01-18: Agent Orange : Real Live Sound 1990 - Handel : Teseo / James | Jones | Minkowski 1992 - Wagner : Tannhäuser Bayreuth 1930 / Pilinszky | Elmendorff

Not shown: Rudolf Wittelsbach & Burnet Corwin Tuthill

1580 – Antonio Scandello (Italian composer)
1659 – Benedikt Lechler (German priest, lutenist & composer)
1746 – Valeriano Pellegrini (Italian soprano castrato, creator of roles in several Handel operas)
1760 – Claudio Casciolini (Italian composer, singer & choirmaster)
1875 – Joseph Philbrick Webster (American song & hymn composer, singer & pianist)
1886 – Josef Tichatschek [Tichaček] (Czech Heldentenor, creator of title roles in Wagner's Rienzi & Tannhäuser)
1902 – Filippo Marchetti (Italian opera composer & teacher)
1912 – Hermann Winkelmann (German Heldentenor, creator of title role in Wagner's Parsifal)
1918 – Amalie Materna (Austrian soprano, creator of Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal & Brünnhilde in first complete performance of his Ring cycle)
1962 – Raymond Moulaert (Belgian composer, pianist & teacher)
1972 – Rudolf Wittelsbach (Turkish-born Swiss composer, pianist & teacher)
1977 – Paul Nordoff (American composer & music therapist)
1978 – Ivan Dzerzhinsky [Иван Дзержинский] (Russian composer & pianist)
1979 – Cyril Mockridge (English film & television composer)
1982 – Burnet Corwin Tuthill (American composer, son of Carnegie Hall architect William Burnet Tuthill)
1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis [Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης] (Greek singer, songwriter & bouzouki player)
1990 – Melanie Appleby (British dance, pop & R&B singer, Mel & Kim)
1994 – Arthur Altman (American popular songwriter, "All Or Nothing At All")
1995 – Charles Baskerville (American doo wop, R&B & soul singer, The Limelites, The Drifters)
1996 – Jos Kunst (Dutch composer & musicologist)
2007 – Brent Liles (American punk rock bass guitarist & singer, Social Distortion, Agent Orange)
2008 – Frank Lewin (American composer, music theorist & teacher)

01-17b: Junior Kimbrough : Most Things Haven't Worked Out 1997 - Czesław Niemen : Enigmatic 1970 | Strange Is This World 1972 - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble : BBC Archive Recordings 1970-1979

1994 – Noël Chiboust (French jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, clarinetist & bandleader)
1996 – Robert Covington (American blues drummer & singer)
1996 – Mostafa Sid Ahmed [مصطفى سيد احمد] (Sudanese singer, songwriter, oud player & teacher, active also in Russia, Egypt & Qatar)
1998 – Junior Kimbrough (American blues singer & guitarist)
2000 – Philip Jones (English trumpeter & leader of Philip Jones Brass Ensemble)
2002 – Eddie Meduza [Errol Leonard Norstedt] (Swedish rockabilly & Dansband composer, singer & guitarist)
2003 – Balint Vazsonyi (Hungarian pianist & political journalist)
2004 – Czesław Niemen (Polish rock & folk singer, songwriter & keyboardist)
2011 – Don Kirshner (American pop & rock songwriter, music publisher & manager, The Monkees, The Archies, Kansas)

01-17a: Blind Alfred Reed Complete Recordings 1927-1929 - Charlie Ventura 1945-1951 - Albinoni Oboe Concerti / Holliger | Elhorst 1979 - Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga String Quartets / Guilet Quartet

Not shown: Santino Garsi da Parma, Nicolo Rubini, Carl Baermann & Gottfried Rüdinger

1604 – Santino Garsi da Parma (Italian lutenist & composer)
1625 – Nicolo Rubini (Italian composer)
1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu (French composer, harpsichordist & organist)
1751 – Tomaso Albinoni (Italian composer, violinist & singer)
1788 – Alessio Prati (Italian composer, harpsichordist & singer)
1826 – Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga y Balzola (Spanish composer & violinist, "the Spanish Mozart")
1856 – Thomas Attwood Walmisley (English composer & organist, godson of Mozart's pupil Thomas Attwood)
1869 – Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky [Александр Даргомыжский] (Russian composer)
1890 – Salomon Sulzer [סלומון זולצר] (Austrian hazzan & composer)
1891 – Johannes Verhulst (Dutch composer, conductor & violinist)
1892 – Alexandre Levy (Brazilian composer, pianist & conductor)
1913 – Carl Baermann, Jr (German pianist, teacher & composer)
1942 – Frederick Jerome Work (American folksong collector & arranger)
1946 – Gottfried Rüdinger (German composer)
1956 – Blind Alfred Reed (American folk, country & old-time fiddler, singer & songwriter)
1969 – Grażyna Bacewicz (Polish composer & violinist)
1970 – Simon Kovar (Lithuanian-born American bassoonist)
1970 – Billy Stewart (American R&B & soul singer, pianist & drummer)
1992 – Charlie Ventura (American jazz tenor saxophonist & bandleader)

01-16b: Ike Quebec : Blue & Sentimental 1961 - Ponchielli : La Gioconda / Caballé | Pavarotti | Milnes | Bartoletti 1980 - Bach English Suites / Leonhardt 1984 - Delibes : Coppelia | Sylvia Suites / Fournet 1953

Not shown: Antonín Josef Alois Volanek & Annie Patterson

 

Not shown: Henryk Klejne & Charlie Galbraith

1703 – Matteo Coferati (Italian priest, composer & music theorist)
1817 – Antonín Josef Alois Volanek (Czech composer)
1864 – Anton Schindler (Austrian associate, secretary & biographer of Beethoven)
1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli (Italian composer)
1891 – Léo Delibes (French ballet & opera composer)
1911 – Wilhelm Berger (German composer, pianist & conductor)
1919 – Jaroslav Jeremiáš (Czech composer, conductor & pianist, son of Bohuslav, brother of Otakar)
1920 – Reginald De Koven (American music critic, operetta composer & conductor)
1934 – Annie Patterson (Irish organist, teacher, writer & composer)
1935 – Richard Wetz (German composer)
1957 – Arturo Toscanini (Italian conductor)
1961 – János Viski (Hungarian composer & violinist, pupil of Kodály)
1963 – Gilardo Gilardi (Argentine composer, pianist & conductor)
1963 – Ike Quebec (American jazz tenor saxophonist)
1969 – Vernon Duke [Vladimir Dukelsky, Владимир Дукельский] (Russian-born American musical theater & classical composer & songwriter)
1972 – David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.] (American pianist, singer, songwriter, actor & record producer, Alvin and the Chipmunks)
1974 – Roy Bargy (American pop composer, conductor, arranger & pianist, first to record Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F)
1976 – Henryk Klejne (Polish composer, conductor & pianist)
1995 – Bill Dillard (American jazz trumpeter, singer & actor)
1996 – Marcia Davenport (American novelist, music critic & radio commentator)
1997 – Charlie Galbraith (English jazz trombonist)
2000 – Will "Dub" Jones (American R&B bass singer, The Coasters, The Cadets)
2000 – John Morris Rankin (Canadian country & folk fiddler & pianist, The Rankin Family)
2012 – Gustav Leonhardt (Dutch harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, claviorganist, fortepianist, conductor, musicologist & music editor)

01-16a: Toscanini Wax Windfall !! : Beethoven Bizet Brahms Dukas Dvorak Gershwin Mozart Prokofiev Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky & Wagner !!

1957 – Arturo Toscanini (Italian conductor)

That wasn't too clever of me, was it? Twelve albums by the greatest Italian conductor of the 20th century, and I somehow managed to not include a single Italian composer.

01-15a: Elton John Christmas in London 1974 - Jack Teagarden 1944-1947 - G.B. Sammartini : Complete Early Symphonies / Ferrari 1994

Not shown: Charles-Hubert Gervais & Johannes Herbst

Not shown: Viktor Patrik Vretblad, Francesco Maria Saraceni & Euphemia Giannini-Gregory

1744 – Charles-Hubert Gervais (French composer)
1755 – Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaja (Italian organist, harpsichordist, composer & organ builder)
1765 – Carlmann Kolb (German priest, organist & composer)
1775 – Giovanni Battista Sammartini (Italian composer, organist, choirmaster & teacher)
1788 – Gaetano Latilla (Italian opera composer & harpsichordist, uncle of Niccolò Piccinni)
1812 – Johannes Herbst (German composer, active also in the United States)
1816 – Dr. Henry Harington (English physician, composer, poet, mathematician & classical scholar)
1844 – Joseph [Giuseppe] Mazzinghi (Italian-born English composer, active in Australia)
1864 – Isaac Nathan (English-born Australian composer, musicologist & journalist)
1904 – Eduard Lassen (Danish-born Belgian composer & pianist, active also in Germany & Italy)
1907 – Karl August Franz Sales Freiherr von Perfall (German composer & opera house director)
1909 – Ernest Reyer (French opera composer & music critic)
1915 – Guillaume Couture (Canadian teacher, conductor, choirmaster, composer, organist, baritone & music critic)
1924 – Géza Zichy (Hungarian composer & world's first professional one-armed pianist)
1926 – Enrico Toselli (Italian pianist & composer)
1935 – Lucien Fugère (French baritone)
1953 – Viktor Patrik Vretblad (Swedish composer)
1961 – Francesco Maria Saraceni (Italian composer)
1964 – Jack Teagarden (American jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer & singer, "Father of Jazz Trombone")
1967 – Albert Szirmai (Hungarian operetta composer & pianist, active also in the United States)
1973 – Jef Alpaerts (Belgian pianist & conductor)
1974 – Karel Salmon [Karl Salomon] (German-born Israeli composer, conductor, pianist & baritone)
1979 – Euphemia Giannini-Gregory (American soprano & vocal coach, Curtis Institute of Music)
1987 – Ray Bolger (American actor, singer & dancer)
1987 – Dolores Hawkins (American R&B singer)
1989 – Günter Reich (German-born Israeli baritone)
1992 – Dee Murray (English rock bass guitarist & singer, Elton John, Spencer Davis Group)
1993 – Sammy Cahn (American pop songwriter, pianist & violinist)

Sorry, it's been more than a week, hasn't it? I'll try to post more often. And as my therapist was wont to say "I'll "try" means I "won't. " When was the last time I said "I'll try" and actually did something?"

01-15b: Harry Nilsson : Pandemonium Shadow Show 1967 - Junior Wells : Come On In This House 1996 - Rossini : Barber of Seville / Bruscantini | de los Angeles | Gui 1962 - Liszt Piano Concertos / Cziffra | Vandernoot 1958 1961 - Les Baxter : Ritual of the Savage 1951

1994 – Philippe Brun (French jazz trumpeter & violinist, active also in Switzerland)
1994 – Georges Cziffra [Cziffra György)] (Hungarian-born French pianist)
1994 – Harry Nilsson (American rock & pop singer, songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist & harmonica player)
1995 – Sollie McElroy (American R&B singer, The Flamingos)
1996 – Les Baxter (American film & exotica pianist, percussionist & composer)
1998 – Junior Wells (American blues singer, songwriter & harmonica player)
2003 – Doris Fisher (American jazz & pop singer & songwriter)
2005 – Victoria de los Ángeles (Spanish soprano)