DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
The Bridegroom & Other Works
John Tavener
Anonymous 4
Chilingirian Quartet

Harmonia Mundi

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
Cyrus Chestnut
& Friends

Atlantic

ON A COLD WINTER'S DAY

Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles

Turlough O'Carolan - Thomas Weelkes - English Traditional - Scottish Traditional - Irish Traditional - Welsh Traditional

Quadriga Consort

 

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

THE DARKEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
Over The Rhine

Great Speckled Dog

 

SKETCHES 

Bert Jansch

Temple

'ROUND MIDNIGHT
Alan Broadbent - piano
Brian Bromberg - double bass
Joe LaBarbera - drums

Artistry

CROSSING BRIDGES
Mark O'Connor
Appalachia Waltz Trio
Mark O'Connor - violin
Carol Cook - cello
Natalie Haas - viola

OMAC

RING
The Gary Burton Quintet
with Eberhard Weber
Gary Burton – vibraharp
Eberhard Weber – double bass
Mick Goodrick – guitar
Pat Metheny – guitar, electric 12-string guitar
Steve Swallow – bass guitar
Bob Moses – percussion

ECM

THE FIFTH CENTURY

for choir and saxophone quartet

TWO LOVE SONGS

for female choir a cappella

Gavin Bryars

PRISM Quartet 

Timothy McAllister - soprano saxophone

Robert Young - alto saxophone

Matthew Levy - tenor saxophone

Taimur Sullivan - baritone saxophone

THE CROSSING (choir)

Donald Nally - conductor 

ECM New Series

GOOD RAIN
Solveig Slettahjell
Slow Motion Quintet

Act

THE SAD MACHINERY OF SPRING
Tin Hat

Ryko / Hannibal

IF MOUNTAINS COULD SING
Terje Rypdal - electric guitars
Bjørn Kjellemyr - bass
Audun Kleive - drums
Terje Tønnesen - violin
Lars Anders Tomter - viola
Øystein Birkeland - cello
Christian Eggen - conductor

ECM

OBOE CONCERTOS

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Xenia Löffler - oboe

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Georg Kallweit - concertmaster

 

Harmonia Mundi

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

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

Nonesuch

THE FITZWILLIAM VIRGINAL BOOK

Transcriptions for a Mixed Consort

Byrd - Farnaby - Morley - Bull - Inglott - Peerson - Gibbons - Anonymous - Sweelinck - Philips

Charivari Agréable

 

Signum

THE HIGH LONESOME SOUND

Roscoe Holcomb - vocal and banjo

 

Smithsonian Folkways

LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

Live in Mannheim Germany

Charlie Haden - double bass

Brad Mehldau - piano

Verve - Impulse!

TWO LUTES WITH GRACE

Plectrum Lute Duos of the Late 15th Century

Des Prez - Agricola - Dalza - Tinctoris - Binchois - Bedyngham - Ghiselin - Frye - Anonymous

Marc Lewon - plectrum lute

Paul Kieffer - plectrum lute

Grace Newcombe - voice

Naxos - BR Klassik

 

UN CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
The Way of St. James of Compostela

17th century Sacred and Secular Traveling Songs
Arianna Savall - soprano & harp
Ensemble La Fenice
Jean Tubery - direction

Ricercar

UPON A TIME

An Album Of Duets

John Abercrombie - electric guitar, mandolin guitar, piano

George March - drums, percussion, thumb piano

Mel Graves - acoustic and electric basses

 

New Albion

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

ALCHEMIST
Monteverdi - Du Prez - Mainerio - Anonymous - Ortiz - Le Jeune - Pickett
Philip Pickett - arrangements, recorders, crumhorns, curtals, racketts, shawms, cornamusen, pan pipes, organ, gittern, symphony, chalumeau
Catherine Bott - soprano
Stephen Henderson - percussion, xylophone, bells, timpani
David Roblou - organ & harpsichord
Pavlo Beznosiuk - medieval fiddle & baroque violin/viola
Tom Finucane - lute & gittern
Anthony Pleeth - baroque cello

Decca London

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF DREAMS - IN MEMORIAM - SYMPHONY #4
David Maslanka
Dallas Wind Symphony
Jerry Junkin - director

Reference Recordings

LES GOÛTS ACCORDÉS

Music from the Court of Louis XIV
Robert de Visée - Jean-Baptiste Barrière - Jean-Baptiste Lully - Nicolas Hotman - Jean-Daniel Braun
Estaban La Rotta (theorbo)

Jivko Georgiev (cello)

Margaret Little (viola da gamba)

Katelyn Clark (organ) 

ATMA Classique

MESSA PASCHAL

Mass for Easter Day

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

Magnificat

Warren Stewart - artistic director

Musica Omni

ODHECATON

Harmonice Musices

Ottaviano dei Petrucci

Fretwork viol ensemble

 

Harmonia Mundi USA

PASTORAL SYMPHONY

and other works

Ralph Vaughan Williams 

Hallé Orchestra

Sir Mark Elder CBE - director

Hallé

QUARTET

Bill Frisell – electric and acoustic guitars
Ron Miles – trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Eyvind Kang – violin, tuba
Curtis Fowlkes – trombone

Nonesuch

TIMELESS

John Abercrombie - guitar 

Jan Hammer - organ, synthesizer, piano

Jack DeJohnette - drums

ECM

ENGLISH AND ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MADRIGALS

Various Italian and English Renaissance Composers

The Hilliard Ensemble

Virgin Veritas

2 Discs

UPON A TIME

An Album Of Duets

John Abercrombie - electric guitar, mandolin guitar, piano

George March - drums, percussion, thumb piano

Mel Graves - acoustic and electric basses

 

New Albion

THE MEDIEVAL EXPERIENCE

Sacred and Secular Music from the High Middle Ages to the Early Renaissance

CD-1: Monks and Troubadours I

Anonymous
CD-2: Monks and Troubadours II    

Anonymous

CD-3: Motets

John Dunstable - Guillaume Dufay - Gilles Binchois - Jacob Obrecht - Josquin Desprez    

CD-4: Masses and Memorials

Josquin Desprez: Missa "L'homme armé super voces musicales"

Johannes Ockeghem: Missa "pro defunctis" (Requiem)

Josquin Desprez: Nymphes des bois (Déploration sur la mort d'Ockeghem)
Ensembles:

Choralschola der abtei Müchwarzach

The Early Music Consort of London

Choeur de l'abaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault

Pro Cantione Antiqua

The London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble 

Archiv 1995

SOUND OF LOVE

At The Village Vanguard

The Paul Motian Trio

Paul Motian - drums

Bill Frisell - electric guitar

Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone

 

Artist Edition

Winter & Winter

STADTPFEIFFER

Music of Renaissance Germany
Paul Hofhaimer - Heinrich Isaac - Heinrich Finck - Ludwig Senfl - Caspar Othmayr - Adam Gilbert - Johann Jakob Walther - Michael Praetorius

Piffaro, The Renaissance Band

Dorian

IF SUMMER HAD ITS GHOSTS

Bill Bruford - drums, percussion

Ralph Towner - 12-string and classical guitars, keyboards

Eddie Gomez - bass

 

DGM

SOLSTICE

Ralph Towner - 12-String and Classical Guitar, Piano

Jan Garbarek - Tenor and Soprano Saxophone, Flute

Eberhard Weber - Bass, Cello

Jon Christensen - Drums, Percussion 

ECM

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

IF MOUNTAINS COULD SING
Terje Rypdal - electric guitars
Bjørn Kjellemyr - bass
Audun Kleive - drums
Terje Tønnesen - violin
Lars Anders Tomter - viola
Øystein Birkeland - cello
Christian Eggen - conductor

ECM

QSF PLAYS BRUBECK
Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond
Quartet San Francisco
     Jeremy Cohen - violin
     Alisa Rose - violin
     Keith Lawrence - viola
     Michelle Djokic - cello

ViolinJazz

SPEAKING OF NOW
Pat Metheny Group

Warner Bros.

'ROUND MIDNIGHT
Alan Broadbent - piano
Brian Bromberg - double bass
Joe LaBarbera - drums

Artistry

STILL LIFE (TALKING)
Pat Metheny Group

Geffen

NEGRO SPIRITUALS AU BRESIL BAROQUE

Afro-Brazilian Latin Mass Music
Luís Álvares Pinto - João Rodrigues Esteves - Carlos de Seixas - Ignacio Parreiras Neves - Manoel Dias de Oliveira - Anonymous
XVIII-21 Musique des Lumières - ensemble

Gemma Coma-Alabert (mezzo-soprano), Jean Delescluse (tenor), Alain Thaî (counter-tenor), Jean-Baptiste Dumora (baritone), Franck Poitrineau (trombone), Phillippe Ramin (harpsichord)
Jean-Christophe Frisch - director, organ

K 617

THE RAIN IS A HANDSOME ANIMAL
seventeen songs from the poetry of e.e. cummings
Tin Hat

New Amsterdam

THE ROSE HOTEL
Robert Earl Keen

Lost Highway

LES GOÛTS ACCORDÉS

Music from the Court of Louis XIV
Robert de Visée - Jean-Baptiste Barrière - Jean-Baptiste Lully - Nicolas Hotman - Jean-Daniel Braun
Estaban La Rotta (theorbo)

Jivko Georgiev (cello)

Margaret Little (viola da gamba)

Katelyn Clark (organ) 

ATMA Classique

PASTORAL SYMPHONY (SYMPHONY NO. 3)

NORFOLK RHAPSODIES, NOS 1 & 2 - THE RUNNING SET

Ralph Vaughan Williams

London Symphony Orchestra

Richard Hickox - conductor

Chandos

LES GOÛTS ACCORDÉS

Music from the Court of Louis XIV
Robert de Visée - Jean-Baptiste Barrière - Jean-Baptiste Lully - Nicolas Hotman - Jean-Daniel Braun
Estaban La Rotta (theorbo)

Jivko Georgiev (cello)

Margaret Little (viola da gamba)

Katelyn Clark (organ) 

ATMA Classique

 

ERIC DOLPHY

12 Classic Albums 1959-1962

Caribe, The Latin Jazz Quintet +Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy Quintet featuring Freddie Hubbard

Out There

Looking Ahead Ken McIntyre & Eric Dolphy

Here And There

Where? Ron Carter with Eric Dolphy & Mal Waldron

Eric Dolphy Far Cry with Booker Little

Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot

The Blues And the Abstract Truth

Eric Dolphy Booker Ervin Mal Waldron with the Sextet

Straight Ahead Oliver Nelson with Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy in Europe

Eric Dolphy

 

Enlightenment