Various

#C236    Greg Brown, Slant 6 Mind RHR CD 98

#C50      Muddy Waters from “Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy” and “Muddy Waters Folk Singer.”  Two original albums recorded in Chicago in 1959 and 1963.  MCA Records.

#C52      Billie Holiday.  The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 6 (1938).  Columbia.

#C69      B.B. King.  How Blue Can You Get featuring Rock Me Baby, Blues At Midnight, Lucille, To Know You Is To Love You, and more.  Nectar.

#C142    Leon Redbone.  Leon Redbone Live!  Sixteen classics including Diddy Wah Diddy,

                        Shine On Harvest Moon, and Alabama Jubilee.  Pair Records

#C196     Cassandra Wilson.  New Moon Daughter featuring Strange Fruit  & other blues.  Blue Note.

#C251      Howlin’ Wolf, “Moanin’ in the Moonlight” (1959) & “Howlin’ Wolf” (1962).  MCA Records

#C255      John Lee Hooker, The Very Best of John lee Hooker.  Rhino Records.

#C253      Delbert McClinton, One of the Fortunate Few.  Universal Records.

#C58       Trisha Yearwood.  Hearts In Armor featuring Wrong Side of Memphis.  MCA. 

#C146     Michelle Wright, Now  & Then.  Arista.

#C229      Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball. 

#C242      Etta James, Love’s Been Rough on Me.  Private Music.

#C67          Ella Fitzgerald.  Jazz ‘Round Midnight featuring Cry Me a River, Blue Moon, and more.  Polygram.

#C86        Julie London.  The Best of Julie London features eighteen of her classic hit songs.  Rhino.

#C122      Marlene Dietrich.  The Essential Marlene Dietrich including Falling in Love Again, Lola,

                        Give Me the Man, and many more.  Capitol.

#C123      Edith Piaf.  The Very Best Of featuring La Vie En Rose, Mon Dieu, Hymne A L’Amour,

                        Avant Nous, and fourteen other songs.  Capitol.

#C131      Nana Mouskouri.  Tierra Viva with Gaviota Herida and La Violetera.  Polygram.

#C124      Barbra Streisand.  The Broadway Album including Somewhere, Can’t Help Lovin’ That

                        Man, Send in the Clowns, and more.  CBS.

#C147      Al Green.  I’m Still In Love With You featuring I’m Still in Love with You, Love and Happiness,

                        Look What You Done for Me and For the Good Times.  Hi Records

#C148      Percy Sledge.  The Ultimate Collection featuring When a Man Loves a Woman.  Atlantic

#C166      Peter White.  Reflections with Peter White on guitars and keyboards featuring Could It Be I’m Falling in Love, The Closer I Get to You, and How Deep Is Your Love.  Sin-Drome.

#C230      Natalie Merchant, Ophelia. 

#C233      Joni Mitchell, Wild Things Run Fast.  Geffen.

#C234      Shirley Horn, You Won’t Forget Me.  Verve Digital

#C235      Kendra Shank, Afterglow.  Mapleshade. 

#C237      Patricia Barber, moderncool.  Mostly her original blues/jazz songs.  Blue Note.

#C241      Frank Sinatra, Sinatra’s Sinatra.  Reprise.

#C250      Ricky Martin, La Historia.  Sony Discos. 

#C252      Morcheeba, Who Can You Trust?  Discovery Records.

#C264      Julia Fordham, Porcelain.  Virgin.

#C254      Mary Black, No Frontiers. 

#C79       Yanni, Reflections of Passion.  Private Music.

 #C95      The Jing Ying Soloists.  Evening Song - Traditional Chinese Instrumental Music.  Saydisc.

#C99       The Chieftans.  The Best of The Chieftans - Traditional Irish Folk Music.  Columbia/Legacy.

#C143      Alligator Stomp.  Cajun and Zydeco classics featuring Rockin’Sidney,

                        Clifton Chenier, Jo-El Sonnier and others.  Rhino.

#C231       A Jewish Odyssey, A celebration of Jewish music around the world.  Putumayo           

#C239       Astor Piazzolla.  Songs from a Heavy Heart – essential tangos 1984-1989.  Music Collection International.

#C245       Astor Piazzolla & Joaquin Nin, Oblivión – performed by Maya Beiser (cello) &

           Anthony de Mare (piano).  Koch International Classics.

#C246        Javier Solis, El Rey Del Bolero Ranchero.  Sony Music Entertainment.

#C247         Marco Antonio Solis, Mas De Mi Alma.  Fonovisa.

#C248         Shakira, Dónde Están Los Ladrones? Sony Latin. 

#C249         Robi, “Frio.”  Sony Latin.

#C256         Rodolfo Mederos, Tangos Argentinos.  Tango nuevo & music by the legendary Carlos Gardel.  Teldec.

#C257         Jimmy Bosch, Salsa Dura – “Nuyorican salsa: where the best of jazz improvisation, and its   

                      riffing, meet the best of the Afro-Hispanic brass tradition, with its improvisation and riffing.” 

#C265         Luis Miguel, Segundo Romance.  WEA Latina.

#C87           Emmylou Harris, Anthology  - The Warner/Reprise Years.  Warner Archives/Rhino.

#C55          Jim White, No Such Place.  Luaka Bop.

#C78          Jane Monheit, Come Dream with Me.  N-Coded Music.

#C270        K.D. Lang, Ingenue.  Sire/Warner Bros.

#C268        india.arie, Acoustic Soul. 

#C271        Melissa Etheridge. breakdown.  island
 

#C306        Melissa Etheridge. Melissa Etheridge.  island.
 

#C299        Johnny Mathis. 16 Most Requsted Songs.  Columbia.
 

#C298        Jane Siberry, When I Was a Boy.  Reprise.

#C309        Tom Waits, Beautiful Maladies The Island Years.  Island Records, Inc.

#C310        Tom Waits

Jazz, Big Band

#C40      The Glenn Miller Orchestra.  In the Digital Mood.  Includes such classics as In the Mood,

                        Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Little Brown Jug, and others.  GRP Rcords.

#C43         Big Band Sampler:  Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Sammy Kaye, Glenn Gray, Les and

                        Larry Elgart, Woody Herman, and Les Brown.  Columbia.

#C44        Jazz ‘Round Midnight - with Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton,

                        Woody Herman, and other greats.  Polygram.

#C39      Coleman Hawkins.  1934-1937 features I Only Have Eyes For You, Star Dust, I’m In The

                        Mood For Love, Honeysuckle Rose and other jazz classics.  Classics.

#C48      Miles Davis, Kind of Blue features John Coltrane, Bill Evans, James Cobb, and Paul Chambers

                      with Davis in one of the finest spontaneous performances ever recorded.  Columbia Jazz Masterpieces

#C49      Joe Henderson, “so near, so far (Musings For Miles).”  1993 Jazz Album of the Year.  Verve.

#C262    The Best of Fourplay.  Warner Bros.

#C181     Chick Corea.  The Leprechaun.  His fusion classic of 1976 re-released on CD.  Featured

                        are Joe Farrell, Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez and others.  Verve.

#C198      Louis Armstrong.  The Hot Fives, Volume 1. Digitally remastered featuring Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Lil Armstrong, Johnny St. Cyr & Clarence Babcock.  Columbia.

#C260      for Duke, by The Ellington All-Stars.  Drive Archive.

#C200      Wynton Marsalis.  Hot House Flowers.  Featuring Stardust, Lazy Afternoon, When You Wish Upon A star, Melancholia, and others.  Columbia.

#C205      John Coltrane.  Giant Steps.  Featuring Tommy Flanagan, Cedar Walton, Wyton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, Lex Humphries & Art Taylor.  Songs include Giant Steps, Cousin Mary, Naima, and more.  Atlantic.

#C261      Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto and featuring Antonion Carlos Jobim.  Verve.

#C263      Art Pepper, Getting’ Together.  Contempory.

#C227      Pat Metheny Group, Imaginary Day.  Warner Bros.

#C228      Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um.  Columbia

#C258      The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out.  1960.  The first jazz album to sell 500,000 copies. Featuring Take Five, Blue Rondo A La Turk, Three to Get Ready.  Columbia.

#C259      Oliver Nelson, The Blues and the Abstract Truth.  IMPULSE!

#C240      Charlie Parker, Yardbird Suite, disc 2.  Rhino

Classical

#C1      Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741).  The Four Seasons performed by The Boston Symphony

                        Orchestra featuring Joseph Silverstein on violin conducted by Seiji Ozawa.  Telarc.

#C5        Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).  Flute Concertos in C Major, G Major, and E Minor, and

Sinfonia from Cantata No. 209 performed by ARS Rediviva Orchestra of Prague featuring

Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute, conducted by Milan Munclinger.  CBS Masterworks.

#C155           Bach Goldberg Variations (after 1742)  performed on the harpsichord by Ton Koopman.  Erato.

#C2         Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757).  Piano Sonatas performed by Balazs Szokolay.  Naxos.

#C4         George Frederic Handel (1685 - 1759).  Messiah, Highlights from a 250th Anniversary

Performance, performed by the orchestra and choir of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.  Philips.

#C168      Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).  String Quartets, Op. 76 Nos. 1-3 (1797) performed by the

                        Takács String Quartet.  London.

#C7          Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).  Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Serenade in D major –

“Posthorn-Serenade.” Wiener Philharmoniker, conducted by James Levine.  Deutsche Grammophon.

#C8                 String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K.515 (1787)  and String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K.516 (1787) played by The Alban Berg Quartett with Markus Wolf, viola. EMI Records Ltd.

#C161            Concertos for Flute and Orchestra No. 1in G major K 313 and No. 2 in D major K 314 (1777) and Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C major K 314a.  Excelsior.

#C162            Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major K 622, Symphony No. 16 in C major K 128 and Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B flat major K 191 performed by the Mozart Festival Orchestra conducted by Alberto Lizzio.  Excelsior.

#C170      Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827). Piano Concertos No. 1 (1798) and No. 3 (1800) with Leon Fleisher on piano and the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell.  Sony.

#C172            Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor” (1811)  with Leon Fleisher on piano and the

                       Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell and Concerto for Piano, Violin, Violoncello

     and Orchestra in C major, Op. 56 “Triple Concerto” (1803/04) with Eugene Istomin, piano, Isaac

     Stern, violin, Leonard Rose, violoncello, and the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by

                       Eugene Ormandy.  Sony.

#C184            Favorite Piano Sonatas: No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique;” No. 14 in C sharp

minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight;” No. 15 in D, Op. 28 “Pastoral;” No. 26 in E flat, Op. 81a “Les Adieux;” No. 17 in D         minor, Op. 31 No. 2 “The Tempest;” No. 21 in C, Op. 53 “Waldstein;” and No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata”      performed by Alfred Brendel.  A 2-CD set.  Philips.

#C153      Franz Schubert (1797-1828).  The Last Three Piano Sonatas (1828) D. 958, 959,960 and

                        Three Piano Pieces (1828) D. 946 performed by Alfred Brendel.  A 2-CD set.  Philips.

#169         Hector Berlioz (1803-1869).  Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (1830) performed by the

                        Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam conducted by Sir Colin Davis.  Philips.

#C178      Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).  Ruy Blas. Op. 95 (1839), Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90

“Italian,” Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Excerpts), Variations sérieuses, Op. 54, Songs without Words, The Hebrides - Overture, Op. 26, Violon Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844).  Philips

#C211      Robert Schumann (1810-1856).  The Four Symphonies, and Overtures:  Genoveva, Manfred.

                        Performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik.  A two-CD set. Deutsche Grammophon.

#C6           Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849).  Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 and Camille Saint-

Saens (1835-1920) Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 22 performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn featuring Cecile Licad on Piano/Klavier.  CBS Masterworks.

#C189             Chopin’s Nocturnes Nos. 1-12 with Maria Tipo on piano.  EMI.

#C176      Franz Listz (1811-1886).  Funérailles (1849), Sonata in B minor (1853), Trübe Wolken (Nuagesgris) (1881), Piano Piece in F sharp, S. 192/3 (1873), En rêve-Nocturne (1885), and Richard Wagner-Venezia (1883) performed by Alfred Brendel on piano.

#C10        Richard Wagner (1813-1883).  Excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen performed by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Sir Georg Solti.  London.

#C212      César Franck (1822-1890) Sonata for violin and piano, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Sonata for violin and piano, Sonata for flute, viola and harp, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet.  Featuring Kyung Wha Chung, Radu Lupu, and Osian Ellis.  Performed by The Melos Ensemble.  London.

#C29      Anton Bruckner (1824-1896).  Symphony No. 8 in C minor performed by the Vienna

                        Philharmonic conducted by Herbert Von Karajan.  A 2-CD set.  Deutsche Grammophone.

#C12      Johann Strauss II (1825-1899).  Famous Waltzes performed by the Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper conducted by Franz Bauer-Theussl.  Philips.

#C156      Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major,

                        Op. 83 (1881) performed by Rudolf Serkin on piano with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by GeorgeSzell and Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Burleske (1885/6) performed by Rudolf Serkin on piano with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy.  Sony.

                   Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn (1873) , Nänie, Op. 82 (1881)  and

                   Symphony No. 4 in E minor (1885) performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by

                   Claudio Abbado.

#C186      Alexander Borodin (1833-1887).  String Quartets No. 1 in A (1897) and No. 2 in D performed

                        by the Borodin String Quartet.  EMI.

#C220      Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921).   Symphony No. 3, Carnaval des animaux,  London.

#C154      Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).  Symphony no. 4 in F minor, op.36, Symphony no. 5 in E

 minor, op. 64, and Syphony no. 6 in B minor, op. 74 “Pathétique.”  Performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orhestra conducted by Evgeny Mravinsky.  Deutsche Grammophon.

#C24      Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).  Symphony No. 5 performed by The Philharmonia Orchestra

                        conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli.  Deutsche Grammophon.

#C16      Claude Debussy (1862-1918).  La Mer, Jeux, Le Martyre de saint Sebastien, and Prelude

                        a l’apres-midi d’un faune performed by The Ochestre Symphonique De Montreal

                        conducted by Charles Dutoit.  London.

#C20        Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943).  Piano Concertos No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (1901) and No. 4

                      in G minor, Op. 40 (1926)  performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy with  the Concertgebouw

                      Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink.  London.

#C19              Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 in E Minor (1907) performed by

                        the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.  London

#C22      Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936).  Pines of Rome !1921), The Birds (1927), and Fountains of Rome (1916) performed by The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Louis Lane.  Telarc.

#C21      Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).  Bolero, Dapnis et Chloe - Suite No. 2, and Pavane pour une

                        Infante defunte performed by The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra featuring Leonard     

                        Slatkin and conducted by Thomas Peck.  Telarc.

#C89        Bela Bartok (1881-1945).  Six String Quartets Nos. 1-6 performed by the Emerson String 

                      Quartet.  Deutsche Grammophone

#C23              Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Strings, Percussion, and

                        Celesta performed by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner. RCA.

#C160      William Grant Still (1895-1978) and Duke Ellington (1899-1974).  Still’s Symphony No. 1 (Afro-

                      American) (1930) and Ellington’s Suite from “The River” performed by the Detroit Symphony 

                      Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi.  Chandos.

#C164            Still’s Symphony No. 2 (Song of a New Race) (1937),  William Levi Dawson’s (1899-1990)  Negro Folk Symphony         (1934; revised 1952), and Duke Ellington’s Harlem (1950) (orchestrated by Luther Henderson) performed by the Detroit         Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi.  Chandos.

#C174      Aaron Copland (1900-1990).  Billy the Kid (1938), the complete ballet and Rodeo (1940?),

                        the complete ballet performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by

                        Leonard Slatkin.  EMI

#C225            Appalachian Spring Suite, Fanfare For The Common Man, El Salón México & Danzón Cubano.  Performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Leaonard Bernstein directing.  CBS

#C26      Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-    ) and Heitor Villa-Lobos, (1887-1959).  Rodrigo’s Concierto de

                        Aranjuez and Fantasia para un gentilhombre and Villa-Lobos’ Concerto pour guitare

                        et petit orchestre perfromed by The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.  Deutsche Gramophon.

#C11      Samuel Barber (1910-1981) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).  Barber’s Concerto for

                        Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14 and Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 in A minor for Violin

                        and Orchestra, Op. 99.  Performed by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maxim Shostakovich.  EMI Classics

#C201      David Diamond (1915-     ).  Symphony No. 3, Kaddish for Cello and Orchestra, Romeo and Juliet, and Psalm  performed by Janos Starker, Gerard Schwarz, the Seattle Symphony, and the New York Chamber Symphony.  Delos.   

#C222      Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) and George Gershwin (1898-1937), featuring  Symphonic

Dances from “West Side Story”, Overture “Candide”, Rhapsody in Blue, and An American in Paris, performed by  the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, & Leonard Berstein.  Sony.

#C27        Henryk Gorecki (1933 -     ).  Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (1976) “Symphony of Sorrowful

                        Songs,” performed by The London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman.  Elektra Nonesuch.

Classical: Various Artists

#C129      Itzhak Perlman, violin.  Greatest Hits including works by Sarasate, Saint-Saens, and Ravel.

                        Deutche Grammophone.

#C71        Liebestraum-Romantic Piano Music.  Featuring music by Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, Brahms,

                        Rachmaninov, Schumann, and Schubert.  London.

#C77        Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord.  The Harmonious Blacksmith - Favorite Harpsichord Pieces

                        featuring works by Handel, Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, and others.  Archiv Produktion.

Operatic/ Classical Vocalists

#C15        Madame Butterfly, Highlights, by Giasomo Puccini (1858-1924) featuring

                        Leotyne Price with The Italiana Opera Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.  RCA Victor.

#C115      Maria Callas.  La Divina including sixteen of the world’s most memorable arias by

                        the soprano legend.  EMI  Classics.

#C110      Leslie Garrett.  Diva!  A Soprano at the Movies featuring Ah! Je ris de me voir from Phantom

                        of the Opera, Song to the Moon, and others.  Silva Screen Records.

#C112      Luciano Pavarotti.  Amore, Romantic Italian Love Songs.  London.

#C214      Norma, Highlights, by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) featuring  Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, John Alexander, Richard Cross, and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Richard Bonynge.  London.

#C221      Don Giovanni, by Mozart.  Featuring Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Schwarzkop, Graziella Sciutti,

Luigi Alva, Eberhard Wächter, Gottlob Frick, Giuseppe Taddei, Piero Cappuccilli, and The Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini.  EMI.