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Patti Griffin

Mary

flaming red

Favorite song at the moment

  • Pink Martini – “Donde Estas Yolanda” (A Restrospective)
  • Tash Sultana – “Coma (Live in Melbourne)” (MTV Unplugged)

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Fever Tree

Hey Joe

For Sale

With one of the best interpretations

  • Marianne Faithful – “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” (Broken English)
  • Bruce Springsteen – “Secret Garden” (Greatest Hits)

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Patti Griffin

When it don’t come easy

Impossible dream

The best live recording for this

  • Indigo Girls – “Nuevas Senoritas ” (Become You)
  • Lilly Wood and the Prick – “Into Trouble” (The Fight)
  • Prince – “The Cross” (Sign ‘o’ the Times)

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Peter Gabriel

Secret World

US

The best live recording for this

  • Pierre Moerlen’s Gong – “Ard Na Greine” (Time is the Key)
  • Tracy Chapman – “Crossroads” (Crossroads)
  • Passenger – “Young as the Morning Old as the Sea” (Young as the Morning Old as the Sea)

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Nils Lofgren

Heaven’s Rain

Bonus tracks

Pay attention to the voice

  • Bill Fay – “How long, how long” (Countless Branches)
  • Hayley Williams – “Leave it alone” (Petals for Armor)
  • Faye Webster – “Better Distractions” (I know I’m funny haha)
  • Mark Knopfler – “Going Home” (Local Hero)

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Tabou Combo

New York

8th Sacrement

Pure good mood

  • Fleedwood Mac – “Dreams” (Rumours)
  • R. Kelly – “I believe I can fly” (R.)
  • James Blunt – “You’re Beautiful” (Back to Bedlam)
  • Me + I – “Strong” (Strong)
  • Ludwig Hirsch – “Come big black bird” – (Come big black bird)

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Marillion

Kayleigh

Misplaced Childhood

Without

  • Christine and the Queens – “Tilted” – (Christine and the Queens)
  • Zucchero – “Va, Pensiero” – (All the Best)
  • Raphael Saadiq – “This World Is Drunk” – (Jimmy Lee)
  • Dominiqie Fils-Aimé – “Birds” – (Nameless)
  • Achim Reichel – “Aloha Heja He” – (Melancholy and Storm Tide )

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Mike Oldfield

Crises

Crises

From 15:50 a challenge!

  • Chris Jones – “No Sanctuary here” – ( Roadhouses & Automobiles )
  • Angus & Julia Stone – “Babylon & Paper Aeroplan” – ( Memories of an old Friend )
  • Laurie Anderson – “Let X = X” & “O Superman” – ( Big Science )
  • Latin Quarter – “America for Beginners” – ( Modern Times )
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “Lucky Man” – ( Emerson, Lake & Palmer )

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Herman van Veen

Signals

Signals

For the occasion

  • Bee Gees – “Marley Purt Drive” – ( Odessa )
  • Buffalo Springfield – “For what it`s Worth – ( Retrospective )
  • Cars – “Drive” – ( Heartbeat City )
  • Cult with no Name – “A Pound of Penny Gaffs” – ( Another Landing )
  • Art of Noise – “Moments in Love” – ( The Best of Art Noise )
  • Airelle Besson – “Try!” – ( Try! )

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Calexico

Over your Shoulder

The Black Light

Very good recording

  • Martha Wainwright – “Dans le silence” (Trauma) Dreamy
  • A “ntonio Carlos Jobim – “Stone Flower” & “Brazil” (Stone Flower)
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band – “Midnight in Harlem” – (Revelator)
  • Alan Stivell – “Marv Pontkellec” – (Renaissance of the Celtic Harp)

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Melissa Etheridge

The Late September Dogs

Melissa Etheridge

Sensational on the bass

  • Joan as Police Women – “Get Direct” (The Classic)
  • Jonny Cash – “I see a darkness” (American III – Solitary Man)
  • Joan Baez – “Ave Maria” (Noel) in German
  • Lady Gaga – “Is that alright (A Star was born” – Soundtrack)

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Anette Askvik

Liberty

Liberty

Very well recorded!

  • Taylor Swift – “peace” (Folklore)
  • Quadro Nuevo – “Sultana” (Moccaflor)
  • Fortuna Ehrenfeld – “The embrace of the magnets” (helmet off for prayer)
  • Werner Schmidbauer – “Stell da vor” (South II)
  • Anna Ternheim – “The longer the waiting” (The night Visitor)
  • Zucchero – “Dune Mosse” (All the Best)

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AC/DC

Ride On

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

The classic


JAZZ

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Archie Shepp

Contracts

Mama Rose

A life companion

  • Ludovico Einaudi “Luminous” (Underwater)
  • Jean-Michel Blais “mumures” (aubades)
  • Winton Marsalis “Angel Eyes” (Wheel within a Wheel)
  • Billy Cobham “A funky thide of sings” (A funky thide of sings)
  • Union – “Don’t look back” (State of the Union)
  • New Past – “Wake up (Live)” (Xjazz! Festival Compelation #1)
  • Nils Landgren – “4WD (Live) & Silent Way (Live)” (4 Wheel Drive Live)
  • Art Pepper – “Summertime” (The Art of Pepper)
  • Dollar Brand – “ASR” (Children of Africa)

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Don Shirley

The Warning

The Don Shirley point of view

Beautifully played

  • Caldera – “Reflections Don Quixote” (Dreamer)
  • Bob James – “Farandole (L’Arlesienne Suite #2)” (Two)
  • Carol Kidd – “When I Dream” (All My Tomorrows)
  • Oakwood Station – “A trace of Light” ( A trace of Light )
  • Stockholm Jazz Quartet – “Medborgarplatsen” (Jazz smooth as a Feather)
  • Brad Mehlau – “Hungry Ghost” (Mehliana: Taming the Dragon)
  • Manu Katche – “Keep on Trippin” (Third Round)

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Chet Baker

I funny Valentine

The very Best of Jazz Chet Baker

Instrumental

  • Nubya Garcia – “Inner Game” (Source)
  • Dollar Brand – “ASR” (Children of Africa)
  • Richard Bona – “Playground” ( Munia (The Tale) )
  • Harvey Mandel – “Wate in the water” ( Christo Redentor )
  • Diana Krall – “A case of you” ( Live in Paris )
  • Dexter Gordon – “Cheese Cake” ( GO )

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Buckshot Lefonque

I know why the caged bird sings

Buckshot Lefonque

Good mood jazz (Hessenstein)

  • Martin Tingvall – “When Light Returns” ( When Light Returns )
  • e.s.t. – “The Face of Love” (Somewhere Else Before)
  • Dollar Brand – “African Marketplace” – (African Marketplace)
  • Don Sebesky – “Psalm 150” & “Firebird – Birds of Fire” (Giant Box)
  • Chuck Mangione – “Children of Sanchez” (Children of Sanchez)

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Dave Brubeck

Take Five

Time Out

One of the best recordings

  • Chick Corea – “Where have I known you before” (where have I known you before)
  • Chick Corea – “Sometimes Ago – La Fiesta” (Return to Forever)
  • Arild Andersen – “Stevtone” & “Alfie” (Mira)
  • Till Brönner – “A Thousand Kisses Deep” (Nightfall)

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Keith Jarrett

Cologne, January 24 1975 Pt.I

The Cologne Concert

Sundays for breakfast

  • Hubert Laws – “Amazing Grace” (Morning Star)
  • Branford Marsalis – The Nearness Of You (Trio Jeepy)
  • Carla Bley – “The Lord is listenin to ya, Hallelujah!” (Live!)

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Miles Davis

Time after time (Chicago)

The last Word

The best version, ever!


CLASSIC

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Artur Rubinstein

Op.9: No.1 in B-Flat Minor

Chopin Nocturnes

Best recording ever

  • Menuhin “Raga Piloo” (Menuhin meets Shankar)
  • Menuhin (Furtwängler) “I. Allegro molto Appassionata ….” (Mendelsohn Concerto in e minor)
  • B. Gigli “Ave Maria (the second with choir)” (Ave Maria)
  • Lisa Batiashvili – “Dance of the Knights” (Visions of Prokofiev)
  • Günther Wand (Beethoven) – “Symphony No.9 in D minor – Molte vivace – Presto” (Symphony No.9)
  • Max Bruch – “Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, Op.26 1 -3 with Shlomo Mintz” (Legendary Recordings)
  • Walter Carlos – “Suicide Scherzo – Symphony No.9″ (Clockwork Orange)
  • Caruso – “Di quella pira” (Caruso sings Verdi)
  • Rodrigo – “Concierto de Aranjuez – I. Allegro con spirito” – (Concertos – Songs With Guitar)

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Enrico Caruso

Amor ti vieta (Fedora)

The digital album

Digitally Remastered

  • Fritz Wunderlich – “Tamino mein! ….. (Mozart)” – (The Art of Fritz Wunderlich)
  • Solti – “Beglückt darf nun dich, o Heimat, ich schauen (Wagner)” (Tannhäuser)
  • G. di Stefano / Callas – “Mamma, quel vino e generoso (Mascagni)” – (Cavallaria Rusticana / Serafin)
  • Georg Thill – “Aida (Verdi)” (I Incomparable)
  • G. di Stefano – “Cilea / L Arlesiana” – ( Opera Arias)
  • Saint-Saens (Hurford) – “Symphony No.3 in C Minor – 1b. Poco adagio” – ( Symphony No.3 “Organ Symphony” )
  • Fritz Wunderlich – “Ja, es ward Abend – Mädchen, in deinen Augen liegt ein Zauber – ….” – ( Fritz Wunderlich – The Great German Tenor )

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Nicolai Gedda

Viene la sera – Bimba dagli

The Young Nicolai Gedda

With Maria Callas

  • Herman Prey – “Erlkönig” – ( Lion Ballads )
  • Renata Tebaldi – “Viene la sera / Bimba dagli / Vogliatemi bene” – ( Greatest Opera Masters )
  • Maria Callas (Samson et Dalila) – “Mon Couer s’ouvre a voix” – ( Romantic Callas )
  • Carlo Bergonzi (Karajan) – “Finale – Mamma, quel vino generoso – ( Cavallaria Rusticana )
  • Jess Thomas (Kempe) – “Now be thanked, my dear swan” – ( Lohengrin Highlights )

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Jess Thomas (Kempe)

In a distant land ( Grail tale )

Lohengrin highlights

One of the best recordings

  • Carreras, Domingo & Pavarotti – “Nessun Dorma” (In Concert)
  • David Garrett – “Swan Lake Theme” (Garrett vs Paganini)
  • Cavallaria Rusticana – “Intermezzo sinfonico” (Cossotto, Bergonzi, Karajan)
  • Georg Thill – “La Juive (Halevy)” (I Incomparable)
  • Renata Tebaldi – “Ebben? Ne andro lotana” (La Wally) Beautiful!

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Maria Callas

La mamma morta

The very best of Maria Callas

For this the most beautiful scene

  • Alfredo Kraus – “Relato de Rafael” (La Dolorosa)
  • Maria Callas – “Norma, Act I: Casta Diva (Live)” (Bellini: Norma (Callas, Filippeschi))
  • Artur Rubinstein (Chopin) – “Nocturne op 9,1 in B flat minor” (Nocturnes)
  • Alfredo Kraus – “Ave Maria” (Gayarre)
  • Ormandy – “Symphony No.3 in C Minor, Op.78 “Organ”: Poco adagio” (Organ Symphony ……..)

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

In the sunset

Four last songs

Richard Strauss

  • Iiro Rantala – “Freedom” (mozart bernstein, lennon)
  • Guiseppe Di Stefano – Werther “Pourquoi me reveiller” (The Decca Recordings)
  • Hilary Hahn – “The Lark Ascending” (Retrospecktive) V. Williams
  • Maria Callas, N. Gedda – “Vogliateme bene” (Madame Butterfly) G. Puccini
  • Georg Szell – Tannhäuser “Overture” (Szell Conducts Wagner)
  • Georg Szell – Tristan and Isolde “Prelude, Liebestod” (Szell Conducts Wagner)

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Fritz wunderlich

Entire opera

Martha

Excerpt “Last Rose” (You Tube)


SOUNDTRACKS

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John Barry

The loss of the Journal / End

The one who dances with the wolf

Film music with this scene

  • Alan Silvestri – “I’m Forrest… Forrest Gump” (Forrest Gump)
  • Stanley Kubrick – “Also sprach Zarathustra” ( 2001 A Space Odyssey)
  • Eric Weisberg – “Dueling Banjos” (Deliverance)
  • Pink Floyd – “Mother & Outside the Wall” (The Wall)
  • Ennio Morricone – “Once upon a time in the West” (Play Me the Song of Death)
  • Bruce Springsteen – “Secret Garden” (Jerry Maguire)
  • Florian Ostertag – “Season of Monsoon” – (About a Girl)

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Bruce Springsteen

Streets of Philadelphia

Philadelphia

Film music with this scene

  • Florian Ostertag – “Season of Monsoon” – (About a Girl)
  • Pat Metheny – “Capture” (The Falcon and the Snowman)
  • Various – “Dueling Banjos” (Deliverance)
  • Jerry Gracia – “Love Scene” (Zabriskie Point)
  • Joel Grey – “Welcome” (Cabaret)
  • Michael Bolton – “Fathers & Daughters” (Fathers & Daughters – Film score)

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H. Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard

Now we are free

Gladiator

“Go to your family


SLAYER

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Milva

I am not afraid

I am not afraid

For the occasion

  • James Last – “Seduction” (Seduction)
  • Don Cossacks – “Evening bells” (Song of the Don)
  • Heinz Rühmann – “La Le Lu” (La Le Lu)
  • Freddy Quinn – “The guitar and the sea” (Freddy, the guitar and the sea)
  • Esther Ofarim – “Children’s Songs” – (Esther)
  • Alexa Feser – “Wunderfinder feat. Curse (Acoustic Piano Version)” – (Between Seconds)
  • Hans Albers – “Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins” – (On the Reeperbahn at half past midnight)
  • Max Raabe – “Fahrrad fahr`n” (Ride a bike) – (The perfect moment… will be missed today)

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Helene Fischer

Breathless through the night

Color Play Live

Acapella version

  • Milva – “Living together” – (From day to day)
  • Frank Sinatra (Pavarotti) – “My Way” – (Best of Duets)
  • The great successes (Fritz Wunderlich)