Here's the Spotify playlist:Naxos Early Music Collection(1659 tracks, total time: 4 days)The recordings are arranged alphabetically by composer names, just like in the Naxos page, and I put the sampler diskAn Introduction To Early Musicat the beginning. For those of you who think that mp3 d...
Peaceful Choral Music: 50 tracks from 50 living composers The playlists are coming back, for real this time. In the past 2.5 years I've spent most of my time on fundamental metadata issues that made the streaming experience (for classical and other music) often not as pleasant as it should...
classical_music_for_dummies.jpg Mention “classical” and many automatically stay their hand from such creations. But music composed in the 1700s and 1800s was broadly enjoyed by many, not just the snobbish or elite. People would cheer in the midst of a concert, to which they brought friend...
The vast library of classical music recordings is still a jungle, where tracks are labeled with a word salad of generic titles, opus numbers, movement numbers, and often even the conductor or orchestra’s name. Twentieth century pop music not only simplified the musical language of classical, ...
Here's the Spotify playlist: Musically Speaking (101 tracks, total time: 14 hours) To keep the playlist neat I only included the Listener's Guide, for full length recordings of the works in discussion, click the album title. Also check out my previous post for Leonard Bernstein music lectur...
Other playlist that might be good to play in shuffle as a radio:2011 New Classical Releases,Arthur Rubinstein Collection, andClassical Library For Dummies. I'm also considering creating collaborate playlists for different periods of classical music. Stay tuned....
I assembled this playlist of 401Zappatracks that, for me, represent his best and most accessible musical compositions (omitting tracks where I find the musical quality is secondary to comedy bits or commentary):Frank Zappa's Musical Evolution(401 tracks, 19 hours). ...
Here's the Spotify playlist:EMI: Great Recordings of the Century(201 albums, 4838 tracks)Albums are arranged alphabetically by composer names, except for the Caruso 1902-04 recording which is at the beginning, because it's by various composers, and also the oldest recording in this series. Th...
"Luciano Berio was regarded by many connoisseurs of contemporary music as the most naturally musical and least doctrinaire of the post-1945 avant-garde composers. For all that he was a pioneer in the development of electronic music and of new methods of combining speech with music, he belonged...
Here's the Spotify playlist:Smithsonian Folkways: 20-Track Sampler(20 tracks, 1 hours).For world music recordings from the same label, also check out my previous post:Music On the Voyager Golden Record. In 2008 when I was interviewed by local independent music magazineSo Rock!– I worked as...