Monday, February 27, 2012

ENDZEITFRAGMENTE
Fragment for the End of Time, 9th-11th Centuries
Sequentia
Benjamin Bagby with Norbert Rodenkirchen

Raumklang

Saturday, February 25, 2012

FOUR SEA INTERLUDES AND PASSACAGLIA FROM "PETER GRIMES"
Benjamin Britten
FANTASIA ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, cond.

RCA Victor Red Seal
MARY'S MUSIC
Songs and Dances from the Time of Mary Queen of Scots
Scottish Early Music Consort

Chandos

Friday, February 24, 2012

LUMINESSENCE
Music for String Orchestra and Saxophone
Keith Jarrett
Jan Garbarek, saxophone
Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester
Mladen Gutesha, cond.

ECM
BLUE TRAIN
John Coltrane

Blue Note
TABULA RASA
Arvo Pärt
    Fratres, for violin & piano
    Keith Jarrett, Gidon Kremer

    Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, for string orchestra & bell
    Stuttgart State Orchestra
    Dennis Russell Davies, cond.

    Fratres, for 4, 8 or 12 cellos
    with Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

    Tabula Rasa, concerto for 2 violins (or violin & viola), prepared piano & string orchestra
    Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra with Alfred Schnittke, Tatjana Gridenko, Gidon Kremer
    Saulius Sondeckis, cond

ECM
BRIGHT SIZE LIFE
Pat Metheny

ECM

Thursday, February 23, 2012

TIMES LIKE THESE
Gary Burton
John Scofield
Marc Johnson
Peter Erskine

GRP
LIQUID ACROBAT AS REGARDS THE AIR
The Incredible String Band

Island
IT'S OK TO LISTEN TO THE GRAY VOICE
Jan Garbarek Group

ECM
'CANTATE' MASS
And Other Sacred Choral Music
John Sheppard
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, dir.

Hyperion

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

WILLIS ALAN RAMSEY
Willis Alan Ramsey

Shelter Recording Co.
SAME TRAIN, A DIFFERENT TIME
The Great Songs of Jimmie Rodgers
Merle Haggard and The Strangers

Capitol
A PARABLE OF DEATH
Lukas Foss
Rainer Maria Rilke, libretto
Vera Zorina, narrator
Farrold Stevens, tenor
The Louisville Orchestra
Choir of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Robert Whitney, cond.

Columbia Masterworks

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

LENTEN IS COME
13th Century Medieval English Songs
Briddes Roune

Magnatunes
PRIVATE ASTRONOMY
A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke
Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble
Geoff Muldaur, concept and arrangements
Joe Byrd, executive producer

Deutsche Grammophon - Edge Music
FALLING OFF THE ROOF
Ginger Baker Trio
with Bill Frisell and Charlie Haden, plus Bela Fleck

Atlantic
ENGLISH SONGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Sequentia

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Monday, February 20, 2012

STAIRCASE
Keith Jarrett

ECM
DRUMMING
Steve Reich
Steve Reich and Musicians

Deutsche Grammophon
SCHERZI MUSICALI
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer - Johan Jacob Walther
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel, dir.

Archiv Produktion
COUNTRY FIDDLE BAND
One Hundred Years of Country Dance Music
New England Conservatory Country Fiddle Band
Gunther Schuller, dir.

CBS Masterworks
WHEATSTRAW SUITE
The Dillards

Elektra
SWEET POTATOES
Geoff & Maria Muldaur

Reprise

Sunday, February 19, 2012

JULIE IS HER NAME
Julie London

Liberty
AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S
Jefferson Airplane

Sundazed
TRAFFIC
Traffic

United Artists
DAVID GRISMAN'S DAWG JAZZ
David Grisman and Special Guests

Warner Bros.
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Bashful Brother Oswald, Norman Blake, Jimmy Martin, Vassar Clements, others

United Artists
CRUEL INVENTIONS
Sam Phillips

Virgin
BOP TIL YOU DROP
Ry Cooder

Reprise

Saturday, February 18, 2012

DALLAS
And Others
Floyd Cramer

RCA Victor
DUELING BANJOS
Eric Weissberg and Marshall Brickman with Steve Mandell

Warner Bros.
TEXAS SHEIKS
Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks

Tradition & Moderne GmbH


Cover art by Ed Ruscha.
SOUND AN ALARM!
The Fifth Festival of 1000 Welsh Male Voices

BBC Records
PROVOCATIVE PIANO
Dick Hyman and his Orchestra

Command


Cover art by Neil Fujita.

Friday, February 17, 2012

HOW TO STRIP FOR YOUR HUSBAND
Sonny Lester

Roulette
LISBON CONCERT
Terry Riley

Vinyl Lovers via New Albion 2 LP
ALONE TOGETHER
Dave Mason

MCA (via Blue Thumb)
QUINTET IN C, OP. 163
Franz Schubert
Guarneri Quartet
Leonard Rose, cello

RCA Red Seal
BERGEN SINGS MORGAN
Polly Bergen

Columbia
NICANOR ZABALETA
J.S. Bach, Händel, Corelli, Spohr, Fauré, M. Albéniz, I. Albéniz
Nicanor Zabaleta, harp


Deutsche Grammophon

Thursday, February 16, 2012

SVYATI
John Tavener
Kiev Chamber Choir
Moscow Virtuosi
Patricia Rozario, soprano
Steven Isserlis, cello

Red Seal

Sunday, February 12, 2012

JUAREZ
Terry Allen

Fate
EASTER EVERYWHERE
13th Floor Elevators

International Artists/Radarscope UK
SILVER
Solveig Slettahjell
Slow Motion Quintet

Curling Legs
PIÈCES DE VIOLE DU SECOND LIVRE, 1701
Marin Marais
Jordi Savall, viola da gamba
Anne Gallet, cembalo
Hopkinson Smith, théorbe

Telefunken Das Alte Werk