Tuesday, February 26, 2013


CLARINET QUINTET
Carl Maria von Weber
CONCERTO A TRE
Ingolf Dahl
CELEBRATION II
Bill Douglas
Tashi: Richard Stoltzman, Ida Kavafian, Fred Sherry
with Theodore Arm and Ik-Hwan Bae

RCA Red Seal

THE POLL WINNERS
Barney Kessel
Shelly Manne
Ray Brown

Jazz Wax Records

FOREST FLOWER
Monterey 1966
The Charles Lloyd Quartet
Charles Lloyd - tenor saxophone, flute
Keith Jarrett - piano
Cecil McBee - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums

Atlantic

SYMPHONIE NR.5
Anton Bruckner
Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Eugen Jochum, cond.

Deutsche Grammophon

TRIO-SONATEN
Georg Friedrich Händel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach
Aurèle Nicolet, Flote
Josef Suk, Violine
Christiane Jaccottet, Cembalo
David Geringas, Violoncello

Eurodisc

Monday, February 25, 2013


MOODS
Erroll Garner

Mercury Wing

FRENCH DANCES OF THE RENAISSANCE
And Other Celebrated Pieces of the Renaissance and Baroque
Various Composers and Mr. Anonymous
The Ancient Instrumental Ensemble of Paris
Roger Cotte, dir.

Nonesuch

MORE
Pink Floyd

Tower

INSIDE
Paul Horn

Epic

THEN PLAY ON
Fleetwood Mac

Warner Bros.-Reprise

MUSIC OF VARÈSE
Edgard Varèse
Déserts - Hyperprism - Intégrales - Density 21.5 for flute alone
Michel Debost, solo flute
Paris Instrumental Ensemble For Contemporary Music
Konstantin Simonovitc, dir.

Angel

JOB - A MASQUE FOR DANCING
Ralph Vaughan Williams
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Hadley, cond.

EMI Eminence

Sunday, February 24, 2013


JAZZ AT THE SANTA MONICA CIVIC '72
Ella Fitzgerald
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Oscar Peterson
Stan Getz
Roy Eldridge
Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis
Ray Brown
Harry Edison
Al Grey
Tommy Flanagan
Ed Thigpen
Keeter Betts
Norman Granz, MC

Pablo
3-disc box

Saturday, February 23, 2013


PAUL DESMOND & THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET
Recorded Live on December 25, 1971 at Town Hall/NYC
Paul Desmond
The Modern Jazz Quartet

Red Baron

THE ALAMO
Dimitri Tiomkin

Columbia

CANTICLES OF ECSTASY
Selections
Hildegard von Bingen
Sequentia

BMG

FEARFUL SYMMETRIES
THE WOUND-DRESSER*
John Adams
Sanford Sylvan*, baritone
Chris Gekker*, trumpet
Walt Whitman*, words
Orchestra of St. Luke's
John Adams, cond.

Nonesuch

GREGORIAN CHANT, PLAIN CHANT, AND SPIRITUALS
Recorded in Saint Mark's Cathedral, Venice
Willie Ruff, solo French Horn

Kepler Label

Friday, February 22, 2013


SYMPHONY NO. 31
Alan Hovhaness
Northwest Chamber Orchestra
Louis Richmond, cond.

Fujihara

THE PAUL DESMOND QUARTET FEATURING DON ELLIOTT
The Paul Desmond Quartet
featuring Don Elliott

Fantasy

PLEASURES OF THE COURT
Festive Dance Music by Susato and Morley from the times of Henry VIII and Elisabeth I
Tylman Susato, Thomas Morley
Early Music Consort of London & Morley Consort
David Munrow, dir.

Angel

BEGEGNUNGEN II
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank

Weird Brother

THE SAVOY SESSIONS
The Red Norvo Trio
with Tal Farlow and Charles Mingus

Savoy

Thursday, February 21, 2013

ACID TRACKS
An Introduction to the Roots of Psych-Folk
Various
(compiled by The Owl Service)

Rif Mountain download

THE ROSE HOTEL
Robert Earl Keen

Lost Highway

BOSSA NOVA
Barney Kessel
Plus Big Band

Reprise

MY MAIN SQUEEZE
Augie Meyers

Atlantic America

VERKLÄRTE NACT
VARIATIONEN FÜR ORCHESTER OP. 31
Arnold Schoenberg
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan, cond.

Deutsche Grammophon

SONGS AND PROVERBS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
THE HOLY SONNETS OF JOHN DONNE
Benjamin Britten
Peter Pears
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Benjamin Britten, piano

London

DIFFERENT TRAINS, ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT
Steve Reich
Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny

Nonesuch

MUSIC FROM MACBETH
Third Ear Band

Harvest

Tuesday, February 19, 2013


PHANTASY QUINTET, STRING QUARTETS
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Medici String Quartet
Simon Rowland-Jones

Nimbus Records

RABO DE NUBE
Charles Lloyd Quartet

ECM

LES GRANDES EAUX MUSICALES DE VERSAILLES
French Baroque music, from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century songs to great classics of the operatic repertoire
Lully, Rameau, Moulinié, Corrette
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Skip Sempé, dir.
Café Zimmermann
Pygmalion
Ausonia
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre, dir.
Les Musiciens de St Julien

Alpha - Outhere

THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE DANCE
Ballet Music of:
Jean Philippe Rameau
Les Musicholiers
Aviva Einhorn, dir.

Musical Heritage Society
via Arion

Sunday, February 17, 2013


THE GREATEST JAZZ RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME
Institute of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection
Louis Armstrong
1920s to 1940s

The Franklin Mint Record Society

HEROIC MUSIC FOR ORGAN, BRASS & PERCUSSION
Trumpet Voluntaries, Tunes, Airs and Marches of Gabrielli, Frescobaldi, Purcell, Handel, Croft, Clarke and Telemann
E. Power Biggs, organ
The New England Brass Ensemble

Columbia Masterworks

Saturday, February 16, 2013


MUSIC OF PRAETORIUS
The Early Music Consort of London
Boys of the Cathedral and Abbey, Church of St. Alban
David Munrow, conductor

Angel

GLOBAL DRUM PROJECT
Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju, and Giovanni Hidalgo

Shout Factory

SYMPHONY NO. 2
Illuminatio in Tenebris
Gloria Coates
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
Wolf-Dieter Hauschild

CPO

ADAM'S LAMENT
and other works
Arvo Pärt
Riga Sinfonietta, Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor


ECM New Series