A random walk through the vinyl in my recroom. Yes, whole albums!

Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Richard Wagner: "Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walküre (1870)
3:17

2. Richard Wagner: "Siegfried's Funeral March" from Götterdämmerung (1876)
7:44

3. Richard Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin (1850)
6:11

4. Richard Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin (1850)
3:12

5. Richard Wagner: Prelude to Tristan und Isolde (1865)
6:55

6. Richard Wagner: "Love-Death" from Tristan und Isolde (1865)
6:18

7. Richard Wagner: "Wedding March" from Lohengrin (1850)
2:36

8. Richard Wagner: "Pilgrims' Chorus" from Tannhäuser (1845)
3:54

Tracks 1-8
Arranged by Stan Kenton (1964)
Stan Kenton Orchestra
Kenton/Wagner
Capitol Records, TAO 2217
("Modern Wagnerian themes, complemented by classically-sensitive Stan Kenton arrangements, create for you an expressive musical experience and emphasize why Wagner and Kenton belong to every age.")

9. Nacio Herb Brown: Doll Dance
2:19

10. Kerry Mills: At a Georgia Camp Meeting
2:12

11. Arthur Pryor: The Whistler & His Dog
2:18

12. Ray Bauduc & Bob Haggart: South Rampart Street Parade
2:38

13. Antonín Dvořák: Humoresque
2:30

14. King, Bivens & Kahn: Josephine
2:22

15. W. C. Handy: St. Louis Blues
2:00

16. Edward B. Claypoole: Ragging the Scale
2:08

Tracks 9-16 (rec. 1953)
Milt Herth Trio
Hi-Jinks on the Hammond
Capitol Records, H-425
(What's a recroom without a few Hammond organ LPs? Herth makes it sound so effortless on this 10-incher, the way he plucks those melodies out of the air.)

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am

17. Andrew Rudin: Tragoedia (1967-68)
Nonesuch Records, H-71198
40'
(Lest you think my recroom is populated entirely by cheesy recordings, here's a classic for electronic music synthesizer.)

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

18. Jim Fassett: Strange to Your Ears: The Fabulous World of Sound (1960)
Columbia Records, ML 4938
(Jim Fassett explains how it's all done.)

19. Otto Joachim: 5.9 (1971)
5:54
(Otto Joachim turns 99 next week!)

20. Paul Pedersen: For Margaret, Motherhood & Mendelssohn (1971)
4:20

21. Micheline Coulombe-Saint-Marcoux: Zones (1972)
9:00

Tracks 19-21
"Carrefour": Musique électro-acoustique/Electroacoustic Music
Radio Canada International, RCI 373