Episode #8: Conductors Three

Uploaded: April 17, 2021

Richard Wagner:  Rienzi (Overture) [12:36]

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Hermann Scherchen, conductor

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor

IV.  Adagietto [13:12]

Orchestra della RAI di Milano

Hermann Scherchen, conductor

STRADIVARIUS STR 13600

Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon, J.306 (Overture) [8:58]

Franz Schubert:  Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759

I.  Allegro moderato [14:50]

II.  Andante con moto [11:29]

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

Yevgeny Mravinsky, conductor

JVC MELODIYA VDC-1009

Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

I.  Allegro [4:06]

II.  Turandot, Scherzo (Moderate – Lively) [7:55]

III.  Andantino [4:03]

IV.  March [4:44]

Konzertmusik for String Orchestra and Brass, Op. 50

I.  Mässig schnell, mit Kraft – Sehr breit, aber stets fließend [8:30

II.  Lebhaft – Langsam – Im ersten Zeitmaß

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Eugene Ormandy, conductor

EMI ANGEL CDC-7 47615 2

Jed Distler’s Websites

The radio station: wwfm.org

Between the Keys:

https://www.wwfm.org/programs/between-keys-jed-distler#stream/0

https://www.mccc.edu/news/2017/arts/WWFM_Distler_Award.html

Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/betweenthekeys

Episode #7: Keening and Laughing

Uploaded: April 10, 2021

Ralph Vaughan Williams:  Riders to the Sea [41:43]

Household Music.  Three Preludes on Welsh Hymns

I.  Crug-Y-Bar: Fantasia (Andante sostenuto) [4:46]

II.  St. Denio: Scherzo (Allegro vivace) [3:16]

III.  Aberystwyth: Variations [8:56]

Flos Campi. Suite for solo viola, solo chorus, and small orchestra    [19:33]

Linda Finnie: Maurya

Karl Daymond: Bartley

Lynne Dawson: Cathleen

Ingrid Attrot: Nora

Pamela Helen Stephen: A Woman

Philip Dukes, viola

Chorus

Northern Sinfonia

Richard Hickox, conductor

CHANDOS CHAN 9392

Erich Wolfgang Korngold:  Piano Trio, Op. 1

I.  Allegro non troppo, con espressione [7:09]

II.  Scherzo [6:15]

III.  Larghetto [4:50]

IV.  Finale [7:46]

Pacific Art Trio

Israel Baker, violin

Edgar Lustgarten, ‘cello

Alice Shapiro, piano

DELOS D/CD 1009

Episode #6: Baritone Sax Conspiracy and Mob Roulette

Uploaded: April 3, 2021

Charles Papasoff: Mouvements [17:03]

Jean Derome: L’Espoir de ne pas perdre Espoir

I.  1er mouvement [3:27]

II.  2ième mouvement-Loose Cannons [5:31]

III.  3ième mouvement (version courte) [0:59]

Christian Gavillet: Verdi [11:06]

David Mott: God’s Clothes for Shaman Bobbi [8:45]

Bo Van Der Vef: IBC [5:05]

Charles Mingus, arr. Hamiet Bluiett and Charles Papasoff: Pithecanthropus Erectus [4:44]

International Baritone Conspiracy:

Charles Papasoff, baritone saxophone

Hamiet Bluiett, baritone saxophone

Jean Derome, baritone saxophone

David Mott, baritone saxophone

Christian Gavillet, baritone saxophone

Bo Van Der Werf, baritone saxophone

VICTO cd038

Jay Hawkins: The Whammy [2:34]

Strange [2:06]

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, vocals

Orchestra conducted by Sammy Lowe

Hank Penny and Ruth Hall:  Bloodshot eyes [2:50]

Leon and Otis René:  Sweet Lucy Brown [2:31]

Emanuel Brown: Spread the news [2:14]

Anon:  Saturday night [2:10]

Anon:  Josephine [2:20]

Wynonie Harris, vocals

Isley Brothers: Everybody’s gonna Rock [2:24]

I wanna know [2:18]

David Clowney:  The Drag [2:17]

Ronald Isley: Rockin’ McDonald [2:16]

The Isley Brothers, vocals

based on Perez Prado: 7-11 [2:33]

Gone All Stars

? Brandon and ? Williams: Screamin’ ball (at Dracula Hall) [2:21]

The Duponts, vocals

Anon:  Hippy dippy daddy [2:04]

The Cookies, vocals

Chuck Berry:  Roll over Beethoven [2:25]

The 4 Chaps, vocals

Anon: Hindu baby [2:46]

The Emanons, vocals

Anon: Ding dong [2:13]

The Echoes, vocals

Anon:  Woo woo train [2:57]

The Valentines, vocals

Anon: Dance with me [2:17]

The Chaperones, vocals

Anon: Ain’t you gonna [2:19]

Jesse Powell & The Caddies, vocals

Anon: Alabama Rock and Roll [2:42]

Mabel King, vocals

SEQUEL RECORDS NEM CD 670

Episode #5: Chant Ye and Sing It

Uploaded: March 28, 2021

Missa Orbis Factor

Kyrie [1:44]

Gloria [3:10]

Credo [4:09]

Sanctus and Benedictus [1:39]

Agnus Dei - Ite Missa Est [1:43]

Plainsong Hymn: Pange Lingua [3:37]

Rite B Version:

Kyrie [1:39]

Gloria [2:28]

Credo [3:45]

Sanctus and Benedictus [0:59]

Agnus Dei - Dismissal [1:19]

Plainsong Hymn: The Heavenly Word [1:40]

Rite A Version*

Lord Have Mercy [0:41]

Glory to God [1:48]

We Believe in One God [4:02]

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord [1:10]

Acclamations [0:45]

Lamb of God [0:53]

Jesus, Lamb of God – Dismissal [1:01]

Plainsong Hymn: Thee we adore [3:16]

*Andrew Post, organ

The Cloister Choir of Salisbury Cathedral

Philip Baxter, director

VIF RECORDS VRCD 003

George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56

Part the First

And the Glory of the Lord [2:49]

And He Shall Purify [2:27]

For Unto Us a Child Is Born [3:50]

Glory to God [1:49]

His Yoke is Easy [2:11]

Part the Second

Behold the Lamb of God [3:56]

Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs/And with His Stripes We Are Healed/ All We Like Sheep

Have Gone Astray [8:25]

He Trusted in God [1:57]

Lift Up Your Heads, Oh Ye Gates [2:49]

Let All The Angels of God Worship Him [1:23]

The Lord Gave the Word [1:05]

Their Sound is Gone Out Into All Lands [1:23]

Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder [1:51]

Hallelujah [3:20]

Part the Third

Since by Man Came Death [2:03]

O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?/But Thanks Be To God* [3:21]

Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain [6:00]

*Florence Kopleff, contralto

*Richard Lewis, tenor

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

RCA VICTROLA 7185-2-RV

Episode #4: Musette and Stravinskyfied Jazz

Uploaded: March 20, 2021

Michel Corrette:  Les Voyages du Berger Fortuné aux Indes Orientales [8:21]

Les Amusemens d’Apollon chez le Roi Admète &

La Naissance de la Musette [20:16]

Les Sauvages et La Furstemberg, 25me Concerto Comique [9:24]

Malbrough, Ariette Nouvelle [5:25]

Le Carillon des Morts [5:45]

6me Fantaisie [6:26]

Ensemble Les Festes Galantes

JECKLIN DISCO 616-2

Boyd Raeburn: Boyd meets Stravinsky [2:50]

Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed: Temptation [2:50]

George Handy: Dalvatore Sally [3:05]

Harry Warren & Al Dubin: I only have eyes for you [3:06]

Harold Arlen: Over the rainbow [3:01]

Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton: Body and Soul [3:12]

Dizzy Gillespie & Frank Paparelli: Interlude [2:59]

George Gershwin: Summertime [2:38]

George Handy: March of the Boyds [3:03]

Joe Bishop: Blue Prelude [3:15]

? Kless:  Boyd’s nest [3:05]

Isham Jones & Charles Newman: You’ve got me crying again [3:13]

Boyd Raeburn and his Orchestra

SAVOY JAZZ SV-0185

Links to Michael & Mardie (Michael Garin and Mardie Millit):

CD: https://www.amazon.com/Hey-Look-Its-Michael-Mardie/dp/B00V82QCQA/ref=tmm_msc_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1422629091&sr=8-1

Streaming of their live shows: facebook.com/Michael.garin.18343

facebook.com/mardie.millit

See them live every Sunday evening at the West Bank Café on 42nd Street in New York City, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

See Michael Garin live at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca, New York City, every Wednesday through Saturday evenings from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Uploaded: March 13, 2021

Playlist

Anonymous (Spanish, c. 1700):  Batalha de 6. Ton [5:05]

Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Homage to Handel, Op. 75b [12:58]

Anonymous, incorrectly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Concerto in E-flat Major, BWV 597

I.  – [4:20]

Marco Enrico Bossi: Cinque pezzi per organo in stile libero, Op. 132, #3: Scena pastorale

Allegretto Pastorale – Rondo (Allegro vivace) – Allegretto pastorale come prima [8:50]

Stanley Weiner: Phantasy on Mozart’s Turkish March, Op. 142

Andantino – Allegro [7:01]

Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Partita Retrospettiva, Op. 151

Phantasie – Dialogue – Minuetto malinconico – Finale alla Solfeggio [19:18]

Paul Wißkirchen, organ

MOTETTE CD 11161

Richard Heuberger: Nachtmusik, Op. 7

I.  Allegretto [3:04]

II.  Allegro vivace [4:03]

III.  Andante [4:15]

IV.  Presto [5:53]

Robert Fuchs: Serenade No. 3 in E Minor, Op. 21

I.  Romanze (Andante sostenuto) [3:24]

II.  Menuetto [4:19]

III.  Allegretto grazioso [5:39]

IV.  Finale alla Zingarese (Allegro con fuoco) [4:44]

Oscar Straus: Serenade in G Minor, Op. 35

I.  Allegro comodo [6:23]

II.  Scherzino/Allegretto vivace [2:55]

III.  Andantino (im Volkston) [3:48]

IV.  Walzer Grazioso [3:36]

V.  Alla marcia (Finale) Allegro moderato [4:21]

RIAS-Sinfonietta

Jiří Starek

KOCH SCHWANN MUSICA MUNDI CD 316 039 F1

Unusual Puccini and Duelling Mozart

Uploaded March 6, 2021

Playlist 

Giacomo Puccini:  Preludio Sinfonico [9:04]

Capriccio Sinfonico [12:25]

Le Villi

I.  Preludio [3:03]

II.  La tregenda (Atto 2) [3:36]

Edgar

I.  Preludio (Atto 1) [4:14]

II.  Preludio (Atto 3) [3:48]

Minuetto I [4:05]

Minuetto II [2:49]

Minuetto III [3:06]

Manon Lescault: Intermezzo (Atto 3) [5:24]

Crisantemi [7:11]

Radio-Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

DECCA OVATION 444 154-2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Piano Concerto No. 9 in B-flat Major, KV 271

I.  Allegro [10:09]

II.  Andantino [10:30]

III.  Rondo (Presto) – Menuetto (Cantabile) [9:37]

Clara Haskil, piano

Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester

Otto Ackermann, conductor

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, KV 466

I.  Allegro [14:30]

II.  Romanze [8:44]

III.  Rondo (Allegro assai) [7:34]

Clara Haskil, piano

Orchestre national de la RTF

Paul Hindemith, conductor

STRADIVARIUS STR 13596

Uploaded February 27, 2021

Playlist

Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Gordon Jacob:  English Folk Song Suite

I.  March ‘Seventeen come Sunday’ [2:53]

II.  Intermezzo ‘My bonny Boy’ [2:52]

III.  March ‘Folk Songs from Somerset’ [2:59]

London Symphony Orchestra

Sir Adrian Boult

EMI LASER CDZ 7 62527 2

Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole

I.  Prélude à la nuit [4:46]

II.  Malagueña [1:53]

III.  Habanera [2:29]

IV.  Feria [6:11]

Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky, pianos

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON ELOQUENCE 4696842

Gheorghe Enescu: First Suite for Orchestra, Op. 9

I.  Prélude à l’unisson [8:41]

II.  Menuet lent [10:51]

III.  Intermède [4:00]

IV.  Finale [5:36]

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Lawrence Foster

ERATO ECD 75118

George Gershwin: I got rhythm [4:40]

Trudy Desmond, vocals

Neil Swainson, ‘bass

Rick Lazar, percussion

JUST A MEMORY JAM 9159-2

Tony Levin: Gecko Walk [5:01]

Larry Fast, synth; Jerry Marotta, drums; Jeff Pevar, guitar; David Torn, drum processing; Tony Levin, bass

NARADA 72438-49132-2-9

Irving Berlin: Let’s face the music and dance [2:55]

Ella Fitzgerald, vocals

Orchestra conducted by Paul Weston

VERVE 835 450-2

Richard Strauss:  Drei Männerchore (1935)

I.  Vor den Türen [4:12]

II.  Traumlicht [4:04]

III.  Fröhlich im Maien [3:36]

The Hilliard Ensemble

Paul Hillier

EMI REFLEXE CDC 7 54017 2

Richard Wagner:  Overture to Das Liebesverbot [9:00]

Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg

Alois Springer

VOX ALLEGRETTO ACD 8087

John Field:  Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, H32

I.  Allegro moderato [16:08]

II.  Nocturne in B-flat, H37: Andantino [3:34]

III.  Rondo: Tempo di Polacca [12:23]

John O’Conor, piano

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Sir Charles Mackerras

TELARC CD-80370