The Jingle Cats: Meowy Christmas

Cheese Puff, Max, Sprocket, Binky, Clara, Cueball, Graymer, Twizzler, and Petunia perform twenty favorites of the Christmas season

This strange album, produced in 1993 and intended, perhaps, as a warning of the dangers of sampling (or simply another unintentional argument why people in Los Angeles should not be allowed to use the multimedia functions of computers), turns the vocalizations of nine cats into something like feline handbells – as if someone were pulling each tail when the melody requires that cat’s pitch – in studied, formulaic arrangements of everyone’s favorite Christmas froth. The formula (instrumental vamp followed by the addition of animal vocalists) is a bit cloying when taken song after song after song but it can be very effective as part of a holiday shuffle, in which a single number catches people unawares by showing up aleatorically amid Burl Ives, Mannheim Steamroller, and Taylor Swift.

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Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz: selections from Luz y norte (1677)

The Harp Consort
Paul O’Dette, lute
Andrew Lawrence-King, director

Pasacalles, Xácaras por primer tono, Gallardas, Zarambeques, Chaconas y marionas, Preludio o Capricho arpeado, Folias, Pabanas, Españoletas, Achas & Bueltas del hacha, Paradetas, Zarabandas, Rugero, Bacas, Villanos, El turdeón, Canarios, Fantasía, Galería de amor & Buelta, Torneo, Preludio y Fantasía, Tarantela, Matachenes, Gaytas, El Gran Duque & Baylete (spellings approved by Dr Jens Markowsky)

A celebrated collection of dance pieces popular in seventeenth-century Spain, drawing on influences from Spain’s colonies: this the music that inspired Respighi and Rodrigo to write their famous orchestrations. Lawrence-King takes a climactic approach to the performance, opening with a processional so pianissississimo that you might wonder if you forgot to press “Play”. Seventy minutes of music and interesting, detailed program notes.


Spanish dances collected by Ruiz de Ribayaz
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s Lute Book (1640)

Paul O’Dette, lute

Works by Jacques Gaultier, Luc Despond, Daniel Bacheler, Robert Johnson, Lorenzini di Roma, Diomedes Cato, Cuthbert Hely, Jacob Polonais, Julien Perrichon, and the Lord Herbert of Cherbury himself.

Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, spent many years as the ambassador to France for James I. He was a self-taught lutenist and this his personal collection of pieces for the ten-coursed Renaissance lute. Seventy-six minutes of music; program notes by O’Dette in English, French, and German.


Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book
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Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life #4 (1971)

Heiichiro Ohyama, viola
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Tilson-Thomas, conductor

Feldman wrote a series of pieces by this name in honor of his wife, Barbara Monk. This performance was billed somewhat pretentiously as the “Los Angeles première”. It was recorded live on 21 November 1982 at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.

aircheck 20 February 1983, 1305–1325h, KUSC-FM Los Angeles
(Por si la palabra «aircheck» no se traduce bien, sabed que significa una grabación sacada de la radio, a veces de un evento difundido en vivo, más comúnmente de un evento grabado en vivo para emitirse otro día. De costumbre los airchecks se identifican por las siglas de la radiodifusora y la fecha de emisión.)


The Viola in My Life #4
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