Bold as Brass: Some songs featuring, or with critically good bits for, the Horn Section[40 tracks, 2 hours] This list is essentially what its title says it is: a group of songs linked only by the fact that there are horn parts in [most of] them. All the songs are songs that I h...
John Cage:The Seasons- : Prelude 1, Winter Vivaldi:The Four Seasons, Winter: II. Largo Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1 "Winter Daydreams" Franz Schubert:Winterreise- Frühlingstraum (Dream of Springtime) Here's the Spotify playlist:Winter Music(20 tracks, total time: 1 hour)I especially like the...
The powerful changes in the music industry since the launch of the MP3 format in the early 1990s brought both benefits to consumers, and angst to the industry players, since music became extremely easy to share. The major record companies suffered huge losses, as a series of illegal file shar...
Here's the Spotify playlist:Richard Strauss: Complete Chronological Catalogue by TrV Number(999 tracks from more than 150 albums, total time: 71 hours)Ctrl (CMD)+G to browse in album view. I compiled the playlist in October on my Spotify UK account, and revised it on a Spotify US account...
Handel: Agrippina - René Jacobs, Conductor; Marcos Fink, Sunhae Im, Bejun Mehta, Alexandrina Pendatchanska & Jennifer Rivera (Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin) Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress - Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor; Topi Lehtipuu, Miah Persson & Matthew Rose; Johannes Müller, Producer...