Tuesday, April 30, 2019


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

ECM

SOPWITH CAMEL
The Sopwith Camel

One Way Records via Kama Sutra



AWAY OUT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Tim & Mollie O'Brien

Sugar Hill

Monday, April 29, 2019


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

FANTASIA ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS
Ralph Vaughan Williams
GYMNOPÉDIES NOS. 1 AND 3
Erik Satie
ADAGIO FOR STRINGS
Samuel Barber
PAVANE
Gabriel Fauré
IRISH TUNE FROM COUNTY DERRY
Percy Grainger
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin - conductor

Telarc

DREAMS & PRAYERS
Hildegard von Bingen - Mehmet Ali Sanhkol - Osvaldo Golijov - Ludwig van Beethoven
A Far Cry
David Krakauer - clarinet
Miki-Sophia Cloud - curator 

Crier Records

AGAPE-AGAPE / LOVE-LOVE
Popol Vuh

SPV / Weird Brother

Sunday, April 28, 2019


A TAPESTRY OF MUSIC FOR OLIVER CROMWELL AND HIS ROUNDHEADS
A TAPESTRY OF MUSIC FOR CHARLES I AND HIS CAVALIERS
Many and Varied Sources and Composers
St George's Canzona
John Sothcott - director

Academy Sound and Vision



What the original packaging looked like on LP.




A TAPESTRY OF MUSIC FOR OLIVER CROMWELL AND HIS ROUNDHEADS

St George's Canzona

Enigma

MUSIQUE POUR LA VIOLE
Marin Marais
Charivari Agréable

ASV - Gaudeamus

AUFERSTEHUNGS-HISTORIE, SWV 50
Heinrich Schütz
Concerto Vocale
Rene Jacobs - director

Harmonia Mundi

Saturday, April 27, 2019


CONSORT SETS IN FIVE & SIX PARTS
William Lawes
Hespèrion XXI
Jordi Savall - director

Alia Vox

THE NEW CRYSTAL SILENCE
The Duet (disc 2)
Chick Corea - piano
Gary Burton - vibraphone

Concord

COMMON GROUND
The New Gary Burton Quartet

Mack Avenue

INTAVOLATURA DI LUTO  
Lute music by the younger brother of Galileo Galilei and their father Vincenzo
Michelagnolo Galilei (1775-1631)
Anthony Bailes - lute

Ramée - Outhere Music

BILL FRISELL, RON CARTER, PAUL MOTIAN
Bill Frisell - guitar
Ron Carter - bass
Paul Motian - drums

Nonesuch

Friday, April 26, 2019


INNOCENCE
Innocence*, The Lamb*, Song for Athene, Tyger, Annunciation, Two Hymns
John Tavener
William Blake* - text
Westminster Abbey Choir
English Chamber Orchestra
Martin Neary - conductor
Patricia Rozario - soprano
Leigh Nixon - tenor
Graham Titus - bass
Alice Neary - cello
Martin Baker - organ

Sony Classics

GOTHIC MUSIC IN BOHEMIA
13th - 15th Century
Anonymous - Neidhardt von Reuenthal - Tannhäuser - Guillaume de Machaut -  Francesco Landini - Donato de Firenze - Molendinum de paris - Guillaume Dufay 
Ars Cameralis
Lukáš Matoušek - director

Studio MATOUŠ

JOHNNY, COCK THY BEAVER
Popular Music-making in 17th Century England
Anonymous - John Playford - John Dowland - Thomas Simpson - Giles Farnaby
The Dufay Collective

Chandos - New Directions

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

Avie

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Wednesday, April 24, 2019


¡JÁCARAS!
18th Century Spanish Baroque Guitar Music
Santiago De Murcia
Paul O'Dette - baroque guitar
Andrew Lawrence-King - harp and psaltery
Pedro Estevan - percussion

Harmonia Mundi

WORKS FOR STRING ORCHESTRA
Benjamin Britten
Roger Best - viola
English String Orchestra
William Boughton - conductor

Nimbus Records

Tuesday, April 23, 2019


6 SUITEN FÜR VIOLONCELLO SOLO
BWV 1007–1012
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pierre Fournier - cello

Archiv Produktion

WHATEVER
Danny Thompson - double bass
Tony Roberts - saxophones, northumbrian pipes, whistle
Bernie Holland - guitars

Hannibal

DREAMS SO REAL
Music of Carla Bley
Gary Burton Quintet

ECM

TIME OUT
The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Columbia

LIFT EVERY VOICE
Charles Lloyd - tenor saxophone
- Geri Allen - piano
- John Abercrombie - guitar
- Marc Johnson - double-bass
- Larry Grenadier - double-bass
- Billy Hart - drums

ECM


LE PARLER ET LE SILENCE
Music for Flute Consort and Lute from the Late 16th to the Early 18th Centuries
The Attaignant Consort

Ramée - Outhere Music

Monday, April 22, 2019


WATERSHED
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin

Dragonfly Roots

OUT OF THE WOODS
Oregon

OGB via Elektra

ROOTS IN THE SKY
Oregon

OGB
via Elektra

HIGH LOW AND IN BETWEEN
THE LATE GREAT TOWNES VAN ZANDT
Townes Van Zandt

EMI Acoustic Highway
double album cd

Sunday, April 21, 2019


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

ECM

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

Brilliant

Saturday, April 20, 2019


MISERERE - FESTINA LENTE - SARAH WAS NINETY YEARS OLD
Arvo Pärt
The Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier - director
Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn
Dennis Russell Davies - conductor

ECM New Series

PASSION  
Lamentationes Jeremiae  
Johannes Tinctoris  
Victimae paschali  
Guillaume Dufay  
Victimae paschali  
Josquin des Prez 
Easter Mass Proper: Introitus, Graduale, Prosa, Communio  
Heinrich Isaac  
Crux triumphans 
Loÿset Compère 
Vexilla regis  
Guillaume Dufay 
Salve crux  
Jacob Obrecht
Orlando Consort

Metronome

MESSE DE NOSTRE DAME
Sacred and Secular Music
Guillaume de Machaut
Ensemble Gilles Binchoit
Dominique Vellard - director

Brilliant Classics

3 CD set via Cantus

THE STONE
David Olney

Bandcamp

SCATTERED ASHES
Josquin's Miserere and the Savonarolan Legacy
Josquin Des Prez - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Orlande de Lassus - Claude Le Jeune, - Jean Lhéritier - Nicolas Gombert - Jacobus Clemens Non Papa - William Byrd
Magnificat
Philip Cave - director

Linn

THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Thomas Tallis
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM

LAMENTA
The Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah
Ferrabosco the Elder - Thomas Tallis - Antoine Brumel - Robert White - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Philips - director

Gimell

Friday, April 19, 2019


PASSIONSMUSIK
O Bone Jesu, Fili Mariae
Heinrich Schütz
Membra Jesu Nostri
Dietrich Buxtehude
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
Fretwork

John Eliot Gardiner - director

Archiv Produktion

THE PASSION
According to the Four Evangelists
Robert Kyr
Back Bay Chorale
Back Bay Orchestra
Carole Haber - soprano
Gloria Haymond - alto
William Hite - trombone
David Murray - baritone
Beverly Taylor - director

IODA - New Albion



STABAT MATER
O quam tristis et afflicta fuit illa benedicta, mater Unigeniti!
Gregorian Chant - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Arvo Pärt - John Browne
Taverner Consort and Choir
Fretwork
Andrew Parrott - director

Virgin Classics

STABAT MATER
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Alessandro Scarlatti
Gemma Bertagnolli - soprano
Sara Mingardo - contralto
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini - director

Naïve

A FIX BACK EAST
Were You There
Tarbox Ramblers

Rounder

PASSIO
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Joannem
Arvo Pärt
The Hilliard Ensemble
– Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
– Lynne Dawson - soprano
– Michael George - bass
– David James - counter tenor
– Gordon Jones - baritone
– John Potter - tenor
Catherine Duckett - bassoon
Elizabeth Layton - violin
Melinda Maxwell - oboe
Elisabeth Wilson - cello
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - organ
Western Wind - choir/chorus
Paul Hillier - conductor

ECM New Series

THE LAST WORDS OF CHRIST
Max Reger - Joseph Haydn - Anton Weber - Jean Sibelius - Dmitri Shostakovich
Petrus Herbert - spoken text
Ebonit Saxophone Quartet
Claron McFadden - spoken voice

Challenge Classics