ALBERT SCHNELZER
Schnelzer: A Freak in Burbank Ilya Gringolts (violin), Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Jakob Koranyi (cello), David Huang & Henrik Måwe (piano) Västerås Sinfonietta [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] Chamber and orchestral works from a leading Swedish composer. |
Jakob Bro / Joe Lovano
Once Around the Room - A Tribute to Paul Motian [ ECM / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] On Once Around The Room ECM recording artists and key jazz musicians from several generations unite in a small ensemble to celebrate the musical legacy of drum icon Paul Motian in a big way. Joe Lovano and Jakob Bro lead a party of seven through... |
Jakob Bro / Joe Lovano
Once Around the Room - A Tribute to Paul Motian (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 22/Feb/2023 ] On Once Around The Room ECM recording artists and key jazz musicians from several generations unite in a small ensemble to celebrate the musical legacy of drum icon Paul Motian in a big way. Joe Lovano and Jakob Bro lead a party of seven through... |
Jakob Bro
Bay Of Rainbows [ ECM / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] "There is no hurry to this music, but there is great depth," observed London Jazz News about Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's trio with two kindred-spirit Americans: bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron. This poetically attuned group follows its... |
Jakob Bro
Bay Of Rainbows (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Oct/2018 ] "There is no hurry to this music, but there is great depth," observed London Jazz News about Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's trio with two kindred-spirit Americans: bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Joey Baron. This poetically attuned group follows its... |
Jakob Bro
Uma Elmo (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 26/Mar/2021 ] With Uma Elmo, his fifth album as a leader for ECM, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro presents a new trio featuring Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Spanish drummer Jorge Rossy. Astonishingly, given the trio's musical synergy, the first time these... |
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen, Jorge Rossy
Uma Elmo [ ECM / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] With Uma Elmo, his fifth album as a leader for ECM, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro presents a new trio featuring Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Spanish drummer Jorge Rossy. Astonishingly, given the trio's musical synergy, the first time these... |
PER NORGARD / KAIJA SAARIAHO
Remembering - Nørgård & Saariaho: Cello Concertos Jakob Kullberg (cello), BBC Philharmonic, Michael Francis, John Storgards, Sinfonia Varsovia, Szymon Bywalec [ BIS / CD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] "[Nørgård and Kullberg's] partnership reflects an intensity of vision on both sides, and a sense of creative adventure that's mirrored by Kullberg's further pairing with Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho…Throughout, the orchestral support is sterling" |
J. S. BACH
Bach on the Rauwolf Lute Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS / CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Jakob Lindberg returns to Bach with his 16th-century lute. |
Jakob
Sines [ Valve CD / CD - released 22/Oct/2014 ] Sines is as much soundscape as rock-show - an echo of the expansive surroundings of the band's native Hawke's Bay, personifying rough seas and sweeping landscapes. Each element in the vigorous trio that comprises JAKOB is as essential to the... |
PROKOFIEV
Eugene Onegin (incidental music) / Pique Dame (film music) Chulpan Chamatova (speaker) Jakob Kaf (speaker) Boris Statsenko (baritone) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michail Jurowski [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] RECORDING OF THE MONTH (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Musique and Sweet Poetrie Emma Kirkby (soprano) Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] "This exquisite collection of musical gems is arranged so as to represent a tour around musical Europe at the end of the Renaissance. Moreover, on this musical journey we are accompanied by two of the finest musicians around, and by a magnificent... |
JOHN DOWLAND / HENRY PURCELL
Orpheus in England - Songs and Lute Music Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg have devised a programme which takes in a wide spectrum of emotions: from the pastoral joyfulness of By a fountain and the melancholy of In darkness let me dwell, we are led via the desperation and drama of Bess of... |
CATALDO AMODEI / GIOVANNI ZAMBONI / BERNARDO STORAGE
Amodei Emma Kirkby (soprano) Jakob Lindberg (theorbo/archlute) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] "BIS have uncovered a notable composer and brought him back to sometimes startling life" (MusicWeb) |
HANDEL / BACH / DOWLAND / BLOW / SCARLATTI / etc
The Artistry of Emma Kirkby: highlights from the original BIS recordings Emma Kirkby (soprano) with Jakob Lindberg (lute) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Anthony Rooley (theorbo-lute) etc [ BIS / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Artistry indeed, and praise to BIS for recognising how to honour it." Gramophone Magazine Reissue of the Month - July 2009 |
Jakob
Solace [ Universal Music New Zealand / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] The opening bars of 'Solace' and beyond are unmistakably the work of three fellows from Napier, continuing to infiltrate eardrums the world over with their expansive organic instrumentals. |
SCHUTZ
Weinachtshistorie & Auferstehunghistorie Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Johan Linderoth, Adam Riis & Else Torp / Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier [ Dacapo / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Schütz recordings of such ardent beauty are much too rare, so this is not to be missed." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Baroque Vocal |
Jakob Bro (guitar) with Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Christensen (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass)
Returnings [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] "Danish guitarist Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize", wrote Downbeat recently. On 'Returnings' the magic is intensified as Bro and musical soul-mate Thomas Morgan reconnect with two living legends of European jazz, trumpeter... |
Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Jon Christensen
Gefion (LP) [ ECM / LP ] 'Gefion' is Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's first ECM album as leader, following recordings for the label as sideman with Paul Motian and Tomasz Stanko. Like the work of those masters Bro's balladeering distils a sense of jazz history in its specific... |
Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan, Joey Baron
Streams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2016 ] On his second leader album for ECM - following on from the prizewinning Gefion - Danish guitarist Jakob Bro continues to refine his trio project, with its emphases on melody, sound, space, layered textures and interaction. The rapport between Bro and... |
Jakob Dylan
Women & Country [ Columbia Records / CD - released 12/Apr/2010 ] On his sophomore solo album Jakob reunites with acclaimed Grammy and Golden Globe winning producer, T Bone Burnett. 'Women & Country' features guest vocals from Neko Case and Kelly Hogan. |
Jakob Li
Corbetta: Gtr Mus [ Bis / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
JOHN DOWLAND
The Complete Solo Lute Music Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This pioneering recording, which was first released in 1995 as a set of four conventional CDs, contains the complete solo lute pieces ascribed to John Dowland. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Jacobean Lute Music Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2014 ] "The sound of Jakob Lindberg's lute, made by Sixtus Rauwolf in the last decade of the 16th century, is unusually warm...It a meticulously voiced recital that moves between court, theatre and tavern...Lindberg conjures an age that was as perilous as i |
Jakob Lindberg
Seven Suites Of Swedish Folk [ Bis / CD - released 29/Apr/2002 ] |
Jakob Lindberg
Various: Italian Virtuosi Of T [ Bis / CD - released 3/Sep/2012 ] |
ROBERT DE VISEE
Visée: Theorbo Solos Jakob Lindberg [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/May/2024 ] On paper, this is straightforward music, often consisting of no more than two lines with occasional chordal fillings-in, but Lindberg's theorbo has such a commanding presence that one is simply enthralled... |
GASPAR SANZ / SANTIAGO DE MURCIA
Spanish Guitar Music Jakob Lindberg (baroque guitar) [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] The "Spanish" guitar developed in the 17th century with the addition of a fifth course to the instrument. |
JOHN DOWLAND
Complete Lute Music Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2009 ] Gramophone praised Jakob Lindberg's complete recording when it first appeared as 'a considerable achievement that will be warmly welcomed by lovers of this music.' |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Lute By Sixtus Rauwolf: French & German Baroque Music Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] "He is stately and expressive in Reusner's Padoana while seizing upon the extravagant trills and strums evoked by the Dufault and the elegant deportment of the Mouton. Lindberg similarly relishes the toccata-like textures, bittersweet harmonies and m |
SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS
Lute Music Vol. 2 Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Lindberg plays a baroque lute with 13 courses (or pairs of strings) On it he gives us a Sonata in C major in Weiss's grandest style and an extrovert Sonata in B flat major. Separating the two is Weiss's most famous work - Tombeau sur la mort de M.... |
DOWLAND / HOLBORNE / BYRD / BRITTEN etc
Nocturnal - lute music from Dowland to Britten Jakob Lindberg (lute) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Jul/2018 ] One of today's foremost exponents of his instrument, Jakob Lindberg arrived at the lute by way of the guitar and played both for several years. When he decided to devote himself exclusively to the historic lute repertoire it was with some regret that... |
JAN ANTONIN LOSY
Losy: Note d'oro - Lute Music Jakob Lindberg (lute by Sixtus Rauwolf, Augsburg c. 1590) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Jan/2020 ] "The quality of Losy's music and the superb interpretations by Jakob Lindberg are further enhanced by a third factor - the instrument he plays. He employs a unique instrument with a beautiful and distinctive sound." MusicWeb Recommended |
Jakob Lindberg, lute / guitar / lute mandorae
Seven Suites of Swedish Folk Tunes [ BIS / CD - released 3/Apr/2002 ] Jakob Lindberg really needs no introduction. As one of the most versatile players of plucked instruments (Renaissance and Baroque lutes, Theorbo, Archlute, Baroque guitar and so on) as well as being a noted scholar of the period, he is in demand all... |
JOHN DOWLAND
Galliards & Fancies Jakob Lindberg (Lute & Orpharion) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Nov/1996 ] "Anyone requiring no more than a single disc of Dowland's lute music need look no further than this generous selection." (Fanfare) |
VIVALDI
Complete Lute Music Jakob Lindberg (lute/archlute) Nils-Erik Sparf (violin) Monica Huggett (viola d'amore) / Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble [ BIS Baroque / CD - released 30/Jun/2004 ] "The lute works of Vivaldi are well-trodden territory, but no one has yet travelled over it so beguilingly as Jakob Lindberg (again), with Nils-Erik Sparf, Monica Huggett and the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble." (Gramophone) |
SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS
Lute Music Vol 1 Jakob Lindberg (playing the unique Sixtus Rauwolf lute from c.1590) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] "A fine player provides a fitting celebration of a unique instrument" (Gramophone July 2006) |
MILANO, F. da / DALL'AQUILA, M. / JOSQUIN DES PREZ / RIPA, A. da
Lute Recital: Italian Lute Virtuosi of the Renaissance Jakob Lindberg (six course lute) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "Lindberg's tempos always feel spot on, allowing the music to breathe (as does the exemplary recording)…a captivating conspectus of a golden age aglow with confidences and delights" Five Stars BBC Music |
REGER
Complete Clarinet Sonatas Janet Hilton (clarinet) / Jakob Fichert (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "Played by one of the UK's most popular clarinettists, Janet Hilton, the tonal quality is suitably smooth and mellow, high notes played without an edge to the tone. The recording is very close to the instruments, but admirably clear." (David's... |
SCHUTZ
St Matthew Passion, SWV 479 Julian Podger (Evangelist) / Jakob Bloch Jespersen (Jesus) / Ars Nova Copenhagen / Paul Hillier [ Dacapo / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "What keeps the attention here is the way that all the solo singers - including those drawn from choir for the minor roles - inject just enough urgency and drama into their singing for us to feel the power of the unfolding story, but not so much as... |