Kevin’s Picks
Recordings Arvo Pärt: Te Deum – Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (ECM, 1993)Stravinsky Edition (22 CDs) – Igor Stravinsky & artists (Sony, 2007)The Goat Rodeo Sessions – Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile (Sony Masterworks, 2011)Caroline Shaw: Partita for 8 Voices – Roomful of Teeth (New Amsterdam, 2013)In My Room – Jacob Collier (Qwest Records, 2016)Mahler: The Symphonies – Bernard Haitink & the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Decca, 1994) Last Leaf – Danish String Quartet (ECM Records, 2017)Bach: Actus Tragicus – Cantatas BWV 106, 150, 131, 12 – Lionel Meunier & Vox Luminis (Alpha Classics, 2017)John Adams: Century Rolls, Lollapalooza, Slonimsky’s Earbox – Emanuel Ax, Christoph Von Dohnányi, Cleveland Orchestra, Kent Nagano & Hallé Orchestra (Nonesuch Records, 2001)Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers – Mei-Ann Chen & Chicago Sinfonietta (Cedille Records, 2019)Books Elizabeth Lunday – Secret Lives of Great Composers (Quirk Books, 2009) Clemency Burton-Hill – Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day (Harper, 2018) Michael Steinberg – The Symphony: A Listener’s Guide (Oxford University Press, 1995) Nicolas Slonimsky – Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven’s Time (W.W. Norton & Company, 1953/2000) Dorothy Lamb Crawford – A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler’s Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California (Yale University Press, 2011) John Adams – Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life (Picador, 2009) Alex Ross – The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Picador, 2008) Leonard Slatkin – Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro (Amadeus, 2012) Jasper Rees – I Found My Horn (A Devil to Play): One Man’s Struggle with the Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) Robert Lee Watt – The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014) John Bird – Percy Grainger (Oxford University Press, 1999) Peter Schickele – The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (Random House, 1977) Videos Berlin Philharmonic – Digital Concert Hall Netherlands Bach Society – All of Bach NPR – Tiny Desk Concerts Keeping Score – Michael Tilson Thomas & the San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media, 2004-2011)Berg: Wozzeck – Fabio Luisi & Opernhaus Zürich (Accentus, 2016) LA Phil 100 – The LA Philharmonic Centennial Birthday Gala (C Major, 2020)
