Here is one I seek but do not have at the moment:
An intriguing and rewarding album. Julius Eastman was a musical genius not enough people know about. Good to see him mentioned here!
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My favorite performance of this Copland piece, and an excellent recording to boot! Also nice to see the original album cover again. My vinyl days are long past.
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The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra is always excellent.
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Another one of the many excellent bargain compilations released in the last few years. I’ve gotten interested in film scores in the last few years and the version of the Godfather Suite and film scores on disc six is excellent.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8365479–riccardo-muti-conducts-italian-masters
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Can’t say I have a favorite, however, this is a a rather nice listen.
Probably it being recorded at Snape Maltings has a lot to do with it.
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Bayreuther Festspiele 2023 just opened in Bayreuth with Wagner’s Parsifal.
https://bayreuther-festspiele.de/startseite/
Great Music for 5 Weeks from now …
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With augmented reality, no less!
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The latest (on the US side of the pond) from BBC Music Magazine. A collection of kind of emotionally dark lieder. A nice way to wind down an evening.
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Came across this today and thought those interested in classical music collecting would find it interesting. I have been a customer of Jonathon’s for some time, but not exclusively. A class act! I truly align with his thought regarding cut-outs as an avenue to explore various music genre’s with minimal risk. Risk was almost zero as cut-outs could be taken to the used record store for a 50-75% credit toward new cut-out purchases. Now we have streaming, and the personal involvement and experimenting via acquisition is gone and missed.
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I was unfamiliar with cut-outs.
Interesting bit of LP history.
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To add to what was written there, often times a label would even tell a store not to ship something back and to do the cutting for them - the store could get some credit for those and then be able to sell them for less. I have quite a few albums I took home before cutting them myself back in my record-store-clerk days
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When I was in college, I lived for the cutout hunt. Most of the time the records were of little interest (hence the poor sales that led to the cutout in the first place), but occasionally there’d be a gem, or even just a record that I happened to like, but that was outside the mainstream sales trends. If I took a chance and didn’t like it, at least I knew I hadn’t spent a ton of money.
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Ah, yes. Cutouts at Tower Records was like that. Such a treasure trove of non-mainstream albums.
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