Monday, November 30, 2020


LE MONDE DE SAINTE-COLOMBE
Une Sélection de Concerts à Deux Violes Esgales
Jean de Sainte Colombe (1640? - 1700?)
Les Voix Humaines  - viols

ATMA Classique

SWEPT AWAY
Marc Johnson - double bass
Eliane Elias - piano
Joey Baron - drums
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone

ECM

DEL AND THE BOYS
The Del McCoury Band

Ceili Music
 

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

Sunday, November 29, 2020


A SONG OF FAREWELL
Music of Mourning & Consolation
Orlando Gibbons - William Walton - Robert White - James MacMillan - John Sheppard - Jonathan Dove - Thomas Morley - Edward Elgar - Herbert Howells - Hubert Parry
Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh - director

Gabrieli – Winged Lion

HOME TO THANKSGIVING  
Songs of Thanks and Praise
Various Composers - Medieval to Early American
His Majestie's Clerkes
Theatre of Voices
 
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

Saturday, November 28, 2020


MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
The Beatles

EMI - Parlophone - Apple

BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini - director

Naïve

Friday, November 27, 2020


LA BELLE HOMICIDE
Manuscrit Barbe
Rolf Lisleland - lute

Astrée

PROENSA
Songs of the Troubadours
Paul Hillier - voice, direction
Stephen Stubbs - lute, psaltery
Andrew Lawrence-King - harp, psaltery
Erin Headley - vielle

ECM New Series

OFFICIUM TENEBRARUM
Gregorian Chant: First Nocturn of the Night Office for Holy Saturday
Pierre de la Rue - Johannes Gardano - Bernardus Ycart
Students' Choir Utrecht
Students' Chamber Choir Utrecht
Jan Boogaarts - director

Celestial Harmonies


DIE KUNST DER FUGUE
Johann Sebastian Bach
Calefax Reed Quintet

MDG

Thursday, November 26, 2020


THE MAGIC HOUR
Wynton Marsalis Quartet

Blue Note

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

Wednesday, November 25, 2020


HENRI & MARIE DE MEDICIS  
MESSE DE MARIAGE 
Dolce Mémoire
Denis Raisin-Dadre - director

Astrée - naïve

NUOVE MUSICHE
G.G. Kapsberger - D. Pelligrini - A. Piccinini - L. de Narvarez - G. Frescobaldi - B. Gianoncelli
Ensemble Kapsberger
Rolf Lislevand - archlute, baroque guitar, theorboe, director
Arianna Savall - triple harp, voice
Pedro Estevan - percussion
Bjørn Kjellemyr - colascione, double-bass
Guido Morini - organ, clavichord
Marco Ambrosini - nyckelharpa (viola d’amore a chiavi)
Thor-Harald Johnsen - chitarra battente

ECM New Series

Tuesday, November 24, 2020


OLD GAUTIERS NIGHTINGHALL
French & English Lute Music
Nicolas Bouvier - Pierre Gaultier - Simon Ives - Thomas Mace - Rene Mesangeau
Anthony Bailes - lute

Ramée

RING
The Gary Burton Quintet
with Eberhard Weber

ECM
 
FRENCH RECORDER MUSIC
Louis-Antoine Dornel - Jean-Ferry Rebel - Pierre Gautier
Quadro Hotteterre
Kess Boeke - recorder
Walter van Hauwe - recorder
Wouter Moeller - violoncello
Bob van Asperen - cembalo
 
Telefunken Das Alte Werk
 

Monday, November 23, 2020


THE ESSENTIAL JOHN FAHEY
John Fahey - guitar

Vanguard

EL CANT DE LA SIBIL-LA
Mallorca & València, 1400-1560
Spanish Anonymous
La Capella Reial De Catalunya
Montserrat Figueras - soprano
Jordi Savall - viola da gamba, director

Alia Vox



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

Savoy Jazz
 
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Coleman Hawkins - tenor sax
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Major Holley - bass
Eddie Locke - drums
Ray Barretto - conga
 
Prestige
 
 

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

 CROWN OF CREATION
Jefferson Airplane

RCA

180g German pressing, not Dynaflex.

Sunday, November 22, 2020


THE NAKED SHAKESPEARE
Peter Blegvad

Virgin

THE NYMPHS OF THE RHINE, OP.8, VOL.1
Sonatas for Two Violas da Gamba
Johannes Schenck
Les Voix Humaines

Naxos

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

Archiv Produktion

LAST TRAIN TO HICKSVILLE
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks

Blue Thumb

WATERCOLORS
Pat Metheny - guitars
-Lyle Mayes - piano
-Eberhard Weber - bass
-Dan Gottlieb - drums

ECM

GRATEFUL DEAD
The Grateful Dead

Warner Bros.

Saturday, November 21, 2020


FROM ME FLOWS WHAT YOU CALL TIME
TWILL BY TWILIGHT (In Memory of Morton Feldman)
REQUIEM
Toru Takemitsu
Nexus Percussion Ensemble
Pacific Symphony Orchestra

Carl St.Clair - conductor

Sony Classical

TRANSMIGRATION OF THE MAGUS
John Zorn
Bill Frisell - guitar
John Medeski - organ
Kenny Wollesen, Al Upowski - vibes, bells
Carol Emanuel, Bridget Kibby - harps

Tzadik

Friday, November 20, 2020


IL VIAGGIO D'AMORE
Love songs from countries and centuries near and far...
Traditional songs, songs from Renaissance sources as well as compositions by Arianna Savall
Hirundo Maris
Arianna Savall – soprano, baroque triple harp
Petter Udland Johansen – tenor, hardingfele, cittern
Michal Nagy – guitar, voice
Sveinung Lilleheier – guitar, dobro, voice
Miquel Angel Cordero – colascione, double base, voice
David Mayoral – percussion, voice

Carpe Diem

Thursday, November 19, 2020


LIVE IN AMERICA
The John Renbourn Group
John Renbourn - guitar and vocal

- Tony Roberts - flute, krumhorn, Northumbrian pipes and vocal
- Jacqui McShee - vocal
- John Molineux - dulcimer, mandolin, fiddle and vocal
- Keshav Sathe - tabla 
 
Flying Fish

THE BLACK SWAN
Bert Jansch

Drag City

 
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE CELTIC HARP 
Alan Stivell

Philips/Applause

Tuesday, November 17, 2020


MASS FOR SAINT MARTIAL
1029 A.D.
Adémar de Chabannes
New York's Ensemble for Early Music
Frederick Renz - director
 
Ex Cathedra

ALCHEMY
An Exploration of Folk and Early Music
Emily Askew Band

Askew Music

SONATAS AND PARTITAS FOR SOLO VIOLIN
Volume 1
J.S. Bach
Lucy van Dael - Baroque violin 

Naxos

Monday, November 16, 2020


LOS MINISTRILES
Spanish Renaissance Wind Music
Piffaro

Archiv

BREATHTAKING
A Cornetto And A Voice Entwined
Biagio Marini - Nicolò Corradini - Giovanni Battista Bassani - Giacomo Carissimi - Tarquinio Merula, et al.
Hana Blaziková - soprano
Bruce Dickey - cornetto
–Veronika Skuplik, Catherine Aglibut - violins
–Kris Verhelst - organ, harpsichord
–Mieneke van der Velden - viola da gamba
–Jakob Lindberg - theobro

Passacaille

HELIUM
Tin Hat Trio

Angel EMI

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

Dorian

SMALL CRAFT ON A MILK SEA
Brian Eno
Jon Hopkins
Leo Abrahams

Warp - Opal

 

THE ETON CHOIRBOOK
15th-16th Century, Eton College, England
John Browne - Edmundus Sturton - Johannes Sutton - Robert Wylkynson
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel - director

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Sunday, November 15, 2020


ELEVEN
15th - 17th century Ensemble Music Pushed Over the Edge... to Eleven
Rook Early Music Ensemble

Rook Early Music

Friday, November 13, 2020

Wednesday, November 11, 2020


THE PLAY OF DANIEL
13th-century Biblical drama written by students at the school of Beauvais Cathedral
The Dufay Collective
William Lyons - director

Harmonia Mundi USA

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

 

LE MASQUE DE FER ✝1703
The Iron Mask
Marin Marais - Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe - Jacques Champion de Chambonnières - Monsieur Toinon
Ensemble La Ninfea

Edition Raumklang