FOREST FLOWER
At Monterey
Charles Lloyd - tenor saxophone, flute
Keith Jarrett - piano
Cecil McBee - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums

Atlantic

THE COSMOPOLITAN
Oswald von Wolkenstein
Ensemble Leones
Marc Lewon - director

Christophorus

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

EL ARTE DE FANTASÍA
El libro de circa nueva (1557)
Luis Venegas de Henestrosa
The Harp Consort
Hille Perl - viola da gamba
Lee Santana - vihuela, cittern
Steven Player - Renaissance guitar, percussion
Helen Coombs - organ, harpsichord
Andrew Lawrence-King - director, harps & psaltery

Harmonia Mundi

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

THE MAGIC HOUR
Wynton Marsalis Quartet

Blue Note

BILL EVANS
Compositions of Bill Evans
Paul Motian - drums
Bill Frisell - guitar
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
Mark Johnson - bass

Winter & Winter Music Edition

MASSES BY OCKEGHEM AND DESPREZ
L'homme armé
Johannes Ockeghem
Malheur me bat
Josquin des Prez
Capella Alamire
Peter Urquhart - director

Musical Heritage Society

TAKES OFF

Jefferson Airplane

RCA Victor

THEN PLAY ON
Fleetwood Mac

Reprise

SANTIAGO DE MURCIA CODEX NO.4
Music from Colonial Mexico, C. 1730
Ensemble Kapsberger
Rolf Lislevand – baroque guitar, director

Naïve

OFFICIUM NOVUM
Komitas - Perotin - Pärt - Garbarek - Anonymous
The Hilliard Ensemble
Jan Garbarek - saxophones

ECM New Series

SYMPHONIE NO.9
Ludwig van Beethoven
Janet Perry - sopran
Agnes Baltsa - alt/contralto
Vinson Cole - tenor
José van Dam - bariton
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan - conductor

Deutsche Grammophon

 

TRIPLICITÉ

Three-part Secular Compositions from 1350–1450 

Various and Anonymous

Zorgina vocal ensemble

RaumKlang

SONATAE A DUE
Dietrich Buxtehude
The Boston Museum Trio

Harmonia Mundi France

UTOPIA TRIUMPHANS
The Great Polyphony of the Renaissance
Thomas Tallis - Costanzo Porta - Josquin Desprez - Johannes Ockeghem - Pierre de Manchicourt - Giovanni Gabrieli - Allesandro Striggio
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel - director

Sony Vivarte

MITTEN IM LEBEN 1517
In the Midst of Life during the beginning of the Reformation

Senfl - Walter - Zirler - Di Lasso - Neusidler - Brandt - Desprez - Luther - Stoltzer - Isaac - Bach - Anonymous - Traditional 

Calmus Ensemble

Lautten Compagney

Wolfgang Katshner - director

Carus

ACANTUS
Sacred "Songs of the People" from Medieval Italy
Acantus

Gimell

IN LAMBETH
Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake
John Zorn
The Gnostic Trio

• Carol Emanuel - harp
• Bill Frisell - guitar
• Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone, bells
• with Ikue Mori - electronics

Tzadik

RAMS

Original Soundtrack Album

Brian Eno

Opal

FORTUNA DESPERATA
Secular Music of the 15th Century
Alexander Agricola
Ensemble Unicorn
Michael Posch - director


Naxos

PIÈCES DE VIOLE DU SECOND LIVRE, 1701
Marin Marais
Jordi Savall - viola da gamba
Anne Gallet - cembalo
Hopkinson Smith - théorbe

Astrée

ALCIONE
Suites des airs à joüer 1706
Marin Marais
Les Concerts des Nations
Jordi Savall - director

Astrée

GUIDED TOUR
Gary Burton
The New Gary Burton Quartet

Mack Avenue

MNEMOSYNE
Repertoire spanning twenty-two centuries, from the "Delphic Paean" of Athenaeus to the "Estonian Lullaby" of Veljo Tormis, via folk song fragments from North and South America and Spain, pieces by Tallis, Dufay, Brumel, Hildegard von Bingen, Jan Garbarek, a Russian psalm, a Scottish ballad of the 16th century, and more.
The Hilliard Ensemble 
   David James - countertenor
   Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
   John Potter - tenor
   Gordon Jones - baritone
Jan Garbarek - tenor, soprano saxophones

ECM New Series

SIMPLE GIFTS
Shaker Chants and Spirituals
Shakers of Sabbathday Lake
Schola Cantorum
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen - director

Erato

LES GRANDES EAUX MUSICALES DE VERSAILLES
Chefs-d’œuvre des règnes de Louis XIII et Louis XIV
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Marin Marais - Mr. de Sainte-Colombe - others
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall - director

Alia Vox

3 SONATEN FÜR VIOLINE SOLO
Transkription für Gitarre
J.S. Bach
Frank Bungarten - guitar

MD+G

PEROTIN
Magister Perotin
Master of the School of Notre Dame
The Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier - director

ECM New Series

ANTOLOGIE 
Solveig Slettahjell - vocal
Morten Qvenild - piano

Emarcy

MORIMUR
Partita d-Moll BMV 1004 für Violine solo
Choräle
J.S. Bach
Christoph Poppen - violin
The Hilliard Ensemble

ECM New Series

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

Virgin Veritas 2-CD set

ON THE BANKS OF HELICON
Early Music of Scotland
The Baltimore Consort

Dorian

O CIECO MONDO
The Italian Lauda, C. 1400–1700
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel - director

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

DIMINUITO
16th century madrigals, chansons, and instrumentals re-imagined
Rolf Lislevand - lutes, vihela da mano, and direction
Anna Maria Friman - voice
Linn Andrea Fuglseth - voice
Giovanna Pessi - triple harp
Michael Behringer - clavichord, organ
Bjørn Kjellemyr - colascione, double-bass
Marco Ambrosini - nyckelharpa
Thor Harald Johnsen - chitarra battente, vihela da mano, lutes
David Mayoral - percussion

ECM New Series

ROOTS IN THE SKY
Oregon

Elektra

OUT OF THE WOODS
Oregon

Elektra

UNAM CEYLUM
From Sonata Violine solo 1681
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
John Holloway - violin
Aloysia Assenbaum - organ
Lars Ulrik Mortensen - harpsichord

ECM New Series

SINFONIA ANTARTICA (NO.7)*
SYMPHONY NO.8 IN D MINOR
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Heather Harper, soprano*
The Ambrosian Singers*
Sir Ralph Richardson, speaker*
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn, conductor

RCA Victor

 
 

CANTUS ARCTICUS
Concerto for Birds & Orchestra, Op. 61
String Quartet No.4
Symphony No.5
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Max Pommer - conductor

Catalyst

HYMNODY OF EARTH
A Ceremony of Songs for Choir, Hammer Dulcimer, and Percussion
Malcolm Dalglish - hammer dulcimer
Wendell Barry - librettist
The Ooolites - vocals
Glen Velez - percussion

OM

OUT OF THE WOODS
Oregon

Elektra

 

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

SACRED MUSIC FROM NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL
Leonin (1163-1190)
Perotin (1180-1225)
Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts - director

Naxos

LIGHT FLIGHT
Pentangle

Snapper 2-CD early retrospective

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

I HAVE SET ME HERT SO HY

Love & Devotion in Medieval England 

Anonymous

The Dufay Collective & Voice Trio

William Lyons - director

Avie

RAMS

Original Soundtrack Album

Brian Eno

Opal

AFTER THE REQUIEM
Gavin Bryars
Bill Frisell - electric guitar
Alexander Balanescu - violin, viola
Kate Musker - viola
Tony Hinnigan - cello
Roger Heaton - clarinet, bass clarinet
Dave Smith - tenor horn, piano
Gavin Bryars - bass
Martin Allen - percussion
Simon Limbrick - percussion
Evan Parker - soprano saxophone
Stan Sulzmann - soprano saxophone
Ray Warleigh - alto saxophone
Julian Argüelles - baritone saxohpone

ECM New Series

THE CELTIC VIOL II

Airs and Dances
O'Carolan - Nathaniel Gow - C. Hunter - D.R. McDonald - J.S. Skinner - Anonymous and Traditional Irish & Scottish
Jordi Savall - treble viol, lyra viol

Andrew Lawrence-King - Irish harp, Psalterium

Frank McGuire - bodhran

Alia Vox