LA GAMME
Sonate à la Marésienne
Marin Marais
London Baroque
Charles Medlam - director

Harmonia Mundi

RUE DES JUGLEORS

Instrumental and Vocal Music from the 12th to the 14th Century
Various Anonymous Composers

Ensemble Anonymus

Claude Bernatchez - director

Analekta - Fluer de Lys

THE THREE AMERICAS
Elaine Elias

Blue Note

SEDUCING DOWN THE DOOR
A Collection 1970 - 1990
John Cale

Rhino

OCKEGHEM
Requiem - Missa 'Mi-mi' - Missa Prolationum
Johannes Ockeghem
Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier - director

Virgin Veritas

¡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

MODERN COOL
Patricia Barber

Premomition

AWAY OUT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Tim & Mollie O'Brien

Sugar Hill

 

PARIS ENCOUNTER 

Stephane Grappelli - violin 

Gary Burton - vibraphone

Steve Swallow - bass

Bill Goodwin - drums

Label M via Atlantic

A CIRCLE IN THE WATER
Songs and Music of Melancholy
William Corkine - John Dowland - Tobias Hume - Anonymous
Capella de Ministrers
Delia Agúndez - soprano
Robert Cases - Renaissance lute, theorbo
Charles Magraner - director, viola da gamba

Capella de Ministrers

TIME (THE REVELATOR)
Gillian Welch
David Rawlings

Alcony

SIX CONCERTOS FOR FIVE FLUTES
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
The Soloists of Concert Spirituel

Naxos

L'ART DU THÉORBISTE 

Music for Theorbo

Angelo Michele Bartolotti - Estienne le Moyne - Angelo Michele Bartolotti - Robert de Visée

Simon Linné - theorbo

Brilliant Classics

TRIOS FOR 4
George Frideric Handel - Georg Philipp Telemann - Jean-Marie LeClair - Johann Joachim Quantz
Palladian Ensemble

LINN

A CIRCLE IN THE WATER
Songs and Music of Melancholy
William Corkine - John Dowland - Tobias Hume - Anonymous
Capella de Ministrers
Delia Agúndez - soprano
Robert Cases - Renaissance lute, theorbo
Charles Magraner - director, viola da gamba

Capella de Ministrers

WRITTEN IN THE STARS

Bill Charlap Trio

 

Blue Note

STARDUST

The Music of Hoagy Carmichael

The Bill Charlap Trio

Bill Charlap - piano

Kenny Washington - drums

Peter Washington - bass

with

Tony Bennett - voice

Shirley Horn - voice

Jim Hall - guitar

Frank Wess -saxophone

Blue Note

THE NAKED SHAKESPEARE
Peter Blegvad

Virgin 

Hat Tip to Tom R. Moody III... almost 40 years ago.

GP
GRIEVOUS ANGEL
Gram Parsons

Reprise
double album CD

BOOMER'S STORY
Ry Cooder

Reprise

DOMINANT CURVE
Colin Jacobsen - Kojiro Umezaki - Claude Debussy - John Cage
Brooklyn Rider
- Johnny Gandelsman - violin
- Colin Jacobsen - violin
- Nicholas Cords - viola
- Eric Jacobsen - cello
with
- Kojiro Umezaki - shakuhachi, electronics
- Justin Messina - electronics

In a Circle Records

AWAKE
Judd Greenstein - Sean Friar - Missy Mazzoli - Mark Dancigars - David Crowell - Patrick Burke 

Now Ensemble 

- Alex Sopp - flute

- Sara Budde - clarinet

- Mark Dancigers - electric guitar

- Logan Coale - double bass

- Michael Mizrahi - piano 

 

New Amsterdam Records

CHANSONS

Gilles Binchois

BALLADES, VIRELAIS ET RONDEAUX

Jehan de Lescurel

Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Dominique Vellard - director

 

Erato Veritas x2

THE LION'S EAR

A Tribute to Leo X, Musician among Popes

Various and Anonymous Composers

La Mora

Corina Marti & Michael Gondko - directors

Ramée

L'ART DU THÉORBISTE 

Music for Theorbo

Angelo Michele Bartolotti - Estienne le Moyne - Angelo Michele Bartolotti - Robert de Visée

Simon Linné - theorbo

Brilliant Classics

TRISTAN & ISEULT
A Medieval Romance in Music and Poetry 
Joel Cohen - transcription and realization
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen - director
Henri Ledroit - countertenor
Anne Azéma - soprano
Ellen Hargis - soprano
Richard Morrison - baritone
William Hit - tenor

Erato

GARCIA
Jerry Garcia - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass, piano, organ, samples, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Robert Hunter - lyrics

GDM via Warner Bros.

OBOE CONCERTI
Concerti a Cinque Op. 9
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Concertos for Oboe, Strings, and Basso Continuo
Georg Philipp Telemann
Hans de Vries - oboe
Alma Musica Amsterdam
Bob van Asperen - director

Virgin Veritas

NOT FOR NOTHIN'
Dave Holland Quintet
Dave Holland - double bass
Chris Potter - soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones
Robin Eubanks - trombone and cowbell
Steve Nelson - vibraphone & marimba
Billy Kilson - drums

ECM

EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS
Bill Evans - piano
Sam Jones - bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums

Riverside

I HAVE THE ROOM ABOVE HER
Paul Motian - drums
Bill Frisell - electric guitar
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone

ECM

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

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

Gimell

 

CANCIONERO

Music for the Spanish Court 1470-1520 

MIRACLES OF NOTRE-DAME
Gautier de Coincy
The Harp Consort
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

CHANSONS ET DANCERIES
French Renaissance Wind Music
Desprez - Gombert - Crecquilln - Van Wilder - Willaert - Maillard - Anonymous
Piffaro: The Renaissance Band
Joan Kimball, Robert Wiemken - directors

Archiv Produktion

LUZ DEL ALVA

Spanish Songs of the Early Renaissance

Anonymous and Various Spanish Composers

La Morra

–Arianna Savall - voice, harp

–Petter Udland Johansen - voice, fiddle

–Corina Marti - flutes, harpsichord, direction 

–Michal Gondko - vihuela de mano, gittern, lute

–Tore Eketorp - vihuela de arco

Ramée

RUE DES JUGLEORS

Instrumental and Vocal Music from the 12th to the 14th Century
Various Anonymous Composers

Ensemble Anonymus

Claude Bernatchez - director

Analekta - Fluer de Lys

FEMINAE VOX
Monody and Medieval Polyphony for a Nunnery

Códice de Las Huelgas S. XII-XIV 

Capella de Ministrers

Carles Magraner - director

 

CDM

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

Kurt Weill

Bertolt Brecht - lyrics (English translation by W.H. Auden, Chester Kallman)

KURT WEILL SONGS

Kurt Weill

Bertolt Brecht - lyrics (English translation by Michael Feingold, Frank McGuinness)

Marianne Faithful - voice

Hudson Shad - vocal ensemble (The Seven Deadly Sins)

Vienna Radio Symphony

Dennis Russell Davies - conductor 

RCA Red Seal

 

VOX COSMICA
Hildegard von Bingen
Hirundo Maris
Arianna Savall – voice, medieval harp, Italian triple harp, lyra, Tibetan singing bowl  
Petter Udland Johansen – voice, hardingfele, lyra, fiddle, monochord
Andreas Spindler – flutes, fiddle, Romain bells, colascione, tromba marina, voice
Anke Spindler – nyckelharpa, fiddles, viola da gamba, voice
David Mayoral – santur, percussion, Romain bells, voice

Carpe Diem Records

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

ECM New Series

LA BELLE HOMICIDE
Manuscrit Barbe
Rolf Lisleland - lute

Astrée

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

Dorian

THE ART OF FUGUE  
J.S. Bach  
Les Voix Humaines – consort of viols

ATMA Classique

RENAISSANCE WINDS
Regal and Popular 16th Century Music for Wind Band
Alamire - Du Tertre - Gervaise - Henry VIII (King of England) - Antonio - Heinrich - Clément - Josquin des Prez - Phalese - Senfl
Ensemble Doulce Mémoire

Dorian