Thursday, August 31, 2017


OCKEGHEM
Requiem - Missa 'Mi-mi' - Missa Prolationum
Johannes Ockeghem
Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier - director

Veritas

VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA
Morton Feldman
Carolin Widmann - violin
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Emilio Pomàrico - conductor

ECM New Series

BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE
Brian Eno

Editions E'G

THURSDAY AFTERNOON
Brian Eno

Editions E'G

Wednesday, August 30, 2017


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

Erato

MOON AND MIND
Oregon

Vanguard

QUATUOR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS
(Quartet for the End of Time)
Olivier Messiaen
Trio Wanderer
with Pascal Moraguès - clarinette

Harmonia Mundi

MARIA MULDAUR
Maria Muldaur

Reprise

Tuesday, August 29, 2017




BATTALIA À 10
REQUIEM À 15 IN CONCERTO
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Le Concerts des Nations
Jordi Savall - director

Alia Vox

MUSIC OF BILL EVANS
Bill Evans
Kronos Quartet
Eddie Gomez - double bass
Jim Hall - guitar

Landmark

LOVE SONGS
Miles Davis

Columbia

Monday, August 28, 2017


MY FAVORITE THINGS
John Coltrane

Atlantic

WALKIN'
Miles Davis All Stars
Miles Davis — trumpet
Lucky Thompson — tenor saxophone on side one
J. J. Johnson — trombone on side one
David Schildkraut — alto saxophone on side two
Horace Silver — piano
Percy Heath — bass
Kenny Clarke — drums

Prestige


THE ART OF FUGUE
J. S. Bach
Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger - violin, director
Johannes Pramsohler - violin, viola
Alison McGillivray - cello
Marcin Świątkiewicz - harpsichord

Channel Classics

CANTIGAS FROM THE COURT OF DOM DINIS
Devotional, Satirical, & Courtly Medieval Love Songs
Theatre of Voices
Margriet Tindemans - vielle
Paul Hillier - director, voice

Harmonia Mundi USA

RYPDAL/VITOUS/DeJOHNETTE
Terje Rypdal - guitar
Miroslav Vitous - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums

ECM

Sunday, August 27, 2017


SHADES OF JADE
Marc Johnson - double-bass
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
John Scofield - guitar
Eliane Elias - piano
Joey Baron - drums
Alain Mallet - organ

ECM

FANTAZIAS
Henry Purcell
Rose Consort of Viols

Naxos

Saturday, August 26, 2017


MUSICKE OF SUNDRIE KINDES
A Four Disc Introduction to Renaissance Secular Music, 1480-1620
Josquin, Lasso, Marenzio, Obrecht, Isaac, Sermisy, Janequin, Gesualdo, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Gibbons and their lesser known contemporaries 
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley - director

Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre - Decca

QUERCUS
June Tabor - vocals
Iain Ballamy - saxophone
Huw Warren - piano

ECM

A SONG OF FAREWELL
Music of Mourning & Consolation
Orlando Gibbons, William Walton, Robert White, James MacMillan, John Sheppard, Jonathan Dove, Thomas Morley, Edward Elgar, Herbert Howells, C. Hubert H. Parry
Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh - director

Gabrieli – Winged Lion

Friday, August 25, 2017

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Wednesday, August 23, 2017


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

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
John Abercrombie Trio
John Abercrombie - guitars
Dan Wall - Hammond B3 organ
Adam Nussbaum - drums

ECM

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

ECM

DE TEMPORUM FINE COMOEDIA
Play of the End of Time
Carl Orff
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Herbert von Karajan - conductor

Deutsche Grammophon

Tuesday, August 22, 2017


3 SONATEN FÜR VIOLINE SOLO
Transkription für Gitarre
J.S. Bach
Frank Bungarten - guitar

MD+G

Saturday, August 19, 2017


TIME OUT
TIME FURTHER OUT
The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Columbia


THE LADY AND THE UNICORN
John Renbourn
Shanachie

THE BEST OF
Milt Jackson

Riverside

TITULI
CATHEDRAL IN THE THRASHING RAIN
Stephen Hartke
The Hilliard Ensemble
  David James - countertenor
  Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
  Steven Harrold - tenor
  Andreas Hirtreiter - tenor
  Gordon Jones - baritone
Michelle Makarski - violin
Lynn Vartan - marimba, cymbals, shaker, cup bells, wood block
Javier Diaz - marimba, cymbals, shaker, cup bells, wood block
Donald Crockett - conductor

ECM New Series

A DREAM
John Dowland
Hopkinson Smith - lute

Naïve

Friday, August 18, 2017


PAVANS AND FANTASIES FROM THE AGE OF DOWLAND
John Dowland, Henry Purcell, William Lawes, John Jenkins, Thomas Morley, Matthew Locke
John Holloway - violin, viola, direction
Monika Baer - violin, viola
Renate Steinmann - viola
Susanna Hefti - viola
Martin Zeller - bass violin

ECM New Series

Thursday, August 17, 2017


VOX COSMICA
Hildegard von Bingen
Hirundo Maris
Arianna Savall – Voice, Medieval Harp, Italian Triple Harp, Lyra, Tibetan Singing Bowl
Petter Udland Johansen – Voice, Hardingfele, Lyra, Fiddle, Monochord
Andreas Spindler – Flutes, Fiddle, Romain Bells, Colascione, Tromba Marina, Voice
Anke Spindler – Nyckelharpa, Fiddles, Viola da Gamba, Voice
David Mayoral – Santur, Percussion, Romain Bells, Voice

Carpe Diem Records

GOOSTLY PSALMES
Anglo-American Psalmody 1550-1800
Billings - Morgan - Read - Wood - Dowland
His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

MESSE DE NOSTRE DAME
Guillaume de Machaut
Ensemble Gilles Binchoit
Dominique Vellard - director

Brilliant Classics

3 CD set via Cantus

RECORDER CONCERTI - BLOCKFLÖTENKONZERTE
Il Cardellino
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto fa Maggiore Flauto, Archi e Continuo
Giuseppe Sammartini
Suite A-Moll für Altblockflote
Georg Philipp Telemann
Clas Pehrsson - recorders
The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble
Anders Öhrwall - harpsichord

BIS

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

Dorian

WATKINS ALE
Music of the English Renaissance
The Baltimore Consort

Dorian

PROENSA
Songs of the Troubadours
Paul Hillier - voice, direction
Stephen Stubbs - lute, psaltery
Andrew Lawrence-King - harp, psaltery
Erin Headley - vielle

ECM New Series

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

LINN - Honest

TRIODION
Arvo Pärt
Polyphony
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - organ
Stephen Layton - conductor

Hyperion

Wednesday, August 16, 2017


THE NEW QUARTET
Gary Burton

ECM

OBOE CONCERTI
Concerti a Cinque Op. 9
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Concertos for Oboe, Strings, and Basso Continuo
Georg Philipp Telemann
Hans de Vries - oboe
Alma Musica Amsterdam
Bob van Asperen - director

Virgin Veritas

ELEMENTS
Fire - Earth - Water - Air (a mother-daughter-project)
Marthe Perl, Irish Traditional, Antonio Soler, Michel Farinel, Marin Marais, Tobias Hume, Richard Sumarte, John Dowland, Thomas Ford, Francis Poulenc
Hille Perl - viola da gamba
Marthe Perl - viola da gamba, treble viol

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

PIÈCES DE VIOLE
Mr. De Sainte Colombe Le Fils
Jordi Savall - viole

Alia Vox

Tuesday, August 15, 2017


PIECES DU VIOLE DU SECOND LIVRE, 1701
Marin Marais
Jordi Savall, Rolf Lislevand, Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Philippe Pierlot, Pierre Hantaï

Alia Vox

PIANO SONGS
Meredith Monk
Ursula Oppens - piano
Bruce Brubaker - piano

ECM New Series

CONCERTI A CINQUE, OP. 9
For Violin and Oboe with Strings and Continuo
Tomaso Albinoni
I Musici

Musical Heritage Society via Philips