Tuesday, February 27, 2018


SIMPLY BAROQUE
Johann Sebastian Bach - Luigi Boccherini 
Yo-Yo Ma - cello
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra 
Ton Koopman - conductor

Sony Classical

Monday, February 26, 2018


DREAMS & PRAYERS
Explores music's role in religious mysticism as the ultimate passageway between the physical and the spiritual
Hildegard von Bingen - Mehmet Ali Sanhkol - Osvaldo Golijov - Ludwig van Beethoven
A Far Cry
David Krakauer - clarinet
Miki-Sophia Cloud - curator

Crier Records

APPALACHIA WALTZ
Meyer - O'Conner - Traditional
Yo-Yo Ma - cello
Edgar Meyer - bass
Mark O'Conner - violin

Sony Classical

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

LUX
Compositions representing the power of 'light'
Thomas Tallis, Gregorio Allegri, Edward Elgar, John Tavener, Morton Lauridsen, Ben Folds, Ola Gjeilo, Anonymous, Others
Voces8

Decca

Sunday, February 25, 2018


HAMBURGER RATSMUSIK
Consort Music c. 1600
William Brade
Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall - director, viola da gamba

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

WHITE MAN SLEEPS
Charles Ives - Jon Hassell - Thomas Oboe Lee - Ornette Coleman - Ben Johnston - Béla Bartók - Kevin Volans
Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch

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

SYMPHONY NO. 22 "CITY OF LIGHT"
CELLO CONCERTO
Alan Hovhaness
Janos Starker - cello
Seattle Symphony
Dennis Russell Davies - conductor

Naxos

SIXXES
Music from the Acoustic Neighbourhood
John Cage, Richard Cornell, Lee Santana, Martha Bishop, Christian Wolff
Lee Santana - archlute
Hille Perl - viol

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

ORGELMUSIK
Johann Pachelbel
Werner Jacob - organ (Mollau, Alsace)

Virgin Classics

Friday, February 23, 2018


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

Riverside

LA HARPE ROYALE
Musical Portraits, Dances, and Laments from the Court of Louis XIV
Francesco Corbetta - Louis Couperin - Robert de Visee - François Couperin - Johann Jakob Froberger
Andrew-Lawrence King - Baroque harp

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

FINZI - PARRY - BRIDGE
An English Suite
Gerald Finzi - Frank Bridge - C. Hubert H. Parry
English String Orchestra
William Boughton - conductor
Martin Jones - piano

Nimbus

Thursday, February 22, 2018


UNDERCURRENTS
Bill Evans - piano  
Jim Hall - guitar

Blue Note

OCEANA - TENEBRAE - THREE SONGS
Osvaldo Golijov
Gwinnett Young Singers 
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Kronos Quartet
Folk-Instrument Ensemble
Dawn Upshaw

Deutsche Grammophon

FROM 'SLEEP'
Excerpts from Sleep, to be listened to while awake.
Max Richter
Max Richter - piano, organ, synthesisers, electronics
American Contemporary Music Ensemble
Grace Davidson - soprano

Deutsche Grammophon

THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE
Feminine Voices from Medieval France
Comtessa de Die, Castelloza, Jean Renart
HelioTrope
Joyce Todd - director

Koch

Tuesday, February 20, 2018


I AM THE ROSE OF SHARON
Early American Vocal Music, Volume 1 
New England Anthems & Southern Folk Hymns 
Andrew Law, Daniel Read, William Billings, Jerimiah Ingalls, Lucius Chapin, Elkanah Kelsey Dare, Justin Morgan, Anonymous
The Western Wind

WWR

3 PIANO SONATAS
Ludwig van Beethoven
Misha Dichter - piano

Philips

POPULAR TUNES IN 17TH CENTURY ENGLAND
Airs Populaire Anglais du XVIIe Siècle  
Various Contemporary Popular Composers
London Tunes - Country Dances - Four Ballads Mentioned by Shakespeare - The 17th Century Top Three - Across the Channel - Across the Border - John Playford's English Dancing Master - The new Exchange - The Kettle Drum - A health to Betty - The fine Companion - The healths
The Broadside Band
– Jeremy Barlow; Alistair McLachlan; George Weigand; Rosemary Thorndycraft
Jeremy Barlow - director


Harmonia Mundi

BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
Nos. 1, 2, 4; Overture No. 2 
mit Originalinstrumenten
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt – director

TELDEC

SHEHERAZADE
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava
Ondrej Lenard - conductor

Naxos

Monday, February 19, 2018


THE FEUDAL SPIRIT
Rob Noyes – 6 and 12 string guitar solo

Poon Village / Forced Exposure

PTAH THE EL DAOUD
Alice Coltrane - piano, harp
Joe Henderson — alto flute, tenor saxophone
Pharoah Sanders — alto flute, tenor saxophone, bells
Ron Carter — bass
Ben Riley — drums

Impulse!

Sunday, February 18, 2018


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

Naxos

Thursday, February 15, 2018


ROMANCES FOR SAXOPHONE
Gabriel Faure, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergey Rachmaninov, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Michel Colombier, Claude Debussy
Branford Marsalis - soprano saxophone
The English Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Litton - director

CBS Masterworks

Tuesday, February 13, 2018


LA HARPE ROYALE
Musical Portraits, Dances, and Laments from the Court of Louis XIV
Francesco Corbetta - Louis Couperin - Robert de Visee - François Couperin - Johann Jakob Froberger
Andrew-Lawrence King - Baroque harp

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Monday, February 12, 2018


GOOD RAIN
Solveig Slettahjell
Slow Motion Quintet

Act

NEXT GENERATION
Gary Burton

Concord Jazz

SIT FAST
A Dozen Miniatures, New and Old
Barry Guy, Poul Rouders, Tan Dun, Simon Bainbridge, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Elvis Costello, Johannes Ockeghem, Heinrich Isaac, Christopher Tye, Alfonso Ferrabosco
Fretwork

Virgin Classics

FLÖTEN-SONATEN
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Hans-Martin Linde - flauto traverso
Colin Tilney - cembalo
Jordi Savall - viola da gamba

EMI Electrola

A BACH HARPSICHORD RECITAL
BWV 894, 914, 903, 992, 998, 906 and 1079 No.1
J.S. Bach
John Gibbons - harpsichord

Nonesuch

SHUT DOWN
Compilation of early 1960s hot-rod anthems and ballads
The Beach Boys - The Cheers - The Super Stocks - The Piltdown Men - Robert Mitchum - Jimmy Dolan - The Eligibles

Capitol

Sunday, February 11, 2018


IBERIAN GARDEN
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Music in Medieval Spain, Vol. 1
Anonymous Mostly

Altramar Medieval Music Ensemble

Dorian

MISSA MEDIA VITA IN MORTE SUMUS
Nicolas Gombert
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM New Series

10 (TEN) YEARS TOGETHER
The Best of Peter, Paul & Mary
Peter, Paul & Mary

Warner Bros.

FROM 'SLEEP'
Excerpts from Sleep, to be listened to while awake.
Max Richter
Max Richter - piano, organ, synthesisers, electronics
American Contemporary Music Ensemble
Grace Davidson - soprano

Deutsche Grammophon

Saturday, February 10, 2018


A DYNAMIC NEW SOUND
Guitar/Organ/Drums
Wes Montgomery
The Wes Montgomery Trio

Riverside

TEXAS SHEIKS
Geoff Muldaur
and The Texas Sheiks

Tradition & Moderne GmbH

THE LONGEST RIVER
Olivia Chaney

Nonesuch

Friday, February 9, 2018


LUMINESSENCE
Music for String Orchestra and Saxophone
Keith Jarrett
Jan Garbarek - saxophone improvisation
Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester
Mladen Gutesha - conductor

ECM

DANSES POPULAIRES FRANÇAISES
Orchésographie
Thoinot Arbeau
The English Dancing Master
John Playford
The Broadside Band
Jeremy Barlow - director

Harmonia Mundi

Thursday, February 8, 2018


FOLIE DOUCE  
Renaissance Improvisations
Ensemble Doulce Mémoire
Denis Raisin-Dadre - direction

Dorian