If you are fan of Reference Recordings, they recently found boxes with 5 of their earliest releases. This includes RR-1 from 1976. They are all new pressing, just sitting in boxes for over 40 years.
Very interesting. Glad they found these. I have looked for these early pre KOJ albums for many years, only finding the "Viola and" RR4, and "Kotekan Percussion and" RR3 albums. I also had the last pre KOJ album called First Takes, by Kitaev and Douglass. That one is RR6. It looks like RR hasn't found a cache of those albums.
The Kronos Quartet album RR9 is an early KOJ album which I've had since it first came out. I wrote earlier that I went to an album signing event with the four members of the Kronos Quartet in the early '80s at the Tower Records Classical Record store on Telegraph (just below Dwight Way) which was a relatively short lived store. There was almost no one in the store and I got a chance to talk with the members of the quartet for some time. I brought my RR9 and they all autographed the album.
The fellow who bought my record collection last year has these records now.
Very interesting. Glad they found these. I have looked for these early pre KOJ albums for many years, only finding the "Viola and" RR4, and "Kotekan Percussion and" RR3 albums. I also had the last pre KOJ album called First Takes, by Kitaev and Douglass. That one is RR6. It looks like RR hasn't found a cache of those albums.
The Kronos Quartet album RR9 is an early KOJ album which I've had since it first came out. I wrote earlier that I went to an album signing event with the four members of the Kronos Quartet in the early '80s at the Tower Records Classical Record store on Telegraph (just below Dwight Way) which was a relatively short lived store. There was almost no one in the store and I got a chance to talk with the members of the quartet for some time. I brought my RR9 and they all autographed the album.
The fellow who bought my record collection last year has these records now.
My memory of your record collection still boggles my mind. It was such an extensive set of Decca wide band and early pressings!
I sometimes think about selling my collection and listening to hires downloads. But so much of my collection is early music and period instruments on Das Alte Werke, Harmonia Mundi, EMI Reflexe, L'Oiseasu Lyre, Archiv that will likely never get cast to digital.
With 10,000 records, it is impractical to move it myself and we certainly could not "downsize" carrying it around.
So, I very slowly add a few records these days. The Reference Recordings early editions were a nice find.
