Wednesday, January 31, 2018


LIVE AT MOERS
Recorded live at Moers Festival, Moers Germany, May 23, 2010
Arve Henriksen - trumpet, electronics, vocal
Bill Frisell - guitar
Eyvind Kang - violin
Rudy Royston - percussion

JZM Transcription Services

INTO THE PURPLE VALLEY
Ry Cooder

Reprise

MUSIC TO ENTERTAIN HENRY VIII
Anonymous, English - Pierre Attaingnant - Jacques Barbireau - Antoine Busnois - William Cornysh - Daggere - Henry VIII, King of England - Heinrich Isaac - Jean Richafort 
Purcell Consort of Voices
Grayson Burgess - director
Musica Reservata
Michael Morrow - director

Argo

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

Erato

Monday, January 29, 2018


SONATAS
For Violin, Bass Viol, and Organ
William Lawes
London Baroque
 Ingrid Seifert - violin
 Charles Medlam - bass viol
 Richard Egarr - organ

Harmonia Mundi

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

Tzadik

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

LINN

Sunday, January 28, 2018


VIA CRUCIS
Rappresentazione della gloriosa Passione di Cristo
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar - harp, director

Virgin Classics

CHANT MOZARABE
Mozarabic Chant, 11 c. 
Recorded at the monastery of Santa Maria de El Parral
Schola Antiqua de Espana
Padre Laurentino Saenz de Buruaga OSB - director

Jade

Friday, January 26, 2018


CHOMINCIAMENTO DI GIOIA
Virtuoso dance-music from the time of Boccaccio's Decamerone
British Library Ms. 29987 
Ensemble Unicorn

Naxos

FELIX AUSTRIA
Works for Viola da Gamba Consort.
Kaiser Ferdinand III, Johann Jacob Froberger, Giovanni Legrenzi, Leopold I, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Giovanni Valentini
Hamburger Ratsmusik
Klaus Mertens - bass
Simone Eckert - direction, bass viola da gamba

CPO

Wednesday, January 24, 2018


FOR JEAN ON HER BIRTHDAY
Violin Sonata in A minor, String Quartet No.2 in A minor (For Jean on her Birthday), Six Studies in English Folk-Song, Phantasy Quintet
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Music Group of London
Hugh Bean - violin, director

EMI

Tuesday, January 23, 2018


LADILIKAN
Trio Da Kali
Kronos Quartet

World Circuit

BEING DUFAY
Music based on vocal fragments by Guillaume Dufay
Ambrose Field - composer, electronics
John Potter - tenor

ECM New Series

Monday, January 22, 2018


REQUIEM DES ROIS DE FRANCE
LES MELANGES
Eustache Du Caurroy - 1549-1609
Doulce Mémoire
Denis Raisin Dadre - director

Naïve

IL PRIMO LIBRO DE MADRIGALI
Venezia 1611
Heinrich Schütz
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley - director

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Friday, January 19, 2018


EARLY MUSIC OF THE NETHERLANDS
1400 - 1800
Dufay, Josquin, Sweelinck, di Lasso, Brumel, Clemens non Papa, De Wert, Susato, De Koninck, Hacquart, Schenk, Brunnemueller
Trio Sonnerie, Gesualdo Consort, Concerto Palatino, Ensemble Tragicomedia, Vocal Ensemble Currende, Ensemble dell'Anima Eterna
Jos van Immerseel, Sarah Cunningham, Monica Huggett

Emergo 

3-CD Set

CEREMONY
(and other works)
Barry Guy
ANNUNCIATION
Heinrich Ignaz Frans Biber
Maya Homburger - baroque violin
Barry Guy - double-bass

ECM New Series



CAPTAIN HUMES POETICALL MUSICKE
Music for Viols, and Lute: Volume 2
Tobias Hume
Les Voix Humaines - viols
Stephen Stubbs - lute

Naxos

Thursday, January 18, 2018


TRAFFIC
Traffic

Island

KLINGENDE KATHEDRALEN
Cathedral Sounds
John Dunstable (nee, Dunstaple)
Clemincic Consort
René Clemenic - artistic director, late Gothic positive organ

Arte Nova

Wednesday, January 17, 2018


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

Christophorus

GERMAN MUSIC FOR VIOLS & HARPSICHORD
Theodor Schwartzkopff - Johann Jacob Froberger - Carlo Farina - Johann Schenck - Samuel Scheidt
Les Filles de Sainte Colombe

Magnatune

MUSIC OF THE SPANISH RENAISSANCE
For Voice, Viheulas, Lute, & Renaissance Guitar
Shirley Rumsey

Naxos

LÉONARD DE VINCI: L'HARMONIE DU MONDE
Various Composers Contemporary to De Vinci
Doulce Mémoire
Denis Raisin-Dadre - direction

Astrée

PRAETORIUS
Magnificat per omnes versus super ut re mi fa sol la (For Six Parts)
Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (For Four Parts)
Der Tag vertreibt die finster Nacht (For Four Parts)
Venite exultemus Domino (For Nine Parts)
Maria Magdalena (For Four Parts)
Peccavi fateor (For Six Parts)
Der Cxvi Psalm Davids (For 5 Instruments And 5 Voices)
Michael Praetorius
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul van Nevel - director

Sony - Vivarte

Tuesday, January 16, 2018


VENETIAN VESPERS
First Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, as it might have been celebrated in St. Mark's in 1643
Monteverdi - Rigatti - Grandi - Cavalli
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh - director

Archiv

MUSIQUE POUR LA VIOLE
Marin Marais
Charivari Agréable

ASV - Gaudeamus

THE MAGIC OF SATIE
Erik Satie
Jean-Yves Thibaudet - piano

Decca

SYMPHONY NO.3
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Ingrid Perruche - soprano
Sinfonia Varsovia
Alain Altinoglu - conductor

Naïve

LE SIÈCLE DU TITIEN
La Musique à Venise, 1490-1576
Doulce Memoire
Denis Raisin Dadre - direction

Astrée

A FEATHER ON THE BREATH OF GOD
Abbess Hildegard of Bingen
Gothic Voices
Emma Kirkby - soprano
Christopher Page - director

Hyperion

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

Harmonia Mundi

Monday, January 15, 2018


FRATRES
Fratres (six different versions), Summa, Festina Lente, and Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt
I Fiamminghi: The Orchestra of Flanders
Rudolf Werthen - conductor

Telarc

SYMPHONY NO. 9
mit Originalinstrumenten
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

John Eliot Gardiner - conductor

Archiv Produktion

SUITES POUR LUTH BAROQUE
BWV 1010 & 1012
J.S. Bach
Hopkinson Smith

Astrée

Sunday, January 14, 2018




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

New Albion

THE LIFE OF MARY
Cantigas for the Feasts of Holy Mary
Alfonso X "The Wise" 1221 - 1284
Música Antigua
Valle de los Caídos Monastery Children's Choir
Eduardo Paniagua - director

Sony - Hispainica

Saturday, January 13, 2018



WOULDN'T YOU MISS ME?
The Best Of...
Syd Barrett

Harvest

NUOVE MUSICHE
G. G. Kapsberger, D. Pelligrini, A. Piccinini, L. de Narvarez, G. Frescobaldi, B. Gianoncelli
Ensemble Kapsberger
Rolf Lislevand - archlute, baroque guitar, theorboe, director
Arianna Savall - triple harp, voice
Pedro Estevan - percussion
Bjørn Kjellemyr - colascione, double-bass
Guido Morini - organ, clavichord
Marco Ambrosini - nyckelharpa (viola d’amore a chiavi)
Thor-Harald Johnsen - chitarra battente

ECM New Series

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

Thursday, January 11, 2018


CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA
Recorded at the 'Church of Our Lady Beneath the Chain at the End of the Bridge', Prague
Hana Blažíkova - soprano, harp, musical direction 
Barbora Kabátková - soprano, harp, and psaltery
Margit Üebellacker - dulce melos
Martin Novák - percussion

PHI - Outthere

CHANTERAI
Music of Medieval France
Sonus - ensemble

Dorian

Wednesday, January 10, 2018


CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA
Alsfonso X El Sabio
Camerata Medtierranea
Joel Cohen - director
Abdelkrim Rais Andalusian Orchestra of Fez
Mohammed Briouel - director

Erato

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

Hyperion

Tuesday, January 9, 2018


A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Johann Hermann Schein, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell
Boston Camerata
Schola Cantorum of Boston
Joel Cohen - director, lute

Elektra Nonesuch

Monday, January 8, 2018


OF RIVERS AND RELIGION
John Fahey and his Orchestra
John Fahey – guitar
Chris Darrow – guitar, dobro, fiddle, mandolin
Joel Druckman – double bass
Jack Feierman – trumpet
Ira Nepus – trombone
Joanne Grauer – piano, calliope
Nappy La Mare – banjo
Alan Reuse – banjo
Joe Darensbourgh – clarinet

Reprise – BGO Records

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

Nonesuch