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...including a special guest appearance by Fred Steiner. Here's the post I just added to a Russ Garcia 100th Birthday thread:
He's credited as Russell on the rare CD I've just discovered, "Horns!", an anthology of brass concert pieces by The Horn Cub of Los Angeles -- so apparently he was "Russell" when composing classical music. "Variations on a Five Note Theme" is the roughly 12 minute piece he contributes to this EMI album, which also includes among its works an eight-minute piece by David Raksin and even a Mendelssohn tarantella arranged by Fred Steiner. The 21-track CD -- available from Arkiv music -- features all sorts of old and new pieces, from Rossini to Alec Wilder.
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Apparently this is a brand new pressing by Arkiv. We are in their very large debt. Thanks for piggybacking, Sean!
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What? No sound samples on their site? Hmmm.
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What? You've got my recommendation and you still want sound samples?
Seriously, what's the "Hmmm" for -- do you suspect some sort of subterfuge or conspiracy?
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Seriously, what's the "Hmmm" for -- do you suspect some sort of subterfuge or conspiracy?
Maybe the sound quality stinks.
I dunno, I've just come to expect sound samples, even from tiny companies. "Throw us a bone, willya?"
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This is a CDR of an EMI compilation first on disc around 1990, if my research is right. The Arkiv CDR's are absolutely first class, including very fine reproductions of program booklets. I believe they only post digital samples of albums that have digital versions, and this one doesn't.
I am listening to a CAMBRIA release (with a 1993 date) on Spotify right now of one piece from this same album - William Kraft's Games Collage #1. Sound quality is very clear and detailed, and also clearly from the 60's era of recordings. Good enough for me, anyway.
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Thanks, Sean. All I knew for certain is what I mentioned, that it looks like an Arkiv re-pressing, so thanks for chiming in. As it happens, I had to order the Arkiv CD of this rarity -- and was I overjoyed to discover it -- when an Amazon seller sent me the wrong CD in the "Horns!" jewel case. Consequently, I find myself with the original packaging as well as the Arkiv replication, and thus I'm in a position to compare the two and testify that, at least as far as the booklet is concerned, Arkiv has done a first-rate job.
Let me add that I already trusted Arkiv implicitly, because theirs is the service utilized for playlist and disc sales by Los Angeles's KUSC FM, one of the world's premier classical radio stations.
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