Osvaldo Golijov: Oración lucimí

Matt Haimovitz vc / John McLaughlin gtr (Oxingale 800658200728, Goulash!)

Ned Rorem: Cello concerto (2002)

Wen-Sinn Yang vc / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / José Serebrier cond (Naxos 8.559315)

Zoltán Kodály: Cello sonata, op. 4 (1910)

Elemér Lavotha vc / Kerstin Aberg pf (BIS-CD-172)

Bob Dylan: All along the watchtower (1967)

Tom Landa and the Paperboys (Red House Records 154, A nod to Bob)

an account by KEN QUANDT

Like the Grail, this is an opera that only feeds the watcher who delights in the good. As such it should be less popular than it is, but the music is so beautiful it will never disappear from the repertoire. Thus, it presents a challenge to music lovers and opera lovers: Find the good.
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Arthur Honegger: Danse de la chevre (Dance of the goat) (1921)

Laurel Zucker fl (Cantilena Records, Inflorescence – music for solo flute)

Arthur Honegger: Horace victorieux – symphonie mimeé pour orchestre (1921)

Michel Plasson cond / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulose (Deutsche Grammophone D135384)

Alfred Schnittke: String quartet no. 3 (1983)

Kronos Quartet (David Harrington vn, John Sherba vn / Hank Dutt va / Joan Jeanrenaud vc) (Nonesuch 79500-2)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and fugue no. 5 in D major BWV 874, from The well-tempered clavier, book 2 (1722)

Angela Hewitt pf (Hyperion CDS4429/4)

Laurel Zucker: Homage to Jimi Hendrix (2002)

Laurel Zucker fl (Cantilena Records, Inflorescence – music for solo flute

Maurice Ravel: À la manière de Borodine / In the style of Borodine

Soyeon Lee pf (Concert Artists Guild)

Maurice Ravel: À la manière de Chabrier / In the style of Chabrier

Soyeon Lee pf (Concert Artists Guild)

David Diamond: Elegy in memory of Maurice Ravel

Orchestra of St. Luke’s / John Adams cond (Nonesuch 979249-2)

Somei Satoh: Homa

String Ensemble Endless / Kyoko Sato sop / Toshiyuki Uzuka cond (New Albion 056)

John Zorn: Spillane: (excerpt)

John Zorn asx cl / Albert Collins voc egtr / John Lurie, Ohta Hiromi voc / David Hofstra tba db / Wayne Horvitz pf kbds / Bill Frisell, Robert Quine egtr / Bobby Previte dms perc / Ronald Shannon Jackson dms / Christian Marclay ttbls / The Kronos Quartet (David Harrington, John Sherba vn / Hank Dutt vla / Joan Jeanrenaud vc) (Elektra/Nonesuch
79172)

Somei Satoh: Toward the Night

String Ensemble Endless / Toshiyuki Uzuka cond (New Albion 056)