Friday, November 14, 2014


WORKS FOR STRING ORCHESTRA
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Oboe Concerto; Concerto Grosso; Fantasia on Greensleeves; Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Maurice Bourgue; oboe
English String Orchestra
William Boughton; conductor

Nimbus

Thursday, November 13, 2014


SURREXIT CHRISTUS
13th-Century Vespers and Easter Procession
Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Ensemble Grégorien
Sylvain Dieudonné, dir.

Hortus

EARLY ENGLISH ORGAN MUSIC
The Knole and Armitage organs
Anonymous, Byrd, Tomkins, Gibbons, Purcell, Farrant, Bull, Stanley, Greene, Boyce, Wesley
Trevor Pinnock
Simon Preston

Archiv

QUOTATION OF DREAM
Toru Takemitsu
Paul Crossley, piano
Peter Serkin, piano
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen, conductor

Deutsche Grammophon

LA LIRA D'ESPÉRIA
The Medieval Fiddle
Jordi Savall; lira, rebab, vièles
Pedro Estevan; percussion

Astrée

Wednesday, November 12, 2014


HEJIRA
Joni Mitchell

Asylum

THE BANKS OF GREEN WILLOW
Butterworth, Bax, Bridge, Moeran
English Chamber Orchestra
Jefferey Tate, conductor

EMI




A bit of a continuation of yesterday's theme.

BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS
Bill Frisell

Savoy

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

LUDI MUSICI
Samuel Scheidt
Les Sacqueboutiers

Naïve