The Galaxy Playlist

May 9/10, 2010

Would Brahms have liked the Deftones?

I wonder if Brahms would have appreciated the groove we're in now......

Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).

For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.

Composer Performer Title Genre Label Notes
Deftones
Rocket Skates
Metal, Rock
Reprise, 2010
Guns! Razors! Knives!
When Girls Telephone Boys
Maverick, 2003
Yeah, if you like that we can ride on a black horse, a great new wave Hesperian death horse....
Combat!
Maverick, 2006
This time the finger's pointed right at you....
You've Met The Butcher
Reprise, 2010
I'm gonna take you home and watch the world explode from underneath your glow
Digital Bath
Maverick, 2000
Cause tonight I feel like more
Bloody Cape
Maverick, 2003
We must be the first ones in the world to fall off the earth
Diamond Eyes
Reprise, 2010
Diamonds rain across the sky...
Johannes Brahms
BBC Singers, Jane Glover, dir, Catherine Edwards and John Alley, piano (4 hands)
Liebeslieder, Op. 52
Classical, Romantic era, German choral
BBC, 1992
written in 1870
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano)
Sonata No. 1 for 'Cello and Piano, Op. 38, in E Minor
Classical, Romantic era, Chamber music
RCA Victor, 1985
 
Nelson Freire (piano), Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly, cond
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, op. 83
Classical, Romantic era, piano concerto
Decca, 2006
 
Angela Maria Blasi (sop), Bryn Terfel (bari), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis, cond.
Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Classical, Romantic era, chorus with soloists and orchestra
RCA Victor, 1993
Brahms is thought to have begun this masterwork in 1865, and gave it its initial premiere on Good Friday 1868, with only 6 sections. The 5th section was added, and the present version was first performed in Leipzig in February 1869.
Soundgarden
Rusty Cage
Rock, "Grunge"
A&M, 1991
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run....
Limo Wreck
A&M, 1994
I'm the wreck of you, I'm the death of you all....

 

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