Episode #77: Columbus, by Egk!

Uploaded: August 13, 2022

Werner Egk: Columbus. Bericht und Bildnis

Erster Teil:

Szenen 1 – 5

Zweiter Teil:

Dritter Teil:

Vorspiel

Szenen 1 – 3

Columbus Ernst Gutstein

Ferdinand Fritz Wunderlich

Isabella Lisa Montoya

First Councillor Hans Herbert Fiedler

Second Councillor Willy Ferenz

Third Councillor Wolfgang Anheisser

A Monk Max Pröbstl

A Herald Georg Pappas

A Singer Friedrich Lenz

First Speaker Romuald Pekny

Second Speaker Rolf Boysen

Three Emigrants Hans Stein

Karl Hanft

Eduard Linkers

Four Soldiers Wolfried Lier

Til Kiwe

Siegurd Fitzek

Walter Holton

A Herald Peter Eschberg

Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Werner Egk, conductor

ORFEO C 549 012 I

Episode #76: Herman, Tito, Raymond, and Django

Uploaded: August 6, 2022

Herman meets Puente

Alvin Gilbert Cohn & Willard Palmer Harris: It’s coolin’ time

Johnny Mandel: Sinbad the Sailor

Neil Hefti: Black orchid

Ralph Burns: Fire Island

Woody Hermann & Tito Puente: Cha-cha chick

Mambo herd

New Cha-cha

Latin flight

Alvin Gilbert Cohn: Blue Station

Woody Herman & Tito Puente: Tito meets Woody

Woody Herman: Original No. 2

Prelude a la Cha-cha

Allan Dick Small: Bamba Samba

Woody Herman, reeds

Tito Puente, vibraphone, band leader

Charlie Byrd, guitar (uncredited)

with big band

JAZZ CRG 120008

The Raymond Scott Project

Raymond Scott: Powerhouse

Girl at the typewriter

Dinner music for a pack of hungry cannibals

New Year’s Eve in a haunted house

War dance for wooden Indians

In an 18th Century drawing room

Oil Gusher

Bumpy weather over Newark

Moment whimsical

The toy trumpet

Christmas Night in Harlem

Confusion among a fleet of taxicabs upon meeting with a fare

Peter Tambourine

Raymond Scott Quintette

STASH RECORDINGS INC. ST-CD-543

Django Reinhardt 1937

William Christopher Handy: St. Louis blues*

Gus Deloof: Bouncin’ around*

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli: Minor swing+

Fletcher Allen: Viper’s dream+

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli: Swinging with Django+, **

Django Reinhardt: Bolero++

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli: Mabel++

Reginald Forsythe & Dorothy Fields: Serenade for a wealthy widow***

Michel Warlop: Taj Mahal***

Vincent Youmans: Tea for two***

Vincent Youmans: Tea for two

Gus Deloof: Easy goin’+++

Harlem swing+++

Django Reinhardt, guitar

with:

*Louis Gaste, guitar

*Eugène d’Hellemmes, bass

+Quintette du Hot Club de France

**Michel Warlop, violin

++Quintette du Hot Club de France (augmented)

***Michel Warlop et son orchestre

+++Philippe Brun et son swing band

CLASSICS 762

Episode #74: The Waltons

Uploaded: July 23, 2022

Franz von Suppé: Die schöne Galathée (Overture)

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Paul Paray, conductor

MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 309-2

Sir William Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Minor

I. Allegro assai

II. Presto, con malizia

III. Andante con malinconia

IV. Maestoso – Brioso ed ardenamente – Vivacissimo – Maestoso

New Philharmonia Orchestra

Sir Malcom Sargent, conductor

Symphony No. 2

I. Allegro molto

II. Lento assai

III. Passacaglia: Theme (Risoluto), Variations, Fugato, and Coda (Scherzando – Presto)

London Symphony Orchestra

André Previn, conductor

EMI STUDIO CDM 7 63269 2

Béla Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23

I. Andante

II. Vivace. Scherzando

III. Adagio

IV. Poco a poco più vivace

Kodály Quartet:

Attila Falvay, violin

Tamás Szabó, violin

Gábor Fias, viola

János Davich, ‘cello

with Jenő Jandó, piano

NAXOS 8.550886