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Fully agreed (italics added). It seems like that type of programming "feature". But some detective work: Discogs showed a release page for a 2010 CD-R reissue, with a link to ArkivMusic. The ArkivMusic link was dead, but a search of ArkivMusic yields a 2-CD set for $29.99 (edit: "3 CD set") I leave it to more intrepid searchers to determine whether those are in stock, CD-R or CD, etc.

Weirdly, the Sony Classical website seems to show it with a release date of today (??!!) The pic here shows the orig. cover, at least: Juilliard String Quartet - Bartok: The 6 String Quartets | CD Not sure that page is accurate...it doesn't look very professional.

Looking forward to this! Plus the food... 😁...Dorjee Momo isn't there on the Sunday nights.

I went to an improv/jazz concert today by Creative Improvisers Ensemble Strings (+ percussion) ensemble. Some passages reminded me of Scelsi. So:

Having listened to the 12-CD box of Monteverdi madrigals (La Venexiana) over the course of a few days, starting on another project. (Being a fan of Renaissance polyphony and the Huelgas Ensemble)

I have Glass Bead Games on CD as part of the Strata-East Mosaic, along with the Cecil Payne, Charles Brackeen and Pharoah Sanders from this batch. Hey, with a few more DLs I could duplicate the Mosaic and sell off the unwieldy box!

Billy Harper's Capra Black is practically the Holy Grail of oop CDs, so a physical release would be killer. Might be too much to hope for, so the DL route beckons.

I have a recording of one of Braxton's operas, Trillium R. It is very good, much better than I expected. The plot and libretto are (at minimum) highly interesting, although there is much I cannot claim to understand. Regrettably, I don't have the budget or time to keep up with all the installments.

The little I've read of Braxton's writings I found rather impenetrable (likely my bad), so I didn't pursue more. I just located some discussion of his compositional diagrams here but on a quick reading I'm not sure how the "composition #", e.g. "Composition #19 for 100 tubas" relates to the "composition diagram-title", e.g. Maybe the former is something like an opus number.

Agreed, this is truly excellent.

Yeah. I mentioned the reissue in another (Noah Howard iirc) thread and you recommended it! I then listened to a lot on bandcamp before ordering.

Ra, Noah Howard and assorted MPS. Happy to have found the John Taylor.

I hope so, weighing in at 95 lb. empty. But if not, at the price one couldn't complain! +1

Controversial ensemble, but playing it straight here.

Maybe "jazz festival" is more upscale marketing than "rock festival"? The latter carries some baggage. 🤪

It [Tristan Honsinger, From the Broken World] is, but a little "difficult" and it took me a few listens to appreciate.

The controversial (OMG! 😓 but then we're talking classical music here) recording with OVPP and extremely fast tempi.

Dusty Groove had it in stock when last I looked. That's often a good US source for JIB CDs due to domestic shipping.

Scheduled for 23 May: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (Aug 3-5, 1970) 6 LP / 4 CD box set on Strut. bandcamp page

Thanks for posting the Montréal info. Plenty there I'd want to see. Lots of performers, so should be something for almost everyone, though of course the biggest draws are not "Jazz". Funny that the majority of acts that interest me fall into the third (small print) typographical tier. 🤣 Dunno if that says more about me or the festival.

Agreed. Much better than I feared and the thread title implied.