tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post754565847388597455..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: There will now be a four month intermissionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-24097849806688174922014-06-10T05:42:40.044+01:002014-06-10T05:42:40.044+01:00Philip, your informative comment explains why the ...Philip, your informative comment explains why the essential double CD of R. Murray Schafer twelve string quartets on ATMA is so difficult to locate on the Amazon database, which presumably uses the same data as the Naxos music library: I could only find the CDs by searching for 'Molinari Quartet' and it appears in 'music' not 'classical'.<br /><br />This miscataloguing is yet more evidence of the lamentable state of classical music metadata, something I have had recent first hand experience of when attempting to impose some semblance of searchable order onto the vast library of music transferred to my 16 Gb iPod. <br /><br />If people can't find music they can't listen to it. Yet the classical music community remains totally disinterested in the need for robust metadata; presumably because it is a story that does not spin well on social media.<br /><br />Is classical music asking the right questions? - http://www.overgrownpath.com/2013/01/is-classical-music-asking-right.html Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-86827020945522395292014-06-09T23:23:44.662+01:002014-06-09T23:23:44.662+01:00It surely is not a reason for ignoring it, for the...It surely is not a reason for ignoring it, for the ATMA label is distributed by Naxos and thus their entire current catalogue can be streamed via the Naxos Music Library, which now, I note, contains close to 100 000 discs. Schafer was composer-in-residence and on the Communications faculty of my former university, and I recall his varied activities fondly -- he made a great contribution.<br /><br />The ATMA label is a fine one and I scanned the 29 pages of entries in its catalogue, noting first that Schafer's complete string quartets are entered under 'Murray'. The other three discs of his music, including the one featured, are catalogued correctly. The NML catalogue in toto contains much more of his music on various labels.(It now distributes 640 labels, and I should note that a recent addition is the entire HMV catalogue, both current and deleted.) <br /><br /> ATMA has issued recordings of many familiar works, but also many worthy but obscure historical works and much contemporary. I scribbled a note of the piano works of Gustave Samazevilh; Scheidt's remarkable Tabulatura nova; choral works of the Estonian Veljo Tormis, and the ensemble Constantinople, which seeks to interpret music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance by seeking out Near and Middle Eastern influences upon it by searching out these same elements in the living oral traditions of those regions, especially Persia.<br /><br />I previously tipped off readers that you can get access to the Naxos Music library FREE by googling 'tso.ca', subscribing to the TSO e-newsletter, and then clicking on 'Beethoven on Demand', which is in fact the NML. Many universities, school systems, and public libraries also provide free access.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com