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nuscope recordings news John Butcher and Claudia Binder Release Nuscope Downloads Now Available on HD Tracks Russell Summers' Top 10 of 2009 Below is a release schedule for recordings on the nuscope label. These dates and catalog numbers are subject to change.
John Butcher and Claudia Ulla Binder Release
On March 16, 2009, nuscope recordings will release a new recording by saxophonist John Butcher and Claudia Ulla Binder (NOT the well-known ice skater from the early 1980's). This is John Butcher's third recording on nuscope, and his second with a pianist. Unlike his first, Light's View, with Georg Graewe, this recording is a more spacious, calm affair. Virtuosity is not in order here, but beauty, space, and extended techniques dominate this wonderful disc. The recording was also recorded in Zurich's famed DRS2 Studios with engineer Martin Pearson, who lends his significant talents to a natural-sounding, splendidly clear recording. Butcher and Binder have been performing together for quite some time; this 2008 recording is the first opportunity that they have been able to commit their duo to disc.
On November 25, 2009, pianist Louis Goldstein recorded Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus, one of Feldman's most beautiful piano works. Frank Martin of Media Production Associates, who also engineered Goldstein's acclaimed recording of Feldman's Triadic Memories, remained behind the desk as Goldstein performed For Bunita Marcus on a recently-acquired Steinway D at Brendle Recital Hall on the campus of Wake Forest University. Dr. Goldstein's interpretation of Feldman's Triadic Memories is considered one of the best of all of the currently available versions. According to Grant Chu Covell at the La Folia website, "This has got to be 2000’s best piano recording. These two discs (Triadic Memories coupled with John Cage's One5) had better garner prizes and commendations throughout the industry or else Western Civilization is coming to an end. Everything comes together in this phenomenally well-recorded 2 CD set. The piano is rich and closely miked, and the piano’s tuning is superb. Louis Goldstein plays with control and delicacy." John Tilbury's commanding version of For Bunita Marcus is currently the standard by which all other versions are compared, but chances are that Dr. Goldstein's version will garner the attention it will deserves once nuscope releases it in the Spring of 2010. This also marks the first through-composed music on the nuscope label.
Nuscope Downloads Now Available on HD Tracks As of very recently, 8 of nuscope's 22 recordings are available as high resolution MP3s, AIFF, and FLAC files on the HD Tracks website at http://www.hdtracks.com. Alberto Braida's Talus is also available as an 88.2 kHz/24 bit download for those who have the capacity to download music files that approach SACD sound quality. David and Norman Chesky of the audiophile-record label Chesky Records founded HDtracks, which is a high-quality music download service offering a diverse catalog of independent music from around the world. As a result, HDtracks lets users download unencrypted files that play on any computer or portable device. HDtracks is the premiere online music store for audiophiles who demand the best sounding music possible. As consumers are left with fewer options to purchase high quality recordings, the Cheskys started HDtracks to fill the void. Therefore, nuscope recordings is proud to have many of its recordings soon available on HD Tracks. Stay tuned to this site for further developments.
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Austin, Texas-based large ensemble leader/singer Tina Marsh passed away after a long struggle with breast cancer at the age of 55. Marsh's ensemble, the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, created many opportunities for concerts and stellar musical moments in the past 29 years. Guest artists who performed with the Creop included Roscoe Mitchell, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Billy Hart, and Kenny Wheeler. One of Marsh's frequent collaborators was trumpet player/composer Dennis Gonzalez. One four-movement suite that Gonzalez wrote, "The Earth and the Heart," appeared as the title track (in three movements) of Gonzalez's CD of the same name, which also included Ken Filiano, a long time guest double-bassist with the Creop. In fact, the CD (available on the Konnex and Music and Arts labels) was the first production by nuscope recordings owner/producer Russell Summers.
Here is what Dennis Gonzalez had
to say about Tina Marsh: "It's
difficult to speak of Tina Marsh in the past tense. Even now, I feel that
anytime I want, I could pick up the phone and call her, and she'd greet me
with her nickname for me, "So what's up, Dentiste?" And then she'd
assure me that everything is fabulotic. Except that now she's really
gone for good. Russell Summers' Top 10 of 2009 Nuscope recordings producer Russell Summers deemed these 10 discs his personal favorites of 2009 (in no particular order):
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