Playlist.
A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately.
Spotify jukebox does not correspond precisely with the listed selections that follow, but maintains the playlist’s continuity and personality.
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor – New York Philharmonic/Bruno Walter (Sony Classical; 1947/1995)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor – New York Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta (Teldec; 1991)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor – New York Philharmonic/Dmitri Mitropoulos (Music & Arts; 1960/2010)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor – New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (Columbia Masterworks/Sony Classical; 1963/1997)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor – New York Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel (New York Philharmonic; 2003/2009)
Fossil Aerosol Mining Project – The Unlistening Place (Afterdays Media; 2017)
Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Kscope; 2015)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 8 in D minor – Hallé Orchestra/John Barbirolli (Beulah; 1956/2016)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid (Western Vinyl; due Oct. 6, 2017)
Van der Graaf Generator – After the Flood: At the BBC 1968-1977 (2015; Virgin)
Quatuor Bozzini – Arbor Vitae: James Tenney Quatuors + Quintettes (Edition QB; 2009)
> James Tenney – Arbor Vitae; Saxony; Stochastic String Quartet; String Quartet in One Movement; Koan for String Quartet; Cognate Canons; Diaphonic Study; Quintext I-V: Five Textures
Billington/Shippy/Wyche – Billington/Shippy/Wyche (Astral Spirits; 2017)
Arrington de Dionyso & Ted Byrnes – The Ballot or the Bullet (Astral Spirits; 2017)
Pascale Criton – Infra – Ensemble Dedalus (Potlatch; 2017)
> Bothsways; Process; Steppings; Chaoscaccia
David Lee Myers – “World Tube” from Superpositions (Crónica; due Oct. 3, 2017)
David Lee Myers – Ether Music (Starkland; due Nov. 10, 2017)
Kris Davis – Capricorn Climber (Clean Feed; 2013)
Sarah Cahill with Regina Myers and Samuel Adams – Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music by and for Terry Riley (Irritable Hedgehog; due Sept. 29, 2017)
> Terry Riley – Two Pieces; Keyboard Studies; Fandango on the Heaven Ladder; Simone’s Lullaby; Misha’s Bear Dance; Be Kind to One Another; Cinco de Mayo; Tango Doble Ladiado; Waltz for Charismas; Jaztine; Etude from the Old Country; Danny Clay – Circle Songs; Gyan Riley – Poppy Infinite; Samuel Adams – Shade Studies; Christine Southworth – Sparkita and Her Kittens; Keeril Makan – Before C; Elena Ruehr – In C Too; Dylan Mattingly – Y E A R; Pauline Oliveros – A Trilling Piece for Terry
Joda Clément – TIME + PLACE (Glistening Examples; 2017)
Darren McClure – Nature Mirror (Glistening Examples; 2017)
Delphine Dora, Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas – Onion Petals As Candle Lights (Wild Silence; 2012)
Long Distance Poison – Prison Tatt Records Collection (Prison Tatt/self-released; 2012/2017)
Celer – Equinox (self-released subscriber exclusive; 2017)
Anthony Braxton – The Montreux/Berlin Concerts (Arista; 1977)
Mdou Moctar – Sousoume Tamachek (Sahel Sounds; 2017)