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  1. Los Ritmos Calientes - The Cal Tjader Forum

    in Artists

    Posted

    8 hours ago, JSngry said:

    I said it backwards, sorry. I meant that he probably had MORE respect for real players like Tjader than he would have had for the likes of  Fogerty.

    Thanks for correcting that. I read your original and (having dim memories of the John Fogarty brouhaha) thought I was losing my mind. 🤪

  4. Adios Berkshire Record Outlet

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I used to be a big customer and receive their weekly e-mails. 

    Last week I placed my first order in four years. [No longer buy as much classical.]

    Today I got the following email. Kind of sad, like the end of an era.

    A Note from Berkshire Record Outlet

     

    Dear fellow music-lovers,

    The time has come to announce our closure within the next sixty days. In the interim, we have a backlog of new and restocked titles that we plan to offer you via our usual updates, in preparation for the subsequent sale of the entire inventory to a consortium of wholesalers.

    With one exception, we’re all well past retirement age, and the challenges of running a niche business in the year 2025 are more than this near octogenarian is willing to confront. In short, after fifty-one years, we bid you farewell.

    Thank you all for your patronage.

    Best wishes,

    Joe Eckstein

  6. Bartok String Quartets

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted

    Of course there's some overlap with the Hindemith thread:

    The original Amar Quartet was assembled out of necessity in 1921 at the first Donaueschingen chamber music performances in order to play the premiere of Hindemith's String Quartet, Op. 16. The sensational success of this premiere encouraged the musicians to continue performing together as a quartet. This was a stroke of luck for the contemporary art of the quartet, for the musicians intensively devoted themselves to the cultivation of modern chamber music, including Bartók's Opp. 7 and 17 and Schönberg's Opp. 7 and 10. The ensemble was named after its first violinist Licco Amar; the second violinist was Walter Caspar, Paul Hindemith played the viola, with the composer's brother Rudolf Hindemith or Maurits Frank on the cello part.

  11. Hindemith String Quartets - Thoughts? Recommendations?

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

    It’s funny… I always genuinely love listening to Hindemith — yet I can’t cite very many specific works of his that I specifically love.

    I’ve got a ton of his stuff too, nearly all on CPO (20 years ago I found all three of those unified orchestral CPO mini-box-sets for 50% off list price, brand new and sealed).

    Just counted, I’ve got a total 26 discs of Hindemith — and the only composers I have more of, are Ives and Henze… and then also Grieg (my wife’s favorite composer).

    But, strangely, I don’t have more  than a handful of specific works by Hindemith that are ‘favorites’.  More so, I have specific CD’s of his that overall have a several works that happen to have the same timbres — and degrees of contrapuntal-ism — that I always remember really suit my fancy.

    Perhaps his ‘dry’ reputation plays into this.

    If I was giving numeric scores, it’s like ALL of it is a 7/10 minimum — but practically none of it is over 8/10 either.

    It’s all consistently VERY good, but little of it is quite ‘great’ (but oh so very close).

     

    That's a pretty good assessment. Counterpoint is a reason I like Hindemith.

    A regular on a classical forum I visit is a big Hindemith enthusiast and raves about his opera Cardillac. I recall not digging the Mathis der Maler (his famous opera) excerpts I heard, so never pursued Cardillac.

  12. Hindemith String Quartets - Thoughts? Recommendations?

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted · Edited by T.D.

    Whoa! Jim, there's a Juilliard set on Wergo (?!) I didn't even know about that one...seems to be available for not much more than the Naxos/Amar.

    Here are a couple of review links fwiw:

    https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Apr/Hindemith_quartets_8503290.htm#

    HINDEMITH Complete String Quartets - WERGO WER69602 [SG] Classical Music Reviews: August 2017 - MusicWeb-International

  19. John Surman - John Surman / How Many Clouds Can You See? / Tales Of The Algonquin

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    1 hour ago, felser said:

    Looks good!  I have the Deram CD's Clouds and Tales and some sort of official gold CD-R of the first album, but glad to pick this up for the remastering and space savings.  What label is this on?  The design  and concept look like BGO, but I don't see this listed on their upcoming releases on their website.

    DG said BGO on their "Coming Soon" page.

    https://www.dustygroove.com/item/219698/John-Surman:John-Surman-How-Many-Clouds-Can-You-See-Tales-Of-The-Algonquin

     

  23. ebay madness re: vinyl

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    I recall a recent discogs writeup on obis:

    https://www.discogs.com/digs/features/the-obi-strip-how-a-japanese-paper-band-became-a-collectors-grail/

    Not that informative...conclusion seems to be more or less "just because"...but there is a good quote:

    To open a Japanese pressing from the 1970s or 80s and find its obi intact is to encounter a pristine, somewhat mythic art object. Because they weren’t glued down, they were easily lost, damaged, or discarded, particularly by overseas buyers that didn’t read Japanese or didn’t know better. These are records that someone cared enough not to throw away and understood might one day matter. They add a layer of aesthetic completeness, and to some, an almost ceremonial sense of care and preservation.

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