#Columbia Masterworks

[garadinervi]

The Music of Arnold Schönberg, Vol. VI, Conducted by Robert Craft, Columbia Masterworks / Columbia Records, 1967

#graphic design #typography #art #music #music album #vinyl #cover #arnold schönberg #robert craft #columbia masterworks #columbia records #1960s

[opoloop]

Heitor Villa-Lobos / Norman Dello Joio LP Columbia Masterworks 1952

#heitor villa lobos #norman dello joio #lp cover #lp #columbia masterworks #classical music #graphic design

[myvinylplaylist]

Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1957)

Preformed by the New York Philharmonic

Conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos

Cover Illustration by Gray Foy

Columbia Masterworks

#my vinyl playlist #the sorcerer's apprentice #paul dukas #strauss #liszt #weinberger #new york philharmonic #dimitri mitropoulos #columbia masterworks #gray foy #classical #classical music

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#vintage advertising #vinyllove #columbia records #masterwork #b&w #1960s

[thriftstorerecords]

Rachmaninoff's Greatest Hits Various Artists Columbia Masterworks/USA (1969)

Cover by Milton Glaser

[kdo-three]

E. Power Biggs - Toccata and Fugue, for Organ in D Minor, BWV 565 (1974) Johann Sebastian Bach from: "The Four 'Great' Toccatas and Fugues" (LP)

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach c. 1704. Alternatively, a date as late as the 1750s has been suggested.

Classical | Baroque | Organ

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Personnel: E. Power Biggs: Organ

Produced by Andrew Kazdin

2003 Reissue Produced by Louise De La Fuente

Recorded: @ Freiburger Münster in the City of Freiburg im Breisgaum, Germany 1974

Freiburger Münster is a Roman-Catholic cathedral in the Gothic and Romanesque style, constructed between 1200 - 1513.

Released: in 1974 Columbia Masterworks Records

Re-Issued in 2003 Sony Music Records

#Johann Sebastian Bach #Baroque #Classical #E. Power Biggs #Toccata and Fugue #Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D Minor #Organ #1970's #1700's #The Four 'Great' Toccatas and Fugues

[thecreaturecodex]

Munuane

Image © @a-book-of-creatures​, accessed at A Book of Creatures here

[The munuane is an ogre of the Guahibo people of Columbia and Venezuela. It’s got a great look and some weird abilities, which make it an excellent candidate for conversion into an RPG monster. I’m not the only one who thinks so; Legendary Games did a version of it for their Latin American Monsters PDF, and I borrowed the sight dependency ability from their version.

It is worth noting that, like many humanoid monsters from South America, the munuane has a reputation as a rapist. It’s a small enough part of the lore that I’m willing to ignore it here, but there are some monsters where their whole deal is raping people who enter their territory, and these are monsters I will not be covering. The trauco and the akalakui come to mind--the akalakui have only two citations I know of outside of academic texts, one a poem in Portuguese about how they gang rape people, and one a children’s book (!) called The Gruesome Guide to World Monsters. So if you go digging into South American mythology, be forewarned.]

Munuane CR 11 LE Fey This grey skinned giant has an eyeless head, a lipless mouth and tufts of fur about its body. It has clawed hands and carries a spear. Its strangest feature is its eyes, which sit squarely in its kneecaps.

The munuane is sometimes called “Grandfather of Fishes”, for its role in protecting fish populations and in order to mollify its violence. A munuane considers a wide territory and all of the aquatic animals within it to belong to it, and thus anyone who fishes, hunts aquatic animals like turtles or capybara, or even collects shellfish owes the munuane a debt of gratitude. If one is cautious and takes little, gratitude is all that the munuane expects. On the other hand, the munuane will kill and eat any fishermen it considers having overstepped their bounds.

A munuane will usually fight discriminately, targeting a single victim, luring them out into the open, and killing them with an arrow. So long as a munuane only carries a single arrow, that arrow is indestructible and charged with deadly force. Most munuanes have single arrows stashed in various places in their territory, so in the worst case scenario where their arrow fails to kill a victim and is stolen, they can have another arrow to use in the future. Once their arrow is expended, they fight with spears or their deadly claws. A munuane’s eyes are the key to its power—blinding a munuane, even temporarily, can weaken it so that mundane weapons and energy can penetrate its hide.

Munuane have a strong sense of gender roles. Men go out and fish and hunt for victims, women stay at home and cook and craft. This does not mean that female munuane are any less dangerous than the males, but they defer to their husbands in most matters. As munuane do not have any teeth, they typically eat their meat slow cooked and tender in a stew. Munuane have a reputation for foolishness.

Munuane            CR 11 XP 12,800 LE Large fey Init +8; Senses low-light vision, Perception +18 Defense AC 25, touch 18, flat-footed 16 (-1 size, +8 Dex, +1 dodge, +7 natural) hp 149 (13d6+104) Fort +12, Ref +16, Will +10 DR 15/cold iron; Resist acid 20, cold 20, electricity 20, fire 20; SR 22 Weakness sight dependence Offense Speed 30 ft. Melee 2 claws +17 (1d8+8) or masterwork spear +18/+13 (2d6+12/x3) Ranged masterwork composite longbow +19 (2d6+8/x3 plus slaying) Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft. Special Attacks lure, slaying arrow Statistics Str 27, Dex 27, Con 27, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 18 Base Atk +6; CMB +15; CMD 34 Feats Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Iron Will, Nimble Moves, Point Blank Shot, Power Attack, Vital Strike Skills Acrobatics +19, Climb +19, Craft (woodworking) +11, Knowledge (geography, nature) +11, Perception +19, Profession (sailor) +8, Stealth +15, Survival +11, Swim +23; Racial Modifiers +8 Perception, +4 Swim Languages Common, Sylvan SQ eldritch prowess Ecology Environment warm forests and freshwater Organization solitary or pair Treasure standard (Large masterwork spear, Large masterwork composite longbow, 1 arrow, other treasure) Special Abilities Eldritch Prowess (Su) A munuane gains a competence bonus to attack rolls equal to its Charisma modifier. Lure (Su) At any point that a munuane’s targets are unaware of it (for example, if the munuane is hiding or concealed in darkness), the munuane can call out to the targets, who must be in line of sight and within 150 feet. When the munuane calls out, the targets must make a DC 20 Will save or fall under the effects of a suggestion to approach the sound of the munuane's voice. This effect functions identically to a mass suggestion spell with a caster level equal to the munuane’s Hit Dice. The creature can make a second save to resist the effect if the movement would place them in danger (such as over a cliff). A creature that saves cannot be affected again by the same munuane's lure for 24 hours. The lure is a language-dependent effect, and if the munuane uses the victim's name during the lure, the victim takes a –4 penalty on its saving throw. This is a sonic mind-affecting charm effect. The save DC is Charisma-based. Sight Dependency (Su) A munuane loses its damage reduction and energy resistances if it is blind. Slaying Arrow (Su) As long as a munuane only carries a single arrow, the arrow is treated as indestructible and can be used repeatedly without issue. A creature struck by this single arrow must succeed a DC 20 Fortitude save or take an extra 50 points of damage, as if struck by an arrow of slaying attuned to their creature type. These properties only works for the munuane—if a munuane’s arrow is collected and fired by another creature, it will break as normal. This is a death effect, and the save DC is Charisma based.

#munuane #fey #world tour #a book of creatures #pathfinder 1e #guahibo #rape tw

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick:  Duke Ellington  Ellington Uptown 

Even back in the early '50s, Columbia Records took Duke Ellington seriously enough to place this album on its prestigious Masterworks label, heretofore reserved mostly for highbrow classical music and Broadway shows (later in the decade, though, it was retitled Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown and reissued on the pop series with an additional piece, "The Controversial Suite"). Also, this LP explodes the critical line that the early '50s was a relatively fallow period for the Duke; any of these smoking, concert-length tracks will torpedo that notion.

- Richard S. Ginell

#allmusic staff picks #duke ellington

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

Columbia Masterworks really always had like the most pleasing vinyl covers. There is a simplicity to them that I really love, I don’t even know why or what exactly it is. Like this isn’t great art but. It’s pretty? Am i alone with this?

[mirellabruno]

The Music of Arnold Schönberg, Vol. VI, Conducted by Robert Craft, Columbia Masterworks / Columbia Records, 1967

Source:

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[mywifeleftme]

116: Lotte Lenya // September Song and Other American Theatre Songs of Kurt Weill

September Song and Other American Theatre Songs of Kurt Weill Lotte Lenta 1958, Columbia Masterworks

Lotte Lenya recorded September Song and Other American Theatre Songs of Kurt Weill at 59, eight years after the death of her husband Weill and a few years since her Tony-winning return to the stage in a 1956 off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. Her voice was no longer the graceful, swooning instrument of her youth but she retained the intelligence that had always made her a favourite of lyricists like Brecht and Ira Gershwin, and the years had gifted her enough guile to paper over the cracks. These are, as the title states, theatre songs, and Lenya acts the hell out of them, bringing the verses down to near spoken word, allowing the quaver in her soprano to shade the songs with an autumnal melancholy.

The collection is a love letter to her career with Weill, but also a celebration of an era of musical theatre that was drawing to a close. While we continue to recycle and refigure the cultural artifacts of the 1960s and the decades after, the music of the preceding eras carries the special poignancy of a world which has been allowed to truly die. (I'm reminded, maybe apropos of nothing, of the great Clinic lyric from “Distortions”: “You’ll never know how often / I’ve pictured you in coffins / […] But I love it when you blink your eyes.”) The collection of lyricists represented on this set is remarkable, from Gershwin to poets Langston Hughes and Ogden Nash, to multi-Oscar winner Alan Lerner, to Maxwell Anderson, whose words Lenya seems to mine most deeply. “Lost in the Stars” (the title song from the 1949 adaptation of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country) opens and closes with a prayer delivered by a male choir, but it’s Lenya’s lonely, underplayed admission of doubt that wrenches at the heart:

“But I've been walking through the night, and the day Till my eyes get weary and my head turns grey And sometimes it seems maybe God's gone away Forgetting the promise that we heard him say And we're lost out here in the stars, Little stars, big stars Blowing through the night.”

“Stay Well,” from the same play, is another winner, a paean to the ambiguities of love sung by a woman who has not forgotten her hunger for it: “Though you bring fear at dawn / Despair at even’ / Stay well, / Come to my door again.”

There are a few dollops of that marmalade sentimentality the early twentieth century was marinated in (such as the short dialogue with her child “Willie” on the otherwise sturdy “A Boy Like You” from Street Scene), but on balance Lenya’s selections from Weill’s songbook beautifully represent the couple’s cool continental style and compassionate souls.

116/365

#lotte lenya #kurt weill #the threepenny opera #bertolt b #ira gershwin #langston hughes #ogden nash #alan lerner #maxwell anderson #cry the beloved country #cabaret #'50s music #musical theatre #music review #vinyl record #female singer #broadway

[garadinervi]

The Music of Arnold Schönberg, Vol. VII, Columbia Masterworks / Columbia Records, 1969

#graphic design #typography #art #music #music album #vinyl #cover #arnold schönberg #claus adam #eugene ormandy #juilliard string quartet #george rochberg #the philadelphia orchestra #marilyn mason #genn gould #raphael hillyer #israel baker #robert mann #john horton #columbia masterworks #columbia records #1960s

[penrick]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Andre Kostelanetz Conducts Puccini’s “La Boheme “ For Orchestra Vintage Album.

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19439977462/COPLAND CONDUCTS COPLAND (20CD)

作曲家、指揮家、鋼琴家 柯普蘭 哥倫比亞錄音作品全集 20CD ◎ 柯普蘭被尊稱為「美國作曲家的領導人」 ◎ 專輯收錄他自1935年到1976年間為哥倫比亞唱片公司大師系列完成的所有錄音 ◎ 與班尼古德曼、艾薩克史坦、茱莉亞弦樂四重奏、威廉沃菲爾德、亨利方達等人合作演出 ◎ 這一份無價的20CD權威詮釋錄音直指柯普蘭作品的核心 　　美國作曲家柯普蘭（Aaron Copland, 1900-1990）是立陶宛裔的猶太人，除了作曲，也身兼指揮與鋼琴家。本套專輯收錄他自1935年到1976年間為哥倫比亞唱片公司大師系列（Columbia Masterworks）錄製的所有錄音，收錄在19張CD中，另外還附錄一張由伯恩斯坦（Leonard Bernstein）指揮柯普蘭兩首作品的錄音。其中包含了作品《溫柔鄉組曲》（The Tender Land…

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[sweetdreamsjeff]

Jeff Buckley: Grace: Legacy Edition

Author: Bram Teitelman

Date: Sept. 18, 2004

JEFF BUCKLEY Grace: Legacy Edition REISSUE PRODUCERS: Steve Berkowitz, Mary Guibert, Jerry Rappaport ORIGINAL PRODUCER: Andy Wallace Columbia C3K 92881 RELEASE DATE: Aug. 24

If any album deserves a 10th-anniversary reissue treatment, it's Jeff Buckley's "Grace." Along with Nirvana's "Nevermind," it set the tone for much of the '90s. Anchored by Buckley's incredibly expressive voice and guitar playing, the album spanned the rock, folk and blues genres and influenced countless bands. Buckley's plaintive vocals and yearning lyrics were given additional emotional resonance upon his drowning in 1997, making "Grace" his only proper full-length album. In addition to a remastered edition of the album, the Legacy Edition contains a bonus disc of live and previously unreleased material. While the highlight is "new" original track "Forget Her," it is fun to hear Buckley tackle songs by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Hank Williams and MC5 as well. Also included is a third disc, which includes a DVD of the making of this landmark album, and five music videos.

Teitelman, Bram

From: Billboard (Vol. 116, Issue 38) Type: Brief article

Jeff Buckley: Grace Legacy Edition

Author: Jimmy Leslie

Date: Aug. 2005

Jeff Buckley was the guitar player's singer/songwriter, and Grace was his masterwork. Jimmy Page called it, "the best thing I've heard all year" in 1994, and it stands as one of the decade's most influential albums. Underneath Buckley's soaring vocals and romantic songwriting was a beautiful bed of Telecaster tones drenched in delicious Fender reverb. Unfortunately, Grace was the only studio album Buckley--the prodigal son of cult favorite Tim Buckley--fully realized before his tragic drowning death in 1997. The Legacy Edition of Grace sparkles in the light of a modern mastering job, and is accompanied by a disc of Grace-era rarities and a DVD. The most notable previously unreleased audio track is the fabled version of "Forget Her," recorded during the Grace sessions and featuring a rare overdriven guitar solo with string bends wrenched straight from the gut. Buckley brandishes authentic electric and acoustic slide blues chops on Hank Williams' "Lost Highway" and Bukka White's "Parchman Farm Blues" respectively, while the reworked "Eternal Life" and a cover of the MC5's "Kick Out the Jams" rock as hard as anything from the grunge era. The DVD contains an insightful "Making of Grace" segment, as well as five videos. Columbia.

From: Guitar Player (Vol. 39, Issue 8) Type: Brief article; Sound recording review

Friday Review: Jeff Buckley Grace: Legacy Edition (Columbia/Legacy) 3/5 pounds 18.99

Date: Aug. 6, 2004

When Columbia's Legacy bods get the bit between their teeth, there's no stopping them, and this multimedia mega-pack edition of Jeff Buckley's shimmering epic, Grace, gives you both an additional CD of unreleased material and rarities, and a DVD with promo videos and an expanded version of the documentary, The Making of Grace. Buckley's disastrously early death rocketed him to a kind of instant canonisation, and there's so much Buckleyana on the market that it's easy to overlook the fact that Grace was the only full-length album released in his lifetime. So, since we already have the massive Legacy release Live At Sin-E, The Grace EPs, Live At L'Olympia etc, is this 10th anniversary disc mere overkill? Well, it gets away with it by virtue of the quality of the second CD, which packs in 13 tracks of mostly excellent quality. Must-hear moments include the mesmerising Forget Her (almost included on Grace but bumped in favour of So Real), the billowing soul-gospel of I Want Someone Badly, Buckley's disarming readings of Dylan's Mama, You Been on My Mind and Hank Williams's Lost Highway, and the nu-metal premonition of the "road version" of Eternal Life. But surely it wasn't necessary to get George Marino to remaster the original Grace album.

By: Adam Sweeting

The Guardian (London, England)

#jeff buckley #jeff buckley grace legacy edition #Bram Teitelman #billboard #billboard issue 116 issue 38 #jimmy leslie #2004 #2005 #august #guitar player magazine #guitar player #magazine #adam sweeting #the guardian

[thriftstorerecords]

George M! Joel Grey Columbia Masterworks/USA (1968)