Monday, March 19, 2012

Milton. Preface - aka: Jerusalem

In my recent post on Brahm’s quintets and William Blake’s poems I cited “Milton. Preface” in the original and in the german version translated by Wolfgang Schlüter. Naturally, this motivated me to poke my nose in samples of Hubert Parry’s anthem on youtube.

This was the best I found – because of the harmony between pictures, music and captions:


Other acts worthy of mention: a rather bombastic one (well tuned however) – one from the Last Night of the Proms – The Royal Wedding – The Four Crooners.

Enjoy the show!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Carl Reinecke: Mozart - Piano Concerto in D K.537 - Larghetto


Reinecke is best known (if at all) today as a composer. He was also a highly regarded pianist and conductor, and he has the honour of being the oldest pianist to commit any performance to a recording. He made no acoustic recordings, but made a number of piano rolls for the Welte reproducing piano. This system captured dynamics, pedalling and attack of notes. It did not satisfactorily reproduce the tonal variations or the subtle inner voicings within chords so well. Bad rolls, or badly adjusted reproducing equipment can easily lead to rhythmically lumpy playback or other aberrations, leading to a bad name for piano rolls amongst many critics. However, in a good reproduction the recording can be very fine, and convincing.

This performance is Reinecke's transcription of the slow movement Larghetto from Mozart's Piano Concerto in D K.537. The roll dates from 1905, towards the end of Reinecke's life.

This post serves as an ad for my recent article on Carl Reinecke at the Kammermusikkammer, which I dedicated to Anchusa. If you are interested now: Visit and enjoy!

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Storm! (2nd bunch of new blogs)

“The storm is here, many vessels are gone, cowardly rats deserting the ships, each wave is bigger than previous …” and this is the best moment to spread optimism, i.e. to publish the second bunch of new entries in my lossless classical music blog list.

As I already mentioned with the first bunch: It’s for your convenience only. All figures and ciphers are very about. No harms intended.



Blog



Owner



Posts



Followers



Remarks



Classical Music


Haiken

207

22

cool look (black and light green)


Blog Musik Klasik


BMK

360

unknown

From Indonesia, with love


piano classico


lobão

unknown

83

From Brazil, at blogger since January 2009


The Slow Closing System


Steve

40

21

small but fine collection


Pristine Classics


Tin Ear

unknown

unknown

vinyl rips ("the greatest recordings, the finest sound")


Modern Academics


GFox

unknown

unknown

"I like 1750 Bach and before, and Debussy after, and in the middle, l don't listen."


Monography's Classics


monography

10

6

Only Herbert von Karajan


Lohengrin's Classical Music


Lohengrin

433

72

From Seoul, Republic Korea


Wolf Fifth


Wolf Fifth

114

unknown

"Rare vinyl records from the golden era of avantgarde and experimental music"


Carlos Kleiber Mania


nvc365

74

48

with manic focus on Carlos Kleiber


Odeon


OdeonMusico

155

38

"A kind of theater in ancient Greece in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public."


The Music For Piano


Fly

unknown

43

big pictures on black, sources in Flac and mp3


Enter the Mirror


Ka

168

22

From China

Monday, January 30, 2012

Robert Volkmann: "Romance" op. 7 for Cello and Piano (world premiere performance)


Robert Volkmann: "Romance" op. 7 for Cello and Piano,
Peter Bruns / "Ex Pablo Casals" Tononi cello 1730
Annegret Kuttner / piano
world premiere performance



This is an ad for my new post of Volkmanns piano trios.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

A bunch of new blogs (part one)

Discobole, owner of Paroles gelées

Many new lossless classical music blogs occurred since my last notification in September 2010. Finally I found time to tabulate the first bunch (of two) for your convenience.

All figures and ciphers are very about. No harms indended!



Blog



Owner



Posts



Followers



Remark



Café Chopin


Chopin

50 ??

10

older blog, has been refreshed


ahhfwww Classical


ahhfwww

1200

173

blog labels refer to cd labels


Duke


Duke

57

69

last post April 2011


DisinfestAvaxhome


Toutatis

322

114

Does not agree with Avaxhome


zumschein


zumschein

128

21

With A Little Help From My Friends... And Torrents


tempesta musicale


Cassis

122

14

From Riga, Lettland


The World of Classical


anonym

some 100s

116

Liszt complete piano music


Only Classical


Calvin

1353

170

Posts Beethoven: 171, Mozart: 123, Chopin: 88, ...


bayreuth's classical music resources


bayreuth

237

105

joined Blogger in November 2010


MetroGnome Music


Progress Hornsby

45

80

Cites Longfellow: "And the night shall be filled with music..."


Clásicos en vinilo


Yayo Salva

177

132

Posts since 2007


Paroles gelées


Discobole

35

unknown

big pictures, extensive text (in french)


sHared iTunes


sHared iTunes

68

unknown

Click to "Date" or "Label" to get surprised


Panovnik


Panovnik

413

84

live records from concert hall or radio


Laureate Conductor(s)


Guido

149

101

rare, unpublished & out of print material, focused on the great(EST) conductors of the past


33+45=78


stylus

70

50

extensive collection of historic 78s & LPs


Great Pianists


RichterGilels

15

unknown

Out of print and non-commercial piano recordings


Sentidos


Julio Salvador Belda Vaguer

483

160

"dedicado a la Música, a las emociones que va despertando, a compartirlas y a sentir conjuntamente su belleza"


Classical music and Discography


iok19

939

indecipherable

thousand posts in a single year (!)


Musica Clasica en DVD


karajanmania

200 ??

50

Only DVDs

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Reply to a Pointed Question


Stuart Hall asked me:

Hello Nemo

Please - what is the name of the picture you use at the top of your kammermusikkammer blog - the one with musicians seen from below around wooden railings?
And who is the artist?
many thanks
Stuart Hall

Reply:

Gerrit van HONTHORST
(b. 1590, Utrecht, d. 1656, Utrecht)
Musical Group on a Balcony
1622
Fresco
Private collection

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

My Blogroll of lossless classical music blogs is still most comprehensive



Recently, my dear colleague Otto started his Opera House. Like his two others blogs, the purpose „is two-fold… to give back to the community who has helped me so much over the years and provide info to my radio listeners. Thank you both and thank you 1.FM for your continued support. All of the cd's you find here are the latest additions to the web radio and are broadcast or will be in the near future.“

Random Clasics started as mp3 blog, but switched to FLAC sometime in the past. Fred says: „I love old recordings. Turn me loose in a used record store and I'll spend hours there. Everything I upload here is from my collection and is vinyl. Working with vinyl is not a perfect science and often the results are far from pristine. Let me know if you have a request - I might have it! PLEASE let me know if there are any download issues. Thank you much for visiting my blog!“

Also musica del siglo xx occasionally turned to lossless. I mentioned the Colectivo Ruben Vizcaino Valencia already before.

Avant que j’oublie is the sequel of The High Pony Tail. Maready decided to change his blog name and address, without stating a reason.

Problembär's Pantheon is a new lossless blog with up to now only one post. Problembär promises to post more: „I'll be updating this site about once a week. I may upload some of my old stuff in lossless in the future. But the next few things I have ready will be new. Hope you all enjoy this new blog.“

5 against 4 („It’s the most beautiful ugly sound in the world“) features this year's London Proms , the „World’s Greatest Classical Music Festival“, with recordings, program notes and thoughtful reviews of all the premieres.

Guanacanto („Por la música, vale la pena vivir … en Guanajuato“) contains postings on Mexican Barocco music by composers I never heard before.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Expanding the list of lossless classical music blogs never ends…

The Music Parlour ~ Historical is a spin off (or a subset?) from Tin Ear’s Music Parlour. The latest posts were Sir Thomas Beecham’s Zauberflöte from 1937, Mengelberg’s Beethoven Symphonies from 1940 and Beethoven’s 5th piano concert performed in 1922. (picture aside). Stuff for the connoisseur, you see. 


www.jolyon.com is „a site on the history of sound recording. […] I will endeavor to put the recordings into some context, that is, why such and such a piece was recorded by such and such musicians on such and such a date, otherwise it all looks a bit arbitrary. In fact there were often very good commercial reasons for issuing particular discs and it is worth while pondering how these were received by the public.“ (jolyon50@googlemail.com)

Jolyon has an excellent „My Links“ Page, with references to discographies & catalogues, free downloadable recordings, journals, and more.


Alucard from Italy runs the 18CenturyMusic Blog, „because classical music is not only Haydn and Mozart“. He posted Zelenka, Abbé Vogler, Sammartini, Myslivecek, Stamitz, etc., but nevertheless Haydn frequently occurs. I know Alucard from avaxhome under the nickname Kushami, but were not aware of his personal blog. You may also visit his YouTube channel.

Yao (Avax: qzlanyao) started his Classic Collection at August 1st, mainly Bach and the RCA Living Stereo 60 CDs Collection. I like the bright and well-arranged blog design.

Neal’s Historical Recordings moved from Google Blogger to Wordpress („for a variety of reasons“). Update your bookmarks, guys!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Supplements to my list of lossless blogs

When writing the last notification, I forget to mention Le moment musical - Classical music collection. Amedal has offered since November 2009 more than 160 posts which range from baroque to 19th century music, running some of my personnel favorites (f.e. Spohr, Ries, Raff).

El baúl del coleccionista is an „Espacio dedicado a la coleccion de grabaciones historicas“, i.e. a place for historical recordings, owned by Dumbarton Oaks. Two weeks ago the blog converted to FLAC; the older posts are still in mp3.

Also Ipromesisposi is an older blog I managed to ignore, alas!

en folía - "Un lugar para la música", active since November 2008, discovered by me as recently as two weeks ago, is a discreet blog on black background (such backgrounds are unusual at the moment). The music selection is excellent.

I put geometria innamorata to the lossless list because of some posts of Wagner, Pasquini, Bernard Parmegiani. Maybe the blog is too weird and does not fit in my list. What do you think?

Last, but not least: A blog, which is no blog, because of missing RSS feeds (yes!) : Rare Classical Vinyl is a repository of the Mercury Living Presence recordings:

"Mercury built a devoted following among classical music listeners in the 1950's and 60's. In 1951, when the company was a Chicago-based independent, it launched its ''Olympian Series'' with the now classic monophonic LP of the Mussorgsky-Ravel ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Kubelik. In reviewing that disk in The New York Times, Howard Taubman wrote that the effect was ''like being in the living presence of the orchestra''; Mercury took his phrase ''Living Presence'' as the rubric for its subsequent releases, and carried it well into the stereophonic era."

Monday, June 28, 2010

Notification about new lossless blogs


Well, I made my last notification about new lossless blogs on February 6th, a rather long time ago. Let me report now, what I found in Blogosphere during the last 5 months (without special order):

Maready stated in his blog High Pony Tail: „Most selections are taken from vinyl recordings. Sometimes I use the available technology to 'remove' pops and clicks. Often, particularly in cases where the recording has been made available on CD at some point, I simply record the record to my beloved Sony CD-R recorder and post the results without further intervention.“

The Vinyl Fatigue „gives digital new life to forgotten LPs“, as Lawrence Austin, the owner, declares: „I grew up listening to records -- shellac and vinyl -- and the sound of a needle tracking the grooves of an old LP is still deeply comforting to me -- a sound from childhood, like the fan of the hot air furnace coming on. However turntables are now relatively scare, and we are becoming less tolerant of noise from the medium the music is stored on, so putting up renovated files of what I consider choice, but neglected performances, seemed a good way to spend some time. There are several thousand LPs in the house, a lot of them not re-issued on CD, some of them performances of real importance. If you like something, post a comment. I'd love to hear from you.“

Squirrel is a musician/teacher/writer in New York City: „These LP transfers generally represent noteworthy or neglected recordings from the Great Century which have fallen out of print, out of favor, or out of reach. The focus is primarily on chamber music, violinists, violists, and cellists of distinction, and orchestral music. I strive to balance standard repertoire by interesting and lesser known artists with unusual and lesser-heard works. These are made available here not to circumvent the marketplace, but to fill in the cultural/historical gaps in our collective understanding of recorded posterity for those who wish to listen. They are to be enjoyed, shared, and learned from.“

運銘 (Yun-ming) has contributed to the collaborative blog Meeting in Music in the past, and last May she started her own „Ah Meng’s Blog“, which gained up to now more than 30 followers.

„A 20th Century Opera Collection“ started in April, run by RVV („Un grupo para difundir los libros de la ciencia politica“).

3 days ago, André Rendeiro stated: „I'm starting this blog with the intent to share some of the music I own as a retribution to some of you who have given so much to me by doing the same. Although I don't possess a lot of music on original CD's (and those are the ones I intend to share), the music I have is of extreme rarity in the blogosphere, mostly premiere recordings of music by portuguese composers. I might acquire some more, and I'll certainly share it with you. The name of the blog "Feldeinsamkeit" isn't properly the better name for a blog which offers portuguese classical music, but my musical roots are deeply in the heart of German music, specially in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler and R. Strauss, so I chose the name of a lied by Brahms on Allmers' poem, which I love.“

Last but not least there are two relaunches/resumes to report: Hot Skin is the former „La Peau Douce“; and http://uncle-osvalds-music.blogspot.com/ is moving to http://domibus-eternis.blogspot.com/.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The first 100 posts of the Kammermusikkammer


Yes, I am celebrating the 100th post of the Kammermusikkammer, with 100 years old recordings of Josef Hofmann on the piano. (And with some childish reminiscences of grotesque drawings by W.B.)





And here, of course, follow the usual statistics:




Monday, February 22, 2010

A roller coaster animation of Ferdinand Ries' 2nd Symphony


An animation of the First Violin of the Second Symphony of Ferdinand Ries, driving on a roller coaster, won the red dot award for communication design 2009. The music is performed by the Zürcher Kammerorchester, which had commissioned the Virtual Republic (Düsseldorf) to visualize the orchester's claim "GROSSE GEFÜHLE" (great feelings).

View the animation here.

Read my post about Ferdinand Ries in the Kammermusikkammer.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Reducing my backlog of notifications about new lossless blogs


I really have an enormous backlog of notifications about new lossless blogs, and I want to make things a little better with these short resumes:

"Links. Musik Kino Philosophie" is the name of an extraordinary discovery. The owner, Schahed, posted 129 articles since December, with tags like Alexander Kluge, Bruno Maderna, Edgar Reitz, Karl Marx, Modern Music, Opera, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Wagner, Slavoj Zizek, and more. Maybe you can get an idea what all he is interesting in. He offers audios, videos and audiobooks.

"John Bull's 'Circle of Sound'" started on January 23th and contains LP transfers, "many long out of print." The blog's subtitle is "classics for the connoisseur - curious from the world of recorded sound", which makes me curious about his (I imagine him to be a british) future steps.



"Grumpy's Classics Cave" are "ramplings and rumblings from a collector of recorded classical music". The rumbler, his name is CharmNick, is owner of a photocard of London Transport, and also interested in old LPs. I could not resist to republish his portrait here.

Another collector of LPs, much longer active in blogosphere, is Benoit from the "Quartier des Archives". He posts in flac and mp3, tracklists and comments are in French. Most of the posts are pictured with the scanned LP, not the cover. Maybe he lost the covers over the years; the LPs look really old. The blog is a quarry for the audiophile.

موسيقى -كلاسيك
(http://yak-musice.blogspot.com/) was active only in November and December 2007, but the (mostly classical) music is well selected (from Ockeghem and Monteverdi to Saint-Saens and Friedrich Nietzsche), and the links are still active. I discovered the blog last month. The owner signed with Yakoff.

Right now, where I am writing these lines, I stumpled about "The Music Parlour", with music from LPs from the fifties (exactly: 1949 to 1964). As I am reading in some comments, is the owner's name Tin Ear, and he is a close friend of CharmNick (mentioned above)

Friday, January 29, 2010

one million giraffes - Will your giraffe be one in a million?

"My friend, Jørgen, doesn't believe I can collect one million giraffes by 2011. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. You can create your giraffe(s) in any way you like, but not on a computer and no store bought objects. You must create your giraffe(s) yourself!

So far I've got 538 229 giraffes, so I need 461 771 more and I have 336 days left.
Let's show Jørgen how amazing the internet is. Please send in your own giraffe!"


Maybe some of my followers can help Ola Helland?

Friday, January 15, 2010

RBB Kulturradio: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

1. Vorurteile: Warum Mendelssohn trotzdem ein guter Komponist ist
2. Auf preußische Art: Die Mendelssohns und die Berliner Singakademie
3. Eine Frage der Öffentlichkeit: Die Tradition der Sonntagsmusiken
4. "Göthe, sein Vorbild": Mendelssohn in Weimar
5. High Society: Kleine Revue der Mendelssohn-Zeitgenossen
6. Glaube und Gesellschaft: Abraham Mendelssohn und sein Judentum
7. Raphaelslocken: Felix, zweifellos ein Wunder(kind)
8. Vom Leben im Hinterhaus: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Schwester und Frau
9. Vom Dasein als Weltbürger: Felix, Bruder und Künstler
10. Zwischen Geist und Geld: die Familie Mendelssohn
11. Enger als gedacht: Düsseldorf und die rheinischen Musikfeste
12. Ein Glücksfall: Leipzig und sein Gewandhaus
13. Lob des Taktstocks: Felix Mendelssohn als Kapellmeister
14. Von Schumann bis Mahler: Wenn Dirigenten komponieren
15. Der Schwierige: Mendelssohns Beethoven-Bild
16. "Dass ich ein Deutscher sei": Felix Mendelssohn auf Reisen
17. Bach und Händel: Mendelssohn als Bearbeiter
18. Bretter, die kein Glück bedeuten: Arbeiten fürs Theater
19. Der Mozart des 19. Jahrhunderts? Zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption I
20. "Rothe Korallen" und "grüne Seetiere": das Poetische bei Mendelssohn
21. Wagner und die Folgen: zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption II
22. "Die blauen Blümlein all’": Mendelssohn, ein Romantiker
23. Queen Victoria lässt bitten: zur Mendelssohn-Rezeption III
24. Magie des frühen Todes: das Jahr 1847
25. Konflikte: der deutsch-deutsche Mendelssohn
26. Feuerköpfe, Angsthasen, Museumswärter: Wie geht Mendelssohn?

200 Jahre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Eine Sendereihe des RBB Kulturradio von Jänner bis Juni 2009. Von Christine Lemke-Matwey.
[Zum Originalpost]

Monday, January 11, 2010

What's a Lied? (from the FAQ of The Lied and Art Song Texts Page)

Q. What's a Lied?
A. The word Lied is German for song (pronounced /leet/). The plural is Lieder (pronounced /leeder/). Kunstlied is the proper term for "art song" in German, but music-lovers speaking English or French commonly refer to German art songs as just plain Lieder. Note that this site includes art songs in many languages (e.g., in French, the terms chanson and mélodie are used as well as lieder). There are also many madrigals, partsongs and choral works.

Q. OK, then what's an "art song"?
A. Like most categorizations in classical music (even the term "classical music" is problematic), this is a very difficult definition to make due not only to the blurring of lines that many contemporary compositions create, but also due to the overlap of popular music, pop classics, broadway musicals, and folk music. This definition is intended only as a rough guide to the genre.

An art song is a relatively short piece of music written by a person commonly referred to as a "composer", and set to a text intended to be poetic, for a classically-trained vocalist with some form of accompaniment (usually but not restricted to the pianoforte). During a performance, which is usually in a recital hall these days, even if the piece was originally intended for the salon, the audience sits quietly without smoking, eating or drinking (unless very stealthily). The singer is rarely also the composer of the song. The lighting rarely changes during a performance, and no special set, scenery, or costume (besides typical recitalwear) is required.

I could not say it better...

This is an excerpt from Emily Ezust's Lied and Art Song Texts Page. The Classical Iconoclast calls it "far and away the best source of Lieder and Song Texts", which I only can aggree.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

A Happy New Year to all Followers of Kammermusikkammer!


If you also want to find a four leaf clover, you may follow this advice or maybe this one (or also both)

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Scoredaddy's goodbye and farewell


Scoredaddy announced the official demise of his blog:

SCOREDADDY'S was my labor of love for more than two years, offering the opportunity to sample obscure and often-impossible to find music: music that is ignored and buried by recording companies, and otherwise unavailable to people in most parts of the world. It was a place of discovery, both for its visitors and for me, as I delighted in learning more about the music I love and share.

In choosing material to feature (almost on a daily basis), I always sought to make SCOREDADDY'S a place that I, myself, would enjoy spending some time at. In accordance with my own musical tastes, I strove to include diverse genres, hence SCOREDADDY'S familiar slogan "superb music of all kinds".

I guess I was doing something right as SCOREDADDY'S attracted a considerable following and I received e-mails and friendly comments on a daily basis. In addition to the stimulating interaction generated by SCOREDADDY'S readers, a group of friendly collectors generously contributed their own shares of hard to find, out-of-print discs and rare LP's. It all seemed like a win-win proposition for all involved, especially since the vast majority of the items on offer were not commercially available in 95% of the world. However, some blog-troll out there in cyber(looney)space was not pleased.


Read the full doleful story...

Friday, December 11, 2009

Appearance in pairs



As a rule of thumb, lossless blogs seem to appear as pairs. The latest newcomers are not really twins (like the recent both ottos), but only casual incidents:

Pepe's Blog (picture on left) is an archive of CDs and DVDs and TV-rips concerning operas, the first and only lossless opera blog I ever heard from. Pepe started on the 8th of November, and has reached up to now 173 posts.

Classical Archives (picture on right) covers the mainstream (instrumental) genres of classical music; artists range from Monteverdi to Penderecki. Since September he posted 29 articles; some of them contain multiple CDs.

The best of luck, dear newcomers!

Friday, December 4, 2009

Timeline of New Composers


When advancing the history of music in chronological order, I recently reached J. S. Bach. With him, born 1685, my blog switches from "Alte Musik" (Early Music) to "Klassik" (Classics). (Following my opinion, the change of an area should be caused by the appearance of an giant).

Here is the second part of the Timeline of Composers, for your convenience. Like the first part, which I posted in February, its not my own work, but stolen somewhere in the net.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Brandon's Classics - Música Libre


Recently I discovered two new lossless blogs:

Brandon's Classics, maintained by Brandon, starts on September, 23th.

Música Libre, maintained by expanium, starts on November, 5th.

Welcome newcomers, to the lossless classical community!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (Musica Antiqua Köln)


Two hours ago I posted Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue - together with other chamber music of this master - at the Kammermusikkammer.




An other fine performance by the ensemble "Musica Antiqua Köln" comes from Youtube:


Enjoy! (And then read the original post.)

Kammermusikkammer reaches 300.000 readers


Last weekend, the page counter, which I installed during summer 2008 (I cannot remember the exact time stamp), exceeded 300.000 impressions. I am impressed too.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Leverkühn closed his corner and two Ottonian twins appear


The well-established blog http://leverkuhnscorner.blogspot.com/ is dead and gone. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. His owner, Leverkühn, was the inventor of "black links hidden before a black background".

As some kind of compensation, "Otto" appears, with blog twins:
Otto's Classical Musick
Otto's Baroque Musick

Otto says: "A warm welcome to all fellow classical music enthusiasts.The purpose of my blogs is two-fold...to give back to the community who has helped me so much over the years and provide info to my radio listeners. Thank you both and thank you 1.FM for your continued support. All of the cd's you find here are the latest additions to the web radio and are broadcast or will be in the near future. I want to encourage every visitor to buy the cd's and support the artists. Thank you for visiting my blog and please listen to my radio whilst browsing. Contributions and suggestions/opinions are most welcome.

Happy listening!
Otto."


Good luck!
WMS.Nemo

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Soap and Plum Preserves


Mail from P.A.S. to me, from Jul 26:

Hello, WMS Nemo,

Rho, from the State of Wonder blog recommended that I let you know of my new project:

http://sandflyer-sapp.blogspot.com/

I will try to complement posts from bloggers like Ice at Classicallibrary, Rho at State of Wonder, Edmond at Fauteuil d'Oreille and a few others.

I would be honoured if you could spread the word, I hope you will not be disappointed.

Thanks in advance,

Sandflyer,
Warsaw, Poland

Sandflyer states in his profile:

I try to aim for performances of works off the beaten path, generally unavailable on CD or performances by noteworthy artists.
Sometimes, both requirements are met... If the same live performance becomes available on CD, I will remove my broadcast recording, directing the listener to an appropriate link...
I make all the recordings myself.

Monday, June 15, 2009

A new blogger's search added to Kammermusikkammer


Recently, I added blogger's new tool, the smart "Search Box", to my Kammermusikkammer. After entering the search string and pressing the appropriate button, you get the results subdivided into several tabs:


"Dieser Blog" (This Blog, Kammermusikkammer): Powered by Google Blog Search. New posts may not appear immediately.

"Verlinkt von hier" (Linked From Here): Searches the pages I have linked to from the Kammermusikkammer.

"Lossless music blogs": etc: Searches the blogs which are included in the respective columns.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Rho's State of Wonder & Alio Modo


I proudly present links to two new blogs in my "Lossless Music Blogs" column:

Rho started A State of Wonder, a blog "mostly about the music of J.S.Bach, in particular his keyboard music, and especially the Well-Tempered Clavier, but, then again, not exclusively about either. Basically, it will grow as it needs. I hope you enjoy some of the music posted here."

The other blog is Alio Modo, run by an anonym "Librarian" / "admin", who demonstrates a distinctive taste, both avantgarde (Antheil, Adams, Xenakis) and old style (Pergolesi, Vivaldi).

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Happy Birthday, dear Closet!


"A Closet of Curiosities", the excellent avantgarde music blog, run by grey calx, celebrates its 3rd anniversary.

Grey Calx:

"I believe that three years is a milestone in the blogosphere especially of this type of blog. A Closet of Curiosities has come far from an obscure blog with just a few visitors to a semi-obscure blog with more traffic.

Finally, I would like to thank my visitors for stopping by and checking out the stuff I post. I hope that so far I have accomplished what I set out to do which is for this blog to be an educational resource for electronic, avant-garde, ethnic, environmental/nature, improv and ambient music and sounds as well as the quirky novelty recordings and whatever else I occasionally like to show off to the world."


And this is my gratulation song, prizing Greys arduous and excellent work:

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

More amendments to my lossless blogs list


On February 22th Ivan started the blog Classical And Organ Music For All, with up to now 56 posts, mainly concerning organ music (surprise!), but also complete works of C.P.E. Bach and Rachmaninoff.

Ipromesisposi is a so far small blog, named after its owner: "Aquí trataté de anotar las sensaciones en la escucha de mis obras favoritas. El objetivo no es decidir cual es mejor o peor grabación, sino aprehender el carácter específico de la interpretación." (The blog presents works in different interpretations, like it is done in Guía del Mundo Clásico).

Hemos Hablado demasiado del silencio is a already two years old blog, but has only been lossless for a short time. Jorgewic is very interested in singers (arias, piano songs).

Pancho Villa started Archivosclasicos only some days ago and reached now 172 (!) posts. Panchos taste is refined, he degusted also from other blogs (like Archinuls gone http://huehueteotl.blogspot.com/, but this is another story).

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Much Ado about NEW LOSSLESS RuleZ in AvaxHome's music section


The admins of AvaxHome finally had the pleasure to inform their publishers about new rules for music publications in lossless format, which results in many misunderstandings, rants, and verbal slanders. But also some interesting topics arised out of the broad emotional discussions, f.e. links to faqs concerning the correct use of Exact Audio Copy:

How_to_configure_EAC_for_a_perfect_rip
install1.html
http://xs.vc/eac/
flacaddicted.googlepages.com
EAC__How_to_encode_into_FLAC
EAC__How_to_encode_into_WavPack
hydrogenaudio Category:EAC_Guides
Why do I like Cue sheet so much?

Friday, February 27, 2009

Newly-discovered Russian secrets


Recently, I discovered the russian webside intoclassics.net, because it contains a link to mine kammermusikkammer. Now, if you link to me, I will link to you.

The webside refers to some music archives, I never heard before. Most of them I have added to the lossless resp. mp3 blog lists, f.e:
v r e n o v a t i o n
zzzyva's music room
Блог Минора (Minor)
Музыкальная вертикаль (Peterforte)
Русский классический романс - А. А. Алябьев
CapsLock.WS (which is also a software repository)
Красная книга Российской эстрады

These findings give good reason to start learning Cyrillic letters and Russian language. Ole!

Monday, February 16, 2009

Amendments to the lossless blogs list

A short while ago, two new lossless classical music blogs started, and have been added to my blogroll:

"Harmoniemusik" started on the 23th of january, with the "Unbelievable Mozart", which are (more or less) contemporary re-workings of Mozart's own compositions, works whose attribution to Mozart is likely but uncertain or reconstructions from fragments. Anchusa, the blog owner, is also a frequent contributor to "Meeting in Music".

On the 7th of february, Chamaeleo followed with "2Cs and 2Fs",  a blog, entirely devoted to the violin. In only ten days of existence, the blog grew to 17 posts. 

I wish both "newcomers" much pleasure with their works.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Ludwig van Beethoven: Ars longa, vita brevis (Audio)


Beethoven komponierte den Kanon "Ars longa, vita brevis" WoO 192, so schnell seine Feder schreiben wollte, in einer Zeit von etwa zwei Minuten. Die eigenhändige Widmung lautet: "Geschrieben am 16ten September 1825 in Baden, als mich mein lieber talentvoller Musikkünstler u. Freund Smart (aus England) allhier besuchte. Ludwig van Beethoven".

(Quelle: Beethovenhaus Bonn)


Der Kanon ist 24 Sekunden lang:


Aber es gibt noch zwei weitere, ganz andere "Ars longa" Kompositionen von Beethoven. Hier ist "Ars longa, vita brevis" WoO 170 aus dem Jahre 1816:


Sowie die Version WoO 193 (aus 1825?):

Monday, February 9, 2009

Bachs "Musicalisches Opfer" reposted in lossless FLAC format


My very first post for the Kammermusikkammer was Johann Sebastian Bach, "Musicalisches Opfer" (BWV 1079), performed by Enrico Gatti's Ensemble Aurora. It was the first and only post in a lossy format (mp3), and to repair this fault, now I rescanned the CD and reposted in lossless (single) flacs (with cuesheet).

CD Info (Tracklist, Covers, Booklet, Links to Downloads)




As a sample you may hear now Track No. 16, "Canon perpetuus":

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Back to the roots again - a timeline of "Old Composers"


With my next post featuring Oswald von Wolkenstein, I will return to the beginning of European artistic music, and afterwards follow the timeline in roughly chronological order (Ars Nova, Renaissance, Barocco, ecc.). Be prepared to hear a lot of polyphonic music in the next weeks (masses, motets, chansons, lais).

Nevertheless, every forth post will be out of the order and a piece of "normal" chamber music (f.e. Bachs Goldberg Variations, if you accept the version for string trio as "normal" chamber music).

Thursday, January 15, 2009

A new year - two (NO: three) brand new blogs


Last monday, tonyangelo started a new lossless classical music blog "La peau douce" (with up to now 9 posts, like the Stravinsky shown beside).

Also on last monday, the blog "Classical in the Air" was born, maintained by upkerry14 (Nickname is "Bill"). Bill says: "I'm going to try a blog featuring classical music in lossless format only ( FLAC, APE etc... except for some DAB which are shared here in thier original lossy format) of FM/digital radio broadcasts that I get mostly from www.dimeadozen.org. I have no idea how much time I will devote to this so it's a wait and see sort of thing. Feel free to contribute as well of course. Enjoy the tunes."

UPDATE: I just discovered another blog owned by upkerry14, named A Thunderous Sound. It started with string quartets by Max Reger, a composer seldom found in the lossless blogs and avax.

Welcome, newcomers to the classical blogs comunity!

Monday, January 12, 2009

The Concert Hall changed to FLAC format


On Friday, December 19, 2008, scarpia said on The Concert Hall:

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Starting Monday, December 15, the files for download will be presented only in FLAC format. Also, the download links will be available on the window of the post comments. So, you must open the comments window to have access to the download links. This week will be entirely devoted to the complete symphonies of Darius Milhaud. Stay tuned and enjoy the concert. Thanks.

Well done, Scarpia !

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

MEETING IN MUSIC: New Classical Music Web Portal


Scoredaddy recently posted in his blog Fanfare For Aaron Copland:

I want to take this opportunity to encourage all visitors to this site to also visit a marvelous new portal dedicated to classical music.

MEETING IN MUSIC features interesting articles, links to the best classical blogs on the web, and occasional links to sample some of the great music discussed amongst the blog participants.

My good friend Sankerib designed the site and although in constant improvement and development, MEETING IN MUSIC is already operating and you are cordially invited to join us to contribute and to partake of what is offered and to chat with fellow music-lovers from around the world.

http://www.meetinginmusic.blogspot.com/

I fully agree with Scoredaddy and Sankerib: Let's join and contribute to this new forum.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Kammermusikkammer - Statistics for 2008

At the end of 2008, the Kammermusikkammer exists for about a half year, and contains 49 posts. As a statistic maniac, I herewith molest my followers with some diagrams:





Thursday, December 25, 2008

Chopin resumed posting


After 8 months of silence, Chopin resumed posting on his blog, with two CDs of Jordi Savall. Welcome back, dear Chopin, in the community of classical music bloggers!