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Violin sonatas
A typical pairing of the French violin sonatas by Ravel and Debussy aside the contrasting sonata by the Czech composer Janacek. Also included is the early composition by Ravel for violin and piano....
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Hamilton : original Broadway cast recording
A 2016 Tony Award Nominee. Available to listen to today from Sno-Isle Libraries hoopla.Suggested by BrianMiranda, Lin-Manuel, 1980- composer, librettist, lyricist, performer.CD K MIRANDA
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School of rock: the musical : original cast recording
A 2016 Tony Award Nominee. Available from Sno-Isle Libraries hoopla. Based on director Richard Linklater's 2003 hit comedy film of the same name, School of Rock: The Musical follows the misadventures...
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What's inside : songs from Waitress
Music from a 2016 Tony Award Nominee. With her fourth full-length album, Sara Bareilles offers up a taste of the music that she has created for an upcoming Broadway musical, which is based on the 2007...
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All people
Michael Franti's evolution from pissed-off punk to flip-flop-wearing jam band man is fascinating because he's come off as sincere on either end, and with his 2013 release, he continues to confuse and...
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Beautiful lies
Beautiful Lies brings a depth that pulls Birdy from Ingrid Michaelson territory and into a scene occupied by Lorde, Florence, and Lana. On the lush opener "Growing Pains," she incorporates East...
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Sun midnight sun
Sara Watkins throws a bone to her old Nickel Creek fans by opening up Sun Midnight Sun with "The Foothills," one of the album's two instrumental numbers. It's a zippy bluegrass tune, driven forward by...
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The radio in my head live at 54 below
Mixing Broadway with pop, childhood favorites with contemporary sounds, and superstar vocals, Tveit's cabaret debut was a huge success; both for the performer and fans, with tickets for the shows...
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If you're feeling sinister
If You're Feeling Sinister is the second album by Scottish indie pop band Belle and Sebastian, released on the independent label Jeepster Records in the United Kingdom and Matador Records in the United...
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Demon days
The world's biggest virtual band is back with their highly anticipated second album 'Demon Days.' Danger Mouse and Blur's Damon Albarn create the music behind the scenes. Features the single 'Feel Good...
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O
O is the debut studio album by Irish musician Damien Rice, originally released on 1 February 2002, in Ireland and in the United Kingdom. The album is dedicated to Rice's friend Mic Christopher, who...
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Leslie Odom Jr.
Singer/actor Leslie Odom, Jr.'s eponymous debut is a set of graceful vocal jazz interpretations of show tunes and popular song. The album was originally self-released in 2014 with nine tracks. He...
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Water
One of the world's most celebrated pianists, Helene Grimaud presents a haunting call to nature. This album is an experimental project combining her two greatest passions, music and nature. Suggested by...
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Livin' on a high note
Soul and gospel music legend Mavis Staples has created what may be the most joyful and uplifting record of her career. Twelve original songs were written exclusively for her by such acclaimed artists...
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Build me up from bones
The third full-length by 22-year-old Sarah Jarosz reflects not only her growth as a songwriter but her willingness to push the boundaries of country, folk, and Americana to discover connections not...
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Newsies the musical : original Broadway cast recording
Hot on the heels of the Broadway debut of Disney's Newsies, the Original Broadway Cast Recording is set for release, allowing the show's rabid fans across the country to experience what The New York...
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Complete nocturnes
American pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe follows-up her breath-taking Decca debut with an album showcasing the Father of the Nocturne. These half-formed sighs floating through the air, softly lamenting and...
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Shostakovich, Glazunov.
Sensational violinist Nicola Benedetti returns with a riveting recording of Shostakovich's monumental Violin Concerto (No. 1). This new recording follows Benedetti's chart-topping success with Bruch's...
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Some great reward
Some Great Reward is the fourth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released in 1984. The album peaked at number five in the United Kingdom and at number fifty-four in the...
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The OMD singles
18 of OMD's choicest singles, from 1979's Electricity and their 1980 Top 10 UK hit Enola Gay through mid-'80s U.S. hits like So in Love; If You Leave; (Forever) Live and Die, and Dreaming all the way...
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Telegram
With Telegram, edgy Icelandic woman-child Björk continues to push the post-rock envelope. Her new album consists mostly of remixed versions of songs from her second solo LP, Post. But unlike many remix...
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Trapsoul
MTV 2016 Music Video Award Nominee - With his debut album Bryson Tiller has emerged from the streets of Louisville with his own brand of street soul that musically blends the urgency of trap music with...
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Views
MTV 2016 Music Video Awards Nominated Artist - One year after releasing two hit albums, including a collaboration with Future, Drake returns with one of the most talked-about albums of 2016.Drake,...
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Know-it-all
MTV 2016 Music Video Awards Nominated Artist - Following the success of her Four Pink Walls EP, Alessia Cara releases her highly anticipated debut album. It follows her journey from a girl writing...
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Death of a bachelor
MTV 2016 Music Video Award Nominated Artist - As attention grabbing as a flashing neon sign on the Las Vegas strip, Panic! At the Disco's fifth studio album, 2016's Death of a Bachelor, is a...
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Lukas Graham.
MTV 2016 Music Video Award Nominated Artist - Breakout artist Lukas Graham releases his highly anticipated U.S. debut. Features the hit single 7 Years, which is rocketing up the charts around the...
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Légende : works for trumpet and piano
"2013 Gramophone Artist of the Year, three-time winner at the Classic BRITs and also three-time winner at the Echo Klassik Awards, Alison Balsom has cemented an international reputation as one of...
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Inside Llewyn Davis : original soundtrack recording.
Inside Llewyn Davis is the soundtrack of music from the 2013 American film of the same name, written, directed and produced by the Coen brothers and starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman,...
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Music for the masses
This album is a culmination of Depeche Mode's middle-period experimentation. More informed by Goth than techno, it is still anchored by plenty of the larger-than-life-baritone melodrama so distinctive...
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For Emma, forever ago
Justin Vernon began recording as Bon Iver following the breakup of DeYarmond Edison, an indie folk group similar in tone and manner to Iron & Wine, Little Wings and, to a certain extent, Bonnie...
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All the little lights
All the Little Lights, the third long-player from Mike Rosenberg, better known as the founder, vocalist, songwriter, and driving force behind English folk-rock outfit Passenger, continues in the vein...
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What we saw from the cheap seats
Regina Spektor's sixth outing, the predictably unpredictable What We Saw from the Cheap Seats, feels a little like a Wes Anderson movie. By now, you're either on board with the Russian-American's...
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Pride & prejudice: music from the motion picture
As stated in a producers' note, the intention of the creators of the 2005 theatrical film Pride & Prejudice was to have Marianelli compose music that conceivably could have been heard at the time...
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Violin concerto: Romance ; Mazurek ; Humoresque
Even though Anne-Sophie Mutter recorded most of the great violin concertos early in her career, working closely with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, she hadn't recorded the Violin...
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In the lonely hour : drowning shadows edition
Sam Smith offers up an expanded edition of his Grammy Award winning debut album. Along with all of the content from the deluxe edition, this version includes new music, covers, live performances, and...
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Coming home
It's difficult to imagine a 1963 Columbia release from an artist whose look and sound echo 1911. In 2015, however, the thought of a young artist seemingly transported from a bygone era -- 52 years...
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The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (often shortened to Ziggy Stardust) is the fifth studio album by English musician David Bowie. The album tells the story of Bowie's alter...
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Pirate radio motion picture soundtrack.
Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and writer/director of Love Actually), spinning the irreverent...
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Parklife
Parklife is the third studio album by the English rock band Blur, released in April 1994 on Food Records. After disappointing sales for their previous album Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife...
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The Queen is dead
The Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by the English rock band the Smiths. It was released on 16 June 1986 in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records and released in the United States on 23...
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Playing the angel
The eleventh full-length album by Depeche Mode, featuring twelve songs, including "Suffer Well," "I Want It All," "Precious," and "Nothing's Impossible."Suggested by LindseyDepeche Mode (Musical...
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Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats.
It's fitting that the self-titled album will bear the iconic logo of Stax Records, because at certain moments Rateliff seems to be channeling soul greats like Otis Redding and Sam & Dave. But as...
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This unruly mess I've made
Second studio album by hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.Suggested by LizMacklemore, 1983- composer, performer.CD MH MACKLEM
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Traces of you
For sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar's second offering for Deutsche Grammophon, she stays closer to home musically than she did on 2011's widely celebrated Traveller. Opener and first single "The...
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In honor of Duke
In Honor of Duke, a tribute to Duke Ellington lovingly performed by the Marcus Roberts Trio, displays two facets of Roberts' performing style. One is his unrepentant traditionalism. Roberts likes his...
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Southbound
A throwback to the golden age of star-studded tributes, the Doobie Brothers' 2014 Southbound essentially follows the same playbook as the Beach Boys' 1996 album Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1: team up a...
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Kaleidoscope heart
Opening with an airy a cappella title track, Kaleidoscope Heart takes greater sonic risks than Little Voice largely because Sara Bareilles can afford these left turns: she has a big pop hit underneath...
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Station to station
David Bowie takes the soul sound of Young Americans and adds a robotic twist with Station to Station. The album includes the tracks Golden Years; Wild is the Wind; and TVC15. suggested by BrianBowie,...
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Kid A
As perhaps befitting an album that’s coolly, self-consciously alienating, Kid A takes time to unfold; multiple plays are necessary just to discern the music's form, to get a handle on quiet, drifting,...
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Silver & gold
Silver & Gold, the 2012 follow-up to 2006's Songs for Christmas, offers up another five-EP set of schizophrenic seasonal cheer from one of indie pop's most prolific and maddeningly detail-oriented...
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