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Here are reviews of amazing and wonderful music.

Schubert: Winterreise / Thomas Quasthoff, Charles Spencer (please read)

Samuel Barber / Violin Concerto; Edgar Meyer / Violin Concerto /Hilary Hahn (please read)

Schumann: Dichterliebe, Liederkreis / Quasthoff, Szidon
Composer: Robert Schumann
Performer: Thomas Quasthoff, Roberto Szidon (buy at amazon)

Hum your way happily to Amazon.com and order this CD, released in September of 1993.

If you like popular music, here are some favorite popular CDs and a few blasts from the past, too.

Last December I got an Apple iPod, and put all my favorite tunes on it. Here are many of the albums that I carry around with me at all times, in case I want to listen to some tunes.

Some of these albums are absolute treasures, well worth having them with you at all times, and some I have only extracted one song. I'll come back later on and tell you which is which, but for now here's the list.

On my iPod:

Note: all links are to Amazon.com; in many cases you can play back individual tracks from the CD.

Norah Jones come away with me
At the moment Norah Jones is travelling, right to the top. Check norahjones.com to find out where she is now. It would be a concert date worth making. I could listen to her rendition of "Cold cold heart" and "I don't know why" over and over again.

Jethro Tull Original Masters

Laurie Anderson Life on a String

Laurie Anderson Talk Normal, The Laurie Anderson Anthology

Michelle Shocked Arkansas Traveler

Michelle Shocked Short Sharp Shocked

The Beatles Abbey Road

The Beatles Beatles For Sale

The Beatles Live at the BBC -- Disc One

The Beatles Past Masters - Volume Two

The Beatles Revolver

The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles The White Album

Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace: Disc I

Keb Mo' Keb' Mo': Just Like You

Keb Mo' Slow Down

Monty Python The Monty Python Instant Record Collection

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) Sinfonias on Ovid's Metamorphoses, #1-#3 Symphony 1 has been particularly uplifting after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Try it, you'll see what I mean. What's 8 or 9 dollars, really, if it makes you feel even slightly better? I've listened to this one a lot, it just get better each time.

Evelyn Glennie Her Greatest Hits (disc 1,2)

G.P. Telemann Telemann - Oboe Sonatas - Goodwin

Handel - Jean-Pierre Rampal Flute Sonatas

Hilary Hahn Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphonien Nos. 5 & 7 - Kleiber

Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces

Dixie Chicks Fly

K. D. Lang Absolute Torch And Twang

Viviana Guzm�n Planet Flute
Funny what can happen. I read a prudish review of this album. The reviewer didn't want to see Viviana Guzm�n naked on the cover of her album. Evidently this poor hapless ignorant individual had never seen a Herbie Mann album in her life. One naked Herbie cover after another! Herbie's 'Push Push' album cover even had Herbie doing it. No one said a word.

I was so outraged that I bought Viviana Guzm�n's Planet Flute. Anyway, why wouldn't I? I've played the flute all my life. Interestingly enough, I enjoyed just about every piece on this recording. So, I carry it with me everywhere I go just in case I want to listen to some world flute music.

Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur

I got this album for one reason only: Maria Muldaur's popular song "Midnight at the Oasis". Imagine my surprise to find that every song on the CD was just as good, or even better! Maria really hit this one out of the ballpark, so if you liked Midnight at the Oasis, go ahead and buy this CD, even though it xxoxoxxox0 years old it's timeless.

Benny Green Kaleidoscope

Benny Green The Place To Be

Bobby McFerrin Medicine Music

Bobby Mcferrin Simple Pleasures

Bobby McFerrin Spontaneous Inventions

Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!Here's Julian 'Cannonball' Adderly's intro to the title track of this album: "You know, sometimes we're not prepared for adversity. When it happens sometimes we're caught short. We don't know exactly how to handle it, when it comes up. Sometimes we don't know just what to do when adversity takes over. And I have advice for all of us. I got it from my pianist Joe Zawinul who wrote this tune. And it sounds like what you're supposed to say when you have that kind of problem. It's called Mercy Mercy Mercy."

Dr. Didg Out Of The Woods

Hubert Laws The Best Of Hubert Laws Hubert Laws is one of the finest flute players that ever lived, as any fool can plainly hear. Thanks again, Hubert.

Les McCann & Eddie Harris Swiss Movement

Miles Davis In A Silent Way The classic peaceful Miles just before he wacked out, with Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, and some other guy on keyboards. Who was that fella? Oh, now I remember, Herbie Hancock. Sorry, Dr. Hancock! If you don't know this album, it could be a pivotal moment in your jazz education. As a bonus, you can listen to it over 30 years: you'll just love it more and more.

Paulo Moura e os Batutas Pixinguinha Paulo Moura is the only living musician to have a yearly music festival named after him. He plays the clarinet in Brazil where he is a national hero. After you listen to this CD, you'll know why.

Propellerheads Take California This is the famous song from the Apple iPod television commercial. Of course I carry it around. I even listen to it and bop just like the guy in the commercial. I like it a lot!

Aretha Franklin Who's Zooming Who?

Bill Withers Lean On Me - The Best Of Bill Withers

Marvin Gaye The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Raitt, Longing In Their Hearts

Bonnie Raitt Road Tested (Disc One)(Disc Two)

Cream Disraeli Gears

Cyndi Lauper True Colors I just carry the title song around with me. You know the song; it's beautiful.

Deborah Holland Book Of Survival

Deborah Holland Panic Is On

Dire Straits Brothers in Arms

Eric Clapton 24 Nights, Disc 1,2

Eric Clapton From the Cradle