Thursday, August 31, 2023


LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
Live in Mannheim Germany
Charlie Haden - double bass
Brad Mehldau - piano

Verve - Impulse!

Thursday, August 24, 2023


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

Wednesday, August 23, 2023


 
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

Monday, August 21, 2023


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

Monday, August 14, 2023


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

Sunday, August 13, 2023


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

Saturday, August 12, 2023


PASTORAL SYMPHONY
and other works
Ralph Vaughan Williams 
Hallé Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder CBE - director

Hallé

Thursday, August 10, 2023


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

Nonesuch

Saturday, August 5, 2023


TIMELESS
John Abercrombie - guitar 
Jan Hammer - organ, synthesizer, piano
Jack DeJohnette - drums

ECM