Name: Harmony In My Head: Music That Inspired The Genius - Harmony In My Head: Music That Inspired The Genius
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Now You Know

It's a Blue World

Poinciana

I'll Be Seeing You

I Knew You When

After You

We'll Be Together Again

Day By Day

Angel Eyes

Love Is Just Around the Corner

Mam'selle

Speak Low

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Somebody Loves Me

You Stepped Out of a Dream

I Remember You

Love

Our Love Is Here to Stay

You Made Me Love You

Guilty

Graduation Day

Indian Summer

I'm Always Chasing Rainbows

I'll Remember April

Time Was

Little Girl Blue

Nancy (With the Laughing Face)

Their Hearts Were Full of Spring

Django Reinhardt - the Man I Love

Leonard Bernstein - Rhapsody in Blue

John Coltrane - Summertime

Oscar Peterson Trio - I Wants to Stay Here

Oscar Peterson Trio - It Ain't Necessarily So

Oscar Peterson Trio - Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

Miles Davis - Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)

Miles Davis - Summertime

Bill Evans Trio - My Man's Gone Now

Mel TormÃ© - Our Love Is Here to Stay

Earl Wild / the Boston Pops - Variations on 'I Got Rhythm'

Ray Conniff Singers - S'wonderful

Nat Adderley - I've Got a Crush on You

Julie London - They Can't Take That Away from Me

Oscar Peterson Trio - a Foggy Day (In London Town)

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge / David Willcocks - Motet: Jesu, Priceless Treasure

Helmut Walcha - the Art of Fugue in D Minor, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 1

Glenn Gould - Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829: Preambulum

Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir / Karl Richter - Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Chorus: Magnificat Anima Mea

Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir / Karl Richter - Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Trio: Suscepit Israel

Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir / Karl Richter - Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Chorus: Sicut Locutus Est

Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir / Karl Richter - Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Chorus: Gloria Patri

8-22. Marcelle Meyer - Two-Part Inventions BWV 772-786

23-36. Glenn Gould - Sinfonias (Three-Part Inventions), Nos. 2-15 BWV

788-801

Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir / Karl Richter - Mass in B Minor, BWV232: Credo: Crucifixus

Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir / Karl Richter - Mass in B Minor, BWV232: Gloria: Gratias Agimus Tibi

Yehudi Menuhin / the Bath Festival Orchestra - the Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Ricercar a 3 (A Three-Part Fugue)

Yehudi Menuhin / the Bath Festival Orchestra - the Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon in Augmentation and Contrary Motion

Radio Orchestra BeromÃ¼nster / Hermann Scherchen - the Art of Fugue in D Minor, BWV 1080: 41 Contrapunctus 9, a 4. Alla Duodecim

Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra - Cantata BWV147 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben': 42 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Samuil Feinberg - the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 43 Prelude No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 881

Item UPC: 5013929338531

Date First Available: November 13, 2026

Label: EL RECORDS

Harmony In My Head: Music That Inspired The Genius

ABOUT THE ALBUM

Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys was one of the greatest songwriters and arrangers of all time. He was inspired in his art by the music of The Four Freshmen, George Gershwin and Johann Sebastian Bach. Wilson deployed these forces to create one of the most significant albums of the 60s, 'Pet Sounds'. By the mid-1960s, the more adventurous pop groups on both sides of the Atlantic were gravitating from singles to albums as the natural format of expression; the LP offering the ideal medium for pushing commercial and creative limits. The key release of 1966 was The Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds', a lush homage to Californian adolescence, consciously created by leader Brian Wilson as a riposte to The Beatles' 'Rubber Soul'. The Beatles were deeply impressed. Declaring 'Pet Sounds' to be "the album of all time", Paul McCartney conceded that they would need to surpass anything they had previously done to equal it artistically. Late in 1964, Wilson had announced a retreat from public performance. He remained at home in order to craft a more poetic, ambitious style of songwriting and production, determined as he was to advance to (and surpass) 'Rubber Soul's deeper, more eclectic sound world. Wilson saw 'Pet Sounds' not as a collection of tracks, but as a song cycle, an entity in itself. It's creation would necessarily be influenced by the music with which Brian had become enthralled; the innovative vocal harmonies of the Four Freshmen that he had studied intently in his early teens; the panoramic style of George Gershwin, who in the 1920s had embodied the new sophistication of American popular song; and the musical universe of Johann Sebastian Bach, master of counterpoint, whose vast body of work contained the technical prowess and emotional depth which Brian aspired to. The art of The Four Freshmen, Gershwin and Bach that captivated Brian is presented here, the first music he remembers hearing: 'Rhapsody In Blue' that epitomises New York City in the jazz age; his introduction to the Four Freshmen, 'Day By Day, heard on his mother's car radio, and, in it's entirety, Brian's first LP purchase 'The Four Freshmen And Five Trombones'; along with such Bach works as the cantata 'Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring', that inspired 'California Girls'.

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