Overviews

Architecture


A condensed overview of what has been posted so far on this subject. I have ranked alphabetically per location.

Abu Dhabi [UAE] Aldar Headquarters
Albany [USA] The Egg
Amsterdam [NL] EYE Film Institute
Astana [KAZ] Central Concert Hall
Barcelona [E] Torre Mare Nostrum
Beijing [PRC] National Grand Theatre
Bilbao [E] Guggenheim Mueseum
Boston [USA] John F Kennedy library
Brussels [B] Atomium
Canberra [AUS] JCSMR
Cleveland [USA] R&R Hall of Fame
Colarodo [USA] Air Force Academy Chapel
Curitiba [BRA] Oscar Niemeyer Museum
Delhi [IN] Lotus Temple
Dubai [UAE] Burj Al Arab
Dubai [UAE] Burj Dubai
Dubai [UAE] Dubai Dreams
Durban [SAF] Moses Mabhida Stadium
Falkirk [UK] Falkirk Wheel
Glasgow [UK] Clyde Auditorium
Groningen [NL] Gasunie Gebouw
Guangzhou [PRC] Guangzhou Tower
Helsinki [SF] Finlandia Hall
Imabari [J] Tokyo Ito Museum
Kachsiung [ROC] World Games Stadium
Kuwait City [KUW] Al Hamra Tower
Lelystad [NL] Theatre Agora
London [UK] Swiss Re building (Gherkin)
Lyon [F] Airport Station
Malmo [S] Turning Torso
Minsk [BEL] National Library
Munich [D] BMW Welt
Niteroi [BRZ] Contemporary Art Museum
Paris [F] La Grande Arche
Prague [CZ] Fred and Ginger
Reykjavik [ICE] Hallgrimskirkja
Rome [I] Jubilee Church
Ronchamp [F] Notre Dame du Haut
Shanghai [PRC] Grand Theatre
Shanghai [PRC] Marriott
Shanghai [PRC] World Financial Centre
Singapore [SIN] Esplanade Theatres
Stewart Township [USA] Fallingwater
Stuttgart [D] Mercedes Benz Museum
Stykkisholmur [ICE] Stykkisholmur Church
Sydney [AUS] Opera House
Tenerife [E] Auditorio Santa Cruz
Toronto [CAN] Michael Lee Chin Crystal Ontario
Valencia [E] House on the rocks
Valencia [E] Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts
Vienna [A] Wotruba Church

Beautiful Album covers

For my (and perhaps your) convenience's sake, an overview of the album covers covered so far - listed alphabetically per act.

Agnes Obel - Philharmonics
Alias Eye - Field of names
Alice Cooper - Billion dollar babies
Anna Ternheim - Somebody outside
Anne-Sofie von Otter - Speak low
Arena - The visitor
Arman Melies - Casino
Asia - Astra
Barney Wilen - Paris moods
Bic Runga - Birds
Biffy Clyro - Only revolutions
Billie Holiday sings
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Brian Eno - Before and after science
Brian Eno - Small craft on a milk sea
Cheryl Cole - 3 Words
Chevin - Borderland
Dave Brubeck - Brubeck meets Bach
David Bowie - Scary monsters
Dawn Upshaw - The girl with orange lips
Dead can dance - Anastasis
Delain - We are the others
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Djam Karet - Recollection harvest
Dorian Opera - Crusade 1212
Dorian Opera - No secrets
Duran Duran - Rio
Eels - Beautiful freak
ELO - Out of the blue
Firefall - Firefall
Fish - Fellini days
Flotsam and Jetsam - Ugly noise
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Giorgia - Ladra di vento
Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land
Halloween - Part One
Hilde Louise - Eleven nights
Hostsonaten - Autumn symphony
Indochine - 3
IQ - Ever
Japan - Tin drum
Joe Jackson - Look sharp
Juliette Greco - No. 7
Kate Bush - Aerial
Kate Bush - The dreaming
Kate Bush - The sensual world
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Lighthouse - One fine morning
Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra
Never a hero - Bleed between the lies
Opeth - Ghost reveries
OST - Bleu
Ozric Tentacles - The yum yum tree
Peter Gabriel - Melt
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Peter Gabriel - Scratch my back
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - The division bell
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - In absentia
Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il tempo della gioia
Rick Wright - Broken china
Rocket Scientists - Oblivion days
Roxy Music - For your pleasure
Rush - Permanent waves
Sarah Blasko - As day follows night
Selena Gomez and the Scene - When the sun goes down
Sleeping at last - Ghosts
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Smiths - The queen is dead
Sniff 'n' the tears - Fickle heart
Stacey Kent - Close your eyes
Steely Dan - Aja
Supertramp - Crisis? What crisis?
Symphony X - V: The new mythology suite
Texas - White on blonde
The Rubens - The Rubens
Therion - Lemuria
Tori Amos - Strange little girls
U2 - Boy
Uriah Heep - Demons and wizards
Votum - Time must have a stop
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Yes - Relayer

Beethoven symphony cycle by Haitink
Brahms symphony cycle by Gardiner
Brunch time jazz
Fratres by Maria Bachmann
Hendrik Andriessen Choral Works
Jazz for when you're alone
Jazz piano delight
Mahler symphonies by Maazel
Seldom Blues by Alexander Zonjic
Smetana piano works by Jitka Cechova
Terezin/Theresienstadt
Whirling dance

Classical corner

For my (and perhaps your) convenience's sake, an overview of the classical composers covered so far - listed alphabetically per composer.

ALFVEN (Sweden's strongest symphonist)
ALWYN (Beyond the movies)
ARNOLD (Eccentric Englishman)
BACH, CPE (it's in the genes)
BARBER (More than an adagio)
BAX (the Celtic symphonist)
BEACH (the female symphonist)
BERG (the serial romantic)
BLISS (a colourful composer)
BRITTEN (Britain's best?)
BRUCH (in the shadow of Brahms)
CAGE (more than 4:33 of silence)
CRUMB (accessible avant-gardist)
CRUSELL (Champion of the clarinet)
DELIUS (the vernal master)
DIAMOND (the brilliant American)
FAURE (French elegance)
FIBICH (the German Czech)
FIELD (Inventor of the nocturne)
FINZI (concerto master)
FREITAS BRANCO (a Portuguese anachronism)
FUCHS (the serenading teacher)
GLIERE (artist of the people)
GORECKI (sorrowful symphonist)
GRANADOS (a Spanish specialty)
GRIFFES (America's might-have-been)
GROFE (American tone painter)
GUBAIDULINA (a Tatar treat)
HARTY (Irish inspiration)
HINDEMITH (Vorsprung durch Technik)
HONEGGER (Swiss tone poet)
IVES (The American original)
KALINNIKOV (the forgotten Russian)
KARLOWICZ (a Polish secret)
LILBURN (the Nordic kiwi)
LYAPUNOV (a Russian Romantic)
MACDOWELL (the romantic American)
MOERAN (the forgotten pastoralist)
NIELSEN (Danish dynamite)
PART (the astonishing Estonian)
PIAZZOLLA (It takes one to tango)
RAFF (Master and servant)
RAUTAVAARA (Sibelius' heir)
RESPIGHI (Italian impressionist)
RIES (Beethovens secretary)
ROUSSEL (the French underdog)
SAINT-SAENS (refined romantic)
SCHMIDT (the tarnished Austrian)
SCULTHORPE (the man down under)
SHENG (the China dreamer)
STAMITZ (Mannheim master)
STENHAMMAR (Sweden's symphonist)
STRONG (American in exile)
SUK (A Czech worth checking out)
SVENDSEN (the other Norwegian)
TAKEMITSU (Japan's zensation)
TCHAIKOVSKY, B (The Boris version)
ZEMLINSKY (an overlooked Austrian)

Classics revisited

For my (and perhaps your) convenience's sake, an overview of the classics revisited topics covered so far - listed alphabetically per composer.

BACH (Passions)
BEETHOVEN (Concertos)
BRAHMS (Chamber music 1)
BRAHMS (Chamber music 2)
BRUCKNER (Symphonies)
CHOPIN (Nocturnes)
GRIEG (Orchestral works)
HANDEL (Organ concertos)
LISZT (Symphonic poems)
MAHLER (Das Lied von der Erde)
MENDELSSOHN (Symphonies)
MOZART (Wind concertos)
MUSSORGSKY (Pictures at an exhibition)
PROKOFIEV (Concertos)
RAVEL (Orchestral works)
SCHUBERT (Song cycles)
SHOSTAKOVICH (Concertos)
STRAUSS (Symphonic poems)
STRAVINKSY (Ballets)
TCHAIKOVSKY (Symphonies)
WAGNER (Operas)

Paintings

For my (and perhaps your) convenience's sake, an overview of the paintings covered so far - listed alphabetically per painter. This summary is accompanied by an obvious choice from the repertoire of Vincent van Gogh.

ALTMAN, Nathan - Anna Akhmatova
AYRTON, Michael - Sir William Walton
BOCCIONI, Umberto - Dynamism of a football player
BRAQUE, Georges - The church of Carriere-Saint-Denis
CHERNOGOLOVA, Natallia - Beatty drive Congleton
CHURCH, Frederic - The icebergs
CONSTABLE, John - Stonehenge
CONSTABLE, John - The lock
COROT, Jean Baptiste Camille - The four times of day
DALI, Salvador - A very long title ending in tiger
DE KOONING, Willem - Palissade
DE LEMPICKA, Tamara - Woman with guitar
DE LEMPICKA, Tamara - High summer
DE LEMPICKA, Tamara - Portrait of Suzy Solidor
DE LEMPICKA, Tamara - Street at night
DE STAEL, Nicolas - Le parc de Sceaux
DE STAEL, Nicolas - Les musiciens
DE VLAMINCK, Maurice - The river
DELACROIX, Eugene - Frederic Chopin and George Sand
DELAUNEY, Robert - Tour Eiffel
DERAIN, Andre - Charing Cross bridge
DIX, Otto - The dancer Anita Berber
DUFY, Raoul - Bird cage
FEININGER, Lyonel - Market church in Halle
FEININGER, Lyonel - The high shore
FRANKENTHALER, Helen - Magic carpet
FREUD, Lucien - Reflection
FREUD, Lucien - Reflection 2002
FRIEDRICH, Caspar - Abbey graveyard in the snow
GEROME, Jean-Leone - Golgotha
GLEESON, James - Sky technotronics
GLEIZES, Albert - Portrait of Jacques Nayral
GORKY, Arshile - Waterfall
GROMAIRE, Marcel - La guerre (the war)
HECKEL, Erich - Glass day
HOFMANN, Hans - The gate
HOPPER, Edward - Automat
HOPPER, Edward - Nighthawks
HULME, Frederick - Harvesting near Newark Priory
JOHNS, Jasper - Three flags
KANDINSKY, Wassily - Autumn in Bavaria
KIEFER, Anselm - Winter landscape
KIRCHNER, Ernst - A street in Berlin
KIRCHNER, Ernst - Two women in the street
KLIMT, Gustav - Adele Bloch-Bauer
KOKOSCHKA, Oskar - Augustus Bridge Dresden
KOKOSCHKA, Oskar - The tempest
LICHTENSTEIN, Roy - Drowning girl
LICHTENSTEIN, Roy - The ring
LIN, Fengmian - Four beauties
MACKE, August - Farewell
MACKE, August - Millner's shop
MACKE, August - The hat shop
MACKE, August - The red house
MAGRITTE, Rene - The lovers
MARC, Franz - Foxes
MARC, Franz - Lying dog in the snow
MARC, Franz - Piggies
MARC, Franz - The bewitched mill
MARC, Franz - The mandrill
MARC, Franz - Tiger
MATTA, Roberto - Inscape
MODIGLIANI, Amadeo - The jewess
MODIGLIANI, Amadeo - Femme a l'eventail
MODIGLIANI, Amadeo - The cello player
MONET, Claude - Autumn on the Seine at Argentueil
MONET, Claude - San Giorgio Maggiore at twilight
MOULY, Marcel - Boats in the lagune
MUCHA, Alphonse - Winter
MUNCH, Edvard - Girls on a bridge
MUNCH, Edvard - Ingwer on the beach
NAGEL, Patrick - Winter
NASH, John - Over the top
NEVINSON, Christopher - Returning to the trenches
NOLDE, Emil - Autumn sea
PAN, Yuliang - Self portrait
PECHSTEIN, Max - Rising sun
PECHSTEIN, Max - The masked woman
PICASSO, Pablo - The bull
PISSARRO, Camille - Boulevard Montmartre at night
PISSARRO, Camille - Snowscape with cows
REDON, Odilon - Ophelia among the flowers
REDON, Odilon - Orpheus
RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste - The umbrellas
RICHTER, Gerhard - Abstract 555
RICHTER, Gerhard - Abstract 686-1
RICHTER, Gerhard - Pavillion
RICHTER, Gerhard - Sailors
ROTHKO, Mark - Orange and yellow
ROTHKO, Mark - White center
SCHIELE, Egon - Mourning woman
SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, Karl - Three women at the sea
SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, Karl - Norwegian landscape
SEEHAUS, Paul Adolph - Lighthouse with rotating beam
SEEHAUS, Paul Adolph - Wiek bei Greifswald

Photographers

For my (and perhaps your) convenience's sake, an overview of the photographers covered so far - listed alphabetically per artist.

ADAMS, Ansel
ARBUS, Diane
BANGSGAARD, Christel
BARRY, Kate
BARTER, Andy
BEATON, Cecil
BEAUCHAMP, Antony
BELIN, Valerie
BENSCH, Fabrizio
BESNYO, Eva
BOND, Gavin
BOUBAT, Edouard
BRANDT, Bill
BRANDT, Nick
BRASSAI, George
BRET-DAY, Tim
BULL, Clarence Sinclair
BUTTERWORTH, Simon
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri
COLBERT, Gregory
CORBIJN, Anton
CURCIO, Adriana
DE LA ROSA, Patricia
DEMARCHELIER, Patrick
DIEUZAIDE, Jean
DOISNEAU, Robert
DON, Hong-Oai
DURAK, Attila
EVERTON, Macduff
FLACH, Tim
FORTUNA, Chris
FOWLER, Simon
FRAKER, Bud
FRISSELL, Toni
GOLDSWORTHY, Andy
GORDIN, Misha
GRANT, Anthony
GRAY, Michael
GREENBERG, Jill
GRIFFIN, Brian
HAAS, Ernst
HANSON, Pamela
HORST, Horst P
HUTH, Walde
ISSERMANN. Dominique
JACROT, Christophe
JORDAN, Chris
KARSH, Yousou
KERTESZ, Andre
KLEIN, Steven
KNIGHT, Nick
LACHAPELLE, David
LACOMBE, Brigitte
LANTING, Frans
LARTIGUE, Jacques Henri
LEEN, Nina
LEIDIG, Thomas
LESHKO, Isa
LEVY, Nina
LINDBERGH, Peter
LYNCH, Kevin
MALEONN
MANKOWITZ, Gered
MCBEAN, Angus
MCCURRY, Steve
MCDEAN, Craig
MCFARLANE, Thomas
MCLELLAN, Todd
MCNEAL, Kevin
MEISEL, Steven
MIETH, Hansel
NACHTWEY, James
NEWMAN, Arnold
NEWTON, Helmut
NIELDS, Sheryl
O'NEILL, Terry
OUTUMURO, Manuel
PENN, Irving
POLLET, Cedric
RANKIN
RITTS, Herb
RONIS, Willy
ROVERSI, Paolo
SAINT, Warwick
SCHATZ, Howard
SCHNEIDER, Florian
SHAW, Mark
SHERMAN, Cindy
SHITAGI, Dane
STAVARS, Martin
STEICHEN, Edward
SUNDSBO, Solve
SWANNELL, John
SWIETEK, Miroslaw
TESTINO, Mario
THOMPSON, Michael
TOLOT, Alberto
TOUSSAINT, Dolf
VAN DEN BERG, Heinrich
VAN DER WERF, Bianca
VAN LAMSWEERDE, Inez
VON UNWERTH, Ellen
WEBER, Bruce
WHITE, James


Unusual concertos



For my (and perhaps your) convenience's sake, an overview of the unusual concertos covered so far - listed alphabetically per concertante instrument.

Alphorn
Alto saxophone
Balalaika
Bandoneon
Baritone saxophone
Barrel organ
Basset horn
Bassoon
Bayan
Birds
Biwa and shakuhachi
Cello
Clarinet
Coloratura soprano
Cor anglais
Didgeridoo
Dizi
Double bass
Duduk
Electric guitars
Electric violin
English horn, see Cor anglais
Hardanger fiddle
Harmonica
Harp
Harpsichord
Horn
Koto
Mandolin
Marimba
Mouth organ, see Harmonica
Musical saw
Ondes Martenot
Organ
Oud
Piccolo
Prepared piano
Recorder
Saxophone, see Alto saxophone
Shakuhachi, see Biwa and shakuhachi
Sho
Singing saw, see Musical saw
Sitar
Tap dancer
Tar
Theremin
Trombone
Turntables
Untuned percussion
Vibraphone
Viola
Water


Latest update: 1 May 2013
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