Recent music and video purchases

This is simply an inverse chronologic list of the CDs, DVDs, etc. I’ve acquired (purchases and gifts) since 2012, when I started keeping track.

Possible Purchase

• None at this time

2015

• The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, by Bob Dylan
• Thank Your Lucky Stars, by Beach House
• Songs From the Arc of Life, by Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott
• Depression Cherry, by Beach House
• Fleetwood Mac, by Fleetwood Mac
• Eshima: RAkU, by San Francisco Ballet Orchestra & Martin West
• Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, by Gil Shaham, Paul Meyer, Jian Wang, Myung-Whun Chung
• Talking Dreams, by Echosmith
• Haydn: String Quartets, by Schneider Quartet
• Spirit, by Spirit Checkfield
• Schubert: Fantaisies, by David Fray

2014

• The Inevitable End, by Röyksopp
• Helps, Adams, Brief, Sessions, by Christopher O'riley
• Adams: Violin Concerto, Shaker Loops, by Gidon Kremer, Kent Nagano, John Adams, London Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s
• Adams: Fearful Symmetries, Wound-dresser, by Sanford Sylvan, John Adams, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s
• Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music, by John Adams and London Sinfonietta
• Caroline Shaw: Partita for 8 Voices, by Roomful of Teeth
• Queen of the Clouds, by Tove Lo
• Popular Problems, by Leonard Cohen
• Keep Me In Your Heart For A While: The Best Of Madeleine Peyroux, by Madeleine Peyroux
• I Never Learn, by Lykke Li
• Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, by Bing & Ruth
• John Luther Adams: Become Ocean, by Ludovic Morlot and Seattle Symphony
• Janáček: Sinfonietta / Taras Bulba / Lachian Dances / Suite / Mládí / Capriccio / Concertino
• Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Capriccio Italien, Romeo & Juliet Overture, by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• The Rite of Spring, by The Bad Plus
• In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores, by Hilary Hahn
• Sixteen Sunsets, by Jane Ira Bloom [Fresh Air]
• Guilty of Everything, by Nothing
• The Soul of All Natural Things, by Linda Perhacs
• Island Intervals, by Death Vessel
• In Roses, by Gem Club
• Held in Splendor, by Quilt
• Move In Spectrums, by Au Revoir Simone
• Verses of Comfort Assurance & Salvation, by Au Revoir Simone

2013

• The Rhythm and the Blues, by Sam Cooke
• Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, by Alban Berg Quartet
• Tracy Chapman, by Tracy Chapman
• 151a, by Kishi Bashi
• ...It Was Beauty, by Orrin Evans
• Breakers, by Gem Club
• Beethoven: Bagatelles / Fur Elise / Rondo in C, by Alfred Brendel
• Music for 18 Musicians, by Steve Reich Ensemble
• Devil’s Walk, by Apparat
• Carpenters Gold, by Carpenters
• Stars: The Best of the Cranberries, 1992-2002, by The Cranberries
• Don’t Fear the Reaper: Best of Blue Öyster Cult, by Blue Öyster Cult
• Ultimate Santana, by Santana
• Pure Shadowfax, by Shadowfax
• Essential Aerosmith, by Aerosmith
• Still Night, Still Light, by Au Revoir Simone
• Greatest Hits - The Hollies, by The Hollies
• The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere, by Andrea Bocelli
• Oxygene, by Jean Michel Jarre
• Junip, by Junip
• Man Machine, by Kraftwerk
• Bloom, by Beach House
• Declaration of Dependence, by Kings of Convenience
• Junior, by Röyksopp
• Brubeck Time, by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
• Off the Record, by Karl Bartos
• Do You Want the Truth Or Something Beautiful?, by Paloma Faith
• Respect: The Very Best of, by Aretha Franklin
• Fall To Grace (US Version), by Paloma Faith
• Strangers on a Train (1951) [Amazon]
• Fade, by Yo La Tengo
• When I Look In Your Eyes, by Diana Krall
• Pieces of You, by Jewel
• Spirit, by Jewel
• Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell
• Fall in Love With, by Olivia
• Girl Meets Bossanova, by Olivia
• Girl Meets Bossanova 2, by Olivia
• Olivia, by Olivia
• Lucky, by Molly Johnson
• Another Day, by Molly Johnson
• Philharmonics, by Agnes Obel

2012

• Baraka (2008) [Amazon]
• Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection
• Psychedelic Pill, by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
• The Qatsi Trilogy (Criterion Collection)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
• Glow, by Kaki King
• Made Possible, by The Bad Plus
• Beethoven: Complete Music for Cello & Piano
• The Best of Grieg
• Elgar: Cello Concerto; “Enigma” Variations
• Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3
• Bartok: Violin Concertos, Viola Concerto, 6 Duo for 2 Violins, Violin Rhapsodies
• Ravel: The Piano Concertos; Valses nobles et sentimentales
• Debussy, Ravel: Streichquartette
• Ravel: Boléro / Ma Mère L’Oye (complete ballet) / Rapsodie espagnole / Une Barque sur l’océan / Alborada del Gracioso
• Maxim Vengerov: Living the Dream (2007)
• Essential Pete Seeger
• Chopin Complete Edition [Box set]
• Liszt: Sonata, Ballades and Polonaises
• Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas [Box set]
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
• It’s De Lovely - The Authentic Cole Porter Collection
• All the Rowboats, by Regina Spektor
• Video Games, by Lana Del Rey

2011 [partial]

• Franck: Symphony in D Minor / Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, by Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony
• Poulenc: Gloria; Concerto for Organ / Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms, by Robert Shaw, Atlantic Symphony Orchestra &Chorus
• Chopin Complete Edition
• Bird of Music, by Au Revoir Simone
• Tapestry, by Carole King
• Glass Bead Game, by James Blackshaw
• 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Test, by Dean & Britta
• Essential Leonard Cohen, by Leonard Cohen
• Cloud of Unknowing, by James Blackshaw
• Historicity, by Vijay Iyer
• East of Eden, by Taken by Trees
• Veneer, by José GonzÁlez
• Quiet Is the New Loud, by Kings of Convenience
• Inner North, by The Guild League
• Brahms: Double Concerto Op.102 / Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Op.64, by Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma
• Schubert: The Late String Quartets, by Emerson String Quartet, Mstislav Rostropovich
• The Very Best of Cole Porter

2010 [partial]

• Elgar: Salut d'Amour & and other Elgar favorites, by Nigel Kennedy, Peter Pettinger
• Bach: Cello Suites, by Pablo Casals
• Favorite Violin Encores, by Arthur Grumiaux
• Satie: 3 Gymnopédies & and other piano works, by Pascal Rogé
• Junior, by Kaki King
• Schubert: The Complete Impromptus / Moments Musicaux, by Alfred Brendel
• Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert, by Mitsuko Uchida
• String Poetic: American Works - A 21st Century Perspective, by Jennifer Koh, Reiko Uchida
• Franck: Sonata for Violin & Piano / Debussy: Sonatas / Ravel: Introduction & Allegro, by Kyung-Wha Chung, Radu Lupu, Osian Ellis, Melos Ensembel
• Brahms: Complete Chamber Music
• I Robot, by Alan Parsons Project
• Eye in the Sky, by Alan Parsons Project

Individual digital song purchases (e.g. MP3 or AAC)