Okay, so perhaps I exaggerate, but…
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Best Classical Releases of the Year 2011 — With Podcast
You knew I’d weigh in.
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The full list of my picks for best classical CDs and downloads of 2011 is below the break.
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Top of the Pile: Hot New and Recent Release Podcast
Vintage Steinberg, adventurous Bach, Mahler from the SWF archive, and serious fun from tuba virtuoso Carol Jantsch. Details below the fold…
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Following the Biz: Three sites and a newsletter worth watching
Sorting through the classical music biz noise on the Internet is not easy, but I do have a few bookmarks — and an e-mail subscription — that are well worth integrating into your routine.
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Like garlic to a vampire
I am not surprised at all to read this. New York City’s Port Authority hub at West 42nd Street does the same thing.
Verdi: Requiem. Toscanini. Carnegie Hall. 1950. In REAL Stereo.
I’d heard rumblings about this recording a few months ago. Andrew Rose makes it official — and issues it! I’m not a huge fan of Toscanini, but this recording is particularly excellent (Carlos Païta is IMNSHO Toscanini’s only competition in this work).
Passionato.com Blogs, Tweets, Rocks On
If you like classical music and care about quality, you should check out Passionato.com (full disclosure: I’m helping them with Web presence expansion). Continue reading Passionato.com Blogs, Tweets, Rocks On
Kronos 25
Go read Steve Smith’s interesting NY Times feature on the Kronos Quartet — an ensemble whose revolutionary programming and concertizing laid much of the groundwork for the “alternative classics” championed by Bang on a Can, Absolut Ensemble and innumerable other adventurous ensembles and series — as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. To be honest, though, the more traditonal but often more daring Arditti Quartet deserves the same amount of ink.
Cheap Thrills: Outstanding Recent Budget CDs
I know, I know — the market for music recordings is in flux if not chaos, and there are growing indications that downloads are finally starting to hit the head of a “tipping point” among the non-teen-and-college-age demographic. And yes, a growing share of my own acquisitions are file downloads. But for the most part I remain an unreconstructed consumer knuckledragger who orders finished product online, bids on scarce audio gratification in disc formaat on eBay, and frequents the handful of well-stocked “record stores” left in Manhattan.
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One Model for Local Music Presentation
Go read Phillip Lutz’s Sunday New York Times article on the goings on in New London, Connecticut.