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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Marius constant! Dee-doo dee-doo dee-doo dee-doo
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
(Do you like my rendition of the twilight zone theme ?)
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
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
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
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 emusic3) 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
ALSOthe 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.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
omg that is huge i am so sorrywow
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
i listen to classical all the time at home now
it's nice
― surm, Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
i think it goes without saying that i would enjoy visiting your store buti would enjoy visiting your store
rather
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
that posted accidentally because my mouse was freaking out and i tried to clean itbut fortunately i meant that wholeheartedly
40/300 doesn't sound too bad -- is 300 normal for a saturday?
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
i spent my entire day listing elvis 45s on ebay and listening to amazing classical records. it's a living.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
300 is a good saturday for me. plus i sold odds and ends. books, some comics, some CDs. it was a slow week though.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
January is slowsville, says my friend who runs the comics shop down the street. He takes his vacations in January.
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 20 January 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
my partner loooooves that album
― hypnotiQ tanqueray (clouds), Sunday, 20 January 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
The only mertens I know is the sdtrk to belly of an architect ...
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 20 January 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Sunday, 20 January 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Sunday, 20 January 2013 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 January 2013 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 January 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Variations sneuzes
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 20 January 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Wonder what Canadian composers Cecilia will be recording - get onto it Sund4r :)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 January 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that Franck piece rules.
― timellison, Sunday, 20 January 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
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 familiarit 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
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
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?')
― here is no telephone (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 January 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
anyone recognize the artist of this painting?
http://static.qobuz.com/images/jaquettes/3760/3760127221029_600.jpg
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Saturday, 26 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Øystein, Saturday, 26 January 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
wow! i was expecting it to be some northern renaissance painter from the 15th/16th century. thanks :D
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Sunday, 27 January 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/N6KXrOA.jpg
― Why they hide the bodice under décolletage? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
probably a fun cd (idk much ornstein apart from "suicide in an airplane"), but ugh that cover
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Sunday, 27 January 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
Well people really did call them that tbf
― John Bradshaw-Leather (Jon Lewis), Monday, 28 January 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
that is solidly in the upper quartile of steffen scheiermacher covers judging by a cursory gis
― Why they hide the bodice under décolletage? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 28 January 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
Re: that "Oboe from Mars" compilation, don't miss Claus-Steffan Mahnkopf's Solitude-Nocturne!
― il caresse sa dingding (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 14 January 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Love this! Def on the comp!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 January 2013 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
So wanna go to this tonight. *sigh*
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 January 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/track/7mc9iLnsOGsKyTHs6ICpNT
can anyone id that bach piece?
― Crackle Box, Monday, 28 January 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
Happy birthday to Delius!
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
cool — i will listen to "paris" for the occasion
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
I always wanna reach for Song of the High Hills or Appalachia
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Jon: as a big Sibelius fan, what do you think of Rozhdestvensky?
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
I have not heard any of Rozhdy's Sibelius cycle. I understand it's kind of a controversial one. Rozhdy is quite versatile in my experience - I have him in Prokofiev, Delius and Vaughan Williams and he's great in all three.
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'm really curious to hear his cycle, which is supposed to be very distinctive indeed - booking it out of the library tomorrow.
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
a stroll thru some of my classical bins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQpq4T-cGjM
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 February 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
That made me happy!
If i was there hangin' out right now I would bug you to throw on the Britten - Spring Symphony and then Boulez - Le Marteau! And WTF is the Nude Paper Sermon?!
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link