Estos son los 500 álbumes favoritos de Elvis Costello

Hacer esta lista me hizo escuchar todo de nuevo", esto dijo Elvis Costello luego de reunir, por petición de Vanity Fair, una colección de 500 álbumes, incluyendo recomendaciones de temas específicos. Costello, quien comenzó su carrera musical como parte de la escena del pub rock de Londres a principios de la década de 1970 y que más tarde se mezcló con la primera ola del punk británico y del movimiento new wave, explicó que la lista incluye artistas que lo han influenciado no solo a nivel profesional sino también personal. De igual manera, reconoció que hay enormes lagunas y puntos ciegos. El punto es que quizás encuentre discos para complementar su biblioteca musical. 

Sin más preámbulo les dejamos la enorme lista: 

ABBA: Abba Gold (1992)

DAVID ACKLES: The Road to Cairo (1968); Subway to the Country (1969)

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY: The Best of Cannonball Adderley (1968)

AMY ALLISON: The Maudlin Years (1996)

MOSE ALLISON: The Best of Mose Allison (1970)

ALMAMEGRETTA: Lingo (1998)

LOUIS ARMSTRONG: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (2000)

FRED ASTAIRE: The Astaire Story (1952)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Edwin Fischer; 1934); The Six Cello Suites (Pablo Casals; 1936); Six Partitas BWV 825–830 (Andras Schiff; 1984); Mass in B Minor (conductor: Otto Klemperer; 1999)

BURT BACHARACH: The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection(1998)

CHET BAKER: The Best of Chet Baker Sings (1989); Broken Wing (1978)

THE BAND: Music from Big Pink (1968); The Band (1969)

DAVE BARTHOLEMEW: The Monkey (1985).

BÉLA BARTÓK: Six String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet; 1988).

CECILIA BARTOLI: If You Love Me, 18th Century Italian Songs (1992)

COUNT BASIE: The Atomic Mr. Basie (1957)

THE BEACH BOYS: Pet Sounds (1966); Carl and the Passions—So Tough (1972); Holland (1973); Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (boxed set; 1993)

BEASTIE BOYS: Paul’s Boutique (1989)

THE BEATLES: With the Beatles (1963); A Hard Day’s Night (1964); Help! (1965); Rubber Soul (1965); Revolver (1966); Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967); The Beatles (White Album; 1968); Past Masters, Vol. 2(1988)

BECK: Odelay (1996)

BEE GEES: Best of Bee Gees (1969)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Otto Klemperer Live at the Concertgebouw(1954), Symphony No. 9; Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111 (Sviatoslav Richter; 1965); Symphony No. 7 (conductor: Carlos Kleiber; 1975); Late Quartets(Budapest String Quartet; 1997); Violin Concerto (soloist: Yehudi Menuhin; 1997)

DEREK BELL: Derek Bell Plays with Himself (1981)

TONY BENNETT and BILL EVANS: The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album(1975)

ALBAN BERG: Violin Concerto (soloist: Anne-Sofie Mutter; 1993)

HECTOR BERLIOZ: Damnation of Faust (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1987)

AGNES BERNELLE: Father’s Lying Dead on the Ironing Board (1995)

LEONARD BERNSTEIN: West Side Story (1957)

CHUCK BERRY: Chuck Berry’s Golden Decade (1967)

BJÖRK: Debut (1993); Post (1995)

RUBÉN BLADES: Buscando America (1984)

BOBBY BLUE BLAND: Two Steps from the Blues (1961)

BLONDIE: The Best of Blondie (1981)

BLUR: 13 (1999)

DIRK BOGARDE: Lyrics for Lovers (1960)

DAVID BOWIE: Hunky Dory (1971); Station to Station (1976); Low ( 1977); Heroes (1977)

JOHANNES BRAHMS: Ein Deutsches Requiem (conductor: Otto Klemperer; 1962)

JOHNNY BRISTOL: Hang On in There Baby (1974)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (soloist: Ian Bostridge; 1996)

CHARLES BROWN: Driftin’ Blues: The Best of Charles Brown (1992)

CLIFFORD BROWN: Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)

JAMES BROWN: Live at the Apollo (1963); Star Time(boxed set; 1991)

JACKSON BROWNE: Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using) (1972)

ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 (conductor: Gunter Wand; 1990).

JEFF BUCKLEY: Grace (1994)

HAROLD BUDD and BRIAN ENO: Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror(1980)

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD: Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield(1969)

BULGARIAN STATE RADIO & TELEVISION FEMALE CHOIR: Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares (1990).

T BONE BURNETT: Proof Through the Night (1983); T Bone Burnett (1986); The Talking Animals (1988)

THE BYRDS: Younger than Yesterday (1967); The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968); Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)

JOHN CALE: Music for a New Society (1982)

MARIA CALLAS: Five Heroines—Operatic Extracts (1990)

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND: Trout Mask Replica(1969); Clear Spot (1972)

HOAGY CARMICHAEL: Hoagy Sings Carmichael (1956)

JAMES CARR: At the Dark End of the Street (1987)

JOHNNY CASH: The Essential Johnny Cash (1992)

JUNE CARTER CASH: Press On (1999)

RAY CHARLES: Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962); A Life in Music (1982)

CHIC: Chic’s Greatest Hits (1979)

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (pianist, conductor: Krystian Zimerman; 1978)

THE CLASH: London Calling (1979);  The Singles (1991)

PATSY CLINE: Greatest Hits (1973)

THE COASTERS: The Ultimate Coasters (1986)

LEONARD COHEN: The Best of Leonard Cohen (1976); More Best Of (1997)

ORNETTE COLEMAN: The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

JOHN COLTRANE: My Favorite Things (1961); The Impulse! Years (1993)

RY COODER: Paradise and Lunch (1974)

SAM COOKE: Night Beat (1963)

DON COVAY: Checkin’ In with Don Covay (1989)

NOËL COWARD: The Master’s Voice: His HMV Recordings (1993)

BING CROSBY: His Legendary Years (1993)

DAVID CROSBY: If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971 )

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG: Déjà Vu (1970)

CROWDED HOUSE: Temple of Low Men (1988)

D’ANGELO: Voodoo (2000)

MILES DAVIS: Birth of the Cool (1956); Miles Ahead (1957); Porgy and Bess (1958); Kind of Blue (1959); Sketches of Spain (1960); My Funny Valentine (1964); In a Silent Way (1969), “Shhh” On the Corner (1969)

MILES DAVIS and STAN GETZ and LEE KONITZ: Conception (1975)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Pelléas et Mélisande (conductor: Claudio Abbado; 1992); Preludes (Krystian Zimerman; 1994)

ALFRED DELLER: William Byrd and His Age (1956)

DESTINY’S CHILD: The Writing’s on the Wall (1999)

BO DIDDLEY: His Best (1997)

DR. JOHN: Dr. John’s Gumbo (1972)

ERIC DOLPHY: Outward Bound (1960), “G.W.” Iron Man (1969)

LEE DORSEY: Ride Your Pony (1966); Yes We Can (1970)

JOHN DOWLAND: Awake Sweet Love (The Deller Consort; 1965); Dowland: The Collected Works (Consort of Musicke; 1980)

JOHN DOWLAND and WILLIAM BYRD: Night’s Black Bird (Fretwork; 1989).

HENRI DUPARC: Melodies (baritone: Bernard Kruysen; 1971)

JIMMY DURANTE: September Song (1963)

IAN DURY: New Boots and Panties!! (1977)

DYKE AND THE BLAZERS: So Sharp (1983).

BOB DYLAN: Bringing It All Back Home (1965); Blonde on Blonde (1966); John Wesley Harding (1968); Planet Waves (1974); Blood on the Tracks (1974); The Basement Tapes (1975); Shot of Love (1981 ); Time out of Mind (1997); Bob Dylan Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert (1998).

EDWARD ELGAR: Symphony No. 1 (conductor: Edward Elgar; 1957); Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pré; 1965).

DUKE ELLINGTON: Anatomy of a Murder (1959); . . . And His Mother Called Him Bill (1968); The Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (boxed set; 1999)

DUKE ELLINGTON with CHARLES MINGUS and MAX ROACH: Money Jungle (1962)

EMINEM: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)

THE BILL EVANS TRIO: Waltz for Debby (1961)

THE GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA: Out of the Cool (1960)

THE EVERLY BROTHERS: It’s Everly Time (1960)

THE FAIRFIELD FOUR: I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray (1997)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL: Blazing Away (1990)

GEORGIE FAME: Sound Venture (1966)

GABRIEL FAURÉ: L’Horizon Chimérique (baritone: Gerard Souzay; 1999).

MORTON FELDMAN: Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety (1991 ) (conductor on “American Elegies”: John Adams).

ELLA FITZGERALD: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook(1956)

ELLA FITZGERALD and LOUIS ARMSTRONG: The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on Verve (1997)

FLEETWOOD MAC: Greatest Hits (1971)

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)

THE FOUR TOPS: Anthology (1974)

ARETHA FRANKLIN: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967); Aretha’s Gold (1969); Amazing Grace ( 1972).

BILL FRISELL: Quartet (1996)

FUGEES: The Score (1996)

FUNKADELIC: One Nation Under a Groove (1978)

MARVIN GAYE: Super Hits (1970); What’s Going On (1971); Let’s Get It On (1973); Here, My Dear (1979)

MARVIN GAYE and TAMMI TERRELL: Greatest Hits (1970)

STAN GETZ: Stan Getz Plays (1952)

STAN GETZ and ASTRID GILBERTO: Getz/Gilberto (1963)

DIZZY GILLESPIE: Perceptions (1961)

ALLEN GINSBERG: The Lion for Real (1989).

GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION: Release Yourself (1974).

GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE and THE SUGAR HILL GANG: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five vs. the Sugar Hill Gang(1997)

GRATEFUL DEAD: Workingman’s Dead (1970); American Beauty (1970); Europe ’72 (1972); Wake of the Flood (1973)

AL GREEN: Call Me (1973); You Say It! Raw! Rare! and Unreleased! (1990)

EDVARD GRIEG: Lieder (soloist: Anne Sofie von Otter; 1993)

CHARLES HADEN and HANK JONES: Steal Away (1995)

MERLE HAGGARD: The Best of the Best of (1972)

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Marian Cantatas (mezzo-soprano: Anne Sofie von Otter; 1994); Heroes (countertenor: Andreas Scholl; 1999)

TIM HARDIN: Tim Hardin (1966)

SLIM HARPO: The Best of Slim Harpo (1997)

EMMYLOU HARRIS: Elite Hotel (1976)

PJ HARVEY: Rid of Me (1993)

COLEMAN HAWKINS: Body and Soul (1988); Rainbow Mist (1993)

JOSEPH HAYDN: Complete Piano Sonatas (Alfred Brendel; 1987); String Quartets (Quatuor Mosaïques; 1990)

TUBBY HAYES: Tubby’s Groove (1959)

RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS: Blank Generation (1977)

JIMI HENDRIX: Smash Hits (1968); Electric Ladyland(1968); Live at Woodstock (1994)

THE HEPTONES: Night Food (1976)

DAN HICKS AND HIS HOT LICKS: Last Train to Hicksville . . . the Home to Happy Feet (1973)

LAURYN HILL: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

JOHNNY HODGES: Passion Flower (1995)

BILLIE HOLIDAY: Lady in Satin (1958); The Billie Holiday Story (1972); The Complete Decca Recordings (1991)

THE HOLLIES: The Best of the Hollies (1978)

HOWLIN’ WOLF: His Best (1997)

THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Super Hits (1976)

CHARLES IVES: The Unanswered Question for Orchestra (conductor: Leonard Bernstein; 1998).

JACKSON 5: Greatest Hits (1971)

THE JAM: All Mod Cons (1978)

SKIP JAMES: The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James (1994)

LEOŠ JANÁČEK: String Quartets (Talich Quartet; 1994)

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: Crown of Creation (1968)

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN: Psychocandy (1985)

ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM: Jazz Masters 13 (1995)

LITTLE WILLIE JOHN: Free at Last (1970)

ROBERT JOHNSON: Complete Recordings (1990)

GEORGE JONES: Anniversary: Ten Years of Hits (1982); Cup of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years (1994)

OUM KALTSOUM: Anthologie de la Musique Arabe, Vols. 1–8 (1989).

THE KINKS: The Ultimate Collection (1989)

RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK: The Inflated Tear (1968).

ERICH KORNGOLD: From the Operas of Erich Korngold (1993)

THE LA’S: The La’s (1990)

PEGGY LEE: Miss Peggy Lee (1998)

JOHN LENNON: Plastic Ono Band (1970); Imagine (1971); Shaved Fish (1975)

ALAN JAY LERNER AND FREDERICK LOEWE: My Fair Lady (1956); Gigi (1958)

JERRY LEE LEWIS: Rockin’ My Life Away (1991)

LITTLE FEAT: Sailin’ Shoes (1972); Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (1974)

LITTLE RICHARD: Here’s Little Richard (1957); The Explosive Little Richard (1967)

THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of the Louvin Brothers (1995)

THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL: Anthology (1990)

NICK LOWE: Jesus of Cool (1978); The Impossible Bird(1994)

DONAL LUNNY: Donal Lunny (1987)

LORETTA LYNN: The Best of Loretta Lynn (1999)

MACHITO AND HIS AFRO-CUBANS: Cubop City (1992)

MADNESS: The Rise and Fall (1982)

GUSTAV MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 (conductor: Klaus Tennstedt; 1968)

THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS: A Gathering of Flowers (1970)

AIMEE MANN: Whatever (1993)

BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS: African Herbsman (1972); Natty Dread (1975)

THE MARVELETTES: The Return of the Marvelettes (1970)

GROUCHO MARX: An Evening with Groucho (1972)

MASSIVE ATTACK: Protection (1994)

MATCHING MOLE: Matching Mole (1972)

CURTIS MAYFIELD: The Very Best of Curtis Mayfield (1996)

CURTIS MAYFIELD and THE IMPRESSIONS: The Anthology 1961–1977 (1992)

PAUL McCARTNEY: McCartney (1970); Flaming Pie(1997)

KATE AND ANNA McGARRIGLE: Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1975)

TOMMY McLAIN: The Essential Collection (1997)

THE METERS: The Best of the Meters (1975)

MINA: Gli Anni d’Oro (1984)

CHARLES MINGUS: Blues and Roots (1959); Mingus Ah-Um (1959); Pre-Bird (also known as Mingus Revisited) (1960); Mingus at Antibes (1960); Mingus Plays Piano (1963); Let My Children Hear Music (1971); Epitaph (1990)

JONI MITCHELL: Blue (1971); For the Roses(1972); Court and Spark (1974); The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975); Hejira(1976); Taming the Tiger (1998)

THE MODERN LOVERS: The Modern Lovers (1976)

THELONIOUS MONK: Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (1951); Brilliant Corners (1957); Monk’s Music (1958)

BILL MONROE: The Music of Bill Monroe (1994)”

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI: L’Incoronazione di Poppea (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1993)

MOONDOG: The Story of Moondog (1957)

VAN MORRISON: Astral Weeks (1968); Moondance (1970); His Band and Street Choir (1970); Veedon Fleece(1974)

JELLY ROLL MORTON: Birth of the Hot (1995)

THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION: We’re Only in It for the Money (1968)

THE MOVE: The Best of the Move (1974)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 (pianist: Clifford Curzon; 1970); Requiem (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1986); Quartets Dedicated to Haydn (Quatuor Mosaïques; 1991); La Clemenza di Tito(conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1993); Le Nozze di Figaro (conductor: Karl Bohm; 1993)

MODEST MUSSORGSKY: Songs and Dances of Death (soloist: Sergei Leiferkus; 1995).

ROY NATHANSON: Fire at Keaton’s Bar and Grill (2000)

OLIVER NELSON: The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961); Straight Ahead (1961)

WILLIE NELSON: Stardust (1978)

BOB NEUWIRTH: Back to the Front (1988)

AARON NEVILLE: Greatest Hits (1990)

RANDY NEWMAN: Randy Newman (1968); Sail Away (1972); Good Old Boys (1974); Trouble in Paradise (1983)

NEW YORK DOLLS: New York Dolls (1973)

NIRVANA: Nevermind (1991)

LUIGI NONO: Fragmente-Stille an Diotima (LaSalle Quartet; 1983).

NRBQ: NRBQ (1969)

LAURA NYRO and LABELLE: Gonna Take a Miracle (1971)

ROY ORBISON: The Orbison Way (1966)

AUGUSTUS PABLO: El Rockers (2000)

GIOVANNI PALESTRINA: Missa Viri Galilaei (direction: Philippe Herreweghe; 1992).

CHARLIE PARKER: The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions (1978)

VAN DYKE PARKS: Discover America (1972)

GRAM PARSONS: GP (1973); Grievous Angel (1974)

ANN PEEBLES: I Can’t Stand the Rain (1974).

DAN PENN: Nobody’s Fool (1973)

DAN PENN AND SPOONER OLDHAM: Moments from This Theater (1999)

SAM PHILLIPS: Martinis and Bikinis (1994)

THE POGUES: Rum, Sodomy & the Lash (1985)

DULCE PONTES: Caminhos (1998),

IGGY POP: The Idiot (1977); Lust for Life (1977)

PORTISHEAD: Dummy (1994); Portishead (1997)

FRANCIS POULENC: Melodies (baritone: Pierre Bernac; 1950)

BUD POWELL: The Best of Bud Powell on Verve (1994)

ELVIS PRESLEY: The Sun Sessions (1976); The Memphis Album (1987)

PRETENDERS: Pretenders (1980); The Singles (1987)

PRINCE: Around the World in a Day (1985); Parade (1986); Sign of the Times (1987)

JOHN PRINE: John Prine (1972)

SERGEY PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet (conductor: Charles Dutoit; 1998)

PULP: Different Class (1995)

HENRY PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas (Dido: Dame Janet Baker; 1993); Fantasias & in Nomines (Fretwork; 1995)

RADIOHEAD: The Bends (1995); O.K. Computer (1997)

BONNIE RAITT: Give It Up (1972)

OTIS REDDING: The Very Best of Otis Redding (1992)

JIMMY REED: The Best of Jimmy Reed (1962)

LOU REED: Berlin (1973)

R.E.M.: Reckoning (1984); Green (1988)

THE REPLACEMENTS: All Shook Down (1990)

MARC RIBOT: Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos (1998)

CHARLIE RICH: Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich (1997)

JEANNIE ROBERTSON: The Queen Among the Heather (1998)

SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES: The Anthology (1973)

THE ROLLING STONES: Aftermath (1966); Between the Buttons (1967); Let It Bleed (1969); Some Girls (1978)

SONNY ROLLINS: Saxophone Colossus (1964)

DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES: The Ultimate Collection (1997)

GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: Rossini Arias (mezzo-soprano: Cecilia Bartoli; 1989)

OTIS RUSH: His Cobra Recordings (1989)

GEORGE RUSSELL: The Jazz Workshop (1956)

SALT’N PEPA: The Best of Salt’N Pepa (1999),

SAM AND DAVE: The Best of Sam and Dave (1969)

FRANZ SCHUBERT: B-flat Major Piano Sonata, D. 960 (Alfred Brendel; 1971); F-sharp Minor Piano Sonata (fragment), D. 571 (Andras Schiff; 1993); Winterreise (Wolfgang Holzmair; 1996); 22 Lieder (boxed set; 1997)

JIMMY SCOTT: Heaven (1996).

RAYMOND SCOTT: Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights (1992); Manhattan Research Inc. (2000)

ANDRES SEGOVIA: Andres Segovia and His Contemporaries, Vol. 6(1999) (Maria Luisa Anido: Bouree BWV 1009, J. S. Bach).

THE SEX PISTOLS: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)

RON SEXSMITH: Ron Sexsmith (1995)

DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No. 1 (cellist: Mstislav Rostropovich; 1959); The String Quartets (Brodsky Quartet; 1991); 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (pianist: Tatiana Nikolayeva; 1995); Shostakovich Plays Shostakovich, Cello Sonata, Op. 40 (cellist: Mstislav Rostropovich; pianist: Dmitry Shostakovich; 1998); Symphony No. 14 (soloists: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Julia Varady; 2000)

PAUL SIMON: Paul Simon (1972); There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (1973)

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL: Bookends (1968)

NINA SIMONE: The Best of Nina Simone (1969)

FRANK SINATRA: In the Wee Small Hours (1955); Songs for Swingin’ Lovers (1956); Only the Lonely (1958); No One Cares (1959); Live in Paris (1962)

FRANK SINATRA and ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)

PERCY SLEDGE: When a Man Loves a Woman (1967)

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Anthology (1981)

THE SMALL FACES: The Immediate Years (1995)

ELLIOTT SMITH: XO (1998)

THE SMITHS: The Smiths (1984),

SON VOLT: Trace (1995)

THE SPECIALS: The Specials (1979)

PHIL SPECTOR: Back to Mono (1991)

THE SPINNERS: The Best of the Spinners (1978)

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: Dusty in Memphis (1969); Greatest Hits (1979)

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle(1973); The River (1980); Tunnel of Love(1987); The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)

SQUEEZE: East Side Story (1981)

THE STANLEY BROTHERS: The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers(1996)

STEELY DAN: Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)

ROD STEWART: The Mercury Anthology (1992)

RICHARD STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier (conductor: Carlos Kleiber; 1934); Four Last Songs (soloist: Gundula Janowitz; 1996)

IGOR STRAVINSKY: L’Histoire du Soldat (conductor: Stravinsky; 1938); Le Sacre du Printemps (conductor: Leonard Bernstein; 1958); Igor Stravinsky Edition (conductor: Stravinsky; 1963)

THE STYLISTICS: The Best of the Stylistics (1975)

JUNE TABOR: Abyssinians (1983)

HOWARD TATE: Get It While You Can (1967)

ART TATUM: 20th Century Piano Genius (1992)

JOHNNIE TAYLOR: Raw Blues (1968)

TELEVISION: Marquee Moon (1977)

THE TEMPTATIONS: Anthology (1973)

JOE TEX: The Best of Joe Tex (1965)

THEM: The Story of Them (1997)

IRMA THOMAS: Ruler of Hearts (1989).

RICHARD AND LINDA THOMPSON: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)

HENRY THREADGILL: Easily Slip into Another World (1987)

T.L.C.: Fanmail (1999)

MEL TORME: Easy to Remember (1979),

TRIBE CALLED QUEST: Anthology (1999),

TRICKY: Maxinquaye (1995)

LENNIE TRISTANO: The New Tristano (1960)

BIG JOE TURNER: The Very Best of Big Joe Turner (1998)

U2: The Unforgettable Fire (1984); Achtung Baby (1991); Pop (1997)

THE UNDERTONES: The Undertones (1980)

VELVET UNDERGROUND: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966)

THE VERVE: Urban Hymns (1997)

ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER: Wings in the Night (1996)

RICHARD WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde (conductor: Wilhelm Furtwangler; 1952); Der Ring des Nibelungen (conductor: George Solti; 1983).

PORTER WAGONER AND DOLLY PARTON: The Right Combination: Burning the Midnight Oil (1972)

TOM WAITS: Swordfishtrombones (1983); Rain Dogs (1985); Frank’s Wild Years (1987); Bone Machine (1992); Mule Variations(1999)

SCOTT WALKER: Tilt (1995)

DIONNE WARWICK: The Windows of the World (1968)

MUDDY WATERS: More Real Folk Blues (1967)

DOC WATSON: The Essential Doc Watson (1973)

ANTON WEBERN: Complete Works (conductor: Pierre Boulez; 2000).

KURT WEILL: O Moon of Alabama (1994)

KENNY WHEELER with LEE KONITZ, BILL FRISELL and DAVE HOLLAND: Angel Song (1997).

THE WHO: My Generation (1965); Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy (1971)

HANK WILLIAMS: 40 Greatest Hits (1978)

LUCINDA WILLIAMS: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)

SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON: The Best of Sonny Boy Williamson (1986)

JESSE WINCHESTER: Jesse Winchester (1970)

WINGS: Band on the Run (1973)

HUGO WOLF: Lieder (soloist: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; 2000)

BOBBY WOMACK: The Best of Bobby Womack (1992)

STEVIE WONDER: Talking Book (1972); Innervisions (1973); Fulfillingness’ First Finale (1974)

BETTY WRIGHT: The Best of Betty Wright (1992)

ROBERT WYATT: Mid-Eighties (1993)

LESTER YOUNG: Ultimate Lester Young (1998),

NEIL YOUNG: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969); After the Goldrush (1970); Time Fades Away (1973); On the Beach (1974); Freedom (1989); Ragged Glory (1990)

ZAMBALLARANA: Zamballarana (1997), “Ventu.”