GUILLAUME DU FAY
Motets - Hymns - Chansons - Sanctus Papale
Guillaume Du Fay
Blue Heron
Scott Metcalf - director

Blue Heron

TONOS HUMANOS
José Marín, 1618-1699
Montserrat Figueras - soprano
Rolf Lislevand - baroque guitar
Arianna Savall - arpa doppia

Pedro Estevan - percussions

Adela Gonzalez-Campa - castagnettes

Alia Vox

MESSE DE NOSTRE DAME
Guillaume de Machaut
Graindelavoix
Björn Schmelzer - director

Glossa Platinum

 

CONSORT AND KEYBOARD MUSIC, SONGS AND ANTHEMS

Orlando Gibbons

Rose Consort of Viols

with 

Red Byrd vocal ensemble

 

Naxos

 

 

NINNA NANNA
Berceuses, Lullabies, Nanas, Wiegenlieder, ca. 1500-2002
William Byrd - Arvo Pärt - Darius Milhaud - Manuel de Falla - Paul Badura-Skoda - Modest Mussorgsky - Anonymous
Montserrat Figueras - soprano
Arianna Savall, Jordi Savall, Pedro Estevan, Hesperion XXI, performers

Alia Vox

PERPETUAL MOTION
Music by Scarlatti - Bach - Debussy - Beethoven - Chopin - Tchaikovsky - Brahms - Paganini
Béla Fleck - banjo
-Edgar Meyer - bass
-Joshua Bell - violin
-Gary Hoffman - cello
-Evelyn Glennie - marimba
-Chris Thile - mandolin
-John Williams - guitar

Sony Classical

ALFABETO
Domenico Pellegrini - Giovanni Paolo Foscarini - Giovanni Battista Granata - Giovanni Paolo Corbetta - Francesco Foscarini - Francesco Corbetta
Ensemble Kapsberger
Rolf Lislevand - lute, director

Astreé

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

Erato

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
John Abercrombie Trio
John Abercrombie - guitars
Dan Wall - Hammond B3 organ
Adam Nussbaum - drums

ECM

MUSICALL HUMORS
London 1605
Tobias Hume
ordi Savall - viola da gamba

Alia Vox

THE FIRE AND THE ROSE
Aquitanian Chant & Polyphony from the 9th – 11th centuries
Heliotrope
Joyce Todd - soprano/director/founder

Koch

THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE
Feminine Voices from Medieval France
Comtessa de Die - Castelloza - Jean Renart
Heliotrope
Joyce Todd - director

Koch

KISS OF PEACE
Songs from the Dendermonde Manuscript
Hidegard von Bingen
PER-SONAT
Sabine Lutzenberger - soprano, bells
Baptiste Romain - medieval vielles, bowed lyre

Christophorus

LA BELLE HOMICIDE
Manuscrit Barbe
Charles Bocquet - Nicolas Dubut - Jacques Gallot - Denis Gaultier - Charles Mouton
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

TRACING ASTOR
Gidon Kremer plays Astor Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla
Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer - violin, direction
Ula Ulijona - viola
Marta Sudraba - cello
Sol Gabetta - cello
Leonid Desyatnikov - piano
Horacio Ferrer - voice

Nonesuch

A RAINBOW IN CURVED AIR  
A Rainbow in Curved Air - Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band  
Terry Riley - composer, electric organ, electric harpsichords, dumbec, soprano saxophone, tambourine, time lag accumulator (consisting of two tape machines), looped audio tape, and a patch cord.

CBS Classical

LE VOYAGE DE SAHAR

Anouar Brahem - oud

Francois Couturier - piano

Jean-Louis Matinier - accordion

 

ECM

IN SEARCH OF DOWLAND
Consort Music of John Dowland and Carl Rütti
Lachrimae
John Dowland
Dowland-Suite
Carl Rütti
bFIVE Recorder Consort

Coviello

CEREMONY
Celebration - Immeasurable Sky - Ceremony - Still - Breathing Earth
Barry Guy
ANNUNCIATION
Praeludium of Mystery Sonata No. 1
Heinrich Ignaz Frans Biber
Maya Homburger - baroque violin
Barry Guy - double-bass

ECM New Series

MUSICA DEL DELPHIN
Luys de Narváez
Pablo Marquez - guitar

ECM New Series

LE PHENIX - LES DELICES DE LA SOLITUDE, OP. 20 - CONCERTO NO. 1 FOR ORGAN

Michel Corrette
Musica Franca
Terry McKenna - baroque guitar
Fraser Jackson - contrabassoon
Nadina Mackie Jackson - solo bassoon
Mathieu Lussier - bassoon
Kathleen McClean - bassoon
Paul Jenkins - harpsichord, organ

MSR

SONATAS FOR TWO BASSOONS AND CONTINUO
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Musica Franca
Sylvain Bergeron - theorbo
Fraser Jackson - contrabassoon
Nadina Mackie Jackson - bassoon
Mathieu Lussier - bassoon
Richard Pare - harpsichord, organ

MSR

TRISTAN ET ISEULT
A Medieval Romance in Music and Poetry
Anne Azéma
Henri Ledroit
Andrea von Ramm
The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen - transcription, realization, director

Erato

UAKTI
Uakti Oficina Instrumental

Verve

SONATAS AND PARTITAS FOR SOLO VIOLIN

Volume 2

J. S. Bach

Lucy van Dael - Baroque violin 

Naxos

CONSORT MUSIC FOR VIOLS, LUTES AND THEORBOS
William Lawes
Rose Consort of Viols
Jacob Heringman - lute, theorbo
David Miller - lute, theorbo
Timothy Roberts - organ

Naxos

SONATAS
For Violin, Bass Viol, and Organ
William Lawes
London Baroque

Harmonia Mundi

LAMENTO

Laments for the Mighty in the 17th Century

Johannes Kapsperger - Giacomo Carissimi - Claudio Monteverdi - Francesco Provenzale - Luigi Rossi - Barbara Strozzi

Romina Basso - Mezzo-Soprano

Latinitas Nostra

  Theodoros Kitsos - Theorbo, Baroque Guitar 

  Andreas Linos - Bass Gamba

  Markellos Chryssicos -Harpsichord,Organ, Artistic Direction

Naïve

LE SIÈCLE DU TITIEN
La Musique à Venise, 1490-1576
Doulce Memoire
Denis Raisin Dadre - direction

Astrée

DANSES POPULAIRES 

Françaises et Anglaises XVI c.

Thoinot Arbeau - John Playford

The Broadside Band

Jeremy Barlow - director

Harmonia Mundi

QUATUOR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS
(Quartet for the End of Time)
Olivier Messiaen
Trio Wanderer
with Pascal Moraguès - clarinette

Harmonia Mundi

OK COMPUTER

Radiohead

 

Parlophone

TROUBADOUR'S SONGS & JONGLEURS' DANCES
Thibaut de Champagne - Bernard de Ventadorn - Gaucelm Faidit - Beranguier de Palol - Anonymous
Millenarium

Ricercar

STANDING IN MY SHOES

Leo Kottke

Private Music

CLARINET AND OBOE CONCERTOS

Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622

Oboe Concerto in C major, K314

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

Antony Pay - basset clarinet

Michael Piguet - oboe

The Academy of Ancient Music on authentic instruments

Christopher Hogwood - director

 

Decca - L'OISEAU-LYRE

FIGURES OF HARMONY

Codex Chantilly C.1390

Corps Femenin - Duke John of Berry's Lyrical Avant-Garde

Ferrara Ensemble

Crawford Young - direction

 

Arcana - outhere

OBOE CONCERTOS

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Xenia Löffler - oboe

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Georg Kallweit - concertmaster

 

Harmonia Mundi

JIM HALL & PAT METHENY
Jim Hall
Pat Metheny

Nonesuch

WHATEVER
Danny Thompson - double bass
Tony Roberts - saxophones, northumbrian pipes, whistle
Bernie Holland - guitars

Hannibal

THE RAIN IS A HANDSOME ANIMAL
17 Songs from the Poetry of E.E. Cummings
Tin Hat

New Amsterdam

ALL IN MY MIND
Dr. Lonnie Smith

Blue Note

STRING QUARTETS 2, 3, 4, 5
Philip Glass
Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch

FANTASY
An English Fantasy for Viola and Harp
Arnold Bax - Frank Bridge - Benjamin Britten - Percy Grainger - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Doris Lederer - viola
Jude Mollenhauer - harp

Centaur

SOUL JOURNEY
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch

Dave Rawlings

Acony

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

Dorian

SONATAS AND PARTITAS FOR SOLO VIOLIN

Volume 1

J.S. Bach

Lucy van Dael - Baroque violin 

Naxos

 L'HOMME ARMÉ

A musical journey into the music of the Court of Burgundy in the 15th century.

Alexandre Agricola - Antoine Busnois - Gilles Binchois - Guillaume Dufay - Johannes Ockeghem - John Dunstable - Josquin des Pres - Robert Morton

Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal

Andrew McAnerney - director

 

ATMA Classique

PIANO CONCERTOS

No. 12, K. 414 -  No. 14, K. 449

Wolfgang A. Mozart

Louis Lortie - piano

I Musici de Montreal

Yuli Turovsky - conductor

Musical Heritage Society via Chandos