What are you listening to? January 2022

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The Three Degrees - The Three Degrees (1973)


The Three Degrees - The Three Degrees - album cover
 
Zeeba Neighba said:
Frederic Chopin - Waltzes, Impromptus (Oscar Rubinstein)

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Oscar Rubinstein? Hmmm. Didn't he write musicals with Rodger Richards? :mrgreen:

Sweetwater - Melon (1971)

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Last of three albums from the star-crossed country rock band. The flashes of eclectic genius here make you wish they had carried on a lot longer.

When she laid out this cover, photographer Annette Del Zoppo must have been aiming for a low calorie version of Let It Bleed. :meh:

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Ojai Sam said:
Eastman Wind Ensemble (Frederick Fennell, cond.) - Hands Across The Sea: Marches From Around The World (1958)


Prokofiev's "March" made the playlist, hence the tiny hammer and sickle on (where else?) the far left.
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Is that the "March" from The Love for Three Oranges?
 
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Antal Dorati, cond.) - Gershwin, Copland, Schuller, Bloch (1957, 1960)

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As a former student of Bela Bartok, it is hardly surprising that Antal Dorati developed a sympathetic ear for contemporary music. This compilation was stitched together in 1993 from several albums made at the end of Dorati's long tenure in Minnesota. Working from George Gershwin and Aaron Copland to Gunther Schuller and Ernest Bloch nicely echoes the stylistic arc of the 20th Century toward a more modern sound. Dorati and the Minneapolis handle all of them with boundless enthusiasm.
 
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