Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Letter Y

Orest Alexandrovich Yevlakhov: Wartime Music, Vol. 12 (1941-1945) Symphony No.1, Op.14 Alexander Titov Conductor St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra Northern Flowers Rel. April 5, 2011  1.Andante  2.Allegro moderato 3.Grave 4.Allegro maestoso

Y. Yevgrafov Café Neringa Version 1 (text by J.Brodsky)  Tambov Chamber Choir "Sergei Rachmaninov"  Vladimir Kozlyakov Artistic Director

Gregory W. Yasinitsky     Magic, for flute and orchestra  1984-85        1.Freezeframe        2.Slow Motion     3.The Natural  Spalding, Daniel Conductor  Washington State University Chamber Players Orchestra Yasinitsky, Ann Marie Flute

Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (1963-) Solaris: Works for Soprano and String Quartet Lacrymosa, for voice and string quartet  Piia Komsi Soprano  Zagros String QuartetProprius Rel. May 7, 2013
Igor Yakushenko I Was Walking in the Wood Moscow State Academic Choir Andrey Kozhevnikov Conductor
Mikhail Lukyanovich Yakovlev  Pushkin Songs Winter Evening (Zimniy vecher) Nicolai Gedda Tenor Bluebell Rel. April 1, 2012  Eva Pataki Piano Bluebell Rel. 1 Apr 2012 Recorded 1987

Rhapsody Judaica Herman Yablokoff was born into a poor family in Grodno (Hrodna), then a predominantly Polish town in the Russian Empire, now within Belarus. His parents were Alter Yablonik, a road paver, and Riva-Lei Shillingoff, and he received a traditional Jewish religious education in cheder and yeshiva. He sang in the choir of Cantor Yoshe Slonimer at the age of ten, and at the age of 12 began performing in the local Jewish theatre. In 1920 he left home to join a Yiddish theatre group, the Kovner Fareynikte Trup (United Troupe of Kovno) traveling around the cities and towns of Lithuania, Poland and Germany.[2][3]

In 1924 he emigrated to the United States, and began performing in theatres in Toronto, Montreal and Los Angeles, finally settling in New York City.[2][4] Yablokoff joined the Hebrew Actors Union in 1931, and later served several terms as the organization's president. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was one of the most influential personalities in the Second Avenue theatre world, in the heyday of American theatre in Yiddish. He wrote, directed and produced a show, Der Payatz ("The Clown"), which brought him much success and acclaim, and he popularized the role through weekly appearances on Yiddish radio in New York. Another of his plays, Papirosn ("Cigarettes") in 1932, featured the song of the same name which he had been inspired to write in 1922, after seeing children peddling cigarettes during the pogroms in Grodno after the First World Wa
Papirossen Timofeyev Ensemble Marquis Classics Rel. November 23, 2010

Monday, June 08, 2015

The Letter W

Ornette Coleman Dancing in Your Head, 1976
Monica Lewis, The Drop by Ray Coniff from the movie soundtrack, "The D.I."
Christopher Lee, Ghost Riders in the Sky

 Vaughan Williams, Ralph,1872-1958.
  Symphonies,no. 2, G major.   A London symphony.
  RCA Red Seal [1972]
 London Symphony Orchestra; Andr'e Previn, conductor.

 Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.
  The wasps.Suite. The wasps; Aristophanic suite. English folk song suite.
 Fantasia on Old 104th Psalm tune.
  Angel [1976] Sir Adrian Boult conducts music of
       Vaughan Williams.
The 2d work is originally for band; 3d work is for chorus,
       orchestra, and piano.
 Peter Katin, piano (3d work); London Philharmonic Choir
       (3d work); London Philharmonic Orchestra (1st and 3d
       works); London Symphony Orchestra (2d work); Sir Adrian
       Boult, conductor.

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.
  Serenade to music.
\Serenade to music : original version
       with 16 solo singers. Symphony no. 5, in D.
  Angel [1970] Words of the 1st work from Shakespeare's The merchant of
       Venice, act v, scene 1, Vocal soloists; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Adrian
       Boult, conductor.

 Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.
  Magnificat
Magnificat ; Riders to the sea
        Vaughan Williams.
 Hollywood, Calif. : Angel, [1971]
Norma Burrowes, Margaret Price, sopranos (2nd work) ;
       Helen Watts, contralto ; Benjamin Luxon, baritone (2nd
       work) ; Women's voices of the Ambrosian Singers ;
       Orchestra Nova of London ; Meredith Davies, conductor.

 Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.
The pastoral music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
  Angel [1973]
 text of the  1st work, from The merchant of Venice, by Shakespeare, Serenade to music.--The lark ascending.--Fantasia on Greensleeves.--In the fen country.--Norfolk rhapsody no. 1
       in E minor.  A vocal ensemble (in the 1st work); Hugh Bean, violin (in
       the 2d); London Philharmonic Orchestra (in the 1st work);
       London Symphony Orchestra (in the 3d); New Philharmonia
       Orchestra (in the remainder); Sir Adrian Boult, conductor.

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.
Dona nobis pacem. English.
Dona nobis pacem. Toward the unknown region.
  Angel 1974.
words, principally by W.  Whitman.
 Sheila Armstrong, soprano; John Carol Case, baritone (in
 the 1st work); London Philharmonic Choir; London
Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Adrian Boult, conductor.

Sunday, June 07, 2015

The Letter V

Italian arias. RCA Victor [1964]
 opera arias by Ponchielli, Flotow, Verdi, Cilèa,
       Leoncavallo, Giordano, and Puccini.
Jon Vickers, tenor; Rome Opera House Orchestra; Tullio
       Serafin, conductor.

 Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Arias. Angel [1966]
 excerpts from Un ballo in maschera, Macbeth, Don
       Carlo, and Aïda.
 Régine Crespin, soprano; Orchestre de la Société des
       concerts du Conservatoire, Paris; Georges Prêtre,
       conductor.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
 Konzert für Violine, Streicher und Continuo Nr. 1, A-
       moll, BWV 1041. / Konzert für Violine, Streicher und
       Continuo Nr. 2 / E-dur, BWV 1042. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [1963]
Concerto, 2 violins & string orchestra, S. 1043, D minor.
David Oĭstrakh, violin; members of the Vienna Symphony
       Orchestra.

Friday, May 29, 2015

The Letter U

Uber, David Double Portraits for Trombone & Tuba,
1. Times Square Allegretto 2.Twilight: Andante, poco agitato 3. The City Awakes: Vivace
Performed by: Steven Harlos, piano; Michael Lind, Tuba BIS Rel. January 31, 1996       
Born in Princeton, Illinois, he has lived in Wyoming, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Vermont. After his graduation from Carthage College and receiving a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Uber served four years in the United States Navy Band and then continued his studies at Columbia University where he obtained his Master of Arts and Doctor of Education degrees.Dr. Uber was professor of music at the College of New Jersey (formerly known as Trenton State College) for thirty-three years. Death: June 29, 2007

Marco Uccellini (1603-1680)Uccellini's life is poorly known. Born at Forlimpopoli, Forlì, he studied in the Assisi seminary. He became musical director (Capo degl’instrumentisti) of the Este court in Modena from 1641 to 1662, and was the musical director (maestro di cappella) of the Modena cathedral from 1647 to 1665. Afterwards he served as maestro di cappella at the Farnese court in Parma until his death. At the Farnese court, he composed operas and ballets, but none of this music survives; thus, he is mainly known today for his instrumental music. Uccellini was one of a line of distinguished Italian violinist-composers in the first half of the 17th century. His sonatas for violin and continuo contributed to the development of an idiomatic style of writing for the violin (including virtuosic runs, leaps, and forays into high positions), expanding the instrument's technical capabilities and expressive range. Like other 17th-century Italian sonatas, Uccellini's consist of short contrasting sections (frequently dances) that flow one into another. Uccellini's innovations influenced a generation of Austro-German violinist-composers including Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Biber, and Johann Jakob Walther.
Sonata for violin & continuo, Op.7, No.1 Toccata, no. 1,Helene Schmitt, Violin (Baroque) Arno Jochem, Violin, Karl-Ernst Schröder, Theorbo, Markus Markl, Organ
Christophorus Rel. January 1, 1999

Sohrab Uduman
Sohrab Uduman was born in Sri-Lanka in 1962. He began his musical life as a clarinettist, at the University of Surrey, and went on to study composition at the University of Birmingham with Vic Hoyland and Jonty Harrison . His music has received several awards, including an international prize at the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, The Bourges International Competition for Electro-acoustic Music, the George Butterworth Award, the Oskar Back Foundation Prize for Young European Composers and first prize in the Prix Annelie de Man 2012 Composer’s Competition . Sohrab Uduman's music has featured at many festivals, including the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music, The Spitalfields Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Cheltenham International Festival of Music,
Breath across autumnal ground, for harpsichord & live electronics
Jane Chapman Harpsichord Sohrab Uduman Electronics
NMC Recordings
Rel. April 1, 2012

Ken Ueno
e studied at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a B.M. in Film Scoring/Composition Summa Cum Laude, from Boston University with a M.M., from Yale School of Music with a M.M.A., and from Harvard University with a Ph.D.

He taught at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-director of Minimum Security Composers Collective.
He has composed orchestral works, for jazz big band and woodwind quintet, and two dance pieces for the Boston Conservatory.[4] He performed at the Flea, New York City.[5] Ueno is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

Ueno has collaborated with violist Kim Kashkashian and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky on the works Hypnomelodiamachia for viola, percussion, and electronics (2007), and Two Hands, a Kashkashian commission, for viola and percussion (2009). A monograph compact disc of three works for soloist(s) and orchestra, Talus for viola and orchestra, On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis for solo throat-singer and orchestra, and Kaze-no-Oka for biwa, shakuhachi, and orchestra, was released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in 2010. Ueno has also written for such ensembles as the So Percussion Group, Bang on a Can All-Stars, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and eighth blackbird.

Ueno's compositional approach frequently involves extra-musical modeling, including using images, cultural phenomena, or architecture as the basis for structural decisions, somewhat analogous to the use of architectural proportions in Renaissance music. Kaze-no-Oka, for example, reflects in part the structure of the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki's like-named project.[6] His Talus is, in a manner of speaking, a biography of a traumatic event in the life of its soloist, violist Wendy Richman, who shattered her ankle in a ten-foot fall.[7] He is keenly interested in the process of exploring unique, in some sense irreproducible, sonic events linked to the performers for which his music is written.
As a performer, Ueno is active as a throat-singing vocalist and performing with live electronics. He is an accomplished guitarist.
In 2010, he is the recipient of the Berlin Prize in Music Composition at the American Academy in Berlin. On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, Ken Ueno

Vincenzo Ugolini (1570-1638) Vincenzo Ugolini (ca. 1580 – 6 May 1638) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and of the Roman School.
Born in Perugia, he was first a puer chori (boy soprano) at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino; then he was engaged as a contralto until July 1594 and as a bass from the beginning of May 1600 until the end of 1601.
In 1603 he was mastro di capella of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome. After an illness in 1606, in 1609 he left this work and became maestro at the Duomo of Benevento until 1615 (but in 1614 he worked for Cardinal Arrigoni in Rome). From 2 July 1616 he turned to San Luigi dei Francesi holding the same positions, and in 1620 he succeeded Francesco Soriano as maestro of the Cappella Giulia at San Pietro.
In 1629 he was deponent for the testament of the composer Domenico Allegri, brother of Gregorio.
From May 1631 he was again maestro of San Luigi, and held the post until his death in 1638; his successor was his pupil Orazio Benevoli.
Beata es virgo Maria, motet for 12 voices Le Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal Ensemble ATMA Classique Rel. January 1, 2007

Alfred Uhl died 1992 Austrian Alfred Uhl (born June 5, 1909 in Vienna; † June 8, 1992) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Uhl, the son of a postman studied, as a student of Franz Schmidt at the Vienna Music Academy (now University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) composition and graduated with PhD. from. After the "Anschluss of Austria" it was 1938 Gauobmann of the Section I of the student council folk music of the Reich Music Chamber. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, but released in 1941 after a serious injury. In 1943 he received the proposal of the Reich Governor and Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach the Schubert Prize of the City Vienna, was appointed as a teacher at the Vienna Academy of Music and was appointed professor.
Divertimento for clarinet quartet  Kalamos Clarinet Quartet  Klavier Rel. January 1, 1996    1.Allegro
2.Andante sostenuto, molto expressivo
3. Allegro con brio

Sunday, May 10, 2015

The Letter R

Broadway-Lafayette, February 2015 Maurice Ravel (Piano Concerto in G Major) Kristjan Järvi and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Roméo and Juliet: Highlights. Libretto by Barbier & Carré. Angel [1966] Starring Nicolai Gedda, as Roméo, and Rosanna Carteri, as Juliette, with supporting soloists; Orchestre du Théâtre de l'Opéra; Alain Lombard,  conductor.

The Piano Guys, Rolling in the Deep, Portrait, Sony
 
Svjatoslav Richter recital. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [1963] op. 61, op. 10, no. 1 and 12, and op. 52, by Chopin, Estampes, by Debussy, and Sonata no. 5, in F sharp major, op. 53, by Scriabin. Sv︠i︡atoslav Richter, piano. 


Tuesday, April 21, 2015

The Letter P

From high atop Patrick Henry Community College in beautiful Henry County, Virginia,  it's time for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko will be played by

Paul Edwin Zimmer

. The role of Skippy the Wonder Dog will be played by Otis.
 The role of Bobsey Twins will be played by

Patty and Selma Bouvier

. The role of Ken Moss will be played by 

Paul Giamatti

. The role of Brian Carpenter will be played by

Patrick Duffy

. In the the third half of the program the role of Lenny the Listener will be played by

Patrick Macnee

Fred Allen.Mexicana    Decca[1967] --Sonata Mexicana, by M. Ponce.--Romanza, by N. Paganini.-
Sevillana (Fantasía) by J. Turina.--Minuet in E, op. 32.Minuet in G.  Minuet in E, op. 11, no. 10.  By F. Sor.--Sonata clássica, by M. Ponce. Andrés Segovia, guitar.
On wings of song    Capitol[1956] On wings of song, by Mendelssohn.--Ave Marie.  Serenade
(Ständchen)  By Schubert.--Vergebliches Ständchen.  Cradlesong (Wiegenlied)  By Brahms.--Al amor, by Obrados and Castillejo.--Estrellita, by Ponce.--The Lord's prayer, byMalotte.--Ave Marie, by Bach-Gounod.--Si mes vers avaientdes ailes, by Hahn,.--Let my song fill your heart, by
Charles.--Do not go, my love, by Hageman.--Comin' thru the rye, traditional.--Colombetta, by Buzzi-Peccia.    Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano; Jack Crossan, piano.
 Keyboard giants of the past.  RCA Victor[1962]
Minuet in G, op. 14, no. 1, by Paderewski (played by the composer)--Impromptu in F-sharp, op. 36, by Chopin (Vladimir de Pachmann)--Étude in D-flat, by Liszt (Harold Bauer)--Carnaval, op. 9: Valse allemande, Paganini, Réplique, Aveu, by Schumann (Sergei Rachmaninoff)--Suite, op. 15: Waltz, by Arensky (Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch)--Blue Danube waltz, by J. Strauss Jr., arr  by Schulz-Evier (Josef Lhevinne)--Chant polonais no. 5, by  Liszt (Moriz Rosenthal)--Arabesque valsante, op. 6, by  Levitzki (played by the composer)--Hungarian rhapsody no.  11, in  A minor, by Liszt (William Kapell)
 Music for guitar and harpsichord Columbia, 1972.  Sonata no. 1, by R. Straube.--Preludio, by M. Ponce.--   Sonata no. 2, by R. Straube.--Duo concertante, by S.  Dodgson.--Sonata no. 3, by R. Straube.
John Williams, guitar; Rafael Puyana, harpsichord; Jordi Savall, viola da gamba.
 Holiday for orchestra  New York :Columbia,[1965?]
Camptown races / Foster -- When Johnny comes marching home --  Sailor's hornpipe -- Minuet / Paderewski -- The hen / Rameau -- Jamaican rumba / A. Benjamin -- General Lavine / Debussy -- March of the mandarins / A. Harris -- Londonderry air -- The flight of the bumblebee / Rimsky-Korsakov -- March of the dwarfs / Grieg. Percussion, brass, strings and winds of the Philadelphia Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor.
Ponce, Manuel María, 1882-1948.
Sonata romántica.   Decca, [1964]     Andrés Segovia, guitar.
Paderewski, I.J. Fantaisie polonaise, piano,  orchestra. Felicja Blumenthal, piano; London Symphony Orchestra;   Anatole Fistoulari, conductor.
 Pons - Kostelanetz concert Columbia,1950.  Prelude in C-sharp minor / Rachmaninoff -- Liebestraum /
Liszt --Song of India from Sadko / Rimsky-Korsakov --  Russian nightingale / Alabiev --Minuet in G minor /
 Paderewski -- Valse triste / Sibelius -- Dancing doll /  Poldini -- Home, sweet home / Bishop.
 Lily Pons, soprano; Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

The Letter O

Jacob Obrecht, Missa 'Caput' (a4) Kyrie, Oxford  Camarata, Jeremy Summerly, conductor
Johannes Ockeghem Missa 'Caput' (a4) Sanctus, For Ockeghem Hilliard Ensemble
 Offenbach, Jacques,1819-1880.   Offenbach in  America.  RCA Victor[1956]
  La belle Hélène: Overture. The tales of Hoffmann:  Intermezzo.--Geneviève de Brabant. Galop.--Le périchole:  Selection.--The grand duchess of Gerolstein: Overture.-- Les belles Américaines: Waltz, orchestrated by R. R. Bennett.--Musette-Air de ballet, for 'cello and orchestra, Samuel Mayes, 'cellist.--Orphus in Hades: Overture. Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor. <br>
Offenbach, Jacques,1819-1880.
 Gaîte parisienne,as presented by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.  Arr. by Manuel Rosenthal.
Angel, [1975]  Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra; Felix Slatkin, conductor. <br>
Orff, Carl,1895-1982  Trionfo di Afrodite;concerto scenico. Decca[1956]  Annelies Kupper, Elisabeth Lindermeier, Elisabeth Wiese-Lange, sopranos; Richard Holm, Ratko Delorko, tenors; Kurt Böhme, bass; Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus; Eugen  Jochum, conductor.