aworks :: "new" american classical music

paul lansky #spotifyclassicalworks

There's a new experimental feature from Spotify (see below). I've been waiting my entire life for this or at least since the Schwann Catalog disappeared.

I even tried in the past to log all recordings of canonical works on Spotify:

 So here's a list of Paul Lansky works by Spotify popularity (number of recordings in parentheses if more than one):

1. It All Adds Up (2)
2. Threads (2)
3. Partita (2)
4. Travel Diary (2)
5. Semi-Suite (2)
6. Chatter of Pins (2)
7. Hop
8. PassaKaglia
9. Three Moves
10. Notes to Self
11. Wordless
12. The Sound of Two Hands
13. Post-Pastoral
14. Still Time
15. Same Scene
16. Now and Then
17. Late August
18. The Joy of F# Minor
19. Shameless Sarabande
20. just_more_idle_chatter
21. Memory Pages
22. Not So Heavy Metal
23. Now That You Mention It
24. Guy's harp
25. Shadows
26. Compostion Project for Seniors
27. Chords
28. The Lesson
29. Book of Memory
30. Looking Back
31. Arches
32. Etudes and Parodies
33. On F
34. Line and Shadow
35. Notjustmoreidlechatter
36. Contemplating Weather
37. Idle Chatter
38. Music Box
39. Textures
40. Heavy Set
41. Out of the Blue
42. B-O-B-O
43. Ricercare Plus
44. Smalltalk
45. Crooked Courante
46. For the Moment
47. Quackerbridge
48. Dancetracks: Dark Remix
49. Idle Chatter Junior
50. Word Color
51. Night Traffic
52. Horizons
53. Fantasies (6) on a Poem by Thomas Campion
54. Pavane Noir
55. Songs of Parting
56. Folk-Images
57. Andalusia
58. Ride
59. Spirals
60. Two by Two
61. Table's Clear
62. Idle Fancies

 

 

 

Philemon and Baukis (1985-87). Lou Harrison

9/2018:

• "The lyrical opening of Harrison's Philemon and Baukis combines the rebab (the bowed fiddle of the gamelan) with the soft gendèr metallophones" (Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick)
• "Philemon and Baukis, the old loving couple who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes" (Online Archive of California)

 

Mnemonics I (1965). Pauline Oliveros

9/2018: I take this citation to mean Mnemonics I was recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1965. But the 12-CD set has a more generic 1964-1966 range.

Water above Sky Below Now (2015). Pauline Oliveros

9/2018: Recorded in 2015, the year before she died. "Pauline performs a uniquely tuned accordion, harmonica and electronics, whilst Ione provides spoken word vocals in a rich vein of experimental NYC tradition, swept into hall-of-mirrors refractions with dynamic processing." boomkat

In C (1964). Terry Riley

9/2018:  A quick count on Spotify shows 18 versions of In C and one track called "Not Riley in C."