an attempt at a general "What are you currently digging re. classical music" thread

bach is tops. i gave this woman i know a box set of solo bach violin partitas for free today cuz she asked me if i ever had any and she really wanted one. i looked in back and i had three box sets. spread the bach love, that's my motto.

listening to an excellent telefunken box right now of dvorak stuff. vaclav neumann and tschechische philharmonie doing various dances and suites and wood dove stuff. sounds awesome.

actually sold classical records today! to a chinese kid who goes to deerfield academy. he comes in every once in a while. and i sold a couple of other things to the woman i mentioned. they both bought string stuff. the woman plays the viola. i don't know what the kid plays. always encouraging when people buy my classical seeing as how i buy way more than i can ever sell.

99% of the people who come in here who buy rock and jazz and folk or whatever would never ever buy a classical record. not even for a dollar. almost zero crossover. unless its like an electronic record or stockhausen or satie. non-classical people will buy satie and occasionally a glenn gould record.

seriously thinking of including a free classical record with every purchase.

seriously thinking of including a free classical record with every purchase.

No doubt generating a mixture of smiles, puzzled looks, and maybe even a few future classical sales. Can't assess from a business angle but I love the idea in principle.

think i might just put a box near me of clean dollar/two dollar stuff and just tell people they can take one for free when they buy something. no pressure.

I have some of those Neumann Czech Phil recordings. Such a great sound and great feel. Scott if you ever notice Czech Phil records conducted by karel sejna, listen to them! I have his Dvorak 5 and Beethoven 6 and they're both magical.

got these yesterday. very excited to own such nice copies.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/408520_10152022300932137_2092527521_n.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/59527_10152022296217137_2115022435_n.jpg

Marius constant! Dee-doo dee-doo dee-doo dee-doo

(Do you like my rendition of the twilight zone theme ?)

how much of your classical is vinyl scott

classical vinyl collectors are quite a rarity id guess

possibly still some old people who never got out of the habit

i bought three classical records just like a week ago! i am trying to figure out what i like, and that is taking some time, but i would be elated to get a free classical record with my purchase.

update on my situation:

1) i realized that harry partch recordings aren't easy to find (go ahead and laugh, it won't hurt me because i can't hear you)
2) i got HP collection Vol 2 from emusic
3) it was ok but not nearly as interesting as the youtube posted above

not really back at square one, but i guess i'll just keep listening to the things i have until i get sick of them. as it is, i listen to the same song like 3x before i feel like i really get it. i've had this on repeat in my car since i got it:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gGRVVjXfK-U/TDtIe-8KKmI/AAAAAAAAAv0/WtuKOHxIhzU/s1600/Early+Music+Consort+.01.jpg

ALSO
the store i used to work at had a special "classical room", which no other store in the area had, and it was a wonderful haven of peace from the rest of the store and had comfortable chairs. it was clearly a place for people who knew how to live.

omg that is huge i am so sorry
wow

i listen to classical all the time at home now

it's nice

my store is pretty much just used records. one shelf of CDs. i guy i know came in and bought a 3 dollar record and i told him he could pick out a 2 dollar classical album for free and he was very happy to look through the boxes. he took some ravel.

i think it goes without saying that i would enjoy visiting your store but
i would enjoy visiting your store

rather

i sold about 300 dollars worth of records today. 40 dollars of that was classical. i'll take it! most people don't even bother. i like to put out nice stuff for cheap. i would love to expand even more. and have the best vinyl classical section in the state of massachusetts.

that posted accidentally because my mouse was freaking out and i tried to clean it
but fortunately i meant that wholeheartedly

40/300 doesn't sound too bad -- is 300 normal for a saturday?

i spent my entire day listing elvis 45s on ebay and listening to amazing classical records. it's a living.

300 is a good saturday for me. plus i sold odds and ends. books, some comics, some CDs. it was a slow week though.

January is slowsville, says my friend who runs the comics shop down the street. He takes his vacations in January.

i actually do okay right after christmas. kids home from school. people are bored. last january i did really well. its really just this past week that was the pits.

Is Wim Mertens 'Classical'? Recently got his Struggle for Pleasure album and it's very enjoyable. Find myself putting it on again after it finishes and putting it on when I can't think of anything particular to play.

my partner loooooves that album

The only mertens I know is the sdtrk to belly of an architect ...

i love the stuff i have of his on windham hill. whisper me is great. such underheard records. you can buy them on vinyl for nothing. i think of him more in the harold budd type of arena? whatever that is. modern newage ambient classical whatever music.

i would totally buy any of his Les Disques Du Crépuscule releases from the 80's and 90's but physical copies are harder to find. the windham hill pressings are ubiqutous. and they are comps of the les disques material.

Outsider music tonight in London. Tenney, Nancarrow among others.

Won't be there.

Liking Invisibility for Solo cello by Liza Lim quite a bit. I was at that concert, and it felt like I was witnessing the birth of something that would be in the repertoir for a long time to come. First time that has happened.

Really hit me because I had a CD of hers - works from the 90s - that hadn't made much of an impression but it seems like only now she is writing great music. So Wild Winged One for Solo Trumpet has these clownish flurries of humour that get your attention straight away, but there is an argument in which they are subsumed into, grains of which only return now and then. I haven't heard many compositions for solo trumpet, its hard to get away from its legacy in jazz but she certainly manages to give it a distinct character.

I just got back from seeing the Cecilia String Quartet and pianist Georgy Tchaidze at the university. The one contemporary work the quartet played, Another Little Piece of My Heart by Kelly-Marie Murphy, is really really great, despite the dumb title. You can watch one movement here: http://youtu.be/39Fla-lTbNw

They also did Franck's Piano Quintet, which was staggering. And Tchaidze played some Mendelssohn. I admit to taking a nap during Variations serieuses.:P

Variations sneuzes

Wonder what Canadian composers Cecilia will be recording - get onto it Sund4r :)

Yeah, that Franck piece rules.

Yun's Study for Flute is A+++

Liza Lim's Mother Tongue I'm undecided on this - great vocal lines and all but some of the brassy lines don't agree w/me, a bit one-dimensional at times. Will re-listen

how about this! i was just listening to john renbourn's lady and the unicorn and was like WHAT IS THIS SONG because it sounded so familiar
it was lamento di tristano played super duper fast!!

i never look at the song titles on this record but now i know
pleasant surprise, the end

i forgot about my ear-research project i was supposed to do on that ('why does LL like Munrow Lamento di Tristano more than other versions? What makes this Tristano diff than other Tristanos?')

it's ok, you have other things to do -- i'm patient! i think it has something to do with (1) spare instrumentation (2) drone and (3) pace, but beyond that i have no idea.

I've hunted a work for larger ensemble by Newman (The State Paintings with the anti-abstract), he has this...naivety about him, very English experimental school, i.e. post-Obscure records variety, yet what keeps you from dismissing it as solely is that is by how well learnt it is. Lives and revels in that paradox.

Elliott Carter re-discovery gathers pace - rocking away the duo for violin and piano from '75. The violin is incredibly gestural and violent, the piano is a almost ambient observer by comparison. Until it joins in the fun later, that is.

anyone recognize the artist of this painting?

http://static.qobuz.com/images/jaquettes/3760/3760127221029_600.jpg

It's a detail from Johann Friedrich Overbeck's "Maria und Elisabeth mit dem Jesus- und Johannesknaben".
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/romanticism/Friedrich-Overbeck.html

wow! i was expecting it to be some northern renaissance painter from the 15th/16th century. thanks :D

http://i.imgur.com/N6KXrOA.jpg

probably a fun cd (idk much ornstein apart from "suicide in an airplane"), but ugh that cover

Well people really did call them that tbf

that is solidly in the upper quartile of steffen scheiermacher covers judging by a cursory gis

Re: that "Oboe from Mars" compilation, don't miss Claus-Steffan Mahnkopf's Solitude-Nocturne!

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Love this! Def on the comp!

So wanna go to this tonight. *sigh*

http://open.spotify.com/track/7mc9iLnsOGsKyTHs6ICpNT

can anyone id that bach piece?

Happy birthday to Delius!

cool — i will listen to "paris" for the occasion

I always wanna reach for Song of the High Hills or Appalachia