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Berglund / Nielsen (greatest flute concerto natch) I don't often choose to listen to Bruch but this is fascinating to see, 'period peformance' of another kind, have to agree with commenters the soloist stronger than the band, that's why Paavo's Bournemouth Sibelius less than first rate.

Until our overdue Casella thread, comparing Naxos, Chandos & CPO... ** all ** the Naxos Casella discs I've heard have been excellent however.

Gennadi worked UK often but I'm thrilled that integrale exists, long thinking RVW of all English symphonists could / should travel best. (Elgar and Walton also but with just two each & they largely consonant with dominant trends etc...) Much as I like some Bax, I'm not sure his symponies his best or worth a lot of international advocacy. His piano music, however-- and thanks to Michael Endres on Oehms-- http://arnoldbax.com/michael-endres-records-the-bax-piano-sonatas-on-oehms-classics-review-by-christopher-webber/ (No clips on youtube?) Endres' enterprise of course also highlights how pathetic the careers of Perahia, Uchida etc-- all the international megacorps dullards who-- with all the goddamn resources in the world-- will die without having proffered a single note of invidual distinction. Did just find this however, whoa! More Russian RVW-- And in Spain also--

no Marsalis / Wooley but what is (& what never should have been jeez)

Vladimir Jurowski cond Miserly Knight

Bolcom "View From A Bridge" in the top five of American operas (#s 1 & 2 = Virgil Thomson / Gertrude Stein), believe it; I can't speak on these productions per so though Frank Galati is a brilliant director.

There is, it has been been learned, a very good website devoted entirely to Pettersson both on cd and in concert, the latter almost unimaginable in what passes for concert life in America (tho' there is at least one notable exception)-- http://allanpettersson100.blogspot.com Author is ex-Wisconsin music student / musician moved to Helsinki, where he seems to befriended the major Petterssonians from beloved Robert von Bahr & Christian Lindberg on down... Includes fascinating testimonials from conductor Alun Francis, meeting with Leif Segerstam etc ++. Fans and skeptics alike can't fail to be enlightened, esp. re: close listening in era where many drown / slip in big box / streaming vomit. Alan Silva sidenote: I would not be surprised if some of Alan's orchestral endeavors were at least slightly informed by the energy / density of Allan P. Likewise Anthony Braxton though it's possible-- likely?-- they got there seperately, it'd be interesting to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4INtNxem-0

Rozhdestvensky!

Ancerl 1962 Zappa 1967

ever hear of this band, so much excellent underknown Prokofiev of course

Robert Carver Mass Dum sacrum mysterium cond. Alan Tavener Telemann Brockes Passion cond. Rene Jacobs

I meant then contemporary black culture, i.e. these records made by, marketed (see Chicago Defender ads e) and sold almost exclusively to black people- sold very important in # of ways because you had to sell some to keep making more. Of course this mediated by white record companies, and often (mostly?) white owned retailers... A&R majority white with some notable exceptions... If you mean contemporary as of NOW then Bumble Bee Slim / Amos Easton has the same resonance of nearly all his peers, which ain't much but I'd ask Ishamel Reed or Robin D.G. Kelley +++ what they think first. (We can and should review the careers of all the "Blues Queens" whose brilliance has been misleadingly compressed to just Bessie.) the astonishing Tampa Red-- whom Bumble Bee records with-- & is course virtuoso where Amos is proficient / genial / sly another example. And Tampa almost made it straight through... 1929 --> 1951 Damn!

Thanks for mentioning West Coast Bumble Bee / Amos-- was going to get to that but since we're here, what professional blues musician recorded longer more or-- in the 1950s certainly less-- continuously? Amos' first session c. October 1931 for Paramount... I love Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey etc and though their own stories remarkable... I should clarify too Bumble Bee / Amos had individual tracks anthologized on Yazoo etc but without a career-spanning compilation to summarize his range & ability...

Baldassari chop suey Kah-Ming Ng explains ("almost like jazz") & damn right, red shoes DO make it--

Moving away from imagined "heros" of white boy blues (Robert Johnson etc) and into bluesmen who were oft recorded and popular among black folks of the 1930s... Amos / Bumble Bee not the king of anything, nor the "best" either, if Leroy Carr got there first, there's a great deal to be said for Bumble Bee the performer & his very consistent discography with tons of great sideman from Scrapper Blackwell, Tampa Red, Charlie McCoy etc etc on up / down. That Bumble Bee was never properly anthologized by Columbia, RCA / Bluebird or Yazoo etc has kept his brilliance-- and its reflection of, resonance within contemporary black culture-- at unfortunate remove. Chicago 4 April 1935 Chicago 22 June 1937... whoa!

I'm coming back to Messiah and though I'd still not consider it THEE ultimate Handel oratorio, it's pointless to argue against its real achievement, power, however baleful (and sometimes salutary) its influence on the later Engish choral rock tradtion. Picked up Hickox cheap recently he recorded so much, it's sometimes easy to think Hickox too generalist but this is pretty damn strong I think, Collegiam Musicum usually a step or two above their Brit colleagues (though peak Hogwood can be quite good) Joan Rodgers we of course adore for her Russian repertoire too

The analogy isn't exact (none are) & though it's impossible to overrate Haydn, I believe it's useful for us to begin thinking of CPE Bach a la Haydn-- though in doing so we can regret he didn't write (much) more chamber music. Still, the keyboard concertos alone-- especially the Spanyi / BIS series and much smaller but brilliant Remy / CPO issues... And damn, I'd not seen this before, how many light years across the Omniverse from 21st century ASMF that JSngry saw recently? We all knw Les Musiciens du Louvre from many superb recordings under Minkowski's baton, natch.

some of my favorite 'make out' music

Wolpe, whom you already know from his jazz students ++, here's Bridge to give you mo'

Magnard 4 Jolivet 3 (really)