musicumf - Playlist

Welcome to my Playlist. Here you'll find links to iTunes, other legal downloads, and videos related to my courses. The selections also include recommendations from students. To find a particular work, you'll need the title and artist/band/composer. And even if a particular selection is not part of your class, go ahead and download it; you can always find a way to incorporate it into your work. Happy Listening!

Modern/Postmodern/Folk/Popular (1900 - today) More Selections on YouTube Playlist below
A Perfect Circle "Imagine" ( Mp4 ) ( Video )
Leonard BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms (Download all 3 movements 99 cents each)
BJORK: "Earth Intruders"
James BROWN "Super Bad"
Ernest BLOCH: Baal Shem Three Pictures from Chassidic Life: 1. Vidui (Contrition), 2. Nigun (Improvisation), 3. Simchas Torah (Rejoicing)
Burkina Electric (Josh Ligeti) Album and Website
Henry COWELL The Banshee
DEBUSSY Prelude Bk 1: "Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir" or "La cathedrale engloutie"
Toby DRIVER: In the Li Li Library Loft Intense and a remarkable use of sparse sound and silence
Bill EVANS (YouTube): "Waltz for Debbie" "Autumn Leaves" "Someday My Prince Will Come"
FINAL Fantasy He Poos Clouds "Arctic Circle" An AMAZING album--a song cycle on "Dungeons and Dragons"!
Osvaldo GOLIJEV: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind ($6.00 album)
Solomon GORDON "Eli, Eli" (A famous Jewish Cantor)
HAONOS: Sanctification "Sanctification"
John Harbison: November 19, 1828 - Hallucination In Four Episodes for Piano and String Trio. 1.Introduction: Schubert Crosses Into the Next World; 2. Schubert Finds Himself In a Hall of Mirrors; 3. S chubert Recalls a Rondo Fragment from 1816; 4. Fugue: Schubert Continues the Fugue Subject (S-C-H-U-B-E-R-T)
Jimi HENDRIX "Star Spangled Banner"
HOLE: (Courtney Love) "Baby Doll"
Billie HOLLIDAY "I'll Be Seeing You" "God Bless the Child" "Strange Fruit"
Charles Ives: "Alcotts" from the Concord Sonata
KLEZMATICS: "Clarinet Yontev"
Matthew HERBERT: Plat du Jour "Sugar"
Freddie KING Youtube
Gyorgy LIGETI Atmospheres (orchestral work) Solo Cello Sonata Lux Aeterna (choral work)
MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time* (Gil Shaham, $9.99; Amici Ensemble, $5.99)
M.I.A. "Bucky Done Gun"
RABBINCAL School Dropouts "Cosmic Tree"
RADIOHEAD In Rainbows
Steve REICH It's Gonna Rain Music for 18 Musicians
Roberto RODRIGUEZ: "El Polaco"
Arnold SCHOENBERG: Pierrot Lunaire "Der Monfleck"
Dimitri SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 ($8.46 for entire work.)
Igor Stravinsky Petrushka "Danse Russe" This is a 2 CD set for $9.99 and includes Firebird. A great buy.
Vytear: "Friends of Jelly" and Myspace
John ZORN: Kristallnacht "Shtetl" ( Ghetto Life ) ( entire Album )

Romantic (1800-1900)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (This is the complete set, but you can simply buy one. Richard Goode's playing is my favorite right now)
BERLIOZ: Symphony Fantastique: Movement 4 (March to the Scaffold, Movement 5 (Witch's Sabbath. Entire Symphony ($9.99.)
BIZET, Carmen Fantasy (Horowitz, piano); Carmen Fantasy after Horowitz! (Volodos, piano) Carmen Fantasy (Sarasate, violin)
Jusse BJORLING The Very Best of Bjorling
Nadia BOULANGER: "Nocturne for Violin and Piano"
Frederick CHOPIN: Nocturne in Eb Op.9 No. 2
PUCCINI La Boheme "Nessun Dorma"
Franz SCHUBERT: "Erlkönig"
Franz SCHUBERT: Moment Musicaux in F minor, Opus 94 (the others are delightful as well)
Clara SCHUMANN: "Der Mond kommt still gegangen"
Robert SCHUMANN: Mondnacht
TCHAIKOVSKY: Nutcracker "Russian dance" (Trepak) from the Nutcracker (regular)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Nutcracker "Russian dance" (Kozatsky 'til You Dropsky) from the Nutcracker (Klezmer)
Giuseppe VERDI from Nabucco: "Va Pensiero" "Il Maledetto" "Gli Arredi"
Richard Wagner Meistersinger

Classical (1720-1800)
Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro (Marriage of Figaro):"Overture", "Se Vuol Ballare" (Figaro sings about outsmarting the count) "Non so Più Cosa Son, Cosa Faccio " (Cherubino sings of his lust) "Non Più Andrai" (Figaro teases Cherubino about going into the army)
MOZART Piano Concerti (This links to the complete set, but you can buy individual concerti)

Baroque (1600 - 1750)
Giulio CACCINI (1551-1618) Italy, One of the early opera composers. Beautiful melody "Amarili" "Al Fronte al Prata" "Tu ch' hai le penne, amore"
Vincenzo GALILEI "Duo tuitti di Fantasia" Father of the astronomer and remarkable intellectual and musician (who was one of opera's founders)
Claudio MONTEVERDI Vespers of 1610
Antonio VIVALDI: Gloria (This is the Andrew Parrott version with women only. Perhaps performed at the Venetian Ospedali??)
BACH Four Orchestral Suites

Middle Ages to Renaissance (800 - 1600)
GREGORIAN Chant "Victimae Paschali Laudes" Sequence "Dies Irae, Dies Illa"
HILDEGARD "Ave Generosa" "O Quam Mirabilis Est"
JOSQUIN "Ave Maria"

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