New Classical CDs (2008-02-19)

France [sound recording]. (15 669) (Laserlight Digital)

Performed by various orchestras and conductors.

SUBJECTS

• 1) Orchestral music.

CONTENTS

• La vie Parisienne. Overture / Offenbach --
• Fra Diavolo. Overture / Auber --
• Zampa. Overture / Herold --
• The lady in white. Overture / Boieldieu --
• Coronation march / Meyerbeer --
• Coppelia. Festive dance and waltz of the hours / Delibes --
• Meditation (from "Thais") / Massenet --
• Dance of the Sylphs (from "The damnation of Faust") / Berlioz --
• Joyeuse marche / Chabrier --
• Danse macabre / Saint-Saens.

The Jekyll & Hyde tour [sound recording] / P.D.Q. Bach & Peter Schickele. (CD-80666) (Telarc)

Peter Schickele, enabler, assisted by Michele Eaton, off-coloratura soprano ; David Dusing, tenor profundo and the Armadillo Quartet.

Recorded live at the Gorden Center, Owings Mills, Maryland on June 16, 2007, on-stage direct to DSD.

SUBJECTS

• 1) Humorous music.
• 2) Songs with piano.
• 3) String quartets.
• 4) Glees, catches, rounds, etc.

CONTENTS

• Long live the king --
• Introduction to Four Next-to-Last songs:
• Das kleines Birdie ;
• Der Cowboykonig ;
• Gretchen am Spincycle ;
• Es war ein dark und shtormy Night --
• Introduction to "The Moose" --
• String quartet in F major (The Moose): Allegro mo non troposphere ; Largo alla Fargo ; Menuetto no sweato ; Grave e molto deepo; Allegro con brie --
• Two rounds:
• Hedi McKinley ;
• Introduction to D'Indy's Turkey ;
• D'Indy's Turkey --
• Introduction to two P.D.Q. Bach rounds:
• The Mule ;
• Introduction to O serpent ;
• O serpent --
• Two songs:
• If love is real ;
• Introduction to Cyndi ;
• Cyndi --
• Introduction to songs from Shakespeare:
• Macbeth's soliloquy ;
• Hamlet's soliloquy ;
• The three witches from Macbeth ;
• Juliet's soliloquy ;
• Funeral oration from "Julius Caesar" --
• Introduction to "Listen here, Tyrannosaurus Rex" --
• Listen here, Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The late string quartets [sound recording] : opp. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133 & 135 / Beethoven. (7243 4 76824 2 1) (EMI Classics)

Alban Berg Quartett: Gunther Pichler, violin ; Gerhard Schulz, violin ; Thomas Kakuska, viola ; Valentin Erben, violoncello.

Recorded live at the Mozart-Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna, June 9-11, 13, 15 17, 1989.

SUBJECTS

• 1) String quartets.

CONTENTS

• String quartet no. 12 in E flat major, op. 127 --
• String quartet no. 13 in B flat major, op. 130 --
• Grosse fuge in B flat major, op. 133 --
• String quartet no. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 131 --
• String quartet no. 15 in A minor, op. 132 --
• String quartet no. 16 in F major, op. 135.

Live at La Scala [sound recording] / Barenboim, Liszt. (2564 69785-2) (Warner Classics & Jazz)

Daniel Barenboim, piano.

Recorded live at La Scala, May 28, 2007.

SUBJECTS

• 1) Piano music.

CONTENTS

• Tre sonetti del Petrarca (nos. IV-VI from Annees de pelerinage: Deuxieme annee, Italie, S161). Sonetto 47: Benedetto sia'l giorno (5:07) ;
• Sonetto 104: Pace non trovo (6:08) ;
• Sonetto 123: I' vidi in terra angelici costumi (7:21) --
• Deux legendes, S175. St. Francois d'Assise: La predication aux oiseaux (10:44) --
• Apres une lecture du Dante (Fantasia quasi sonata) (no. VII from Annees de pelerinage: Deuxieme annee, Italie, S161) (17:14) --
• Verdi transcriptions.
• Aida: Danza sacra e duetto finale, S436 (10:45) ;
• Miserere du Trovatore, S433 (9:02) ;
• Rigoletto: Concert paraphrase, S434 (8:15).

Vivere [sound recording] : live in Tuscany / Andrea Bocelli. (B001066500) (Decca)

Andrea Bocelli, vocals ; with vocal and instrumental acc.

Recorded live in July 2007 in Tuscany, Italy.

SUBJECTS

• 1) Popular music -- 2001-2010.
• 2) Songs (High voice) with piano.
• 3) Operas -- Excerpts.
• 4) Songs, Italian.

Contents:

• Italia (feat. Chris Botti, trumpet) --
• Voce del silenzio (feat. Elisa, vocals) --
• Medley:
• Besame musho ;
• Somos novios = It's impossible ;
• Can't help falling in love --
• Canto della terra (feat. Sarah Brightman, vocals) --
• Mille lune mille onde --
• Romanza --
• Se la gente usasse il cuore --
• Domani.

Classical demands [sound recording] / Edgar Cruz. (ECICD02) (ECI Recordings)

Edgar Cruz, guitar.

SUBJECTS

• 1) Guitar music.

CONTENTS

• Bianco fiore --
• Salterello --
• Bouree in em / J.S. Bach --
• Two part invention #1 / J.S. Bach --
• Jesu, joy of man's desiring / J.S. Bach --
• Fur Elise / Beethoven --
• Capricho arabe / Tarrega --
• Adelita / Tarrega --
• Lagrima / Tarrega --
• Estudio in E / Tarrega --
• Romanza --
• In the hall of the mountain king / Grieg --
• Fantasia on Greensleeves / R.V. Williams --
• Mazurka choro / Villa-Lobos --
• Malague~na / Lecouna --
• Sakura variations / arr. Yocoh --
• Classical gas / M. Williams --
• Bohemian rhapsody / Mercury.