Tuesday, June 30, 2015


SEI SONATE Ò PARTITE
August Kühnel
Consort Les Voix Humaines

ATMA Classique

Monday, June 29, 2015




IF MOUNTAINS COULD SING
Terje Rypdal - electric guitars
Bjørn Kjellemyr - bass
Audun Kleive - drums
Terje Tønnesen - violin
Lars Anders Tomter - viola
Øystein Birkeland - cello
Christian Eggen - conductor

ECM

LOCKERBIE MEMORIAL CONCERT
Westminster Cathedral, December 21, 1998
Gavin Bryars, Antoine Busnois, Henry Purcell, Nicolas Gombert, John Jenkins
Hilliard Ensemble - vocal ensemble
Fretwork - string ensemble
Gavin Bryars - double bass

GB Records

A LONDON SYMPHONY
Original 1913 version of Symphony No. 2
Ralph Vaughan Williams
THE BANKS OF GREEN WILLOW
George Butterworth
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox - conductor

Chandos

STRATAS SINGS WEILL
Teresa Stratas
Y Chamber orchestra
Gerard Schwarz - conductor

Nonesuch

EIN HELDENLEBEN
Richard Strauss
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner - conductor

RCA Red Seal
.5 Series


A half-speed Re-master of the 1954 recording.

PSALMS OF REPENTANCE
Alfred Schnittke
Swedish Radio Choir
Tönu Kaljuste - director

ECM New Series

CHAMBER MUSIC
Sonatas, Trio Sonatas, Quartets
Georg Philipp Telemann
The Amsterdam Baroque Soloists
Ton Koopman - director

Erato

Sunday, June 28, 2015


MERCY
Meredith Monk
Theo Bleckmann, Allison Easter, Katie Geissinger, Ching Gonzalez - vocals
Bohdan Hilash - clarinet, clarinet (bass), clarinet (contrabass)    
John Hollenbeck - bell, bells, bowed vibes, cowbell, cymbals, drums (bass), gong, marimba, melodica, metal percussion, percussion, piano, resonator, triangle, unknown contributor role, vibraphone, vocals, xylophone
Meredith Monk - vocals
Allison Sniffin - piano, synthesizer, viola, violin, vocals

ECM New Series

O CIECO MONDO
The Italian Lauda, C. 1400–1700
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel, director

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

AWAKE
Judd Greenstein, Sean Friar, Missy Mazzoli, Mark Dancigars, David Crowell, Patrick Burke
Now Ensemble
Flute - Alex Sopp
Clarinet - Sara Budde
Electric Guitar - Mark Dancigers
Double Bass - Logan Coale
Piano - Michael Mizrahi

New Amsterdam Records

FIELD OF REEDS
These New Puritans

Infectious

Saturday, June 27, 2015


VIVALDI - THE FOUR SEASONS
Recomposed by
Max Richter
Daniel Hope - violin
Max Richter - Moog synthesizer
Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin
Andre de Ridder - conductor

Deutsche Grammophon

HAMBURGER RATSMUSIK
Consort Music c. 1600
William Brade
Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall - director, viola da gamba

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Thursday, June 25, 2015


MUSIC FOR THE SPANISH KINGS
Renaissance Music from the Neapolitan Courts of Alphonso I & Ferdinand I (1442-1556)
Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566)
Hespèrion XX
Montserrat Figuerar - soprano
Jordi Savall - viole da gamba, director

Virgin Veritas

PARIS ENCOUNTER
Stephane Grappelli
Gary Burton

Label M

STILL
Richard Thompson

Fantasy

Wednesday, June 24, 2015


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

Tuesday, June 23, 2015


COMMON GROUND
The New Gary Burton Quartet

Mack Avenue

COME AGAIN
John Dowland and his Contempoaries
Samuel Scheidt, John Dowland, Louys de Moy, William Brade, Orlandus Lassus, Johann Sommer, Johann Schop/Johann Rist, Anonym, Gabriel Voightländer, Melchior Borchgrevinck, Jacob Praetorius, Michael Praetorious
Jan Kabow - tenor
Hamburg Ratsmusik
Simone Eckert - violen de gamba

CPO - NDR 1

FAÇADE
An Entertainment
William Walton - score
Edith Sitwell - libretto
Dame Edith Sitwell - narrator
Sir Peter Pears - narrator
English Opera Group Ensemble
Anthony Collins - conductor

Decca

THINGS YOU ALREADY KNOW
Chris Campbell
Steven Copes, Erin Keefe, Andrei Tchekmazov

innova

Monday, June 22, 2015


TRAFFIC
Traffic

Island

SUMER IS ICUMEN IN
Medieval English Songs
The Hilliard Ensemble

Harmonia Mundi

PUSH PULL
Salvatore Sciarrino, Rolf Riehm, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Vinko Globokar, Toshio Hosokawa
Teodoro Anzellotti - accordion

Hat Hut- WDR

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


OBOE CONCERTI
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Georg Philipp Telemann
Hans de Vries - oboe
Alma Musica Amsterdam
Bob van Asperen - director

Virgin Veritas

Sunday, June 21, 2015


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

Naxos

STRANGE PLACE FOR SNOW
Esbjörn Svensson Trio

Columbia

TIENTOS Y GLOSAS EN IBERIA
Iberian Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries
João Fontanes de Maqueixa organ of the São Vincente de Fora Convent, Lisbon
Jesús Martín Moro - organist
Ensemble Gilles Binchois
Dominique Vellard - director

Tempéraments

SONGS AND DANCES FROM THE SPANISH RENAISSANCE
Camerata Iberia

M-A Recordings

Saturday, June 20, 2015


HAVE A LITTLE FAITH
Bill Frisell – guitar, arrangement
Don Byron – clarinet, bass clarinet
Guy Klucevsek – accordion
Kermit Driscoll – bass
Joey Baron – drums

Nonesuch

Friday, June 19, 2015


VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Fantasia on Greensleeves; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; The Lark Ascending; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1; In the Fen Country; Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The New Queen's Hall Orchestra
Hagai Shaham, violin
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Argo



QSF PLAYS BRUBECK
Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond
Quartet San Francisco
Jeremy Cohen - violin
Alisa Rose - violin
Keith Lawrence - viola
Michelle Djokic - cello

ViolinJazz

TRIUMPH DER APHRODITE, SZENISCHES KONZERT
Disc 3/10: Magie und Rhythmus
Carl Orff
Annelies Kupper - soprano
Elisabeth Lindermeier - soprano
Elisabeth Wiese-Lange - soprano
Richard Holm - tenor
Ratko Delorko - tenor
Kurt Böhme - bass
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Eugen Jochum - conductor
recorded in: 1955

The Intense Media (reissue)

IMAGES FROM A CLOSED WARD
Michael Hersch
The Blair String Quartet

innova

Thursday, June 18, 2015


JIM HALL & PAT METHENY
Jim Hall 
Pat Metheny

Nonesuch

COME AGAIN
John Dowland and his Contempoaries
Samuel Scheidt, John Dowland, Louys de Moy, William Brade, Orlandus Lassus, Johann Sommer, Johann Schop/Johann Rist, Anonym, Gabriel Voightländer, Melchior Borchgrevinck, Jacob Praetorius, Michael Praetorious
Jan Kabow - tenor
Hamburg Ratsmusik
Simone Eckert - violen de gamba

CPO - NDR 1

FANTAZIAS
Henry Purcell
Rose Consort of Viols

Naxos

Wednesday, June 17, 2015


A WORCESTER LADYMASS
A reconstruction of a 13th century votive Mass to the Virgin Mary, based on surviving manuscripts from a Benedectine Abbey in the English Midlands. Inserted amid the medieval music are a Credo and Benedicamus Domino specially composed for this programme by Gavin Bryars.
Trio Medieval
Anna Maria Friman - voice
Linn Andrea Fuglseth - voice
Torunn Østrem Ossum - voice

ECM New Series

SYMPHONY NO.6
INTO THE TWILIGHT
Arnold Bax
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones - conductor

Naxos

Monday, June 15, 2015


LES GRANDES EAUX MUSICALES DE VERSAILLES 2012
French Baroque music, from seventeenth and eighteenth-century songs, to great classics of the operatic repertoire, as heard in the Gardens of Versaille by tourists.
Lully, Rameau, Moulinié, Corrette
Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, Skip Sempé - director
Café Zimmermann
Pygmalion
Ausonia
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre - director
Les Musiciens de St Julien

Alpha - Outhere

SYMPHONY NO.3
DANZÓN CUBANO
EL SALÓN MÉXICO
Aaron Copland
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata - conductor

EMI

DANCES FROM TERPSICHORE, 1612
Michael Praetorius
New London Consort
Philip Pickett - director

Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre

IMAGES FROM A CLOSED WARD
Michael Hersch
The Blair String Quartet

innova

SIGN OF LIFE
Music for 858 Quartet
Bill Frisell - guitar, composer
858 Quartet - string quartet

SLG

Sunday, June 14, 2015


I HAVE HEARD IT SAID THAT A SPIRIT ENTERS
Works by Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars
Holly Cole - voice
Gwen Hoebig - violin
Gavin Bryars - solo double-bass
CBC Radio Orchestra
Owen Underhill - conductor

GB Records (2)