Thursday, September 30, 2021


GOE NIGHTLY CARES
Lachrimae or Seven Tears
John Dowland
Consort Music and Songs
William Byrd
Fretwork
Julia Hodgson, Richard Boothby, Richard Campbell, Wendy Gillespie, William Hunt - viols
with
Elizabeth Liddle - viol
Christopher Wilson - lute
Michael Chance - countertenor
 
Virgin Veritas X2

Monday, September 27, 2021


POPULAR TUNES IN 17TH CENTURY ENGLAND
Airs Populaire Anglais du XVIIe Siècle  
Various Contemporary Popular Composers
London Tunes - Country Dances - Four Ballads Mentioned by Shakespeare - The 17th Century Top Three - Across the Channel - Across the Border - John Playford's English Dancing Master - The new Exchange - The Kettle Drum - A health to Betty - The fine Companion - The Healths
The Broadside Band
– Jeremy Barlow; Alistair McLachlan; George Weigand; Rosemary Thorndycraft
Jeremy Barlow - director

Harmonia Mundi

FLÛTES PROVENCALES
Galoubet, Flûtet, Flageolet, Frestèu, Fifre
Les Musiciens de Provence
Maurice Guis - director

Airon

Sunday, September 26, 2021


DANSE ROYAL
French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin Songs and Dances from the 13th Century
Ensemble Alcatraz

Elektra Nonesuch

Saturday, September 25, 2021


REQUIEM DES ROIS DE FRANCE
LES MELANGES
Eustache Du Caurroy - 1549-1609
Doulce Mémoire
Denis Raisin Dadre - director

Naïve

Friday, September 24, 2021


SHADES OF JADE
Marc Johnson - double-bass
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
John Scofield - guitar
Eliane Elias - piano
Joey Baron - drums
Alain Mallet - organ

ECM

Wednesday, September 22, 2021


TEATRO D'AMORE
Claudio Monteverdi
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar - direction

Erato

Tuesday, September 21, 2021


THE LION'S EAR
A Tribute to Leo X, Musician among Popes
Various and Anonymous Composers
La Mora
Corina Marti & Michael Gondko - directors

Ramée

Sunday, September 19, 2021


BILL FRISELL, RON CARTER, PAUL MOTIAN
Bill Frisell - guitar
Ron Carter - double bass
Paul Motian - drums

Nonesuch 

KID SISTER
The Time Jumpers
 
Rounder


KRONOS CARAVAN
Various Composers 
Music inspired by the territory that connects northeastern Europe with the Mediterranean and western Asia
The Kronos Quartet
- David Harrington - violin
- John Sherba - violin
- Hank Dutt - viola
- Jennifer Culp - cello
with
Zakir Hussain - tabla
Taraf de Haïdouks: Anghel “Caliu” Gheorghe, Constantin “Costică” Lautaru - violins
Ionel “Ioniţă” Manole, Marin “Marius” Manole - accordions
Ion “Ionică” Tanase - cymbalum; 
Viorel Vlad - double bass
Kayhan Kalhor - kamancheh
Ziya Tabassian - tombak
Ali Jihad Racy - nay
Souhail Kaspar - tar
Martyn Jones - drums
 
Nonesuch

VOICES OF LIGHT
An Oratorio inspired by the classic French silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc"
Richard Einhorn
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Netherlands Radio Choir
Steven Mercurio  - conductor
Anonymous 4 -  vocal ensemble
Susan Narucki - soprano
Corrie Pronk - alto
Frank Hameleers - tenor
Henk van Heijnsbergen - bass baritone 
Ronald Hoogeveen - solo violin
Naomi Hirschfield - solo gamba
Michael Feves, Harm Bakker - gambas

Sony Classical

Friday, September 17, 2021


PSALMS AND MOTETS FROM RENAISSANCE SWITZERLAND
Genevan Psalter - Goudimel - Sweelinck
Ensemble Lamaraviglia
Stephan Boller - director
 
Claves Records - Radio SRF2

Thursday, September 16, 2021


WORLDES BLYSSE
Medieval Texts with Contemporary Music performed on Ancient Instruments
Mediæval Babes 
Katharine Blake - direction
 
Virgin

Monday, September 13, 2021


PRAETORIUS
Magnificat per omnes versus super ut re mi fa sol la (For Six Parts)
Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (For Four Parts)
Der Tag vertreibt die finster Nacht (For Four Parts)
Venite exultemus Domino (For Nine Parts)
Maria Magdalena (For Four Parts)
Peccavi fateor (For Six Parts)
Der CXVI Psalm Davids (For 5 Instruments And 5 Voices)
Michael Praetorius
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul van Nevel - director

Sony - Vivarte

Sunday, September 12, 2021


CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA
Mediaeval Iberian Music from the Court of Alfonso X el Sabio
Recorded at the 'Church of Our Lady Beneath the Chain at the End of the Bridge', Prague
Hana Blažíkova - soprano, harp, musical direction 
Barbora Kabátková - soprano, harp, psaltery
Margit Üebellacker - dulce melos
Martin Novák - percussion

PHI - Outthere

Saturday, September 11, 2021


THE TRUE FALSE IDENTITY
T Bone Burnett

DMZ/Columbia

RÍMUR
Chants, hymns, folk songs, and improvisations based on Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish sources. 
Trio Mediaeval  
- Anna Maria Friman - voice, Hardanger fiddle
- Linn Andrea Fuglseth - voice, shruti box
- Berit Opheim - voice
Arve Henriksen - trumpet

ECM

MOUNT ST. HELENS*
Symphony No. 50, Op. 360
CITY OF LIGHT**
Symphony No. 22, Op. 236
Alan Hovhaness
Seattle Symphony
Gerard Schwarz - conductor*
Alan Hovhaness - conductor**

Delos

ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS
John Adams
New York Philharmonic
New York Choral Artists
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Lorin Maazel - conductor

Nonesuch


A MEANS TO AN END
The Music of Joy Division
Girls Against Boys - Honeymoon Stitch - Moby - Low - Codeine - Further - Stanton-Miranda - Starchildren - Kendra Smith - Versus - Desert Storm - godheadSilo - Face To Face - Tortoise

Virgin

"OUT TO LUNCH!"
Eric Dolphy - alto sax, flute, bass clarinet
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Bobby Hutcherson - vibes
Richard Davis - bass
Anthony Williams - drums

Blue Note

Friday, September 10, 2021


WAGNER E VENEZIA
Liebestod (Tristan Und Isolde) - Ouvertüre (Tannhäuser) - Ouvertüre (Lohengrin, Act 3) - Prelude (Tristan Und Isolde) - Ouvertüre (Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg) - Der Ritt Der Walküren - Ouvertüre (Lohengrin, Act 1)
Richard Wagner

 Uri Caine Ensemble
 Dominic Cortese - accordion
 Drew Gress - double bass
 Uri Caine - piano
 Mark Feldman - 1st violin
 Joyce Hammann - 2nd violin
 Violoncello – Erik Friedlander - violoncello

Winter & Winter New Edition


Live recording June 6th-9th, 1997
Gran Caffé Quadri, Piazza S. Marco 120, Venezia
Hotel Metropol, Riva Schiavoni 4149, Venezia

MODERN COOL
Patricia Barber

Premomition

"TOUZ ESFORCIEZ"
Trouvères en Lorraine - XIII Siècle 
Jaque de Cysoing - Jeannot de L'Escurel - Anonymes - Gautier D'Épinal - Guillaume D'Amiens - Colin Muset
Ensemble Syntagma
Alexandre Danilevski - director

disques Pierre Verany

Wednesday, September 8, 2021


UN CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
The Way of St. James of Compostela
Traditional and Various Composers
Arianna Savall - soprano, harp
Ensemble La Fenice
Jean Tubery - direction

Ricercar


TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN BY STRATEGY
Brian Eno

Editions EG

SHADES OF JADE
Marc Johnson - double-bass
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
John Scofield - guitar
Eliane Elias - piano
Joey Baron - drums
Alain Mallet - organ

ECM

COME AGAIN
John Dowland and his Contemporaries
Samuel Scheidt - John Dowland - Louys de Moy - William Brade - Orlandus Lassus - Johann Sommer - Johann Schop/Johann Rist - Anonym - Gabriel Voightländer - Melchior Borchgrevinck - Jacob Praetorius - Michael Praetorious
Jan Kabow - tenor
Hamburg Ratsmusik
Simone Eckert - violen de gamba

CPO

Monday, September 6, 2021


MIRACLES OF SANT'IAGO
Medieval Chant & Polyphony for St. James from the Codex Calixtinus
Various and Anonymous
Anonymous 4

Harmonia Mundi USA

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

Astrée

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

Riverside

DREAMS SO REAL
Music of Carla Bley
Gary Burton Quintet
Gary Burton – vibraphone
Mick Goodrick – guitar
Pat Metheny – electric 12-string guitar
Steve Swallow – bass guitar
Bob Moses – drums

ECM

THE LONGEST RIVER
Olivia Chaney

Nonesuch

Sunday, September 5, 2021

 
OF ETERNAL LIGHT 
Olivier Messiaen - Robert Moran - Meredith Monk - Ricky Ian Gordon - Gyorgy Ligeti - Kim D. Sherman
Musica Sacra 
Richard Westenburg - director

Catalyst - RCA Red Seal

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

BILL FRISELL, RON CARTER, PAUL MOTIAN
Bill Frisell - guitar
Ron Carter - double bass
Paul Motian - drums

Nonesuch

THE MAGIC HOUR
Wynton Marsalis Quartet

Blue Note



AGUAS DA AMAZONIA
Ballet Score
Philip Glass
Uakti

Point

SPANISH DANCES
Luz y Norte
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz
The Harp Consort
Andrew Lawrence-King - harps, director

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Saturday, September 4, 2021


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

THE LION'S EAR
A Tribute to Leo X, Musician among Popes
Various and Anonymous Composers
La Mora
Corina Marti & Michael Gondko - directors

Ramée