Unpopular Music - November 1, 2020

At the risk of appearing productive, we have another mix this week. It's actually a playlist I started months ago, but never finished. I was going to give it the title "Mostly Classical", but, not having done the math, it turns out just "More Classical Than Usual". And, of course, like "jazz", "classical" ends up labeling a lot of music that doesn't really sound like each other anyway, and, well ... you've seen all my "genre" posts, haven't you?

There was another stub of a playlist that got tacked on the end, which, repeats an artists from the first, and ends with a couple of pop songs. I was planning to use one to mark my and Robyn Hitchcock's shared birthday, and the other marks how I felt during primary time, and how I'm likely to feel the next couple of weeks (but hopefully not the next four years,)

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See the playlist after the break...

artist	title	album	comments	label / date
John Cage / Manhattan Percussion Ensemble	Three Dance Movements - II: March	Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol. 1	composition by William Russell	Wergo 1961
Sviatoslav Richter	Preludes Op. 32 - No. 1 in C	Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Vol. 84 - Sviatoslav Richter III	music by Sergei Rachmaninoff	Phillips 1959
Pierre‐Laurent Aimard / Irina Kataeva	Three Pieces for Two Pianos - I: Monument	Ligeti Edition 6: Keyboard Works	composed by György Ligeti	Sony Classical 1995
Charles Lloyd	Tender Warriors	Sangam	Charles Lloyd (ts) Zakir Hussain, (tbl) Eric Harland (d)	ECM 2004
Han Bennink Trio	Inside Inside	Bennink & CO	Han Bennink (d) Joachim Badenhorst (clt) Simon Toldam (p)	ILK Music 2011
Jonny Greenwood / Daniel Pioro	Phantom Thread II	Phantom Thread	music by Jonny Greenwood for the film by Paul Thomas Anderson	Nonesuch Records 2017
Maro Ajemian	Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - Sonata V	The 25 Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage	music by John Cage	Wergo 1958
Bud Powell	Audrey	The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume Two	Bud Powell (p) George Duvivier (b) Art Taylor (d)	Blue Note 1953
David Alan Miller / Albany Symphony Orchestra	Chorale and Fugue in Jazz - II: Maestoso; allegro vivace	Morton Gould: Concerto for Orchestra	composition by Morton Gould	Albany Records 2010
Sun Ra Quartet	Disco 2021	Singles	Sun Ra (syn, dr machine) Luqman Ali (d)	Strut 1978
Maurice Louca	Laika	Elephantine	Piero Bittolo (bs, as, bss flt) Anna Högberg (as) Isak Hedtjärn (clt, b clt) Rasmus Kjærgård Lund (tba)	Northern Spy Records 2019
Alfred Deller & the Deller Consort; Concentus Musicus, Wein	Pluseurs gens voy	Music of Medieval France 1200 – 1400	composition by Solage	Vanguard (The Bach Guild) 1962
The Budapest String Quartet	Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3 - II: Andante con moto quasi Allegretto	Beethoven - The Middle String Quartets, In Concert at the Library of Congress: 1940-1960	composition by Ludwig van Beethoven	Bridge 1946
Harry Partch	Windsong	The Harry Partch Collection Vol. 3	for Harmonic Canon II, Kithara II, Adapted Viola, Surrogate Kithara, Chromelodeon, Boo, Diamond Marimba, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War, Bass Marimba all instruments played by Harry Partch first version of Daphne and the Dunes	New World Records 1958
Don Ellis Orchestra	Crete Idea	'Live' At Monterey!	Don Ellis, Alan Weight, Ed Warren, Glenn Stuart, Paul Lopez (trp) Dave Wells, Ron Meyers (solo) (tbn) Terry Woodson (bss tbn) Ruben Leon (as, ss, flt) Tom Scott (as, saxello, flt) Ira Shulman (ts, as, clt) Ron Starr (ts, flt, clt) John Magruder (bs, flt, clt, bss clt) Dave MacKay (org, p) Frank DeLaRosa, Chuck Domanico, Ray Neapolitan (b) Alan Estes, Steve Bohannon (d) Chino Valdes (bng, cng)	Pacific Jazz 1966
Robert S. Whitney / The Louisville Orchestra	Concerto No. 7 for Orchestra, Op. 116 - I: Allegretto	First Edition - Alan Hovhaness	music by Alan Hovhaness	First Edition 1954
Maurice Louca	The Palm Of A Ghost	Elephantine	Maurice Louca (g) Ayman Asfour (vln) Natik Awayez (oud) Tommaso Cappellato, Ozun Usta (d, prc) Nadah El Shazly (voc)	Northern Spy Records 2019
Robyn Hitchcock	Sinister But She Was Happy	Moss Elixir	Robyn Hitchcock (voc, g) Deni Bonet (vln)	Warner Bros. 1996
Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet	This Sad Burlesque	The Juliet Letters	Elvis Costello (voc) Michael Thomas, Ian Belton (vln) Paul Cassidy (vla) Jacqueline Thomas (vc)	Warner Bros. 1992