[Magdalen] I need some new music

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

should have added:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/main.jsp

The Steinberg (Mackerris) CD:
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=871

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 3:59 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> A real surprise is the Water Music with William Steinberg and the
> Pittsburgh Symphony.  I say surprise because it's obviously not a new
> release (Steinberg died in 1978), but it's a fairly authentic job. There
> are tons of old releases on vinyl rereleased on CD that are actually quite
> respectable.
>
> I find archiv has all kinds of wonderful stuff that, being not new
> release, can be had for a song, you should pardon the expression, and yet
> are just as good as the stuff being cranked out today. Sound quality is
> also excellent.
> You can filter releases from an earlier day and they also sound
> excellent.  Now if you were to take them into your million-dollar studio
> and put on one and then the other, yeah, you would probably hear
> differences, but who does that anymore? I have a great sound system I never
> use anymore. I play stuff on my desktop and in my Prius (with a six disk CD
> changer, I'm a happy camper)
>
> Full disclosure: It's actually my wife's Prius; my car is the much
> sturdier 2001 Accord. Its CD player only does one at a time. But then we do
> all long hauls in the toy, er, Prius.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On my long car trip in July I realized that I haven't bought new CDs
>> in a long time.  My car only has a CD player, not a plug in for MP3
>> player or the like.  I like folk and acoustic, singer/songwriter
>> stuff, sacred choral, some kinds of gospel.  What are people listening
>> too these days that they might recommend?
>>
>> Susan
>>
>> --
>> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
>> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
>> land of Egypt.
>> Leviticus 19:34
>>
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