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Just in at the CFAL–James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met

The Met has recently celebrated the fortieth anniversary of James Levine’s debut as conductor at the Met. This box set contains 21 DVDs and 32 CDs featuring performances from Levine’s career. Included in this set are such highlights as:

• The Ghosts of Versailles: available on DVD for the first time, Levine directed the world premiere of this work at the Met to resounding success
• Lulu: from the 1980 performance starring Julia Megenes as Lulu
• Wozzeck: from the 2001 revival of this opera, featuring Falk Struckmann in the title role
• The Bartered Bride: a live 1978 telecast of the comedy’s return to the Met, starring Teresa Stratas
• Performances by Renee Fleming, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, and Marilyn Horne

With 22 performances (including 11 full operas and additional concerts) available through DVD and CD, this collection provides you unparallelled access to the legendary career of Levine, and it’s all right here in the library!

You can find the full list of records right here, or come see us in the Crouch Fine Arts Library, and we can help you find these materials.

A little teaser for you:

(don’t you want to see this in better quality in DVD? come check it out today!)

now that I have your attention…

the recent recovery of a previously stolen medieval mss in Spain in the news and the Baylor Libraries have an amazing facsimile of this mss. For the scoop, check out this great post by Baylor librarian Eileen Bentsen.

New additions to Classical Music Library database: 1,811 albums (7,767 tracks) from a wide variety of labels including material from Bel Canto Society; Bridge; Cantolopera; Gimell; Haenssler Classic; Lyrichord; Mark Custom; Mode Records; New Albion; North/South; and Wirripang.

New artists and ensembles include: The Tallis Scholars; Stables Ensemble; Beniamino Gigli; Auer String Quartet; Virginia Wind Symphony; Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic; The Wellesley Chamber Singers; Amadeus Guitar Duo; Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra of Leipzig.

You can see a list of all new content here: http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

The Music Online package now contains:
783,199 tracks of music
101,311 pages of text reference
25,634 scores
1,119 hours of video

Baylor folks, access these through: https://www1.baylor.edu/ERD/Search/Search.aspx

CML just added another 1,409 albums (35,688 tracks) from the EMI label. There are now over 50,000 tracks of EMI content in the collection.

New content comes from EMI Classics, Angel Records, Capitol Catalog, and more.

Highlights include recordings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jussi Bjorling, Victoria De Los Angeles, Itzhak Perlman, Renata Scotto, Mstislav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra, Taverner Choir, Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Melos Ensemble, Pinchas Zuckerman, Borodin Quartet, Christoph Eschenbach, Elly Ameling, Trio Sonnerie, Alban Berg Quartett, Chung Trio, John Ogdon, and more.

Also included in this release are hundreds of full length operas, including:
*Puccini – Turandot (Maria Callas, Teatro alla Scala)
*Puccini – La Bohème (Mirella Freni, Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma)
*Mozart – Don Giovanni (Joan Sutherland, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*Puccini – Tosca (Placido Domingo, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*Mozart – Così fan tutte (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Orchestra)
*R. Strauss – Elektra (Eva Marton, des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
*Donizetti – Don Pasquale (Beverly Sills, Ambrosian Opera)
*Gounod – Faust (Thomas Allen, National Opera of Paris)
*Bellini – Norma (Maria Callas, Teatro alla Scala)
*Massenet – Manon (Roberto Alagna, La Monnaie)
…and many more.

Other new albums include:
*Walton conducts Walton: Symphony No. 1, Belshazzar’s Feast
*Bela Bartók: Mikrokosmos Books 1-6
*Ireland: Piano Concerto and solo piano works
*Mendelssohn: Elias
*Penderecki: Orchestral Works
*Joyne Hands – English Renaissance Music
*Barry Tuckwell: Horn Concertos
*Simon Rattle Edition: Britten
*Karlheinz Stockhausen: Spiral 1 & Japan
*20th Century Classics: Arvo Pärt

Altogether, CML now includes 134,381 tracks

Music Online, the umbrella interface for all the Alexander Street Press music resources (available to Baylor folks) now includes:
764,751 tracks
100,030 pages text reference
24,977 scores (417,083 pages)
889 hours of video

get busy listening!

CML has added 459 albums (8,384 tracks) from a wide variety of labels, including new releases from Haenssler Classics, Mode Records, Bridge, Vox, and Wirripang.

New material includes compositions by Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Arnold Bax, Gustav Mahler, Charles Koechlin, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Carter, Edvard Grieg, Morton Feldman, Aldo Clementi, Antonio Salieri, Lawrence Dillon, John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Henry Fillmore, Morton Subotnick, Ursula Mamlok, Valentin Silvestrov, Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, and more.

Example new albums include:

*Olivier Messiaen: The Works for Orchestra (SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg)
*Pioneers and Exiles: Violin Music from Israel (Kolja Le ssing)
*Lute Music of the Renaissance: The Schele Manuscript Hamburg, 1619 (Joachim Held)
*Insects and Paper Airplanes: Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon (Daedalus Quartet)
*Japanese Piano Works (Gerhard Oppitz)
*Arlene Sierra, Vol. 1 (Arlene Sierra)
*Australian Song Cycles, Vol. 1 (Wendy Dixon)
*Elliott Carter: Choral Works (SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart)
*Bridge, Britten & Bax: Cello Sonatas (Johannes Moser, Paul Rivinius)
*Mozart: Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin (Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Antonio Pappano, Konstantin Lifschitz)

You can browse the new content here — http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

Classical Music Library now contains 6,387 albums (98,693 tracks)

Below are the most recent updates to the family of resources known collectively as MUSIC ONLINE from Alexander Street Press.

Now get out there and do some listening!

AMERICAN SONG
We’ve added 41 albums (600 tracks) from Amherst Records, Rebel Records, Southern Records, Tompkins Square Records and Yellow Dog Records. New material includes bluegrass, blues, funk, soul, and honky-tonk.

Highlights of the new content include fiddle music performed by late U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, songs recorded by NYC subway musicians, historical war songs from 1924-1939, and (creepy!) an album of folk-rock released by Charles Manson a year prior to his arrest.

Example albums include:
*Watermelon Slim: Big Shoes to Fill
*Max Ochs: Hooray for Another Day
*Bloody War Songs: 1924-1939
*The Pipes and Drums of the Washington Memorial Pipe Band
*NYC Subway: Songs from the Underground – New York’s Best Subway Musicians

JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY
We’ve added 53 albums (828 tracks) from Amherst Records, Malanga Music, and Yemaya. New material includes Afro-jazz, contemporary big band, swing, dixieland, Latin jazz, and more.

Example new albums include:
*Hot Club of Philadelphia: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
*Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna
*Arturo Sandoval: Live at the Hotel Nacional, Havana, 1986
*Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Jazz Plaza Festival, 1985
*Spyro Gyra: Carnaval
*Della Reese: The Angel Sings

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC
We’ve added 41 albums (495 tracks) from ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Lyrichord, and Six Degrees Records. New material includes ambient dub, African drumming, drinking songs, Nu-Jazz, rumba, world beat, sephardic, song and more.

Example albums include:
*Gamelan of Java, Vol. 4: Puspa Warna
*DJ Cam: Loa Project, Vol. 2
*Timna Brauer & Elias Mieri Ensemble: Flamenco Judaico
*Master Drummers of Africa, Vol. 2: Ubuntu
*New Zealand’s Maoris: Unknown Earth
*Kix (Bent Remixes)

The total content count for Music Online now equals:

692,652 tracks
89,671 pages text reference
24,368 scores (400,000 pages)
488 videos

Below are the most recent updates to the family of resources known collectively as MUSIC ONLINE from Alexander Street Press.

Now get out there and do some listening!

AMERICAN SONG
We’ve added 41 albums (600 tracks) from Amherst Records, Rebel Records, Southern Records, Tompkins Square Records and Yellow Dog Records. New material includes bluegrass, blues, funk, soul, and honky-tonk.

Highlights of the new content include fiddle music performed by late U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, songs recorded by NYC subway musicians, historical war songs from 1924-1939, and (creepy!) an album of folk-rock released by Charles Manson a year prior to his arrest.

Example albums include:
*Watermelon Slim: Big Shoes to Fill
*Max Ochs: Hooray for Another Day
*Bloody War Songs: 1924-1939
*The Pipes and Drums of the Washington Memorial Pipe Band
*NYC Subway: Songs from the Underground – New York’s Best Subway Musicians

JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY
We’ve added 53 albums (828 tracks) from Amherst Records, Malanga Music, and Yemaya. New material includes Afro-jazz, contemporary big band, swing, dixieland, Latin jazz, and more.

Example new albums include:
*Hot Club of Philadelphia: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
*Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna
*Arturo Sandoval: Live at the Hotel Nacional, Havana, 1986
*Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Jazz Plaza Festival, 1985
*Spyro Gyra: Carnaval
*Della Reese: The Angel Sings

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC
We’ve added 41 albums (495 tracks) from ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Lyrichord, and Six Degrees Records. New material includes ambient dub, African drumming, drinking songs, Nu-Jazz, rumba, world beat, sephardic, song and more.

Example albums include:
*Gamelan of Java, Vol. 4: Puspa Warna
*DJ Cam: Loa Project, Vol. 2
*Timna Brauer & Elias Mieri Ensemble: Flamenco Judaico
*Master Drummers of Africa, Vol. 2: Ubuntu
*New Zealand’s Maoris: Unknown Earth
*Kix (Bent Remixes)

The total content count for Music Online now equals:

692,652 tracks
89,671 pages text reference
24,368 scores (400,000 pages)
488 videos

Congratulations to Todd Meehan, assistant professor of percussion, on the release of his new cd recording, Restless, Endless, Tactless: Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music, New World Records 80711-2. The recording features avant-garde percussion music of the 1930’s and is performed by the Meehan/Perkins Duo and the Baylor Percussion Group. Todd’s collaborator in the Meehan/Perkins Duo is Doug Perkins who serves on the faculty of Dartmouth College. This recording was made possible by a grant from the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trust.

Bravo Todd and congratulations to all the members of the Baylor Percussion Group (Austin Aeschbacher, Steve Daily, Logan Dean, Bobby Fajardo, Aaron Krouse, Robert McCullagh, Daniel Medina, Michal Nelson, Tyson Voigt, Daniel Webbon, and Margaret Crites). Also contributing to the project were Baylor music faculty, Soon Cho and Brian Marks, and our recording engineer, Rick Carpenter.