Music
Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:
- Takeshi Inomata: Jazz Rock for Grand-Prix (1971)
- Erik Hall: ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato (rel. 2023)
- Mammal Hands: Shadow Work (2017), Gift from the Trees (2023)
- Ben Lukas Boysen: “Medela” (2020)
- Philip Glass: Symphony No. 12 (comp. 2019), Symphony No. 14, mvt. 3 (2021)
- A Love Supreme Electric: A Love Supreme (2020) [i.e. disc 1 of this.]
- Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (2023)
- Aaron Hibell: “Destroyer of Worlds” (2023)
- Lautten Compagney: “Opening” (2010), “Anthem Part 1” (2019), “Larghetto” & “Il Bajazet” & “L’Inverno focoso” & “Summer Tempest” (2022)
- Belgorod State Symphony Orchestra: Nyman’s “Memorial” (2017)
- Topology: Perpetual Motion Machine (2003)
- Paul Bailey Ensemble: Retrace Our Steps (2007), Alt-Classical (2010)
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: Youngs’ “Soon It Will Be Fire” (2021)
- Blue Cranes: Voices (2021)
- Odesza: “The Last Goodbye” (2022)
- London Philharmonic Orchestra: The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music (2009)
- Alice Babs: “Jazz Fuga” (1963)
- Florent Ghys: “Hommage à Kevin Volans” (2007), Television (2014)
- Don Plonsey: Moving About… (2001)
- Esmerine: Dalmak (2013)
- Mouse on the Keys: An Anxious Object (2009)
- Makaya McCrarven: In These Times (2022)
- Yonatan Gat: American Quartet (2022)
- Max Richter: Beethoven Opus 2020 (2020)
- Emily Wells: Regards to the End (2022)
- Brooklyn Raga Massive: In D (2020)
- Johan Ullen: Infinite Bach (2021)
- Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1974)
- Lawrence: “Don’t Lose Sight” (2021)
- Joe Parrish: “Shostakovich 10 Mvmt. II” (2020), The Rite of Spring (2021), “Dirty Boy (acoustic)” (2021),
- Nono & Roie Shpigler: Appassionato [single] (2023)
- Ludwig Goransson: Oppenheimer (2023)
This quarter, I was reminded that I often like orchestral arrangements of originally non-orchestral pieces (by a different composer). Here are some favorites, most of which I discovered for the first time this quarter [playlist]:
- Leopold Stokowski (as arranger): Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and “Sheep May Safely Graze” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” Rachmaninov’s “The Bells of Moscow,” Clarke’s “The Prince of Denmark’s March,” Mozart’s “Turkish March,” Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata mvt 1, Franz Schubert’s “Serenade,” Chopin’s “Funeral March” and “Minute Waltz” and Preludes (Opus 28) No. 24, Albeniz’s “Festival in Seville,” Handel’s “Dead March,” Purcel’s “Dido’s Lament,” Mussorgsky’s “St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain,” Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”
- Ferde Grofé (as arranger): Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
- Henry Wood (as arranger): Grieg’s “Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak,” Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp minor
- Maurice Ravel (as arranger): Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
- Henri Büsser: Debussy’s Petite Suite
- Gustav Mahler (as arranger): Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14
- Steven Stucky (as arranger): Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
- Arnold Schoenberg (as arranger): Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1
- Benjamin Britten (as arranger): Purcell’s Chacony in G Minor
- Franz Liszt (as arranger): Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy
- Erwin Schulhoff (as arranger): Beethoven’s “Rage Over a Lost Penny”
- Claud Debussy (as arranger): Satie’s Gymnopédies
- Francis Poulenc (as arranger): Satie’s Gnossiennes No. 3
- Gustav Holst (as arranger): Bach’s Fugue a la gigue in G Major [BWV 577]
- Eugene Ormandy (as arranger): Bach’s “Sleepers Wake” [BWV 140]
- Various arrangers: Brahms’ Hungarian Dances