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Girl of a Hundred Lists

Favorites Produced by the Maestro

Grechaninov: Passion Week; Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale, directed by Charles Bruffy (Chandos)

Tomas Svoboda: Orchestra Works (Overture of the Season, Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra, Symphony No. 1, of Nature); Oregon Symphony conducted by James DePriest (Oregon Symphony)

Eternal Rest: Works by Mäntyjärvi, Ticheli, Martin, Clausen; Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale, directed by Charles Bruffy (Chandos)

Shostakovich’s Circle (Autour de Shostakovich), I Musici de Montréal (Analekta)

Charles Martin Loeffler: Music for Four Stringed Instruments, String Quarter, Quintet in One Movement; Da Vinci Quartet (Naxos)

Precipice: Modern Marimba, Nathaniel Bartlett, marimba (Albany)

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2/Vocalise, Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin (Naxos)

 

Photo: Nathaniel Bartlett from the Precipice CD cover.

 

 

 

 

Girl of a Hundred Lists

On the CD changer

 

Sunday Morning

Vivaldi: Concert for the Prince of Poland,

The Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze, director (Harmonia Mundi USA)

Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, and Metamorphosen,

Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (Chandos)

“To God’s Mother Assiduously,”

Kantors (Nizhny Novgorod)

Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna,

Los Angeles Master Chorale, Paul Salamunovich (RCM)

Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil,

Estonian Phiharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi USA)

 

In the car

Birdsong at Morning: Bound (Blue Gentian)

Birdsong at Morning: Vigil (Blue Gentian)

Birdsong at Morning: Heavens (Blue Gentian)

Groove Armada: Black Light (OM Records)

Madonna: Hard Candy (WEA/Reprise)

Supreme Beings of Leisure: 11i (Rykodisc)