Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Let's see what sticks

 

This Koch recording throws a whole range of music from Daniel Pinkham at the listener.

Saturday, November 20, 2021

Sunday, November 14, 2021

William Wallace and William Wallace

Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live – at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives...

but they'll never take our freedom!

Saturday, November 13, 2021

A Survey of Modern Americana

 

From a great Midwest-based ensemble, The Dale Warland Singers.

Monday, October 11, 2021

Monday, August 16, 2021

A Book of Revelation Oratorio

 

Franz Schmidt, a late-Romantic composer, covers the End of Times in The Book of the Seven Seals.

Friday, July 23, 2021

Karajan and the Sensual

Representing Arnold Schoenberg's early music, these two works are rather sensual sounding, taking the best from the Post-Romantic influences of Wagner and Debussy.

Thursday, July 22, 2021

An Epic Collection of Satie

If you want to hear the Orchestral Music of Satie, here is where it begins and ends.

Friday, July 2, 2021

If on a budget...

Satie's Orchestral Music might not hold as much importance as his contributions into solo piano music, but they do give a solid look into the composer's knack for the audacious and eccentricities.

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Bamboozled by Pipe Organ

What is more exciting than combining a pipe organ with an orchestra?

Monday, June 28, 2021

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Good ol' Lyrita

 

They have given us a lot of musical joy from yesteryear.

Friday, June 25, 2021

Saturday, June 19, 2021

The (Very Long) Song of Hiawatha

I believe this is the first work I had ever heard by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and its a doozy!

Saturday, January 2, 2021

1492... for orchestra

 

I am not as as enraptured with this music as I was when I heard it in the early 2000s.