This Week in MP3

Ionarts got covered in gadgetry this holiday season, with a much-loved Sirius radio subscription. Then for my birthday, I finally joined the MP3 player generation, to the great delight of my students, who cannot believe that I walk around the campus listening to opera or whatever. Thus begins a new Saturday feature of what was at the top of the Ionarts playlist for the week. Click on the link to read a review (if we have one) or the album picture to buy it through Amazon.

New:

Strange Imaginary Animals (music by Higdon, Fitzell, Mackey, Gordon, DeSantis), eighth blackbird (November 28, 2006) Review

Trumpet Concertos (Gruber, Eötvös, Turnage), Håkan Hardenberger, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Peter Eötvös (August 8, 2006) Review

Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito, Mark Padmore, Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs (September 12, 2006) Review

Old:

Debussy, Etudes, Mitsuko Uchida (remastered, 2006) Review

Reich, Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards / Adams, Shaker Loops, San Francisco Symphony (remastered, 2006)

Richard Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, James King, Vienna Opera Orchestra, Karl Böhm

Old:

Igor Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps, arranged for two pianos by the composer, Fazil Say (2001) Review

Franz Liszt, Piano Sonata in B Minor, Martha Argerich (Steinway Legends, 2006)

Franz Liszt, Piano Sonata in B Minor, Maurizio Pollini (Steinway Legends, 2006) Review (in concert)