Friday, November 30, 2018


THE AGE OF ELEGANCE
18th Century Music for Flute & Strings
J.C. Bach - F.J. Hatden - J.S. Bach - F.A. Hoffmeister - I. Pleyel
The Galeazzi Ensemble

London Independent

Thursday, November 29, 2018


ALFABETO
Domenico Pellegrini, Giovanni Paolo Foscarini, Giovanni Battista Granata, Giovanni Paolo Corbetta, Francesco Foscarini, Francesco Corbetta
Ensemble Kapsberger
Rolf Lislevand - lute, director

Astreé

TRAFFIC
Traffic

Island

Wednesday, November 28, 2018


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

MUSIC FOR QUEEN MARY 
Henry Purcell
Taverner Consort, Choir & Players
Andrew Parrott - direction

Veritas x2

Tuesday, November 27, 2018


JASMINE
Keith Jarrett - piano, scat vocals
Charlie Haden - double-bass

ECM

ANGEL SONG
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet, flugelhorn
Lee Konitz - alto saxophone
Dave Holland - double-bass
Bill Frisell - electric guitar

ECM

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

Monday, November 26, 2018


BYRD - PÄRT
William Byrd
Arvo Pärt
Calefax Reed Quintet
Kai Wessel - alto

MDG

Sunday, November 25, 2018


THE VIOLA IN MY LIFE
Morton Feldman
Marek Konstantynowicz - viola
Cikada Ensemble
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Christian Eggen - conductor

ECM New Series

STOA
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin

ECM

Saturday, November 24, 2018


RECERCADAS DEL TRATADO DE GLOSAS
Roma 1553
Diego Ortiz
Jordi Savall - viola da gamba, director
Ton Koopman - clavicembalo, organo di legno
Rolf Lislevand - vihuela, guitare
Andrew Lawrence-King - arpa doppia

Alia Vox

HOME TO THANKSGIVING  
Songs of Thanks and Praise
Various Composers - Medieval to Early American
His Majestie's Clerkes
Theatre of Voices
 
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

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

Naxos

MUSIC FOR THE DUKE OF LERMA
First Vespers and the Salve Service as Celebrated in October 1617, Music for the Translation of the Blessed Sacrament into the Collegiate Church of San Pedro in Lerma, Spain.
Cabezón - Victoria - Lobo - Romero - Guerrero
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh - director

Archiv Produktion

Friday, November 23, 2018


CONSORT MUSIC FOR 4, 5, AND 6 VIOLS
William Cranford
LeStrange Viols

Olde Focus

COMPLETE MUSIC FOR SOLO LUTE
John Dowland
Jakob Lindberg - lute

Brilliant Classics
via BIS

4 CD set

Thursday, November 22, 2018


ODES FOR ST. CECELIA'S DAY
MUSIC FOR QUEEN MARY
Henry Purcell
Taverner Consort, Choir & Players
Andrew Parrott - direction

Veritas x2

GOOD DOG / HAPPY MAN
Bill Frisell – electric and acoustic guitars, loops and music boxes
Greg Leisz – pedal steel, Dobro, lap steel, Weissenborn, National steel guitar and mandolin
Wayne Horvitz – organ, piano, samples
Viktor Krauss – bass
Jim Keltner – drums and percussion
Ry Cooder – guitar

Nonesuch

GOD DON'T NEVER CHANGE
The Songs of...
Blind Willie Johnson
The Blind Boys of Alabama, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies, Rickie Lee Jones, Luther Dickinson, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Maria McKee, Sinead O'Connor

Alligator

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

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD AGAIN
Buffalo Springfield

ATCO

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, November 21, 2018


JAZZ
Ry Cooder
Joseph Byrd

Warner Bros.

EARLY CLASSICS
Pentangle

Shanachie

MORRIS ON
John Kirkpatrick - vocals, accordions, harmonium, etc.
Richard Thompson - electric guitar
Barry Dransfield - vocals, fiddle, acoustic guitar
Ashley Hutchings - vocals, bass guitar
Dave Mattacks - drums

Carthage

Tuesday, November 20, 2018



THE ESSENTIAL JOHN FAHEY
John Fahey - guitar

Vanguard

THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET
A Celebration of the Concerto Grosso
Steve Reich, J.S. Bach, Igor Stravinsky, Colin Jacobsen/Siamak Aghaei, The Knights
The Knights - orchestral collective

Warner Classics

O FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES TO SING
18th Century Gallery Hymns
Maddy Prior
The Carnival Band
The Mellstock Band


Portrait

Monday, November 19, 2018


VISIONS
The Alan Hovhaness Sampler
Alan Hovhaness
Prayer of St Gregory, Op. 62b, Elibris (Dawn God of Urardu), Op. 50, Mystic Flute, Op. 22, Symphony no 46, Op. 347 "To the Green Mountains", Mountain Idyll(s), Symphony no 39 for Guitar and Orchestra Op. 321, Sonata for Piano, Op. 301 "Fred the Cat", Haroutiun, Op 71
Soloists: Chris Gekker (Trumpet), Alexa Still (Flute), Marvin Rosen (Piano), Michael Long (Guitar)
KBS Symphony Orchestra - Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra - Richaed Auldon Clark, conductor
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra - Vakhtang Jordania, conductor

Koch

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

Telarc

Saturday, November 17, 2018


FRATRES
Arvo Pärt
Other works by: John Corigliano, Paul Moravec, Albert Glinsky, and Olivier Messiaen
Maria Bachmann - violin
Jon Kliobonoff - piano

RCA Red Seal/Catalyst

OUT OF THE NIGHT
John Tavener 
Out Of The Night (Alleluia), Canticle Of The Mother Of God, Threnos, Ikon Of The Nativity  
Arvo Pärt 
Magnificat, Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen, FratresTaverner Choir
Andrew Parrott - director

Sony

Friday, November 16, 2018


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

Hyperion


PIÈCES EN TRIO
Pour les Flûtes, Violon & Dessus de Viole
Marin Marais
Musica Pacifica

Virgin Veritas X2

Thursday, November 15, 2018


MASSES BY TALLIS & SHEPPARD
Mass: Salve Intemerata Virgo
Thomas Tallis
Mass: The Western Wind
John Sheppard
The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
George Guest - director
Ian Shaw - organ

Musical Heritage Society via Academy Sound & Vision


THE COMPLETE RECORDER SONATAS
Georg Friedrich Handel
Claus Pehrsson - recorder
Bengt Ericson - baroque cello
Thomas Schuback - harpsichord

BIS

Wednesday, November 14, 2018


IKONS
A Sampling of Works to Illuminate the Accompanying Text
John Tavener
Various Artists

Harper Collins Fount

MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS
Brian Eno
David Byrne

Nonesuch

Tuesday, November 13, 2018


TELEPATHY
2 Great Albums: Live at Village West - Telephone
Ron Carter - double bass
Jim Hall - guitar

Concord Jazz

MUSIC FOR A GREAT CASTLE
Medieval and Renaissance Sources
The Broadside Band
Christ Church Cathedral Choir
The Henrician Consort
Matthew Spring
The Monks & Novices of St Frideswide
Magdala
The Elizabethan Consort


The Gift of Music

I AM THE ROSE OF SHARON
Early American Vocal Music, Volume I
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

Monday, November 12, 2018


A DREAM
John Dowland
Hopkinson Smith - lute

Naïve

TROUBADOURS, TROUVÈRES, MINSTRELS
12th - 14th c.
Studio der Frühen Musik
Thomas Binkley - director

Das Alte Werk 
2-CD set

Saturday, November 10, 2018


DE PROFUNDIS
CÆCILLA VIRGO ET MARTYR
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Gents Madrigaalkoor
Cantabile-Gent
Musica Polyphonica
Louis Devos - director

Erato

TROUBADOURS, TROUVÈRES, MINSTRELS
12th - 14th c.
Studio der Frühen Musik
Thomas Binkley - director

Das Alte Werk

RECERCADAS DEL TRATADO DE GLOSAS
Roma 1553
Diego Ortiz
Jordi Savall - viola da gamba
Ton Koopman - clavicembalo, organo di legno
Rolf Lislevand - vihuela, guitare
Andrew Lawrence-King - arpa doppia

Alia Vox


DU TEMPS & DE L'INSTANT
Moments in Time
Jordi Savall - viele, violes de gambe, direction
Montserrat Figueras - vocals
Arianna Savall - vocals, harps
Ferran Savall - vocals, lute
Pedro Estevan - percussion

Alia Vox

Friday, November 9, 2018




BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS
Bill Frisell - guitar
Eyvind Kang - viola
Rudy Royston - drums

Savoy Jazz

NUESTRO SON BARROCO
Diferencias e Invenciones
Tembembe Ensamble Continuo

FONCA/Conaculta