Monday, September 30, 2019


CHOMINCIAMENTO DI GIOIA
Virtuoso dance-music from the time of Boccaccio's Decamerone
British Library Ms. 29987 
Ensemble Unicorn

Naxos

SKOGEN, FLICKAN OCH FLASKAN
Woods, Women and Wine
Piæ Cantiones (1582)
Joculatores Upsalienses

BIS

DE FYRA ARSTIDERNA
(The Four Seasons) A Motley Posy of Short Pieces on Love, Sorrow, and Joy
Anonymous and Various Composers, 13th-17th Centuries
Joculatores Upsalienses

BIS

Friday, September 27, 2019


EL CANÇONER DEL DUC DE CALABRIA
1526-1554
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jordi Savall - director

Astrée

RUBBER SOUL
The Beatles

Parlophone

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

LENTEN IS COME
13th Century Medieval English Songs
Briddes Roune

Magnatunes

CADMAN REQUIEM
In Memory of Bill Cadman and the Victims of the Lockerbie Air Crash
Gavin Bryars
Hilliard Ensemble
Fretwork


Point Music

GRATEFUL DEAD*
The Grateful Dead

Warner Bros. – Rhino


*(Official label title, original band title NSFW)

Thursday, September 26, 2019


LIGHT FLIGHT
Pentangle

Snapper 2-CD early retrospective

A TANGO EXCURSION
Astor Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla Reunion
Gary Burton - vibraphone, direction


Concord

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

Harmonia Mundi

EDDA
Myths from medieval Iceland
Prose Edda - Eddic Poems
Sequentia
Barbara Thornton, Benjamin Bagby - directors

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Wednesday, September 25, 2019


BLUE LIGHT 'TIL DAWN
Cassandra Wilson

Blue Note

BUCK JUMP
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Mammoth

LACHRIMAE
John Dowland
The Dowland Consort
Jakob Lindberg - director

BIS

MISSA "ET ECCE TERRA MOTUS"
SEQUENTIA "DIES IRAE, DIES ILLA"
Antoine Brumel
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul van Nevel - general direction

Sony Classical

Tuesday, September 24, 2019


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

TEATRO D'AMORE
Claudio Monteverdi
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar - direction

Erato

Sunday, September 22, 2019


VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE
Second Vespers for the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
Hannke van Proosdij - organ
John Dorenburg - violone
David Tayler - theorbo
Magnificat - vocal ensemble
Warren Stewart - director

Musica Omnia

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

RECOMPOSED BY MAX RICHTER
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Max Richter
Daniel Hope - violin
Max Richter - Moog synthesizer
Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin
Andre de Ridder - conductor

Deutsche Grammophon

Saturday, September 21, 2019


AGUAS DA AMAZONIA  
Ballet Score  
Philip Glass
Uakti
 
Point



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

Savoy Jazz

NEW MOON DAUGHTER
Cassandra Wilson

Blue Note

Friday, September 20, 2019


CANZONI E DANZE
Wind Music from Renaissance Italy
Lia Agostini - Jacques Arcadelt - Guido Ferretti - Costanzo Festa - Cesario Gussago - Ruffo - Horatio Vecchi

Piffaro 

Archiv Produktion

Thursday, September 19, 2019


ROTHKO CHAPEL
WHY PATTERNS?
Morton Feldman
David Abel - viola
Philip Brett - director
California EAR Unit - ensemble
Deborah Dietrich - soprano
Karen Rosenak - celeste
University of California Berkeley Chamber Chorus
William Winant - percussion

New Albion

JOHN RENBOURN
ANOTHER MONDAY
Two Albums on One CD
John Renbourn

Transatlantic

Wednesday, September 18, 2019


CODEX SPECIÁLNÍK
15th-century special songbook originating from a monastery in the region of Praha (Prague)
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM New Series

QUATUOR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS
(Quartet for the End of Time)
Olivier Messiaen
Trio Wanderer
Pascal Moraguès - clarinette

Harmonia Mundi


PERPETUAL MOTION
Music by Scarlatti - Bach - Debussy - Beethoven - Chopin - Tchaikovsky - Brahms - Paganini
Béla Fleck - banjo
-Edgar Meyer - bass
-Joshua Bell - violin
-Gary Hoffman - cello
-Evelyn Glennie - marimba
-Chris Thile - mandolin
-John Williams - guitar

Sony Classical

PARTITAS FOR SOLO CELLO
Philip Glass
Matt Haimovitz - cello

Orange Mountain

Tuesday, September 17, 2019


CONSORT MUSIC
John Jenkins
The Consort of Musicke
Trevor Jones - director

Explore Music / EMI Decca

IN SEARCH OF DOWLAND
Consort Music of John Dowland and Carl Rütti
Lachrimae
John Dowland
Dowland-Suite
Carl Rütti
bFIVE Recorder Consort

Coviello

QUIETUDE
Chopin - Debussy - Mendelssohn - Respighi - Salzedo - Satie - Sibelius
Yolanda Kondonassis - harp

Telarc

Monday, September 16, 2019


BALTIC VOICES 1
A three-year project to explore the choral riches of the Baltic Sea countries.
Arvo Pärt - Einojuhani Rautavaara - Sven-David Sandström - Veljo Tormis - Peteris Vasks - Cyrillus Kreek
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

Sunday, September 15, 2019


LIKE MINDS
Gary Burton - vibraphone
Chick Corea - keyboards
Pat Metheny - guitar
Roy Haynes - percussion
Dave Holland - bass

Concord Jazz

Friday, September 13, 2019


MOTETTEN
BWV 225-230
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM New Series

Thursday, September 12, 2019


RING
The Gary Burton Quintet
with Eberhard Weber

ECM

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

ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS
John Adams
New York Philharmonic
New York Choral Artists
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Lorin Maazel - conductor

Nonesuch

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Tuesday, September 10, 2019


ALLEGRI-MISERERE
Favorite Anthems of The Anglican Church
Parry - Schubert - Barber - Bach - Allegri - Franck - Purcell - Mozart - Vaughan Williams
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Richard Marlow - director
Philip Rushforth, Silas Standage - organ

Conifer Classics


LOVERLY
Cassandra Wilson

Blue Note

Monday, September 9, 2019


SONG FOR ATHENE
SUYATI
and other choral works
John Tavener
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
Christopher Robinson - choir director, organist

Naxos

THE MIRACLES OF NOTRE-DAME
Gautier de Coincy
The Harp Ensemble
Andrew Lawrence-King - director, medieval harp, organetto, psaltery
Jennie Cassidy, Steven Harrold, Ian Honeyman, Virginie Landré, Caitríona O'Leary, Julian Podger, Clara Sanabras, Paul Willenbrock - vocals
Jane Achtman, Hille Perl - vielle 
Ian Harrison - bagpipes, cornetto, shawm
Gian Luca Lastraioli - medieval lute
Steve Player - citole

Harmonia Mundi

CONSORT MUSIC
John Jenkins
The Consort of Musicke
Trevor Jones - director

Explore Music / EMI Decca

Sunday, September 8, 2019


THE PARIS CONCERT
Edition One
Bill Evans

Blue Note

WASSERMUSIK
Georg Philipp Telemann
New London Consort
Philip Pickett - conductor/director

Decca