Tuesday, May 31, 2016


DEPARTURE
Gary Burton
& Friends

Concord

SEVEN TRIO SONATAS, OP. 2
Dietrich Buxtehude
John Holloway - violin
Jaap ter Linden - viola de gamba
Lars Ulrik Mortensen - harpsichord

Naxos

Monday, May 30, 2016


IN C
Terry Riley
Jeroen van Veen -  piano, keyboards

Brilliant


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 29, 2016


THE APPEARANCE OF COLOUR
John Metcalfe

Realworld

BERÜHMTE ORGEKWERKE
J.S. Bach
Helmut Walcha

Deutsche Grammophon

MONK AND THE ABBESS
Music of...
Meredith Monk 
Hildegard von Bingen
Musica Sacra
Richard Westenburg - director

Catalyst

Saturday, May 28, 2016


NOVEMBER
John Abercrombie - guitar
Marc Johnson - double bass
Peter Erskine - drums
John Surman - saxophone and clarinet

ECM

MODERN COOL
Patricia Barber

Premomition

Friday, May 27, 2016


ACCELERANDO
Vijay Iyer Trio

ACT


CROSSING JORDAN
Music from the NBC TV Series
Sam Phillips, Marc Anthony Thompson, Alison Krauss, Cassandra Wilson, Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams, The Holmes Brothers, Vic Chesnutt, Jill Hennessy, Joe Henry, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Rosemary Clooney
T Bone Burnett - executive producer

DMZ - Sony

Thursday, May 26, 2016


ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCES
17th C. Music from the Publications of...
John Playford
David Douglas - violin
Paul O'Dette - theorbo, cittern, Baroque guitar
Andrew Lawrence-King - harp, double harp, Irish harp, guitar

Harmonia Mundi

Wednesday, May 25, 2016


BACH CANTATAS, Vol. 14
For Christmas Day - For the Second Day of Christmas
BWV 91, 110, 40, 121
Johann Sebastian Bach
Joanne Lunn, Katharine Fuge - sopranos
Robin Tyson, William Towers - altos
James Gilchrist - tenor
Peter Harvey - bass
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner - conductor/director

Soli Deo Gloria

A TEMPORARY DIVE
AneBrun

DetErMine

COMPLETE MUSIC FOR SOLO LUTE
John Dowland
Jakob Lindberg - lute

Brilliant Classics 
via BIS
4 CDs

I LONG TO SEE YOU
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
Charles Lloyd - tenor saxophone, alto flute
Bill Frisell - guitar
Reuben Rogers - bass
Eric Harland - drums
Greg Leisz - steel guitar

Blue Note


TERPSICHORE 1612: DANCES
MUSAE SIONIAE
MOTETS
Michael Praetorius
The Early Music Consort of London
David Munrow - director

EMI

Tuesday, May 24, 2016


I HAVE THE ROOM ABOVE HER
Paul Motian - drums
Bill Frisell - electric guitar
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone

ECM

BLOOD ON THE SADDLE
Tex Ritter

Capitol

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

Astrée


ROTHKO CHAPEL
WHY PATTERNS?
Morton Feldman
David Abel - Viola
Philip Brett - Director
California EAR Unit - Ensemble
Deborah Dietrich - Soprano (Vocal)
Karen Rosenak - Celeste
University of California Berkeley Chamber Chorus
William Winant - Percussion

New Albion

THE KNEE PLAYS
Music for Robert Wilson's CIVIL warS
David Byrne
The Dirty Dozen Jazz Band

Nonesuch

EARLY AMERICAN CHORAL MUSIC
Anthems and Fuging Tunes
William Billings
His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

JOE PASS IN HAMBURG
Joe Pass - guitar
NDR Bigband
Radio Philharmonie Hannover

ACT

UNSEEN RAIN
THREEFOLD VISION
SONGS OF THE SHINING WIND
Robert Kyr
Ensemble P.A.N.

New Albion

Monday, May 23, 2016


COMMON GROUND
The New Gary Burton Quartet

Mack Avenue

SURREXIT CHRISTUS
13th-Century Vespers and Easter Procession
Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Ensemble Grégorien
Sylvain Dieudonné - director

Hortus

NEW FRIEND
Eugene Friesen - cello
Paul Halley - piano and pipe organ

Living Music

FROM BYZANTIUM TO ANDALUSIA
Medieval Christian, Jewish and Islamic Music and Poetry
Peter Rabanser - voice, direction
Belinda Sykes - voice, direction
Jeremy Avis - voice, ud, bagpipe, duduk
Oni Wytars Ensemble

Naxos

SYMPHONY NO. 10
Deryck Cooke Realization
Gustav Mahler
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Wigglesworth - conductor

BBC Music

VIOLIN CONCERTO
SHAKER LOOPS*
John Adams
 Gidon Kremer - violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra of St. Luke's*
Kent Nagano - conductor
John Adams - conductor*

Nonesuch

Sunday, May 22, 2016


O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
Original Motion Picture Sountrack
Various Americana and Roots Artists
Compiled by T Bone Burnett

Mercury

SUNSHINE SUPERMAN
Donovan

EMI - Capitol

LIVE IN BREMEN: 1974
Gary Burton Quintet
Gary Burton - vibraphone
Mick Goodrick - guitar
Pat Metheny - guitar
Steve Swallow - bass
Bob Moses - drums

JZM - Bremen Rudfunk

Saturday, May 21, 2016


THE COSMOPOLITAN
Songs by
Oswald von Wolkenstein
Ensemble Leones
Marc Lewon - director

Christophorus

THE AYNSLEY DUNBAR RETALIATION
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation

Not Bad Records

via Liberty

FROM ME FLOWS WHAT YOU CALL TIME
TWILL BY TWILIGHT (In Memory of Morton Feldman)
REQUIEM
Toru Takemitsu
Nexus Percussion Ensemble
Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Carl St.Clair - conductor

Sony Classical

Friday, May 20, 2016


SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS
Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Doug Watkins - bass
Max Roach - drums

Prestige


THE LAST SLEEP OF THE VIRGIN
A Veneration for String Quartet and Handbells
THE HIDDEN TREASURE
John Tavener
SUMMA, FRATRES
Arvo Pärt
Chilingirian Quartet

Virgin Classics

SYMPHONY NO.3
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Dawn Upshaw - soprano
London Sinfonietta
David Zinman - conductor

Nonesuch

FAÇADE
An Entertainment
William Walton - score
Edith Sitwell - libretto
Dame Edith Sitwell - narrator
Sir Peter Pears - narrator
with other works, and works by Bax and Bliss
English Opera Group Ensemble
Anthony Collins - conductor

Decca

ABOVE THE STARRS
Verses, Anthems & Consort Music
Thomas Tomkins
Fretwork
Catherine King, Emma Kirkby, Richard Wistreich, Donald Greig, Jonathan Arnold, Charles Daniels - vocals

Harmonia Mundi

Thursday, May 19, 2016


ROBIN IS TO THE GREENWOOD GONE
Elizabethan Lute Music
Batchelar - Cuttinge - De Countie - Holborne - Huwet - Robinson
Paul O'Dette - lute

Nonesuch

PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO
Codex Calixtinus Anonymous, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous, Cristobal de Morales, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Guillaume Dufay, et al.
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner - director

Soli Deo Gloria

Wednesday, May 18, 2016


WALTZ FOR DEBBIE
Bill Evans Trio
Bill Evans - piano
Scott LaFaro - double bass
Paul Motian - drums

Riverside

HOMAGE TO JOHANNES CICONIA (1370-1412)
Johannes Ciconia
Ensemble P.A.N.

New Albion

Tuesday, May 17, 2016


GETZ/GILBERTO #2
Live at Carnegie Hall
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto
with Gary Burton

Verve

DEVOTIONS
Ketil Bjørnstad

EmArcy

ARS MAGIS SUBTILITER
Secular Music of the Chantilly Codex
Ensemble P.A.N.

New Albion


SOL DO MEIO DIA
Egberto Gismonti - 8-string guitar, kalimba, piano, wood flutes, voice, bottle
Naná Vasconcelos - percussion, berimbau, tama, corpo, voice, bottle
Ralph Towner - 12 string guitar
Collin Walcott - tabla, bottle
Jan Garbarek - soprano saxophone

ECM