folk music Archive
Andy Biskin and 16 Tons – Songs from the Alan Lomax Collection – Andorfin
Transplanting the legacy of Alan Lomax into the jazz lexicon.
“Dragon” – Works for alto sax & sax quartet – Albany / DANIEL SMITH: Jazz Suite for Bassoon – Summit
A nice classical-jazz couple of CDs featuring bassoon & sax. “Dragon” – Works for alto sax & sax quartet [TrackList follows] – William Perconti, alto sax/ Alloy Sax Quartet – Albany TROY1440, 49:25 ****: DANIEL SMITH: “Jazz Suite for Bassoon” [TrackList follows] – Daniel Smith, bassoon/ Bruce Boardman & Steve Grey, p./others/ The Caravaggio Ensemble […]
Ayreheart – Barley Moon – Sono Luminus Blu-ray & CD
Ayreheart – Barley Moon – Sono Luminous DSL-92201 (Blu-ray audio + CD) [Distr. by Naxos], 59:55 ****1/2: Traditional folk music with a hi-res boost! (Brian Kay – lute, komuz, vocals; Ronn McFarlane – lute; Willard Morris – colascione; Mattias Rucht – percussion) The origins of folk music are vast and wildly diverse. There are connections […]
Cikada, “Live at HCMF” = Works of LIM & NESS – LAWO
Cikada, “Live at HCMF” = LIZA LIM: Winding Bodies: Three Knots; The Heart’s Ear; JON ǾIVIND NESS: Gimilen – Cicada ens. – LAWO Classics LWC1086, 47:24 [Distr. by Naxos] (2/05/16) **1/2: Great performances it seems of these pretty tough works. I have heard the very talented and dedicated Cikada ensemble many times before and never […]
BARTOK: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; The Miraculous Mandarin – London Sym. Orch. /Sir Georg Solti – HDTT 192/24 download
Wonderful Bartók from the Kingsway Hall in 1963.
EUGEN SUCHOŇ: Metamorfózy; Balladická Suita; Symfonietta Rustica – Estonian Nat. Sym. Orch./ Neeme Järvi – Chandos
Wonderful performances of these somewhat obscure works.
Steve Strauss – Sea Of Dreams – Stockfisch stereo-only
American country is lively on this German audiophile label.
“Rejoice” – Itzhak Perlman & Cantor Helfgot (2014)
A wonderful hour-plus of Yiddish music with violinist Itzhak Perlman and other performers.
WEILL: Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra; STRAVINSKY: L’histoire du soldat – suite; MILHAUD: Suite for violin, clarinet and piano/ Gabriele Pieranunzi, violin/ Enrico Pieranunzi, p./ Alessandro Carbonare, clarinet/ Soloists of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples/ Jeffrey Tate – Musica Media Concerto Classics
An outstanding release of 20th-Century chamber music rarities by KURT WEILL, IGOR STRAVINSKY and DARIUS MILHAUD.
“DOBRINKA TABAKOVA: String Paths” [TrackList follows] = Soloists/ Lithuanian Ch. Orch./ Maxim Rysanov – ECM New Series
Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova brings us something old and something new, something familiar and yet fresh.
“DOBRINKA TABAKOVA: String Paths” [TrackList follows] = Soloists/ Lithuanian Ch. Orch./ Maxim Rysanov – ECM New Series
Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova brings us something old and something new, something familiar and yet fresh.
Art Lande, solo piano – Kiss in a Shadow [TrackList follows] – Blue Coast Records (avail. as hi-res download)
A fine encore to Lande’s earlier solo piano album for Blue Coast Records.
“Early & Late: Music from Denmark, Greenland & Faroe Islands” (music by Pelle GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN, Sunleif RASMUSSEN and Rune GLERUP) – Trio Gáman – DaCapo
An unusual album for those into early music and things Nordic.
“Dances With Harpsichords” [TrackList follows] – Elaine Funaro, harpsichord – Centaur“Aprés Scarlatti” [TrackList follows] – Kristina Szutor, piano – Centaur
A pair of interesting early music-oriented keyboard CDs from Centaur.
“Dances With Harpsichords” [TrackList follows] – Elaine Funaro, harpsichord – Centaur“Aprés Scarlatti” [TrackList follows] – Kristina Szutor, piano – Centaur
A pair of interesting early music-oriented keyboard CDs from Centaur.
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN: In the Mountain Country [TrackList follows] = Benjamin Frith, p./ Ulster Orch./ JoAnn Falletta – Naxos
An excellent collection of works by a composer who deserves greater recognition.
STRAVINSKY: Rite Of Spring – “Keeping Score” series, Blu-ray (2013)
The latest in the San Francisco Symphony’s “Keeping Score” series is another well done and beautifully-shot concert video.
IVAN KARABITS: Concertos for Orchestra – No. 1, ‘Musical Gift to Kiev’; No. 2; No. 3, ‘Lamentations’; VALENTIN SILVESTROV: Two Elegies: Elegie; Abschiedsserenade – Bournemouth Sym. Orch. /Kiril Karabits – Naxos
Three colorfully orchestrated and dramatic concertos for orchestra from Ukrainian composer Ivan Karabits provides a familiar, yet exciting symphonic tapestry.
ČIURLIONIS: In the Forest; The Sea; De Profundis – Lithuanian National Sym. Orch. and Kaunas State Choir/Juozas Domarkas. Cond. – Northern Flowers
Three interesting works from a Lithuanian Romantic-era composer who lived until 1911.
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 9 in D Minor; String Quartet No. 13 in G Major – Zemlinsky Quartet – Praga Digitals
Excellent performances of two very fine quartets that happen not to be the “American.”
CHISHOLM: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 – Danny Driver, p./ BBC Scottish Sym. Orch./Rory MacDonald – Hyperion
An infusion of Scottish folk tunes and Hindustani music make these two twentieth century piano concertos attractive and different.
BARTÓK: The Violin Sonatas – Adrian Adlam, v./ Thomas Hell, p. – Tacet Eigen Art (2 CDs)
Some of the composer’s essential chamber music, but not for the fainthearted.