In Reply to: RE: It's the software not the hardware I have plenty of Digital recordings with deep bass. posted by jazz1 on February 3, 2008 at 02:09:11:
I'm not a big fan of minimalist music but the Glass Violin Concerto was not to repetitious. I heard it on the American Classics Series Sampler then bought the full version, this was the first modern Naxos I heard. My first Naxos ever bought was Brahms Hungarian Dances for Orchestra in the mid-1980's, I purchased it as it had all 21 orchestrated, I was so disappointed with the poor sound I didn't buy another one until Sam Tellig of Stereophile recommended the Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1 with the Caprice Bohémien. Which was better, and at the time I thought for $6 I could overlook it's sonic faults but I couldn't get beyond the 5th hearing!
Here are the Naxos American Classics Series I've purchased:
AMERICAN CLASSICS SAMPLER 8.559118
ANTHEIL: Ballet Mecanique / Serenade for String Orchestra 8.559060
ANTHEIL: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6 / McKonkey's Ferry 8.559033
BARBER: Cello Concerto / Medea Suite / Adagio for Strings 8.559088
BARBER: Piano Concerto / Die Natali / Medea's Meditation 8.559133
BARBER: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Essay for Orchestra No. 1 8.559024
BENNETT: Abraham Lincoln / Sights and Sounds 8.559004
CARPENTER: Adventures in a Perambulator / Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 8.559065
CARTER: Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 1 / Holiday Overture 8.559151
CONVERSE: Mystic Trumpeter (The) / Flivver Ten Million / Endymion's Narrative 8.559116
CRESTON: Symphonies Nos. 1- 3 8.559034
DAUGHERTY: Philadelphia Stories / UFO 8.559165
FRY: Santa Claus Symphony / Niagara Symphony 8.559057
GLASS, P.: Violin Concerto / Company / Prelude from Akhnaten 8.559056
GOTTSCHALK: Orchestral Works (Complete) 8.559320
GOULD: American Ballads / Foster Gallery / American Salute 8.559005
GRIFFES: Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan / The White Peacock 8.559164
GROFE: Death Valley Suite / Hudson River Suite / Hollywood Suite 8.559017
GROFE: Grand Canyon Suite / Mississippi Suite / Niagara Falls 8.559007 (I've own the CD, SACD and DVD-Audio versions of this one)
HERBERT, V.: Babes in Toyland / The Red Mill 8.559025
HERBERT, V.: Columbus Suite / Irish Rhapsody 8.559027
MACDOWELL: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Witches' Dance 8.559049
MACDOWELL: Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Hamlet and Ophelia 8.559075
MCKAY: From a Moonlit Ceremony / Harbor Narrative 8.559052
PANN: Piano Concerto / Dance Partita / Deux sejours 8.559043
PISTON: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Fantasia for Violin 8.559003
SOUSA: At the Symphony 8.559013
SOUSA: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1 8.5590582
SOUSA: On Stage 8.559008
SOUSA: On Wings of Lightning 8.559029
SOWERBY: Works for Organ and Orchestra 8.559028
STRONG: Ondine / From a Notebook of Sketches, Suites 1-3 8.559078
STRONG: Roi Arthur (Le) / Die Nacht 8.559048
STRONG: Symphony No. 2, 'Sintram' / Chorale 8.559018
THOMSON, V.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 / Symphony on a Hymn Tune 8.559022
WILLSON, M.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 8.559006
That's 36 titles in Naxos American Classics Series, 38 discs total as I have purchased all Grofe's Grand Canyon in all three formats.
And I have purchased at least that many non-Amercian American series titles from Berkshire Record outlet for $3.99 each so the actual is more than the 60 I guessed. I have a problem with buying stuff just because it's cheap and I am getting better at it. I try to think would I buy this at full price and if the answer is no I try to pass.
So based on my poor track record with Naxos I hope you understand why I am passing on John Adams' Violin Concerto.
Music is Love ,
Teresa
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Follow Ups
- I tried the Philip Glass Violin Concerto on Naxos not the John Adams one. - Teresa 02/3/0813:45:44 02/3/08 (2)
- RE: I tried the Philip Glass Violin Concerto on Naxos not the John Adams one. - jazz1 21:57:47 02/3/08 (1)
- Jazz you have email (;-) nt - Teresa 00:20:39 02/4/08 (0)