REFORMATION UND ROMANTIK

Historische Orgelen in Hessen

Schellenberg - Töpfer - Lange - Gerhardt - Fährmann

Thomas Wilhelm - orgel

Querstano

EMPATHY

A SIMPLE MATTER OF CONVICTION*

Bill Evans - piano

Shelly Manne - drums

Monty Budwig - bass

Eddie Gomez - bass*

Verve

THE GLORY OF EARLY MUSIC
Naxos Sampler, 15th - 17th c.

Dufay - Obrecht - Isaac - Senfl - Finck - Bruck - Byrd - Gibbons - Morton - Tomkins - Jenkins - Da Milano - Anonymous

Ensemble Unicorn

Convivium Musicum 

Ensemble Villanella

Shirley Rumsey

Joseph Payne

Rose Consort of Viols & Red Byrd 

Christopher Wilson

Naxos

 

NEW CHAUTAUQUA
Pat Metheny - solo guitar(s)

ECM

DURATIONS I-V

COPTIC LIGHT*

Morton Feldman

Ensemble Avantarde

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin*

Michael Morgan - conductor* 

CPO

LAUDES DE SAINTE URSULE

Hildegard von Bingen

Ensemble Organum

Marcel Pérès - director

Harmonia Mundi France

LES ROIS DE VERSAILLES
Germain Pinel - Robert de Visée
Miguel Yisrael - lute

Brilliant

MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS

Steve Reich

Steve Reich and Musicians

 

Nonesuch

LAST DANCE
Keith Jarrett - piano
Charlie Haden - double-bass

ECM

THE WATER IS WIDE
Charles Lloyd - tenor saxophone
Brad Mehldau - piano
John Abercrombie - guitar
Larry Grenadier - double-bass
Billy Higgins - drums

ECM

LAUDES DE SAINTE URSULE

Hildegard von Bingen

Ensemble Organum

Marcel Pérès - director

Harmonia Mundi France

UPON A BANK WITH ROSES

Consort Music

John Ward (c. 1589-1638)

Rose Consort of Viols

 

CPO - WDR

HEAVENLY HARMONIES
Renaissance English Church Music
William Byrd
- Motets - Mass Propers for Pentecost
Thomas Tallis
- 9 Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Stile Antico

Harmonia Mundi USA

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

TIME OUTTAKES

Previously Unreleased Takes from the Original 1959 Sessions

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Brubeck Editions

IF MOUNTAINS COULD SING
Terje Rypdal - electric guitars
Bjørn Kjellemyr - bass
Audun Kleive - drums
Terje Tønnesen - violin
Lars Anders Tomter - viola
Øystein Birkeland - cello
Christian Eggen - conductor

ECM

MUSIC IS
Bill Frisell - electric and acoustic guitars, loops, bass, ukulele, music boxes

OKeh

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

TEATRO LIRICO
Sonatas and Dances from 17th Century Italy and Slovakia
Teatro Lirico
Stephen Stubbs - baroque guitar, chitarrone, director
Milos Valent - violin, viola
Maxine Eilander - Spanish and Italian harps
Erin Headley - viola da gamba, lirone

ECM New Series

LE JEU DE ROBIN ET DE MARION
13th c. Musical Play
Adam de la Halle
Tonus Peregrinus
Anthony Pitts - director

Naxos

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

THE HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER
The Incredible String Band 

Island

... AND ... 

A collection of contemporary sacred music interspersed songs from the Laudario di Cortona, Italy. 

Arvo Pärt - Julia Wolfe - Caroline Shaw - Anonymous Italian 13th C. 

Ars Nova Copenhagen 

Paul Hillier - director 

 

Naxos

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

EL GRIAL

Medieval music and literature on the Theme of the Holy Grail

Various and Anonymous

Capella de Ministrers

Carles Magraner - director

CdM

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

ECM

NUESTRO SON BARROCO
Diferencias e Invenciones
Tembembe Ensamble Continuo

FONCA/Conaculta

VOCAL MUSIC - 1
Dietrich Buxtehude
Emma Kirkby - soprano
John Holloway - violin
Manfred Kraemer - violin
Jaap ter Linden - viola da gamba
Lars Ulrik Mortensen - harpsichord, organ

Naxos < Dacapo

NATT I BETLEHEM
Solveig Slettahjell - vocal
Tord Gustavsen - piano
Sjur Miljeteig - trumpet

KKV

THE SAD MACHINERY OF SPRING
Tin Hat

Ryko / Hannibal

SONGS FOR THE WINTER SEASON
Volumes 1 & 2
Various Artists Compilation
The Owl Service Jukebox

Stone Tape Recordings

WEIHNACHTSHISTORIE
Weihnachtshistorie: Historia der Freuden- und Gnadenreichen Geburth SWV 435
Meine Seele erhebt den Herren SWV 344
Die Sieben Worte unseres lieben Erlösers und Seligmachers Jesu Christi SWV 478
Heinrich Schütz
Musicalische Compagney

DGM

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

IN NATALI DOMINI  
Medieval Christmas Songs  
Niederaltaicher Scholaren
Konrad Ruhland - director

Sony Classical

AN INDUSTRIAL CHRISTMAS CAROL
Martin Atkins and the Chicago Industrial League

Invisible

WEIHNACHTS-ORATORIUM

Christmas Oratorio BWV 248

Johann Sebastian Bach

Dorothea Röschmann - soprano

Andreas Scholl - alto

Werner Güra - tenor

Klaus Häger - bass

RIAS-Kammerchor

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

René Jacobs - director

Harmonia Mundi

WEIHNACHTS-ORATORIUM

Christmas Oratorio BWV 248

Johann Sebastian Bach

Dorothea Röschmann - soprano

Andreas Scholl - alto

Werner Güra - tenor

Klaus Häger - bass

RIAS-Kammerchor

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

René Jacobs - director

Harmonia Mundi

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

Ramée

 

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS 

Vince Guaraldi Trio 

Vince Guaraldi – piano, bandleader, composer, Hammond organ

Jerry Granelli – drums

Fred Marshall – double bass

Children’s Choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church San Rafael

Fantasy

 

...AND...

A collection of contemporary sacred music interspersed songs from the Laudario di Cortona, Italy.
Arvo Pärt - Julia Wolfe - Caroline Shaw - Anonymous Italian 13th C.

Ars Nova Copenhagen

Paul Hillier - director

Naxos

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

Dorian

ELIZABETHAN CHRISTMAS ANTHEMS

Orlando Gibbons - William Byrd - Thomas Tomkins - Martin Peerson - John Amner - Anthony Holborne - John Bull - Anonymous

Rose Consort of Viols
Red Byrd - vocal ensemble

 

Amon Ra

THE GLORY OF GABRIELI
Antiphonal Music for Brass Choirs
Giovanni Gabrieli
Empire Brass Quintet
and Friends
Rolf Smedvig - conductor

Telarc

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

HELIUM
Tin Hat Trio

Angel EMI

ALLELUIA NATIVITAS
Music and Carols for a Medieval Christmas
Pérotin - Smert - others
Orlando Consort

Metronome

CAROLS
From the Old & New Worlds
Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi USA

A TAPESTRY OF CAROLS
Maddy Prior
The Carnival Band

MHS via Saydisc

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
Cyrus Chestnut
& Friends

Atlantic

DREAM SEASON
The Christmas Harp
Yolanda Kondonassis - harp
Jurji Konje - percussion

Telarc