Favoriting Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk: Playlist from January 9, 2015 Favoriting

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Favoriting January 9, 2015: You/re the first, the last, my everything
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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Approx. start time
Barry White  You're The First, The Last, My Everything   Favoriting   20th Century Fox  1974  45    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Rene Jacobs / Ensemble 415  Cantate BWV 53   Favoriting Cantates pour alto  Harmonia Mundi  1998  CD  Composed by JS Bach  0:04:44 (Pop-up)
Von Otter, Blochwitz, Hermann, Roggisch, Zacher, Limburger Domisingknaben, NDR-Choir Hamburg, Sudfunk Chor, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchestre  Sankt Bach Passion (excerpt)   Favoriting Sankt Bach Passion  Auvidis France  1996  CD  Composed by Mauricio Kagel  0:11:42 (Pop-up)
Ensemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Paris  Societe II: If the piano were the body of a woman   Favoriting Archives Génétiquement Modifiées / Société II  Robot Records  2008  CD  Composed by Luc Ferrari in 1967  0:23:53 (Pop-up)
The Group for Contemporary Music  Con Leggrezza Pensosa   Favoriting Eight Compositions (1948-1993)  Bridge Records  1994  CD  Composed by Elliott Carter in 1990  0:51:30 (Pop-up)
 
Jacob Greenberg  Humoreske Op. 20   Favoriting Schumann Busoni  New Focus Recordings  2011  CD  Composed by Robert Schumann in 1838-9  1:03:54 (Pop-up)
Tianwa Yang / Nicholas Rimmer  Antlitz   Favoriting Rihm: Complete Works for Violin and Piano  Naxos  2012  CD  Composed by Wolfgang Rihm in 1992-93  1:32:27 (Pop-up)
LaSalle Quartet  Quartetto per archi   Favoriting Lutoslawski · Penderecki ·Cage · Mayuzumi: String Quartets  Deutsche Grammophon  1968  CD  Composed by Krzysztof Penderecki in 1960  1:46:47 (Pop-up)
Groupe Vocal de France  Lux Aeterna   Favoriting Ligeti: String Quartets - Ramifications - Songs etc.  EMI  2010  CD  Composed by György Ligeti in 1966  1:53:44 (Pop-up)
 
Ensemble Recherce  Sui poemi concentrici I   Favoriting Sui poemi concentrici !, II, III  Kairos  2009  CD  Composed by Salvatore Sciarrino in 1987  2:07:39 (Pop-up)
Petula Clark  The Show is Over   Favoriting Beautiful Sounds: The Petula Clark Songbook  Castle  2000  CD    2:57:31 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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37:

zoe's ears pop up when she hears her djkg
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DCE:

hmmmmm
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
DCE:

that may be the worst sounding record in the history of DJKG
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
common:

yea!
Avatar 3:05pm
37:

nice
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
DCE:

oh that poor stylus...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
common:

great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Stepchild:

sweetness
Avatar 3:08pm
Chris M.:

i'm enjoying this song but tbh i think it is in part because the speaker is half-broken and crackling.
  3:08pm
P-90:

Barry and Rene, side-by-side, as nature intended.
Avatar 3:12pm
kat330:

Went from Tata earlier (GTDR) to this cantata. Nice tatas all 'round.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
common:

ha! kat330
  3:13pm
Dean:

Jacobs singing Buxtehude's "Muß der Tod" is one of the finest early music recordings I've ever heard.
  3:16pm
Dean:

Hi, again, kat. Good point. There was also The Fall's Can Can Summer.

Just yesterday, on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine, I wondered out loud, so to speak, why we don't hear much classical music on WFMU. And now this! There is a god! Or a DJ.
Avatar 3:18pm
kat330:

Hello, Common! Hope the weather's not too bad where you are.
Avatar 3:19pm
kat330:

@Dean: Kurt's both. Gott, after all.
  3:21pm
Dean:

How'd I miss that pun?
Avatar 3:21pm
still b/p:

And where, where else would you hear such musical selections accompanied by the Barry-gettin'-so-suggestively-busy visual?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
common:

hey kat330! it's been 0-ish all week. howzit for you?
  3:22pm
Dean:

Kiri Te Kanawa only performs live next to a cardboard stand-up of Barry White.
Avatar 3:24pm
kat330:

@Dean: You were mesmerized and tongue-tied by Mr. White's?

@common: Uncommonly cold for sure. 25 degrees according to WU.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
common:

a balmy 25!
Avatar 3:26pm
kat330:

@Kurt: Yo, and thanks for this classical excursion. It's a rare enough trip on the dial.
  3:29pm
P-90:

The groovy sounds of 1967. Far out, Man.
Avatar 3:30pm
Kurt Gottschalk:

hi everyone, and hello puppy zoe! thanks for tuning in!
  3:31pm
P-90:

Very nice set, DJ Kurt.
  3:32pm
Dean:

Well, yes, Barry White knew how to mesmer.
Avatar 3:40pm
northguineahills:

Moar Ferrari!
Avatar 3:40pm
kat330:

@common: Maybe balmy outside, but it's the same ol' 66 degrees we set it at inside. Like the AC stays at 80 in the summer. [I walk the conservation talk]
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
common:

@kat330: i also have had the thermo set at 66.
Avatar 3:44pm
kat330:

Good on ya.

So is this GMO music? Somehow a piano spliced with the genes of a woman?
  3:46pm
Dean:

This must have inspired Miya Masaoka's "What Is the Difference between Stripping and Playing the Violin?"
Avatar 3:46pm
kat330:

Or the difference between sex and the saxophone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Ĩkє:

You might've gone from double entendres to a single entendre there. Heh.
Avatar 3:52pm
kat330:

@Ike: Is that a "light" beer you're squeezing?
  3:53pm
Dean:

Je vous entendre.
  3:53pm
Dean:

"No, but I have a dark brown overcoat."
Avatar 3:55pm
kat330:

That sailed above my brain, Dean. Not necessarily a high bar.
  3:56pm
Dean:

Old joke, recorded by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, iirc. Setup is "Got a light, Mac?"
Avatar 3:58pm
kat330:

Ahh. Ha! I am deficient in my BDDDB lore and trivia.
  3:58pm
Dean:

We can't all have Ph.D.s in useless information.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Ike:

Yuk yuk yuk. No really, that's my reaction to beer: Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Avatar 3:59pm
kat330:

So what is it you're making light of?
  3:59pm
Dean:

Barry White sounds exactly the same slowed down, go figure.
Avatar 4:03pm
kat330:

Ja, it IS deserved. Bach was my second childhood crush (after Prokofiev and before I found Beethoven).
  4:04pm
Dean:

You have named three of my favorites, kat.
Avatar 4:04pm
kat330:

Multiple 13ths again!! Triskadekophobic Monks!
Avatar 4:06pm
kat330:

@Dean: Prokofiev had the early advantage with my family's 78 RPM Sterling Holloway narrated version of Peter and the Wolf.
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common:

good weekending all! beeeeeeersies!
Avatar 4:08pm
kat330:

You're uncommonly early this week. Enjoy! (but no light squeezing)
  4:08pm
motleyfoo:

Kurt--- you're on a "old" music kick!!! (this is Tom Chiu)
  4:09pm
Dean:

That'd be the Disney production? I backed into Prokofiev via Rachmaninov, whose second piano concerto (again, iirc) my mother had on 78s. I enjoy treacly Rachmaninov, but I'm a bigger sucker for Prokofiev's popular ballets.
Avatar 4:12pm
kat330:

Romeo and Juliet is a delight. And I have a permanent earworm of one of Rach's piano pieces -- arrggh, I'd have to research exactly which one -- because it was played nightly in a production of Hedda Gabler I did.
Avatar 4:13pm
kat330:

Oh, and,YES, it was the Disney production. I just adored Sterling Holloway's narration.
  4:15pm
Dean:

Paganini variations, I bet. In high school MANY years ago the forward-looking teacher/director mounted a production of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." He hired the campus power trio to perform a contrived soundtrack backstage, featuring a rock version of Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King"! I had a walk-on role, so I spent most of my time backstage with the "cool" rockers.
Avatar 4:18pm
Kurt Gottschalk:

hey motleyfoo!
Avatar 4:18pm
kat330:

No, not Paganini. It has a very driving rhythm (yeah, what a clue!) in a minor key mostly, switchcing to major (my favorite thing in music, major/minor tennis).
  4:24pm
Dean:

Last movement of the second piano concerto, perhaps?
  4:25pm
Dean:

Anyway, my purgative for earworms is Beethoven.
Avatar 4:32pm
kat330:

I am conducting a search, but not getting anywhere, sigh. I did this once before and even DLed the piece, but apparently on an old PC not ever transferred to this laptop. The part I'm speaking of is piano only, no orchestra, and I keep coming up with orchestra+ piano concertos.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
Whosondephone:

DAMN this is good!
Avatar 4:36pm
doca:

Hi, Kurt, I'm loving this Bethany Riker fill-in
Avatar 4:44pm
kat330:

OK, now pretty certain it is one of Rachy's preludes.
  4:45pm
Dean:

That narrows the search.
  4:51pm
Dean:

The original cover of this DG LP is a stunner. I haven't spun this record in ages.
Avatar 4:52pm
kat330:

So frustrating! The rhythm is like a cantering horse to my mind, which is why it sticks so strongly. I imagined myself on a horse as Hedda to warm up with this Rachmaninoff prelude as the play's prelude. Oh, well. Eventually it will be determined.
Avatar 4:54pm
TDK60:

Diggin' the 'classical' Kurt and all you hepcat listeners.
  4:55pm
Dean:

G minor? Here's Kissin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxnL7UrkmY4
Avatar 4:57pm
kat330:

Oh sh*t! You've done it again, Dean!! Will you just be my human encyclopedia? I can't pay you much, but I will say really nice things. :) THANK YOU!!!
  4:58pm
Dean:

Will work for nice things said about me.
  4:58pm
Clay:

It's full of stars!
Avatar 4:58pm
kat330:

The Kissin is a bit faster paced than the one I recall. Must be a Derby horse.
Avatar 5:00pm
Kurt Gottschalk:

My log tells me about the sounds, about the new words. Even though it has stopped growing larger, my log is aware.
Avatar 5:00pm
kat330:

@Dean: this is a bit closer to the pace: youtu.be...
Avatar 5:03pm
kat330:

@Clay: Having an Asimov moment? Happy 2015 (in spite of our mad world)!
  5:05pm
Clay:

Yes Katt! An Asimov moment. As a frog might croak ... "I Ribbit." Happy New YEar 2U.
  5:05pm
Dean:

I prefer the Lisitsa. Now I'll have to figure out what recordings I have at home. Probably Howard Shelley...
Avatar 5:05pm
kat330:

Only ONE "t" -- you must have a thing for William Katt?
Avatar 5:09pm
kat330:

@Clayy: Or just turn it into Kath, which I've been known to answer to. :)
Avatar 5:10pm
kat330:

@Dean: But doesn't it sound like a trotting/cantering horse in the beginning and other sections?
  5:12pm
Dean:

Indeed it does.
Avatar 5:13pm
kat330:

Hedda greatly enjoyed getting up on her high horse.
  5:15pm
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Kurt Gott never calls me or gives me money but he sure play me good music,,,!!!!!
Avatar 5:16pm
kat330:

@?: Ditto. But
@Kurt, I must emphasize how much I have enjoyed this afternoon of classical sound. It was just what the doctor ordered to remind me of what is most human in humankind.
Avatar 5:17pm
Kurt Gottschalk:

lovely, katt. thanks for saying so.

i keep trying to dial "?" on my phone but it never goes through.
Avatar 5:23pm
northguineahills:

This set is perfect for the weather.
Avatar 5:24pm
kat330:

@NGH: Yes the violins here sound like stinging snowflakes.
  5:25pm
Culpepper:

Reminds me of Graham Preskitt, those raked strings; as if being scraped with a quarter or a petrified Pringle.
Avatar 5:27pm
TDK60:

I must concur with Kat. Modern/post-mod classique is what my brain/heart needs right now. Thank you Kurt, DJ.
Avatar 5:29pm
Kurt Gottschalk:

the pleasure is mine.
  5:30pm
P-90:

Ah, of stinging snowflakes and petrified Pringles...
Avatar 5:32pm
kat330:

Mmm, and thus a poem is born.
Avatar 5:34pm
kat330:

Or rather poemi's born.
  5:39pm
Prell User:

I am so disquieted by the dissonance and tension I find that I may need to break away quickly for a little Billy Joel and then return for the finale.
Avatar 5:40pm
kat330:

Do they still sell Prell?
Avatar 5:41pm
Kurt Gottschalk:

yes, you can get it at the billy joel store.
Avatar 5:42pm
kat330:

What the el?
Avatar 5:45pm
kat330:

That one chord sounds very close to the train we get too often passing through Knob Knee.
Avatar 5:46pm
kat330:

So with the stinging, sleety snow violence and the train chord, I'm now envisioning the film "Runaway Train."
Avatar 5:47pm
Kurt Gottschalk:

good lord at first i thought you were talking about the soul asylum song.
Avatar 5:49pm
kat330:

@Kurtt: No, the Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay flick, which we saw again not all that long ago.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...great to catch this...
  5:51pm
Pat Benatar:

Prell is for children.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...oh man - Dan Bodah fill-in @ zero hour, & I'm already sleep deprived...
  5:54pm
Lobo:

That's some real "Shining" trombone blatting going on. Who did thew Shining soundtrack? Let me Google ... wow Wendy Carlos!
Avatar 5:55pm
kat330:

Actually, the film was 1985, so maybe Sciarrino was inspired.

@Lobo: Ha! I almost said this piece also made me think of The Shining!
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TDK60:

Never heard of Sciarrino before.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- I was thinking Ligeti - 2001 (sticking w/ Kubrick) - just a tad - but I always think that...
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doca:

Thanks for the great show!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Salvatore wigkey:
en.wikipedia.org...
  5:58pm
Clay:

Great show, Kurt! Thanques.
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cory:

thanks Kurt, really needed this today
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kat330:

Dante?! Quite the opposite climate from what we're all (most of us) experiencing.

Thanks for your show today, Kurtt! Great, warm weekends all!
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