Finding new music used to be easy: listen to the radio or find a talkative clerk at the local record store. Now that the Internet has changed everything, how do you find new music?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/music/26larrocha.html?_r=1&hp
Oh, man. We're losing so many good ones. On Spanish repertoire, she had no equal, and her Mozart was always elegant and shapely. But the most surprising thing about her was that with her tiny, plump hands, she could knock out Rachmaninoff like there was a devil inside her...
The usual disclaimers - I don't have affiliation with, nor interest in and wouldn't know the folks who work there from Adam.
That said, Palmetto Records has just done the right thing - they're now posting lossless FLAC files for purchase, as well as high bit rate mp3s and cds for order.
This is particularly good news because Palmetto is reissuing some early stuff as download only. That means we can get it in high quality sound, and with luck it'll stay available.
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For those of us who are NOT buying the Beatles' Box Set, in what order should we begin to sample the Beatles' Remasters? I would defer to those of you who are really "fans" to know which discs to buy first, that you consider to be the band's best work.