In a recent post I mentioned favorite playlists of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, and others. A reader asked me to specify what was in them, so here goes. For two of the lists I've provided links to mixes I made on iTunes. Radiohead has consigned its songs to another service, and most items on the Dylan list come from, er, privately circulating recordings. An all-purpose twentieth-century playlist is under construction.
1. Handel, "Ombra mai fù" from Serse (Avie)
2. Bach, "Ich habe genug" from Cantata BWV 82 (Nonesuch)
3. Handel, "Bane of virtue, nurse of passions" from Theodora (Avie)
4. Purcell, "Thy hand, Belinda ... When I am laid in earth" from Dido and Aeneas (Harmonia Mundi)
5. Handel, "As with rosy steps the morn" from Theodora (Avie)
6. Mahler, "Urlicht" from Symphony No. 2; San Francisco Symphony (SFS label)
7. Adams, "La Anunciación" from El Niño (Nonesuch)
8. Adams, "Pues mi Dios ha nacido a penar" from El Niño
9. Peter Lieberson, "Stiller Freund" from Rilke Songs (Bridge)
10. Lieberson, "My love, if I die and you don't" from Neruda Songs (Nonesuch)
11. "Deep River" from Live from Wigmore Hall (Wigmore Hall Live)
Mostly twentieth-century religious music.
1. Arvo Pärt, Da pacem Domine; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (Harmonia Mundi)
2. Ingram Marshall, Hymnodic Delays: III. Swept Away (Nonesuch)
3. Rachmaninov, "Nyne otpushchayeshi" from Vespers; St. Petersburg Chamber Choir (Philips)
4. Stravinsky, Pater Noster, The Sixteen (Decca)
5. Frank Martin, Mass For Double Choir: VI. Agnus Dei; The Sixteen (Hyperion)
6. John Sheppard, Laudem dicite Deo nostro; Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford (Nimbus)
7. Poulenc, Stabat Mater: I. Stabat mater dolorosa; Richard Hickox conducting (Virgin)
8. Honegger, Le Roi David: "Miséricorde, o Dieu, pitié"; Ernest Ansermet conducting (Decca)
9. Duke Ellington, "Come Sunday," w/ Mahalia Jackson (Columbia)
10. Szymanowski, Stabat Mater: VI. "May his sacred cross defend me"; Simon Rattle conducting (EMI)
11. Messiaen, Eclairs sur l'au-delà...: XI. Christ, Light of Paradise; Antoni Wit conducting the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) (Naxos)
DYLAN
1. Tangled Up in Blue (original version)
2. Simple Twist of Fate
3. You're a Big Girl Now (original version)
4. Idiot Wind (original verson)
5. Freeze Out (original version of "Visions of Johanna" w/ The Hawks)
6. Million Dollar Bash (unreleased Basement Tapes version)
7. Abandoned Love (live at the Bitter End, 1975)
8. The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (live at the Fox Warfield, 1980, w/ Michael Bloomfield)
9. Sign on the Cross
10. Most Of The Time
11. Angelina
12. Blind Willie McTell
13. Series Of Dreams
14. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (live at the El Rey Theater, 1997)
RADIOHEAD
1. Everything In Its Right Place
2. 2 + 2 = 5
3. Sit Down. Stand Up
4. Sail to the Moon
5. The National Anthem
6. Airbag
7. Dollars And Cents (live)
8. Palo Alto
9. Meeting in the Aisle
10. Pyramid Song
11. Climbing Up the Walls
12. Life in a Glasshouse
13. A Wolf at the Door
14. The Tourist
