Thursday, June 29, 2017


TEATRO LIRICO
Sonatas and Dances from 17th Century Italy and Slovakia
Teatro Lirico
Milos Valent - violin, viola
Maxine Eilander - Spanish and Italian harps
Erin Headley - viola da gamba, lirone
Stephen Stubbs - baroque guitar, chitarrone, director

ECM New Series

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

EMI

CANCIONERO
Music for the Spanish Court 1470-1520
The Dufay Collective

Avie

THEN PLAY ON
Fleetwood Mac

Reprise


KILN HOUSE
Fleetwood Mac

Reprise

LE PHENIX - LES DELICES DE LA SOLITUDE, OP. 20 - CONCERTO NO. 1 FOR ORGAN

Michel Corrette
Musica Franca
  • Terry McKenna - baroque guitar
  • Fraser Jackson - contrabassoon
  • Nadina Mackie Jackson - solo bassoon
  • Mathieu Lussier - bassoon
  • Kathleen McClean - bassoon
  • Paul Jenkins - harpsichord, organ

MSR

Wednesday, June 28, 2017


IN LAMBETH
Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake
John Zorn
The Gnostic Trio
Carol Emanuel - harp
Bill Frisell - guitar
Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone, bells
with Ikue Mori - electronics

Tzadik

JOSQUIN
Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae / Motets
Josquin Desprez
The Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier - director

Erato Veritas x2

THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Pink Floyd

EMI

HOUSE ON HILL
Brad Mehldau Trio
  Brad Mehldau – piano
  Larry Grenadier – bass
  Jorge Rossy – drums

Nonesuch

BILL FRISELL, RON CARTER, PAUL MOTIAN
Bill Frisell - guitar
Ron Carter - bass
Paul Motian - drums

Nonesuch

Tuesday, June 27, 2017



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

Mercury

THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Johann Sebastian Bach
Glenn Gould - piano

Columbia Masterworks

TALES FROM THE ACOUSTIC PLANET
Béla Fleck

  • Béla Fleck - banjo (all tracks)
  • Grace Bahng - cello (track 13)
  • Sam Bush - mandolin (tracks 10, 11)
  • Chick Corea - piano (tracks 8, 9, 12)
  • Jerry Douglas - resophonic guitar (tracks 2, 3, 11)
  • Stuart Duncan - violin (tracks 3, 6, 10, 11)
  • Robert Barry Green - trombone (track 4)
  • Connie Heard - violin (track 13)
  • Bruce Hornsby - piano (track 3)
  • Kenny Malone - drums (tracks 7, 11), percussion (track 10)
  • Branford Marsalis - soprano saxophone (track 14), tenor saxophone (track 8)
  • Edgar Meyer - acoustic standup bass (tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14), piano (track 4)
  • Paul McCandless - bass clarinet (track 1), English horn (track 5), oboe (tracks 2, 5, 13), soprano saxophone (track 1)
  • Matt Mundy - mandolin (tracks 1, 6, 13)
  • Tony Rice - guitar (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6)
  • Dennis Solee - clarinet (track 4)
  • George Tidwell - trumpet (track 4)
  • Mary Kathryn Vanasdale - violin (track 13)
  • Kristin Wilkinson - viola (track 13)
  • Roy "Futureman" Wooten - acoustic percussion (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 13), drums (tracks 5, 8), vocal wind effects (track 4)
  • Victor Wooten - bass (tracks 1, 5), fretless bass (tracks 3, 8, 11), electric standup bass (track 4)


Warner Bros.

Monday, June 26, 2017


DAS GLOGAUER LIEDERBUCH
The Glogau Songbook, c. 1480
Sabine Lutzenberger - soprano
Martin Hummel - baritone
Marc Lewon - lute
Ensemble Dulce Melos

Naxos

REGARDS FROM CHUCK PINK
Leo Kottke

Private Music

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

Coviello

VIOLIN CONCERTO - LONELY WATERS - WHYTHORNE'S SHADOW - CELLO CONCERTO*
Ernest John Moeran
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Hadley - conductor
Bournemouth Sinfonietta*
Norman Del Mar* - conductor

Chandos

CROWN OF CREATION
Jefferson Airplane

RCA Victor

RITE
Unni Løvlid

Grappa

Sunday, June 25, 2017


DIMINUITO
16th century madrigals, chansons, and instrumentals re-imagined
Rolf Lislevand - lute and direction
with instrumental and vocal ensemble

ECM New Series

PROJECTIONS
The Blues Project

Verve Folkways / Sundazed

Saturday, June 24, 2017


QUARTET
Peter Rowan - lead vocals, guitar
Tony Rice - lead guitar
Bryn Davies - bass, vocals
Sharon Gilchrist - mandolin, vocals

Rounder


EXTENDED CIRCLE
Tord Gustavsen Quartet

ECM


KISS OF PEACE
Songs from the Dendermonde Manuscript
Hidegard von Bingen
PER-SONAT
Sabine Lutzenberger - soprano, bells
Baptiste Romain - medieval vielles, bowed lyre

Christophorus

Friday, June 23, 2017


'ROUND MIDNIGHT
Alan Broadbent - piano
Brian Bromberg - double bass
Joe LaBarbera - drums

Artistry

TEATRO D'AMORE
Claudio Monteverdi
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar - direction

Erato

Thursday, June 22, 2017


FOR YE VIOLLS
Consort Setts for 5 & 6 Viols and Organ
William Lawes
Fretwork
Paul Nicholson - organ

Virgin Classics

Wednesday, June 21, 2017


LES FANTAISIES DE JOSQUIN
The Instrumental Music
Josquin Desprez
Ensemble Leones
Marc Lewon - director

Christophorus

LIEDER VON MACHT & LIEBE
Sangspruch & Minnesang
Walther von der Vogelweide
PER-SONAT
  Sabine Lutzenberger
  Baptiste Romain 
  Elisabeth Rumsey
  Tobie Miller

Christophorus

AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S
Jefferson Airplane

RCA Victor

Tuesday, June 20, 2017


DIE ROSENKRANZ-SONATEN
The Mystery Sonatas 
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
John Holloway - violin
Davitt Moroney - chamber organ, harpsichord
Tragicomedia
– Stephen Stubbs, Erin Headley, Andrew Lawrence-King

Erato / Veritas

My name is August West...


SKULL & ROSES
Skullfux
The Grateful Dead

Warner Bros.

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

Naxos

SIX SONATAS
Dietrich Buxtehude
John Holloway, Ursula Weiss - violin
Jaap ter Linden, Mogens Rasmussen - viola da gamba
Lars Ulrik Mortensen - harpsichord, organ

Naxos

CODEX SPECIÁLNÍK
15th-century special songbook originating from a monastery in the region of Praha (Prague)
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM New Series

Sunday, June 18, 2017


MIRACLES OF SANT'IAGO
Medieval Chant & Polyphony for St. James from the Codex Calixtinus
Various and Anonymous
Anonymous 4

Harmonia Mundi USA

SWEET HARMONY
Masses and Motets
John Dunstable
Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts - director

Naxos

LES PLUS GRANDS CHEFS-D'OEUVRE
The Greatest Masterworks
Marin Marais
Monsieur Sainte-Colombe

Spectre de la Rose
Alison Crum - Bass Viola da gamba
Marie Knight  - Violin
Elizabeth Liddle - Bass Viola da gamba
Susanna Pell - Bass Viola da gamba

David Miller - Theorbo, Guitar
Timothy Roberts - Harpsichord


Naxos

Saturday, June 17, 2017


I AM THE TRUE VINE
BERLINER MESSE
Arvo Pärt
Theatre of Voices
The Pro Arte Singers

Paul Hillier - director
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - organ

Harmonia Mundi USA

Friday, June 16, 2017


THE ENCHANTED ISLES
Harp Music of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales
Carol Thompson - harps

Dorian

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Wednesday, June 14, 2017


MAN WITH THE WOODEN FLUTE
Traditional Flute Music of The British Isles, America, Quebec and Cape Breton
Chris Norman - flute
Robin Bullock - Cittern, Fiddle, Guitar
Ann Marie Morgan - Viola da Gamba
Pete Sutherland - Fiddle

Dorian

MUSIC OF VLADIMIR MARTYNOV
The Beatitudes, Schubert-Quintet (Unfinished), Der Abschied
Vladimir Martynov
Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch

TRANSMIGRATION OF THE MAGUS
John Zorn
Bill Frisell - guitar
John Medeski - organ
Kenny Wollesen, Al Upowski - vibes, bells
Carol Emanuel, Bridget Kibby - harps

Tzadik

LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Vladimir Martynov
The Sirin Choir
Andrey Kotov - director

Brilliant Classics

Tuesday, June 13, 2017


EXTEMPORE II
A modern Mass for the Feast of St. Michael based on the medieval melody L'homme Armé
The Orlando Consort
Perfect Houseplants


Harmonia Mundi

Monday, June 12, 2017


THE ANDREW CRONSHAW CD
Andrew Cronshaw
and friends

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