Sunday, January 31, 2016


ALFRED
Excerpts from an Early English Opera (1740/53)
Thomas Arne
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Diana Montague - Mezzo-Soprano
Mark Padmore - Tenor
Catherine Pierard - Soprano
Nicholas Sears - Tenor
Stephen Wallace - Counter Tenor
Nicholas Kraemer - Conductor

BBC Music

Saturday, January 30, 2016

 
SYMPHONY NO. 5 FOR BIG BAND, ELECTRIC GUITAR, AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROPHECY FOR ACCORDION AND ORCHESTRA
Errik-Sven Tüür
Nguyên Lê - electric guitar
Mika Väyrynen - accordion
UMO Jazz Orchestra
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Olari Elts - conductor

Ondine

FOUR LAUDS - FIGMENT I - REMEMBERING MR. IVES - TRE DUETTI
Elliot Carter
Caroline Chin - violin
Brian Snow - cello

Centaur

Friday, January 29, 2016

 
COMPLETE MUSIC FOR SOLO LUTE
John Dowland
Jakob Lindberg - lutes

Brilliant Classics via BIS

4 CDs

Thursday, January 28, 2016


AGUAS DA AMAZONIA  
Ballet Score  
Philip Glass
Uakti  

Point

Wednesday, January 27, 2016


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



FIVE TUDOR PORTRAITS - BENEDICITE - FIVE VARIANTS OF 'DIVES AND LAZARUS'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Elizabeth Bainbridge - contralto
John Carol Case - baritone
Heather Harper - soprano
Bach Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
The Jacques Orchestra
Sir David Wilcox - conductor

EMI

NIGHT SESSIONS
Ancient Fragments with Improvisation
The Dowland Project 
John Potter - tenor, direction
John Surman - saxophones, bass clarinet, percussion
Stephen Stubbs - lute, chitarrone, baroque guitar, vihuela
Maya Homburger - violin
Miloš Valent - violin, viola
Barry Guy - double bass

ECM New Series

Monday, January 25, 2016




PAVANS AND FANTASIES FROM THE AGE OF DOWLAND
John Dowland, Henry Purcell, William Lawes, John Jenkins, Thomas Morley, Matthew Locke
John Holloway - violin, viola
Monika Baer - violin, viola
Renate Steinmann - viola
Susanna Hefti - viola
Martin Zeller - bass violin

ECM New Series

ROMARIA
Love songs, chants and motets from the 12th century to the present by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Orlando di Lasso, Josquin Desprez and others including the anonymous composers of the Carmina Burana manuscript. 
The Dowland Project
John Potter - tenor
Miloš Valent - violin, viola
John Surman - soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, tenor and bass recorders
Stephen Stubbs - baroque guitar, vihuela

ECM New Series