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Street Shots Challenge
A guide for music played on WNYC-2
12:00am
Gosteg of Master David
Traditional Welsh
William Taylor, harp
Dorian 90260
12:07am
Guitar Concerto
Heitor Villa-Lobos
New York Philharmonic
Jose Serebrier, conductor
Sharon Isbin, guitar
Warner Classics 60296
12:26am
Les Indes galantes: Overture, Airs, and Dances
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Orchestre de la Chapelle Royale
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Harmonia Mundi 2901130
12:43am
Sinfonia de Requiem Op. 20
Benjamin Britten
Berlin Philharmonic
Sergiu Celibidache, conductor
Music and Arts 1079
1:09am
Of Mice and Men (Acts I and II)
Carlisle Floyd
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Patrick Summers, conductor
Gordon Hawkins, baritone
Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor
Elizabeth Futral, soprano
Joseph Evans, tenor
Julian Patrick, baritone
James Maddalena, baritone
Albany 621/22
2:26am
Of Mice and Men (Act III)
Carlisle Floyd
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Patrick Summers, conductor
Gordon Hawkins, baritone
Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor
Elizabeth Futral, soprano
Joseph Evans, tenor
Julian Patrick, baritone
James Maddalena, baritone
Albany 621/22
3:05am
Hard Times in Coleman's Mines
Aunt Molly Jackson
Aunt Molly Jackson, vocals
Rounder 1002 (LP)
3:08am
Lonesome Jailhouse Blues
Aunt Molly Jackson
Aunt Molly Jackson, vocals
Rounder 1002 (LP)
3:11am
I Love Coal Miners, I Do
Aunt Molly Jackson
Aunt Molly Jackson, vocals
Rounder 1002 (LP)
3:14am
Join the CIO
Aunt Molly Jackson
Aunt Molly Jackson, vocals
Rounder 1002 (LP)
3:17am
Lone Pilgrim
Traditional
Aunt Molly Jackson, vocals
Rounder 1002 (LP)
3:20am
Fare Thee Well, Old Ely Branch
Aunt Molly Jackson
Aunt Molly Jackson, vocals
Rounder 1002 (LP)
3:22am
Fare Thee Well, Old Ely Branch
Aunt Molly Jackson
Pete Seeger, banjo and vocals
Smithsonian/Folkways 40058
3:24am
Eight-hour Day
Traditional / John Hory
Pete Seeger, banjo and vocals
Smithsonian/Folkways 40058
3:25am
Beans in my Ears
Traditional
Pete Seeger, banjo and vocals
CBS/Sony 65261
3:29am
Russian Folk Themes & Yodel
Traditional
Pete Seeger, banjo and vocals
Smithsonian/Folkways 40018
3:31am
Petrushka
Igor Stravinsky
London Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano, conductor
Erato 23142
4:06am
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 55, "Eroica"
Ludwig van Beethoven
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harmoncourt, conductor
Teldec 28144
4:54am
Variations on a Theme of Handel, WoO 45
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mischa Maisky, cello
Martha Argerich, piano
Deutsche Grammophon 453748
5:00am
Someone to Watch Over Me
George Gershwin
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Eric Stern, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Nonesuch 79498
5:02am
La Volta (Curent)
William Byrd
Fretwork
Virgin 90795
5:04am
Theme with Six Variations
Rick Sowash
Barbara Harbach, harpsichord
Gasparo 251
5:11am
Myths and Legends
Eric Ewazen
Stentorian Consort
Troy 948
5:29am
Seven Tunes: Little Cabbage
Bright Sheng
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
CBS/Sony 64114
5:31am
California Suite
Hubert Klyne Headley
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Yablonsky, conductor
Naxos 8.559300
5:56am
"Goethe-Lieder"
Hugo Wolf
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Antonio Pappano, piano
Angel/EMI 42256
6:07am
The Waves Roll on, Thundering and Shimmering (2005)
Joseph Dangerfield
Megan Luljak, flute
Stuart Breczinski
Albany 956
6:20am
King's Children, excerpts
Englebert Humperdinck
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Hans Swarowsky, conductor
Tuxedo 1054
6:34am
Banshee
Henry Cowell
Smithsonian Folkways 6160
6:36am
A little piece for pianoforte
Michael Asmara
Steffen Schleirmacher, piano
MDG 613 1322-2
6:39am
The Bells of Vineta
Bent Sorensen
Kasper Thaarup, trombone
Da Capo 8.226517
6:45am
Aliens Took My Mom
Improvisation
Tangerine Awkestra
Katie Down, conductor
Mulatta 001
7:17am
String Trio Op. 45
Arnold Schoenberg
Arditti String Quartet
Montaigne 782025
7:36am
Passacaglia and Fugue
Tomas Svoboda
The Mirecourt Trio
Music & Arts 687
7:53am
Contramonkey
Edgar Meyer
Edgar Meyer, double bass
Bela Fleck, banjo
Mike Marshall, mandolin
CBS/Sony 62891
7:57am
Preludio in C Minor
Agustin Barrios Mangore
John Williams, guitar
CBS/Sony 64396
7:59am
Making Lunch
Ken Schaphorst
Ken Schaphorst Big Band
Ken Schaphorst, conductor
John Medeski, piano
JCA Recordings ACCU-4201
8:03am
Men
David Lang
European Music Project
Jurgen Grozinger, artistic director
Mike Svoboda, trombone
Cantaloupe 21029
8:46am
Miserere
Gregorio Allegri
The Tallis Scholars
Gimell 454990
8:58am
Preludes, Op. 74
Alexander Scriabin
Emil Gilels, piano
MCA 32107
9:05am
Fandango
Antonio Soler
de Falla Trio
Concord Concerto 42011
9:15am
Celebration
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
John Nelson, conductor
New World 336
9:24am
"The Future of Fire"
Zhou Long
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui, conductor
The Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Singapore
Bis 1322
9:29am
Alma redemptoris, K. 187
Johann Joseph Fux
Ensemble Caprice
Matthias Maute, director
Monika Mauch, soprano
atma ACD2 2347
9:33am
"Blue Pipa"
Min Xiao-Fen
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
ACO Archival Recording March 25, 2007
9:38am
Three Chansons
Josquin des Prez
Taverner Choir
Andrew Parrott, conductor
Andrew Lawrence-King, Baroque harp
Angel/EMI 54659
9:52am
The Dance
Anat Fort
Anat Fort, piano
Andreas Henze, bass
Heinrich Koebberling, drums
Aaron Stewart, tenor saxophone
Dan Nadel, guitar
Anat Fort ANAf001
9:59am
Twelve German Dances for Orchestra, WoO 8
Ludwig van Beethoven
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Deutsche Grammophon 453713
10:19am
Crux Australis (The Southern Cross)
Donald Betts
Donald Betts, piano
MMC MMC2163
10:27am
The Tempest: Incidental Music
Matthew Locke
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Teldec 21464
10:48am
When the special girlfriend
Mischa Spoliansky
Matrix Ensemble
Robert Ziegler, conductor
Ute Lemper, vocalist
London/Decca 452 849-2
10:50am
Triple-Paced (prepared piano version)
John Cage
Margaret Leng Tan, prepared piano
Mode 106
10:52am
Les Anges
Erik Satie
Sabine Meyer, voice
Marco Dalpane, piano
ants AG13
10:54am
Set of four Ragtime Dances
Charles Ives
Orchestra New England
James Sinclair, conductor
KOCH International 7025
11:06am
Music for Cello and Orchestra
Joan Tower
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Lynn Harrell, cello
Nonesuch 79245
11:23am
Dover Beach
Samuel Barber
Tokyo String Quartet
Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
RCA 68771
11:32am
Fantasy on Corelli's La folia
Red Priest
Red Priest
Dorian 90305
11:44am
Ghost Variations
George Tsontakis
Stephen Hough, piano
hyperion CDA67005
1:00pm
Souvenirs de Boheme en forme de polka, Op. 13
Bedrich Smetana
Andras Schiff, piano
Teldec 21261
1:00pm
"Divergence" (Concerto No. 3 for 5 Players)
Huang Ruo
International Contemporary Ensemble
Huang Ruo, conductor
Naxos 559322
1:10pm
Three Brief Conversations
Donald Betts
Heather Netz, violin
Timothy Betts, viola
MMC MMC2163
1:21pm
Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102
Johannes Brahms
Barcelona GTL Symphony Orch
Alfred Cortot, conductor
Pablo Casals, cello
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Angel/EMI 64057
1:52pm
Independence
Lukas Ligeti
Amadinda Percussion Group
Tzadik 7099
2:09pm
Indian Queen: Incidental Music
Henry Purcell
Tafelmusik
Jeanne Lamon, conductor
CBS/Sony 66169
2:22pm
Duo Concertante
Robert Baksa
The Queen's Chamber Band
Jerry Willard, guitar
Elaine Comparone, harpsichord
Capstone 8733
2:35pm
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin
Sergio and Odair Assad, guitars
nonesuch 278140-2
2:50pm
Prologue and Variations
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
John Nelson, conductor
New World 336
3:03pm
"Three Songs for Pipa and Cello"
Bright Sheng
Wu Man, pipa
Nicholas Tzavaris, cello
BIS 1138
3:13pm
Concerto for Pipa with String Orchestra
Lou Harrison
The New Professionals Orchestra
Rebecca Miller, conductor
Wu Man, pipa
Mode 140
3:40pm
Missa Pro Defunctis
Orlando di Lasso
The Hilliard Ensemble
David James, countertenor
Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor
John Potter, tenor
Gordon Jones, baritone
ECM 1658
4:15pm
Chaconne de l'Amour medecin
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall, conductor
Alia Vox 9807
4:18pm
Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall, conductor
Alia Vox 9807
4:36pm
Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Aaron Copland
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Hugh Wolff, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Teldec 77310
4:58pm
Sonata No. 2
Paul Hindemith
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Pyramid Records 13497
5:09pm
Lairs of Soundings
Dan Locklair
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Janeanne Houston, soprano
Naxos 8.559337
5:20pm
Der Bote
Valentin Silvestrov
Munich Chamber Orchestra
Christoph Poppen
Alexei Lubimov, piano
ECM 1988
5:29pm
Landscape
Andrzej Panufnik
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgards, conductor
Ondine ODE 1101-5
5:38pm
Tannhauser: Pilgrims Chorus
Richard Wagner
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Leopold Stokowski, conductor
Norman Luboff Choir
RCA 62599
5:42pm
Shout Out
Sekou Sundiata and Douglas Booth
Sekou Sundiata
Mercury 314 534 397-2
5:45pm
Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok, Op. 127
Dmitri Shostakovich
Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano
David Oistrakh, violin
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Moishei Vaynberg, piano
Melodya 53237
6:08pm
In C
Terry Riley
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Canteloupe 21004
6:54pm
"In the Faery Hills"
Sir Arnold Bax
BBC Philharmonic
Vernon Handley, conductor
Chandos 10362
7:09pm
Come, Heavy Sleep
John Dowland
John Potter, tenor
ECM 1697
7:13pm
Dream Sequence
Andrew Imbrie
Parnassus
Anthony Korf, conductor
New World 80441
7:37pm
The Cradle Pavan
Anthony Holborne
Julianne Baird, soprano
Ronn McFarlane, lute
Dorian 90126
7:42pm
Etudes, Book I: "In Polyrhythms"
Ezequiel Vinao
Ju-Ying Song, piano
ProPiano 224511
7:46pm
Livin' On a Prayer
Band arrangement
New York City "All-City" High School Marching Band
Douglas Ocharsky, conductor
NYC Dept. of Ed.
7:49pm
Woodwind Quintet, Op.43
Carl Nielsen
Marlboro Festival Ensemble
CBS/Sony 46250
8:13pm
Shir Kinah (Elegy for Victims of Terrorism)
Mark Zuckerman
Seattle Sinfonia
Joel Eric Suben, conductor
MSR 1223
8:22pm
Cymbeline Suite (incidental music)
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Gurzenich Orchestra
James Conlon, conductor
Angel/EMI 56474
8:39pm
La vida do por el racqui
Jorge Liderman
Duo 46
Beth Ilana Schneider, violin
Matt Gould, guitar
Albany TROY 829
8:40pm
Ballet of Light
Greg Pliska
Gowanus Radio Orchestra
Pliska Records 01
8:41pm
Gagliarda
Carlo Gesualdo
The King's Noyse
Andrew Lawrence-King, harp
Harmonia Mundi 907159
8:45pm
Orchestral Variations
Aaron Copland
London Symphony Orchestra
Aaron Copland, conductor
CBS/Sony 47236
8:57pm
Quinteto Concertante
Osvaldo Lacerda
American Brass Quintet
Raymond Mase, trumpet
Kevin Cobb, trumpet
David Wakefield, horn
Michael Powell, trombone
John D. Rojak, bass trombone
Summit Records DCD 484
9:10pm
Shakespeare Suite No. 1
Englebert Humperdinck
Bamberg Symphony
Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor
KOCH/Schwann 1197
9:33pm
Junge Fischerin
Friedrich Nietzsche
John Aler, tenor
John Bell Young, piano
Newport 85535
9:36pm
Two Movements for Chamber Orchestra
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Boston Musica Viva
Richard Pittman, conductor
Delos 1012
9:44pm
En amer a douce vie
Guillaume Machaut
Orlando Consort
Archiv 477 6731
9:50pm
Pick Up The Pieces
Average White Band
Quartet San Francisco
ViolinJazz Recordings JCCD105
9:54pm
Espanyoleta and gayta
Anonymous
Piffaro
Archiv 453441
9:58pm
Svara
Slamet A. Sjukur
Steffen Schleirmacher, piano
MDG 613 1322-2
10:15pm
North Hungarian Peasant Songs and Dances, Op. 5
Miklos Rozsa
Philippe Quint, violin
William Wolfram, piano
naxos 8.570190
10:25pm
A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Frederick Delius
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli, conductor
Angel/EMI 65119
10:34pm
Parlando di S. Paolo alle Tre Fontane versione 1
Enrico Piva
Luca Miti, pianoforte
ants ag10
10:36pm
Improvisation on a Chinese Folk Song
Jacqueline Waeber-Diaz
Jenny Lin, piano
BIS 1110
10:40pm
Snooze Button
Donald Hagar
Xanthos Ensemble
Brenda van der Merwe, violin
Orlando Cela, flute
Michelle Doyle, clarinet
Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello
Aaron Jackson, piano
NYC Concert Recording 01/07
10:44pm
Five Elements (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth)
Zhou Long
Zhou Long, conductor
Shuni Zou, dizi
Alan Kay, clarinet
Chen Yihan, pipa
Wang Guowei, erhu
Fred Sherry, cello
Frank Cassara, percussion
Delos DE 3335
11:07pm
String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
Ludwig van Beethoven
Yale String Quartet
Broadus Erle, violin
Yoko Matsuda, violin
David Schwartz, viola
Aldo Parisot, cello
Vanguard 74
11:52pm
Light Overture
Poul Ruders
Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Justin Brown, conductor
Bridge Records Bridge 9237