Monday, November 30, 2009


PEROTIN
Magister Perotin
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM New Series

MUSIC FOR COMPLINE
Tallis, Byrd, Sheppard
Stile Antico

Harmonia Mundi

LA DAFNE
Marco da Gagliano
Robert White, tenor
Musica Pacifica
Paul Vorwerk, cond.

ABC Command

16TH CENTURY FRENCH DANCE MUSIC
various Composers
Musica Reservata

Philips

MIDNIGHT ON THE WATER
David Bromberg Band

Columbia

Sunday, November 29, 2009


DOMESTIC SONGS
Solveig Slettahjell

ACT

SUITE FOR VIOLIN AND JAZZ PIANO
Claude Bolling
Pinchas Zukerman

Columbia Masterworks

CALIFORNIA SUITE
Claude Bolling
Hubert Laws

CBS Masterworks

SNOW ANGELS
Over The Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

THE MYSTERIOUS FILM WORLD OF BERNARD HERRMANN
Music from Mysterious Island, Jason and the Argonauts, The Three Worlds of Gulliver
Bernard Herrmann
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Herrmann, cond.

London Phase 4

PEREGRINATIONS
Chico Hamilton

Blue Note

OLD FASHIONED, DOWN HOME, HAND CLAPPIN', FOOT STOMPIN, SOUTHERN STYLE, GOSPEL QUARTET MUSIC
The Oak Ridge Boys

Columbia

NICOLAS SLONIMSKY: HISTORY MAKING PREMIERES
Works by Ives, Varèse, Ruggles
Nicolas Slonimsky, cond.

Orion


Reissue of New Music Quarterly and Columbia recordings from the 1930s.

"Slonimsky Back from Los Angeles with Phonograph Records of Audience Hisses..."

THE VIRTUOSO CONTRABASSO
Koussevitzky, Ravel, Eccles, Dimitrescu, Madenski
Yoan Goilav, contrabasso (double bass)

Summit CMS

Saturday, November 28, 2009


MOON AND MIND
Oregon

Vanguard

ORGELFUGEN ÜBER B-A-C-H
Robert Schumann
Theodor Klein, organ

Impromptu

ELI'S CHOSEN SIX
College Jazz
The Yale Dixieland Band

Columbia 6-eye mono

KOTO FLUTE
Four Flute Concertos by Vivaldi
Ransom Wilson, flute
The New Koto Ensemble of Tokyo
Yoshikazu Fukumuta, cond.

Angel

BYABLUE
Keith Jarrett
Dewey Redman
Charlie Haden
Paul Motian

ABC Impulse

TEN STONES
Wovenhand

Sounds Familyre

HOUSE FULL
Fairport Convention

Island

SHADES OF JADE
Marc Johnson

ECM

VILLANCICOS Y DANZAS CRIOLLAS
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall, dir.

Alia Vox

Thursday, November 26, 2009


HOME TO THANKSGIVING
Songs of Thanks and Praise
Various Composers
His Majestie's Clerkes, Theater of Voices, and soloists
Paul Hillier, dir.

Harmonia Mundi

Tuesday, November 24, 2009


STEEL CHORDS, I-5
Works for Harp, Strings, and Pedal Steel Guitar
Sasha Matson

Audioquest

THE REMINDER
Feist

Polydor

6 SUITEN FÜR VIOLONCELLO SOLO
J.S. Bach
Pierre Fournier

Archiv

A most sublime performance of the most sublime music ever written (IMHO, of course).

BOOMER'S STORY
Ry Cooder

Reprise

F♯A♯∞
God Speed You Black Emperor!

Kranky

WHATEVER
Danny Thompson

Hannibal

HE HAS LEFT US ALONE BUT SHAFTS OF LIGHT SOMETIMES GRACE THE CORNER OF OUR ROOMS
A Silver Mt. Zion

Constellation

SUNNYVISTA
Richard & Linda Thompson

Carthage

STANDARD TIME VOL. 3, THE RESOLUTION OF ROMANCE
Wynton Marsalis

Columbia

UAKTI
Uakti

Verve

Monday, November 23, 2009