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

Brilliant Classics

3 CD set via Cantus

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

MDG

WRITTEN IN CHALK
Buddy & Julie Miller

New West

ROMARIA
Love songs, chants and motets from the 12th century to the present by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Orlando di Lasso, Josquin Desprez and others including the anonymous composers of the Carmina Burana manuscript.
The Dowland Project

• John Potter - tenor, director
• Miloš Valent - violin, viola
• John Surman - soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, tenor and bass recorders
• Stephen Stubbs - baroque guitar, vihuela

ECM New Series

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

TRACING ASTOR
Gidon Kremer plays Astor Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla
Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer - violin, direction
Ula Ulijona - viola
Marta Sudraba - cello
Sol Gabetta - cello
Leonid Desyatnikov - piano
Horacio Ferrer - voice

Nonesuch

ZEICHEN IM HIMMEL
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach
Stylus Phantasticus
Victor Torres - vocal
Friederike Heumann - conception, project coordination, viole de gambe

Alpha

JAZZ
Ry Cooder
Joseph Byrd

Warner Bros.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The United States of America

Sundazed

MAMBO SINUENDO
Ry Cooder
Manuel Galbán

Nonesuch - Perro Verde

PUNCH
Punch Brothers

Nonesuch

FORQUERAY
Pieces de viole avec la basse continuë
Antoine Forqueray & Jean-Baptiste Forqueray
Paolo Pandolfo - viola de gamba
Guido Balestracci - viola de gamba
Rolf Lislevand - theorbo & baroque guitar
Eduardo Egüez - theorbo & baroque guitar
Guido Morini - harpsichord

Glossa Cabinet

A TEMPORARY DIVE
AneBrun

DetErMine

RING
The Gary Burton Quintet
with Eberhard Weber

ECM

RENAISSANCE WINDS
Regal and Popular 16th Century Music for Wind Band
Alamire - Du Tertre - Gervaise - Henry VIII (King of England) - Antonio - Heinrich - Clément - Josquin des Prez - Phalese - Senfl
Ensemble Doulce Mémoire

Dorian

THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Pink Floyd

EMI

NO. 3
Fraunhofer Saintenmusik

Unsere Stimme

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

ECM

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

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

GUIDED TOUR
Gary Burton
The New Gary Burton Quartet

Mack Avenue

IN DARKNESS LET ME DWELL
John Dowland
The Dowland Project

• John Potter - tenor
• Stephen Stubbs - lute
• John Surman - saxophone and clarinet
• Maya Homburger - baroque violin
• Barry Guy - double-bass

ECM New Series

EL AIRE SE SERENA
Music from the Courts and Cathedrals of 16th-Century Spain
Seldom Sene - recorder quintet

Brilliant

PIÈCES DE VIOLE DU SECOND LIVRE, 1701
Marin Marais
Jordi Savall - viola da gamba
Anne Gallet - cembalo
Hopkinson Smith - théorbe

Telefunken Das Alte Werk

ESTAMPIE
A New Interpretation of the Oldest Preserved Instrumental Music of the Occident
Estampies Royales, Manuscrit du Roi, Frankreich, ca. 1290-1310
Ensemble Nu:n

Edition Raumklang

SALUTARE
Improvisation on Liturgical Music of the Middle Ages
Ensemble Nu:n

Edition Raumklang

THE GROUND
Tord Gustavsen Trio

ECM

TRAIL OF SOULS
Solveig Slettahjell - vocal
Knut Reiersrud - guitar
In The Country
    Morten Qvenild - piano
    Roger Arntzen - double-bass
    Pål Hausken - drums

ACT

DREAMS SO REAL
Music of Carla Bley
Gary Burton Quintet
Gary Burton—vibraphone
Mick Goodrick—guitar
Pat Metheny—guitar
Steve Swallow—electric bass
Bob Moses—drums

ECM

WORKS FOR STRING ORCHESTRA
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Oboe Concerto; Concerto Grosso - Fantasia on Greensleeves - Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Maurice Bourgue - oboe
English String Orchestra
William Boughton - conductor

Nimbus

NUESTRO SON BARROCO
Diferencias e Invenciones
Tembembe Ensamble Continuo

FONCA/Conaculta

FOUR TEMPERAMENTS
William Byrd - Alfonso Ferrabosco I - Robert Parsons - Thomas Tallis
Phantasm - viol ensemble

Avie

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

Virgin Veritas

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

ECM

DIMINUITO
16th century madrigals, chansons, and instrumentals re-imagined
Rolf Lislevand - lutes, vihela da mano, and direction
Anna Maria Friman - voice
Linn Andrea Fuglseth - voice
Giovanna Pessi - triple harp
Michael Behringer - clavichord, organ
Bjørn Kjellemyr - colascione, double-bass
Marco Ambrosini - nyckelharpa
Thor Harald Johnsen - chitarra battente, vihela da mano, lutes
David Mayoral - percussion

ECM New Series

MNEMOSYNE
Repertoire spanning twenty two centuries, from the "Delphic Paean" of Athenaeus to the "Estonian Lullaby" of Veljo Tormis, via folk song fragments from North and South America and Spain, pieces by Tallis, Dufay, Brumel, Hildegard von Bingen, Jan Garbarek, a Russian psalm, a Scottish ballad of the 16th century, and more.
The Hilliard Ensemble   David James - countertenor
   Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
   John Potter - tenor
   Gordon Jones - baritone
Jan Garbarek - tenor, soprano saxophones

ECM New Series

LOVE SUBLIME
Songs on texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Louise Bogan, Fleurine
Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau - composer, piano
Renée Fleming - soprano

Nonesuch

CANTICUM CANTICORUM
The Song of Songs
Orlando de Lassus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Heinrich Schutz, Domenico Mazzocchi, Healey Willan, William Walton, Thomas Tomkins, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Marin Marais, John Dunstable, Henry Purcell
Les Voix Baroques, with instrumental ensemble
Matthew White and Stephen Stubbs - musical directors

ATMA Classique

MARY'S MUSIC
Songs and Dances from the Time of Mary Queen of Scots
Scottish Early Music Consort
Warwick Edwards - director

Chandos

(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

PATRICK STREET
Patrick Street
–Kevin Burke - fiddle
–Jackie Daly - accordion
–Andy Irvine - vocals, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica
–Arty McGlynn - guitar

Green Linnet

TIME AND TIME AGAIN
Paul Motian - drums
Bill Frisell - guitar
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone

ECM

AOXOMOXOA
Grateful Dead

Warner Bros.

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

ECM

THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Thomas Tallis
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM

MINDSIZE
SIN
Poor Old Lu

KMS

HARMONIE UNIVERSELLE
Sampler of Works by Various Composers
Jordi Savall - director
Montserrat Figueras - soprano
Hesperion XXI
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Le Concerts des Nations

Alia Vox

ALCIONE
Suites des airs à joüer 1706
Marin Marais
Les Concerts des Nations
Jordi Savall - director

Astrée

DE PROFUNDIS
De Profundis (Psalm 129)- Missa Sillabica - Solfeggio - "And One Of The Pharisees" - Cantate Domino (Psalm 95) - Summa (Credo) - Seven Magnificat Antiphons - The Beatitudes - Magnificat    
Arvo Pärt
Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

THE COMPLETE "JAZZ GUITAR"
Jim Hall Trio
-Jim Hall - guitar
-Carl Perkins - piano
-Red Mitchell - bass

Essential Jazz Classics