Wednesday, January 29, 2020


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

DANGEROUS
Wes Montgomery

Milestone - Fantasy

FROM BYZANTIUM TO ANDALUSIA
Medieval Christian, Jewish and Islamic Music and Poetry
Oni Wytars Ensemble
Peter Rabanser - voice, oud, chalumeau, French and Bulgarian bagpipes, direction
Belinda Sykes - voice, direction
Jeremy Avis - voice
Marco Ambrosini - nyckelharpa, vielle, violino d´amore, harmonic flute, shawm
Katharina Dustmann - zarb, darabuka, bendir, davul, riqq
Riccardo Delfino - Celtic harp, arpa doppia, gothic harp, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes
Michael Posch - recorders and reedflutes
Thomas Wimmer - vielle, viola da gamba

Naxos

Saturday, January 25, 2020


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

Friday, January 24, 2020


UNE DOUCEUR VIOLENTE
17th century Lute Music
Jacques de Gallot - Pierre Gallot - Charles Mouton
Anthony Bailes - lute

Rameé

THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Le Jardin des Délices
Guillame de Machaut - Anonymous Various Mediterranean - Alexandre Agricola
La Nef

Dorian


STEEL YARD BLUES
Nick Gravenites
Mike Bloomfield
Paul Butterfield
Maria Muldaur

Warner Bros.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020


THE ISLAND YEARS
Fear - Slow Dazzle - Helen of Troy
John Cale

Island Chronicles

TUNES FROM THE ATTIC
Popular and Courtly Tunes from Elizabethan England and Renaissance Scotland
The Baltimore Consort

Dorian

Wednesday, January 15, 2020


THE FOUR SEASONS
Christopher Simpson
Sirius Viols
Hille Perle - treble viol, bass viol
Marthe Perle - treble viol, bass viol
Frauke Hess - treble viol, bass viol
with
Lee Santana - cittern, English theorboe
Johannes Gontarski - bandora, guitar, archlute, cittern
Andreas Kuppers - positive organ

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Tuesday, January 14, 2020


CONSORT SONGS
William Byrd
Emma Kirkby - soprano
Fretwork - viol consort

Harmonia Mundi USA

THE NAKED SHAKESPEARE
Peter Blegvad

Virgin

Sunday, January 12, 2020


ARRIVAL
Two Classic Albums: Jazz/Concord – Seven, Come Eleven
Herb Ellis - guitar
Joe Pass - guitar
Ray Brown - bass
Jake Hanna - drums

Concord

Thursday, January 9, 2020


MUSICKE OF SUNDRIE KINDES
A Four Disc Introduction to Renaissance Secular Music, 1480-1620
Josquin - Lasso - Marenzio - Obrecht - Isaac - Sermisy - Janequin - Gesualdo - Gabrieli - Monteverdi - Gibbons - and their lesser known contemporaries 
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley - director

Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre

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


EARLY AMERICAN CHORAL MUSIC, VOL. 1
Anthems and Fuging Tunes
William Billings
His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

Wednesday, January 8, 2020


SILENCIO
Tabula Rasa, Darf Ich
- Arvo Pär
Company for String Orchestra
- Philip Glass
"Come In!"
- Vladimir Martynov
Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer - violin, director

Nonesuch

Tuesday, January 7, 2020


TUDOR CITY
Exploring the music of Tudor England
Anonymous - William Byrd - William Cornysh - John Dunstable - Walter Lambe - Andrew Smith - Thomas Tallis - John Taverner - Christopher Tye
New York Polyphony

Avie

ENDBEGINNING
A programme of Sacred Music by Franco-Flemish composers active in the first half of the 16th century
Antoine Brumel - Thomas Crecquillon - Clemens Non Papa - Josquin Desprez - Jackson Hill
New York Polyphony

BIS

MUSIC FOR COMPLINE
Thomas Tallis - William Byrd - John Sheppard - Robert White - Hugh Aston
Stile Antico

Harmonia Mundi

Monday, January 6, 2020


EPIPHANY MASS
as it may have been celebrated in St. Thomas, Leipzig, c. 1740
Johann Sebastian Bach
and Anonymous -  Johann Pachelbel -  Michael Praetorius
James O'Donnell, James Johnstone - organ
Paul McCreesh - conductor
Gabrieli Consort and  Players
Congregational Choirs of Freberg and Dresden

Archiv Produktion

Sunday, January 5, 2020


CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING
A Revels Celebration of the Winter Solstice
The Christmas Revels
John Langstaff - director

Revels Records

Saturday, January 4, 2020


TOCATA AND FUGUE
BWV 565, 552, 529, 542, 650, 645
Johann Sebastian Bach
Karl Richter - organ Jægersborg Church, Copenhagen

DG Musikfest


CAROLS & CAPERS  
Maddy Prior with
The Carnival Band 

Park

THE VERY BEST OF CHRISTMAS JAZZ
Verve Presents
Ella Fitzgerald - Kenny Burrell - Billy Eckstine - Ramsey Lewis Trio - Joe Williams - John Coltrane - Mel Tormé - Louis Armstrong & The Commanders - Shirley Horn - Bill Evans - Count Basie & His Orchestra - Jimmy Smith - Dinah Washington - Oscar Peterson

Verve

Friday, January 3, 2020


WEIHNACHTSMUSIK DES BAROCK
Baroque Christmas Music
Bach - Handel - Purcell - Corelli - Torelli - Praetorius - Heinichen - Schmelzer - Schein - Vivaldi
Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble
Ludwig Güttler - director
New Bach Collegium Musicum
Max Pommer - director

Delta Music, GDR

MISSA "HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST"
Christmas Mass in Rome
Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina
Josquin - Victoria - Frescobaldi - D. Mazzocchi - Carissimi
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh - director

Archiv Produktion

NOTENBÜCHLEIN FÜR ANNA MAGDALENA BACH
A Selection
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tragicomedia
–Stephen Stubbs - lutes, direction
–Erin Headley - viola da gamba, lirone
–Andrew Lawrence-King - harp, organ
John Potter - tenor

Teldec Das Alte Werk

Thursday, January 2, 2020


VERLEIH UNS FRIEDEN GNÄDIGLICH
16th - 17th Century German Protestant Church Music
Hille Perl - treble viol
Anna Maria Friman - soprano
Lee Santana - lute
Sirius Viols

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

CHRISTMAS WITH CHANTICLEER
Vaughan Williams - Tavener - Distler - Mäntyjärvi - Bold - Willan - Gruber - Traditional
Chanticleer
Dawn Upshaw - soprano
Joseph Jennings - music director

Teldec Classics

Wednesday, January 1, 2020


THE HOLLY AND THE IVY
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
John Rutter - director

London

UNE DOUCEUR VIOLENTE
17th century Lute Music
Jacques de Gallot - Pierre Gallot - Charles Mouton
Anthony Bailes - lute

Rameé

ILLUMINA
The Theme of Light in the Christian Tradition
Einojuhani Rautavaara - György Ligeti - William Byrd - Anonymous - Hildegard of Bingen - Thomas Tallis - Robert White - Sergei Rachmaninov - John Rutter - Gustav Holst - Giovanni Palestrina - Josquin Des Préz - Alexander Gretchaninov - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - William Henry Harris - Charles Wood
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Timothy Brown - director

Collegium

'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

SING WE NOW OF CHRISTMAS
Six Centuries of European Christmas Music
The Christmas Revels
John Langstaff - director

Revel Records


THE FEAST OF FOOLS
La Fête des Fous – Das Narrenfest
New London Consort
Philip Pickett - director

L'Oiseau-Lyre