Friday, January 31, 2014


BLACK ACETATE
John Cale

EMI

PASS IN TIME
Beth Orton

Heavenly/BMG

SHADOWDANCE
Shadowfax

Windham Hill

SYMPHONY NO.6
FANTASIA ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS
THE LARK ASCENDING
Ralph Vaughan Williams
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tasmin Little, violin solo
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

Apex



WHAT GOES AROUND
Dave Holland Big Band

ECM

SEVEN DAYS OF FALLING
Esbjörn Svensson Trio

ACT

Wednesday, January 29, 2014


FRAGMENTS OF A PRAYER
Original Motion Picture Score for Children of Men
John Tavener
Plus works by G.F. Handel, Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki

Varese Sarabande

Sunday, January 26, 2014


NEW FOLK SONGS
Perfect Houseplants

Linn Records

TEXAS SHEIKS
Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks

Tradition & Moderne GmbH

Saturday, January 25, 2014


PRIVATE ASTRONOMY
A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke
Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble

Edge

GRACE LIKE A RIVER
Varied Classical Works Written or Arranged for Guitar
Christopher Parkening, guitar

Angel/EMI



ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCES
17th Century Ballads & Dance Tunes from the Publications of
John Playford
David Douglas, violin
Paul O'Dette, theorbo
Andrew Lawrence-King, harps

Harmonia Mundi

Friday, January 24, 2014


CONCERTI DI FLAUTI
Baroque Recorder Concertos
Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann David Heinichen, Johann Christian Schickhardt, Alessandro Marcello
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, recorders
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, director

L'Oiseau-Lyre

Thursday, January 23, 2014


HER GREATEST HITS
Evelyn Glennie

RCA Victor Red Seal

ULTREIA!
A Medieval Pilgrimage to St. James of Compostella
l'Ensemble de Musique Ancienne
Polyphonia Antiqua


Disques Pierre Verany

AT THE GATES OF PARADISE  
John Zorn

Tzadik

PIÈCES EN TRIO
Pour les Flûtes, Violon & Dessus de Viole
Marin Marais
Musica Pacifica

Veritas

IT ALL STARTS WITH ONE
Ane Brun

Play It Again Sam

BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS
Bill Frisell

SLG

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Tuesday, January 21, 2014


SIGN OF LIFE
Music for 858 Quartet
Bill Frisell
858 Quartet

SLG

CODEX FAENZA
Instrumental Music of the Early XVth Century
Ensemble Unicorn
Michael Posch, director

Naxos

PATH OF MIRACLES
Joby Talbot
Tenebrae
Nigel Short, director

Signum

Monday, January 20, 2014

Sunday, January 19, 2014


FRATRES
Arvo Pärt, John Corigliano, Paul Moravec, Albert Glinsky, and Olivier Messiaen
Maria Bachmann, violin
Jon Kliobonoff, piano

RCA Red Seal/Catalyst

LUTE MUSIC, VOL. II
J.S. Bach
John Williams, guitar
Peter Hurford, organ

Sony Classical

Saturday, January 18, 2014


THE ACADEMY IN PERIL
John Cale

Edsel

WHITE MAN SLEEPS
Charles Ives, Jon Hassell, Thomas Oboe Lee, Ornette Coleman, Ben Johnston, Bela Bartok, Kevin Volans
Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch

EXPLORATIONS
Bill Evans Trio

Riverside

SILVER
Solveig Slettahjell
Slow Motion Quintet

ACT

CARE-CHARMING SLEEP
The Dowland Project
John Potter

ECM New Series

Friday, January 17, 2014


THE PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO
A Musical Journey Along the Medieval Pilgrim Road to the Shrine of Saint James at Santiago de Compostela
New London Consort
Philip Pickett, director

L'Oiseau-Lyre

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists

Hollywood

ANTIGONAE
Carl Orff
Martha Mödl – mezzo-soprano
Marianne Radev – mezzo-soprano
William Dooley – baritone
Carlos Alexander – bass
Paul Kuen – tenor
Fritz Uhl – tenor
Josef Traxel – tenor
Kurt Böhme – bass
Lilian Benningsen - soprano
Symphony-Orchester/Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

Intense Media

Thursday, January 16, 2014


ALCHEMIST
Monteverdi, Du Prez, Mainerio, Anonymous, Ortiz, Le Jeune, Pickett
Philip Pickett - arrangements, recorders, crumhorns, curtals, racketts, shawms, cornamusen, pan pipes, organ, gittern, symphony, chalumeau
Catherine Bott - soprano
Stephen Henderson - percussion, xylophone, bells, timpani
David Roblou - organ & harpsichord
Pavlo Beznosiuk - medieval fiddle & baroque violin/viola
Tom Finucane - lute & gittern
Anthony Pleeth - baroque cello

Decca - London

FRATRES
Six different versions, plus Summa, Festina Lente, and Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt
I Fiamminghi
Rudolf Werthen, conductor

Telarc

Wednesday, January 15, 2014


CHANGE OF HEART
Martin Speake
Bobo Stenson
Mick Hutton
Paul Motian

ECM

A MEETING BY THE RIVER
Ry Cooder
V.M. Bhatt


Water Lily Acoustics

Tuesday, January 14, 2014


A DREAM
John Dowland
Hopkinson Smith, eight-course lute

Naïve

Saturday, January 11, 2014


EARLY ENGLISH ORGAN MUSIC
Byrd, Tomkins, Gibbons, Farrant, Purcell, Bull, Boyce, Wesley
Trevor Pinnock
Simon Preston

Archiv

PASSENGERS
The Gary Burton Quartet with Eberhard Weber

ECM

TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN BY STRATEGY
Brian Eno

Editions EG

BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE
Brian Eno

Editions EG

IN C
Terry Riley
Ars Nova Copenhagen
Percurama Percussion Ensemble
Paul Hillier, director

Ars Nova / Dacapo

UTOPIA TRIUMPHANS
The Great Polyphony of the Renaissance
Thomas Tallis, Costanzo Porta, Josquin Desprez, Johannes Ockeghem, Pierre de Manchicourt, Giovanni Gabrieli, Allesandro Striggio
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel, director

Sony Vivarte

Friday, January 10, 2014


LES GRANDES EAUX MUSICALES DE VERSAILLES 2012
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

JOE PASS IN HAMBURG
Joe Pass
The NDR Bigband
Radio Philharmonie Hannover

ACT

PUNCH
Punch Brothers

Nonesuch

GHOSTS
English Acoustic Collective

R.U.F

Thursday, January 9, 2014


IN NOMINE
16th-Century English Music for Viols
Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye, William Byrd, John Taverner, others
Fretwork

Musical Heritage Society
via Amon Ra/Saydisc