Wednesday, December 31, 2008


WALTZ FOR DEBBY
Bill Evans Trio

Riverside

CHANGE RINGING ON HANDBELLS
The Change Ringing Handbell Group

Saydisc

THE FIFTH ELEMENT
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Eric Serra

Virgin

SYMPHONIE NR.5
Ludwig van Beethoven
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, dir.

Deutsche Grammophon

TRAV'LING HOME
American Spirituals 1770 - 1870
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, dir.

Erato

UAKTI
Uakti

Verve

WINTER WAS HARD
Aulis Sallinen, Terry Riley, Arvo Part, Anton Webern, John Zorn, John Lurie, Astor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, Samuel Barber, Anonymous (Chrysler?)
Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch

FOLKLORE
Sixteen Horsepower

JetSet

ZERO ZERO ZERO
Sam Phillips

Virgin

Tuesday, December 30, 2008


OFFICIUM DEFUNCTORUM & MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS
Cristóbal de Morales
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall

Astrée

BEATUS VIR OP. 38
Totus Tuus, Op. 60 / Old Polish Music, Op. 24
Henryk Górecki
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Nikita Storojev, bass
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
John Nelson, cond.

Argo

CHANTERAI
Music of Medieval France
Sonus

Dorian Discovery

TRIO SONATAS
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Klaus Thunemann, Jonathan Rubin, Maurice Bourgue, Heinz Holliger, Christiane Jaccottet, Klaus Stoll

ECM New Series

THE BOXING MIRROR
Alejandro Escovedo

Back Porch

SANTIAGO DE MURCIA CODEX
Ensemble Kapsberger
Rolf Lislevand

naïve

Thursday, December 25, 2008


WEIHNACHTSHISTORIE
Heinrich Schutz
Musicalische Compagney

MDG

ETERNAL AND LOWDOWN
Ray Wylie Hubbard

Philo

LUTHERAN MASS FOR CHRISTMAS MORNING
Michael Praetorius
Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein
Gabrieli Consort and & Players
Paul McCreesh, dir.

Archiv

Wednesday, December 24, 2008


Been listening to Pandora internet stream of Jazz Holidays pretty much all afternoon as I put up the tree, decorated it, wrapped gifts, and put up lights outside. The Twelve Days starts tonight.

Nice music.


HI-FIDELITY HOLIDAY
Starbucks Holiday Compilation in Stereo
Various & Assorted Mid-Century Modern Artists

EMI

A TOOLBOX CHRISTMAS
Woody Philips

Gourd Music

MY HOLIDAY
Mindy Smith

Vanguard

SNOW ANGELS
Over the Rhine

RedEye

CHRISTMAS
Bruce Cockburn

Columbia

Monday, December 22, 2008


BACH CANTATAS
For Christmas Day, BWV 91, 110
For the Second Day of Christmas, BWV 40, 121
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardner, dir.

Soli Deo Gloria

MY NAME IS BUDDY
Ry Cooder

Nonesuch

IN C
Terry Riley
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Percurama Percussion Ensemble
Paul Hillier, dir.

Ars Nova

WASSAIL! WASSAIL!
Early American Christmas Music
The Christmas Revels
with Jean Ritchie and Robert J. Lurtsema
John Langstaff, dir.

Revel Records

A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, dir.

Nonesuch

Sunday, December 21, 2008


STARS IN MY CROWN
Jorma Kaukonen

Red House Records

JUST WOKE UP
Peter Blegvad

ESD

THE AYNSLEY DUNBAR RETALIATION
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation

Bam-Bam/Liberty

UNSILENT NIGHT
Phil Kline

Cantaloupe Music

AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS
Carols, Hymns and Spirituals 1770-1870
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, dir.

Erato

Saturday, December 20, 2008


NOËLS CELTIQUES
Celtic Christmas Music from Brittany
Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
Christian Desbordes, dir.

Green Linnet

ANCIENT NOËLS
Maggie Sansone and Ensemble Galilei

Maggie's Music

A STAR IN THE EAST
Medieval Hungarian Christmas music
Anonymous 4

Harmonia Mundi