Gems of Memory: May 2013

Friday 31 May 2013

Ivan & Alyosha - "Be Your Man" (*)
The Zombies - "Hold Your Head Up"
Spoon - Transference
The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy
Argent - Nexus
The Apples in Stereo - The Discovery of a World inside the Moone
Leonard Bernstein

Overture to "Candide" (*)
Three Variations from "Fancy Free" (*)

Variation I: Galop
Variation II: Waltz
Variation III: Danzon

Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" (*)

Prologue (Allegro moderato)
Somewhere (Adagio)
Scherzo: Vivace e leggiero
Mambo (Meno presto)
Cha Cha (Andantino con grazia)
Meeting Scene (Meno mosso)
Cool Fugue (Allegretto)
Rumble (Molto allegro)
Finale: Adagio

Three Dance Episodes from "On the Town" (*)

I. The Great Lover
II. Lonely Town: Pas de deux
III. Times Square 1944

Symphonic Suite from "On the Waterfront" (*)

Hector Berlioz - The "Fantastic" Symphony, Op. 14 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Thursday 30 May 2013

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Delicious Pastries - Pretty Please
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Will Dixon - This Upward Curve
Joseph Hadyn

Symphony No. 94 in G (Surprise) (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Symphony No. 101 in D (Clock) (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Leonard Berstein

"Facsimile" (*)
Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah" (*)
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" (*)

Wednesday 29 May 2013

Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Kantorei - Te Deum
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Leonard Bernstein

Piano Concerto in G major (Maurice Ravel) (*)
"Shéhérazade" (Maurice Ravel) (*)
"La Création du monde" Op. 81 (Darius Milhaud) (*)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Violin Concerto, Op. 61 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Egmont Overture, Op. 84 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

The Apples in Stereo - Electronic Projects for Musicians

Tuesday 28 May 2013

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Symphony No. 41 in C major (Jupiter), K. 551 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica" (Ludwig van Beethoven) (*)
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Brass Tactics EP (*)

Monday 27 May 2013

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
The Apples in Stereo - The Discovery of a World inside the Moone
The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Dizzy Gillespie - Modern Jazz Archive, Disc 2 - A Night in Tunesia (*)
George Handel

Highlights from Messiah (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Music for the Royal Fireworks (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Highlights from the Water Music (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Sunday 26 May 2013

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Django Reinhardt - Classic Jazz Archive, Disc 2 (*)
Johannes Brahms

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Hungarian Dances for Orchestra (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

No. 17
No. 19
No. 21

Saturday 25 May 2013

The Alan Parsons Project

Eye in the Sky
I Robot

Django Reinhardt - Classic Jazz Archive, Disc 1 (*)
The Apples in Stereo - Electronic Projects for Musicians
Richard Wagner

Overture to Tannhäuser (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Lohengrin (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Prelude to Act 1
Prelude to Act 3
Wedding Chorus

Prelude to Die Meistersinger (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Siegfried's Rhine Journey (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Siegfried's Funeral Match (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

The Zombies - Live at Metropolis Studios

Friday 24 May 2013

The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
Bill Haley and His Comets - "(We're Gonna) Rock around the Clock"
Argent - Nexus
The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Badfinger - "Watford John"
Spoon - Transference
Antonín Dvořák - Ninth Symphony in E minor (New World), Op. 95 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 10: Tiger Rag (*)
Villagers - {Awayland}

Thursday 23 May 2013

The Apples in Stereo - The Discovery of a World inside the Moone
The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy
Delicious Pastries - Pretty Please
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Will Dixon - This Upward Curve
Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71 A (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 9: Diminushing (*)

Wednesday 22 May 2013

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Richard Strauss

Tritsch-Tratsch Polka (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Emperor Waltz (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Voices of Spring Waltz (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
"Vienna Blood" Waltz (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
The Blue Danube Waltz (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
"Artist's Life" Waltz (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 8: Djangology (*)
The Zombies - "Hold Your Head Up"

Tuesday 21 May 2013

The Apples in Stereo - Electronic Projects for Musicians
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 7: Dinette (*)
Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat (Emperor) (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Coriolanus Overture in C minor (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Ivan and Alyosha on Audio Tree (*)

Monday 20 May 2013

The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
Graham Nash - Wild Tales
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Spoon - Girls Can Tell (*)
The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Alan Lastufka & Luke Conard - Erase This
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Felix Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 4 in A major (Italian) (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Music from A Midsummer Night's Dream (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 6: Sweet Chorus (*)

Sunday 19 May 2013

Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Mel Carter - The Best of Mel Carter
Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 5: Swing Guitars (*)
Franz Liszt

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Saturday 18 May 2013

Jenny and Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - "Rhapsody in Blue" (George Gershwin)
The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
Sergey Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Vocalise No. 34 for Orchestra (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 No. 2 & 3 (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 4: After You've Gone (*)

Friday 17 May 2013

Argent - Nexus
Colin Blunstone - On the Air Tonight
Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 3: Anouman (*)
Franz Schubert

Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished) (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Symphony No. 5 in B flat (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Thursday 16 May 2013

Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 2: Nuages (*)
Will Dixon - This Upward Curve
Cliff Richard - The Early Years
Delicious Pastries - Pretty Please
Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto in A minor (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
The Beatles

"Magical Mystery Tour"
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"

Django Reinhardt - Swing Guitars, Disc 1: Swing 48 (*)
Johann Sebastian Bach

The Brandenburg Concertos No. 2 & 6 (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
The Clavier Concerto in D minor (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Tuesday 14 May 2013

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Michael Feinstein - The Gershwins and Me (*)
Frédéric Chopin

Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op. 44 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Polonause in A flat, Op. 53 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Polonaise in A, Op. 40, No. 1 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 1 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Étude, Op. 10, No. 3 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Étude, Op. 10, No. 5 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Étude, Op. 25, No. 1 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Étude, Op. 25, No. 5 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Mazurka in B flat, Op. 7, No. 1 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Mazurka in B flat minor, Op. 24, No. 4 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 41, No. 1 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4 (from Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Monday 13 May 2013

The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 10: Blue Monday - A One Act Jazz Opera (*)
Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Sunday 12 May 2013

Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 9: Gershwin in Jazz (*)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto in B flat (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Overtures:

Cosi Fan Tutte (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
The Impresario (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
The Magic Flute (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Don Giovanni (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)

Saturday 11 May 2013

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 8: Great Songs Presented by Great Stars (*)
Herman's Hermits - "My Reservation's Been Confirmed"
The Hollies - "Stop, Stop, Stop"
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathétique) (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Time and Space
Badfinger - No Dice

Friday 10 May 2013

Argent - Nexus
George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 7: The Later Broadway Musicals (*)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F (Pastoral) (from the Funk & Wagnalls' Family Library of Great Music) (*)
Stephen Stills - Just Roll Tape: April 26, 1968 (*)

Thursday 9 May 2013

Will Dixon - This Upward Curve
Delicious Pastries - Pretty Please
George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 6: Early Recordings of the 20's - Broadway Shows and Musicals (*)

Wednesday 8 May 2013

The Beach Boys - Endless Summer
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
George Gershwin - George Gershwin, Disc 5: Gershwin on Screen III: "Strike up the Band," "Broadway Rhythm," "Ziegfeld Follies" and "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim" (*)
Hey Marseilles on the World Café (*)
The Beatles - Beatles for Sale

Tuesday 7 May 2013

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 4: Gershwin on Screen II: "Shall We Dance," "Damsel in Distress" (*)
Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Crosby, Stills, and Nash

Monday 6 May 2013

The Zombies

Daytrotter Session, 6 May 2013 (*)
Odessey and Oracle

George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 3: Gershwin on Screen I: "Girl Crazy" & "Rhapsody in Blue" (*)
Nicola Benedetti - Tiny Desk Concert (*)

Sunday 5 May 2013

Brian Wilson - SMiLE
George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 2: Instrumental Works for the Concert Hall (*)
The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder

Saturday 4 May 2013

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
George Gershwin - George Gershwin Disc 1: Gershwin Plays Gershwin - Rare Recordings 1932-35 (*)

Friday 3 May 2013

Argent

Ring of Hands
Nexus

Sergey Prokofiev

Symphony No. 1, Op. 25 "Classical" (*)
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (*)
Romeo and Juliet (*)

Montagues and Capulets
The Child Juliet
Friar Lawrence
Morning Dance
Minuet
Masks
Dance
Romeo at the Grave of Juliet

Thursday 2 May 2013

Will Dixon - This Upward Curve
Delicious Pastries

FAWM 2011 Demos
Pretty Please

The Hollies

"Just One Look"
"I'm Alive"
"If I Needed Someone"
"I've Got a Way of My Own"
"Bus Stop"
"King Midas in Reverse"
"Man with No Expression (Horses through a Rainstorm)"

Driftless Pony Club - Expert
The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long
Sergey Prokofiev

Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100 (*)
Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 131 (*)

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery
Eddplant - "Early One Morning" (*)
Roger McGuinn - "Early One Morning" (*)
The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long
She & Him - Volume 3 via NPR (*)
Sergey Prokofiev

Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 (*)
Sonata for flue and piano in D major, Op. 94 (*)
Toccata in C major for piano, Op. 11 (*)
Sonatine Pastorale, Op. 59, 3 (*)
Conte de la vieille grand-mère, Op. 31, 2 (*)
Gavotte, Op. 32, 3 (*)
Étude, Op. 52 (*)

Spoon - Gimme Fiction