Mozart - Lacrimosa (from the Requiem)

Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Swedish Radio Choir.

Pachelbel - Canon in D Major

The Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Christopher Hogwood.

Dee Dee Sharp - Mashed Potato Time

Guitar Shorty - Slow Burn

Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows

Probably my favorite Roger Waters song.

Amy Beach - Hermit Thrush At Eve

The pianist's name is not given for some reason. It's not the composer, Amy Beach, who died in 1944. Beach is one of the woman composers whose work has been rediscovered in the last few decades. This is her Opus 92, Number 1.

Danny Gatton & Joey DeFrancesco - Well You Needn't

I've posted this before but the link is broken, so why not. Danny Gatton was a true Master of the Telecaster, while Joey DeFrancesco was one of the spearheads of the B3 revival in the nineties. Here they work out on a Thelonious Monk classic.

The Beach Boys - Help Me, Rhonda

Happy birthday to Al Jardine, here taking the lead vocal.

The Doors - Aura Studio Demos

The Doors made their first studio recordings fifty years ago (h/t Glide magazine). Fame was still a couple of years away. Here Morrison sounds very young, the whole sound is unfinished, but the results are still fascinating.

The band here was Morrison,  Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore, plus Ray’s brothers Rick Manczarek on guitar and Jim Manczarek on harmonica, along with a woman playing bass whose name is lost in the mists of time. Manczarek's brothers and the bassist would fall away, Robby Krieger would join, and the world would open up to them.

John Peel's Desert Island Discs

John Peel, longtime and deeply influential British DJ, plus the force behind all those Peel Session releases, was born on this date in 1939.

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener

H/t PK.

Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte

The Orchestra UniMi with Alessandro Crudele conducting. Not familiar with them, but they seem to know what they're doing.

Count Basie's Kansas City Seven - Lester Leaps In

Featuring Lester Young.

Jimmy Rushing - Going to Chicago

Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam

Happy birthday to Mr EC.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Gold and Silver

Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette - Sunrise

Guitar, bass, drums, but not a power trio.

Marianne Faithfull - Come and Stay With Me

Among other things, nice-sounding twelve-string guitar.

The Seeds - Can't Seem to Make You Mine

Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight

An early Jamaican hit in the USA.