Off the Shelf: New Classical CDs & the Oregon Symphony

As the Oregon Symphony Season enters the home stretch, we are adding pieces of music to the collection throughout the year that includes the music being played by the symphony (sometimes even by the same artist).  You can also find new classical recordings that were on the top of many “best of” lists for the year, starting with the Oregon Symphony’s own CD released last year.  Take a look.

Music for a Time of War - Oregon Symphony

Copland: Rodeo; The Red Pony; Prairie Journal; Letter from Home

Bacewicz: Piano Sonata 2

Beethoven: Diabelli Variations by Paul Lewis

Banchierii Vezzo di Perle Musicali Op. 23 – Matilda Viola

Brahms, Kahane & Prokofiev – Natasha Paremski

Brahms & Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yefim Bronfman

Dvorak: String Quartets G Major op 106 & F major OP 96 – Pavel Haas Quartet

Chloe – Chloe Hanslip

Liszt: My Piano Hero - Lang

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Double Concerto for violin & Piano

Mozart: piano concerto nos. 19 & 23 – Helene Grimaud

Prokofiev: Cello Concerto

Shostakovich: Symphonies no. 6 & no. 12 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

      

Oregon Symphony – Recent and upcoming performances

Jackie Plays Bach
Sat & Mon  2/4 & 2/6/12

Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Oregon Symphony Schedule for 2011-2012: Listen before you go!

As the new school year starts, it’s also time for the new Symphony Season to get underway.  The Symphony has many wonderful guests visiting Portland this year.  Take a look at our yearly post linking the pieces they will be performing to recordings at our library.  Take some of the pieces home to familiarize yourself with the music before you go.  It might add something to your evening.  Enjoy!

Chris Botti
Sat 9/10/11

Pink Martini
Sun-Tues  9/11-9/13/11

Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2
Sat-Mon 9/24-9/26/11

Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2

Dawn Upshaw
Sat 10/1/11

Franck: The Accursed Huntsman
Britten: Les Illuminations
Walton: Scapino
Gershwin: Someone to Watch Over Me
Duke: Not a Care in the World
Bernstein: Somewhere
Sondheim: What More Do I Need?
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: Symphonic Picture

Bronfman Plays Brahms
Sat & Mon 10/8 & 10/10/11

Haydn: Symphony No. 60, “Il distratto”
Kodály: Galanta dances
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

      

New Classical music arrivals coincide with the Oregon Symphony schedule

Many of our newest classical CDs include pieces being played by the Oregon Symphony in the next few months.  Place your holds below and find out what the Symphony has in store for their audiences this season.

Also new:
Enescu: Romanian Poem/Romanian Rhapsodies
Carl Nielsen: Aladdin Suite, Pan & Syrinx
Phenomenon: Music by Narong Prangcharoen
Back: Violin & Voice by Hilary Hahn

Check out the full Symphony list here.

Yo-Yo Ma 
Sun 12/5/10

John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, E-flat major
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov:  Capriccio espagnol
 
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones 
Mon 12/6/10 7:30PM 

Handel’s Messiah 
Sat & Sun  12/18 & 12/19/10

George Frederic Handel:  Messiah
 
Emanuel Ax Plays Brahms 
Sat, Sun, Mon  1/15-1/17/10

Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
Marc-André Dalbavie: Color
Johannes Brahms:  Piano Concerto No. 2
 
Lang Lang in Recital 
Thu 1/20/11 7:30PM

Bach: Partita No.1 in B-flat major
Schubert: Last Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960
Chopin: 12 Etudes, Op. 25

Oregon Symphony Season 2010-2011

The new Oregon Symphony Season is upon us and we have combed through our great classical music collection at the library and put links to those pieces the symphony will be performing this year.  Just select a piece below and place your hold.  We’ll be purchasing some of the pieces we don’t have, so keep checking the classical section throughout the year to get familiar with what the Oregon Symphony has in store.  You can learn more about this year’s schedule at their website. 

Many of the pieces being performed this year can be found on a Classical series called 100 Masterpieces: the Top 10 of Classical Music available at our libraries.  Just click on the title and place a hold.  Here is the schedule for 2010-2011.

Classical Rufus 
Thu 9/9/10 7:00PM
Prima Donna (with soprano Janis Kelly)
Rufus Wainwright 
 
Joshua Bell 
Thu 9/16/10 7:30PM 

Carl Nielsen: Overture to Maskarade
Aaron Copland: The Tender Land Suite
Édouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
George Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsody No.  1
 
The Mozart Grand Mass 
Sat 9/25/10 7:30PM
One of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s grandest and best-known choral masterworks is all its glory, performed by the Portland Symphonic Choir

Richard Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
Richard Wagner: Wedding March from Lohengrin
Richard Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass in C minor

New classical recordings from 2009

 These are recent arrivals to our classical music collection.  There are a wide variety of instruments and styles represented here.  Take a chance and place a hold on one of these great recordings.

Bernstein: Mass by Marin Alsop
One of Amazon’s top classical choices from last year.

Bruch & Brahms: violin concertos by Sarah Chang
New recordings of two of the most popular violin concertos.

Melody of Rhythm by Bela Fleck, Zahir Hussain & Edgar Meyer
Three very different musicians combine their talents on this musical amalgam.

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 1-5 by Patrick Gallois
This recent arrival is to complement what the Oregon Symphony was playing this past year.

David Garrett by David Garrett
Garrett brings a classical sound to some contemporary music in this popular recording.

Caroline Goulding by Caroline Goulding
This young violinist shows her prodigious talent on this debut.

Bach: Keyboard concerto and piano - Helen Grimaud
Grimaud records Bach for the first time in this recording designed for the piano.

Journey to the New World by Sharon Isbin
Classical guitarist Isbin teams with Joan Baez and others to musically encapsulate the journey to the new world.