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From the most profound classical music recordings ever made, to genres and musical perspectives from around the globe, talk on music, art and recordings that changed our lives and the world around us. Tune-in as we explore why we only listen to "dead" people, and what is "alive" in music today. Special guests, call-ins welcome.
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December 25, 2023: A New Show is Born
Special 3-hour Christmas Eve classical fantasy
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | Approx. start time |
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| Ebeneezer MacGuffin |
The Twelve Tones of Christmas for ocarina & harpsichord
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2011 | MP3 | real name of MacGuffin is Richard McQuillan | |||
| Bela Bartok (composer)/Geza Anda, piano |
For Children, Sz 42/Vol II #40: Winter Solstice Song (1909 rev. 1945)
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Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording | CD | recorded 1957 @ Abbey Road Studios | 0:04:51 (Pop-up) | ||
| Olivier Messiaen (composer & organist) |
La Nativité du Seigneur: I. La Vierge et l'Enfant (1935)
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Ducretet Thomson | LP | recorded 1957, organ of Eglise de la Trinité, Paris | 0:10:45 (Pop-up) | ||
| Conlon Nancarrow (composer)/Irvine Arditti, violin |
Toccata for Violin and Player Piano (1935 rev. 1980)
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Quartets and Studies | WERGO WER 6696 2 | 2007 | CD | Recorded in 2005 with Nancarrow's own Ampico player piano | 0:24:12 (Pop-up) |
| Conlon Nancarrow |
Study no. 6 for player piano (c. 1952)
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Other Minds | CD | recorded in 1977 | 0:27:49 (Pop-up) | ||
| Bill Evans, piano & Jim Hall, guitar |
Skating in Central Park (John Lewis, composer, 1962)
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Undercurrent | Blue Note | 2002 | CD | recorded in 1962 | 0:33:23 (Pop-up) |
| Carmichael & Lerner (composers)/Art Tatum, piano |
Judy
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Art Tatum Standards | Black Lion Records | CD | recorded 1938 | 0:38:18 (Pop-up) | |
| Robert Schumann (composer)/Sviatoslav Richter, piano |
Fantasie, Op 17: III. Langsam getragen (1838)
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Toshiba EMI | CD | Recorded in 1961 | 0:42:42 (Pop-up) | ||
| The Beatles |
The Beatles 1968 Christmas Record
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Lyntone | 1968 | Flexi | 0:56:34 (Pop-up) | ||
| State Honored Academic Choir, Ukraine |
Shchedryk (Bountiful Evening)
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MP3 | recorded 1957 | 1:06:21 (Pop-up) | |||
| Gimbel's Christmas TV commercial | 1984 | MP3 | 1:09:31 (Pop-up) | ||||
| Sergei Prokofiev (composer)/Nikolai Anosov, USSR State Symphony |
Lieutenant Kijé, Op. 60: IV. Troika
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Woody Allen's Classical Choices Vol 1 | Sinetone AMR | 2014 | MP3 | recorded 1961 | 1:09:40 (Pop-up) |
| J. S. Bach (composer)/Helmut Walcha, organ |
Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (1712?)
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Archive Production | LP | recorded 1962, organ of St. Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, Netherlands | 1:20:22 (Pop-up) | ||
| Dawit Bekele (composer & singer) |
Tewoldenaho (The Word Became Flesh)
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2009 | MP3 | Ethiopian singer & band in a Christmas song | 1:39:34 (Pop-up) | ||
| Fairuz فيروز |
ليلة عيد Laylet Eid
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تراتيل الميلاد Christmas Hymns | Voix De L'Orient | 1994 | CD | recorded 1977 in Lebanon | 1:45:01 (Pop-up) |
| Colleen Grant |
Latin Parang
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RH Productions | 1980 | 12" | recorded in 1980 in Barbados | 1:47:02 (Pop-up) | |
| Franz Liszt (composer)/Vladimir Horowitz, piano |
The Christmas Tree: In Old Times (1882)
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Deutsche Grammophon | CD | recorded in 1986, the original Liszt is souped up by Horowitz | 1:57:39 (Pop-up) | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer)/Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia Orch. |
Nutcracker Suite, Op 71a: V. Arab Dance (1892)
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Walt Disney's Fantasia | Buena Vista Records | 2006 | CD | recorded in 1938, remastered | 2:08:09 (Pop-up) |
| Tchaikovsky & Ozzy |
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies / Iron Man
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Beavis & Butthead Season's Greetings | 1990s | MP3 | 2:11:51 (Pop-up) | ||
| Franz Xaver Gruber (composer)/Mahalia Jackson |
Silent Night
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MP3 | recorded live in London 1964. Song composed in Austria in 1818 | 2:15:34 (Pop-up) | |||
| Olivier Messiaen (composer & organist) |
La Nativité du Seigneur: IX.Dieu parmi nous (1935)
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Ducretet Thomson | LP | recorded 1957, organ of Eglise de la Trinité, Paris | 2:21:56 (Pop-up) | ||
| Judith Weir (composer)/Choir of King's College, Cambridge |
Illuminare, Jerusalem (1994)
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Carols from King's | Brilliant Classics | 2012 | CD | reoorded 1994 | 2:35:30 (Pop-up) |
| VOCES8 |
A Hymn to the Virgin - Benjamin Britten
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2:37:49 (Pop-up) | |||||
| Alfred Deller The Deller Consort |
Angelus ad Virginem - Anon. 13th c.
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Meditative Christmas: Gregorian Chants and Renaissance Favorites | Musical Concepts | 1965 | 2:42:04 (Pop-up) | ||
| Herberth "Lenki" Glinton |
Nowhere Like Limón (2003)
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Calypso Limón Legends | Papaya Music | 2003 | CD | Afro-Costa Rican calypso/jazz | 2:48:59 (Pop-up) |
| Pío Leiva |
La Noche Buena (Christmas Eve)
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Navidad en Cuba | Calle Mayor | 2017 | CD | traditional song in Guaracha style recorded in 1961 | |
| Rebecca Clarke (composer)/Julstrum String Quartet |
Combined Carols, or Get 'em all over at once (1941)
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String Chamber Music | Centaur | 2007 | CD |
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Hey, the woman who was playing the organ was dead!
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i coated the inside of the chimney with mdma so santa massagana should be pretty jolly by the time he gets to your house
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Franco Twinkie:
Off to a great start!
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i had that page bookmarked but forgot about it. thank you; -re-bookmarked it :-B
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UWS Joe:
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chresti:
was Goons a show or band? I don't remember hearing them!
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(w/ the FOX as a back-up). Funnily enough - they are in a symbiotic relationship - often scolding each other.
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Paulo AD:
I've specifically been to patagonia to see the the Welsh immigrant community. I got told of for not speaking cymreag
coelacanth∅:
...i'm looking around discogs and there's no sign of it
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Paulo AD:
Gaylord Fields:
As for my Welsh forebears, it's a rather ugly story, actually, but what they did (and then undid) to one of my African ancestors became case law in antebellum South Carolina.
Nonetheless, I've forgiven them enough to have stayed at Portmeirion in North Wales (aka The Village from The Prisoner).
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I'm from south Wales, fro the town Paul robeson went to and equated us with your struggle ( such a british was of saying something bad)
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you are a good couple--carol and cullan!
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Thanks y'all! come back soon hey?
'night
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thanks, and hope to hear you again soon
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