Still more LPs…
December 3, 2013:
“Baroque Fanfares and Sonatas for Brass,” by the London Brass Players, and “Masters of the High Baroque,” by the Collegium Musicum Saarensis. More Nonesuch budget classics. The latter at least isn’t all trumpets — more strings, with cello or even recorder (which I know isn’t strings) playing lead.
No problems with the first one, but “Masters” has some minor scratches, and a bit of fluff got on the stylus and messed up Pergolesi’s Sinfonia for ‘Cello and Continuo in F major badly enough that I re-recorded it.
Still lots more baroque and medieval stuff in the remaining 34 albums, including lots of Bach. (My romantic period came later, after I’d switched to CDs.)
I’ve divided everything I haven’t yet transferred up into categories, by the way, just to see what’s there. Baroque/medieval is the largest, but there’s still a bunch of comedy, children’s albums, and the dreaded “miscellaneous.”
But I have at least one more baroque trumpet album that I’ll probably do next.
Oh, yeah — coming up with cover art to plug into iTunes has been a challenge for some of these. They’re all out of print, after all, and never had CD releases. For two of these last four I couldn’t find a decent image anywhere, and wound up scanning my own covers, which was a pain and not worth the effort, but I get obsessive about this stuff. On “Masters of the High Baroque” in particular I couldn’t find an image that didn’t have a damn price sticker on it. (And going by the prices on those stickers, they were yard sale finds.)
December 12, 2013:
I said, “But I have at least one more baroque trumpet album that I’ll probably do next.”
I did. It’s actually one of Nonesuch’s earliest albums, called simply “The Baroque Trumpet.” Various artists, various composers, from 1964.
(I skipped a week because I was replacing a bad hard drive and backing up all my music. That takes awhile.)
Anyway, it’s good stuff, more varied than some of the ones I’ve done. Side One had some minor surface noise; Side Two was pretty near perfect.