Saturday, October 31, 2015


JIM HALL QUARTET WITH KENNY BARRON, 1997
Jim Hall - guitar
Kenny Barron - piano
Scott Coley - double bass
Terry Clarke - drums

Blue Note - Tokyo

Friday, October 30, 2015


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

I SING THE BIRTH
Anonymous, Byrd, Smith, Perotin, Palestrina, Clemens, Plainchant
New York Polyphony

Avie

BLUE LIGHT 'TIL DAWN
Cassandra Wilson

Blue Note

DEVOTIONS
Ketil Bjørnstad

EmArcy
 MESSE POUR DOUBLE CHŒUR A CAPPELLA
SONGS OF ARIEL
Frank Martin
CINQ RECHANTS
O SACRUM CONVIVIUM
Olivier Messiaen
RIAS-Kammerchor
Daniel Reuss - director

Harmonia Mundi- ROC Berlin

Wednesday, October 28, 2015


TRIOS FOR 4
George Frideric Handel, George Philipp Telemann, Jean-Marie LeClair, Johann Joachim Quantz
Palladian Ensemble

LINN - Honest

IN DARKNESS LET ME DWELL
John Dowland
John Potter - voice
Stephen Stubbs - lute
John Surman - saxophone and clarinet
Maya Homburger - baroque violin
Barry Guy - double-bass

ECM New Series

PATH OF MIRACLES
Joby Talbot
Tenebrae
Nigel Short - director

Signum

WATER PASSION
After Saint Matthew
Tan Dun
Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart
RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin
Elizabeth Keusch - soprano, Stephen Bryant - bass-baritone, Mark O'Connor - violin, Maya Beiser - cello, David Cossin - percussion, Yuanlin Chen - sampler, David Sheppard - sound designer
Tan Dun - conductor

Sony Classics

Tuesday, October 27, 2015


A L'ESTAMPIDA
Medieval Dance Music
15¾th Anniversary Edition

The Dufay Collective

Avie

AT THE GATES OF PARADISE
John Zorn

Tzadik

PUNCH
Punch Brothers

Nonesuch

CANTICUM CANTICORUM
The Song of Songs
Orlando de Lassus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Heinrich Schutz, Domenico Mazzocchi, Healey Willan, William Walton, Thomas Tomkins, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Marin Marais, John Dunstable, Henry Purcell
Les Voix Baroques, with instrumental ensemble
Matthew White & Stephen Stubbs; musical directors

ATMA Classique

YOU ARE (VARIATIONS)
CELLO COUNTERPOINT
Steve Reich
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon - conductor
Maya Beiser - cello

Nonesuch

TARENTULE - TARENTELLE
Atrium Musicae de Madrid
Gregorio Paniagua - director/realization

Harmonia Mundi

Monday, October 26, 2015


OBOE CONCERTOS
Antonio Vivaldi
Stephen Hammer, Frank De Bruine - oboes
Eric Hoeprich, Antony Pay - clarinets
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood - director

Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre

LA TARANTELLA
Antidotum Tarantulae
Italian Traditional, Athanasius Kircher, Matteo Salvatore, Alfio Antico, Lucilla Galeazzi, Ambrogio Sparagna, Don Francisco Xavier Cid, Giuseppe De Vittorio
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar - director

Alpha

LAMENTATIONS
Robert White - Thomas Tallis - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Orlande de Lassus - Estêvao de Brito
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly - director

Naxos

Sunday, October 25, 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

Saturday, October 24, 2015




HIS MAJESTY'S HARPER
Airs & Dances, Fancies & Farewells, from the Royal Courts of 17th-century England
John Dowland, William Byrd, Cormack MacDermott, Jean le Flelle
Andrew Lawrence-King - baroque harps

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

ENDZEITFRAGMENTE  
Fragments for the End of Time: 9th-11th centuries  
Sequentia
Benjamin Bagby - vocalist/harper
Norbert Rodenkirchen - flautist  

Raumklang - WDR Köln

Friday, October 23, 2015

Thursday, October 22, 2015

 
PETITS MOTETS  
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie - director  

Harmonia Mudi

Wednesday, October 21, 2015


TUDOR CITY
Anonymous, William Byrd, William Cornysh, John Dunstable, Walter Lambe, Andrew Smith, Thomas Tallis, John Taverner, Christopher Tye
New York Polyphony

Avie

Tuesday, October 20, 2015


THE FIVE SACRED TREES
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra*
John Williams
TREE LINE
Toru Takemitsu
SYMPHONY NO.2, MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN
Alan Hovhaness
OLD AND LOST RIVERS
Tobias Picker
London Symphony Orchestra
Judith LeClair - bassoon*
John Williams - conductor

Sony Classical

Monday, October 19, 2015


AND THEIR REFINEMENT OF THE DECLINE
Stars Of The Lid

Kranky

IN SEARCH OF DOWLAND
Consort Music of John Dowland and Carl Rütti
Lachrimae
John Dowland
Dowland-Suite
Carl Rütti
bFIVE Recorder Consort

Coviello

Sunday, October 18, 2015


BACH RECITAL
Italian Concerto
BWV 828, 971, 914

J.S. Bach
Glenn Gould - piano

Columbia


HEROES SYMPHONY
THE LIGHT
Philip Glass
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop - conductor

Naxos

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

Naxos

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Wednesday, October 14, 2015


JOB
Petr Eben
Halgeir Schiager - organist
Organ of Hedvig Eleonora
Kyrkan, Stockholm

Hyperion

POUR LA VIOLLE ET LE THÉORBE
Marin Marais
Hille Perl - viola da gamba
Lee Santana - Théorbe

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

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

Tuesday, October 13, 2015


EARLY VENETIAN LUTE MUSIC
Joan Ambrosio Dalza, Francesco Spinacino, Franciscus Bossinensis, Vincenzo Capirola
Christopher Wilson - solo lute
Shirley Rumsey - lute duettist

Naxos

Monday, October 12, 2015


WOOD
Brian Bromberg

A440

EL NUEVO MUNDO
Folias Criollas
Montserrat Figueras, Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI
Jordi Savall - director

Alia Vox

1492
Music from The Age of Discovery
Mostly anonymous Italian, Jewish, Arabic, and Spanish Composers
The Waverly Consort
Michael Jaffee - artistic director

EMI Classics

Saturday, October 10, 2015


LAST DANCE
Keith Jarrett
Charlie Haden


ECM

KAPSBERGIANA
Libro Terzo
Girolamo Kapsberger
Los Otros
 Hille Perl - viola da gamba, lirone
 Lee Santana - chitarrone
 Steve Player - chitarrone, guitar

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

6 SUITEN FÜR VIOLONCELLO SOLO
BWV 1007–1012
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pierre Fournier - cello

Archiv Produktion

Friday, October 9, 2015


SLOW MUSIC  
Texas Bohemia II  
The Texas Bohemian-Moravian-German Bands  

Trikont

LOS PÁJAROS PERDIDOS
The South American Project
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar - director

Erato

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

THE 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

ARGENTUM ET AURUM
Musical Treasures from the Early Habsburg Renaissance
Ensemble Leones
Marc Lewon - director

Naxos