Wednesday, July 31, 2019


DOMINANT CURVE
Colin Jacobsen - Kojiro Umezaki - Claude Debussy - John Cage
Brooklyn Rider
- Johnny Gandelsman - violin
- Colin Jacobsen - violin
- Nicholas Cords - viola
- Eric Jacobsen - cello
with
- Kojiro Umezaki - shakuhachi, electronics
- Justin Messina - electronics

In a Circle Records

Sunday, July 28, 2019


A DREAM
John Dowland
Hopkinson Smith - lute

Naïve

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

Deutsche Grammophon

HÖR, KRISTENHAIT!
Sacred Songs by the Last of The Minnesingers
Oswald von Wolkenstein - Der Mönch von Salzburg - Michel Beheim - Anonymous - Fridolin Sicher  
Ensemble Leones
>Sabine Lutzenberger — voice
>Raitis Grigalis — voice
>Baptiste Romain — vielle, crwth, bagpipes
>Marc Lewon — voice, lute, gittern, vielle, direction

Christophorus

Saturday, July 27, 2019


UNCOMMON RITUAL
Edgar Meyer - double bass
Béla Fleck - banjo
Mike Marshall - mandolin

Sony

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

Essential Jazz Classics

ALCHEMIST
Monteverdi - Du Prez - Mainerio - Anonymous - Ortiz - Le Jeune - Pickett
Philip Pickett - arrangements, recorders, crumhorns, curtals, racketts, shawms, cornamusen, pan pipes, organ, gittern, symphony, chalumeau
Catherine Bott - soprano
Stephen Henderson - percussion, xylophone, bells, timpani
David Roblou - organ, harpsichord
Pavlo Beznosiuk - medieval fiddle, baroque violin/viola
Tom Finucane - lute, gittern
Anthony Pleeth - baroque cello

Decca

Friday, July 26, 2019


COLOURS IN THE DARK
The Instrumental Music of...
Alexander Agricola
Ensemble Leones
Marc Lewon - director

Christophorus

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Fantasia on Greensleeves - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - The Lark Ascending - Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 - In the Fen Country - Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The New Queen's Hall Orchestra
Hagai Shaha - violin
Barry Wordsworth - conductor

Argo

Thursday, July 25, 2019


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

Avie

Tuesday, July 23, 2019


THE CONSORT SETTS FOR 5 & 6 VIOLS AND ORGAN
William Lawes
Fretwork Viol Ensemble
Paul Nicholson - organ

Virgin Veritas 2-CD set

Monday, July 22, 2019

Saturday, July 20, 2019


GETZ/GILBERTO #2
Recorded Live at Carnegie Hall
Stan Getz - tenor sax
João Gilberto - guitar, vocal
Gary Burton - vibes
Gene Cherico - bass
Joe Hunt - drums
with Astrud Gilberto - vocal

Verve

Friday, July 19, 2019


RAMBLING BOY
Charlie Haden
Family & Friends
Charlie Haden – bass, backup vocals
Petra Haden – vocal
Rachel Haden – vocal
Tanya Haden – vocal
Jerry Douglas – dobro
Sam Bush – mandolin
Stuart Duncan – fiddle
Bryan Sutton – guitar
Vince Gill– vocal
Dan Tyminski – backup vocals
Russ Barenberg – guitar
Bruce Hornsby – vocal
Ricky Skaggs – fretless banjo, mandolin, vocal
Rosanne Cash – vocal
Josh Haden – vocal
Elvis Costello – vocal
John Leventhal – guitar
Pat Metheny – guitar
Bryan Stuart – guitar
Ruth Cameron – vocal
Jack Black – vocal
Bela Fleck – banjo
Buddy Green – harmonica

Decca

Thursday, July 18, 2019


THE SCREENS
Music for the Theatre
Philip Glass - Forday Musa Suso
Rex Benincasa - percussion
Allen Blustine - clarinet
Martin Goldray - conductor, director, keyboards
Jerry Grossman - cello
Ben Hudson - violin
Benjamin Hudson - violin
Michael Parloff - flute, piccolo

Philips - Point Music

ODYSSEUS
Symphony No. 25
CELESTIAL GATE
Symphony No. 6
PRAYER OF SAINT GREGORY
Alan Hovhaness
Polyphonia Orchestra of London
Alan Hovhaness - conductor

Crystal Recordings

Wednesday, July 17, 2019


JOÃO
João Gilberto

Verve

DREAMERS
Elaine Elias

Bluebird

LIEDER VON MACHT & LIEBE
Sangspruch & Minnesang, 12th-13th c.
Walther von der Vogelweide
Ensemble PER-SONAT
– Sabine Lutzenberger - soprano
– Baptiste Romain - vielle, bowed lyre, bagpipe
– Elisabeth Rumsey - vielle
– Tobie Miller - hurdy gurdy, medieval flute

Christophorus

COLOURS IN THE DARK
The Instrumental Music of...
Alexander Agricola
Ensemble Leones
Marc Lewon - director

Christophorus

Monday, July 15, 2019


'THE DREAM OF HEROD'
A Choral Poem based upon Vocal Works Ancient and Modern
Various and Sundry Composers, Ancient and Modern

Tenebrae
Nigel Short - director

Signum

NEO-MEDIEVAL
Medieval Improvisations for a Postmodern Age
Mostly Anonymous
Hesperus

Dorian Discovery

UNICORN
Medieval, Appalachian, and World Music in Fusion
Hesperus

Dorian

LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES
Michel-Richard De Lalande
plus works by Marin Marais - Robert De Visée - Louis Couperin
Isabelle Desrochers - soprano
Maricio Buraglia - theorbe
Nima Ben David - viola de gambe
Pierre Trocellier - clavecin, orgue

Auvidis Astrée

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Saturday, July 13, 2019


DREAMERS
Elaine Elias

Bluebird

JOÃO
João Gilberto

Verve

TIME FURTHER OUT
BRUBECK TIME
JAZZ RED, HOT AND COOL
JAZZ IMPRESSIONS OF JAPAN
TIME OUT
The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Columbia

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

ECM

UNKNOWN PLEASURES
Joy Division

Qwest

Friday, July 12, 2019


SIX SUITES FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO
Recorded for the films comprising the series 'Inspired by Bach' 
Johann Sebastian Bach
Yo-Yo Ma - cello

Sony Classical

Thursday, July 11, 2019


PUSH PULL
Salvatore Sciarrino - Rolf Riehm - Younghi Pagh-Paan - Vinko Globokar - Toshio Hosokawa
Teodoro Anzellotti - accordion

Hat Hut - WDR

ACCELERANDO
Vijay Iyer Trio
Vijay Iyer — piano
, composition
Stephan Crump — bass
Marcus Gilmore — drums

ACT

ENVIRONMENTS 3
Dawn & Dusk at New Hope, Pennsylvania
Syntonic Reasearch

Atlantic

Wednesday, July 10, 2019


GRATEFUL DEAD*
The Grateful Dead

Warner Bros. - Rhino


*(Official title, original title NSFW)

Sunday, July 7, 2019


TAKE TEN
Paul Desmond - alto saxophone 
Jim Hall - guitar

RCA Victor

DOMINANT CURVE
Colin Jacobsen - Kojiro Umezaki - Claude Debussy - John Cage
Brooklyn Rider
- Johnny Gandelsman - violin
- Colin Jacobsen - violin
- Nicholas Cords - viola
- Eric Jacobsen - cello
with
- Kojiro Umezaki - shakuhachi, electronics
- Justin Messina - electronics

In a Circle Records

Saturday, July 6, 2019


IKOS
Henryk Górecki - Arvo Pärt - John Tavener - Gregorian Chant
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury - director

EMI

Friday, July 5, 2019


THE INTERCONTINENTALS
Bill Frisell - electric and acoustic guitars, loops, bass
Sidiki Camara - calabash, djembe, congas, percussion, vocals
Vinicius Cantuaria - electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, drums, percussion
Christos Govetas - oud, vocals, bouzouki
Greg Leisz - slide guitars, pedal steel guitar
Jenny Scheinman - violin

Nonesuch

LAST DANCE  
Keith Jarrett - piano  
Charlie Haden - double bass

ECM

Thursday, July 4, 2019


STEAL AWAY
Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs
Charlie Haden - double bass 
Hank Jones - piano


Verve

Wednesday, July 3, 2019


EARLY ITALIAN MADRIGALS
Capella Antiqua München
Elisabeth Ruhland, Gustav Leonhardt - harpsichord
Franz Brüggen - flute
Michael Schäffer - lute
Wieland Kuijken - viol da gamba
Konrad Ruhland - director

Pro-Arte

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

Warner Classics

CANTIGAS DE AMIGO
13th-Century Galician-Portuguese Songs and Dances of Love, Longing, and Devotion
Ensemble Alcatraz
with
Kitka - women's vocal ensemble
Angelorum - medieval harp choir

Dorian Recordings

Tuesday, July 2, 2019


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

Essential Jazz Classics

Monday, July 1, 2019


ANIMA MEA
Sacred Music of the Middle Ages
Anonymous - Hildegard von Bingen - St. Gallen - St. Francis
Ensemble Cosmedin
Stephanie Hass, Christoph Haas

Naxos

COMPLETE MUSIC FOR SOLO LYRA VIOL
William Lawes
Richard Boothby - lyra viol

Harmonia Mundi USA