Tuesday, January 31, 2012

THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Philip Glass
Philip Glass with Ensemble
Paul Zukofsky, violin solo
Michael Riesman, cond.

CBS
BOOK OF SILK
Tin Hat Trio

Ropeadope
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
Philip Glass
Robert Wilson, design
The Philip Glass Ensemble

Tomato

Monday, January 30, 2012

PALERMO SNOW
John Renbourn

Shanachie
CANCIONERO
Music for the Spanish Court 1470-1520
The Dufay Collective

Avie
COMMON GROUND
The New Gary Burton Quartet

Mack Avenue
PROENSA
Songs of the Troubadours, 11th-13th Century
Paul Hillier, voice
Stephen Stubbs, lute & psaltrey
Andrew Lawrence-King, harp & psaltery
Erin Headley, vielle

ECM New Series

Sunday, January 29, 2012

FOG TROPES; GRADUAL REQUIEM
Ingram Marshall
Foster Reed, mandolin
Brass Sextet
fog horns & other ambient sounds; synthesizer, mandolin, voice, gambuh, piano, electronics, tape delay
John Adams, cond.

NEW ALBION

Saturday, January 28, 2012

REMAIN IN LIGHT
Talking Heads

Sire
GOD WAS LIKE, NO
The Fun Years

Barge
BEING DUFAY
Ambrose Field/Guillaume Dufay fragments
Ambrose Field, electronics
John Potter, tenor

ECM New Series

Wednesday, January 25, 2012


1: THE BURN COMES DOWN
The Owl Service

Rif Mountain
HARRISON / REALE
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese Gamelan Gamelan
Lou Harrison
Mirecourt Trio; Mills College Gamelan Ensemble;

Concerto "Dies irae" for Piano Trio and Wind Ensemble
Paul Reale
CSUN Wind Ensemble
David Whitwell, conductor

TR Records
BEING DUFAY
Music Based on Vocal Fragments by Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)
Ambrose Field, composer, electronics
John Potter, tenor

ECM New Series
LIGETI
Chamber Concerto; Ramifications; String Quartet No. 2; Aventures; Lux Aeterna
György Ligeti
Ensemble InterContemporain
Pierre Boulez, cond.
LaSalle Quartet
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg
Helmue Franz, dir.

Deutsche Grammophon
SUPER SESSION
Mike Bloomfield
Al Kooper
Steve Stills

Columbia
GOODBYE
Milt Jackson
with Hubert Laws

CTI
AUDIVI VOCEM
Latin Church Music from 16th-century England
Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye, John Sheppard
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM New Series

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

MONK'S MUSIC
Thelonious Monk Septet

Jazz Wax
ANTOLOGIE
Solveig Slettahjell
Morten Qvenild

EmArcy
LE MAITRE DE "FRICASSÉE"
Secular Music of Jean Japart (15th Century)
Japart, Desprez, Obrecht, Busnoys, Martini, De Vigne, Van Ghizeghem, Anonymous
Les Flamboyants
Michael Form, dir.

Christophorus
THE BEST OF BLUE NOTE
The Finest In Jazz Since 1939
Various Blue Note Artists

Blue Note
BLACK MAGIC WOMAN
Fleetwood Mac

Epic
RAMPAL PLAYS AND CONDUCTS MOZART
Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra in C Major, K. 299; Concerto in C Major for Oboe and Orchestra; Rondo in D Major for Flute and Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute
Marielle Nordmann, harp
Pierre Pierlot, oboe
English Chamber Orchestra
Jean-Pierre Rampal, cond.

CBS Masterworks

Monday, January 23, 2012

GARY BURTON & KEITH JARRETT
Gary Burton
Keith Jarrett

Atlantic
RIDE THE WIND
Youngbloods

Raccoon/Warner Bros.
MINGUS AH UM
Charlie Mingus

Columbia
THE GREATEST HITS OF TEXAS
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys

Rhino
(Tiffany Transcriptions 1946-1947)
THE DAWN SONGS
Vivien Ellis

Beautiful Jo
SIR JOHN ALOT OF
Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng and ye Grene Knyghte
John Renbourn

Lost Lake Arts reissue
SCATTERED RHYMES
Tarik O' Regan with other works by Guillaume de Machaut, Gavin Bryars, Guillaume Dufay
Orlando Consort
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier, cond.

Harmonia Mundi

Sunday, January 22, 2012

UNFOLDING
Edgar Meyer
Jerry Douglas
Bela Fleck
Sam Bush
Kenny Malone

MCA Master Series
SLOW DAZZLE
John Cale

Island
JIM HALL & PAT METHENY
Jim Hall
Pat Metheny

Nonesuch
LES PLUS GRANS CHEFS-D' OEUVRE
Marin Marais
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
Spectre de la Rose

Naxos