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Updoc 31: How Russian Is It?: 1/30/09

Posted by Rafi Zabor on January 31, 2009 @ 4:33 am | Comments Off on Updoc 31: How Russian Is It?: 1/30/09

Opening theme: Orthodox Choir of the Moscow Academy: Psalm 103;
Chants et choeurs Orthodoxes, Vol. 3 (7 Productions)

1.    Igor Stravinsky/Leonard Bernstein/NY Philharmonic: Petrouchka; The Rite of Spring, Petrouchka (Sony)
2.    Modest Moussorgsky/André Cluytens/Chorus of the National Opera of Sofia/Orchestre de la Societé des Concerts du Conservatoire/Christoff: Prelude; Boris Godunov (EMI)
3.    Sergei Prokofiev/André Previn/LA Philharmonic/Christine Cairns: The Field of the Dead; Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kije (Telarc)
4.    Dmitri Shostakovich/Yevgeny Yevtushenko/Okko Kamu/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Nikita Storojev: Babi Yar; Symphony No. 13 (Chandos)
5.    Alfred Schnittke/Stefan Parkman/National Danish Radio Choir: Choir Concerto ‘O Master of All Living’; Minnesang, Choir Concerto (Chandos)

Out theme: Shostakovich/Borodin String Quartet: String Quartet No. 8, first mvt; Piano Quintet, String Quartets No. 7 & 8 (EMI)

Songs on Toast – 01/30/2009

Posted by Brian Cullman on January 30, 2009 @ 12:00 am

OPTIMAL LISTENING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL-RUSSIAN UPDOC 1/30

Posted by Rafi Zabor on January 26, 2009 @ 11:06 am | 1 Comment

For optimal listening conditions for next week’s all-Russian-music show, “How Russian Is It?”, prepare the Agrin/Zaborovsky family recipe for Odessa Cabbage Borscht (enormous pot everlasting version; timid people should make a half-recipe):

3 lbs. beef short ribs or flanken (same thing cut differently; flanken, cut in strips across the ribs, is traditional, but don’t worry about it)
1 large green cabbage
2  28-ounce cans of whole tomatoes
2  medium large onions
salt, lemon, water
(Since the ingredients are simple and yield an improbably rich, extraordinary result, quality of ingredients is important; taintradio recommends organic constituents when possible.)

Here’s what you do for best hi-fi result:
1.    Slice cabbage thin but not surgically fine.
2.    Coarsely chop onions.
3.    With a sharp knife de-fat the ribs the best you can, then scald them with boiling water, in a colander or pot.
4.    Place beef in bottom of pot, add water to cover, bring back to boil, skim off what comes to the top.
5.    Add cabbage, onions. Crush or slice up the tomatoes and add them.
6.    Add water to cover, and salt to approximate taste. Cook for one hour.
7.    Add juice of half a freshly squeezed lemon.
8.    Cook for one more hour, contrapuntally adding lemon juice and, if need be, salt, to bring a light tartness to the soup as it sweetens with cooking. You’ll understand what’s wanted as the taste develops, and will wonder how it can possibly taste this good.
9.    It’s done in two hours, but you can keep going if you like. It will only get better—up to a point, of course.

Serving suggestion: have a large bowl of soup, perhaps adding a grind of black pepper. When you’ve had enough of that, have some beef, with horse radish as a garnish, along with a side of plain boiled potato, buckwheat kasha (this is how Konstantin Levin prefers it in an early chapter of Anna Karenina), or potato laktes or kugel (family recipes for these available only on request).
Have another bowl of soup. Wipe your brow. Marvel at, by now, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich, and at the extraordinary largesse of the Russian soul under repression or otherwise. Although I don’t want to encourage excessive drinking, Vodka will aid you in this exercise. Help yourself from that bottle in the freezer. Is it Chopin, Ketel One, Iceberg, or humble Svedka? I can’t see from here, and don’t know what you can afford.

Updoc 30: Slow Blues Raga: 1/23/09

Posted by Rafi Zabor on January 24, 2009 @ 2:14 pm | Comments Off on Updoc 30: Slow Blues Raga: 1/23/09

Opening theme: Sidney Bechet: Summertime; Jazz Archives Masterpieces

(Epm/Believe Digital)

 1.     Blind Willie Johnson: Dark Was the Night; Folk Music USA Volume One (Folkways)

2.     Soeur Marie Keyrouz: Fil Layli; Chant Maronite (Chant du Monde)

3.     Ornette Coleman: Sadness; Town Hall Concert 1962 (ESP-Disk)

4.     Duke Ellington: Beale Street Blues; New World A’Comin (CBS)

5.     Soeur Marie Keyrouz: Ana’l-ummu-al-hazina; Chant Maronite (Chant du Monde)

6.     Robert Johnson: Love in Vain; King of the Delta Blues (River)

7.     Archie Shepp/Horace Parlan: Trouble in Mind [title tune]; Steeplechase

8.     John Lee Hooker; Black Snake; The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker (Prestige)

9.     Booker Ervin: No Booze Blues; The Blues Book (Prestige)

10.   Sidney Bechet: Petite Fleur; Essential 5 (The Restoration Project)

11.   Ali Akbar Khan: Raga Madhuvanti; Peerless (Navras)

12.   Coleman Hawkins: Bean’s Blues; Coleman Hawkins With the Red Garland Trio (Prestige Swingville)

13.   John Coltrane: The Last Blues; The Classic Quartet – Complete Impulse Studio Recordings (Impulse)

Out theme: Sidney Bechet: Summertime; Essential 5 (The Restoration Project)

Songs on Toast – 01/23/2009

Posted by Brian Cullman on January 24, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Comments Off on Songs on Toast – 01/23/2009

Songs on Toast – 01/23/2009

Posted by Brian Cullman on January 24, 2009 @ 12:00 am

Updoc 29: Offertorium: 1/16/09

Posted by Rafi Zabor on January 17, 2009 @ 12:03 am | Comments Off on Updoc 29: Offertorium: 1/16/09

Opening theme: Anton Webern/Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic: Six Pieces for Orchestra Opus 6, 4^th mvt; Passacaglia, etc. (DGG)

 1.     Johann Sebastian Bach/Arthur Grumiaux: Partita No. 2; Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Philips)

2.     Webern/Christoph Poppen/Münchener Kammerorchester: Five Movements Opus 5; Bach/Webern Ricercar (ECM)

3.     Bach/Webern/Poppen/Münchener Kammerorchester: Fuga (Ricercata) à 6 voci; Bach/Webern Ricercar (ECM)

4.     Sofia Gubaidulina/Gidon Kremer/Charles Dutoit/Boston Symphony Orchestra: Offertorium (DGG)

5.     Bach/Glenn Gould: Partita No. 2; Glenn Gould Edition: Partitas, Preludes & Fugues (Sony)

6 – 7.  Bach/John Eliot Gardiner/English Baroque Soloists/Monteverdi Choir: Agnus Dei, Dona Nobis Pacem; Mass in B Minor (Arkhiv)

Songs on Toast – 01/16/2009

Posted by Brian Cullman on January 16, 2009 @ 12:00 am

Updoc 28: Freddie Hubbard Hail and Farewell: 1/09

Posted by Rafi Zabor on January 9, 2009 @ 11:15 pm | 2 Comments

UPDOC #28 PLAYLIST – 1/09/09

Opening theme: Oscar Peterson/Freddie Hubbard: Here’s That Rainy Day; Alternate Blues (Prestige/Pablo)

1.    Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Crisis; Mosaic (Blue Note)
2.    Eric Dolphy: 245; Outward Bound (Prestige)
3.    Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Ugetsu [title tune] (Riverside)
4.    Oliver Nelson: Stolen Moments; The Blues and  the Abstract Truth (Impulse)
5.    Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage [title tune] (Blue Note)
6.    John Coltrane: Aisha; Olé (Atlantic)
7.    Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: The Core; Free For All (Blue Note)
8.    Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life [title tune] (CTI)
9.    John Coltrane: Ascension [title tune: Edition I] (Impulse)

Songs on Toast – 01/09/2009

Posted by Brian Cullman on January 9, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Post a comment