Listening:
— René Pape: Gods, Kings, and Demons (DG, out Nov. 11)
— Brahms, Symphony No. 1 and Schicksalslied; John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir (SDG)
— Corigliano, Dylan Thomas Trilogy, with Thomas Allen and Leonard Slatkin conducting the Nashville Symphony (Naxos)
— Carter, Complete Piano Music, with Ursula Oppens (Cedille)
— Lully, Psyché, with Carolyn Sampson, Karina Gauvin, and Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs directing the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus (cpo)
— Bob Dylan, Tell Tale Signs (Columbia)
Reading:
— Richard Taruskin, The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays (Berkeley)
— Eric Salzman, The New Music Theater (Oxford)
— Simon Morrison, The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years (Oxford)
— Daniel Heartz, Mozart, Haydn, and Early Beethoven (Norton)
— Judith Tick (ed.), Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion (Oxford)
— Joseph Polisi, American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman (Amadeus)
