Wednesday, November 30, 2011

JESU, MEINE FREUDE - CHRIST LAG IN TODESBANDEN
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Robert Shaw Chorale
RCA Victor Orchestra
Robert Shaw, cond.

RCA Red Seal shaded dog

sdg
A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS
Pink Floyd

Tower

Monday, November 28, 2011

MISTER HEARTBREAK
Laurie Anderson

Warner Bros.


THE ANIMAL SPEAKS
The Golden Palominos
vocals by John Lydon (side A) and Jack Bruce (side B)

Celluloid EP

Sunday, November 27, 2011

JS BACH, DEBUSSY, CHOPIN
Vlado Perlemuter, piano

Nimbus

Saturday, November 26, 2011

EARLY AMERICAN CHORAL MUSIC
Anthem and Fuging Tunes
William Billings
His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier, dir.

Harmonia Mundi
NEW ORLEANS RAGTIME ORCHESTRA
New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
Lars Edegran - piano, banjo, guitar and leader; William Russell - violin; Lionel Ferbos - trumpet and vocals; Orange Kellin - clarinet; Paul Crawford - trombone; Frank Fields - bass; Richard Payne - bass & tuba; John Robichaux - drums and vocals

Arhoolie


Recorded in New Orleans, La., in 1971.
THE DIARY OF ONE WHO DISAPPEARED
Leoš Janáček
Ubule Márová (contralto), Vilém Piibyl (tenor)
Kühn Female Choir, Pavel Kühn (director)
Josef Pálenlèek (piano)

Supraphon
DISCREET MUSIC
Brian Eno

Editions EG
ON THE WAY TO A LITTLE WAY
Soundtrack to Werner Herzog's Nosferatu
Popol Vuh

Egg
DURCH DIE WÜSTE
Hans-Joachim Roedelius

Gyroscope

Friday, November 25, 2011





HAPPENING
Prayer For Now
Malcolm Boyd
Charlie Byrd, guitar

Columbia



THE BAND OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS
The Band of the Coldstream Guards
Maj. Douglas A. Pope, A.R.C.M., p.s.m., cond.

RCA Victor
MINIATURE
Miniature
Joey Baron, Tim Berne, Hank Roberts

JMT (Jazz & Music Today Verlag)

Thursday, November 24, 2011

'ON THE RISE'
Battlefield Band

Temple
SIMPLE GIFTS
Shaker Chants and Spirituals
Shakers of Sabbathday Lake
Schola Cantorum
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, dir.

Erato
DIE KUNST DER FUGE
Johann Sebastian Bach
Berliner Saxophon Quartett

CPO

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA
Béla Bartók
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner

RCA Red Seal
THE BLUE RIDGE RANGERS
John Fogerty

Fantasy

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

"CHRIST WAS BORN ON CHRISTMAS MORNING"
Various Pre-War Gospel and Blues Artists
Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers (featuring Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon and Punch Miller)   
Blind Willie Johnson   
Mamie Forehand & A.C. Forehand   
Laura Henton       
Blind Willie McTell
Arizona Dranes       
Edward W. Clayborn
Rooseveldt Graves & Brother   

Historical
FANTASIAS
For Guitar and Banjo
Sandy Bull
with Billy Higgins, drums

Vanguard

Monday, November 21, 2011

AWAY OUT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Tim & Mollie O'Brien

Sugar Hill
NOW THE DAY IS DONE
The Innocence Mission

Badman
JOE PASS IN HAMBURG
Joe Pass with the NDR Bigband

ACT
ONE FROM THE HEART
Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle

Columbia
VISIONS OF EXCESS
The Golden Palominos

Celluloid
THE RITE OF SPRING
Igor Stravinsky
Arranged for Piano Duet by the Composer
Michael Tilson Thomas & Ralph Grierson, pianists

Angel EMI
THE BAROQUE LUTE
J.S. Bach, Buxtehude, Pachelbel
Walter Gerwig, lute

Nonesuch via Bärenreiter

Saturday, November 19, 2011

SILVER
Solveig Slettahjell
Slow Motion Quintet

Curling Legs

HIGH LOW AND IN BETWEEN
THE LATE GREAT TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Townes Van Zandt

EMI Acoustic Highway
UNSPOKEN REQUESTS
Linford Detweiler

Grey Ghost
DEEP LISTENING
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros, accordion
Stuart Dempster, trombone
Panaiotis, voice, sounds

New Albion
A DREAM
John Dowland
Hopkinson Smith, lute

Naïve

Friday, November 18, 2011

FIVE TUDOR PORTRAITS, BENEDICTINE, FIVE VARIANTS OF 'DIVES AND LAZARUS'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Contralto Elizabeth Bainbridge, Baritone John Carol Case, Soprano Heather Harper
Bach Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
The Jacques Orchestra
Sir David Wilcox, cond.

EMI
A TEMPORARY DIVE
Ane Brun

DetErMine
TO MUM FROM AYNSLEY & THE BOYS
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation

SPV
THE SOURCE
Ali Farka Toure

Hannibal
GOT NO STRINGS
Michelle Shocked

Mighty Sound
THE ACADEMY IN PERIL
John Cale

Reprise
ROBIN IS TO THE GREENWOOD GONE
Elizabethan Lute Music
Daniel Bacheler, Anonymous, English Traditional, Francis Cutting, John Johnson, Anthony De Countie, Philip van Wilder, Scottish Anonymous, Antony Holborne, Gregorio Huet, Thomas Robinson, Gregory Huwet
Paul O'Dette, lute

Nonesuch

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

THE LONG SURRENDER
Over the Rhine

Great Speckled Dog
A SEA SYMPHONY
Ralph Vaughan Williams
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir, Frederic Jackson chorus master
Sir Adrian Boult, cond.

EMI