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