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MUSIC, Page 100BEST OF '88
Pop
RUBEN BLADES: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (Elektra). The
Panamanian-born singer-songwriter's first album in English:
definitive proof that great music has no language problem.
TONI CHILDS: UNION (A&M). In a year of auspicious breakthroughs
for women writer-performers, Childs' was the standout.
JARVIS: WHATEVER WORKS (MCA). Jazz, rock, pop, country and New
Age smoothly reconciled by an adept keyboardist with a knack for
graceful melody.
LYLE LOVETT: PONTIAC (MCA). Quirky, haunting roadhouse tunes
with an underhanded comic flair.
RANDY NEWMAN: LAND OF DREAMS (Reprise). Lacerating spiritual
autobiography and unsparing social wit. Pretty good whorehouse
piano too.
THE O'KANES: TIRED OF THE RUNNIN' (Columbia). Revisionist
country music, featuring unassuming instrumental virtuosity and a
spiritual affinity for the sounds of the distant hills.
THE TRAVELING WILBURYS: TRAVELING WILBURYS, VOLUME ONE
(Wilbury). In transparent disguise, some rock heavyweights --
including Bob Dylan, George Harrison and the lamented Roy Orbison
-- turn out the most infectious lightweight pop of the year.
U2: RATTLE AND HUM (Island). A diary of the band's discovery
of a mythical musical America. A concert album like no other.
THE WATERBOYS: FISHERMAN'S BLUES (Chrysalis). Watch your backs:
it's another Irish rock band, poised for greatness.
BRIAN WILSON: BRIAN WILSON (Sire). Anthems from 'round the bend
and supernal pop craftsmanship.
Classical
JOHN ADAMS: NIXON IN CHINA (Nonesuch). A waltz across the Great
Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry and Mao: the year's best new opera
recording.
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 1 AND 6 (EMI). Roger Norrington and
the London Classical Players re-create on original instruments the
lusty sounds of Beethoven's time.
GERSHWIN: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, RHAPSODY IN BLUE, CONCERTO IN
F (Arabesque). A player in Gershwin's 1934 band, Mitch Miller
conducts with love and gusto.
HANDEL: MESSIAH (Archiv). A definitive performance from Trevor
Pinnock and the English Concert. Hallelujah!
KERN: SHOW BOAT (EMI). The landmark American musical just keeps
on rollin' along in a bravura operatic version with Frederica von
Stade and Teresa Stratas.
MOZART: THE COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS (Philips). Crisp, elegant
pianism from Japanese-born Mitsuko Uchida.
MICHAEL NYMAN: THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT (CBS).
The first neurological opera, a dazzling minimalist display based
on a case history from the Oliver Sacks best seller.
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: THREE SYMPHONIES, CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOL, RUSSIAN
EASTER FESTIVAL OVERTURE (DG). There is much more to Rimsky than
Scheherazade, as Neemi Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony prove.
SONGS OF AMERICA (Nonesuch). From Foster and Ives to Copland
and Carter, a tour de force by mezzo Jan DeGaetani and pianist
Gilbert Kalish.
WAGNER: DIE WALKURE (DG). With Hildegard Behrens, James Morris
and James Levine, the Met's new Ring cycle is off to a rousing
start.