Discs by Munir Bachir, probably his disc Maqamat - on the label Inédit / Maison des Cultures du Monde.
The great Iraqi master of the oud. On Maqamat, one can hear the wonderful modal improvisation Maqam Bashîri.

PINO DE VITTORIO

Tarentella del Gargano
Pino de Vittorio with the Capella della Pietà de’ Turchini, in the first volume of the Cantate Napoletane dell’Età Barocca (on Symphonia).
For its immense sensuality.

MARIN MARAIS

By Sophie Watillon
Alpha

For being able to hear her magnificent Rêveuse.

SCHUBERT

Winterreise
Christoph Pregardien and Andréas Staier
Teldec

If only for the first words from Gute Nacht: ‘A stranger I came, as a stranger I depart’

VOICES OF POETS

(published by Radio France)