Thursday, September 30, 2010

HOW TO GROW A WOMAN FROM THE GROUND
Chris Thile

Nonesuch
AMERICAN VI: AIN'T NO GRAVE
Johnny Cash

American Recordings
MUSIC FOR COMPLINE
Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Sheppard
Stile Antico

Harmonia Mundi USA

Playing some music for my 88 year old mother-in-law whom we had to unexpectedly move out of her place and into ours last night. A former professional singer, she also sang in a cathedral choir for years, so this is comforting, familiar music.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

RESURRECTION PART 1
Composed Music Works, 2000 - 1600
Anonymous, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber  , Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie, Richard Wagner, Mauricio Kagel, Franz Schubert
Affetti Musicali, Gaia Scienza, Bell'arte Salzburg, various others, performers

Winter & Winter
EAST GERMAN REVOLUTION: THE 18TH CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
J.L. Krebs, J.P. Kirnberger, C.G. Scheinpflug, K. Stamitz
Kammerorchester der Staatskapelle Weimar
Rolf Reuter, cond.

PILZ
HIGH NOON
(Do Not Forsake me)
Frankie Laine

Columbia
AN ENGLISH LADYMASS
Medieval Chant and Polyphony
Anonymous 4

Harmonia Mundi

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

ROOTS IN THE SKY
Oregon

Elektra
TIME STANDS STILL
Lute Songs on the Theme of Mutability and Metamorphosis
Dowland, Campion, Lawes, Ford, Handford, Danyel, Ferrabosco Rosseter
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Anthony Rooley, lute

Hyperion
ROOTS IN THE SKY
Oregon

Elektra
LUBBOCK (ON EVERYTHING)
Terry Allen

Fate
BEAT THE RETREAT & TATTOO FINALE
The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines (Plymouth)
Capt. Wm. Lang, M.B.E., L.R.A.M., R.M.

Capitol
DIE GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Richard Wagner
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Helga Dernesch, Thomas Stewart, Annelies Burmeister, Marga Hoffgen, Anja Silja, Ludmila Dvorakova, Wolfgang Windgassen, Sieglinde Wagner, Dorothea Siebert, Gustav Neidlinger, Birgit Nilsson, Josef Greindl, Martha Modl, Wieland Wagner
Karl Böhm, conductor

Philips/BOMR
BRANDENBURG BOOGIE
J.S. Bach arranged by Laurie Holloway
Elena Duran
Stephane Grappelli
Laurie Holloway

EMI Angel
PRECIOUS LORD
Five Blind Boys of Alabama and Mississippi

Pazzazz
TRIPTYCH
Alan Hovhaness
Benita Valente, soprano
Bavarian Radio Singers
Members of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Alfredo Antonini, cond.

CRI

Monday, September 27, 2010

AN EVENING WITH TWO GRAND PIANOS
John Lewis & Hank Jones

Little David
BROWN'S BAG
Ray Brown

Concord Jazz
INVITATION TO OPENNESS
Les McCann

Atlantic
J.T. ADAMS AND THE MEN-OF-TEXAS
J.T. Adams and the Men-of-Texas

Word
FIRST GENERATION
Music for Concertina & Mandolin
Bertram Levy
Peter Ostroushko

Flying Fish
MEET ME AT MIDNITE
Maria Muldaur

Black Top
SONGS
The Art of the Trio: Volume Three
Brad Mehldau

Nonesuch
WAITRESS IN A DONUT SHOP
Maria Muldaur

Reprise
CRYSTAL SILENCE
Gary Burton
Chick Corea

ECM

Saturday, September 25, 2010

LYRIC SUITE FOR SEXTET
Chick Corea
Gary Burton
Carol Shive, Fred Sherry, Ik-Hwan Bae, Karen Dreyfus

ECM
MORE OF OTHER WORLDS, OTHER SOUNDS
Esquivel
His Piano, His Orchestra

Reprise
CHUAROSCURO
Mike Marshall
Darol Anger
Windham Hill
STRAVINSKY: THE FIREBIRD SUITE
Igor Stravinsky
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, cond.

RCA Red Seal
WORD OF MOUTH
Jaco Pastorious
Warner Bros.
PIANO SOLOS OF ERIK SATIE
Bill Quist, piano

Windham Hill

Friday, September 24, 2010

THE BURN COMES DOWN
The Owl Service

Rif Mountain
DANCING FEET
The Tannahill Weavers

Green Linnet
DREAMS SO REAL
Gary Burton Quintet

ECM
GO BETWEEN
Nieuwe Slagwerkgroep Amsterdam
with Bill Bruford, Keiko Abe

Editions EG
HOW TO GROW A WOMAN FROM THE GROUND
Chris Thile

Sugar Hill
ORFF-SCHULWERK
Volume One / Musica Poetica
Carl Orff
Markus Zahnhausen, Marina Koppelstetter, Carolin Widmann, Godela Orff, Sabina Lehrmann, Karl Peinkofer Percussion Ensemble
Willfried Hiller, director

Celestial Harmonies
LIVE AT ST. PAT'S
Thine All The Merits

SPPC

BIBER/MUFFAT
DER TÜRKEN ANMARSCH
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Georg Muffat
John Holloway, violin
Aloysia Assenbaum, organ
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, harpsichord

ECM New Series
KING STRUT & OTHER STORIES
Peter Blegvad

What Disc?
ALL MORNIN' LONG
The Red Garland Quintet
Prestige

Thursday, September 23, 2010

ARMADA
Music from the 16th Century Courts of England and Spain
Fretwork

Virgin Veritas
BOOK OF WAYS
Keith Jarrett
Clavichord

ECM
I CHING
Uakti

Point Music
H&B RECORDINGS DIRECT
Presents The Best of 1992 on... Nimbus Records
Various performers, orchestras and choruses
Symphony no. 3, 1st Movement / Mathias
String quartet, K. 575, andante / Mozart
Nyctanthe du Malabar, Belle de nuit from L'horloge de Flore / Françaix
Study no. 2 / Brahms
Symphony no. 3, 1st Movement / Rakhmaninov
Trio sonata BWV 529, 1st Movement / J.S. Bach
Serenade, 1st Movement / Dag Wirén
Three Places in New England / Ives
Suite : La cheminée du Roi René / Milhaud
Symphony no. 14 in A, 2nd Movement / Haydn
Redwoods / by Louis Simpson ; read by Princess Grace
Ma mère l'Oye / Ravel
Pastime with Good Companye / King Henry VIII
Sospiri / Elgar
Os Ingênuous play Choros from Brazil
Howards End / Richard Robbins

Nimbus

EDITION 6: KEYBOARD WORKS
György Ligeti
Irina Kataeva and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Elisabeth Chojnacka, harpsichord
Zsigmond Szathmáry, organ

Sony Classical

PARIS: LA BELLE ÉPOQUE
Gabriel Fauré, César Franck, Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Kathryn Stott, piano

Sony Classics

THE B-52 BAND & THE FABULOUS SKYLARKS
J. Henry Burnett

One Way Records

RIVERSIDE BATTLE SONGS
Ollabelle

Verve Forecast

CEREMONIAL MUSIC
For Trumpet and Symphonic Organ
Rolf Smedvig, trumpet
Michael Murray, organ

Telarc