SURROUNDED BY ANGELS

A Christmas Celebration

Traditional French, English, Greek, Scottish, Irish, Catalan: Medieval - Folk - Praetorius - Gruber

Ensemble Galilei

Sonus Luminus

 

A WINTER'S SOLSTICE 

Windham Hill Artists

Windham Hill

FAIR PLAY
Puck Fair

Lost Lake Arts

EARLY AMERICAN CHORAL MUSIC, VOL. 1
Anthems and Fuging Tunes
William Billings
His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

HOME TO THANKSGIVING  
Songs of Thanks and Praise
Various Composers - Medieval to Early American
His Majestie's Clerkes
Theatre of Voices  
Paul Hillier - director

Harmonia Mundi

CAMINO DE SANTIAGO I
Eine Pilgerstrasse - Navarra/Castilla
Studio der Frühen Musik
Thomas Binkley - director

EMI Reflexe - Odeon

CONSORT SONGS
William Byrd
Emma Kirkby - soprano
Fretwork - viol consort

Harmonia Mundi USA

MY LADYE NEVELLS BOOKE

William Byrd

Elizabeth Parr - harpsichord

 

Naxos

THE NEW QUARTET   

Gary Burton - vibraphone 

Mick Goodrick - guitar 

Abraham Laboriel - bass 

Harry Blazer - drums 

 

 ECM

CANCIONES Y DANZAS DE ESPAÑA

Songs and Dances from the Time of Cervantes (1547-1616)

Various 16th-17th Century Spanish Composers

Hespèrion XX

Montserrat Figueras

Jordi Savall - director

EMI - Refelxe

MANIGEM HERZEN

Medieval Songs and Chants in a New Guise

Ensemble Nu:n
– Gert Anklam - soprano and baritone saxophone
– Cora Schmeiser - vocal
– Falk Zenker - acoustic and electric guitar, live looping, electronics, noise instruments

Edition Raumklang

DUET

World Premiere recordings of the orchestral versions of 

You Are (Variations) and Daniel Variations, as well as 

The Four Sections, Duet, and Clapping Music
Steve Reich
MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra 
MDR Leipzig Radio Choir
Kristjan Järvi - conductor

Sony Classical

HEAVENLY REVELATIONS 

Hymns, Sequences, Antiphons, Responds

Hildegard von Bingen

Oxford Camerata

Jeremy Summerly - Director 

Naxos

FOLLOWING THE MOON

Interpretations of Celtic and Ancient Tunes

Ensenble Galilei

 

Dorian

IN DARKNESS LET ME DWELL
John Dowland
The Dowland Project
- John Potter - tenor, director
- Stephen Stubbs - lute
- John Surman - saxophone and clarinet
- Maya Homburger - baroque violin
- Barry Guy - double-bass

ECM New Series

HIS MAJESTY'S HARPER
Airs & Dances, Fancies & Farewells, from the Royal Courts of 17th-century England
John Dowland - William Byrd - Cormack MacDermott - Jean le Flelle
Andrew Lawrence-King - baroque harps

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

ENDBEGINNING
A programme of Sacred Music by Franco-Flemish composers active in the first half of the 16th century
Antoine Brumel - Thomas Crecquillon - Clemens Non Papa - Josquin Desprez - Jackson Hill
New York Polyphony

BIS

SONGS AND DANCES FROM THE SPANISH RENAISSANCE
Camerata Iberia
    Juan Carlos de Mulder - vihuela, direction
    Pedro Estevan - percussion
    Daniel Carranza - vihuela
    Ernesto Schmied - recorder
    Francisco Luengo - viola da gamba
    Carlos Mena - countertenor

M-A Recordings

TRANSMIGRATION OF THE MAGUS
John Zorn
Bill Frisell - guitar
John Medeski - organ
Kenny Wollesen, Al Upowski - vibes, bells
Carol Emanuel, Bridget Kibby - harps

Tzadik

THE MAGIC HOUR 

Wynton Marsalis Quartet 

 

Blue Note

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

 

L'ART DU THÉORBISTE 

Music for Theorbo

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

Simon Linné - theorbo

Brilliant Classics

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

FEMINAE VOX
Monody and Medieval Polyphony for a Nunnery

Códice de Las Huelgas S. XII-XIV 

Capella de Ministrers

Carles Magraner - director

 

CDM

CARE-CHARMING SLEEP
Songs and Madrigals 
John Dowland - Robert Johnson - Giovanni Felice Sances - John Wilbye - Cherubino Busatti - Benedetto Ferrari - Cipriano da Rore
The Dowland Project

• John Potter - tenor, direction
• Barry Guy - double-bass
• Maya Homburger - baroque violin
• Stephen Stubbs - baroque guitar, chitarrone
• John Surman - bass clarinet, soprano saxophone

 

ECM New Series

APPALACHIA WALTZ
Meyer - O'Conner - Traditional
Yo-Yo Ma - cello
Edgar Meyer - bass
Mark O'Conner - violin

Sony Classical

TO MUM FROM AYNSLEY AND THE BOYS
The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation

Blue Label

RÉSONANCE

C.F. Abel - J.S. Bach -  St. Colombe - De Machy - P. Hersant - Tobias Hume - C. Simpson - C. Christodoulou - G.I. Gurdjieff

Nima Ben David - Viola da gamba 

MA Recordings

LUDI MUSICI 

Samuel Scheidt 

Les Sacqueboutiers 

 

Naïve

 

THE HARROW & THE HARVEST
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

Acony

THE LION'S EAR

A Tribute to Leo X, Musician among Popes

Various and Anonymous Composers

La Mora

Corina Marti & Michael Gondko - directors

Ramée

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

Alia Vox

HEROES SYMPHONY
THE LIGHT
Philip Glass
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop - conductor

Naxos

JOAN OF ARC AT THE STAKE

An Oratorio in English

Arthur Honegger

Vera Zorina

Alec Clunes

The Orpington Junior Singers

The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Seiji Ozawa - conductor

 

CBS
 

CHANSONS
Guillaume Dufay
Ensemble Unicorn
Bernhard Landauer - counter tenor
Michael Posch - director

Naxos

CANCIONES Y DANZAS DE ESPAÑA

Songs and Dances from the Time of Cervantes (1547-1616)

Various 16th-17th Century Spanish Composers

Hespèrion XX

Montserrat Figueras

Jordi Savall - director

EMI - Refelxe