Balladeer

Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin

Chet Baker in Paris: 1955-56 Barclay Recordings

Cassandra Wyss plays Wilhelm Stenhammar: Piano Pieces (Capriccio)

Anne Quillier 6tet - Dusty Shelters (Collectif Pince-Oreilles)

Carl Vollrath - Lingering Longings: Music for clarinet and piano Vol 2 (Navona)

Henri Sigfridsson - Sibelius: Piano Transcriptions (Haenssler Classic)

Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius (Sony)

Rafael Fingerlos (baritone) & Sascha El Mouissi (piano):- Robert Fürstenthal - Songs of life and passing (Toccata)

Lars Gullin - Silhouette

Lydia Calhoun (cl) - Carols for the King from Around the World

Chisato Kusunoki plays Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Scriabin, Lyapunov (Quartz Music)

Lars Gullin - Manchester Fog

Florian Just (bariton) & Jan Paul Grijpink (p) -Monologe: Schubert, Barber, Ibert, Reutter, Ravel, Ives (Etcetera)

Second heartily NYT piano choice; Leif Ove Andsnes album for Sony is gorgeous. Sibelius for piano is surely a discovery to make. Bought this earlier this year and have been happily listening to it repeatedly. Strongly recommended!

Janet Hilton (cl) & Jakob Fichert (p) - Max Reger - Clarinet Sonatas (Naxos)

Lars Gullin - The Yellow Leaves´ Love to the Earth

Like this one, too, especially the title cut. Wondering why "Rose Tattoo" has not been covered more frequently - beautiful song! At least Hubbard is one of the few who have recorded it (dont know if he ever played it live).

Henri Sigfridsson - Sibelius: Piano Transcriptions (SWR/Hänssler) This young Fin is a stunner, dynamic playing, gorgeous transcriptions, lovely music.: Among my piano CDs the one I´ve been spinning repeatedly and most frequently for the last months.

Lars Gullin - Danny´s Dream

Daniel Behle (tenor) & Oliver Schnyder Trio - Schubert: Winterreise(n) (Sony) CD1

Jimmy Giuffre, Steve Swallow, Paul Bley - Fusion

Lars Gullin - Ma

Robert Fürstenthal - Songs and Ballads of Life and Passing (Toccata) Somber, melancholic Lieder, great stuff, and there´s a life story behind it! Thanks to young baritone Rafael Fingerlos, pianist Sascha El Mouissi and the Toccata team for discovering this music and presenting it on a wonderful album!

Johnny Guarnieri - Classics 1946-47

Henri Crolla