Thursday, January 31, 2013


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

Avie

SCATTERED RHYMES
Tarik O' Regan, Guillaume de Machaut, Gavin Bryars, Guillaume Dufay
Orlando Consort
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier, cond./dir.

Harmonia Mundi

LUDI MUSICI
Samuel Scheidt
Les Sacqueboutiers

Ambroisie - Naïve

O CIECO MONDO
(O Blind World)
The Italian Lauda C. 1400 - 1700
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel, dir.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Wednesday, January 30, 2013


HARP CONSORTS
William Lawes
Maxine Eilander, harp
Les Voix Humanies

ATMA Classique

TUGEND UND UNTUGEND
German Secular Songs and Instrumentals from the Time of Martin Luther
Convivium Musicum
Ensemble Villanella
Sven Berger, dir.

Naxos

HOW CAN MY SWEETHEART REJECT ME?
Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl
Tsalko Valentina Vincentjevna, Manzulya Olga Grigoryevna (vocals)
Mykola Semynog (accordion)

ReR Megacorp

PASS IN TIME
Beth Orton

Heavenly

WIND IN THE BAMBOO GROVE
Contemporary Japanese Works for Marimba
Evelyn Glennie, marimba

Catalyst

Sunday, January 27, 2013


TURANGALȊA-SYMPHONIE
Olivier Messiaen
Bastille Opera Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, cond.

Deutsche Grammophon

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Thursday, January 24, 2013


SITAR WALTZ, BECKY, MR. PRESTON HORNPIPE
Martin Green, accordion
Sheema Mukherjee, sitar

Late Junction Session, BBC-3 Recording

...playing on the iPhone through the PAL as it's being broadcast

THE SOUND OF THE TRIO
Recorded Live
Oscar Peterson
Ray Brown
Ed Thigpen

Verve (Nippon)

Wednesday, January 23, 2013


MUSIKALISCHES HAUSBUCH
Musical Selections from Musica Poetica LP Series
Carl Orff
Der Tolzer Knabenchor; Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, director
Der Kammerchor der Staatlichen Hochschule fur Musik, Munchen; Fritz Schieri, director
Godela Orff-Büchtemann, speaker
Instrumental Ensemble and Overall Direction by Gunild Keetman and Carl Orff

BASF - Harmonia Mundi

PHANTASY QUINTET, STRING QUINTETS NOS. 1 & 2
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Maggini Quartet
Garfield Jackson, viola

Naxos

Tuesday, January 22, 2013


MUSIC OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Jacques Arcadelt, Filippo Azzaiolo, Marchetto Cara, Josquin Desprez, others
Shirley Rumsey: voice, lute, viola de mano, cittern, renaissance guitar

Naxos

SÄMTLICHE ORGELWERKE
Dietrich Buxtehude
Marie-Claire Alain, organ

EMI Electrola/Erato - Odeon

Monday, January 21, 2013


PALERMO SNOW
John Renbourn

Shanachie

MY NAME IS BUDDY
Ry Cooder

Nonesuch - Perro Verde

LA SULTANNE
François Couperin
Jay Bernfeld, viola da gamba
Skip Sempé, harpsichord
Capriccio Stravagante

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Saturday, January 19, 2013


PROENSA
Troubadour Songs of Provence: 12th - 13th c.
Paul Hillier, voice
Stephen Stubbs, lute & psaltery
Andrew Lawrence-King, harp & psaltery
Erin Headley, vielle

ECM New Series

Friday, January 18, 2013


A LITTLE STREET MUSIC
Music of Mozart, Praetorious, Chopin, Clarke, Boccherini, Rossini, Brahms, Joplin, Bach
The Cambridge Buskers

Deutsche Grammophon

Thursday, January 17, 2013


CHANGE OF HEART
Martin Speake

ECM

ENCHANTED DAWN
Works for Flute and Marimba
Tim Brady, Michio Miyagi, Arvo Pärt, Ravi Shankar, Makoto Shinohara, Haseo Sugiyama, Rentaro Taki
Lise Daoust: flute
Marie-Josée Simard: marimba, vibraphone

Atma Classique

SHAKER LOOPS for seven solo strings
PHRYGIAN GATES for piano
John Adams
The Ridge Quartet
Mack McCray, piano

1750 Arch Records

STONEHENGE
Frank Becker
VERMONT COUNTERPOINT
Steve Reich
Ransom Wilson, flute
with ensemble(s)

Angel EMI

Wednesday, January 16, 2013


THE DAWN SONGS
Vivien Ellis

Beautiful Jo

SYMPHONIES NOS. 7 & 8
Ludwig van Beethoven
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner, cond/dir

Archiv

STRANGE PLACE FOR SNOW
E.S.T.

Gul

THURSDAY AFTERNOON
Brian Eno

Editions E'G

COME SUNDAY
Charlie Haden
Hank Jones

Emarcy

DIVINE LITURGY
Komitas
The Choir of St. Gayané Cathedral, Yerevan, Armenia
Tatevos Asmarian, choir master

New Albion

LOVE IS REAL
The Music of Esbjörn Svensson
Ulf Wakenus
radio.string.quartet.vienna
Lars Danielson
Morten Lund
Lars Jansson

ACT

LE MAITRE DE "FRICASSÉE"
Secular Music of Jean Japart (15th c.)
Jean Japart, Anonym, Josquin Desprez, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Busnoys, Jonannes Martini, Antoine De Vigne, Hayne Van Ghizeghem
Les Flamboyants
Michael From, dir.

Christophorus

Tuesday, January 15, 2013


SOMEWHERE ELSE BEFORE
E.S.T.

Columbia

SEVEN DAYS OF FALLING
E.S.T.

ACT

'ROUND MIDNIGHT
Alan Broadbent
with
Brian Bromberg
Joe LaBarbera

Artistry

CANTUS ARCTICUS
Concerto for Birds & Orchestra, Op. 61
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Max Pommer, cond.

Catalyst

HER GREATEST HITS
Evelyn Glennie

RCA Victor Red Seal

FOLK SONGS
Ballads, Hymns and Lullabies
Trio Mediaeval

ECM New Series

WHICH WAY IS EAST
Charles Lloyd
Billy Higgins

ECM

Monday, January 14, 2013


THE WEST WAS BURNING
Martha Scanlan

Sugar Hill

RUSK II
Unni Løvlid
Frode Haltli
Vegar Vårdal

Helio

THE HARROW & THE HARVEST
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings

Acony

TRAFFIC
Traffic

Island

THE MUSICAL HERITAGE OF THOMAS HARDY
A Selection of Readings and Music
The Yetties

ASV

CELLO CONCERTO OP. 85
Sir Edward Elgar
Jacqueline du Pré , cello
Philadelphia Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, cond.

Columbia Masterworks white label promo

CONSORT MUSIC OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
The Extempore String Ensemble
George Weigand, dir.

Meridian