Deaf Ro

Sorry if this has been asked and answered elsewhere but does anyone have an mp3 of the studio version of Cars Can't Escape (the one that Wilcoworld was giving away for free) that they could post? Thanks in advance!

Some Glass favorites:

Einstein on the Beach

Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass (string quartets 2, 4, 5)

Violin Concerto (with Gidon Kremer: essential)

Music in Twelve Parts

Symphony No. 3

Mishima soundtrack

Dracula soundtrack

Piano Etudes

Glassworks

Etoile Polaire

I also highly recommend Bruce Brubaker's recordings of solo piano music by Glass (which include pieces by John Cage and Alvin Curran).

I do have that one and like it quite a bit.

 

I think I'm looking more for classical options. I've found a few, and a couple in this thread. Any must have classical suites?

How are there so many posts so far and nothing about classical music? (Whiskeytown? Camper van Beethoven? Sigh....)

The sonatas and partitas for solo violin by Bach are the obvious place to start.......any recording really but violinists like Gidon Kremer, Hilary Hahn, Arthur Grumiaux, Christian Tetzlaff, Thomas Zehetmair, David Oistrakh, etc. are all worth checking out -- you can't go wrong with any of these.....

From there, Beethoven's violin concerto is highly recommended (Itzhak Perlman recording on EMI with Giulini conducting and the Chicago Symphony I think?). There are also famous violin concertos by Brahms, Shostakovich, Mozart, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Ligeti, Barber, Elgar, Stravinsky, John Adams, Philip Glass, etc., etc. The Glass concerto with Gidon Kremer as soloist is just incredible. Astor Piazzolla is an Argentine classical/tango composer who's pretty easy to listen to also....

Any of the string quartets by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Shostakovich, Dvorak, Bartok, Philip Glass........violin sonatas by Mozart, Arvo Part, Ravel, Schumann, Beethoven, Schubert (esp.), Debussy, Ives, etc. The Kronos Quartet has a CD called "Early Music" that I bet she would like -- also their CD of the Glass string quartets......for chamber music, some Kronos recordings are a little out there but anything by the Takacs Quartet (Beethoven middle quartets in particular), Alban Berg Quartet (look for their Haydn), Juilliard Quartet, Keller Quartet (Bach's Art of Fugue), et al will be worthwhile. The Emerson String Quartet is not really my thing but quite popular too....

I would quibble with a few choices on this list of 50 recommended recordings by NPR, but it's a good place for beginners: http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/pt50.html.

Alex Ross' list is also worth checking out: http://www.therestisnoise.com/top_10_summer_hits/

Last: there is a TON of remarkable early/medieval/Renaissance music for strings: look for "consort music" or music for "viols" by composers like Henry Purcell (amazing), William Byrd, John Dowland, Christopher Tye, et al.......this was the original ambient music....not that far from Eno's "Discreet Music" (another CD I would suggest) or "Music for Airports"...

Your best bet is definitely to start with the Bach sonatas and Beethoven concerto and then investigate the discography of any violinists whose sound you like. I would go with Gidon Kremer and Hilary Hahn.....better yet, take her to a classical concert! Feel free to send me a PM for any further suggestions.

Nice stuff, thanks.

Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom: "Days of Mars"

How did I go so long without knowing about this? Dios mio.

Just saw them Friday night here in NYC....surprisingly good live band, for as much of a studio band as they seem.

NP

Thanks Craig, and sorry, just been workin like a madman!

You or anyone else going tonite? My first Wilco gig since New Jersey I think.

What time were the openers and when did Wilco play pls?

new Mum :

All you fans of Steve Reich and Gavin Bryars and "The Sinking of the Titanic" absolutely *must* check out a composer named John Luther Adams and an album of his called "The Light That Fills the World." I cannot recommend it strongly enough. Here is one of its three movements:

http://goodvibrato.org/?p=49

Some other favorites/recommendations

Takacs Quartet - any string quartet recordings by Beethoven, Mozart, Dvorak, Haydn, Schubert, etc

Arditti Quartet - amazing modern/contemporary music group, their recording of Webern/Berg chamber music is great

Leon Fleisher - a pianist with many wonderful recordings - "Two Hands" and "The Journey" esp.

Erik Satie piano music (Reinbert de Leeuw, performer)

Borodin Quartet - Shostakovich piano music

Rudolf Firkusny - Janacek piano music

Samson Francois - Chopin and Debussy piano music

Vladimir Horowitz playing Scarlatti (or most anything)

Rosalyn Tureck playing Bach

Louis Andriessen - "Workers Union" (look for the Bang on Can recording, and for that matter any BOAC recording)

Walter Gieseking playing Debussy, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, or really anything

Quatuor Mosaiques (an "authentic"/period-instrument group) - any of their Haydn quartets are great

Alfred Brendel - Haydn, Schubert, and Beethoven piano music

Beaux Arts Trio - anything, but their Haydn is classic

Charles Rosen - Elliott Carter piano music (also Bach/Beethoven/Mozart et al but not everyone plays Carter)

Bartok Plays Bartok (piano music) - historical recordings, really cool

Daniel Barenboim - almost anything as a pianist, too many recordings as a conductor

John Field - sort of a forgotten composer, look for a recording of his piano nocturnes (John O'Conor's recording is v. good)

Composers not to snooze on: Ligeti (first and foremost), Terry Riley, Conlon Nancarrow, Alban Berg, Arvo Part, Anton Webern, Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg, Bartok, Granados, Boulez (some), Stockhausen (some), Messiaen (most), Debussy (all), Janacek, Morton Feldman, Szymanowski, William Bolcom, Darius Milhaud, Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, Lee Hyla, Leon Kirchner, Martin Bresnick, Michael Gordon, you get the point.

Nice thread. The classical peeps are definitely in the minority here but are an enthusiastic bunch.

Here is a half-classical blog I maintain with lots of mp3s of favorite recordings: http://www.goodvibrato.org

I have way too many favorites to name a top 10 but here's a few off the top of me head:

Glenn Gould: Bach French Suites, Goldberg Variations, WTC, Preludes Partitas & Fugues

Radu Lupu: Schumann & Schubert piano music

Keith Jarrett: Handel & Shostakovich Piano Music

Terry Riley: "In C" (any version, although I have been enjoying the Bang on a Can reading of late)

Wilhelm Kempff: 1963 Queen Victoria Hall Recital (BBC Legends series)

Artur Schnabel: Beethoven piano sonatas

Pierre-Laurent Aimard: anything, but the Ligeti piano music, Mozart concertos, and Carnegie recital are recent faves

Sviatoslav Richter: anything, but Beethoven/Bach/Mozart esp.

Mozart Divertimento - Kremer, Ma, Kashkashian

Itzhak Perlman - Beethoven Violin Concerto

Peter Serkin - Beethoven piano music and Messiaen Vingt regards...

Jordi Maso - Mompou piano music

Alicia de Larrocha - Granados piano music

Yo-Yo Ma - Bach cello suites

Keller Quartet - Bach Art of Fugue

Richard Goode - Mozart piano concertos

Steve Reich: Music for 18

John Adams: Chairman Dances, Violin Concerto, Grand Pianola Music, etc

Charles Ives: string quartets, violin sonatas, symphonies

And I will wholeheartedly second the recommendation for "The Sinking of the Titanic" - I have been obsessed with this piece for months.

Google is your friend.

http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com/kc.htm

"You Forgot it in People" and "Feel Good Lost" (the debut instrumental record) are the best. Apart from one song I thought that the self-titled record was crap.

Be sure to check out the two records by K.C. Accidental (early Charles Spearin/Kevin Drew project), as well as everything by Do Make Say Think.

That 2005 show at the Gorge might be the best PJ show I've ever seen.

I was at that show too.

Nice.

RIP.

I hear ya, and I always liked going to shows at Tonic too. The false nostalgia thing had more to do with CBGB, which had plenty of people howling about it who hadn't seen a show at the place in years, if ever. I just wish people spent half as much time going out and supporting artists and interesting concert presenters as they do lamenting Disneyfication, etc.

I totally agree. The reason clubs close down (wasn't Tonic a club???) is because it is simply a place of business subject to the economic ebbs and flows of any business. Heck CBGBs is (was) an internationally famous club and it closed down. (So did Lounge Ax!!!) No one stopped that from closing down. Venues come and go, it is all part of it. Not for profits have a benefit of tax deductions, etc. to attract donors, many times really big donors. Really big not for profits (Lincoln Center) have a wide and varied fund raising strategy to make sure they stay open year after year. Clubs are like corner stores, they come and go.

 

LouieB

Exactly. The false nostalgia that gets cooked up for places like CBGB and Tonic is almost always by people who haven't been to these places in months, or years, if ever. So they closed - big deal. My heart goes out to the owners but they had a good run of it and will have left their mark on the city's music history, which is not something many people can say. You don't have to be an economist to know that a club booking 30 shows a month at which 50 people are in the audience and paying $8 to get in will have a hard time surviving, and not just here. The rent is only part of it; on any given night, Tonic was competing with at least 25-30 other musical events going on in the city. At the end of the day, if they couldn't pay their bills, that probably also says something about the demand for their product. Clubs and restaurants and small businesses open and close every day in NYC, and everywhere else. It's part of what makes New York great - that the city is constantly in flux; that countless people arrive and leave every day; that you yourself can leave and come back to find the place looking nothing like you remembered. Is the proliferation of Starbucks and Duane Reade pharmacies a good thing? Of course not. But people who talk about NYC being like Disney World are obviously not seeing how you could go to three different musical events every night for a year in this city and still not scratch the surface. That's never going to change, and talking about if an arts group rents their space or owns the building is completely beside the point.

This thread is funny. Do people really think there isn't a single nonprofit arts group in NYC that owns their own property? Or that thousands of people in this city and across the country don't already give millions of dollars every year to support the arts? You would think the DMG people had never visited BAM, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Issue Project Room, Joe's Pub, Miller Theater, The Stone, The Kitchen, The Living Room, you get the point?

Read this article by the music critic of the New Yorker in this week's issue and tell me if the DMG letter doesn't sound the slighest bit hysterical: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musi...crmu_music_ross

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/04/16/070416on_ross

Then browse these listings to see 200 musical events that are happening in NYC in the next 30 days alone:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events

http://events.nytimes.com/gst/nycguide.htm...&submit.y=9

I know of Tonic as being the place to hear avant-garde music in NYC. But does anyone else know in Chicago, or LA, or other places in NY, where experimental music can be heard?

There are *plenty* of places to hear experimental music in NYC. It is definitely sad that Tonic is closing but the music will move somewhere else.

No particular order just yet

Andrew Bird

Panda Bear

Deerhunter

Holy Fuck

Times New Viking

Bill Callahan

Arcade Fire

A Sunny Day in Glasgow

Amiina

Do Make Say Think

Ponys

I don't think bemydemon is any more official than our own conjecture here...

...and in the case of "On and On and On," I think it's quite wrong.

The lyrics to Sky Blue Sky were provided by the band. But maybe they got their own lyrics wrong.

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