dvorak – Symphony No. 8, The Noon Witch (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Harnoncourt) (CD 9274)
• Sibelius - Symphonies No. 2 & 6 (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Maazel) (CD 9273)
• Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique ( London Symphony Orchestra, Davis) (CD 9272)
• Mussorgsky – Pictures; Prokofiev - Symphonie Classique (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Masur) (CD 9257)
• Stravinsky - Petrushka/Pulcinella (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chailly) (CD 9256)
• Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition; Stravinsky – Petrouchka (London Symphony Orchestra, Abbado) (CD 9255)
• Prokofiev – Symphony Concertante in E minor for cello and orchestra Op. 125, Sonata in C for cello and piano Op. 119 (London Symphony Orchestra, Chang [violoncello], Pappano [piano]) (CD 9252)
• Franck – Symphony in D minor, Les Eolides (New York Philharmonic, Masur) (CD 9254)
• Charles Bestor - The Long Goodbye [Music for Orchestra] (Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Klock [horn], Hite [tenor], Marcelletti [conductor]) (CD 9287)
• Shades of Love – Four Cycles of the Poetry of Constantin Cavafy (Muriello [baritone], Gompper [piano]) (CD 9288)
• Asenjo – The Batrachomyomachia, Palm-of-the-Hand Tales, Basile’s Pentameron (Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Trevor) (CD 9290)
• Ticheli – An American Dream; McLoskey – Prex Penitentialis (CD 9289)
• Haydn – Paris Symphonies Vol. 1: No. 82 [The Bear], No. 83 [The Hen], No. 84 (Sinfonietta de Montreal, Dutoit) (CD 9326)
• Night Strings - Music for Viola and Guitar (Taylor [viola], Goluses [guitar]) (CD 9327)
• Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 in C minor (Berliner Philharmoniker, Karajan) (CD 9328)
• Tschaikowsky – Symphony No. 1, Winter Dreams, Francesca da Rimini Op. 32 (CD 9329)
• Tchaikovsky - No. 2, Romeo and Juliet (CD 9330)
• Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 3, Polish (Masur) (CD 9331)
• Tschaikowsky - Symphony No. 4, F-moll Op. 36 (Leipzig, Masur) (CD 9332)
• Tschaikowsky – Symphony No. 5 e-moll Op. 64 (Leipzig, Masur) (CD 9333)
• Tschaikowsky – Symphony No. 6, Pathetique, (Leipzig, Masur) (CD 9334)
• Kontraste – (Dessauer an der Mayer-Orgel) (CD 9335)
• Romantische Orgelmusik (Wachowski) (CD 9336)
• Schumann – The Four Symphonies (Philadelphia Orchestra, Levine) (CD 9325)

Opera CDs

• Pasatieri – God Bless Us, Every One!, Opera in One Act, based on the writings of Charles Dickens (University of Kentucky Opera Theatre and Dicapo Opera Theatre) (CD 9291)

Musical Theatre CD

• Mary Poppins, The Supercalifragilistic Musical. Original Cast. (CD 9292)

A Cornucopia of New CDs!!

Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini performed by Lang  Lang and the Orchestra of the Mariinksy Theatre (CD 5573)

Kancheli – Mourned by the Wind and Light Sorrow performed by the Orchestra of Flanders conducted by Rudold Werthen (CD 5568)

Haydn – Symphony No. 22, 24 and 30 (CD 5574)

Prokofiev – Symphony No. 5 and Scythian Suite performed by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle (CD 5565)

Bach - Four Symphonies Concertantes performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ross Pople (CD 5566)

Stravinsky - Le Sacre Du Printemps performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati (CD 5567)

Brahms – Symphony No. 2 and Academic Festival Orchestra performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti (CD 5558)

Schumann – Symphonies 1-4 performed by Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich conducted by David Zinman (CD 5557)

Martin – Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments, Etudes, Passacaglia, Violin Concerto, Petite Symphonie Concertante and In Terra Pax (CD 5554)

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 10 performed by the Saint Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin (CD 5553)

Ben Leeds Carson – Music for Percussion (CD 5552)

Wojceich Kilar – Requiem Father Kolbe (CD 5576)

Martinu – Symphonies No. 2 and 4 performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine conducted by Arthur Fagen (CD 5577)

Sibelius - Symphony No. 3, The Swan of Tuonela, Karelia Suite, Valse Triste and Finlandia performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel (CD 5559)

Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique, Les Francs-Juges and Roman Carnival Overture performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman (CD 5594)

Alfven – Upsala Rhapsody, Symphony No. 1, Drapa for large orchestra and Andante Religioso performed by the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi (CD 5581)

Richard Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra and Don Juan performed by the London Philharmonic conducted by Klaus Tennstedt (CD 5579)

Brahms - Serenade No. 1 performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin (CD 5578)

Schumann – Concertos performed by Barenboim, Tortelier and Kremer (CD 5600)

Britten - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Elgar – Enigma Variations performed by Robert Leonard, piano (CD 5599)

Rozsa – Concerto for Violin and Concerto for Cello performed by Robert McDuffie, violin and Lynn Harrell, cello (CD 5593)

Richard Strauss – Sinfonia Domestica and Parergon performed by Tonahlle Orchestra Zurich conducted by David Zinman (CD 5592)

Alfven – Symphony No. 2 performed by the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam (CD 5591)

Satie – Works for piano solo and piano duet performed by Anne Queffelec and Catherine Collard, piano (CD 5590)

Brahms – Serenades No. 1 and 2, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras (CD 5589)

Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 performed by Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (CD 5588)

Brucker – Symphony No. 7 performed by Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by George Szell (CD 5586)

Medtner – The piano concertos and Sonate-Ballade performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi (CD 5585)

Dutilleux - Complete Orchestral Works performed by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier (CD 5575)

Beethoven - Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 and Choral Fantasy performed by Alicia de Larrocha, piano and the RSO Berlin conducted by Riccardo Chailly (CD 5562)

Schumann - Complete Symphonies performed by Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by John Elliot Gardiner (CD 5563), performed by the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Barenboim (CD 5587), performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jerzy Semkow (CD 5561)

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 1 and No. 7 performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducte by Leonard Bernstein (CD 5582)

Brahms – Symphonies Nos 1-4, Double Concerto and Serenade No 2 performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink (CD 5560)

Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5 and Bagatelles performed by John Lill, piano and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Weller (CD 5564)

Kilar – The Triptych (CD 5598)

Brahms, Chopin & Franck - Cello Sonatas performed by Jacqueline du Pre, cello and Daniel Barenboim, piano (CD 5597)

Haydn – Symphonies 88-92 and Sinfonia Concertante performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Simon Rattle (CD 5596)

Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms, Symphony in Three Movements and Symphonies of Wind Instruments performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Pierre Boulez (CD 5595)

Nigel Kennedy – performing works by Tchaikovsky, Sibelius violin concertos (CD 5569)

Magnard – Symphonies 1 and 3 performed by Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse conducted by Michel Plasson (CD 5570)

Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3, Danse Macabre, Phaeton and Danse Bacchanale performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel (CD 5571)

Sibelius – The complete string quartets performed by the Sibelius Academy Quartet (CD 5583)

Bach – Cello Suites performed by Jaap ter Linden, cello (CD 5584)

Varese – Ameriques, Arcana, Deserts and Ionisation performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Boulez (CD 5555)

Stravinsky – The Firebird, Scriabin – Prometheus performed by Valery Gergiev (CD 5556)

Verdi – Requiem performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado (CD 5572)