Strayhorn, Billy

Shazam!

1 CD / Mark Custom Recording / 2013-06-25

Works: Greg Danner: Shazam!, for brass quintet; Sky Scenes, for brass ensemble; Scherzo, for band; George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Charles Ives: Variations for Organ on "America"; Erik Satie: Sports et di...
Performers: Brass Arts Quintet

Personnel: Chris McCormick (trumpet); R. Winston Morris (tuba).

Recording information: Nashville Public Radio Studio, WPLN, Nashville, TN (01/02/2002-01/27/2002)....continue...

Duke Ellington: Tone Poems - Black, Brown & Beige; Harlem; The River; Take the "A" Train / Sal Andolina, clarinet; Amy Licata, violin

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2013-02-26

Works: Duke Ellington: Harlem; Black, Brown and Beige Suite; Three Black Kings; The River, suite from the ballet for orchestra; Billy Strayhorn: Take the A Train
Performers: Andolina, Salvatore; Anthony di Lorenzo [Composer/Trumpet]; Licata, Amy [Violin]
Conductors: Falletta, JoAnn
Ensemble: ; Buffalo Philharmonic

Duke Ellington was a master of Big Band jazz but he also wrote in a variety of other forms including tone poems and ballets. The...continue...
Recording information: Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York, USA (05/09/2012-05/11/2012)....continue...

Essential American Classics - Over 2 hours of America's best-loved classical music

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-06-05

Works: Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Bamboula, danse des nègres for piano, Op. 2, D. 13 (RO 20); Stephen Foster: My Old Kentucky Home, for voice & piano; Beautiful dreamer; Edward MacDowell: To a Wild Rose;...
Performers: Allen, Geri; Barclay, John; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Carter, Regina [Violin]; Criswell, Kim; Gardner, Simon; Glaser, Matt; Goodchild, Mark; Hampson, Thomas; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Voc...
Conductors: Foley, Timothy; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Slatkin, Leonard; Slatkin, Felix; Richardson, Neil; McGlinn, John; Thomas, Michael Tilson; Bátiz, Enrique; Davies, Dennis R.; Paavo, Järvi; Warren-Green,...

Great Motion Picture Themes

1 CD / Sepia Records / 2012-03-13

Works: Ernest Gold: Exodus; On the Beach, film theme; Manos Hadjidakis: Never on Sunday, song; Elmer Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven; God's Little Acre; Dimitri Tiomkin: Green Leaves of Summer; The Need fo...
Performers: Armstrong, Louis; Caiola, Al; Manne, Shelly; Monroe, Marilyn; Mulligan, Gerry
Conductors: ; Costa, Don; Perito, Nick; Newman, Alfred; Moross, Jerome; Powell, Mitchell; Buttolph, David; Nascimbene, Mario; North, Alex; Malneck, Matty; Bernstein, Elmer; Previn, Andre; Potts, Bill
Ensemble: ; Ferrante & Teicher; The Modern Jazz Quartet

Duke Ellington

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-17

Works: Duke Ellington: Caravan; Le Sucrier Velours; The Mooche; Sultry Sunset; Minnehaha; Isfahan, song; Sonnet for Caesar; Star-Crossed Lovers, song; In a Mellotone; I let a song go out of my heart; Don't ...
Performers: Barclay, John; Beckett, Edward; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Brooks, Stuart; Downey, Alan; Eastop, Philip; Edwards, Terry [Bass Vocal]; Findon, Andrew; Harle, John; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Monty Alexander Trio

BBC Music Magazine
The Duke might have bridled at John Harle's arrangement of Ellington standards, but the saxophonist's virtuosity would have brought him to his feet.
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Duke Ellington: Mainly Black; Harlem; Sophisticated Lady; Etc.

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-11-22

Works: Duke Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige Suite; Sophisticated Lady, song; Harlem; Isfahan, song; Billy Strayhorn: Take the A Train
Performers: Allen, Geri; Barclay, John; Carter, Regina [Violin]; Dankworth, Alec; Gardner, Simon; Goodchild, Mark; Horne, Lena; Kennedy, Nigel [Violin]; Lovano, Joe; Nash, Lewis [Drums]; Redman, Joshua; Terry, C...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir

Meeting of the Spirits /

1 CD / Oxingale Productions / 2010-11-09

Works: John McLaughlin: Open Country Joy; Meeting of the Spirits; Miles Davis: Half Nelson; Ornette Coleman: W.R.U.; John Lewis: Blues In A Minor; Billy Strayhorn: Blood Count, for jazz ensemble; David Sanf...
Performers: Haimovitz, Matt; Jarczyk, Amaryllis; Jarczyk, Jan; Kim, Nahyun; McLaughlin, John; Painchaud, Dominic; Rutt, Leana; Stewart, Andrea; Uccello; Wilson, Matt [Drums]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Uccello

"That the classical music world should visit jazz repertory is not without precedent. As the saying goes, there's nothing new under the sun. However, the...continue...
Personnel: Matt Haimovitz (cello).

Recording information: Stadium Red, New York City (07/18/2010); The Multi-Media Room, Schulich School Of Music, McGill (07/18/2010); Stadium Red, New York Cit...continue...

Roots - My Life, My Song

2 CD / Sony Classical / 2010-06-15

Works: Traditional: African Drum Invocation; His eye is on the sparrow, song; Pretty Horses, song; God's Gonna Cut You Down, song; Anonymous: I Want Two Wings; Traditional Spiritual: I Couldn't Hear Nobody ...
Performers: Coleman, Ira; Johns, Steve [Drummer]; Lovatt, Mike; Markham, Mark; Martin Williams [Sax/Clarinet]; Norman, Jessye

Recording information: Philharmonie Berlin.

A sticker included on at least some versions of this Sony Classical release promises "music from Berlioz to Ellington," which would make it a pretty ...continue...

American Mood

1 CD / Summit Records / 2009-06-09

Works: John Williams: Olympic Fanfare & Theme; Joe Garland: In the Mood; Jerry Gray: American Salute; Pennsylvania 6-5000; Morton Gould: Somewhere Over the Rainbow; Traditional: Go Down Moses; String of Pea...
Performers: Tim Zimmerman and the King's Brass
Conductors: Zimmerman, Tim
Ensemble: The King's Brass

American Music - Adams, Gershwin, Bernstein, Ellington, Ives, Carter, etc / Sir Simon Rattle, London PO, et al

7 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-09-16

Works: John Adams: Harmonielehre; The Chairman Dances; Tromba Lontana, fanfare for orchestra; Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra; Charles Ives: New England Holidays Symphony; George Gershwi...
Performers: Allen, Geri; Atkinson, Lynton; Baker, Gregg; Barclay, John; Barnell, Andrew; Barrett, Brent; Barrington, Coleman; Blackwell, Harolyn [Soprano Vocals]; Braithwaite, Maureen; Carter, Regina [Violin]; C...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; London Sinfonietta

American classical composers often get unfairly overshadowed by their European counterparts, and a great deal of powerful, groundbreaking new music has passed under the radar...continue...

The London Viola Sound

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Kurt Weill: Kiddush for cantor, chorus & organ; Dmitry Shostakovich: Moskva, Cheremushki, Op. 105; Antonin Dvorák: Slavonic Dances (8) for Orchestra, Op. 72/B 14...
Performers: Bending, Adrian; Blum, Norbert; Bonds, Fiona; Cookson, Michael; Faber, Ruth; Golani, Rivka; Gunes, Rusen; Iorio, Luciano; Rundell, Kevin; Secret, Robert; Silverthorne, Paul; Watson, Elizabeth
Conductors: Simon, Geoffrey
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Viola Section; English National Opera Orchestra; Viola Section of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-; Viola Section of the London Philharmonic (Viola Se

Lush Life / Karl-Heinz Steffens, David Gazarov

1 CD / Tudor / 2006-01-24

Works: Duke Ellington: I'm beginning to see the light; Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, song; George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Antonio Carlos Jobim: Corcovado, song; Wave, song; Sonny Rollins: Oleo; Victor Young...
Performers: Gazarov, David; Steffens, Karl-Heinz

An Evening at Edgewood - Mendelssohn, Krebs, Bach / Ketterer

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2005-04-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Sonatas (6) for Organ, Op. 65; Johann Ludwig Krebs: Fantasia on "Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen", for ogan; Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, chorale prelude for organ; Joha...
Performers: Ketterer, Stephen J.

Luciano Pavarotti / Pavarotti In Central Park [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Decca / 2004-09-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; I vespri siciliani; La traviata; Saverio Mercadante: Concerto for Flute in E minor, Op. 57; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Romualdo Marenco: L'Arlesiana; Billy ...
Performers: Pavarotti, Luciano
Conductors:
Ensemble: Harlem Boys Choir

On June 26, 1993, half a million people gathered in New York's Central Park to hear one of the greatest tenors of the twentieth century....continue...
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Country of Origin: USA
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Encore! / John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra

2 CD / Philips / 2004-06-15

Works: John Williams: Star Wars; E T; Superman; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Vangelis: Chariots of Fire; Max Steiner: Gone With the Wind; A Summer Place; Henry Mancini: Pink ...
Performers: Boston Pops; Williams, John [Composer]
Conductors: Williams, John [Composer]
Ensemble: Boston Pops

Americana - Adams, Bernstein, Ellington, et al / Rattle

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2004-03-09

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Story of my life; Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Porgy and Bess; Felix Bernard: The Dardanella Blues, song; Walter Donaldson: Makin' Whoopee; Lindsay ...
Performers: Allen, Geri; Blackwell, Harolyn [Soprano Vocals]; Carter, Regina [Violin]; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; City Of Caterpillar; Collins, Michael [Conductor/Clarinet]; Donohoe, Peter; Evans, Da...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; London Sinfonietta

This new compilation represents over 75 minutes of the very best of Simon Rattle's recordings of American music presented in his unique, exciting and dynamic...continue...
Personnel: Regina Carter (violin); Michael Collins (clarinet); Bobby Ray Watson (alto saxophone); Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone); Clark Terry (trumpet); Geri Allen, Peter Donohoe (piano...continue...

Americana / Westwind Brass

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2003-10-28

Works: Jari Villanueva: An American Revolutionary War Medley, for brass quintet; Claudio S. Grafulla: Big Thunder Quickstep; Stephen Foster: Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming for vocal quartet; John Holloway...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Westwind Brass

That's a Plenty! - Sousa, Bernstein, et al / Carolina Brass

1 CD / Summit Records / 2003-01-07

Works: Lew Pollack: That's a plenty; Morley Calvert: Suite from the Monteregian Hills; Anthony Holborne: Pavans, Galliards, Almaines (65); Alexander Arutiunian: Armenian Scenes; James P. Johnson: Charleston...
Performers: Beck, John [Percussion]; Campbell, Bob; Dube, Steven [Trumpet]; Hudson, Timothy; Ransom, Matt
Conductors: Hudson, Timothy
Ensemble: Carolina Brass

SCENE 600 Years - Music from Six Centuries / Calefax Reed

1 CD / MD&G / 2001-03-27

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Claude Debussy: La plus que lente; Marko Tajcevic: Balkan Dances (7), for piano; Ton Ter Doest: Mars (March), for winds; Billy Strayhorn: Lush Li...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet

"Unlike previous Calefax recordings...this 15th-anniversary collection is designed to show the diversity of its programmes...The highlights for me are the two most recent works, 'Seven...continue...

On the Town - Bernstein, et al / Center City Brass Quintet

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-07-25

Works: Leonard Bernstein: On the Town; West Side Story; George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Duke Ellington: Caravan; Do nothin' till you hear from me; Billy Strayhorn: Chelsea Bridge
Conductors:
Ensemble: Center City Brass Quintet

Tribute To Ellington / Barenboim, Reeves, Byron, et al

1 CD / Teldec / 1999-10-05

Works: Duke Ellington: Do nothin' till you hear from me; Satin Doll; Sophisticated Lady, musical; Caravan; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Azure, song; Squatty Roo, song; Prelude to a Kiss; Work(s); Chelsea ...
Performers: Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Clevenger, Dale; Combs, Larry; El Saffar, Amir; Hagstrom, John; Harrison, Charlie; Lane, Burl; Mulcahy, Michael; Reeves, Dianne; Spencer, Joel; Vernon, Charlie; ...
Conductors: Colnot, Cliff
Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra members

Selections recorded at the Chicago Recording Company, Chicago, IL and Studio Guillaume Tell, Paris, France.

Personnel: Daniel Barenboim (piano); Dianne Reeves (vocals); Charlie Harrison (elect...continue...

Transcriptions from St. Justin's / Christa Rakich

1 CD / Afka / 1998-05-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Clara Wieck Schumann: Preludes and Fugues (3) for Piano, Op. 16; Billy Strayhorn: Lotus; Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Samuel Barber: Adagio for St...
Performers: Rakich, Christa

Smart Went Crazy - Zappa, et al / Meridian Arts Ensemble

1 CD / Channel Classics / 1997-07-01

Works: Frank Zappa: Big Swifty; Harry, You're a Beast; The Orange County Lumber Truck; T'mershi Duween; Duprée's Paradise; John Halle: Softshoe; Phillip Johnston: Sleeping Beauty; Billy Strayhorn: Lu...
Performers: Bobo, Roger
Conductors:
Ensemble: Meridian Arts Ensemble

Fiedler & Friends - The Boston Pops Celebrates...

1 CD / RCA Records / 1994-11-08

Works: Henry Charles Litolff: Concerto symphonique for Piano no 4 in D minor, Op. 102; Traditional: Carnevale di Venezia; Friday; Allen Toussaint: Java; Chet Atkins: Country gentleman; Ervin T. Rouse: Orang...
Performers: Atkins, Chet; Ellington, Duke; Getz, Stan; Hirt, Al; Nero, Peter; Pennario, Leonard; Price, Leontyne; Smith, Kate
Conductors: Fiedler, Arthur
Ensemble: Boston Pops

The Mighty Tubadours

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1994-03-01

Works: Victor Herbert: Babes in Toyland; Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus; Karl King: Barnum and Bailey's Favorite March; Alfred Bartles: When Tubas Waltz; Jean Joseph Mouret: Suite de Symphonies no 1; Tel...
Performers: Kent Hannibal; Mighty Tubadours, The
Conductors:
Ensemble: The Mighty Tubadours

in a quiet cathedral / todd wilson

2 CD / Delos / 1994-01-01

Works: Johannes Brahms: Chorale Preludes (11) for Organ, Op. 122; Giuseppe Tartini: Work(s); Ralph Vaughan Williams: Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes (3) for Organ; Richard Purvis: Pastorale on "Forest Green"; ...
Performers: Wilson, Todd [Organ]