Saturday, May 31, 2014


INTAVOLATURA DI LUTO
Lute music by the younger brother of Galileo Galilei and their father Vincenzo
Michelagnolo Galilei (1775-1631)
Anthony Bailes, lute

Ramée - Outhere Music

EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP
Stereolab

Elektra

Friday, May 30, 2014


THE ROSARY SONATAS
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Andrew Manze, violin
Richard Egarr, organ & harpsichord

Harmonia Mundi

GO
Dexter Gordon

Blue Note

GUIDED TOUR
The New Gary Burton Quartet

Mack Avenue

LA LIRA D'ESPÉRIA
The Medieval Fiddle
Jordi Savall; lira, rebab, vièles
Pedro Estevan; percussion

Astree - Naïve

Wednesday, May 28, 2014


BAGS MEETS WES!
Milt Jackson
Wes Montgomery

Wynton Kelly
Sam Jones
Philly Joe Jones

Riverside

A PASTORAL SYMPHONY
SYMPHONY NO.5 IN D
Ralph Vaughan Williams
New Philharmonia Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult, conductor

EMI

LAST DATE
Eric Dolphy

Fontana

Tuesday, May 27, 2014


GOOD RAIN
Solveig Slettahjell
Slow Motion Quintet

Act

HOVHANESS
Music for Harp
Alan Hovhaness
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

Telarc

Monday, May 26, 2014


A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Donald Byrd
Band & Voices

Blue Note

ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS
John Adams
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel, conductor

Nonesuch

SYMPHONY NO.2
HOMAGE TO VAN GOGH, ANIMA DELLA TERRA, TIME FROZEN
Gloria Coates
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker; Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden; Jürgen Wirrmann
Orchester des Internationalen Jurgendfestspieltreffens; Matthius Kuntzsch
Ensemble Das neue Werk Hamburg; Dieter Cichewiecz

CPO

THE WOUND-DRESSER
SHORT RIDE IN A FAST MACHINE
SHAKER LOOPS
John Adams
Nathan Gunn, baritone
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor

Naxos

SYMPHONY NO.7
mit Originalinstrumenten
Ludwig van Beethoven
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Archiv Produktion

THE WOUND-DRESSER
Libretto by Walt Whitman
FEARFUL SYMMETRIES
John Adams
Sanford Sylvan, baritone
Orchestra of St. Luke's
John Adams, conductor

Nonesuch

Sunday, May 25, 2014


CONCIERTO
Jim Hall
Paul Desmond
Chet Baker
Ron Carter

CTI

MY FATHER KNEW CHARLES IVES
John Adams
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Adams, conductor

Nonesuch

THE DHARMA AT BIG SUR
John Adams
Tracy Silverman, electric violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Adams, conductor

Nonesuch

Friday, May 23, 2014


VIA CRUCIS
Rappresentazione della gloriosa Passione di Cristo
L'Arpeggiata
Christian Pluhar

Virgin Classics

JOHN RENBOURN - ANOTHER MONDAY
Two Albums on One CD
John Renbourn

Transatlantic

Wednesday, May 21, 2014


LA VILLANELLA
Gionanni Giroamo Kapsberger
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar, director

Alpha

Tuesday, May 20, 2014


 MASSES FOR FOUR AND FIVE VOICES
William Byrd
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly, conductor

 Naxos


 In memory of Gregory Baker, baritone: 3/1/1920 - 5/20/2014

Monday, May 19, 2014


OLD GAUTIERS NIGHTINGHALL
French & English Lute Music
Nicolas Bouvier, Pierre Gaultier, Simon Ives, Thomas Mace, Rene Mesangeau
Anthony Bailes, lute

Ramée

Saturday, May 17, 2014


BRUBECK TIME
The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Columbia


CARMINA BURANA
13th and 20th Century Versions
Carmina Burana: Original Medieval Songs
Modo Antiquo
Bettina Hoffmann, director

Carmina Burana: Carl Orff
Boys of the Temple Church Choir, London
The Royal Choral Society
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Cooke, conductor

Brilliant Classics

Friday, May 16, 2014


INTO THE SKY
Songs of Malcolm Dalglish
Ooodoo

Ooolite Music

RUSK II
Unni Løvlid, vocals
Frode Haltli, accordion
Vegar Vårdal, fiddle

Helio

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Tuesday, May 13, 2014


HEAVENLY HARMONIES
William Byrd, Thomas Tallis
Stile Antico

Harmonia Mundi

Monday, May 12, 2014


A DYNAMIC NEW SOUND
Guitar/Organ/Drums
The Wes Montgomery Trio

Riverside

ORGAN AND OBOE
Telemann, Handel, Bach, Muffat, Krebs, Lübeck
Daniel Matrone; organ at the Cathedral d'Agde
Jérôme Simonpoli; oboe

Jade

ALFABETO
Music of: Domenico Pellegrini, Giovanni Paolo Foscarini, Giovanni Battista Granata, Giovanni Paolo Corbetta, Francesco Foscarini, Francesco Corbetta
Ensemble Kapsberger
Rolf Lislevand; lute, director

Astreé

STELLA MARIS
12th/13th Century Music from England and France
Missa Lumen de Lumine (2002): Sungji Hong

Trio Mediaeval

ECM New Series

Saturday, May 10, 2014


A CHOICE COLLECTION
Music of Purcell's London
Matthew Locke, Nicola Matteis, Thomas Baltzar, John Weldon, John Blow, Henry Butler, John Banister (the elder), Anonymous
Palladian Ensemble

Honest / Linn Records

HYMNODY OF EARTH
A Ceremony of Songs for Choir, Hammer Dulcimer, and Percussion
Malcolm Dalglish, hammer dulcimer
The Ooolites, vocals
Glen Velez, percussion

OM

Thursday, May 8, 2014


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

Nimbus Records

EARLY ENGLISH ORGAN MUSIC
Anonymous, Byrd, Tomkins, Gibbons, Purcell, Farrant, Bull, Stanley, Greene, Boyce, Wesley
The Knole and Armitage organs
Simon Preston

Archiv

PASSENGERS
The Gary Burton Quartet with Eberhard Weber

ECM

RAISINS AND ALMONDS
Jewish Songs from the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Traditions
Lucie Skeaping
The Burning Bush


Saydisc

Tuesday, May 6, 2014


ON THE BANKS OF HELICON
Early Music of Scotland
The Baltimore Consort

Dorian

Monday, May 5, 2014


VIOLIN CONCERTO - LONELY WATERS
Ernest John Moeran
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Hadley, conductor

Chandos

Sunday, May 4, 2014


THE RAIN IS A HANDSOME ANIMAL
seventeen songs from the poetry of e.e. cummings
Tin Hat

New Amsterdam

PASSIO DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI SECUNDUM JOANNEM
Arvo Pärt
Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts, director

Naxos

Saturday, May 3, 2014


HARP CONSORTS
William Lawes
Maxine Eilander, harp
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Les Voix Humanies

ATMA Classique

Friday, May 2, 2014


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

Nonesuch

COMPOSITEUR DE MUSIQUE
Erik Satie
Teodoro Anzellotti: accordion

Winter & Winter

Thursday, May 1, 2014


THE BANKS OF GREEN WILLOW
George Butterworth, E.J. Moeran, Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax
English Chamber Orchestra
Jeffrey Tate, conductor

EMI